Talk:Good Eats

message: Season 3, Episode 7 (EA1C07), "American Pickle," roughly 10m45s in.  Alton introduces B.A. as "my brother," with the caption "Sinister Sibling" on the screen.
Alton does seem to have an evil twin, though.  Season 1, Episode 11, "Pantry Raid 1: Use Your Noodle" features an appearance by "Anti-Alton."  Basically the same character, but a different name. --CrayDrygu 23:26, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Check the DVD release of American Pickle (part of the All-American Greats disc).  There's a "Ask Alton" Q&A session where I believe he specifically addresses this question. -- A. 22:52, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  B. A. -- Brother or Evil Twin? 

message: To whomever added all of the different recurring characters: thanks!  However, is it redundant to have the "specialists" paragraph there since all the people mentioned are also in the new section?JD79 21:56, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cast and Crew

message: In the spirit of wp:be bold, I removed the "From The Show" section, which contained two of the "fun facts" given on Good Eats  (These facts are usually given going into a commercial break.)  I think this is better than expanding the section for two reasons:
* Each episode has several of these facts, so this section could grow quite large, and
* Even if filled out, I don't think a section on food trivia is appropriate in an encyclopedia entry on Good Eats: it's off topic, and the factoids are an incidental part of the show.
Maybe if this comes back, it should do so as its own article? Vslashg 08:37, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  From The Show 

message: I've removed this from the trivia section, because I really don't know what it means:
::*After Season 7, Alton Brown tries to incorperate a refrence to "Iron Chef" in each episode, rather it be "Allia Cruisine", opening a tray, and alton screaming the ignredient, wearing a very colorful chef's cap, or voice overing himself very fast as he does on "Iron Chef America"
The phrase "Allia Cruisine" doesn't appear in a Google search, and with the other misspellings (incorperate, refrence, alton, ignredient), I also checked for "Allia Cuisine", but that phrase doesn't appear anywhere related to Iron Chef.
If this could be clarified so that it's understandable (a link to Allia Cuisine might be enough, if that's something that exists), it should probably go back in. Travisl 06:03, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Further, I dont' think the section makes sense in that "Allez Cuisine" has been the only overt callback to Iron Chef. The other examples are reaching, to put it mildly Lambertman 12:45, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iron Chef Reference; Allia Cuisine 

message: Under characters>Lactose Man, Alton is mentioned to be Lactose Intollerant, as he did state in 'Good Milk Gone Bad.' However, it was mentioned on this page (http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/ABFP/BSReports/Reports1.htm) that Alton was reported to have said that this was "an ugly rumor." Perhaps he was only playing one for dramatic effect? Is there any way to verify this? Alex 02:20, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lactose Intollerant?

message: Rather than recycling the picture of Alton that's used in his personal article, would it serve this article better to have screencaps (properly tagged, of course) of the show's logo and a shot or two of Alton in action? Willbyr (talk | contribs) 05:24, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I like that idea. It'd better identify the show itself, rather than Alton. Shuckiduck 20:56, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Most TV shows that I've looked at on Wikipedia have the show card as the sole image for the series.  That'd be the equivalent of the left hand side of this image .  If that's fair use, we should grab it, although a screen cap of the actual show card would be better. Travisl 22:37, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I prefer the screencap over the new edit and addition of the Food Network website image... Better shows what is part of the show. Even with the poor resolution of the screencap, I prefer it.  Anyone else? Shuckiduck 13:11, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  This may be a bit bias, but I do prefer the screencap aswell. Corporal Clegg 21:20, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

text:  I prefer the screencap as well. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 21:33, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would as well. EvilHom3r 03:41, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Show logo 

message: Personally, I'm not keen on the wasted space in the tables by stretching them out to the length of the page, but if everyone wants them that size, then the episode titles should probably be centered to make better use of the space in their sections. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 14:03, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tables for episodes 

message: Does anybody have an official source for this information?  Something from Food Network, maybe?  Without a source, this is just speculation, and could/should be removed from this page.  Can somebody, maybe the one who added these episodes, provide a source for this?  If not, it will be removed. Lumaga 06:13, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Food Network lists the upcoming episodes: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/episode_archive/0,1904,FOOD_9956_177,00.html#Series2483 Dav2008 17:58, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upcoming Episodes 

message: In all the time I've been watching Good Eats, I have never once associated Marsha with Martha Stewart.  Their personalities are completely different, even if they share some minor similarities.  Has this association ever been stated by Alton or anyone else associated with the show? Willbyr (talk | contribs) 17:55, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marsha = Martha? 

message: Is anyone else not seeing any of the article below the History section?  I can see it in the edit page, but it's not showing up in the actual article. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 16:12, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have the same problem. I can see up to the Awards section that you just added, but that is it. I agree, this is really strange. I haven't seen this happen before, and I have been reading Wikipedia for over a year now. EDIT: I tried clicking on the reference footnote things to see what would happen, and nothing happens except turning the footnote purple (as if I had already been to it before). --LuigiManiac 16:21, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I checked the old versions of the article, and apparently the article was first cropped in the first version by the anon who added the information on the Peabody Award earlier today. He didn't do anything, because the diff shows that he just added the little mention of the award. Do you think undoing his first edit to the article would do anything? --LuigiManiac 16:44, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I figured it out, he didn't put the </ref> in the code for the reference.  I put this in and edited the URL. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 17:16, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good job. I would have never guessed that something like that could cause a quarter of an article to be cropped. --LuigiManiac 17:21, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alright, this is strange... 

