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I'm afraid I am part of the reason DDD is on about 20 hours a day. I watch the poo poo out of it as partial background noise all the time. And I like GGG also. Its the closest thing to Chopped, which is the best show on the channel. I've tried to like Cutthroat Kitchen but I just cannot get over the stupid cutthroat part of it. They are so dumb and ruin my enjoyment of watching professionals do their job well. However, I am so glad Rachel Vs Guy is over. I only watched about 10 minutes of one episode but the loving commercial for it seemed to be on endlessly. They literally play it back to back every single time with the loving "rice, rice baby" over and over.
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I know this probably comes across as unfair and petty, but on Chopped I think I pretty much always turn against any chef that says any variation of "it's so hard to be so good looking".
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Feb 17, 2014 06:36
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axleblaze posted:I know this probably comes across as unfair and petty, but on Chopped I think I pretty much always turn against any chef that says any variation of "it's so hard to be so good looking". We're meant to judge them though, that's why they show us those stupid intros. I hate when the judges have to ask them leading questions so they can cry about their Dad dying or missing their kids that they ditched in a different state so that they could pursue their dreams.
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Feb 17, 2014 12:52
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Get used to Cutthroat Kitchen because it's already got a fifth season on order, and we're only in season two. It has grown on me, it's somewhat enjoyable watching douchebags screw each other over, and stuff like the easy bake oven set disadvantages are hilarious. Check out the outtakes and after show interview from the Giada judged episode as well they're fantastic.
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Feb 17, 2014 17:51
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Ariza posted:We're meant to judge them though, that's why they show us those stupid intros. I hate when the judges have to ask them leading questions so they can cry about their Dad dying or missing their kids that they ditched in a different state so that they could pursue their dreams. Just once, when one of the chefs is asked what they would do with the money, they say "two chicks".
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Feb 17, 2014 19:45
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The burger battle dude said "disneyland" or something like that, so I guess that was a ha-ha moment.
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Feb 17, 2014 19:54
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Red Warrior posted:Get used to Cutthroat Kitchen because it's already got a fifth season on order, and we're only in season two. It has grown on me, it's somewhat enjoyable watching douchebags screw each other over, and stuff like the easy bake oven set disadvantages are hilarious. Check out the outtakes and after show interview from the Giada judged episode as well they're fantastic. The best thing Cutthroat has going for it (besides Alton hamming it up,) is the fact that the desire for schadenfreude is just as likely to be satiated as them making something really good. It's basically what you want in Chopped, but the likelihood for total disaster is higher.
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Feb 17, 2014 21:25
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My favorite part of Chopped is when they do the talking heads & they talk about what they're going to do with the money. To a person they all have a pretty bad idea about what $10k after taxes will actually get you.
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Feb 17, 2014 22:27
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"Worst Cooks" season premiere on now. I haven't tuned in to this much in the past... what are the chances none of them are just playing up their ineptitude for the cameras?
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Feb 18, 2014 03:05
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All I know is I hope the goon dies in a grease fire.
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Feb 18, 2014 03:24
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iastudent posted:"Worst Cooks" season premiere on now. In previous years many of the contestants had been on other non cooking reality shows so it seems a lot of them are picked for their ability to play things up for the camera rather than actually being that bad of cooks.
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Feb 18, 2014 04:30
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axleblaze posted:I know this probably comes across as unfair and petty, but on Chopped I think I pretty much always turn against any chef that says any variation of "it's so hard to be so good looking". That one woman from January drove me up the wall. The one who was the Williams sisters' private chef and had a vendetta against the other female competitor? I liked that the judges called her out on her terrible attitude. And yeah, I do love Cutthroat Kitchen, but as many have said it's more for Alton's gleeful evil than for rooting for one chef or another.
