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Good Eats: The Muffin Method Man
Alton's brother AB is in jail! He calls and asks Alton to bake him a cake with something special inside. Alton, missing the point, decides that what his brother really needs are muffins. Compact delivery devices for all kinds of flavorful ingredients, muffins might even be something BA could trade. Alton bakes Blueberry Muffins and then cooks up English Muffins for his wayward sibling.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 7x4 Production Number: EA1G06 Airdate: Wednesday July 23rd, 2003 |
Recap
It’s very late and Alton has fallen asleep in front of the television. The news drones on about a dumb thief who picked a fight with several policemen who wanted his autograph. It seems the man resembled an international cooking celebrity. The phone awakens Alton; it’s his brother BA. Apparently BA has been arrested again. He’s the celebrity look-alike! Now he wants Alton to make him a cake with “something special” inside...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
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- The English muffin dats back to the 10th Century, Wales.
- Muffin men sold hot, fresh muffins door-to-door in 19th Century England.
- Cool muffins upside down for better volume.
- Most baked muffins will freeze well for up to 3 months.
- Delmonico’s Restaurant served the first eggs Benedict in 1860.
The Food Network Site lists this episode by the name The Muffin Man.
Cultural References
The episode title "The Muffin Method Man" as well as its references to Drury Lane are based on an old English nursery rhyme called "The Muffin Man."
In 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre excited audiences and inadvertently added to the pop culture vernacular a phrase that remains well-known today: "I don't have to show you any stinking badges." and comes at the end of an increasingly irate speech from a Mexican national (Gold Hat) to Humphrey Bogart's treasure hunter Fred C. Dobbs. Alton's version, "we don't need no stinking cups" is based on a popular misquotation, "We don't need no stinking badges."
Alton tosses a muffin to distract a police officer. This escape ploy is based on the popular stereotype suggesting that police officers are unable to resist the allure of doughnuts. Alton's lucky that his muffin serves as a suitable stand-in for the doughnut.
The man in the upper bunk who asks, "Is that you, Clarice?" is clearly meant to be the sinister Hannibal Lector, the cannibal psychiatrist from 1991's The Silence of the Lambs. Anthony Hopkins engraved the character into the cultural memory with his mostly low key performance that conveyed a palpable sense of peril in each of his scenes.
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