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!@#$%! · 01.26.2014, 06:43 PM

i don't get cable so i have to wait for netfux.

ANYWAY

been watching some OLD episodes of julia child's "the french chef"

i knew it would be funny but i didn't know it would be this hilarious. i cant' stop laughing. which makes the lessons very entertaining.

i mean, much respect for what she did, but she's very funny too and almost never on purpose-- like, really spastic, and she splatters shit all over, and throws things around like the swedish chef in the muppets. and her voice! i think she had a naturally very deep voice so she compensated by forcing this very high pitch like bianca castafiore. so she breathes really hard,, and the inhale sounds sometimes like asthma (e.g., spinach episode, was like emphisema or something). sometimes she snorts-- LOUD. so it's really hilarious. but that's okay-- she showed you don't have to be a fucking plastic mannequin to be on tv and she schooled america and she had heart and enthusiasm and she did it all with great gusto-- substance over style.

oh and the production values of cooking shows at the time were utter shit. there are practically no cuts-- maybe just one when she goes to the "dining room." or maybe the camera from above. but some shows it's jsut one very long fucking take. like there's this episode on potatoes the show is over she walks off camera then she squints at teh bright lights and makes a frown before she's completely off the frame. can't explain, it's like a very subtle silent film comedy-- the frantic motions, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vyP_U64Pi4 <-potatoes, watch the very end (though it probably only makes sense after the whole show)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw0Ij1Fxgq4 <-after an erudite lecture on knives, she tells you to make the soup from a can

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRZxaUuFA1Y <- roast chickens, watch the beginning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vZXmlxnKM <- spinach asthma attack!

the un-giada. 100% unpolished. she's my hero.

01.26.2014, 06:43 PM	#507
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,465	i don't get cable so i have to wait for netfux. ANYWAY been watching some OLD episodes of julia child's "the french chef" i knew it would be funny but i didn't know it would be this hilarious. i cant' stop laughing. which makes the lessons very entertaining. i mean, much respect for what she did, but she's very funny too and almost never on purpose-- like, really spastic, and she splatters shit all over, and throws things around like the swedish chef in the muppets. and her voice! i think she had a naturally very deep voice so she compensated by forcing this very high pitch like bianca castafiore. so she breathes really hard,, and the inhale sounds sometimes like asthma (e.g., spinach episode, was like emphisema or something). sometimes she snorts-- LOUD. so it's really hilarious. but that's okay-- she showed you don't have to be a fucking plastic mannequin to be on tv and she schooled america and she had heart and enthusiasm and she did it all with great gusto-- substance over style. oh and the production values of cooking shows at the time were utter shit. there are practically no cuts-- maybe just one when she goes to the "dining room." or maybe the camera from above. but some shows it's jsut one very long fucking take. like there's this episode on potatoes the show is over she walks off camera then she squints at teh bright lights and makes a frown before she's completely off the frame. can't explain, it's like a very subtle silent film comedy-- the frantic motions, etc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vyP_U64Pi4 <-potatoes, watch the very end (though it probably only makes sense after the whole show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw0Ij1Fxgq4 <-after an erudite lecture on knives, she tells you to make the soup from a can http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRZxaUuFA1Y <- roast chickens, watch the beginning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vZXmlxnKM <- spinach asthma attack! the un-giada. 100% unpolished. she's my hero.
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