Fries With That? (found YTV sitcom; 2004)
Promotional poster for the show.
Status: Found
Date found: 22 Feb 2022
Found by: Moriah Lambier, Visa Za
Fries With That? was a Canadian sitcom that aired on YTV in 2004. The show follows a group of friends in high school as they work at a fast-food restaurant called "Bulky's". Fries With That? was inspired by a Quebec French comedy show titled Une grenade avec ça? ("A Grenade With That?"). The show received low ratings despite a two-season run and was cancelled after season two.
History
Fries With That? aired on YTV from April 15th, 2004, until December 18th, 2004. The show ran for two seasons on YTV but was cancelled shortly after the completion of season 2. The show went off the air in 2006 and returned for re-runs in 2010. Eventually, it was later replaced by a teen prank show titled Prank Patrol making it the last time that Fries With That? aired on television.
Plot
Fries With That? revolves around a group of friends high school friends who work at a fast-food restaurant called "Bulky's" in Montreal, Quebec. Throughout most of the show, Pattie, Robyn, Tess, and Alex are way too concerned with friends, dating, body image, and being the in-crowd to bother much with actually working. Meanwhile, manager Ben is always going haywire over the rest of the crew not working and trying to get them to work.[1]
Cast
- Alex played by Morgan Kelly
- Pattie played by Jeanne Bowser
- Robyn played by Stéfanie Buxton
- Ben played by Giancarlo Caltabiano
- Tess played by Anne-Marie Baron
Awards
Despite the fact that Fries With That? tanked in the ratings, the show won three awards. The first award was the Certificate of Recognition/Media of Print, at the 52nd Columbus International Film and Video Festival. The second award won was the Silver Remi Award in the TV Series/Family/Children category at the 37th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Independent Film Festival in 2004. The third and final award Fries With That? won was the Best Children's or Youth Fiction Program or Series at the 20th Gemini awards in 2005.[3]
Availability
Due to the overall failure of Fries With That?, no home media was made available. The show had reruns airing sporadically from 2004 until 2006 and again in 2010. While not confirmed, re-runs of Fries With That? were also rumoured to have aired throughout 2008 during early morning hours on YTV.
Nearly the entirety of Fries With That? would remain lost until February of 2013, when sixteen episodes of the first season would resurface on YouTube via a user by the name of nhsadm. (Though the videos on the channel have since been blocked due to copyright claims, and later taken down.)
Following this, a few more episodes have also resurfaced in the coming years and in mid-February 2022, the whole series would be uploaded to Youtube via a user named Moriah Lambier, helped by a user named Th3ch0s3n0n3s, while the episodes were recorded via a Facebook user by the name of Visa Za.
Episode List
| # | Title | Air Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Expendables | April 15th, 2004 | Found |
| 2 | Metal Mouth | April 14th, 2004 | Found |
| 3 | Coach Pattie | April 4th, 2004 | Found |
| 4 | Robyn The Boss | April 29th, 2004 | Found |
| 5 | Everyone's Alex | May 17th, 2004 | Found |
| 6 | Help Unwanted | April 20th, 2004 | Found |
| 7 | Where's The Ham? | May 10th, 2004 | Found |
| 8 | The Ben Effect | May 3rd, 2004 | Found |
| 9 | The Campaign | May 6th, 2004 | Found |
| 10 | Undercover Guy | May 12th, 2004 | Found |
| 11 | Alex's Last Chapter | April 11th, 2004 | Found |
| 12 | Curse of the Tess People | April 19th, 2004 | Found |
