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** Arguably, Andrew Zimmern's ''BizarreFoods''/ ''Bizarre World'' series is a spinoff of ''No Reservations''. It debuted after the first season of No Res, and features a chef/food personality, who travel around the world to eat. However, Zimmern's show is much more earnest and much less snarky.
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** Arguably, Andrew Zimmern's ''BizarreFoods''/ ''Bizarre World'' ''[[Series/BizarreFoodsWithAndrewZimmern Bizarre Foods / Bizarre World]]'' series is a spinoff of ''No Reservations''. It debuted after the first season of No Res, and features a chef/food personality, who travel around the world to eat. However, Zimmern's show is much more earnest and much less snarky.
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Deciding the writer's life might be worth continuing on given the seemingly inevitable burnout of working 12 hour shifts in the busy kitchen, he conceives of another book, a travelogue in which he visits different places around the world in search of "the perfect meal". To his surprise and horror the Creator/FoodNetwork -- an institution he is and was an outspoken critic of -- got wind of the idea and wanted to make it into a television show. The book and the show became ''A Cook's Tour'' and Anthony Bourdain became a television host.
The show ran 35 episodes and attained something akin to cult hit status. The book chronicles several pages of behind the scenes instances of "why you should never do a TV show" -- many of which owe a lot to Anthony Bourdain's don't-want-to-put-up-with-this-shit and tell-it-like-it-is demeanor which account partly for his appeal. However, according to his newer book "The Nasty Bits", the Food Network was not going to renew the show because they want more shows that cater to average folks with barbecues and limited interest in foreign cuisines. After being abandoned by their own production company, the Travel Channel (who would give him a lot more free rein and creative control) picked up the show and it became ''No Reservations''.
The show ran 35 episodes and attained something akin to cult hit status. The book chronicles several pages of behind the scenes instances of "why you should never do a TV show" -- many of which owe a lot to Anthony Bourdain's don't-want-to-put-up-with-this-shit and tell-it-like-it-is demeanor which account partly for his appeal. However, according to his newer book "The Nasty Bits", the Food Network was not going to renew the show because they want more shows that cater to average folks with barbecues and limited interest in foreign cuisines. After being abandoned by their own production company, the Travel Channel (who would give him a lot more free rein and creative control) picked up the show and it became ''No Reservations''.
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Deciding the writer's life might be worth continuing on given the seemingly inevitable burnout of working 12 hour shifts in the busy kitchen, he conceives of another book, a travelogue in which he visits different places around the world in search of "the perfect meal". To his surprise and horror horror, the Creator/FoodNetwork -- an institution he is and was an outspoken critic of -- got wind of the idea and wanted to make it into a television show. The book and the show became ''A Cook's Tour'' and Anthony Bourdain became a television host.
The show ran 35 episodes and attained something akin to cult hit status. The book chronicles several pages of behind the scenes instances of "why you should never do a TV show" -- many of which owe a lot to Anthony Bourdain's don't-want-to-put-up-with-this-shit and tell-it-like-it-is demeanor which account partly for his appeal. However, according to his newer book "The Nasty Bits", the Food Network was not going to renew the show because they want more shows that cater to average folks with barbecues and limited interest in foreign cuisines. After being abandoned by their own production company, the Travel Channel(who (which would give him a lot more free rein and creative control) picked up the show and it became ''No Reservations''.
The show ran 35 episodes and attained something akin to cult hit status. The book chronicles several pages of behind the scenes instances of "why you should never do a TV show" -- many of which owe a lot to Anthony Bourdain's don't-want-to-put-up-with-this-shit and tell-it-like-it-is demeanor which account partly for his appeal. However, according to his newer book "The Nasty Bits", the Food Network was not going to renew the show because they want more shows that cater to average folks with barbecues and limited interest in foreign cuisines. After being abandoned by their own production company, the Travel Channel
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** A sublplot of the "Rio de Janiero" episode, which is focused on his wife. His wife started training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu after the birth of their daughter, and still is. Takes this further for the end-of-episode Brazilian Jiu Jitsu match. [[spoiler:She wins.]]
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** A sublplot of the "Rio de Janiero" episode, which is focused on his wife. His wife started training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu after the birth of their daughter, and still is. Takes this further for the end-of-episode Brazilian Jiu Jitsu match. [[spoiler:She wins.]]
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown'' on Creator/{{CNN}}
* TakeThat: He frequently takes potshots at Rachel Ray, The Food Network, and mainstream chain restaurants like [=TGIFridays=] and Chili's.
** He once implied that the "mystery meat" he was eating was [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow Dash]] ("Take that, bronies") and got some very disturbing messages from said rabid FanBoy[=s=].
* TakeThat: He frequently takes potshots at Rachel Ray, The Food Network, and mainstream chain restaurants like [=TGIFridays=] and Chili's.
** He once implied that the "mystery meat" he was eating was [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow Dash]] ("Take that, bronies") and got some very disturbing messages from said rabid FanBoy[=s=].
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown'' on Creator/{{CNN}}
Creator/{{CNN}}.
*TakeThat: TakeThat:
** He frequently takes potshots at Rachel Ray, The Food Network, and mainstream chain restaurants like [=TGIFridays=] and Chili's.
** He once implied that the "mystery meat" he was eating was [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow Dash]] ("Take that, bronies") and got some very disturbing messages from said rabidFanBoy[=s=].{{Fanboy}}s.
** The Sweden episode begins with a parody of Creator/IngmarBergman that can be best described as if Bergman directed ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot'', featuring a {{fauxlosophic|Narration}} voiceover conversation between a man and a woman ("When does the bus come?" "The bus never comes." "Then I want to die." "Everybody wants to die.") When the woman says "I heard Music/{{ABBA}} is considering a reunion tour," there's a long {{beat}} before the man says "''[[OhCrap ...Really?]]''"
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** He frequently takes potshots at Rachel Ray, The Food Network, and mainstream chain restaurants like [=TGIFridays=] and Chili's.
** He once implied that the "mystery meat" he was eating was [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow Dash]] ("Take that, bronies") and got some very disturbing messages from said rabid
** The Sweden episode begins with a parody of Creator/IngmarBergman that can be best described as if Bergman directed ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot'', featuring a {{fauxlosophic|Narration}} voiceover conversation between a man and a woman ("When does the bus come?" "The bus never comes." "Then I want to die." "Everybody wants to die.") When the woman says "I heard Music/{{ABBA}} is considering a reunion tour," there's a long {{beat}} before the man says "''[[OhCrap ...Really?]]''"
