| | | I've only just got hip to these as they've been aired latenights on PBS, I think on the weekends. As we have no cable and I was surfing the meager broadcast offerings perhaps a month back, I initially skimmed them, then came back and watched for long enough to realize what a pisstake it was. And even if it is Richard E. Grant being a cartoon of himself, well, what of it? If it's funny, and it IS funny, what the hell. And the best part of it all is that I reckon you could actually make the dishes in the show if you can machete through the dysfunction in the vocabulary they choose to use. That just out-metas most everything else.
A few gags which bowled me over:
* Ariabella: "Whenever I cook with lard, I always think of the fat people in the co-ops. Perhaps you're one of them."
* Chyron over slow-motion shot of something being sprinkled on a dish: "Not actual speed"
* Ariabella v/o: "From the Posh Nosh collection: Coffee-flavored chocolate coffee beans."
Can anyone on that side of the Atlantic tell me how long this ran and how many were made? It's a great concept and wonderfully executed. |
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