Thread by @mollylambert

updated to add that John Michael Higgins is so funny on new Saved By The Bell, someone should profile him he's having his Jennifer Coolidge on White Lotus moment

https://twitter.com/mollylambert/status/1475385826351611904

when I first posted this I mentioned Bill & Hiroko's Burgers and suggested Bill & Hiroko had an acrimonious breakup because it became merely Bill's Burgers, have since learned that Bill & Hiroko divorced but are still friends and she helps him on the grill sometimes

"Hiroko Wilcox, a longtime friend of Elwell’s who has worked at the stand with him for more than two decades, was assembling the burgers that Elwell had grilled." yahoo.com/now/surviving-…

from everything I could find about the real Jerry Frick he seems like a classic white guy obsessed with Japan and unaware he is being completely offensive, just like Higgins played him

Jerry Frick is alive and lives in the valley, someone could for sure ask him about this! I would do it myself if there was money involved

not trying to invalidate the feelings of anyone who got PTSD from watching that scene, it just felt authentically like a lot of racist white guys who fetishize cultures

I signed up for the newspaper archive on a @KarinaLongworth tip for my podcast, just realized I can also use it to search Jerry Frick hold on

from the Van Nuys local paper: a piece about the lunch special at the Mikado as well as one about Madame Wu, the Chinese restaurant owner who invented the Chinese chicken salad

Jerry Frick with Sakura Frick, Hiroshi Nakayam, and Teresa Graves, star of Get Christie Love!

Jerry Frick planned a night at the Mikado for uhhh white men who had been to Japan (trigger warning: racist language)

1965 press release style announce launch for The Mikado, again a huge trigger warning here for racist language

1965 (tw: racist language)

that's seemingly it but it's a lot!

okay possibly Jerry Frick is dead but one of the former Mrs. Fricks is alive, someone should talk to HER