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Anthony getting dragged to a ''noraebang'' (karaoke room) by Nari in the Korea episode. The shot of a despondent Anthony [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hugging a giant pink teddy bear surrounded by perky Korean girls]] is just the capper.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Anthony getting dragged to a ''noraebang'' (karaoke room) by Nari in the Korea episode. The shot of a despondent Anthony [[CrowningMomentOfFunny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hugging a giant pink teddy bear surrounded by perky Korean girls]] is just the capper.
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** Minor case in producer Nari, who strong-armed Anthony into going to Korea and later had him do outdoorsy things in Vancouver. Her "Reward" for this involves holding a small umbrella for Anthony in the rain, making absurd stuff anthony happened to want (such as 20 yard of black latex).
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** Minor case in producer Nari, who strong-armed Anthony into going to Korea and later had him do outdoorsy things in Vancouver. Her "Reward" for this involves holding a small umbrella for Anthony in the rain, making absurd stuff anthony Anthony happened to want (such as 20 yard of black latex).
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In June 2012, Anthony announced via his Website/{{Tumblr}} that ''No Reservations'' was ending its run after 8 seasons and he would be moving with his production team to CNN. Considering that the parent company of Creator/FoodNetwork (which Anthony despised) recently purchased Travel Channel, the new development wasn't exactly surprising. The new show, ''Series/AnthonyBourdainPartsUnknown'', keeps with the format of the old fairly closely with a greater emphasis on current event topics.
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In June 2012, Anthony announced via his Website/{{Tumblr}} that ''No Reservations'' was ending its run after 8 seasons and he would be moving with his production team to CNN. Considering that the parent company of Creator/FoodNetwork (which Anthony despised) recently purchased Travel Channel, the new development wasn't exactly surprising. The new show, ''Series/AnthonyBourdainPartsUnknown'', keeps kept with the format of the old fairly closely with a greater emphasis on current event topics.
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* SoYouWantTo: Cook Good Meals The Best Possible Way: The "Techniques Special" shows the best way to make: a hamburger (demonstrated by a Frenchman), steak and beef bourguignon by Anthony (when the steak is done but still sizzling, leave. It. ''Alone.''), roast chicken by ''Thomas Keller'' (the five-star chef who showed the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' crew how to make delicious food), authentic Italian spaghetti and red sauce (by Scott Conant, whom ''Series/{{Chopped}}'' audiences will recognize), French fries (by Anthony's Mexican ex-grill man who is now the chef at Les Halles), and an omelet (by ''Jacques Pepin''). Apparently, the secret to the latter is to crack eggs on flat surfaces to prevent bacteria from getting in. Also, "after a night out with a virgin, the one with the most experience should make it for breakfast the next morning".
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* MilestoneCelebration: "100 episodes isn't enough, but we're celebrating it anyway."
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* FollowTheLeader: ''Gordon Ramsay's World Travels'', Independent Film Channel's ''Man Shops Globe'' (their guy even looks rather like Anthony).
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Anthony getting dragged to a ''noraebang'' (karaoke room) by Nari in the Korea episode. The shot of a despondent Anthony [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hugging a giant pink teddy bear surrounded by perky Korean girls]] is just the capper.
** As Anthony demonstrated (most likely for the RuleOfFunny), it's implied that merely ''not liking'' ABBA will get you thrown in prison in Sweden.
* CoolOldGuy: Anthony, arguably. Most of the older chefs (IE Mario Batali's dad the sausage maker, the grill specialist from Italy, the mad gastronomist of Washington DC...)
* ConspicuousConsumption: Anthony certainly feels conspicuous when his classic Hawaiian shirt turns out to be ''3,000 dollars'' (this was before the [[ProductPlacement Chase card]]).
** The feast at El Bulli, which included a simple fried cookie covered with slices of black truffles followed by another little thing covered with black truffles. Anthony almost felt ''guilty''.
** In the Haiti episode, shot after the earthquake in 2010, he eats 2 servings of food guiltily while hungry children watch. He eventually buys them food as well.
* CombatPragmatist: In Indonesia, Anthony watched as people practiced the martial art of Silat. At one point, some guys pulled out knives and dashed at another, who pushed them back with their "Inner Spirit". Anthony mentions that it reminded him of TheForce. He pointed out that if a knife-wielding maniac came at him, he wouldn't rely on his inner spirit. He's always been a practitioner of the ancient martial art of firearms.
** As Anthony demonstrated (most likely for the RuleOfFunny), it's implied that merely ''not liking'' ABBA will get you thrown in prison in Sweden.
* CoolOldGuy: Anthony, arguably. Most of the older chefs (IE Mario Batali's dad the sausage maker, the grill specialist from Italy, the mad gastronomist of Washington DC...)
* ConspicuousConsumption: Anthony certainly feels conspicuous when his classic Hawaiian shirt turns out to be ''3,000 dollars'' (this was before the [[ProductPlacement Chase card]]).
** The feast at El Bulli, which included a simple fried cookie covered with slices of black truffles followed by another little thing covered with black truffles. Anthony almost felt ''guilty''.
** In the Haiti episode, shot after the earthquake in 2010, he eats 2 servings of food guiltily while hungry children watch. He eventually buys them food as well.
* CombatPragmatist: In Indonesia, Anthony watched as people practiced the martial art of Silat. At one point, some guys pulled out knives and dashed at another, who pushed them back with their "Inner Spirit". Anthony mentions that it reminded him of TheForce. He pointed out that if a knife-wielding maniac came at him, he wouldn't rely on his inner spirit. He's always been a practitioner of the ancient martial art of firearms.
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* CombatPragmatist: In Indonesia, Anthony watched as people practiced the martial art of Silat. At one point, some guys pulled out knives and dashed at another, who pushed them back with their "Inner Spirit". Anthony mentions that it reminded him of TheForce. He pointed out that if a knife-wielding maniac came at him, he wouldn't rely on his inner spirit. He's always been a practitioner of the ancient martial art of firearms.
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* ConspicuousConsumption: Anthony certainly feels conspicuous when his classic Hawaiian shirt turns out to be ''3,000 dollars'' (this was before the [[ProductPlacement Chase card]]).
** The feast at El Bulli, which included a simple fried cookie covered with slices of black truffles followed by another little thing covered with black truffles. Anthony almost felt ''guilty''.
** In the Haiti episode, shot after the earthquake in 2010, he eats 2 servings of food guiltily while hungry children watch. He eventually buys them food as well.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Anthony getting dragged to a ''noraebang'' (karaoke room) by Nari in the Korea episode. The shot of a despondent Anthony [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hugging a giant pink teddy bear surrounded by perky Korean girls]] is just the capper.
