That Time A Dollar Store Made A Game Show

In which we look at Family Dollar’s 2016 show Save to Win, an attempt to make a game show out of the dollar store experience.

[TheSecondVersion]

Expectation: "The more you save, the more you win"
Reality: "Stick your hand into the bowl of mystery meat"

[Goldenclap]

15:26 Winning a $500 "shopping spree" at Family Dollar is like winning an all expense paid vacation to a motel down the block, or an all you can eat buffet off of the Burger King dollar menu.

[lucidhominid]

I live near a Dollar Tree and frequently walk by their smoke break area and it seems like their employees are in a constant state of emotional meltdown.

[cadenmeyer]

“You can’t excite people by giving them just $1400, that’s not enough” lmaooo I see what you did there

[racheltalley]

"Yeah CW wasn't putting this up against Supernatural, or even a good show."

This slight against Unlikely Animal Friends will not be forgotten.

[jayley]

Pat Neely saying “and now, I’m the Game Show King” with [citation needed] beneath him for 0.5 seconds got me good

[RobertMungo]

Family Dollar was founded in my hometown and I’ve been in a lot of their stores because of that. So, the thing I find weirdest is the huge conveyor belt set piece. Family Dollar stores feature a counter more similar to a gas station convenience store than a traditional checkout... so there are no conveyor belts in stores.

[SarahZ]

How could you expose my business practices like this

[schmiddi]

As someone who works in game dev, I think your conspiracy theory is 100% spot on. The weird dissonance between the shopping/saving focus and the total lack of those things in the game itself has the stink of "we had to completely retool the mechanics at the last minute based on decisions from above and now none of our aesthetic trappings make sense anymore buuut we don't have the resources or authority to fix that" all over it.

[destineeturner]

First she makes a video on a forgotten doug walker series, now its dollar tree game stores. What will she do next. I have no idea what the theme of this channel is and I love it

There is a 0% chance this show had a live studio audience. Any cheap game show that doesn't show the audience is safe to assume its all sound effects.

[boochie]

I don't understand why a game show that's supposed to be advertising a dollar store wouldn't have some sort of price guessing game. And/or some kind of challenge where you're given a budget and you have to make something with products bought at the dollar store.

[dgj]

The conspiracy spiral over something incredibly niche and irrelevant hit me in my soul

[heqmbgx]

I really didn't expect spending today learning about Pepsi Cherry Wild game show AND Family Dollar game show, but here we are

[thefamouscommenter]

I was not expecting to feel THIS invested in a conspiracy about family dollar game show

[emilycrow]

"Designed to feel compact and surrounded by stuff..."
So that's why being inside a family dollar is anxiety inducing.

[rowanboleyn]

The lore between your and Sarah's videos is incredible

I can't believe Sarah thinks Coolsville sucks

[scarletnight]

Idk how to explain but Lady Emily's voice is so rich and pretty like how I imagine a countess to sound idk how to explain

[aidanfleming]

“You can’t excite people with $1, 400” After the United States covid relief pittance, I felt that.

[carlyjoy]

Everything they do on this show feels like something my church youth group would have had us do except it's a real game show that they actually put on television for some reason