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I laughed when I flipped through it at the bookstore and saw a section called "It's hard out there for a shrimp".
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So is anyone else watching this Mystery Diners show? I never even saw a commercial for it, and was expecting an episode of Restaurant Impossible. Food Network will plug the poo poo out a show that's like a month away, but not one that's premiering this week? Anyway, I guess the premise is they set up hidden cameras to catch employees being terrible at their jobs. At least that's what this episode is. This lady suspects her bartender is really lovely, so they send in fake customers with eyeglass cams and set up cameras in the bar and he comps them a hundred bucks in free drinks, ignores regular customers, and gives himself like $50 in tips instead of paying into the register. So... hooray? Terrible People: The Show.
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Dec 15, 2011 04:22
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Gah, I just missed it. But you're right: they haven't been promoting it. This is the first I've heard of it.
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Dec 15, 2011 04:28
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Oh man, last episode of Next Iron Chef time. Go Faulkner, kick that rear end in a top hat Zakarian's face up and down Kitchen Stadium.
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Dec 19, 2011 03:03
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What's the deal with the hello kitty band-aids? Is he always cutting his fingers or is this an affectation?
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Dec 19, 2011 03:13
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Finale: Zakarian is a douchebag and I will not watch any episode with him GRRR
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Dec 19, 2011 03:59
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Yoshifan823 posted:Oh man, last episode of Next Iron Chef time. Welp, you didn't get your wish.
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Dec 19, 2011 03:59
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I Ozma Myself posted:Finale: Does this mean he can finally pay his chefs overtime now?
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Dec 19, 2011 04:05
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I liked how Zakarian was repeatedly chastized for preparing multiple items using the ingredient of theme of the week, since that's kind of what Iron Chef is all about. Based on skill, it seems to make sense he's on the team now. Doesn't mean I like this show any more or will be watching any future episodes of it or ICA on purpose. Hell, I only watched the last minute of the finale to see who won.
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Dec 19, 2011 04:08
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Moose Bigelow posted:Does this mean he can finally pay his chefs overtime now? But guys, he's hardly worth any money. That's why he's stuck going to St. Bart's to recharge his batteries 
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Dec 19, 2011 04:11
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Toffile posted:Summer Sanders Her _____ Will Be Terrible *train full of meat & vegetables rolls by, someone gets slimed*
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Dec 19, 2011 05:32
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Not exactly food network, but it is Scripps. On TLC's "The Next Great Baker" last night, they sent Wesley home. While this would normally not matter a bit, they had a bit at the end of the show saying "In memory of Wesley Durden". A little googling turned up that sometime after his exit from the show he killed himself. Good job reality TV.
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Dec 20, 2011 15:16
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I'm guessing that had more to do with the two deployments than the loss on a baking show.
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Dec 20, 2011 15:58
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Phummus posted:Not exactly food network, but it is Scripps. TLC isn't Scripps. I'd kill myself too if I had to spend time with Buddy Valastro, though.
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Dec 20, 2011 21:24
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I Ozma Myself posted:Finale: If he's like the last 2 Iron Chefs, he'll probably be on the show once a year. They should change the name to Iron Chef Bobby Flay Throwdown. I'm so sick of watching him make waffles and cook lobster.
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Dec 20, 2011 22:22
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Yeah, I was whining and my boyfriend said the same thing, basically. "Oh no, that show you never watch (because it's on 3x a year and it's always bobby flay) has a new iron chef!"
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Dec 21, 2011 01:52
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:YES. He's hysterical and one hell of a chef to boot - friends who have gone to Au Pied De Cochon rave about it much as my avatar does. Cupcake Wars isn't about the cupcakes. It's about the contestants' complete inability to dress themselves. Similarly, half the fun of Chopped is the horrified looks on the judges' faces when the contestants do things like dump a ton of ranch dressing on top of mangoes in a blender.
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Dec 21, 2011 02:23
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Kung Fu Jesus posted:If he's like the last 2 Iron Chefs, he'll probably be on the show once a year. They should change the name to Iron Chef Bobby Flay Throwdown. I'm so sick of watching him make waffles and cook lobster. What, don't you enjoy hearing every sentence containing a noun, a verb, and the word "chipotle"?
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Dec 21, 2011 16:50
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I like Cupcake Wars. That being said, I only ever watch it DVR'd and skip through about 30 minutes of it (and the commercials of course). IDK, it's something to have on when I'm doing other things. I also like to watch the cake battles, so maybe I'm broken. I'm sad enough that Chef Faulkner didn't win that I never watched the finale.
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Dec 21, 2011 17:58
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If you want to see a real stupid show about cupcakes, check out The Cupcake Girls. It's not so much about cupcakes as two incompetent boobs trying to run a business when, after one or two episodes, it becomes amazing that these people can even dress themselves in the morning. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/television/john-doyle/the-cupcake-girls-cooks-up-more-drama-than-most-soaps/article1815630/
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flashy_mcflash posted:If you want to see a real stupid show about cupcakes, check out The Cupcake Girls. It's not so much about cupcakes as two incompetent boobs trying to run a business when, after one or two episodes, it becomes amazing that these people can even dress themselves in the morning. That show sounds absolutely horrible and yet I'm not surprised one bit that it has a huge following (that I've thankfully never heard of before reading that article)
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Dec 22, 2011 01:33
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I don't care what you fucks say I enjoy "Triple D". Guy Fieri is pretty much one giant eyeroll, but I've watched worse shows for 30 minutes. Plus it works well with 
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Dec 22, 2011 01:38
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Have the other two new Iron Chefs been featured/on the show at all? I don't remember watching a Garcia/Forgione episode at all.