** As Anthony demonstrated (most likely for the RuleOfFunny), it's implied that merely ''not liking'' ABBA will get you thrown in prison in Sweden.
* CoolOldGuy: Anthony, arguably. Most of the older chefs (IE Mario Batali's dad the sausage maker, the grill specialist from Italy, the mad gastronomist of Washington DC...)
** The feast at El Bulli, which included a simple fried cookie covered with slices of black truffles followed by another little thing covered with black truffles. Anthony almost felt ''guilty''.
** In the Haiti episode, shot after the earthquake in 2010, he eats 2 servings of food guiltily while hungry children watch. He eventually buys them food as well.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Anthony getting dragged to a ''noraebang'' (karaoke room) by Nari in the Korea episode. The shot of a despondent Anthony [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hugging a giant pink teddy bear surrounded by perky Korean girls]] is just the capper.
** As Anthony demonstrated (most likely for the RuleOfFunny), it's implied that merely ''not liking'' ABBA will get you thrown in prison in Sweden.
* CoolOldGuy: Anthony, arguably. Most of the older chefs (IE Mario Batali's dad the sausage maker, the grill specialist from Italy, the mad gastronomist of Washington DC...)
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** In the Ireland episode, he mentions Guinness by name. If only because it's the most well known national beer. He does lampshade how the episode is turning out to be a giant commercial for it.
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* DisneyAcidSequence: Anthony has one in the southern California desert, to the sound of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-AOPFRXebg 'Spiders and Vinegaroons']] by QueensOfTheStoneAge.
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* DisneyAcidSequence: Anthony has one in the southern California desert, to the sound of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-AOPFRXebg 'Spiders and Vinegaroons']] by QueensOfTheStoneAge.Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge.
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** Anthony and Nari in the Korea episode.
!! In the spring of 2012, Bourdain {{Channel Hop}}ped to Creator/{{CNN}} with his new series ''Parts Unknown''. Tropes appearing in ''Parts Unknown''
!! In the spring of 2012, Bourdain {{Channel Hop}}ped to Creator/{{CNN}} with his new series ''Parts Unknown''. Tropes appearing in ''Parts Unknown''
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** Anthony and Nari in the Korea episode.
!! In the spring of 2012, Bourdain {{Channel Hop}}ped to Creator/{{CNN}} with his new series ''Parts Unknown''. Tropes appearing in ''Parts Unknown''episode.
!! In the spring of 2012, Bourdain {{Channel Hop}}ped to Creator/{{CNN}} with his new series ''Parts Unknown''. Tropes appearing in ''Parts Unknown''
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!! In the spring of 2012, Bourdain {{Channel Hop}}ped to Creator/{{CNN}} with his new series ''Parts Unknown''. Tropes appearing in ''Parts Unknown'':
* AuthorAppeal: The Congo episode comes from Bourdain's fascination with "Heart of Darkness".
* BitingTheHandHumor: After partaking in a bit of ToiletHumor with fellow diners in Quebec, Anthony looks into the camera and deadpans, "This. Is CNN."
* BrokenPedestal: Subverted (heartwarmingly) when he meets punk legend Iggy Pop in Miami in Season 5. No only is Iggy no longer a raging hellion, but over the course of eating breakfast and walking along the beach with Bourdain, is very candid and philosophical.
* ContentWarnings: Occasional episodes that deal with more "mature" subject matter, such as drug cartel violence along the Mexican border, or some of the fetishistic subcultures to be found in Tokyo's nightlife, are preceded by such warnings.
* DisneyAcidSequence: The Thailand episode can basically be summed up as "Anthony and his buddy get royally wasted". This culminates in a [[MediumBlending bizarre animated sequence]], set to the Nutcracker Suite played on an electric guitar, that [[OverlyLongGag goes on for quite some time]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: Bourdain calls the Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist who accompanies him in Detroit a food-"Philistine" in the narration and says to him in person "If you ever did that in my restaurant (pour his gimlet into the soup and say it tastes better ''in front of the chef'') I'd cut your throat"!
** It's not a new fantasy -- in his comic book Bourdain imagines a world ruled by food-mafias and anyone who can't eat a sushi properly forfeits his head.
* EruditeStoner: The Morocco episode analyzes the writings of a few of these types who spent a lot of time in Tangier.
* FauxlosophicNarration: Anthony has a tendency to catch himself in the act of doing this, and then shrug it off with a "But what the hell do I know?" sort of attitude.
* FoodPorn: The point of the Lyon episode, which is basically a paean to the culinary traditions of that French city and culminates in a visit with one of Anthony's idols, legendary chef Paul Bocuse. (Anthony's guide in this episode is another renowned French chef, Daniel Boulud.)
* FootNoteFever: Encore episodes get factoids and [[Website/{{Twitter}} Tweets]] ''a la Series/DeadliestCatch''.
* GhostCity / GhostTown: Parts of UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} are very close, but those who live there -- and those who returned -- haven't given up.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The Peru episode exemplifies how much Bourdain and fellow chef Eric Ripert have become this. They wear similar clothes as they travel to their co-owned chocolate plantation.
* {{Homage}}: A factoid from the Koreatown episode is that the camera crew referenced ''{{Collateral}}'' for nighttime driving scenes.
* MadArtist: Hedonistic Korean-American artist Dave Choe. He paints Anthony's portrait while still in his bedclothes, then takes him to Sizzler (admittedly a place Anthony has never been) while wearing a bright red suit. Additionally, he's got weapons hidden all over his studio (it's in [[GangsterLand west LA]] after all) plus an AK-47 pinata and his portions feature low-riders and a gaggle of hot women in bikinis. His mom is just as creative and weird (if not weirder), drawing all over family photos and stapling doily angels to her son's portrait of UsefulNotes/BarackObama ''that hung in the White House''.
* TheMafia: Naturally the subject comes up when Anthony visits Sicily. He talks to restaurant owners who have differing opinions on the practice of giving bribes to the mafia in exchange for their protection.
* MoodWhiplash: The Massachusetts episode (opening line: "This is where I bought my first bag of heroin"). On the one hand there's the quirky, gay-friendly little fishing village where Anthony discovered the cooking industry and the idyllic, all-American towns upstate; on the other hand the fishing industry is dying, a lot of Anthony's friends from that time are dead, and those idyllic towns are full of addicts and drug dealers because painkillers were over-prescribed in the 90s and when the FDA started limiting their sale the addicts found that heroin was easier to get at.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Usually OncePerEpisode, ''[[SeriousBusiness epic cooking montages]]''. Especially during the China episode, where it focuses on a group of four or five guys doing regular cooking.
