As America’s Got Lettuce ends its run, it’s the perfect time to look back at the contestant performances and judge reactions that made it the world’s top-rated show for thirty-seven consecutive seasons—and reminded us that, through it all, America does got lettuce.
When the Mean Judge couldn’t help admitting, “You, ma’am, have got lettuce” to Lisa Cabinet.
As Lisa Cabinet stood on stage nervously cradling a head of lettuce, none of us watching could be confident that she would be judged to got lettuce. But the Mean Judge proclaimed that she did, indeed, got lettuce, and we all stood up and cheered loudly, in the studio audience and at home. She had got that lettuce, for sure.
