On 2015-07-31 9:07 AM, jmcquown wrote:

> Too true, Bruce! Years ago I was helping my brother out after he had
> surgery. I stayed with him for nearly a week. I did the cooking, the
> laundry, ran errands. That's the first time I saw 'Good Eats'. Yes, I
> got the impression AB thought everyone is retarded. In one show he was
> cooking fish so the set was decorated as if he was on a boat. (I'm sure
> he could afford an actual boat.) He was wearing some sort of silly
> Captain Kangaroo costume. And yes, there were toys and maybe even some
> puppets involved. It was annoying.
>

I agree that the sets can be a little silly. My problem was that AB is
just too damned anal. He wants a very particular outcome for which there
is a very specific method. It takes all the fun out of cooking.