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Dec 22, 2011 02:43
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TV Zombie posted:Have the other two new Iron Chefs been featured/on the show at all? I don't remember watching a Garcia/Forgione episode at all. Once in a while. They even had a Flay/Symon vs Garcia/Forgione battle where Garcia/Forgione obviously got destroyed. I still really do enjoy Iron Chef though. I know the newer ones suck but I still enjo watching and, god damnit, I like Flay 
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Dec 22, 2011 03:02
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explosivo posted:I don't care what you fucks say I enjoy "Triple D". Guy Fieri is pretty much one giant eyeroll, but I've watched worse shows for 30 minutes. I just can't stand watching him do a play by play of the cooking techniques. No one is watching the show to actually learn anything, Guy, just smile and nod and eat the food.
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Dec 22, 2011 03:07
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I Ozma Myself posted:I just can't stand watching him do a play by play of the cooking techniques. Yeah, this is the worst part. I always wonder how many of the owners are blatantly fake-laughing at all his lovely jokes.
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Dec 22, 2011 03:14
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There's honestly so many things to hate about Guy Fieri that it's hard to choose just one. I too hate when he tries to awkwardly explain every step the cook is doing, but I also hate his awful jokes, I hate his awful catch phrases that he tries to promote, I hate the way he acts fake annoyed when someone actually uses one of his catch phrases, I hate the way he acts like it's a big deal when he's eating even slightly abnormal food, I hate how he acts like leaning forward while eating a messy sandwich is something he created...I just don't like him.
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Dec 22, 2011 03:20
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axleblaze posted:There's honestly so many things to hate about Guy Fieri that it's hard to choose just one. I too hate when he tries to awkwardly explain every step the cook is doing, but I also hate his awful jokes, I hate his awful catch phrases that he tries to promote, I hate the way he acts fake annoyed when someone actually uses one of his catch phrases, I hate the way he acts like it's a big deal when he's eating even slightly abnormal food, I hate how he acts like leaning forward while eating a messy sandwich is something he created...I just don't like him. Don't forget that he wears his sunglasses on the back of his head.
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Dec 22, 2011 03:24
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robot roll call posted:Don't forget that he wears his sunglasses on the back of his head. I was keeping his actual appearance out of it because that's just far too obvious. I was watchign a Christmas episode recently and he went to a Chinese restaurant, and I was kind of annoyed that he tried to connect it because of that one "crazy" scene in a Christmas Story rather than the fact that half the Jews in America eat Chinese on Christmas.
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So it seems Wednesdays, Food Network is doing some sort of pilot burn-off or something. Last week was a show they didn't promote, and it was just the one episode, and now tonight was a different show, also completely out of nowhere. This one was "Food Attacks," which is people droning on and on and on as they recount times that foods made them sick while re-enactments take place.
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Dec 22, 2011 06:10
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explosivo posted:I don't care what you fucks say I enjoy "Triple D". Guy Fieri is pretty much one giant eyeroll, but I've watched worse shows for 30 minutes. Yeah, I enjoy that show. Its the sort of food I like to indulge in and the sort of places I like to visit when I'm traveling. Yeah, he's a bit of a douche and not as funny or cool as he thinks he is but I do like the fact that he seems to be kind of honest about what he eats. Most of the Food Network chefs are just ridiculous. Everything they eat is the greatest thing they've ever had and is "divine" or "amazing" or whatever. With Guy I feel like you can always see when he's kind of underwhelmed by what he's eating and when he's truly loving it. But mostly I just like to watch a show about food I actually want to eat and which doesn't pretend I have a chance in hell of cooking it myself.
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Jamesman posted:So it seems Wednesdays, Food Network is doing some sort of pilot burn-off or something. Last week was a show they didn't promote, and it was just the one episode, and now tonight was a different show, also completely out of nowhere. Rats. I enjoyed 5 minutes of show followed by 20 minutes of repeated dialogue.
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Dec 22, 2011 06:31
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Jamesman posted:
Please tell me you made this up. You made this up.
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I had a thought...what happened to "The Next Food Network Star" winners? I always thought that the time slots for their shows helped killed their shows off but I was always hoping that they gone to better things than to just having their shows run on Sundays at 11.
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Dec 22, 2011 17:55
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TV Zombie posted:I had a thought...what happened to "The Next Food Network Star" winners? I always thought that the time slots for their shows helped killed their shows off but I was always hoping that they gone to better things than to just having their shows run on Sundays at 11. The first 2 flamed out pretty quickly. Then there was Guy, and then there were the people who they've stuck at 7 AM on the weekends.
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Toffile posted:The first 2 flamed out pretty quickly. Then there was Guy, and then there were the people who they've stuck at 7 AM on the weekends. I think those are normal timeslots for the chef in a kitchen cooking shows. They don't move them there, they start them there. "Food Network Nighttime" which is what we all mostly watch and bitch about doesn't have a lot to do with day time food network I think.
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When you think about it the concept of Next Food Network Star is really odd. Food Network over the last few years has realized that normal cooking shows don't get great rating and have been doing everything they can to rid the schedule of them yet they have this show where the prize is you get a cooking show.
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I think Melissa D'Arabian still has a show, she won a couple of seasons ago. I see Aarti in some promo every once and awhile. And the sandwich king - I think he went to sandwich heaven. I don't even remember his show playing (although he was pretty likeable, I just am not a fan of sandwiches).
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Dec 22, 2011 18:55
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Yeah, it's really just a hook to make a Top Chef competitor. Same as Next Iron Chef. Seems to be working though, given how many series both have had.
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Next Food Network Star predates Top Chef. Also Iron Chef is one of their more popular shows, not to mention being on it makes you synonymous with being on e of the best chefs in the country, so getting on that is not really the same as being handed some random 10am cooking show.
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