** Chef Sean Brock takes Bourdain to a Waffle House (which he'd never been to before) while he tours Charleston, SC.
* NauseaFuel: The Tanzania episode gives us an "in-universe" example when Anthony visits a Maasai tribe. As the guest of honor, he's asked to slaughter a goat for their meal, which starts suffocating it by pressing on a vein it to keep its blood inside the body. He admits in the voiceover that he barely avoided throwing up while doing it.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: Anthony delights in being proved wrong about places that are perceived this way by most Americans. But sometimes uncomfortable remnants of such regimes can still be seen in these places - usually right before Anthony and his crew are asked to turn the cameras off. The Iran and Libya episodes are good examples.
* Reality Ensues: In the Haiti episode he felt bad about getting to eat food while there were starving children literally watching him. See Conspicuous Consumption above. So he talks to the producers and they agree to buy the lady chef out as her business as been suffering as no one can afford to buy her food. So the lady makes money and the starving kids get to eat, good idea right? Not exactly. What happens is exactly what Anthony should have expected but didn't. The hungry people start fighting for the food and one person even use his belt on a smaller kid. If there was a Tearjearker page for this entry. I would put this moment here in a heartbeat.
* RecoveredAddict: His trip to Cape Cod in Season 4 centers almost exclusively on the heroin problem that exists in the city, touching on Bourdain's own addiction to the drug that he developed while spending his formative years there. It is one of the more sobering and personal episodes of the program.
** As well as very prescient, as HBO would produce a documentary on the same subject in late 2015.
* SceneryPorn: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra The Alhambra fortress]] in Grenada, Spain, especially for the cinematographer who moved to Grenada after marrying a local girl.
** SceneryGorn: The abandoned Packard plant in Detroit, Michigan (horrible paraphrasing: "The only other place I've been to [[GhostCity that looks like that]] -- seriously -- was ''[[AfterTheEnd Chernobyl]]''") is called Scenery Gorn in all but name. The one guy who lives there reports that people come from all over to explore, do graffiti, and take pictures.
* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: "Uncle Kentaki" fried chicken in the Libya episode.
* ShoutOut: The Jamaican episode kicks off with a tribute to ''Franchise/JamesBond'' a la openings and ''[[Film/DiamondsAreForever Rum Lives Forever]]''. Why? Ian Fleming main inspirations came from Jamaica, and said author owned a beautiful ''villa'' there.
* SoundEffectsBleep: Averted, there's no *bleep*s and "shit" occasionally gets a pass.
* TakeThat: The Russia episode contains shot after shot at Vladimir Putin.
** In the Myanmar episode, Anthony and a group of local rock musicians are all in agreement that {{Creed}} is the worst band in the world.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: [[ThemeSong "I took walk in this beautiful world..."]]
* WineIsClassy: The banker in the Shanghai episode has had a whole floor of his building converted into a wine cellar, going so far as to present Anthony with a locker full of ridiculously expensive wine.
* AuthorAppeal: The Congo episode comes from Bourdain's fascination with "Heart of Darkness".
* BitingTheHandHumor: After partaking in a bit of ToiletHumor with fellow diners in Quebec, Anthony looks into the camera and deadpans, "This. Is CNN."
* BrokenPedestal: Subverted (heartwarmingly) when he meets punk legend Iggy Pop in Miami in Season 5. No only is Iggy no longer a raging hellion, but over the course of eating breakfast and walking along the beach with Bourdain, is very candid and philosophical.
* ContentWarnings: Occasional episodes that deal with more "mature" subject matter, such as drug cartel violence along the Mexican border, or some of the fetishistic subcultures to be found in Tokyo's nightlife, are preceded by such warnings.
* DisneyAcidSequence: The Thailand episode can basically be summed up as "Anthony and his buddy get royally wasted". This culminates in a [[MediumBlending bizarre animated sequence]], set to the Nutcracker Suite played on an electric guitar, that [[OverlyLongGag goes on for quite some time]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: Bourdain calls the Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist who accompanies him in Detroit a food-"Philistine" in the narration and says to him in person "If you ever did that in my restaurant (pour his gimlet into the soup and say it tastes better ''in front of the chef'') I'd cut your throat"!
** It's not a new fantasy -- in his comic book Bourdain imagines a world ruled by food-mafias and anyone who can't eat a sushi properly forfeits his head.
* EruditeStoner: The Morocco episode analyzes the writings of a few of these types who spent a lot of time in Tangier.
* FauxlosophicNarration: Anthony has a tendency to catch himself in the act of doing this, and then shrug it off with a "But what the hell do I know?" sort of attitude.
* FoodPorn: The point of the Lyon episode, which is basically a paean to the culinary traditions of that French city and culminates in a visit with one of Anthony's idols, legendary chef Paul Bocuse. (Anthony's guide in this episode is another renowned French chef, Daniel Boulud.)
* FootNoteFever: Encore episodes get factoids and [[Website/{{Twitter}} Tweets]] ''a la Series/DeadliestCatch''.
* GhostCity / GhostTown: Parts of UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} are very close, but those who live there -- and those who returned -- haven't given up.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The Peru episode exemplifies how much Bourdain and fellow chef Eric Ripert have become this. They wear similar clothes as they travel to their co-owned chocolate plantation.
* {{Homage}}: A factoid from the Koreatown episode is that the camera crew referenced ''{{Collateral}}'' for nighttime driving scenes.
* MadArtist: Hedonistic Korean-American artist Dave Choe. He paints Anthony's portrait while still in his bedclothes, then takes him to Sizzler (admittedly a place Anthony has never been) while wearing a bright red suit. Additionally, he's got weapons hidden all over his studio (it's in [[GangsterLand west LA]] after all) plus an AK-47 pinata and his portions feature low-riders and a gaggle of hot women in bikinis. His mom is just as creative and weird (if not weirder), drawing all over family photos and stapling doily angels to her son's portrait of UsefulNotes/BarackObama ''that hung in the White House''.
* TheMafia: Naturally the subject comes up when Anthony visits Sicily. He talks to restaurant owners who have differing opinions on the practice of giving bribes to the mafia in exchange for their protection.
* MoodWhiplash: The Massachusetts episode (opening line: "This is where I bought my first bag of heroin"). On the one hand there's the quirky, gay-friendly little fishing village where Anthony discovered the cooking industry and the idyllic, all-American towns upstate; on the other hand the fishing industry is dying, a lot of Anthony's friends from that time are dead, and those idyllic towns are full of addicts and drug dealers because painkillers were over-prescribed in the 90s and when the FDA started limiting their sale the addicts found that heroin was easier to get at.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Usually OncePerEpisode, ''[[SeriousBusiness epic cooking montages]]''. Especially during the China episode, where it focuses on a group of four or five guys doing regular cooking.
