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Good Eats: This Spud's for You Too
Stranded by a broken down truck, Alton seeks refuge from a nearby home. He’s in luck, because Frances Anderson, who lives there, is his biggest fan. Since it will take time for the mechanic to come and repair Alton’s truck, he and Frances get together to make some potato recipes: Leftover Baked Potato Soup, Cold-Fashioned Potato Salad and Potato Roesti. But as the night wears on, Alton begins to wonder whether it was really lucky that he found this particular house and this particular fan...
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 5x13 Production Number: EA1E11 Airdate: Saturday April 20th, 2002 Writer: Alton Brown
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Recap
Alton’s truck has stalled in the middle of a driving rainstorm. He tries to start it but has no luck. Getting out, he covers his head with a large envelope and fetches a heavy metal case from the bed. Dragging the box behind him, he stops briefly to shake a fist at the truck, mutters “Oh, bother” under his breath and drags the case along to the porch of a nearby house. When he knocks, a woman answers. Alton apologizes for bothering her, but she’s not bothered at all! In fact, she recognizes him right off as Alton Brown. He starts to admit his identity, but when she quickly closes the door, he concludes she’s no fan of Alton Brown and tries to slide out of it but claiming he “gets that a lot.” He need not worry, for the woman soon opens the door, having lost her curlers and housecoat. She identifies herself as Frances Anderson, and proudly tells Alton she is his biggest fan...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Cards
- The Incas measured time according to how long it took potatoes to cook.
- In October of 1995, the potato became the first vegetable grown in space.
- Potatoes have been cultivated in South America for 7000 years.
- Marie Antoinette was known to decorate her hair with potato blossoms.
- Thomas Jefferson introduced French Fries to the White House during his presidency of 1801-09.
Episode Quotes
Alton: (dragging a metal box through the rain) Oh, bother!
Alton: Ma’am, I’m sorry to bother you but my truck broke down off of...
Frances Anderson: You’re not Alton Brown, host of Good Eats?!?
Alton: Well, actually, I... (she slams the door) ... get that a lot. But it’s a mistake! I’ve never even heard of Al... that guy!
Frances Anderson: You’re not Alton Brown, host of Good Eats?!?
Alton: Well, actually, I... (she slams the door) ... get that a lot. But it’s a mistake! I’ve never even heard of Al... that guy!
Alton: If you let me come in and use your phone to call a tow truck, we will talk spuds aplenty until it gets here.
Frances: Well, come in! You’ll catch your death. I just rescued... Mister Good Eats!
Frances: Well, come in! You’ll catch your death. I just rescued... Mister Good Eats!
(Alton notices some of his props on Frances’ sideboard.)
Alton: Heyyyy... Where did you get this stuff?!?
Frances: Oh, your prop guys have a fabulous website.
Alton: (archly) Oh, they do, do they???
Alton: Heyyyy... Where did you get this stuff?!?
Frances: Oh, your prop guys have a fabulous website.
Alton: (archly) Oh, they do, do they???
Alton: You know, I can’t help but notice that you’ve got a lot of leftover containers in here labeled with, uh, Good Eats titles...
Frances: (brightly) Uh-huh!
(Ominous music swells in the background.)
Frances: (brightly) Uh-huh!
(Ominous music swells in the background.)
(Alton shows Frances a metal case with “Good Eats” stenciled on it.)
Alton: I have got one just like this...
Frances: Not anymore...
Alton: I have got one just like this...
Frances: Not anymore...
Frances: Good news, AB! Bart loved the soup!
Alton: (examining the empty pot forlornly) Well, that’s great...
Frances: And he invited me to the church social tomorrow.
Alton: Aw, that’s great, too!
Frances: Well, I agreed to make the potato salad...
Alton: (tiredly) That’s great.
Frances: Because I knew you’d help me!
Alton: That’s... not... gonna happen! If potato salad’s gonna be any good you gotta make it the night before! It’s three AM!
Frances: Well, we’d better get a move on!
Alton: (examining the empty pot forlornly) Well, that’s great...
Frances: And he invited me to the church social tomorrow.
Alton: Aw, that’s great, too!
Frances: Well, I agreed to make the potato salad...
Alton: (tiredly) That’s great.
Frances: Because I knew you’d help me!
Alton: That’s... not... gonna happen! If potato salad’s gonna be any good you gotta make it the night before! It’s three AM!
Frances: Well, we’d better get a move on!
Alton: (waving his enormous crab claw prop) I suppose you’re going to tell me you got this on the Internet?
Frances: I told you I was your biggest fan.
Frances: I told you I was your biggest fan.
Frances: He blinded me with science!
Frances: (on the phone with the tow truck) What? He was just out of gas? That’s it? Can’t you break something??? (She hangs up quickly when Alton enters the room.)
Alton: Was that Ed, about my truck?
Frances: Oh, bad news... Ed says you threw a basket...
Alton: Blew a gasket?
Frances: That’s it! Oh, you’re so smart!
Frances: Oh, bad news... Ed says you threw a basket...
Alton: Blew a gasket?
Frances: That’s it! Oh, you’re so smart!
Alton: Hey, to some folks, when it comes to potatoes, brown is good.
Frances: (eyeing him speculatively) When it comes to a lot of things, Brown is good.
Frances: (eyeing him speculatively) When it comes to a lot of things, Brown is good.
Frances: I’ve grated the potatoes and the onion. (plaintively) It made me cry!
Frances: I may have lost the man, but I’ll always have... Good Eats!
Cultural References
The episode titles of this series draw inspiration from a long running series of advertisements for Budweiser beer that featured the catchphrase, "This Bud's For You!"
The episode makes various allusions to the fact that Frances Anderson is a stalker cut from the same cloth as Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) from 1990’s Misery. Wilkes “rescued” novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan), then imprisoned him and demanded he write a novel to her specifications.
When Frances says Alton blinded her with science, a short musical passage plays. These notes, and Frances’ comment are both from the Thomas Dolby hit, She Blinded Me With Science, which appeared on later versions of his first album The Golden Age of Wireless (early versions predate the 1983 premiere of the song).
Asked to produce a roesti by her boyfriend Bart, Frances wonders if she looks like Spuds MacKenzie. Spuds, a bull terrier, appeared in a number of advertisements for Bud Light, starting with a 1987 Superbowl advertisement. Negative publicity followed accusations that the "cool character" of Spuds sought to lure young customers, and the brewing giant soon after scuttled the campaign.
Episode References
This is the second in a series of episodes about potatoes. The first episode is This Spud's For You.
Frances Anderson’s refrigerator contains a number of labeled storage tubs. These labels name other Good Eats episodes, among them Pork Fiction and Crustacean Nation – presumably, the tubs contain the results of preparing recipes from those shows. Certainly they are evidence of Frances' strange obsession with Alton.
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