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Feb 18, 2014 05:21
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I tuned in to Worst Chefs for about 5 minutes, and had to change the channel. The editing was driving me crazy. It's hard to gauge what kind of cooks these people really are, when they are constantly doing everything they can to make them look worse and worse (and I know that's the whole appeal of the show, but I just can't do it when they make it so obvious.) Someone put some red pepper flakes on a pizza, and Anne Burrell took a bite. She then looked to do some fake coughs to let them know how spicy it was, and the camera cut away and they looped the coughing sounds a couple more times, just to let you know that they really hosed that pizza up with those chile flakes! drat, what a terrible cook! Maybe I sound a little too closed minded. I'll give the show another chance next week if I'm not doing anything, but I'm not hopeful.
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Spoeank posted:My favorite part of Chopped is when they do the talking heads & they talk about what they're going to do with the money. To a person they all have a pretty bad idea about what $10k after taxes will actually get you. I'm pretty much guessing that they are instructed to basically bullshit their plans for the money. I refuse to believe most of these adults who have families and jobs and businesses do not understand how much money 10k really is or the concept of taxes. You see it in any game show with a cash prize at the end too.
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Feb 18, 2014 21:58
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My favorite is when they state that they need to win in order to prove to their parents that they didn't waste their life by choosing to be a chef. It comes up surprisingly frequent and they never win. Ever.
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Feb 18, 2014 22:38
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Vakal posted:My favorite is when they state that they need to win in order to prove to their parents that they didn't waste their life by choosing to be a chef. There was one episode where they did win. It was a female chef from Pakistan (I think).
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Feb 18, 2014 23:34
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I've actually been pretty hooked on Worst Cooks in America. I swear, going into the kitchen must be like attending Hogwarts for these people. Everything about cooking is so mystical and there are all these strange and arcane rules you need to follow otherwise you get fire and explosions and salmonella. "I am Bobby Flay, the Potions Master."
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Feb 19, 2014 00:40
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ToastyPotato posted:I'm pretty much guessing that they are instructed to basically bullshit their plans for the money. I refuse to believe most of these adults who have families and jobs and businesses do not understand how much money 10k really is or the concept of taxes. You see it in any game show with a cash prize at the end too. It better be, because the number of people who think the $10k is their key to early retirement or an all expenses paid trip around the world for their 50 closest friends is baffling. Vakal posted:My favorite is when they state that they need to win in order to prove to their parents that they didn't waste their life by choosing to be a chef. The saddest one was the lesbian who wanted to be on Chopped to try to get back into her dad's life because he disowned her. 
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Feb 19, 2014 01:09
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iastudent posted:"Worst Cooks" season premiere on now. I don't know if this answers the question, but the tall blonde dancer is also an actor, he was in one of the Step Up movies.
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Feb 21, 2014 03:54
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One of the (ex)garde mangers in my restaurant was on CCK a couple weeks ago. Felt good watching him get crushed in the second round. I can only hope he gets past prelims for next season of Top Chef because then it'd reach max schadenfreude.
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Feb 21, 2014 22:12
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Man Worst Cooks is a bad show. The thing that's really aggravating is it's so close to being a good show but it's ruined by bad execution and the usual forced narrative devices that come up in these shows. It's also annoyingly wacky.
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At least the challenges are sane. Personally I just love it for the hilarious incompetence of the participants early on in the season. I mean at least it isn't Cutthroat Kitchen. I just saw one episode and it was loving absurd and nonsensically wacky.
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Mar 4, 2014 09:22
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Does Food Network have any place to watch full episodes of Good Eats? I don't mean a couple random episodes, but the entire series. Any on-demand service or anything? I can't find poo poo.
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I just did a quick search and it appears that Amazon has the full run although the last few seasons are for Prime members. Itunes also seems to have most seasons but not all. Edit: If you meant watching them ON Food Network's website, then I don't know.
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Mar 7, 2014 19:17
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I watched a crapton on YouTube.
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Anyone else a little weirded out when they call food "sexy"? Like are they maybe taking the phrase "food porn" a little too literally?
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It's my girlfriend's biggest pet peeve and yet Chopped is one of her favorite shows. I think she's a masochist.
