History Main / OneIPreparedEarlier

'''Edmund''': It's not ''one'' percent convincing, Baldrick.\\
:: Later on, they go through with it anyway... an the crowd does indeed say exactly that. In unison, no less.

* A lot of the Cafe Zoom segments of the 1999 revival of Series/{{Zoom}} employ this trope, as each segment only runs a few minutes and is combined with other segments into a half-hour show.
** Many of the ''Zoom'' examples of the trope are decorative takes on cake; the cooking portion of many such segments subvert it, as begin with the cake itself already prepared to cut and/or decorate. Keiko pulled a twofer for the segment on making a bunny cake: she started out with two yellow cakes ready to cut and frost, and after she cut and began to frost them, she revealed that two more cakes on a pan shelved under the counter were already frosted

* Mocked in the [[Disney/TheLionKing Timon and Pumbaa]] comics in ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'': a fictional cooking show uses ''fake'' ones they prepared earlier. As it just so happens, the day they were doing pigs was the day that a) they forgot to put in the fake and b) the day Pumbaa climbed into the fake oven. [[HilarityEnsues With hilarious consequences]].

* In Creator/SamAndMickey's ''Makeup By Yasmin'', when Yasmin makes over Mrs. Potato Head, she explains that she made Mrs. Potato Head's new eyes and mouth earlier.

* Norm Abrams of ''The New Yankee Workshop'' would often start episodes by showing off a prototype of the project he was building that episode. You could spot the difference as the prototype was never painted/stained and was often made of rougherm lower quality wood.

* [[Creator/JuliaChild Julia Child]] on her cooking show, ''The French Chef'' is probably the Trope Codifier. She started her cooking show back when editing was prohibitively expensive, so she had to film the entire 30-minute show in one take, resulting in her having the food prepared in three or four stages depending on what she was making.

** Up until several years after Y2K the fastest and cheapest way for small Engineering and Architectural firms to make multiple copies of design drawings was to have an intern take a hand drawn (or a computer printed CAD drawn) mylar or vellum record drawing (both of which which were very expensive to produce and difficult to replace) and send it through a blue line machine that used UV light and ammonia to transfer what was drawn to chemically treated paper. Some of the oldest blue-prints I've had to work from predate WWI and were copied from ink-on-linen originals which no longer exist.
* On Chicago's ''Ray Raynor and his Friends'' Ray would do an at-home crafts project following instructions, the implication being that kids at home would do it at the same time. They'd have one they prepared earlier (used as a model, "this is what it looks like when you've finished") which would look great, and the one Ray made would look like shit.
* Norm Abram of ''The New Yankee Workshop'' would often start episodes by showing off a prototype of the project he was building that episode. You could spot the difference as the prototype was never painted/stained and was often made of rougherm lower quality wood.
* In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILxjxfB4zNk British PSA for a CPR technique,]] actor Vinnie Jones proceeds to demonstrate, noting he needs a guy who's not breathing. Cue a body being slid across the floor in front of him and Vinnie stating, "Here's one I made earlier."
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', this trope is parodied when Rolf is preparing an old home remedy for pimples (for Eddy who had broken out in an enormous zit that grew larger than his head). The remedy, which involved among other things, rutabagas and a squid, has to simmer for two weeks, but then Rolf reveals that he for some goddamn reason already HAD a finished batch (which is hilarious in two ways; he had no reason to know that Eddy would get a zit, and even if he did, he wouldnt have had to make a new batch to show how its done). Ed applauds like the audience for a cooking show.

--> Luther: Is that the speech?
--> Teller: That's the speech.
--> Luther: It's a good speech.
--> Teller: Thank you. It's one I prepared earlier.

* Hilariously played with in the Danish Julekalender CanalWildCard, where host Regnar Worm had been given a MeaningfulRename as an experiment. To see whether his new name really had an effect on his craftsmanship, he was tasked with making some christmas decorations while thinking about his name. However, in order to speed things up a bit, he pulled out some spectacular decorations he had made earlier, thus clearly proving that his name was working...

* Discussed briefly in VideoGame/{{Undertale}} at the end of the "Cooking With a Killer Robot" segment.

* [[Creator/Julia Child Julia Child]] on her cooking show, ''The French Chef'' is probably the Trope Codifier. She started her cooking show back when editing was prohibitively expensive, so she had to film the entire 30-minute show in one take, resulting in her having the food prepared in three or four stages depending on what she was making.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', Rolf is telling the boys about a family cure for pimples that needs to be brewed over a two-week period. Eddy (who has a ridiculously large pimple on his head) complains, but Rolf cuts him off by saying fortunately he prepared some earlier. Ed claps.

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* Mocked in the [[Disney/TheLionKing Timon and Pumbaa]] comics in ''DisneyAdventures'': a fictional cooking show uses ''fake'' ones they prepared earlier. As it just so happens, the day they were doing pigs was the day that a) they forgot to put in the fake and b) the day Pumbaa climbed into the fake oven. [[HilarityEnsues With hilarious consequences]].
* Parodied and averted in a particular ''{{Garfield}}'' comic, where the host evidently didn't prepare a second dish in advance and they actually show the hot oven for 45 minutes. The host even asks his audience if anyone know any good jokes to pass the time, while Garfield remarks this part of the show is usually pretty boring.

* Happens with ''ArtAttack'' and ''Smart'', both of which are art programmes, and since the stuff being made would often need to dry overnight, the presenters would need to take out things they'd prepared earlier.

* In a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILxjxfB4zNk British PSA for a CPR technique]], actor Vinnie Jones proceeds to demonstrate, noting he needs a guy who's not breathing. Cue a body being slid across the floor in front of him and Vinnie stating, "Here's one I made earlier."

** Up until several years after Y2K the fastest and cheapest way for small Engineering and Architectural firms to make multiple copies of design drawings was to have an intern take a hand drawn (or a computer printed CAD drawn) mylar or vellum record drawing (both of which which were very expensive to produce and difficult to replace) and send it through a blue line machine that used UV light and ammonia to transfer what was drawn to chemically treated paper.

* Australia's ''PlaySchool'' does this for art and craft all the time, even using the trope name, although sometimes they seemed to do it to avoid the tricky part of the process...

The phrase originated on ''BluePeter'', but was also used for craft makes which have the same problem, as glue and paint can take hours to set.

* In one "Film, TV, and Theater Styles" segment of ''Series/WhoseLineisitAnyway'', Colin is the wife cheating on husband Ryan with the ski instructor Wayne. Drew switches the style to "cooking show". Ryan says "I find when my wife is cheating, it's best to put her in a oven set at 350 for 2 hours. Colin pretends to get into an oven. Wayne says "Because we couldn't do this on a regular show, we have a prepared wife in the other oven. Colin moves over and walks out, while Ryan and Wayne make impressed noises with how well "she" came out.

* One episode of ''Series/WhoseLineisitAnyway'' said that an adultress wife has to be put in an oven at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. As it was only a short improv skit where they had to present the situation as a cooking show, they presented another wife prepared earlier.

In cooking shows it is seldom realistic to expect the dish to be cooked in real time, particularly if the dish has to be cooked over a long time or there is a long waiting period in preparation. Baking a loaf of bread, for example, requires the dough to rest for an extended period and then a long baking time. Few programs are three to four hours long, and much of that time would be watching an oven be hot. So instead, after putting the dish into the oven, the chef will often then take another plate out of it, the same dish prepared a while before and allowed to cook. This is a vital time-saving method when the chef does this live, in front of a StudioAudience. When there's extremely limited time, such as on a cooking segment of a show, this helps keep the end result sane due to a lack of time to properly prepare the ingredients.