Shark Bytes

Yes, I truly miss The Frugal Gourmet as well... too bad Jeff Smith turned out to be a pedophile....

I love this show. I have some episodes on vhs. Emeril is okay, but if it had not have been for the co-stars the show would not have been funny at all. The blind date/romantic dinner episode with the food fight is the funniest. I still loan that episode to friends and the love it. I miss the co-stars more than Emeril himself though.

Even if you get past the regional New York accent and obnoxious personality, Emeril is still not an interesting chef.

Who can even learn to cook amidst the frenetic chaos of Iron Chef, the boredom of Malto Mario, the scientific weirdness of Good Eats Alton, annoying enunciation of Everyday Italian, airhead Rachel Ray, and heavyweight hamhock southern Paula? If I neglected to mention other stupid shows, it's because they were not as popular.

At present, Chiarello is the only Food Network regular who concentrates on cooking, and doesn't branch off into talk shows or strange displays. Another Californian is Simply Ming who is good, too, but he's on public television.

However, the Frugal Gourmet was the best!

This sit-com had a really high cringe factor. For as lively as Emeril was in his cooking sheow, in this thing he was totally wooden. OIK, a nice piece of oak or some red cedar would probably look a little less wooeden than he did on this show. And don't even get me started on comparing the lack of personality he displayed on this show to a piece of rock.

Okay, a pseudo-cajun from Mass, whose restaurants' offerings are uninspiring and pedestrian at best? This man has taxed my nerves from the very beginning. As for the audience, I can understand the excitement of possibly being seen on a major cable TV station and watching this alleged superstar-chef do his thing; but really... applauding and cheering laughing like mindless automatons at every single ingredient and catchphrase... Lastly, how long did it take this self-absorbed chef whore to make to his "Homebase" of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina? Turns out, I think I really do not like this person.

I LOVE all these "he sucks...", "he can't cook...", and "I went to culinary school, and I'll tell you he doesn't know what he's doing..." comments. It is hilarious. I've tried many of his recipes, and they have been some of the best meals I've tasted. I've eaten at several of his restaurants and the food is phenomenal. He's produced over 2000 episodes. Can he cook? If you think he can't, you need to have your head examined. Either that, or stop eating all those SOUR GRAPES. Emeril is fun, entertaining, and makes some great food. Period.

I Always Love Emeril Lagasse and his shows (Essence of Emeril, Emeril Live) but his sitcom is not one of them, it is so terrible and just plain idiotic, Emeril jumped the shark after that, thank god that show got cancelled after that, then he went back to do cooking shows and other stuff again, this is the worst show of the decade (2000's). It's a Shame

The pilot of this episode was so bad it will make you cry... Emeril sits around snacking like some sort of passenger who couldn't be bothered. The supporting cast of loud, pig-like women try to lose weight and- in one of the saddest moments in TV history- they sniff a baked ham like animals, making oohing and ahhing noises. The woman who plays his producer is like Ellen DeGeneres on caffeine... this show was so bad I am amazed it EVER got on the air.

This show jumped the second the execs at NBC gave their OK to it! Don't get me wrong, I like Emeril Lagasse a whole hell of a lot, and my wife and I watch his Food Network shows just about every day (Food Network is about the only thing we agree on when it comes to TV), but why stretch yourself out into a sitcom? This guy's schedule would kill most people. TV tapings in NYC for the Food Network, flying back and forth from NY to New Orleans and Las Vegas to oversee his restaurants, this guy has more frequent-flier miles than half the country combined. And I wouldn't blame Emeril for the show being so bad, to me he looked like the only person on the show who DIDN'T act like he had a stick up his ass the whole time. The rest of the cast worked like they were desperate to cover for the only non-actor among them, and in doing so, forgot how to act themselves. The end result looked like a middle-school play gone horribly wrong, where only the lead actually bothered to study his part. The ESPN.com commercials running these days have better acting than 'Emeril' ever had.

They hired Mary Page Keller!!! Shall I go on?! Okay...I knew this show wasn't going to last long for a number of reasons... Emeril isn't that interesting of a personality to begin with, his supporting cast was miscast and they kinda sucked as unit (was the casting agent hoping to find some sort of break-out talent in that bunch? NOT!). But, beyond a shadow of a doubt, I knew this show was doomed once Mary Page Keller (the Grim Reaper of sitcoms) was cast. This show didn't stand a chance! She has the reverse effect of the Midas Touch... everything she's in turns to crap (if it's not crap already).

Did it ever occur to anyone that Bette Midler financed this abomination so that "Bette" would no longer be considered the worst show in TV history. I watched about 3 minutes and had to be taken to the ER. The man can cook (his baked chicken recipe is the staple in our house) but that is it! Bam! Yeccccccch!

I must be the only person who thought this show was FUNNY!!

This show actually jumped the shark before they even shot the first pilot (that's right, what made it on the air was the REWORKED version of the show). Evidently, making political propaganda has completely rotted the brains of the production team of Bloodworth/Thomason (yes, the folks who did "Designing Women").

Day One - Who was the brain dead exec at NBC who came up with this one? I can see it now, guy (or gal) walks into programming exec office and says 'Boss, I've got a can't lose show here'. After the great Olympic NBC put on, I would sentence that exec to licking the Bonneville Salt Flats until their ain't no salt left.... Sheesh!

i discovered Emeril and immediately became a huge fan, but shortly afterward, he discovered just how big a star he was... After that, the "Oh, yeah, babe" coment began to irritate me. i chalked it off to overexposure to him on my part, until his ego forced him to sign on to a sitcom. Oh, yeah, babe! That is a sure blueprint for success there! Can we say that when a cook show star does a sitcom about being a cook show star, they are definitely JTS? Anyway, I see the Essence of Emeril episodes and understand how the producers watched them and said - "We nee to get you in front of a live audience!" he does well, with a crowd of adoring fans, but otherwise comes across as too much. I have now learned to catch him no more than half an episode once a week. He is an engaging personality, but I have moved on.