After finals, Chef Alexx Guevara invited the students to spend a few more hours at Kitchen Academy to act as "extras" when television talk star Ellen DeGeneres paid a visit, as one of the "adventures" for her show.

Extra students were needed to fill out the classrooms, as the afternoon classes tend to be the most sparsely populated. More people choose to take the morning schedule (6am - 11am), as I do, or the evening schedule (6pm - 11pm). I imagine that the afternoon schedule (12pm - 5pm) interferes with secondary jobs and the like. Moreover, finals were still ongoing, so it would obviously make more sense to have students who were finished with their exams participate in Ellen's shenanigans.

The visit was filmed in a number of separate scenes. Ellen making gnocchi with Chef Alexx, Ellen teaching culinary students how to microwave popcorn, Ellen cooking jumbo shrimp ("isn't that an oxymoron") tempura, etc. All of these scenes were played for laughs. There really wasn't any even semi-serious cooking demonstrations performed.

As was to be expected, there were a number of hits and misses with the jokes. It will be interesting to see how all these different scenes get edited into a semi-coherent, humorous whole.

In any case, the scenes are expected to air on Friday, February 24th or Monday, February 27th. Of course, that all depends on a variety of factors; perhaps KA will get bumped by some unlikely Olympics star or something. I'll be TiVo'ing the show, of course, especially since I probably managed to get into a shot or two.