Emeril sitcom #1 Pilot (unaired)
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- In this original pilot for Emeril Lagasse's 2001 sitcom, Emeril struggles to juggle his professional and family life.
After a disastrous preview for the press, this pilot was scrapped and reworked as the episode "Whose Life is it, Anyway?" Some of the dialogue is the same, but Robin Riker (Norah Lagasse) was replaced, two new characters were added, Emeril's family faded into the background, and Lisa Ann Walter dyed her then-red hair back to her usual blonde.
Disclaimer: I do not claim ownership of this video. It's come to my attention that this short-lived series is extraordinarily rare (even amongst TV collectors) so I have shared it on You Tube as a courtesy to fans.
Emerill honestly isn’t that bad of an actor.
It helps when you have a good cast especially Lisa Ann!!
he's playing himself 🤣
Thank you so much for uploading this. As painful as this show is to watch, it was really awesome of you to unearth it. On behalf of the Lost Media Wiki we thank you. It's interesting to finally see what the fuss was all about.
Considering some of the other crap on TV at the time ("According to Jim" and "What About Joan?" instantly jump to mind), I don't think it's anywhere near as painful as it's been made out to be. Walter and Shepherd have some genuinely funny moments throughout the series and Emeril got more at ease as the show progressed (though clearly no one had the nerve to correct his continuous mispronunciation of "exclamation" in this episode!). I think the big problem is that they came up with a concept and rushed it into production without nurturing it first, trying to immediately cash in on his success on the Food Network (though personally, I'd never even heard of him when NBC first announced the series). If it had lasted, the show probably would've improved by leaps and bounds by the end of the season as the cast/crew found a comfy groove. Regardless of my opinion, it was my pleasure to make a totally obscure show a little less so.
I think this show is actually pretty decent, i'd sure as shit rather watch this over say dreck like Secret Diary of Desmond Pfieffer(or however the fuck you spell his last name, too lazy to look it up right now).
@@VinnieRattolle I actually quite liked both of those shows, for me neither of them even come close to touching the sheer awfulness of Cavemen or Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer.
I agree that Emeril should've been given more of a chance.
Came here because recently heard baby James lafferty was on it
I had given up on trying to find this years ago. I thought it had been scrubbed from human history. As a Felicia Day fan, this has sort of been my holy grail ... then to see her in both the original and the reworked pilot was pretty amazing. Thank you, sir.
I remember people making fun of this show at the time (Conan did a lot of jokes about it). Maybe I just had very low expectations, but it's not horrible, at least by 2000s sitcom standards. The show within a show, meta celebrity thing was actually a bit ahead of its time.
I think part of that was people were just sick of Emeril and took it out on this show.
I'm seeing something similar with the Nick show That Girl Lay Lay which stars a popular young music artist, it got mass-downvoted on IMDB(which i'm sure had NOTHING at all to do with the lead being a young black girl which is a first for Nick)but I feel like that had less to do with the quality of the show and more adults just being annoyed at a thing being popular they don't understand.
That show was horrendous. Lol
Omg I’ve been looking for this show thank you for uploading 🤗😁
I vaguely remember seeing a commercial for this show on nbc. I was a kid and thought that looks bad lol
OMG baby James Lafferty
James Lafferty ❤️
James Lafferty looks so cute and young in this show ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
thanks for sharing
Bloodworth/Thomason Mozark Productions/NBC Studios (2001)
I was beginning to wonder if this really was a show. I mean, I remember it, but my wife doesn't.
How to you find unaired pilots? I've been looking for 2011 I hate that I love You but nothing
Oh, Felicia... It's okay, Felicia. It's a first job, and you have a hundred-thousand better things going for you now. We love you unconditionally, felicia
eh I doubt she regrets this.
Why did I torture myself with the decision to review this?
Because we love Emeril too much.
oh come on there's WAY worse shows then this, i'd rather watch this then another goddamn Yellowstone prequel.
I remember they made fun of this on “Fun with Real Audio” on SNL.
It was drab BUT this was a pilot. It was interesting it had morality and current topics of society etc. The ending topped it off for this episode imo.
He played on how he acted in the original cooking show is how i see it.
This wasn't that bad and for 2001 this was TV Sitcom America.
It was also the end of the era 2002 for these kinds of shows. So no surprise it wasn't picked up for a full season.
This pilot was better than the second . I thought Lisa Ann’s southern accent was funny.
My goodness I missed alot in the early 2000's to me Sherri and Lisa made it funny really
Felicia Day should have been the violinist at the end...
It is funny. I like it.
what were they thinking?
I wish UPN picked this show up instead of NBC
5:04 did emeril seriously just say "explanation point"
Yes. Yes he did.
Three times actually!
Pilot was actually aired.
No, it wasn't. "Whose Life is It Anyway" was aired. They revised and completely reshot it, shifting the focus away from his family, plus Robert Urich was added to the cast.
Gee, I can't imagine why Linda Bloodworth-Thomason stopped having a career. Must have been Les Moonves withholding all this "talent" from the world.
In actually sad news, Robert Urich's career ended on this.
I would have watched that show
I am scared at the fact that Felicia Day is one of the bright spots in this fairly mediocre sitcom.
eh i've seen worse then this show.
I need that pork fat shirt
Wow, talk bout going down the husinfefer hole.
Cringe performances, bad script bad idea for a show... BUT I get it... he was hot for a minute in the early 2000s so why not capitalize on it and make a couple of bucks.
I thought the performances were fine.
the first tv show or movie felicia day was in
Nope. Wrong.
Goto Google and search: felicia day mystery science theater 3000
@@chatsite I was wrong,but that's not why. She wasn't in MST3K until long after she was in this show. Maybe I worded it poorly, but I was referring to what she appeared on first, not the first thing that ever came into existence which later featured her on it.
However,as I said, I was wrong. She appeared in other stuff before this, but it's really obscure and hard to find, so I didn't know about it when I posted that comment.
Is today the twenefift? Lol
Spanish
I'm almost three minutes in and it's horrible to watch.
What? That Scientologist joke at 6:43 was so lame! I can’t believe I made it that far
What's with the awkward dig at feminists?
Oh shut up!