Barbie's Celebrity Chef Moment: 'I Can Be TV Chef Playset'
Barbie has held down many careers, but a go-go boots-wearing celebrity chef with ample counter space, professional lighting, and "magical" oven? Seriously, it's magical. You just put in an "unbaked cake," then open the door to find a fully "baked" cake waiting. Her plastic, stuck-together fingers made it themselves! Being a chef is no longer a good enough ambition—but one with a television contract and blinding stage lights? Now that's what little girls should strive for. (I would have been all over this.)
"I Can Be TV Chef Barbie Playset" is available through Amazon for $37.46. We can only hope that Mattel is working on a tattooed, chain-smoking Bourdain-ian Ken. After the jump, watch the commercial.
Barbie TV Chef And Zoo Doctor Playsets Commercial
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Well, we knew it would happen sooner or later... first the TV show, then the magazine--now Shamdra Lee has her own action figure!!
buffy at 7:18PM on 09/27/08
To be fair to Barbie, she made have made the plastic cake from scratch without a mix!
HeartofGlass at 7:51PM on 09/27/08
I'll buy when they make a realistic female chef doll. My idea: about 10 lbs overweight, chef's whites with a few stains, a few burn scars on her arms, and a pull string in the back that causes the doll to scream a profanity laced "If you #####in' steal one more *****in' plate, I'll $$$$$in' stab your ass." Then you've got a real chef doll.
beth1 at 8:20PM on 09/27/08
@Beth AMEN! preach on sister! and dont forget the shoes that were once white and are now some indeterminate shade of grey, and the hair pulled back in a pony usually with a bread tie because she lost the elastic.
huneybumper at 9:44PM on 09/27/08
Cocktail shaker & liquor cabinet included, packages of chemical mixes, cool whip and angel food cake extra. Spot on replica! Pull the string on her back and she says "Cocktail time - best time of the day!" Right in time to buy the authentic Halloween costumes from Amazon, too. Warning, sleeves catch fire.
Next comes politician Ken?
PerkyMac at 9:50PM on 09/27/08
OMG you guys have me in tears. @huneybumper: the shoes are crocs, right?
@Perky: in all fairness she needs to show a tad more cleavage to be totally realistic.
buffy at 9:59PM on 09/27/08
I could see Sandra Lee and Rachel Ray, as kids, playing with this!
GingerSnap at 2:04PM on 09/28/08
Sorry guys....I would love one of these. I shamelessly love almost all cooking shows, though Sandra Lee is a little too sugary. If only they had a brunette....I'd buy one. :)
amanda0730 at 6:25PM on 09/28/08
@buffy ~ Shamdra has the Barbie proportions, but doesn't flaunt her "bounty" as often as some of the others on FN. I think there should be a cousin (I forget the name of the dark haired Barbie), with Giada cleavage and a boob cam. That would be more fair? I also would love to see a family with Ma & Pa Deen and their kinfolk, including the baby and the Santa and Mrs. Santa costumes they wore at Christmas. Butter and whipped cream included. We all know Barbie and her clones are all about the costumes. Loving the tv cooking set - so many possibilities. Mario anyone??? Orange clogs and green socks!
PerkyMac at 2:04AM on 09/29/08
WHAT??!! Is this for real?
I wish they had this when I was young; dammit
That's soooo cool--I'm not sure I like her top though. Barbies got waay more style than that.
hungrychristel at 11:07AM on 09/29/08
Ken needs to come on more iron Chef or Andrew Zimmer. Wouldn't you just love to see Ken knocking back some sauted bugs or something? Or having to cook geoduck clams (hey, has that been on Iron Chef yet. Should be. Iron Chef, the grossout edition!)
And then we could have Barbie Deen! the refrig full of Miracle Whip, butter, cheese, more butter...
i mean do you LOVE Barbie's refrig here? The cute little "personal" watermelon? Bet she got new boyfriend GI Joe to put it in there for her since she can't exactly bend down to that level.
Fluffnik at 3:02PM on 09/29/08
Funny. I would have thought that in the Mythological World of Barbie, Midge (silly name, always makes me think of those tiny little flying bugs) would have been made into a chef. And Barbie would have been made into a server. That fits the cultural generalizations of blondes and brunettes better.
Also I never saw a female chef rolling around on the dining room floor with a waiter but I have seen several female servers doing just that. No Kens were those guys they rolled with, no - well actually maybe they were. But both servers were blond. One natural one not.
Midge. Midge needs to be the chef.
foodvox at 7:30PM on 09/29/08