{"id":563,"date":"2009-01-04T09:38:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T16:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wwwold.dreamloom.com\/?p=563"},"modified":"2009-01-04T09:38:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T16:38:21","slug":"10-items-or-less-good-goofball-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamloom.com\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"10 Items or Less &#8211; Good, Goofball Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-565\" title=\"Episode 301 - Turkey Bowling\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/10items301_8-christopher-liam-moore-john-lehr-chris-payne1.jpg\" alt=\"Episode 301 - Turkey Bowling\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" \/>I have to be honest. I remember watching advertisements of <em>10 Items or Less<\/em> back in 2006. I was <em>not<\/em> interested. The commercials reminded me of <em>Saved By The Bell<\/em> \u2013 a show I was addicted to as a kid but hate as an adult. Now that I&#8217;m all grown up, the stupid, lame jokes of <em>Saved By the Bell<\/em> make me wish I could shoot myself instead of enduring another half hour of Zach and gang. So, to avoid being suicidal, I didn&#8217;t tune in for <em>10 Items<\/em>. After watching \u201cTurkey Bowling\u201d, the <em>10 Items or Less<\/em> season premiere, I realize how misleading marketing can be and regret not giving the show a chance 2 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The show is goof-ball. The humor is quirky, odd. The characters are exaggerated, but loveable. It&#8217;s perfect escapism humor. I mean, a manager bowling turkeys in his own store? The whole precept is hilarious. 10 items is shot on location in Reseda, California at a real working grocery store. John Lehr, as Leslie, leads the cast as an inept but good-intentioned manager, trying to keep the family store afloat amidst attempts by the large, corporate SuperValueMart to shut down the store. The show is at it&#8217;s core improv comedy guided by a loosely written script.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Season 3 opens with Leslie, the Greens &amp; Grains manager, facing a new foe with Mercy P. Jones, the new SuperValueMart general manager known as the \u201cVelvet Hammer\u201d. She&#8217;s determined to shut down Greens &amp; Grains for good and bets Leslie he can&#8217;t bowl 3,000 frames of Turkey Bowling without leaving a single pin standing. Carl the maintenance man and Todd the Butcher join in as gambling fever take over the store and the employees of Greens &amp; Grains devolve in an unsupervised mess.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>10 Items or Less<\/em> returns with Season 3 on January 6<sup>th<\/sup> at 11 eastern time. Tune in and let the mad-cap, escapsist humor take your mind off folding banks and credit meltdowns and whatever else you might be facing in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to be honest. I remember watching advertisements of 10 Items or Less back in 2006. I was not interested. The commercials reminded me of Saved By The Bell \u2013 a show I was addicted to as a kid but hate as an adult. Now that I&#8217;m all grown up, the stupid, lame jokes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}