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Good Eats :: Peanut Gallery (11x09)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | Peanut Gallery |
| Episode #: | 11x09 |
| Production Number: | EA1112 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday October 15th, 2007 |
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Episode Summary |
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Inspired by the ghost of George Washington Carver, Alton takes on the peanut. Culturally and historically significant and culinarily versatile, cooks often overlook the power of the peanut. Starting at a ballpark (and another appearance by Mr. Carver), Alton elaborates a bit on the history of the peanut, including what led to its popularity today. Faced with the price of stale stadium peanuts, Alton makes his own Roasted Peanuts. Then he takes some Spanish peanuts for a spin in his food processor to make Homemade Peanut Butter. With some chocolate wafers and a few other things, Alton next turns a batch of his peanut butter into Peanut Butter Pie. Outside, Alton prepares Boiled Peanuts and then makes them into Boiled Peanut Soup.
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Guest Stars |
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| Uncredited | | •Carolyn O'Neil | played | Lady of the Refrigerator | Recurring (4th appearance) |
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Episode Notes |
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Cards- Goober derives from nguba, a name given to the plant by West Africans, brought to their continent by Portuguese traders.
- Two tablespoons of peanut butter provides over 10% of the US recommended daily intake of protein.
- Georgia and Alabama produce almost half of the US peanut crop each year.
- In 1939, Carver received the Roosevelt Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Southern Agriculture.
| Locations: Alton’s bedroom; a ballpark; Whole Food Market (Atlanta, Georgia); a backyard.
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Episode Quotes |
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George Washington Carver: You’ve been shirking your duty, Mr. Brown. Here we are in Georgia, the peanut Mecca of this great land, and you haven’t given the goober the time of day?!? For shame, Mr. Brown, for shame!
Alton: I’m too busy on other projects... I mean, there... there’s...
George Washington Carver: What? Another potato show? Bah! That tuber can’t hold a candle to the nutritional, culinary and historical significance of this nut, which by the way, saved southern farming.
| Alton: Well, maybe it is time to do a peanut show. I mean, after all, they are historically significant, culturally relevant and culinarily versatile. Not to mention seriously... (Alton pulls back the covers revealing peanuts in his bed. He screams several times and then the Good Eats theme plays.)
| Alton: Peanut man! Right here!
(The peanut vendor throws Alton a bag at high speed.)
Alton: Hey, what’s the big de...? (Alton recognizes the peanut vendor – it is George Washington Carver again.) Oh, it’s you.
George Washington Carver: Six dollars, if you please!
Alton: Six dollars?!? Are you serious?!?
George Washington Carver: Hey, it’s not my fault if the peanut is the most popular flavor on the planet.
Alton: Actually, I think it is your fault.
George Washington Carver: Oh, yeah, you’re right. If it hadn’t been for my pamphlet, “How to Grow the Peanut, and One Hundred and Five Ways of Preparing It for Human Consumption” published in 1925 and still in print today, there wouldn’t be any peanuts to sell at the old ballgame!
| George Washington Carver: What’s so special about peanut butter.
Alton: Oh, I don’t know, maybe that half the peanuts that are grown in this country become peanut butter? Say, you didn’t invent peanut butter, did you. No, it was a doctor from St. Louis... What was his name?
George Washington Carver: Ha! See? Nobody knows!
| George Washington Carver: Where’d that blue lady go? She was nice!
Alton: She doesn’t like you. She doesn’t want to talk to you.
| George Washington Carver: There’s nothing better than some good boiled peanuts.
Alton: Nothing better...
George Washington Carver: Unless, of course, it’s a peanut colada!
Alton: Wow. That looks... that looks really good.
George Washington Carver: Want me to whip one up for you?
Alton: No. No, I’ve got cooking to do. Besides, you’re a specter from the... netherworld!
George Washington Carver: You don’t know what you’re missing!
| Alton: A wise man once said of the peanut, “I do not know of any one vegetable that has such a wide range of food possibilities either raw or cooked.”
George Washington Carver: I believe that was me!
Alton: It was. And I have to say I concur. The peanut is an edible marvel full of balanced nutrition and a flavor as enticing as anything on earth. What is it you are working on over there?
(George Washington Carver is working on something he has assembled from peanuts.)
George Washington Carver: This? It’s a little something new I cooked up. I call it an iPeanut. Not quite sure what it does, but I think it’s going to be big!
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Cultural References |
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The episode title, Peanut Gallery, traces it origins back to the days of vaudeville. Then, the cheapest seats often contained the rowdiest fans. And the cheapest snack was peanuts. Disappointed fans sometimes threw the peanuts at performers. Much later, the Howdy Doody Show adopted the term as the name of its audience of children. Since then, the term has come to generally mean any heckler or (especially) group of hecklers.
| The ghost of George Washington Carver appears to Alton to encourage him towards a show about the peanut. Carver, who lived from 1864 to 1943, promoted peanuts and sweet potatoes as alternative crops at a time when over farming of cotton had largely depleted the soil of many farms. He did this by publicizing recipes that used these ingredients and by creating industrial processes that derived many substances from the peanut. He also taught good farming techniques to former slaves and others, promoting southern farming.
| When George Washington Carver’s ghost appears to a sleeping Alton, it wears chains whose links are forged of peanuts. This alludes to Carver’s work with the peanut, and also to Marley’s Ghost, a character in Charles Dickens’ 1843 tale, A Christmas Carol. Marley’s ghost, condemned to walk the earth for all eternity, also bore the weight of heavy chains forged from his own greed and selfishness, a burden he hoped to spare his partner and friend Ebenezer Scrooge.
| Alton dismisses the ghost of George Washington Carver and goes back to sleep. The ghost fades with a threat on its lips. The next morning, Alton awakens to discover his bed contains thousands of peanuts, causing him to scream and scream. This scene is similar to a scene in the 1972 film The Godfather. Corleone consigliere Tom Hagen asks Jack Woltz, a Hollywood producer, to cast Corleone associate Johnny Fontaine in a film. For personal reasons, Woltz refuses. To persuade him, Hagen has the head of his favorite racehorse Khartoum severed and placed in the bed with him. When he discovers this the following morning, he does not stop screaming for some time...
| The Lady of the Refrigerator appears again. She spoofs the Lady of the Lake from Arthurian legend. Assigned various names by various chroniclers, she gave Arthur the sword Excalibur in most accounts. Some tales say she conveyed Arthur to the isle of Avalon to be healed of his hurts, after his battle with Mordred.
| Alton revisits the term wafer thin using John Cleese’s accent as the maitre d’ from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. Cleese’s maitre d’ offers the grotesquely fat Mr. Creosote (Terry Jones) a “wafer thin” mint at the conclusion of a meal of staggering proportions. The results are predictable, darkly funny and for some, nauseating.
| Carver’s final peanut creation, the iPeanut is clearly a send-up of the popular music playback device, the iPod. Carver’s creation looks like the iPod and even sports a pair of earphones, but is probably only a shell of its competition.
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Analysis |
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Here we get more of a historical treatment of the peanut and less of the specific science involved, although the lady of the refrigerator does appear to discuss nutrition. This is somewhat of a departure from Alton’s usual approach that explains not only what to do but why one does it.
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