No One On The $25,000 Pyramid Knows What A Smoothie Is

My wife and I were watching The $25,000 Pyramid and LeVar Burton was giving the clue of "smoothie", and after the winner doesn't get it, it's revealed that almost no one know what a smoothie is!

[@zachhoran]

SMoothies I don't think were as well known in May 1983, when this episode originally aired, like they are nowadays

[@lobstertexas]

Dick is illustrating how there are regional preferences of words for the same thing (hoagie vs submarine, jimmies vs sprinkles) but the word "smoothie" doesn't apply to that analogy as it isn't a regional word - it's just that the trend of selling blended fruits and ice in the manner that we recognize today wasn't nationally mainstream yet. (Certainly people don't refer simply refer to milkshakes (or anything simply blended in a blender .. cat food?) as smoothies!) 🤠

[@samclark379]

I'm in Lavar's corner on this one. There's nothing wrong with "smoothie" as a clue for "things you blend".

[@rg8152]

0:14 I hear a v good doggo shaking its colllar 🐶

[@nextbarker2702]

Were smoothies pop. in 1983?

[@catherinegabriel760]

She doesn't know what a SMOOTHIE is??

[@cdncitizen4700]

It was "then"... before it was a "thing"... California vs. Rest of USA ?

[@SonnyBubba]

The sandwich with salami and meat and all that: a sub, no a hero. And if the celebrity was from New Orleans, the answer would really freak him out. That sammich is called a "po boy".

[@Fatality84]

Wait. Smoothies weren’t invented in the 80s?

[@cdncitizen4700]

Geordie LaForge went back in time, regained his eyesight and played Pyramid... it all makes sense !

[@jimtrue1465]

But was the clue "smoothie" ruled illegal, or did the buzzer sound simply because time ran out?

[@JoeyLamontagne]

Maybe milkshake?

[@keithmauldin885]

can't say blender.