Cake Boss

If a bunch of sweaty grunting guys with butt cracks showed up IN THE MIDDLE of my event and took over - I'd be livid. Yes - all the drama is obviously staged but the really fake part is clients letting Buddy show up hours late so he can be center stage.

OK I admit...I was a Cake Boss fan....once. I read the other less than stellar reviews and I have to admit they are right. I used to watch this show faithfully. The first couple seasons I sat through the fake drama, the fake acting, the "its all about Buddy" story lines, the whining voice narratives, everybody playing up their "Italian-ness", Buddy and his crew of nubile young female decorators who hover like baby birds with their mouths open for every job Buddy gives them, the young bucks and their passive reactions at Buddy's sometimes demeaning practical jokes and his overall Alpha gorilla chest thumping in the Kitchen. After all, what's not too love about a small Italian bakery run by a big Italian family, right? I'm old enough to remember the good old days...when ethnic neighborhoods were ethnic and authentic neighborhoods. People were hard working humble folk that simply enjoyed being in the neighborhood and in the moment. Now we have star power! Now we have the Italian sisters and their obvious $250 haircut and color jobs..cameo shots of their huge houses...and remarkably all from what is being touted as an unassuming little corner Italian bakery. Yeah....OK. Ah...but now Buddy is thinking..."Lets go to Italy on The Learning Channel's dime so Buddy can wow them in the old country" and "Let's get a warehouse--we're talking assembly line-mass production baby!" The show has taken a tawdry turn to say the least. It's no longer a glimpse into the life of a small Italian Bakery in Hoboken and the colorful family that runs it. Its about people believing in the actual roles they created for themselves and are marketing to an ignorant public starving for the good old days. How people continue to watch the show is way beyond me. Its just sad...

I made it about halfway through Season Two before I bailed. It just got to be too much. The ingredients for the 'cakes' are half hardware-store, half actual food items, and less and less time seems to be spent on their construction in favor of the scripted melodrama of the family. The constant screaming (Buddy, his mother, and sister Mary are the top offenders) was overpowering. Situations like forcing one (overweight male) baker to dress up in a grass skirt and coconut-shell bra and making him appear in the shop that way in front of customers are ridiculous and add nothing to the show. (By the way, Buddy, if I were you I'd make darn sure I didn't annoy Mauro too much; he's the brains and stability of the outfit and you better know it.) A few shows later a different guy drew the short straw and had to serve customers in drag. If they weren't family, they'd probably sue (and win).

I don't mind screaming and swearing on TV... I love 'Kitchen Nightmares'. But Gordon Ramsay is witty and has a considerable amount of intelligence to back up his tornado-like approach to food preparation... Buddy Velasco does not. In the end, I just got sick of his weekly adventure, driving a NASCAR or playing pool with celebrities or... yes... jousting. I don't like Buddy and his off-site adventures bored the heck out of me.

The first time he had water and flour dumped on an employee he was 'punishing' for something, I admit I cracked a smile. By the third time it was a facepalm... THIS again?? You keep saying you're so busy, Buddy... you really got time and money to waste throwing food? Infantile, immature man-child.

If Mauro and Frankie ever take over the bakery, call me... they both have their heads screwed on straight and I think they'd do a better job running the place.

its all the same they get an order to make a cake they make a the cake incident free and they get into fights then they get another order and you get the drill by now nothing keeps you watching its so boring my daily life is more interesting to watch than cake boss and if they are not making cakes then there watching they are shopping for more ingredient's also where is the party you think they would show you the party but no that would be to interesting and you have to keep the honey BO BO crowd waiting oh and he has three more shows one where he gets people to make cakes and one where he helps business and yes they are just as boring as cake maybe less interesting

I loved watching this show. I loved seeing all the beautiful and pretty cakes that was made. The cake design and making of the cake was fun to watch. Some of the designs they show were so creative. I highly recommend everyone watch this. It family friendly.