** Chef Sean Brock takes Bourdain to a Waffle House (which he'd never been to before) while he tours Charleston, SC.
* NauseaFuel: The Tanzania episode gives us an "in-universe" example when Anthony visits a Maasai tribe. As the guest of honor, he's asked to slaughter a goat for their meal, which starts suffocating it by pressing on a vein it to keep its blood inside the body. He admits in the voiceover that he barely avoided throwing up while doing it.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: Anthony delights in being proved wrong about places that are perceived this way by most Americans. But sometimes uncomfortable remnants of such regimes can still be seen in these places - usually right before Anthony and his crew are asked to turn the cameras off. The Iran and Libya episodes are good examples.
* Reality Ensues: In the Haiti episode he felt bad about getting to eat food while there were starving children literally watching him. See Conspicuous Consumption above. So he talks to the producers and they agree to buy the lady chef out as her business as been suffering as no one can afford to buy her food. So the lady makes money and the starving kids get to eat, good idea right? Not exactly. What happens is exactly what Anthony should have expected but didn't. The hungry people start fighting for the food and one person even use his belt on a smaller kid. If there was a Tearjearker page for this entry. I would put this moment here in a heartbeat.
* RecoveredAddict: His trip to Cape Cod in Season 4 centers almost exclusively on the heroin problem that exists in the city, touching on Bourdain's own addiction to the drug that he developed while spending his formative years there. It is one of the more sobering and personal episodes of the program.
** As well as very prescient, as HBO would produce a documentary on the same subject in late 2015.
* SceneryPorn: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra The Alhambra fortress]] in Grenada, Spain, especially for the cinematographer who moved to Grenada after marrying a local girl.
** SceneryGorn: The abandoned Packard plant in Detroit, Michigan (horrible paraphrasing: "The only other place I've been to [[GhostCity that looks like that]] -- seriously -- was ''[[AfterTheEnd Chernobyl]]''") is called Scenery Gorn in all but name. The one guy who lives there reports that people come from all over to explore, do graffiti, and take pictures.
* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: "Uncle Kentaki" fried chicken in the Libya episode.
* ShoutOut: The Jamaican episode kicks off with a tribute to ''Franchise/JamesBond'' a la openings and ''[[Film/DiamondsAreForever Rum Lives Forever]]''. Why? Ian Fleming main inspirations came from Jamaica, and said author owned a beautiful ''villa'' there.
* SoundEffectsBleep: Averted, there's no *bleep*s and "shit" occasionally gets a pass.
* TakeThat: The Russia episode contains shot after shot at Vladimir Putin.
** In the Myanmar episode, Anthony and a group of local rock musicians are all in agreement that {{Creed}} is the worst band in the world.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: [[ThemeSong "I took walk in this beautiful world..."]]
* WineIsClassy: The banker in the Shanghai episode has had a whole floor of his building converted into a wine cellar, going so far as to present Anthony with a locker full of ridiculously expensive wine.
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!! In the spring of 2012, Bourdain {{Channel Hop}}ped to Creator/{{CNN}} with his new series ''Parts Unknown''. Tropes appearing in ''Parts Unknown'':
* AuthorAppeal: The Congo episode comes from Bourdain's fascination with "Heart of Darkness".
* BitingTheHandHumor: After partaking in a bit of ToiletHumor with fellow diners in Quebec, Anthony looks into the camera and deadpans, "This. Is CNN."
* BrokenPedestal: Subverted (heartwarmingly) when he meets punk legend Iggy Pop in Miami in Season 5. No only is Iggy no longer a raging hellion, but over the course of eating breakfast and walking along the beach with Bourdain, is very candid and philosophical.
* ContentWarnings: Occasional episodes that deal with more "mature" subject matter, such as drug cartel violence along the Mexican border, or some of the fetishistic subcultures to be found in Tokyo's nightlife, are preceded by such warnings.
* DisneyAcidSequence: The Thailand episode can basically be summed up as "Anthony and his buddy get royally wasted". This culminates in a [[MediumBlending bizarre animated sequence]], set to the Nutcracker Suite played on an electric guitar, that [[OverlyLongGag goes on for quite some time]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: Bourdain calls the Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist who accompanies him in Detroit a food-"Philistine" in the narration and says to him in person "If you ever did that in my restaurant (pour his gimlet into the soup and say it tastes better ''in front of the chef'') I'd cut your throat"!
** It's not a new fantasy -- in his comic book Bourdain imagines a world ruled by food-mafias and anyone who can't eat a sushi properly forfeits his head.
* EruditeStoner: The Morocco episode analyzes the writings of a few of these types who spent a lot of time in Tangier.
* FauxlosophicNarration: Anthony has a tendency to catch himself in the act of doing this, and then shrug it off with a "But what the hell do I know?" sort of attitude.
* FoodPorn: The point of the Lyon episode, which is basically a paean to the culinary traditions of that French city and culminates in a visit with one of Anthony's idols, legendary chef Paul Bocuse. (Anthony's guide in this episode is another renowned French chef, Daniel Boulud.)
* FootNoteFever: Encore episodes get factoids and [[Website/{{Twitter}} Tweets]] ''a la Series/DeadliestCatch''.
* GhostCity / GhostTown: Parts of UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} are very close, but those who live there -- and those who returned -- haven't given up.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The Peru episode exemplifies how much Bourdain and fellow chef Eric Ripert have become this. They wear similar clothes as they travel to their co-owned chocolate plantation.
* {{Homage}}: A factoid from the Koreatown episode is that the camera crew referenced ''{{Collateral}}'' for nighttime driving scenes.
* MadArtist: Hedonistic Korean-American artist Dave Choe. He paints Anthony's portrait while still in his bedclothes, then takes him to Sizzler (admittedly a place Anthony has never been) while wearing a bright red suit. Additionally, he's got weapons hidden all over his studio (it's in [[GangsterLand west LA]] after all) plus an AK-47 pinata and his portions feature low-riders and a gaggle of hot women in bikinis. His mom is just as creative and weird (if not weirder), drawing all over family photos and stapling doily angels to her son's portrait of UsefulNotes/BarackObama ''that hung in the White House''.
* TheMafia: Naturally the subject comes up when Anthony visits Sicily. He talks to restaurant owners who have differing opinions on the practice of giving bribes to the mafia in exchange for their protection.
