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The 10 Most Annoying Screengrabs From Duff Goldman’s “Sugar High” Commercial
Posted on August 3rd 2011 by Jillian Madison

Sometimes, you don’t need to watch an entire episode of a show to know how bad it’s going to be. Sometimes, all you need to see is the 30-second commercial preview for it… as is the case with Sugar High with Duff Goldman (which premieres on August 8th).

Sugar High is exactly like Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives: it features a goateed d-bag traveling the country high-fiving people and pointing at huge pieces of fried dough. And since every “let’s travel the world and eat” show needs a theme, Duff’s theme is sugary foods. Super creative.

Did I mention the commercial is obnoxious? If there’s anything I hate, it’s people who obsessively high-five. And this commercial features not one, not two, but three high fives.

Let’s take a look at the 10 most annoying screen grabs from the preview, shall we?



Other posts on Food Network Humor:

---Food Network Scraping Bottom Of Barrel With New Duff Goldman Show “Sugar High”
---Duff Goldman Slams Cake Boss, Brags About Making More Money
---Duff Goldman Gets Pwned On Oprah Winfrey
---Duff Goldman Films Least Enthused Cooking Segment In Food Network History (w/ Video)
---Duff Goldman In Hawaii

    61 Responses

  1. Ida Slapter says:

    That last picture looks like he should be appearing in Two Fat Ladies…

  2. LaLa says:

    I cringe every time that promo comes on… and it looks like he ate the Two Fat Ladies…

  3. Sarah says:

    What a douchetard.

  4. Mark H88 says:

    While Duff and Guy are both very similar, there are two key differences (IMHO).

    Duff seems like a nice guy, but he just hides behind an obnoxious persona. He’d actually be somewhat likeable if he’d cut out the “Trying too hard” shtick.

    Guy only has his obnoxiousness as for any sort of appeal. He wouldn’t make it on TV if he didn’t always act like an ass.

    • ChrisEW says:

      Anthony Bourdain, whose dislike of FN personalities is well known, actually seems okay with Duff. He had him on his Christmas special once, and insisted he was better than the network he’s on. I don’t see it, but Bourdain usually doesn’t BS about stuff like that, so there must be something beyond what we get on FN. I guess if they paid me enough money, I’d act like an idiot, too.

    • KristenS says:

      A good friend had Charm City Cakes make her wedding cake (a couple years before the show). She said Duff was really nice. She emailed later to congratulate him on his show, and he personally emailed back to say thanks.

      I think this is another example of FN taking a nice, reasonably normal, if slightly quirky person and turning them into a rotten, stinking caricature.

    • Mark H88 says:

      He definitely seems to putting on a show because he knows that’s what it takes to stay relevant on Food Network. He may come across as obnoxious on TV, but I think that’s in the editing and they only show us the obnoxious moments. He seems like he’d be less offensive off camera.

    • JerseyGirlrioul says:

      I’ll shamefully admit to meeting Feettttii and Duff once at the same place 40 minutes apart from one another.

      Hopefully, I can redeem myself if I tell you I also met Anthony Bourdian w/ the very pretty Octavia at the same place…it was at a food festival event and we were all at the same hotel.

      Anyway….

      Duff is normal IRL. He was at a table by the hotel bar before an event and was just hanging having a couple drinks with 4 normal looking friends. I passed him as I was heading to the bar and just did a look of acknowledgment head nod. He smiled and we all went on with our lives.

      Just a few minutes later, I saw Feeeeeee-ti. He had –I KID YOU NOT — 45 people around him playing loud music, running from actual human beings like a family of cock-a-roaches would if they had the lights turn on them minutes after finding a two month old McApple Pie under your frat house couch.

      He’s a f-ing FREAK compared to Duff. We were NOT at a public event..we were at a small, pricey hotel. Anthony F-ing Boudian was literally 25 feet away with his family. NO ONE cared about the douche bag Feeeee-ttttt-iiii except himself.

      And, all of you please convince Jillian to go to the South Beach Food and Wine Festival to experience this shit 1st hand!!! She’s famous now!

  5. qwertygirl says:

    Oh goody! Another show where we get to watch people drive around and masticate. I always say, it’s not a good cooking show if the host isn’t chewing for at least 30% of the air time. Bonus points if they squirm around like they have sand in their bathing suit groaning, “Mmm mmm oo that is soooo good.”

