https://www.itwasathingontv.com/e/episode-633-emeril/

We're trying to kick it up a notch this week. It's not happening with this failed effort (https://www.mashed.com/1556629/emeril-lagasse-forgotten-failures/) to bring a TV chef (https://www.saveur.com/culture/where-did-emeril-go/) to a mainstream audience, in the form of a sitcom (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nbc-tried-make-a-sitcom-star-emeril-lagasse-2001-1224991/). The events which happened two weeks before (https://www.salon.com/2001/09/25/glow_577/) the premiere (https://nypost.com/2001/09/25/emeril-lite-chef-loses-his-sizzle-in-sitcom/) likely hurt more (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Horrible/LiveActionTV) than giving (https://www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/2019/5/23/is-osama-bin-laden-responsible-for-the-failure-of-emeril-lagasses-sitcom-case-file-123my-year-of-flops-ii-24-emeril#google_vignette) the lead his own (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125154/http://www.jumptheshark.com/e/emeril.htm) sitcom (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnR38O-OGO4).