No Picture
Comedy

“10 Items Or Less” Recap: The Milk Man

By Ryan Leslie’s having a problem with shipments of expired milk being delivered to the Greens & Grains, and he goes off on a tirade against milkmen. But unbeknownst to Leslie, milkman Nathan is behind the dairy case, and he overhears Leslie’s fightin’ words. Leslie tells Nathan that he refuses to pay for milk, and so begins the war between the G&G and the powerful Dairy Consortium. Leslie starts fearing for his life when some mysterious mold-ridden cheese ends up in his sandwich and a shelf full of feminine hygiene products collapses on him. He holes up in his bedroom […]

No Picture
Comedy

10 Items Or Less: The Whistler

Posted by Ryan The Greens & Grains is doing a (mostly) very sexy car wash for charity, and they made a modest $86. Mercy Jones, manager of SuperValueMart, drives up in a sweet convertible roadster (SVM must pay extremely well) and says that the SVM’s charity car wash made over $6,000. Leslie’s feeling down about his complete lack of talent or skill, when he realizes that maybe he should put his talent for whistling to good use. With Buck’s help, Leslie records a CD of whistling classics — Whistle While You Work — featuring songs like “Scarborough Fair” and “Londonderry […]

No Picture
Comedy

10 Items Or Less: One Day At A Time

Posted by Ryan Leslie and Carl are in drag, doing a stakeout for shoplifters when they discover a woman trying to steal a bottle of booze. Turns out the woman is Mrs. Mednick, Richard’s mother, and she’s got a little drinking problem. Rather than send her to qualified alcohol rehabilitation experts, Leslie decides to get Richard’s mom off the sauce with his own methods. Leslie decides to take the opposite approach to Alcoholics Anonymous and remove the anonymity part — he makes her wear two red As on her sweater to identify her as an alcoholic (or an adulteress?). When […]

No Picture
Comedy

10 Items Or Less: Star Trok

Posted by Ryan Leslie wants to drum up business from geeks by having a Star Trek convention in the Greens & Grains, but he can’t get permission from Paramount Pictures. Proving that you can rip anything off as long as you change it slightly, Leslie settles for a Star Trok convention, and invites Trek cast members to attend. While in the middle of a reenactment, there’s a big explosion. The compressor for the meat freezer blew out. So while Leslie is dealing with the situation, Jolene Blalock shows up. But before she can bail out on Leslie’s faux-Trek convention, another […]

No Picture
Comedy

10 Items Or Less: Eye Can See Clearly

Posted by Ryan Don “The Bags” Bagley is back, and he’s now practicing medicine. That’s right, “The Bags” packed groceries at SuperValueMart to pay for medical school, and now Leslie is opening Bagley’s LASIK eye surgery clinic right in the Greens & Grains. But Yolanda thinks this is a huge mistake, as she wanted to open the first Yolanda’s Tube Top Shop in that space. So Yolanda busts in the clinic just as Leslie is having laser eye surgery, and the procedure gets messed up, leaving Leslie blinded. Yolanda feels responsible, so she takes care of Leslie at her home […]

No Picture
Comedy

10 Items Or Less: Turkey Bowling

Posted by Ryan Greens & Grains loses a game of stickball to the SuperValueMart, and Todd the butcher loses a big bet as a result. Todd is furious with Leslie’s management of the pitching staff (basically Leslie), and Todd gets in Leslie’s face about it. Todd angrily tosses a frozen turkey, and it knocks over a bunch of two-liter soda bottles that Carl is setting up. And the game of Turkey Bowling is born. Carl, Leslie and Todd play Turkey Bowling in the store aisles through the night, and Leslie is pretty good at it. SuperValueMart’s new manager, Mercedes “Mercy” […]

No Picture
Comedy

10 Items Or Less: Season 3 Preview

Season 3 of the TBS comedy 10 Items or Less premieres Tuesday, Jan. 6 at 11pm ET/PT, and we’ll be back to recap the highlights from each episode again this year. (Click here to catch up on our coverage from Season 2.) Season 3 brings a new nemesis for Leslie Pool (John Lehr) and the employees of the Ohio family-run grocery store Greens & Grains. The SuperValueMart next door wants to put the G&G out of business for good, and they’ve hired Mercedes “Mercy” P. Jones (Kim Coles) from New York to do the dirty work. We talked with Lehr […]

No Picture
Comedy

10 Items Or Less: The Ren Fair

Here’s a little behind-the-scenes vignette on the Season 2 finale of 10 Items or Less. A pox on that! Hither with the episode recap, anon! Huzzah! It’s ye olde Renaissance Days at the G&G, and prices (and personal hygiene) are being rolled back to the time before the printing press. (Didn’t Steve Guttenberg invent the printing press?) Renaissance Days is Leslie’s best promotion ever. It’s much better than the “Cheese or Not Cheese” idea he and Carl had. The G&G crew is dressed up in their best Ren Faire attire. They look like rented costumes from a high-school production of […]

No Picture
Comedy

10 Items Or Less: Illegal Alien

Posted by Ryan Leslie is taking very creepy photos of G&G employees for a promotional calendar. This year, they’re American historical figures. Todd is Paul Revere, the first American sex symbol. Sex sells. Sex sells food. Sex sells liverwurst and ant killer. Leslie gives Todd $300 to take his shirt off. Ingrid and Amy are arguing about who gets to be Betsy Ross. Ingrid wins out, and Amy is stuck with the oversized frumpy Martha Washington outfit. The right woman won because Ingrid is a smoking hot Betsy Ross. Todd invites Ingrid into the freezer to, you know, have sex. […]

No Picture
Comedy

10 Items Or Less: Amy Strikes Back

Posted by Ryan The G&G crew is enjoying Internet video of Amy from Super Value Mart getting it on with a district regional manager in the employee break room. Leslie scolds his crew for making fun of people, but the video of his high-school (and current) crush in action proves too much for him to resist. Amy is distraught over being fired. Apparently she signed a morality clause, and having sex with her boss in the break room and having it broadcast to millions somehow violates that clause. Amy realizes that Leslie is her only friend. Suddenly, an assistant manager […]