Food Party (2009)
Food Party is an American television series that airs on the Independent Film Channel in the United States. The show is a pseudo-reality cooking show filmed on an elaborate, technicolored cardboard kitchen set. Each episode features multi-course, out-of-this-world gourmet meals cooked up by hostess Thu Tran and a cast of colorful puppets for arriving "celebrity" guests. The show was originally produced and filmed in Cleveland for two web series based episodes, and later relocated to Brooklyn for the final web series episodes and six IFC produced shows. In October 2010 Thu Tran announced that the show was not picked up by IFC for a third season.
Seasons & Episode
Thu takes us through an average day. We follow her as she gets ready for the day, ventures into the city, makes lunch and swims with a whale.
Peanut Butter Jerry's story is continued as he meets a possible love interest, Grape Jenny.
A normal night of cooking goes awry when a rich playboy crashes his car through Thu's kitchen.
Thu has opened up the most embarrassingly expensive restaurant in the world and the pressure is on to make a meal for the King of the Universe.
Thu's father gives her some shocking news about her real parents, which leads to a strange time paradox...
Thu wins 8 turkeys in a game show and cooks 8 unique turkey stuffings for them.
Thu the vampire hosts a variety of blood inspired dishes.
Thu tries to figure out who is leaving mysterious turds in her kitchen, while using the incident as inspiration for some new dishes.
Thu shows us a variety of uses for her bountiful oregano harvest, such as smoking, vaporizing, and making oregano butter.
A giant storm bounds towards Thu's house, but instead of stocking up on food, Thu makes a giant stew using all the remaining food she has in the house.
Thu packs her family into their Winteybagel RV on a mission to Las Vegas where the Happy Hippo Casino Drive Thru Buffet awaits!
Thu and her girlfriends enjoy a werewolf horror movie when a loud sound comes from outside. It ends up being a donut‐loving Zombie. Thu invites him into her home, dresses him up in cute clothes, and cooks for him.
Thu spends a wonderful day at home preparing an egg hunt for her beloved daughter, Winty.
After ordering a gigantic lunch and eating only 4 bites before getting full, Thu is taken under the wing of the Mirror Diet Guru who teaches her to prepare a more reasonable amount of food by placing mirrors next to the ingredients to make them look bigger.
Thu takes a trip to the local butter factory and disobeys the tour guide's orders to cover her face with a mask.
Thu celebrates her sixteenth birthday as any over‐privileged teen would! Her days are filled with dress shopping, stalking her dream boy at the mall, making cupcake invitations, and planning the perfect party.
Thu explores the origin of the donut through a storybook of illustrations.
While babysitting Vincent Van Gogh's cute Koala pet, Thu has to experiment with vegan recipes to appease the little plant‐eating creature.
In this adaptation of the Vietnamese fairy tale "The Story of Tấm and Cám," Thu is forced to do chores by her evil stepmother and stepsister, but Buddha arrives to help.
Thu's evil stepmother has managed to get Bu into the throne without the king knowing, but the unhappy King visits Satan and begs him to kill his wife who has inexplicably become lazy.
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