In the earliest of days on the Food Network, Emeril was originally cast on the first version of 'How to Boil Water'. He was so unbelievably terrible at being on TV, I remember saying to my wife in my best Butthead voice "This guy has got no future". They must have sent him away for media training, because next was…

Next up on 11 Questions: Calvin Coolidge!

Everything that you say here is correct (well, that depends on how one parses the final clause, now that I reflect.)

¡muy auténtico!

…and sometimes your bite reveals a flake that's dark, and tastes different, but not entirely wrong. A tiny fleshy bit of authenticity.

This piece is exactly correct from top to bottom. When I'm watching Chopped and jackass judge Scott Conant tilts his head to look over the rims of glasses that he's not even wearing and dings a contestant, reminding them that seafood and cheese never go together, I condescendingly look over the frames of the glasses…

Of course, the worst (?) case of directors falling in love with their temp tracks was Kubrick in 2001 — Alex North was hired to score the film, but by the time he turned things in, Kubrick decided to keep the pre-existing Strauss/Ligeti/etc pieces that they had been editing to. North ended up restructuring that work…

In grad school I lived with two guys from the midwest who truly believed that Miracle Whip was the exact same thing as mayonnaise. Just better. It was a difficult and ridiculous conversation.

I don't make the rules. :shrug:

Obviously a response to that Zack Galifianakis show. The people want baskets, we'll give em baskets.

Good point. Going to go crack a bottle of cheap Cabernet right now!

Chevy
Chevy
I love when you fall down
Each Saturday night on my TV
But every time
You take that fall
I wish that you were falling
falling for me

Sorry, Greta van Susteren abruptly left Fox today.

So, a nuts-adjacent area.

…or literally anyone introduced in the Great Outdoor Fight. Also: Cartilage Head.

Blodgett Waxwing! Pig Bodine! Wendell "Mucho" Maas!

We still quote the part where cousin Stinky visits: "Toys? What is 'Toys'? We do not know what that word means." I wonder if my wife knows that Sciezska book — as a 4th grade teacher, her knowledge of that lit outstrips mine…

My now-wife gave this to me the xmas before we were married (and later, Lane Smith's also excellent "The Happy Hocky Family." One thing that made me fool good about my parenting was that my copies of both have consistently been pulled from my shelves and kept ending up in my kids' rooms. I'll have to see if my son…

Not the Kevin Smith reboot, I hope. Please tell me that's dead forever.

Can we get Parker Posey thrown in the mix as well?