‘Anthony Bourdain’s Alternate Universe’: WTF?
October 26th, 2009 by Debbie Michaud in Food mediaEver wonder what goes on inside Anthony Bourdain’s head?
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.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Looks like No Reservations meets ATHF meets Frisky Dingo all in the worst possible way. I hope that’s a joke trailer.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Chute. Not shoot.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:53 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 . . .
October 27th, 2009 at 3:47 am
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.