I was peeling and coring and slicing apples last night for a recipe of
"Salmon, Apples, and Fennel"[1] when I had a flashback and got the
giggles from remembering a "cooking show" parody from long ago:

The camera follows a pair of hands while a narrator recites the
recipe. The narrator goes, "Peel and core an apple" and the hands
start doing that, but the narrator immediately goes on to "Butter a
baking dish" (or something like that) and the hands drop everything to
try to do that while the narrator again immediately goes on to the
next step, and so forth, and at the end it's a complete mess. It had
me RotFL.

But I can't remember where it's from. Might be the movie "The Groove
Tube" (1975) or it might be from the great but short-lived PBS series
"The Great American Dream Machine" (1971-72) or it might be from
somewhere else. Help me out here. Does anyone even remember these
shows?

(I put "How to Peel and Core and Apple" into YouTube's search box and
got a whole list of "straight" videos on the subject, which sent me
into hysterics all over again :-) )

[1] http://www.bhg.com/recipe/seafood/sa...les-and-fennel. Very
good, but next time I think I'll just braise the salmon in the
vegetable/honey mixture or separately - "breaded and fried" doesn't
very well work with salmon, IMO.

--
Silvar Beitel

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:46:31 -0800 (PST), Silvar Beitel wrote:

> I was peeling and coring and slicing apples last night for a recipe of
> "Salmon, Apples, and Fennel"[1] when I had a flashback and got the
> giggles from remembering a "cooking show" parody from long ago:
>
> The camera follows a pair of hands while a narrator recites the
> recipe. The narrator goes, "Peel and core an apple" and the hands
> start doing that, but the narrator immediately goes on to "Butter a
> baking dish" (or something like that) and the hands drop everything to
> try to do that while the narrator again immediately goes on to the
> next step, and so forth, and at the end it's a complete mess. It had
> me RotFL.
>
> But I can't remember where it's from. Might be the movie "The Groove
> Tube" (1975) or it might be from the great but short-lived PBS series
> "The Great American Dream Machine" (1971-72) or it might be from
> somewhere else. Help me out here. Does anyone even remember these
> shows?

don't know if i've seen your clip, but i have fond memories of 'the great
american dream machine' as well.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_American_Dream_Machine>

your pal,
blake

On Feb 2, 9:24*am, blake murphy > wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:46:31 -0800 (PST), Silvar Beitel wrote:
> > I was peeling and coring and slicing apples last night for a recipe of
> > "Salmon, Apples, and Fennel"[1] when I had a flashback and got the
> > giggles from remembering a "cooking show" parody from long ago:
>
> > The camera follows a pair of hands while a narrator recites the
> > recipe. *The narrator goes, "Peel and core an apple" and the hands
> > start doing that, but the narrator immediately goes on to "Butter a
> > baking dish" (or something like that) and the hands drop everything to
> > try to do that while the narrator again immediately goes on to the
> > next step, and so forth, and at the end it's a complete mess. *It had
> > me RotFL.
>
> > But I can't remember where it's from. *Might be the movie "The Groove
> > Tube" (1975) or it might be from the great but short-lived PBS series
> > "The Great American Dream Machine" (1971-72) or it might be from
> > somewhere else. *Help me out here. *Does anyone even remember these
> > shows?
>
> don't know if i've seen your clip, but i have fond memories of 'the great
> american dream machine' as well.
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_American_Dream_Machine>
>
> your pal,
> blake- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

http://www.paleycenter.org/collectio...&f=all&x=5&y=9

On Feb 2, 9:33*am, ImStillMags > wrote:
> On Feb 2, 9:24*am, blake murphy > wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:46:31 -0800 (PST), Silvar Beitel wrote:
> > > I was peeling and coring and slicing apples last night for a recipe of
> > > "Salmon, Apples, and Fennel"[1] when I had a flashback and got the
> > > giggles from remembering a "cooking show" parody from long ago:
>
> > > The camera follows a pair of hands while a narrator recites the
> > > recipe. *The narrator goes, "Peel and core an apple" and the hands
> > > start doing that, but the narrator immediately goes on to "Butter a
> > > baking dish" (or something like that) and the hands drop everything to
> > > try to do that while the narrator again immediately goes on to the
> > > next step, and so forth, and at the end it's a complete mess. *It had
> > > me RotFL.
>
> > > But I can't remember where it's from. *Might be the movie "The Groove
> > > Tube" (1975) or it might be from the great but short-lived PBS series
> > > "The Great American Dream Machine" (1971-72) or it might be from
> > > somewhere else. *Help me out here. *Does anyone even remember these
> > > shows?
>
> > don't know if i've seen your clip, but i have fond memories of 'the great
> > american dream machine' as well.
>
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_American_Dream_Machine>
>
> > your pal,
> > blake- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> http://www.paleycenter.org/collectio...rican+Dre....- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Here's another one that is pretty funny.

