![]() Kim-Joy is also back, with one of the cutest showstoppers in Baking Show history: Paul Hollywood as a shortbread polar bear, Prue as a penguin (with red glasses), Noel as a melting snowman, and Matt as a panda. ‘The Great British Baking Show’ Needs to Fire Matt Lucas Hopefully, this means Jürgen and Janusz our favorite teddy bear contestants who were eliminated too early, will return for future holiday specials. Then there’s Hermine, who was wrongfully eliminated ahead of the final round in Collection 8 (this seems to be a GBBS curse), and gets a chance to throw down in the baking tent again. Yes, another gaudy Rowan spectacle is on the way. And, yes, Paul visits his station to ask if he’s practiced-he hasn’t. He does, however, drop a bit of vanilla while donning an outfit fit for Santa’s elves, a reminder that our old, disastrous pal is still in there somewhere. In the special, he nails his first two bakes, heading into the showstopper with great odds for winning. Instead of a whole 10 episodes of baking frenzy, they compete in the usual three rounds before declaring a holly jolly winner.Įxcept, this time around, Rowan came ready to brawl. The stakes are low, although being back in the tent surely feels stressful for the bakers. This year, GBBS brought back a quartet of its most beloved bakers-including two of my favorite: sweet Rowan and Hermine-for The Great Festive Baking Show. We’re talking about The Great British Baking Show, which, in recent years, has produced a spinoff episode of their traditional English baking competition every holiday season. No, we’re not talking about a Christmas episode of The Kardashians or a voyage to the North Pole on Below Deck (though both sound highly entertaining). (It is.)īut there might be one department of festive entertainment you’re missing out on entirely: holiday reality TV. The holiday season, when the only thing louder than Bruce Willis fighting baddies is your family arguing over whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie. ![]() The period of time when watching every Rankin/Bass holiday special is socially acceptable. Last contestant left standing wins the soul of the party.It’s that time of year-you know, the time to put on The Holiday and The Family Stone on repeat. Middle of the Okefenokee Swamp with a Bowie knife, a Remington ![]() Steele, Rush, Cranky Uncle Dick, Bobby Jindall, Eric Cantor,Īnd, oh, maybe Mike Huckabee in a double-wide and park 'em out in the Alternatively, we say screw reconciliation and growing the tent: Toss Mitt, Palin, Michael Palin, in turn, could spend a couple of weeks in Massachusetts with Mitt, boning up on the Bush Doctrine, past Supreme Court decisions, and just generally discovering the wonders of newspapers and magazines. For instance, Mitt Romney could visit Sarah Palin up in Alaska for a tutorial on how to skin his own dinner and interact with working-class Americans who aren't mowing his lawn. In the interest of building empathy and appreciation between the warring factions, we pair up prominent representatives of the GOP's good ol' boy, outdoorsy branch with reps from its country-club branch and have them jump back and forth between each others milieus.
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