message: Is it me, or is he starting to use uni-taskers more? In the cubing meat episode, he uses that 48 blade meat tenderizer, in the olive episode he uses an olive pitter, and in the espresso episode he uses a espresso machine without even trying to find other uses for them (except for the olive pitter, where he is made to use one).--BrianGriffin-FG 21:49, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: not true. He uses the meat tenderizer in other episodes for various things other than meat. EvilHom3r 03:45, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

text: I don't mean the hammer meat-tenderizer, I mean the tenderizer with the needles.--BrianGriffin-FG 22:02, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

text: He seems to be trading versatility for efficiency in some cases.  In the dentist scene in Olive Me, W suggests that the olive pitter can also be a cherry stoner.  In other cases, he probably gets away with it because these are for more general applications.  Cubed meat can be used for several similar-but-different dishes, and skewering is useful for grilling or fire-roasting foods of any kind.  Appliances like yogurt makers, on the other hand, specialize in one dish that average home cooks probably don't make that often.  As for the espresso machine, it's also a, uh... hot chocolate machine? -- A. 22:41, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

text: One unitasker he recommends buying is an espresso machine.  I guess that it is technically a multitasker because, in addition to making espresso, it froths milk; however, that's a stretch to say that it is a multitasker--often he means "multi-" in the sense of "several" rather than "more than one." Depaderico (talk) 05:39, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Multi-taskers?

message: During Behind the Eats, a fact card states that AB's actual kitchen appeared in one episode.  The article repeats this, adding that the episode was Give Peas a Chance.  This makes sense to me; while the fact was displayed, the music playing in the background was the Exorcist-like melody.  However, this was just my deduction based on the clues, and no source is given for that part of the article.  Do we have anything to verify that Peas was or was not the episode in question? -- A. 23:01, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Actual Kitchen

message: In a number of episodes I have noticed a large (plastic?) cone of pink soft ice cream.
Does anyone know why?
I first noticed it sometime in season 5 and just noticed it in the first episode of season 6 (The Other Red Meat) at about the 8 minute mark.
The answer to this would make a nice entry in the trivia section  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.59.254.100 (talk) 18:34, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does a large cone of pink soft ice cream appear in many episondes? 

message: How can he possibly be lactose intolerant, he uses milk a lot --Gen. S.T. Shrink *Get to the bunker* 01:08, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: First, where's the citation for AB's lactose intolerance?  Presumably it was mentioned in an episode of Good Eats.  Second, being lactose intolerant wouldn't preclude his teaching people to cook with dairy ingredients.  He doesn't always sample the food he preps on the show...  -FeralDruid 01:52, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Interesting.  There's a link up above, in the other section on lactose intolerance, saying he's not lactose intolerant.  Curious.  It may have been for dramatic effect for the episode.  In Feasting on Asphalt 1, he stopped at a road-side milk shake place on Route 66.  If he really were lactose intolerant, I can't imagine he'd have stopped and enjoyed a milk shake -- but that's speculation.  -FeralDruid 06:48, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lactose 

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replies: text: No it's not; someone fixed it. U (talk) 01:07, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep...although in all honesty, a screenshot of the title screen from the actual show would work better for the purposes of the article. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 04:59, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Ge 02.jpg

message: Maybe something could be added in regards to Monty Python. As a fan of both, I have DEFINITELY seen some allusions from Good Eats to Flying Circus and other Monty Python creations. Just an idea.65.120.7.97 (talk) 03:56, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not a huge fan of Monty Python (his work is great-it's just too difficult for me to invest in it) so I've never noticed any references. Can you give examples? Where would you add this information? Kiyae (talk) 08:38, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good Eats contains countless cultural references.  If we were to list them all, it'd be nothing but a trivia page.  Personally, I don't think it's important, or even desired, to reference them all.  -FeralDruid (talk) 16:57, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A good example of a Monty Python reference is in the Duck episode: the "Why do ducks burn?" sequence was almost directly lifted from the famous Witch skit in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".24.11.21.161 (talk) 19:27, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monty Python References 

message: Is this show stylised as Comedy as well? Ron James 007 (talk) 05:30, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nah, I don't think its humorous content is enough to justify calling it a comedy. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 11:15, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comedy as well? 

message: On May 11, 2001, I updated the article with a reference detailing an announcment by Alton Brown via Twitter, reported by the Chicago Tribune, that Good Eats would end with episode 249. Xin Jing (talk) 17:10, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alton Announces End of Series 

message: This article specifically states that Alton's wife/the show's co-executive producer does not appear in any episodes (which assertion has a citation needed tag), but Alton's personal article specifically states that she appeared in the 10th anniversary episode. Having only seen a handful of episodes, I don't know which is true, but one of the articles must be inaccurate.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.18.181.40 (talk) 17:31, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  DeAnna Brown 

message: Substituted at 16:29, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: quote: Mr. Brown is working on a new version of “Good Eats” for his own digital distribution next year. He is buoyed by a generation of younger fans who watch reruns on Netflix. Food Network owns “Good Eats,” so he doesn’t make a penny from the revival. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/dining/alton-brown-cookbook-everydaycook.html  98.164.14.163 (talk) 09:54, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  News 2016 sep 28