Gotta admit this is hardly my area of expertise (as if I have any areas of expertise to begin with). I've never much cared for shopping games, as my notorious indifference to The Price is Right attests. But I decided to check out one of the shows which GSG abominates, called Bargain Hunters.
YouTube offers an episode - there aren't many in the short-lived 1987 show's run - and I settled in for a look. Really, for what the shopping sub-genre is, this show isn't awful. Contestants compete in various pricing games until three of them are left for the bonus round. In that "Super Saver" round they try to select which items would save them the most money at the announced prices.
It just seems like a cut-rate TPiR, not terrible, not great. Peter Tomarken hosts competently as always, though he tells one contestant that he likes the New York Yankees (yuk). The pricing games are occasionally interrupted by Home Shopping Network-ish pitches for the audience to buy various trinkets and knickknacks.
I know GSG has to exaggerate the sheer horribleness of their inductees to the Hall of Shame. But this show hardly seems to deserve infamy. I didn't like it much but you know me and shopping games. In fact, something like Bargain Hunters might liven up the proceedings on the current Home Shopping Network.
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