Talk:Emeril (partially lost sitcom; 2001)/@comment-27491425-20151228144829

I stumbled on this page when looking for information on what Emeril was up to lately - What an incredible surprise to find out he did a sitcom. I never knew! I watched him on his "Live" show back then and know his life went downhill around the time it was cancelled in the mid 2000s. He's only popped up here and there since then, like on Top Chef as a judge, looking paunchy and deflated somehow. Seeing this sitcom is like entering an alternate universe. I was so consumed with 9/11 when it came out (I had friends involved) I didn't even know this was on the air or I would have definitely watched it. I've seen 3 episodes so far and I don't think it's half as bad as people said it was. Then again back then we had incredible sitcoms that this would not have stacked up with, like "Frasier", "Seinfeld" and "Friends". So I think the bar was higher back then. Next to the dreck we have now that even wins awards, this show is a breath of fresh air. Thanks for posting it. Already in the "Fat" episode I saw a plot that was only a year or so later done on Frasier in one of its last seasons. I wonder if the writers ripped it off or they were the same writers. It centered around a news program pitting one TV/radio show team against another in a weight loss challenge and in the end the team we're rooting for wins by an ounce when one of the women (in Frasier's case, Roz) makes them cut off her ponytail. Also, I saw your review of it on IMDB - I agree 100%. Thanks again!