* MoodWhiplash: The Massachusetts episode (opening line: "This is where I bought my first bag of heroin"). On the one hand there's the quirky, gay-friendly little fishing village where Anthony discovered the cooking industry and the idyllic, all-American towns upstate; on the other hand the fishing industry is dying, a lot of Anthony's friends from that time are dead, and those idyllic towns are full of addicts and drug dealers because painkillers were over-prescribed in the 90s and when the FDA started limiting their sale the addicts found that heroin was easier to get at.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Usually OncePerEpisode, ''[[SeriousBusiness epic cooking montages]]''. Especially during the China episode, where it focuses on a group of four or five guys doing regular cooking.
** Chef Sean Brock takes Bourdain to a Waffle House (which he'd never been to before) while he tours Charleston, SC.
* NauseaFuel: The Tanzania episode gives us an "in-universe" example when Anthony visits a Maasai tribe. As the guest of honor, he's asked to slaughter a goat for their meal, which starts suffocating it by pressing on a vein it to keep its blood inside the body. He admits in the voiceover that he barely avoided throwing up while doing it.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: Anthony delights in being proved wrong about places that are perceived this way by most Americans. But sometimes uncomfortable remnants of such regimes can still be seen in these places - usually right before Anthony and his crew are asked to turn the cameras off. The Iran and Libya episodes are good examples.
* Reality Ensues: In the Haiti episode he felt bad about getting to eat food while there were starving children literally watching him. See Conspicuous Consumption above. So he talks to the producers and they agree to buy the lady chef out as her business as been suffering as no one can afford to buy her food. So the lady makes money and the starving kids get to eat, good idea right? Not exactly. What happens is exactly what Anthony should have expected but didn't. The hungry people start fighting for the food and one person even use his belt on a smaller kid. If there was a Tearjearker page for this entry. I would put this moment here in a heartbeat.
* RecoveredAddict: His trip to Cape Cod in Season 4 centers almost exclusively on the heroin problem that exists in the city, touching on Bourdain's own addiction to the drug that he developed while spending his formative years there. It is one of the more sobering and personal episodes of the program.
** As well as very prescient, as HBO would produce a documentary on the same subject in late 2015.
* SceneryPorn: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra The Alhambra fortress]] in Grenada, Spain, especially for the cinematographer who moved to Grenada after marrying a local girl.
** SceneryGorn: The abandoned Packard plant in Detroit, Michigan (horrible paraphrasing: "The only other place I've been to [[GhostCity that looks like that]] -- seriously -- was ''[[AfterTheEnd Chernobyl]]''") is called Scenery Gorn in all but name. The one guy who lives there reports that people come from all over to explore, do graffiti, and take pictures.
* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: "Uncle Kentaki" fried chicken in the Libya episode.
* ShoutOut: The Jamaican episode kicks off with a tribute to ''Franchise/JamesBond'' a la openings and ''[[Film/DiamondsAreForever Rum Lives Forever]]''. Why? Ian Fleming main inspirations came from Jamaica, and said author owned a beautiful ''villa'' there.
* SoundEffectsBleep: Averted, there's no *bleep*s and "shit" occasionally gets a pass.
* TakeThat: The Russia episode contains shot after shot at Vladimir Putin.
** In the Myanmar episode, Anthony and a group of local rock musicians are all in agreement that {{Creed}} is the worst band in the world.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: [[ThemeSong "I took walk in this beautiful world..."]]
* WineIsClassy: The banker in the Shanghai episode has had a whole floor of his building converted into a wine cellar, going so far as to present Anthony with a locker full of ridiculously expensive wine.Unknown''
* AuthorAppeal: The Congo episode comes from Bourdain's fascination with "Heart of Darkness".
* BitingTheHandHumor: After partaking in a bit of ToiletHumor with fellow diners in Quebec, Anthony looks into the camera and deadpans, "This. Is CNN."
* BrokenPedestal: Subverted (heartwarmingly) when he meets punk legend Iggy Pop in Miami in Season 5. No only is Iggy no longer a raging hellion, but over the course of eating breakfast and walking along the beach with Bourdain, is very candid and philosophical.
* ContentWarnings: Occasional episodes that deal with more "mature" subject matter, such as drug cartel violence along the Mexican border, or some of the fetishistic subcultures to be found in Tokyo's nightlife, are preceded by such warnings.
* DisneyAcidSequence: The Thailand episode can basically be summed up as "Anthony and his buddy get royally wasted". This culminates in a [[MediumBlending bizarre animated sequence]], set to the Nutcracker Suite played on an electric guitar, that [[OverlyLongGag goes on for quite some time]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: Bourdain calls the Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist who accompanies him in Detroit a food-"Philistine" in the narration and says to him in person "If you ever did that in my restaurant (pour his gimlet into the soup and say it tastes better ''in front of the chef'') I'd cut your throat"!
** It's not a new fantasy -- in his comic book Bourdain imagines a world ruled by food-mafias and anyone who can't eat a sushi properly forfeits his head.
* EruditeStoner: The Morocco episode analyzes the writings of a few of these types who spent a lot of time in Tangier.
* FauxlosophicNarration: Anthony has a tendency to catch himself in the act of doing this, and then shrug it off with a "But what the hell do I know?" sort of attitude.
* FoodPorn: The point of the Lyon episode, which is basically a paean to the culinary traditions of that French city and culminates in a visit with one of Anthony's idols, legendary chef Paul Bocuse. (Anthony's guide in this episode is another renowned French chef, Daniel Boulud.)
* FootNoteFever: Encore episodes get factoids and [[Website/{{Twitter}} Tweets]] ''a la Series/DeadliestCatch''.
* GhostCity / GhostTown: Parts of UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} are very close, but those who live there -- and those who returned -- haven't given up.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The Peru episode exemplifies how much Bourdain and fellow chef Eric Ripert have become this. They wear similar clothes as they travel to their co-owned chocolate plantation.
* {{Homage}}: A factoid from the Koreatown episode is that the camera crew referenced ''{{Collateral}}'' for nighttime driving scenes.
* MadArtist: Hedonistic Korean-American artist Dave Choe. He paints Anthony's portrait while still in his bedclothes, then takes him to Sizzler (admittedly a place Anthony has never been) while wearing a bright red suit. Additionally, he's got weapons hidden all over his studio (it's in [[GangsterLand west LA]] after all) plus an AK-47 pinata and his portions feature low-riders and a gaggle of hot women in bikinis. His mom is just as creative and weird (if not weirder), drawing all over family photos and stapling doily angels to her son's portrait of UsefulNotes/BarackObama ''that hung in the White House''.
* TheMafia: Naturally the subject comes up when Anthony visits Sicily. He talks to restaurant owners who have differing opinions on the practice of giving bribes to the mafia in exchange for their protection.