http://food.theatlantic.com/food-wir...d-network..php

On Feb 2, 10:30*am, Kris > wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:46:31 -0800 (PST), Silvar Beitel wrote:
>
> > > I was peeling and coring and slicing apples last night for a recipe of
> > > "Salmon, Apples, and Fennel"[1] when I had a flashback and got the
> > > giggles from remembering a "cooking show" parody from long ago:
>
> > > The camera follows a pair of hands while a narrator recites the
> > > recipe. *The narrator goes, "Peel and core an apple" and the hands
> > > start doing that, but the narrator immediately goes on to "Butter a
> > > baking dish" (or something like that) and the hands drop everything to
> > > try to do that while the narrator again immediately goes on to the
> > > next step, and so forth, and at the end it's a complete mess. *It had
> > > me RotFL.
>
> It was at this point I thought, "That's from that movie!"
>
> > > But I can't remember where it's from. *Might be the movie "The Groove
> > > Tube" (1975) or it might be from the great but short-lived PBS series
> > > "The Great American Dream Machine" (1971-72) or it might be from
> > > somewhere else. *Help me out here. *Does anyone even remember these
> > > shows?
>
> "The Groove Tube," yup, that's the one, I think. *I'm embarrassed to
> admit how many times I saw that, but when your boyfriend's working at
> the theater, you get in free. *:-D

Ta DA!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6vJYyYrRps

On Feb 2, 1:45 pm, ImStillMags > wrote:

> Ta DA!!!!!!
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6vJYyYrRps

All riiiiight! You got it! Thanks!

(I had just finally found it myself, but your Google-Fu is stronger
than mine.)

Not quite what I remembered, but in my defense, it *was* 35 years ago.

And the hands belong to Chevy Chase!

--
Silvar Beitel

ImStillMags wrote:
> On Feb 2, 10:30 am, Kris > wrote:
>
>> "The Groove Tube," yup, that's the one, I think. I'm embarrassed to
>> admit how many times I saw that, but when your boyfriend's working at
>> the theater, you get in free. :-D
>>
>
> Ta DA!!!!!!
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6vJYyYrRps
>

Maybe Bryan should be warned not to watch this, I think it will raise
his blood pressure.


Becca

Silvar Beitel wrote:
> I was peeling and coring and slicing apples last night for a recipe of
> "Salmon, Apples, and Fennel"[1] when I had a flashback and got the
> giggles from remembering a "cooking show" parody from long ago:
>
> The camera follows a pair of hands while a narrator recites the
> recipe. The narrator goes, "Peel and core an apple" and the hands
> start doing that, but the narrator immediately goes on to "Butter a
> baking dish" (or something like that) and the hands drop everything to
> try to do that while the narrator again immediately goes on to the
> next step, and so forth, and at the end it's a complete mess. It had
> me RotFL.
> --
> Silvar Beitel
The way I remember it is that The Great American Dream Machine (TGADM)
had a short career - two seasons or less. It was very popular with the
public and won a number of prestigious awards. However, the Nixon/Agnew
administration hated it because of its liberal-oriented satire of
political events. Nixon decimated the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting by vetoing their appropriations bill. TGADM wasn't
supported by the CPB, but the individual artists were. TGADM went off
the air. To this day, there has never been an official DVD of the
series. Several of the best skits were copied to film which became
Groove Tube, which is about all that remains of the show. The film
itself shows scan lines from the original TV recording.

Chevy Chase and Marshall Efron were regulars on TGADM. Efron became
associated with a running gag, "Kramp TV Kitchen", a satire of the Kraft
30-second infomercials of the time. If you search for "Kramp TV" on You
Tube, you will see the skit about apples and Kramp Vegetable Lube. The
actor is probably Chevy Chase, but might be Marshall Efron (we never see
the face). If you search on You Tube for "Marshall Efron", you will find
satires about the chemicals that went into a Lemon Creme Pie of the
time, one about whatever those words mean that are supposed to indicate
the relative size of canned olives (mammoth? jumbo? large?) and how to
cook Sardine Rarebit.

Chevy Chase was not well-known at the time. Saturday Night Live came
later. Both Chase and Efron were Second City performers. Efron is still
in the movies (City Island, Horton Hears a Who and Ice Age, for
example), usually as a voice actor.