    Didn’t JA-DA’s mother and Sandra Lee’s Gramma Lorraine ever teach them not to TALK WITH THEIR MOUTHS FULL? As for Guy Fee-EDH-ee, let’s don’t even go there.

    • Patrick says:

      Don’t mention traveling food shows and Sandra Lee and Giada. It might give them ideas. Maybe a show where Sandra travels the country looking for cheap cocktail concoctions that are barely potable, or Giada backpacking through Olive Gardens for “authentic” Italian food with names they can overpronounce.

      • qwertygirl says:

        Actually JA-DA already did a traveling show–some stupid thing where she’d go somewhere for a weekend and then go to all sorts of restaurants and markets and things. I think it was even called “Giada’s Weekend Getaway” or something.

        But you’re right–I should be careful about mentioning Sandra Lee and “traveling food shows” in the same sentence. They’d send her out barhopping with a camera crew and she’d spend the entire show giving the bartenders “tips” on how to make their offerings SODAlicious by adding some vanilla vodka and a packet of grill seasoning. *shudder*

  6. FuryOfFirestorm says:

    @The first pic: It’s hard to tell which is which.

  7. Eurodancemix says:

    Hey, I’d blow him.

    Sorry, folks, but some of us like that look and body type. We each have our own thing so let’s just all get along.

    :-)

    • qwertygirl says:

      From what little I’ve seen when I’ve flipped by that show, you’re going to have to fight Mary Alice for him. Every time I’ve seen a scene with the two of them together, she’s smothering him with frosting with her eyes, doubtless with the intention of licking it off later.

      (Apologies to those for whom this image is repugnant. I know–I can never unthink it either.)

      • Jana says:

        He’s supposed to be with Sofia from Ace of Cakes. I like bald guys but I also like them to be grownups. Your comment made me laugh so freaking hard!!

        • qwertygirl says:

          Ooo, I did not know that. Mary Alice must just be in a blind rage over that. She is clearly salivating from every pore when she’s around him.

          FN should get smart and downplay the cake portions of these shows and play up the soap opera relationships and flings. I’d be WAY more interested in watching Sofia and Mary Alice get into a fondant-slinging cat fight than in watching them make a cake in the shape of R2D2 or Kermit the Frog or whatever stupid thing.

    • K-Star says:

      Haha awesome. While I’m not into that type myself I know tons of women are and I keep trying to tell my “husky” co-worker this.

      • shorty j says:

        exactly, I’m one of ‘em. When I told my now-boyfriend that, he was like “…can you put that on a billboard in Times Square? Because seriously, I would have saved SO MANY YEARS of angst and self-loathing if I knew there were women out there who actually like big guys.”

    • FuryOfFirestorm says:

      I’d hit it too…if you stuffed a ball gag in his mouth and put a paper bag over his head.

    • Nubb says:

      Maybe Eurodancemix is a dude and he likes bears.

  8. It can’t be as disgusting as Heat Seekers. It just can’t. The one episode I tried to watch was like a really awful attempt to disprove Rule 34. It made me want to give up food altogether, including everything I had already eaten.

  9. Amy says:

    Was there something wrong with Kid in a Candy Store? At least Adam isn’t hideous. (And it has nothing to do with Duff being fat, his face is just repulsively ugly.)

  10. Silvio says:

    Does his trusted “sous chef” Sporty McSports Shorts Geof make an appearance on this show ?

    Just curious, as he might just as lame as Dorf.

  11. Jenna says:

    That ‘I’m gonna eat that in my mouth” quote makes me cringe every time. Apparently he’s not fluent in douchisms like Guy Fieri.

    Food Network primetime is really getting unwatchable. How many lame shows are they going to throw at us in a month?! I was surprised to see a show called ‘Three Chocolatiers’ airing one night Did anyone actually know that existed?! They’re really getting uber-desperate for a new Ace of Cakes.

    • Jen says:

      I agree. I used to watch FN all the time during the night time hours. Now I barely watch it. Seems like the only things on at the moment worth watching are Unwrapped and old reruns of Dinner Impossible. I’d toss in Kid in a Candy Store but it looks like they pulled it. Not sure if it’s gone for good or not.

  12. john says:

    Oh, but this show is different! This show is about a goateed hipster wannabe traveling the country stuffing food in his face and high-fiving chefs, who wears his sunglasses on the FRONT of his skull.

    Nothing at all like Triple D.

  13. Toby says:

    Where the hell did Duff find that Michael Jackson “Thriller-esque” jacket he has on in a few of those screen grabs?

