Fries With That? (found YTV sitcom; 2004)

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Promotional poster for the show.

Status: Partially found

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 canceled after season two.

History

Fries With That? aired on YTV from April 15, 2004, until December 18, 2004. The show ran for two seasons on YTV but was canceled 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.

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.

Availability

Due to the overall failure of Fries With That?, no home media was made available. The show had reruns air sporadically from 2004 until 2006 and again in 2010. While not confirmed, re-runs of Fries With That? was also rumored 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.

Episode Status

#	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	Lost
6	Help Unwanted	April 20th, 2004	Lost
7	Where's The Ham?	May 10th, 2004	Lost
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	Lost
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	Tigerman	May 25th, 2004	Lost
21	Alternative Ben	May 4th, 2004	Found
22	Foreign Effects	May 18th, 2004	Lost
23	The Love Potion	May 20th, 2004	Lost
24	A Side Order Of Love	May 24th, 2004	Lost
25	While Supplies Last	May 13th, 2004	Lost
26	Mini Ben	May 28th, 2004	Found
27	Ben Bites	September 9th, 2004	Lost
28	Alex Takes Over	September 14th, 2004	Lost
29	For A Limited Time Only	September 16th, 2004	Lost
30	Burgatron 9000	September 21st, 2004	Lost
31	Dearly Departed	September 23rd, 2004	Lost
32	The Prankster	September 28th, 2004	Lost
33	Peace, Love, And Misunderstanding	September 30th, 2004	Lost
34	Pass/Fail	October 5th, 2004	Lost
35	The Soup Kitchen	October 7th, 2004	Lost
36	The Food Critic	October 12th, 2004	Lost
37	Heart Of The Matter	October 14th, 2004	Lost
38	One Alex To Go	October 19th, 2004	Lost
39	The Return Of A Man Named Smith	November 4th, 2004	Lost
40	Drive-thru Speaker Bandit	November 9th, 2004	Lost
41	The Hottie	September 7th, 2004	Lost
42	Flipping Over You	October 21th, 2004	Lost
43	The Haunted	October 28th, 2004	Lost
44	Mortimer's Makeover	November 23rd, 2004	Lost
45	Love and War	November 2nd, 2004	Lost
46	Catering On The Side	November 25th, 2004	Found(1|2|3)
47	Shake, Cattle and Roll	November 30th, 2004	Lost
48	Love, Robyn Style	December 2nd, 2004	Lost
49	Sleeping with the Fish Sticks	November 11th, 2004	Lost
50	Dirty Burger	November 18th, 2004	Lost
51	Robyn... and Eddy	November 16th, 2004	Lost
52	It's A Wonderful Christmas Time, Ben Shaw	December 18th, 2004	Partially Found

External Links

• Wikipedia article about the sitcom. Retrieved 05 Jun '19
• An IMDb page about the sitcom. Retrieved 05 Jun '19