They were going for edginess

April 25, 2011 10:01 PM

Kids shouldn't be given cooking shows—or maybe they should.
posted by Taft (28 comments total)

This is another one of those things that I was so ready not to like, but damn. Thanks for both of those.
posted by Evstar at 10:11 PM on April 25, 2011

The other thing is, the girl in the second link looks disturbingly like 12 year old little boy me as a kid.
posted by Evstar at 10:13 PM on April 25, 2011

Goodbye, my evening work-time...
posted by Zephyrial at 10:19 PM on April 25, 2011

Some adults need kitchen supervision too
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 10:22 PM on April 25, 2011 [4 favorites]

Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey that guy's laughter is going to haunt my nightmares for years to come.
posted by selenized at 10:25 PM on April 25, 2011

SCARRED FOR LIFE
posted by Rhaomi at 10:28 PM on April 25, 2011

Obligatory
posted by umberto at 10:31 PM on April 25, 2011

That's funny. I deepfry gnocchi all the time. I've never seen that.
posted by Evstar at 10:33 PM on April 25, 2011

I'm sorry, but that Zoom girl was so annoying to me I could not watch it to the end. And I loved the original Zoom as a kid. It's where I learned all about SASEs!
posted by JohnnyGunn at 10:40 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Nor should Canadians (NSFL)
posted by munchingzombie at 10:58 PM on April 25, 2011

I laugh, but when I was 2, I burned myself because I thought the gas stove was okay to touch. Scarred for life.
posted by jermspeaks at 11:08 PM on April 25, 2011

That's what we used to refer to in the olde days as LEARNIN'.
posted by louche mustachio at 11:20 PM on April 25, 2011

Reminds me of Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee.


NOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo


Some adults shouldn't have cooking shows either.
posted by louche mustachio at 11:22 PM on April 25, 2011 [2 favorites]

SCARRED FOR LIFE

Seriously, that ain't got shit on Gimme Pizza.
posted by phaedon at 11:29 PM on April 25, 2011

How does that first video have only 301 views, but it has 265 likes? Most videos seem to have one like per every hundred views.
posted by Corduroy at 11:30 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Adult that shouldn't have a cooking show.
posted by phaedon at 11:36 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Phaedon,

thanks for the link, I laughed to the point of tears.
posted by dibblda at 12:14 AM on April 26, 2011

LET'S PAINT, EXERCISE, AND MAKE A TUNA MELT
posted by churl at 1:04 AM on April 26, 2011 [1 favorite]

How does that first video have only 301 views, but it has 265 likes? Most videos seem to have one like per every hundred views.

I frequently see videos that have only a few hundred (usually between 250 and 400) views even though they've been posted on channels with several 100k subscribers for 6-7 hours (so they almost definitely have been watched many more times than that). I think that probably youtube does not update those numbers fully synchronously. Or maybe because likes are rarer, they can afford to update them closer to real-time than views.
posted by atrazine at 2:37 AM on April 26, 2011

We're gonna need another Tommy!
posted by TypographicalError at 4:11 AM on April 26, 2011 [2 favorites]

Does anyone else remember that episode of the original ZOOM where a couple of kids baked fresh fish in wet clay? That segment sent me careening off on the path of faux-survivalist cooking.
MMMmmm, dirt fish...
posted by biddeford at 4:33 AM on April 26, 2011 [2 favorites]

I don't know if this is a vote for should or shouldn't...
posted by papayaninja at 7:36 AM on April 26, 2011

Rhaomi: "SCARRED FOR LIFE"

What the hell did I just watch?
posted by zarq at 7:57 AM on April 26, 2011

Kids that cook are cute and some adults do need to learn how to cook like those kids.
posted by detrujillo at 8:16 AM on April 26, 2011

The Zoom thing is terrible, but when you watch the show it fits in with the whole low-budget, DIY, "look mom, no adults!" aesthetic.
posted by DU at 9:41 AM on April 26, 2011

thanks for the link, I laughed to the point of tears.

If that Sandra Lee link made you want to cry, I think this one will put you in the hospital...
posted by phaedon at 1:27 PM on April 26, 2011

ow does that first video have only 301 views, but it has 265 likes?

View counts update in realtime up to 300. Rapidly rising videos then get frozen and batch updated every 6 hours or so. See here.
posted by wildcrdj at 6:41 PM on April 26, 2011

Nor should Canadians yt (NSFL)
posted by munchingzombie at 10:58 PM on April 25 [+] [!]

That might be the scariest Canadian horror flick of all time.
posted by snottydick at 12:47 PM on April 27, 2011