* MoodWhiplash: The Massachusetts episode (opening line: "This is where I bought my first bag of heroin"). On the one hand there's the quirky, gay-friendly little fishing village where Anthony discovered the cooking industry and the idyllic, all-American towns upstate; on the other hand the fishing industry is dying, a lot of Anthony's friends from that time are dead, and those idyllic towns are full of addicts and drug dealers because painkillers were over-prescribed in the 90s and when the FDA started limiting their sale the addicts found that heroin was easier to get at.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Usually OncePerEpisode, ''[[SeriousBusiness epic cooking montages]]''. Especially during the China episode, where it focuses on a group of four or five guys doing regular cooking.
** Chef Sean Brock takes Bourdain to a Waffle House (which he'd never been to before) while he tours Charleston, SC.
* NauseaFuel: The Tanzania episode gives us an "in-universe" example when Anthony visits a Maasai tribe. As the guest of honor, he's asked to slaughter a goat for their meal, which starts suffocating it by pressing on a vein it to keep its blood inside the body. He admits in the voiceover that he barely avoided throwing up while doing it.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: Anthony delights in being proved wrong about places that are perceived this way by most Americans. But sometimes uncomfortable remnants of such regimes can still be seen in these places - usually right before Anthony and his crew are asked to turn the cameras off. The Iran and Libya episodes are good examples.
* Reality Ensues: In the Haiti episode he felt bad about getting to eat food while there were starving children literally watching him. See Conspicuous Consumption above. So he talks to the producers and they agree to buy the lady chef out as her business as been suffering as no one can afford to buy her food. So the lady makes money and the starving kids get to eat, good idea right? Not exactly. What happens is exactly what Anthony should have expected but didn't. The hungry people start fighting for the food and one person even use his belt on a smaller kid. If there was a Tearjearker page for this entry. I would put this moment here in a heartbeat.
* RecoveredAddict: His trip to Cape Cod in Season 4 centers almost exclusively on the heroin problem that exists in the city, touching on Bourdain's own addiction to the drug that he developed while spending his formative years there. It is one of the more sobering and personal episodes of the program.
** As well as very prescient, as HBO would produce a documentary on the same subject in late 2015.
* SceneryPorn: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra The Alhambra fortress]] in Grenada, Spain, especially for the cinematographer who moved to Grenada after marrying a local girl.
** SceneryGorn: The abandoned Packard plant in Detroit, Michigan (horrible paraphrasing: "The only other place I've been to [[GhostCity that looks like that]] -- seriously -- was ''[[AfterTheEnd Chernobyl]]''") is called Scenery Gorn in all but name. The one guy who lives there reports that people come from all over to explore, do graffiti, and take pictures.
* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: "Uncle Kentaki" fried chicken in the Libya episode.
* ShoutOut: The Jamaican episode kicks off with a tribute to ''Franchise/JamesBond'' a la openings and ''[[Film/DiamondsAreForever Rum Lives Forever]]''. Why? Ian Fleming main inspirations came from Jamaica, and said author owned a beautiful ''villa'' there.
* SoundEffectsBleep: Averted, there's no *bleep*s and "shit" occasionally gets a pass.
* TakeThat: The Russia episode contains shot after shot at Vladimir Putin.
** In the Myanmar episode, Anthony and a group of local rock musicians are all in agreement that {{Creed}} is the worst band in the world.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: [[ThemeSong "I took walk in this beautiful world..."]]
* WineIsClassy: The banker in the Shanghai episode has had a whole floor of his building converted into a wine cellar, going so far as to present Anthony with a locker full of ridiculously expensive wine.
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The show ran 35 episodes and attained something akin to cult hit status. The book chronicles several pages of behind the scenes instances of "why you should never do a TV show" -- many of which owe a lot to Anthony Bourdain's don't-want-to-put-up-with-this-shit and tell-it-like-it-is demeanor which account partly for his appeal. However, according to his newer book "The Nasty Bits", the Food Network was not going to renew the show because they want more shows that cater to average folks with barbecues and limited interest in foreign cuisines. After being abandoned by their own production company, the Travel Channel (who would give him a lot more free reign and creative control) picked up the show and it became ''No Reservations''.
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The show ran 35 episodes and attained something akin to cult hit status. The book chronicles several pages of behind the scenes instances of "why you should never do a TV show" -- many of which owe a lot to Anthony Bourdain's don't-want-to-put-up-with-this-shit and tell-it-like-it-is demeanor which account partly for his appeal. However, according to his newer book "The Nasty Bits", the Food Network was not going to renew the show because they want more shows that cater to average folks with barbecues and limited interest in foreign cuisines. After being abandoned by their own production company, the Travel Channel (who would give him a lot more free reign rein and creative control) picked up the show and it became ''No Reservations''.
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* PerfectionIsImpossible: In one of the early Tokyo episodes, Anthony asks various people who are masters of their craft if perfection is possible. They all answered that perfection is impossible, but found it noble to pursue perfection anyway, and hence, this is how they become masters of their craft.
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In June 2012, Anthony announced via his Website/{{Tumblr}} that ''No Reservations'' was ending its run after 8 seasons and he would be moving with his production team to CNN. Considering that the parent company of Creator/FoodNetwork (which Anthony despised) recently purchased Travel Channel, the new development wasn't exactly surprising.
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In June 2012, Anthony announced via his Website/{{Tumblr}} that ''No Reservations'' was ending its run after 8 seasons and he would be moving with his production team to CNN. Considering that the parent company of Creator/FoodNetwork (which Anthony despised) recently purchased Travel Channel, the new development wasn't exactly surprising.
surprising. The new show, ''Series/AnthonyBourdainPartsUnknown'', keeps with the format of the old fairly closely with a greater emphasis on current event topics.
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* CripplingOverspecialization: Anthony's viewpoint zigzags on this. On one hand, he discusses with a fellow top chef how a signature dish can be soul destroying. On the other, he finds places that do one thing, but one thing very well, to be very good.
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* GoingNative: One thing Anthony always tries to avoid is doing the tourist thing(he considers himself a traveler and guest, not a tourist). He constantly reminds viewers that, no matter what country you go to, the good food is where the locals eat, and that the most breathtaking places and interesting cultural events are hidden away from the tourist spots.
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* GoingNative: One thing Anthony always tries to avoid is doing the tourist thing(he thing (he considers himself a traveler and guest, not a tourist). He constantly reminds viewers that, no matter what country you go to, the good food is where the locals eat, and that the most breathtaking places and interesting cultural events are hidden away from the tourist spots.
