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| Posted: 12 Dec 2011 05:12 AM PST The following article is from the book Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Tunes Into TV. When TV characters cook, the results are often disgusting.
Drink: Flaming Homer Show: The Simpsons (1991) Origin: Homer is bored at home one night -forced to watch his in-law’s vacation slides- and he doesn’t have any beer, so he makes a cocktail from whatever he can find. He pours the leftover bits from several liquor bottles into a blender, along with the accidental addition of “Krusty’s Non-Narkotic Kough Syrup.” Homer thinks it tastes okay… but it’s even better after it’s lit afire by a stray cigarette ash. “I don’t know the scientific explanation, but fire made it good,” Homer says when he recreates the “Flaming Homer” at Moe’s Tavern. Moe then steals the idea and starts serving the drink (for $6.95) and renames it “The Flaming Moe.”
Food: Chocolate Salty Balls Show: South Park (1998) Origin: When the Sundance Film Festival comes to town, the soul-singing school cafeteria cook Chef (voice of Isaac Hayes) opens a stand to sell cookies to tourists. His most popular item: His “Chocolate Salty Balls.” It’s a blatant double entendre, and Chef even sings a song about them: “Hey, everybody, have you seen my balls? They’re big and salty and brown!” The song (which reached #1 in England) gives the recipe: cinnamon, egg whites, melted butter, flour, unsweetened chocolate, brandy, vanilla, and sugar. (Curiously, it doesn’t call for salt.)
Drink: Thankstini Show: How I Met Your Mother (2005) Origins: This cocktail, a martini, invented by booze-swilling playboy Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), combines Thanksgiving food with booze. It’s made from two ounces of potato vodka, four ounces of cranberry juice …and a bouillon cube for that poultry flavor. Barney remarks that it “tastes just like a turkey dinner.”
Food: Skip’s Scramble Show: Arrested Development (2005) Origin: On one episode, characters eat Sunday brunch at a bistro called Skip’s Church (the joke being that people “skip church” to go there). A brief shot of the menu shows standard brunch fare, along with an omelet called Skips Scramble. Its description: “Too many choices? Menu too big to swallow? Let Skip serve you up a scram that has something from every dish on the menu. It will knock you into next week!” Price: $47.95. The dish includes eggs, ten slices of bacon, ham, peppers, onion, sausage, and a chocolate glazed doughnut. (The menu also features the disclaimer that Skip’s Church is “not responsible for medical bills of deformities resulting from the digestion of its menu items.”)
Drink: Killer Shrew Show: Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1992) Origin: On an episode of the movie send-up show revolving around the 1959 movie called Killer Shrews, Joel (Joel Hodgson) and his robot companions devise the “Killer Shrew,” a cocktail that’s non-alcoholic but not very healthy. The recipe: combine chocolate chip ice cream, Cap’n Crunch with Crunchberries, Peanut M&Ms, pancake syrup, Circus Peanuts, Mr. Pibb, Marshmallow Peeps, Sweet Tarts candies, vanilla cake frosting, and Good & Plenty in a blender. Then, “pour into a plastic tulip vase” and throw in a wind-up toy shrew. Joel took a sip… and fell into a diabetic coma from all the sugar. (Note: If you throw in wax lips, it’s no longer a Killer Shrew; it’s a “Vulcan Mind Probe.”)
Food: Spaghetti Tacos Show: iCarly (2009) Origin: One on episode of the popular nickelodeon comedy, Spencer (Jerry Trainor) had no idea what to make for dinner. So he invented spaghetti tacos, hard taco shells filled with noodles and marinara sauce. Since that episode aired in 2009, the food became a cultural phenomenon both on the show and in real life. In one episode, characters oversee a spaghetti-taco-making contest on a cable show, and in the real world, spaghetti tacos were the most-requested food item at American school cafeterias in 2010. “Spaghetti tacos made it possible to eat spaghetti in your car,” said Syracuse University pop-culture professor Robert Thompson in The New York Times. “It’s an important technological development.”
Drink: Bloody Awful Show: Top Gear (2008) Origin: This British show about cars and other manly stuff is co-hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, who came up with this recipe for what he calls “a man’s V8 smoothie.” And that’s not V8, as in the vegetable drink- that’s V8, as in the high-powered car engine, which he used to power a blender. Into that blender were placed a few pounds of raw beef with the bones, a dozen hot chilies, a half gallon of Bovril (a meat flavoring agent and tenderizer), two cups of Tabasco sauce…and a brick.
Food: Shepherd’s Pie Trifle Show: Friends (1999) Origin: In a Thanksgiving episode, chef Monica (Courtney Cox) makes a holiday feast, while Rachel (Jennifer Anniston) volunteers to make a trifle for dessert. The British dish is traditionally made up of cake, custard, and fruit, but when the pages of Rachel’s cookbook get stuck together, she inadvertently mixes in the ingredients of shepherd’s pie with the trifle, making for a disgusting crossbreed of the two. Joey (Matt LeBlanc), who has a huge appetite, doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with the dish, and eats the whole thing himself. “What’s not to like? Custard, good. Jam, good. Meat, good.” Ross disagrees, saying that it “tastes like feet.” ___________________
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| Photography of Liquid Droplet Collisions Posted: 11 Dec 2011 09:25 PM PST Collisions of liquid droplets create fluid sculptures that can be appreciated only when the action is captured by high-speed photography. This video demonstrates how those photographs are created. After the first droplet impacts the milk, it generates a Worthington jet, which in turn is impacted by a second droplet. Link. Previously on Neatorama: Markus Reugels’s Water Drops. |
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| Chewbacca Sings "Silent Night" Posted: 11 Dec 2011 04:51 PM PST (Video Link) Radiant beams from thy hairy face It loses a bit in the translation, but Chewie sings the carol rather well. -via reddit |
| Rats Free Trapped Labmates: Is Empathy Universal to Animals? Posted: 11 Dec 2011 04:05 PM PST
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| A-Team Plumber: "I Pity the Stool" Posted: 11 Dec 2011 02:04 PM PST
Ten years ago, a crack commando unit of plumbers was sent to the bathroom by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security men's room to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as plumbers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire ... The A-Team Drain Cleaning. See also: Catching Up With the A-Team |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:14 PM PST
The whole family slept on it: Link |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2011 12:04 PM PST Forget the shooty dog thing. LiveJournal user therru made this gingerbread version of K9, the robotic dog from Doctor Who, on Christmas Eve a few years ago. It’s completely edible except for the metal buckle on his collar. Link -via The Mary Sue |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2011 10:12 AM PST (Video Link) This moirĂ© pattern consists of static fish on a rug and a table with parallel bars. When you walk around it, the fish appear to move. The firm Clarke Hopkins Clarke won a coveted Red Dot design award for it. Designers’ Website -via Dornob | Previously by These Designers: Parallel of Time Clock |
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