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Humboldt squid posted:Anyone else a little weirded out when they call food "sexy"? Like are they maybe taking the phrase "food porn" a little too literally? 
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Humboldt squid posted:Anyone else a little weirded out when they call food "sexy"? Like are they maybe taking the phrase "food porn" a little too literally? At this point I just filter out stuff like that when they're talking about food but yes, it's really weird. What sort of frame of reference are we supposed to have when someone says food is sexy? Because I just think about George Costanza's bed sandwiches or whatever. Very, very sexy.
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Ilan Hall's competition show on Esquire Network was inexplicably renewed. If you're that hard up for programming, Esquire Network, why don't you just revert to being G4. I need my COPS and Attack of the Show fix.
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Debbie Metallica posted:At this point I just filter out stuff like that when they're talking about food but yes, it's really weird. What sort of frame of reference are we supposed to have when someone says food is sexy? Because I just think about George Costanza's bed sandwiches or whatever. Very, very sexy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYzkUX58t4w
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Aww, the other half of the Two Fat Ladies died at 66.  Guess I'll make something of theirs this weekend.
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jscolon2.0 posted:Ilan Hall's competition show on Esquire Network was inexplicably renewed. If you're that hard up for programming, Esquire Network, why don't you just revert to being G4. I need my COPS and Attack of the Show fix. The shambling corpse of G4 still exists. Lots of Xplay and Web Soup and Heroes reruns. After cancelling all their original programming to prepare for Esquire they decided to keep it around and went back to turning Style into Esquire which had been the original plan I think.
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This episode of Mystery Diners with "Jamie Foxx" is absurd. Is this poo poo staged?
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rock2much posted:This episode of Mystery Diners with "Jamie Foxx" is absurd. Is this poo poo staged? Yes. I think the show claims to be recreations of "real events" but if my quotations marks weren't a give away, I have trouble even believing that. I really do despise everything about that show. It's a awful show for awful people.
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axleblaze posted:Yes. I think the show claims to be recreations of "real events" but if my quotations marks weren't a give away, I have trouble even believing that. I really do despise everything about that show. It's a awful show for awful people. Yeah, it's fake as hell. Even if you ignore the perfectly placed camera angles, and sound quality that can only come from a person being wired with a mic, a good chunk of the shows feature activity that is actually illegal. If someone really did have video footage of an employee stealing from customers and vendors, I don't think they get a pass from the law just because their boss decides to give them a second chance.
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"You stole $50,000.00 and have been running an underground cock fighting ring!" "But boss! I respect you! I love this restaurant! I love this job! I'll change." "...Ok you can stay. But you have to clear out the meth lab."
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I just remember that one week I almost got fired from my pizza delivery job because a customer complained about my beard and that same week I saw an episode where they were like "We've received multiple complaints about out drivers so we decided to get the Mystery Diners in here" and I just wanted to destroy this dumb, fake show. For this show to even be remotely workable, every person that calls them in has to be so bad at running their business that they'd just call a TV rather than actually go into their own restaurant and investigate what's going on.
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It's like 'Oh Yelp says my Italian restaurant is now serving great Mexican food? Well I'm too lazy to actually be hands on in this business I own, and I could just ask a friend to go in and check it out, but instead I'll spend thousands of dollars to ask this group of lovely actors to come in and spend a week installing hidden cameras and microphones and conduct an overly elaborate sting that I can watch from a secret operations room and conveniently catch exactly what happens center screen with great audio quality so I can confront the employee on national TV, oh and they must have happened to sign a consent form at some point so we could show their face, like all the customers and other employees, or maybe just maybe they are an actor also'. Also if your restaurant starts earning rave reviews for a different cuisine, maybe you should be serving that cuisine and make that employee who came up with the idea the executive chef. Most of the other episodes take the form of 'I've had reports that this employee is stealing produce'. Guess what happens in that situation in real life, they get fired.
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