That goat does not care.

February 21, 2015 3:49 PM

Cooking with Christopher Walken Spoiler: They roast a chicken.
posted by boo_radley (29 comments total)

I thought this was going to be the original
posted by oflinkey at 4:02 PM on February 21, 2015 [7 favorites]

What I want is to see is Willem Dafoe Fishing with John Lurie for a trout which they will cook with Chris Walken and his supermodel backup singers, who then invite their old friend Robert Palmer over to eat and have a post meal jam which will be memorialized by Patrick Nagel. Christ. Really, is that too much to ask?
posted by Chrischris at 4:04 PM on February 21, 2015 [9 favorites]

"Coolunary"
posted by clavdivs at 4:24 PM on February 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

Chris... Walken can do no wrong, in my book.
posted by Splunge at 4:29 PM on February 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

Christopher Walken in the greatest video ever made.
posted by Splunge at 4:38 PM on February 21, 2015 [5 favorites]

I know it's probably supposed to be a sly Robert Palmer reference or something, but there's something really creepy about the the women as prop 'assistants', especially the way the one is mocked for having a hard time with the corkscrew.
posted by Evstar at 4:40 PM on February 21, 2015 [12 favorites]

Yeah, Richard Belzer's not a gracious man.
posted by boo_radley at 4:44 PM on February 21, 2015

RIP, Chris & Richard.
posted by Poldo at 4:46 PM on February 21, 2015

I thought this was going to be the original

Oh yeah, I remember that one. It turned it out well.
posted by gwint at 4:56 PM on February 21, 2015

What I want is to see is Willem Dafoe Fishing with John Lurie for a trout which they will cook with Chris Walken and his supermodel backup singers, who then invite their old friend Robert Palmer over to eat and have a post meal jam which will be memorialized by Patrick Nagel. Christ. Really, is that too much to ask?

Or you could just get a cat.
posted by srboisvert at 4:58 PM on February 21, 2015 [4 favorites]

My favorite part was the assistant trying (but failing) to explain how a lever works to the one opening the bottle.
posted by karlshea at 5:00 PM on February 21, 2015

You are naaauuughttty, boo radley
posted by Emor at 5:07 PM on February 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

Do not understand. If I were one of those supermodel throwbacks to the Robert palmer video I would be super annoyed at having agreed to do this. I mean they are hardly acknowledged by these two old guys and its just creepy. Normally I find Christopher walken's quirkiness fun but not here.
posted by bluesky43 at 5:22 PM on February 21, 2015 [6 favorites]

As long as they're being paid union scale they probably don't care.
posted by gingerest at 6:58 PM on February 21, 2015

Boil them.
posted by Steely-eyed Missile Man at 7:09 PM on February 21, 2015

Yeah, whoever came up with the Elyse and Scarlett conceit...lacks imagination. Also: dog on the countertop!!?!
posted by amanda at 7:31 PM on February 21, 2015

Pffft. That is Old Bay seasoning. That is not "good"! That is... no, don't lick it off your hand! Ugh.
posted by maryr at 8:50 PM on February 21, 2015

See, no Old Bay in the original! Gah.
posted by maryr at 8:54 PM on February 21, 2015

Ah, Funny or Die*











*warning, contains mostly die.
posted by Catblack at 9:58 PM on February 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

Evstar: "I know it's probably supposed to be a sly Robert Palmer reference or something"

Yeah, I got that vibe as well. Quite disturbing.
posted by InsertNiftyNameHere at 10:18 PM on February 21, 2015

He needs to pull those black elastic-waistband pants up even higher.
posted by chococat at 10:33 PM on February 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

Yeah, the assistants added nothing but a weird creepy vibe. But Old Bay all over that bird, that is proper yum.
posted by rodlymight at 10:57 PM on February 21, 2015

Is this the only recipe Walken knows?
posted by foobaz at 12:01 AM on February 22, 2015

That Walken seemingly doesn't know how to use a waiter's friend (watch him yank that cork out) is much more mockable than someone who grew up in the age of widespread single-twist corkscrews not knowing.

Maybe the mockery was intended as good natured teasing, but given the power dynamics and objectification involved, it came across, on film, really, really, badly. Which is a shame because there was a goat.
posted by howfar at 12:32 AM on February 22, 2015

I came here for more cowbell. I'm disappointed.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 2:21 AM on February 22, 2015

"Old Bay is not good" is fightin' words in these parts. Those of us who grew up on the Chesapeake Bay believe Old Bay was handed down by God.

Also, this video was, unfortunately, meh.
posted by Benny Andajetz at 8:19 AM on February 22, 2015

SHHHHHH!!
posted by Splunge at 9:46 AM on February 22, 2015

I'll just leave this here.
posted by ostranenie at 9:47 AM on February 22, 2015 [3 favorites]

Anyone have a link to Walken as a kid in the pancake syrup ad?
posted by anothermug at 11:11 AM on February 22, 2015 [1 favorite]