Talk:Emeril (partially lost sitcom; 2001)/@comment-682520-20140323113455

Always happy to share a piece of obscure/forgotten film/TV with the world. I taped the show when it aired (it was one of countless sitcoms that I wrote episode guides for in my days as a meta-editor at TV Tome before it degraded into the sucky tv dot com) and later obtained these higher-quality copies from a dear old friend who had cozied up to someone on the crew. Just for the sake of completion, I'd like to find the episodes with Dom DeLuise and Bo Derek... and since I popped out of the woodwork with these nine, I figure somebody somewhere's got 'em and they'll surface sooner or later. Planning on mailing Rowdy C. copies of the DVDs this week so he can do a TV Trash review.

Here's descriptions I've got for the missing episodes which are a bit more detailed than the ones currently available online:

#10 The Retreat - Against their will, Emeril and his staff are forced to attend a Food Network "Team Building Retreat" in the Adirondacks, where they have to climb walls, swing on ropes and jump off a tall tower. Much to the envy of Emeril and Jerry, the women -- Cass, Melva, B.D. and Trish -- run into Bo Derek, who is there to speak at a seminar for "Women Who Are Too Beautiful." Discovering that Bo is an animal lover, Jerry borrows Emeril's joke bear suit as a way to approach her, with disastrous results.

#11 One Man's Cornbread - To spice up his show on comfort food, Emeril invites Melva's grandmother, well-known in Harlem for her cooking, to appear with her cornbread recipe. Jerry decides to help the chef "kick it up a notch" by inviting Dom DeLuise to appear as well, sporting his own cornbread recipe. The chef quickly finds himself holding the fate of cornbread lovers nationwide in his hands as he is forced to decide between the two recipes. Emeril's decision sends shockwaves through Harlem, prompting a mass protest from Rev. Dr. Preston Washington Sr. and some hostile words from Trish.