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Monday, October 26, 2009

Restaurants 'Anthony Bourdain's Alternate Universe': WTF?

Posted by Debbie Michaud on Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:23 PM

I guess, although Tony always seemed like the kind of guy to just say what he's thinking. That's one of the best things about his award-winning Travel Channel show "No Reservations." That and the look on his face when he's gotta eat another poop shoot.

But we ask because Anthony Bourdain has a new TV series on the way in 2010, which promises a presumably elusive look into the celeb chef's mind. The show's animated and it looks ... kinda bad. For "Anthony Bourdain's Alternate Universe" the well-traveled chef's animated doppelganger is some sort of too-cool-for-school, brain-eating (see Sandra Lee and Rachel Ray) Dr. Evil type. Sure, the real life Tony is also a too-cool-for-school, brain-eating Dr. Evil type, but the brief Travel Channel teaser makes cartoon Tony look like a bratty, image-obsessed Frankenstein. I prefer the weathered human curmudgeon to the salty, well-coiffed drawing. The teaser's porn-y music doesn't help either.

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Looks like No Reservations meets ATHF meets Frisky Dingo all in the worst possible way. I hope that's a joke trailer.

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Posted by John P on October 26, 2009 at 7:21 PM

Chute. Not shoot.

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Posted by SS on October 26, 2009 at 7:49 PM

Wondering . . . if you animated Tony yourself how you would do it? Seems to me to be fairly accurate. Snarky, porny, know-it-all-ish . . .

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Posted by John on October 26, 2009 at 10:53 PM

Looks like some animated webisodes done in flash they'll stick on the website, not a broadcast TV series (hence the: "Coming. 2010. Travelchannel.com" at the end). I'm sure its just some fun lil' thing they're doing to promote the new season of No Reservations.

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Posted by Charlie on October 27, 2009 at 3:47 AM
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