  14. Allen says:

    With the success of Food Network’s step-sister Cooking Channel, I think they should start a new channel called “Obnoxious People who Travel and Eat”. They could show 3D, Outrageous Foods, Kid in Candy Store, and Sugar High all day long.

    It won’t be long before Andrew Zimmern and Adam Richman start pounding on the door and demanding their own show on this channel.

    • LauraS says:

      I’m willing to bet they could find a gig for that dolt Mary Beth.

    • Abe says:

      You would think that FN would get a hint from their non Scripps networks competition. Shows like Fox’s Hells Kitchen, Master Chef etc. are smoking FN in the ratings.

      I would love to see a weekly comparison of the top rated FN as well as Cooking Channel shows against the non Scripps networks food themed wares.

      Lately, non FN/Cooking Channel food themed shows frighteningly outrate the Scripps networks shit they’re trying to feed us.

      The viewers are tuning out in droves, and Scripps appears to be grasping at straws.

      Forgive me for borrowing from Ina Garten, but Food Network SERIOUSLY needs to get back to basics. Teach us how to COOK, don’t show us how we ought to eat and suddenly ramming every restaurant known to man down our throats across all these shows.

      They became so wildly successful that they went over the top and people are handing them their heads on a platter by not watching. So what does Food Network do? Become more desperate and try to forcefeed us more Guy Ferry, Rachael Ray, Aunt Semi human Sandra, JADA and Duff Goldman more air time and more ridiculously hideous shows that no one cares about.

      I swear if they give Rachael Ray’s husband his own show(s) too like they did with Bobby and Jamie Deen, I’m going to call my cable company and BEG them to remove FN from my channel lineup.

  15. foodismyfriend says:

    I wouldn’t go near this guys face with my dogs ass. Just a nasty, dirty looking troll.

  16. Luna Lovegood says:

    I don’t mind Duff so much but for fucks sake, how many more shows does there have to be where the the host travels around and eats stuff?

    • FuryOfFirestorm says:

      Haven’t you seen the upcoming FN shows?

      “Washed Up”: Roger Mooking breaks into random homes and eats dryer lint and fabric softner.

      “Seat Dreams”: Adam Gertler goes to upholstery stores and licks the chairs.

      “Junk Food”: Andrew Zimmern wanders from junkyard to junkyard, eating random crap, from broken glass to a whole 1985 Pontiac Firebird.

      • ButtaRumCake says:

        *catches breath*

        Holy shit. I haven’t laughed this hard in a good long time!

        Thanks, FuryOfFirestorm!!

      • roachc420 says:

        I hate these types of shows with the passion of a thousand burning nuns, but I think I’d tune in for “Junk Food”.

  17. tspeece says:

    I HATE that promo. Honestly, if I wanted to watch a stoner get backed and feed their munchies with sugar, I’d call up any one of my friends. At least THEM I don’t mind being around.

    • Em says:

      We keep waiting for “The Best Thing I Ever Ate: While Stoned” episode, starring Duff. With all the stupid subgenres they’re showing now (The Best Thing I Ever Ate With Chopsticks! The Best Thing I Ever Ate: Crazy Good! The Best Thing I Ever Ate At Attica!), they’re bound to resort to it soon.

  18. Jen says:

    I think I’ll pass. I’ll admit to liking Kid in a Candy Store. So did they cancel that show in order to clone it, give it another host and another name?

  19. So There says:

    FN is just pathetic. That’s why Mario Batali left and
    will soon have a cooking show on CH 7 called
    “Chew”. That I will watch.!

    • Hobbygourmet says:

      Nope, can’t take Batali with all his lawsuits going on. “The Chew”??? – What? All the good names were taken?

  20. Diane says:

    UGH! Yanno, when Ace of Cakes started I actually kind of liked Duff and his merry band of stoners doing their cake thing up in Baltimore.
    Now it’s just dissolved into typical FN crap. :(

  21. Rai says:

    Food Network just keeps spinning out such GREAT TV lately, doesn’t it. KUHRAZY cookies and SUGAR HIGH OH MY GAHD.

    I’d rather a buy a cake to throw it at that douche’s face.

    …Totally unrelated, but does anyone else think the Asian guy in the 2nd screenshot is kinda cute?

  22. Mudkip says:

    When did he get so enormously fat o.O

  23. Ron says:

    I started watching this episode the other night, and the “I’m gonna eat that in my mouth!!!” line literally made me lunge for the remote. Then I changed the channel with my hands.

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