Henry's Kitchen is an American Comedy Cooking Show presented by Henry Phillips.
The show consists of Henry cooking a meal while explaining how to do it. There is one catch though: he isn't good at cooking. While he tries to follow the recipe, he sometimes lacks a an important ingredient or has any random incident happening to him. Some episodes also feature other characters, who are more or less friends with Henry, and feature a song written and performed by José Suicidio.
The first episode about French toast was published on Youtube in 2011 and the series is still ongoing. Henry also released two cookbooks and you can support his work on Patreon.
This show contains examples of:
- Bad Date: The "Sushi" episode's premise is Henry making some sushis for a dinner date with a woman. She's disturbed by Henry filming the date, disgusted by the cooked sushis, and leaves early.
- Beat: Due to bad editing, some moments end longer that they should and the camera keeps running while Henry has nothing more to say.
- Character Title
- Cover Version: The New Year episode features a cover of "Auld Lang Syne" by José Suicidio. It is renamed "All Long Sign".
- Failure Is the Only Option: Henry's meals are always bound to be cooked badly. It is sometimes based on his cooking skills or his environment preventing him from following the recipe right.
- Hope Spot: The "Famous Spicy Shepard's Pie" episode has Henry successfully cooking the meal (or at least making it look fine)... Until it gets trashed by his neighbor Bill.
- Lethal Chef: Henry. Most of the meals he cooks look inedible.
- Non Sequitur: While Henry shows how he cooks, he would sometimes switch to a completely different subject unrelated to cooking at all.We want to slice it up into manageable slices. And... a common practice in the The Middle Ages was that if a woman wasn't married by the time she was 20 years old, that was seen as a crime against religion and then, I guess, she would be beaten into submission or sometimes even tortured or sometimes executed.
- The Place: Sometimes subverted on some episodes which aren't taking place in Henry's kitchen but other people's.
- Protagonist Title
- Stylistic Suck: Outside of Henry's cooking skills, the editing is also lackluster and leads up to moments of unedited awkward silence or unnecessary artsy transitions.