| 13 | The Competition | April 22th, 2004 | Found |
| 14 | Candid Camera | May 19th, 2004 | Found |
| 15 | A Phone For Ben | April 21st, 2004 | Found |
| 16 | As Fate Would Have It | May 11th, 2004 | Found |
| 17 | Mobyn and Myan | April 26th, 2004 | Found |
| 18 | The Cold Shoulder | April 27th, 2004 | Found |
| 19 | Music For Your Mouths | May 5th, 2004 | Found |
| 20 | Tiger Man | May 25th, 2004 | Found |
| 21 | Alternative Ben | May 4th, 2004 | Found |
| 22 | Foreign Affairs | May 18th, 2004 | Found |
| 23 | The Love Potion | May 20th, 2004 | Found |
| 24 | A Side Order Of Love | May 24th, 2004 | Found |
| 25 | While Supplies Last | May 13th, 2004 | Found |
| 26 | Mini Ben | May 28th, 2004 | Found |
| 27 | Ben Bites | Sept 9th, 2004 | Found |
| 28 | Alex Takes Over | Sept 14th, 2004 | Found |
| 29 | For A Limited Time Only | Sept 16th, 2004 | Found |
| 30 | Burgatron 9000 | Sept 21st, 2004 | Found |
| 31 | Dearly Departed | Sept 23rd, 2004 | Found |
| 32 | The Prankster | Sept 28th, 2004 | Found |
| 33 | Peace, Love, And Misunderstanding | Sept 30th, 2004 | Found |
| 34 | Pass/Fail | Oct 5th, 2004 | Found |
| 35 | The Soup Kitchen | Oct 7th, 2004 | Found |
| 36 | The Food Critic | Oct 12th, 2004 | Found |
| 37 | Heart Of The Matter | Oct 14th, 2004 | Found |
| 38 | One Alex To Go | Oct 19th, 2004 | Found |
| 39 | The Return Of A Man Called Smith | Nov 4th, 2004 | Found |
| 40 | Drive-thru Speaker Bandit | Nov 9th, 2004 | Found |
| 41 | The Hottie | Sept 7th, 2004 | Found |
| 42 | Flipping Over You | Oct 21th, 2004 | Found |
| 43 | The Haunted | Oct 28th, 2004 | Found |
| 44 | Mortimer's Makeover | Nov 23rd, 2004 | Found |
| 45 | Love and War | Nov 2nd, 2004 | Found |
| 46 | Catering On The Side | Nov 25th, 2004 | Found |
| 47 | Shake, Cattle and Roll | Nov 30th, 2004 | Found |
| 48 | Love, Robyn Style | Dec 2nd, 2004 | Found |
| 49 | Sleeping with the Fish Sticks | Nov 11th, 2004 | Found |
| 50 | Dirty Burger | Nov 18th, 2004 | Found |
| 51 | Robyn... and Eddy | Nov 16th, 2004 | Found |
| 52 | It's A Wonderful Christmas Time, Ben Shaw | Dec 18th, 2004 | Found |
See Also
- Anthony Ant (partially lost HBO/YTV animated series based on books; 1999)
- Big BBQ Blowout (partially found interstitials of YTV event; 2006)
- Borderline High (lost Canadian afterschool special; 1992)
- Caitlin's Way (partially found Nickelodeon/YTV teen drama series, promos, and dubs; 2000-2002)
- D'Myna Leagues (partially found second season of Canadian animated series; 2002)
- Freaky Stories (found Canadian animated/live-action horror TV series; 1997-2000)
- Mischief City (partially found Canadian animated children's TV series; 2005)
- Monster Buster Club "The New Recruits" (found episode of children's TV series; 2008)
- Monster By Mistake! (found CGI animated series; 1996-2003)
- Prank Patrol (partially lost Canadian children's series; 2005-2010)
- The Real Captain Flamingo Show (partially found special episodes of "Captain Flamingo" Canadian-Filipino children's animated series; 2007)
- Stickin' Around (partially found pre-series shorts of Nelvana animated series; 1994)
- The Sticklers (lost pitch pilot of 'Stickin' Around' Nelvana animated series; early 1990s)
- Treasure (partially found BBC animated series; 2001-2002)
- The Twins (partially found animated series; 2000)
- Weird Years (partially lost animated comedy series; 2006)
- Weird-Oh's (partially lost American/Canadian CGI animated TV series; 1999)
- YTV.com (partially found online games; 1998-2006)
External Links
References
- ↑ The plot synopsis for Fries with That?. Retrieved 19 May '20
- ↑ The Cast for Fries with That?. Retrieved 19 May '20
- ↑ List of awards that Fries With That? won. Retrieved 19 May '20