Supermarket Sweep - General Discussion - Supermarket Sweep

Time is Money for a TV show. The host needs to give enough rules on air for viewers to understand what is going on, without eating up TOO much time to show the rest of the action (and for Supermarket Sweep, to show all those products on the shelves). 

The first time you see the show and see them only snag 3 out of all the ham hocks, or see them being somewhat careful to be grabbing everything they put in their cart, you might think they are being stupid in not grabbing it all and/or sweeping the shelf. 

But by the second, third, fourth time of all the teams acting that way, viewers would realizes (most of the time) that there must be extra rules keeping those 'obvious' tactics in check. It was just the first episode, maybe they'll expand on the viewer briefing rules in future eps, or just leave them as un-viewered rules.

Guy's Grocery Games clearly has some rules for their games that viewers aren't told. I'm pretty sure most of the games, even the ones without weight/price/aisle limits, have a "Use what you take" rule that is never really explicit. (Or at least I've never really noticed chef's grabbing things they don't use; but I could be wrong). 

Amazing Race fans know there are a whole slew of rules we don't see, including how separated contestants can be, rules on interacting with locals and taxi drivers, when they can and can't ditch their gear, etc.... 

Ninja Warrior, it is clear each obstacle has rules for what can be done and not done on them, like how some areas can or can't be used to beat the obstacle which we are rarely explicitly told about as viewers. Like the balance obstacle most courses have; apparently you are NOT allowed to let your arms/hands touch the obstacle when you run across some of them. (Something that applied in last week's course, The Host, Matt mentioned it in passing but I'd never really realized it before)

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