Episode Info

Final: 14x22 -- Use Your Noodle V (May/02/2011)

Cast

Alton Brown As Himself

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14x20: Roll Call recap: Alton opens the episode speaking of the “maelstrom of mediocrity” that currently envelops our culture – a misfortune he says originated at the epicenter of our culture, the dinner table. The scene enlarges to reveal Alton sitting at just such a table, surrounded by plastic representations of a traditional nuclear family: mother, father, son and daughter... read more.

14x17: Use Your Noodle IV: Lasagna recap: The watchword of 21st century marketing may just be comfort. To prove his point Alton surfs through several commercials (all narrated by a suspiciously familiar voice). Each of them extols the virtues of its product's comfort, from shoes to car air conditioning to a giant sack-like cocoon suited for home lounging. The concept extends to food: comfort food, eaten to produce an improved emotional state. Several more commercials, extol the comforts of mashed potatoes and meatloaf and macaroni, suggesting these products are just like Mom used to make or perhaps even better. If comfort is king, shouldn't a cook want to prepare the most comforting food there is?.. read more.

14x15: Devil of a Cake recap: Alton's cake story opens long, long ago in a midwest far, far away. Presented newsreel style, complete with a tinny tack piano and the whirring of an old-style film projector, viewers see the final judging of a cake-baking contest. The winner, for the fifth straight year, is Miss Ellie Elson, whose angel food cake the judges pronounce truly fit for angels. A reporter whisks Ellie outside for pictures, leaving behind the bitter Miss Prudence Binderbrass... read more.

14x13: Egg Files VII: Meringue recap: At a table suggesting a swanky restaurant, Alton has just finished a fine meal. American cuisine, he says, has come a long way in the last twenty years, but those who want dessert subtlety had better have a time machine handy, because they've missed that boat. Back in the twenties and thirties... just then the dessert cart rolls up, laden with treats. On it Alton sees Baked Alaska, Oeufs a la Neige (literally: eggs on snow) and Pavlova. There's also chocolate mousse cake... at this point Alton reaches beyond the fourth wall to call for a program pause while he considers the first three dessert choices. Each is a meringue based treat that is all but gone from the culinary landscape. That's a shame, since meringue, a “magical” mixture of egg whites, sugar and air also goes by another name... Good Eats!.. read more.

14x12: American Classics IX: Pumpkin Pie recap: Long time viewers of Good Eats understand that when Alton appears in front of a large American flag, he'll be hosting another American Classics episode. These episodes try to remind America how to rescue American cuisine from sinking into mediocrity, by coaxing cooks to their patriotic duty towards these classic savories and sweets. Indeed, from behind the flag we hear the inconsolable sobbing of... Thomas Jefferson, so distraught at what has become of American classic cuisine that he has lost self-control!.. read more.

Crew

Creator: Alton Brown
Executive Producer: DeAnna Brown
Editor: Amy Carey
Line Producer: Dana Popoff
Music: Patrick Belden
Costume Designer: Amanda Kibbler
Camera Operator: Ramon Engle
Production Assistant: Brett Soll
Animator: Walter Biscardi
Other: Tamie Cook, Rick Crank

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