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* HiddenDepths: Who would've thought the world's snarkiest man was fascinated by the art of Japanese flower arranging?
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** Who would've thought the world's snarkiest man was fascinated by the art of Japanese flower arranging?
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* HollywoodAtlas: the show is set out to avert stereotypes. It's always [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] whenever Anthony visits a location/tries something a tourist would.
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* ShoutOut: The Jamaican episode kicks off with a tribute to ''Franchise/JamesBond'' a la openings and ''[[Film/DiamondsAreForever Rum Lives Forever]]''. Why? Ian Flemming main inspirations came from Jamaica, and said author owned a beautiful ''villa'' there.
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* ShoutOut: The Jamaican episode kicks off with a tribute to ''Franchise/JamesBond'' a la openings and ''[[Film/DiamondsAreForever Rum Lives Forever]]''. Why? Ian Flemming Fleming main inspirations came from Jamaica, and said author owned a beautiful ''villa'' there.
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* GhostCity / GhostTown: Parts of {{Detroit}} are very close, but those who live there -- and those who returned -- haven't given up.
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* BrokenPedestal: Subverted (heartwarmingly) when he meets punk legend Iggy Pop in Miami in Season 5. No only is Iggy no longer a raging hellion, but over the course of eating breakfast and walking along the beach with Bourdain, is very candid and philosophical.
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* RecoveredAddict: His trip to Cape Cod in Season 4 centers almost exclusively on the heroin problem that exists in the city, touching on Bourdain's own addiction to the drug that he developed while spending his formative years there. It is one of the more sobering and personal episodes of the program, as well as very prescient, as HBO would produce a documentary on the same subject in late 2015.
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* RecoveredAddict: His trip to Cape Cod in Season 4 centers almost exclusively on the heroin problem that exists in the city, touching on Bourdain's own addiction to the drug that he developed while spending his formative years there. It is one of the more sobering and personal episodes of the program, as program.
** As well as very prescient, as HBO would produce a documentary on the same subject in late 2015.
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* RecoveredAddict: His trip to Cape Cod in Season 4 centers almost exclusively on the heroin problem that exists in the city, touching on Bourdain's own addiction to the drug that he developed while spending his formative years there. It is one of the more sobering and personal episodes of the program, as well as very prescient, as [[HBO]] would produce a documentary on the same subject in late 2015.
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* RecoveredAddict: His trip to Cape Cod in Season 4 centers almost exclusively on the heroin problem that exists in the city, touching on Bourdain's own addiction to the drug that he developed while spending his formative years there. It is one of the more sobering and personal episodes of the program, as well as very prescient, as [[HBO]] HBO would produce a documentary on the same subject in late 2015.
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* RecoveringAddict: His trip to Cape Cod in Season 4 centered almost exclusively on the heroin problem that exists in the city, touching on Bourdain's own addiction to it that he developed while spending his formative years there. It is one of the more sobering and personal episodes of the program, as well as very prescient, as [[HBO]] would produce a documentary on the same subject in late 2015.
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* RecoveringAddict: RecoveredAddict: His trip to Cape Cod in Season 4 centered centers almost exclusively on the heroin problem that exists in the city, touching on Bourdain's own addiction to it the drug that he developed while spending his formative years there. It is one of the more sobering and personal episodes of the program, as well as very prescient, as [[HBO]] would produce a documentary on the same subject in late 2015.
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* {{Spinoff}} : Arguably Andrew Zimmern's ''BizarreFoods''/ ''Bizarre World'' series is a spinoff of ''No Reservations''. It debuted after the first season of No Res, and features a chef/food personality, who travel around the world to eat. However, Zimmern's show is much more earnest and much less snarky.
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* {{Spinoff}} : Arguably ''The Layover'', also on the Travel Channel, was a time-compressed ''No Reservations'', based on the premise of having only 48 hours (or less) to spend in a city. It aired for two seasons, with Season 2 being his swansong for the Travel Channel, as it aired after the final season of ''No Reservations'', and concluded only a couple months before ''Parts Unknown'' began on CNN.
** ''The Getaway'' on the Esquire Network, produced by Bourdain's [=ZeroPointZero=] production company, was ''No Reservations'' with guest stars; Its first episode had Joel [=McHale=] touring Belfast. It aired 19 episodes over two seasons in 2013 and 2014.
** Arguably, Andrew Zimmern's ''BizarreFoods''/ ''Bizarre World'' series is a spinoff of ''No Reservations''. It debuted after the first season of No Res, and features a chef/food personality, who travel around the world to eat. However, Zimmern's show is much more earnest and much less snarky.
** ''The Getaway'' on the Esquire Network, produced by Bourdain's [=ZeroPointZero=] production company, was ''No Reservations'' with guest stars; Its first episode had Joel [=McHale=] touring Belfast. It aired 19 episodes over two seasons in 2013 and 2014.
** Arguably, Andrew Zimmern's ''BizarreFoods''/ ''Bizarre World'' series is a spinoff of ''No Reservations''. It debuted after the first season of No Res, and features a chef/food personality, who travel around the world to eat. However, Zimmern's show is much more earnest and much less snarky.
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** ''The Layover'', also on the Travel Channel, was a time-compressed ''No Reservations'', based on the premise of having only 48 hours (or less) to spend in a city. It aired for two seasons, with Season 2 being his swansong for the Travel Channel, as it aired after the final season of ''No Reservations'', and concluded only a couple months before ''Parts Unknown'' began on CNN.
** ''The Getaway'' on the Esquire Network, produced by Bourdain's ZeroPointZero production company, was ''No Reservations'' with guest stars; Its first episode had [[Series/Community Joel McHale]] touring Belfast. It aired 19 episodes over two seasons in 2013 and 2014.
** ''The Getaway'' on the Esquire Network, produced by Bourdain's ZeroPointZero production company, was ''No Reservations'' with guest stars; Its first episode had [[Series/Community Joel McHale]] touring Belfast. It aired 19 episodes over two seasons in 2013 and 2014.
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** ''The Layover'', was a time-compressed ''No Reservations'', based on the premise of having only 48 hours (or less) to spend in a city. It aired for two seasons, with Season 2 being his swansong for the Travel Channel, as it aired after the final season of ''No Reservations'', and concluded only a couple months before ''Parts Unknown'' began on CNN.
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** ''The Layover'', also on the Travel Channel, was a time-compressed ''No Reservations'', based on the premise of having only 48 hours (or less) to spend in a city. It aired for two seasons, with Season 2 being his swansong for the Travel Channel, as it aired after the final season of ''No Reservations'', and concluded only a couple months before ''Parts Unknown'' began on CNN.
