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Cozinhando com pegada ("Cooking with catchness") is a TV reality-cooking-disaster show ultimately inspired by grunge rock music and Pegada philosophy - some of their critics would also add Dada-art as a main inspiration. First season was aired between December 2006 and November 2007. Staring frontmen Marcel Mars and Gustavo (sometimes also called "Mars", most of the times without a last name), the show presented in each edition a new guest star.

Memorable guests in Cozinhando com Pegada are Cassiano Mars, Lívia and Pedro Fogaça (known for his mememorable line "how interesting!") - list of cooking-guests.

The show also co-stared Maria Belotti, as the oposite of a comic relief.

Main Characters
The show presents Frontman Marcel Mars and Frontman Gustavo. Frontman Gustavo is sometimes called Gustavo Mars, but that isn't a rule. They are both Beavis-based characters. Visually they are characterized as having grunge-like clothes and attitudes. Their cooking style is best described as a mix of Kurt Cobain, Layne Stayley and Mark Arm performances, including stage-diving, moshing and headbanging alike-activities. They also provided Nirvana's grand finale at ending credits of a few episodes.

The Maria character apeared as a special guest in Episode 3, known also as the "Throw-spaghetti-all-over-the-wall Episode", which is the most political one. She began to co-star the series from that date on. Maria is presented in the show as the only person in charge of all of her own mental capacities and lucidity - a quality balanced sometimes with a minor physical problem, simbolyzed most times by a foot-issue. Maria is also in charge of the ending moral-lesson of each episode.

Episode's Structure and Soundtrack
Each episode have it's structure based on the video-watching routine of a regular Beavis and Butt-Head episode, but without Butt-Head, or the videos.

Producers refers to a definition by Boredom's Yamantaka Eye of his own band: "The Boredoms is like a moon and a lake. But there's no moon. And there's no lake. There's only Boredoms." For them: "Cozinhando com pegada is like cooking under the moon next to a lake. But there's no moon. And there's no lake. There's only Pegada." Sometimes there ain't no cooking, even.

Every episode ends with a moral lesson, often given by Maria. In Episode zero the moral lesson was given by the Whole World. The debut double-episode "2006-7 New Year's Eve Special" (episodes one and two) lacked a verbal moral lesson, but the sequence of events was taken as morally enough. In the sequence of episode "The Lívia/Beirut affair", "The Tequilla/Purée affair (Make it with your own hands)" moral lesson was again given by the sequence of events and left verbally untold.

There are two song-themes for the show: Rape me by Nirvana and Them Bones by Alice in Chains, although the most obvious musical influence of the show is singer Mike Patton. Cozinhando com Pegada's Original Soundtrack presents also a lot of grunge, noise and alternative rock music.

Historical background
Some critics point the origins of Cozinhando com Pegada as a natural development of other shows, like "Everybody loves Rafaella" and "O Aperto". The final episode of "O Aperto", with the "Everybody loves Rafaella" cast-crossover is ponted as a seminal point, although frontman Gustavo didn't appeared in it due trademark and intellectual copyrights problems.

The basic structure of regular and special episodes is based on the pilot "Destroy All Humans 2005-6 New Year's Eve Special" without the video gaming activities. This is sometimes called "the lost episode" and is considered by many as the first episode of the series.

Special Episodes and Regular Seasons
Both frontmen consider "Destroy All Humans 2005-6 New Year's Eve Special" as Episode 0 (zero). For them the passage between the "2005-6 New Year's Eve Special" to "2006-7 New Year's Eve Special" is "the passage from theory to practice".

"2006-7 New Year's Eve Special" is Episode 2. In it there are references to Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. In the words of Gustavo Mars: "The Jedis struggled against themselves, many of them died and the Dark Side of the Force managed to win". In the words of a guest: "It looks like a Black sabbath" (see Witches' Sabbath). Episode 2 also is known for it's extreme levels of experimentation both in food-making and in it's porn-erotic appealing.

Although Cozinhando com Pegada has reached very successful levels of audience rating, there is, until now, only one season produced. First season was aired between December 2006 and November 2007. The show was aired live, but today is still broadcasted in reruns.

There are rumors of an upcoming second season for 2008, but there ain't no official statement since december 2007, when the 2007-8 New Year's Eve Special was suddenly cancelled the night before. It was replaced by a rerun of the Back to the Future trilogy.

Creative diferences or exhaustion are credited as main reasons for the long delay. In the ocasion of the debut of spin-off series "The Adventures of Gustavo and Marcel", both frontmen stated that the reasons were as too simple as "emotional fatigue, lack of time, interest in other projects, problems in the agenda of the astonishing new guests and lack of time to research new surprising dishes".

In March 2008 the audience was surprised with a Special Episode aired only via Internet. It was not presented as an episode of the series but it is known as "The Alien Abduction Special". The plot was considered too way complicated for a regular one. Although it didn't presented many of the most famous elements of the regular series and new year's specials (there wasn't any "cooking" for instance) it was acclaimed by audience. The episode presented two special guests: Ísis and Bruna.

Post-presence and influence
Cozinhando com Pegada generate a whole bunch of spin-off series. There were sucessful ones such as action series "Cassiano Mars goes to Garage" and romantic comedy "Leandro and the women". And there were also audience-disasters such as zombie-vampire-alien hunting "The adventures of Gustavo and Marcel" (critically acclaimed, nevertheless) and "Deyson's going to the top" (second season yet in production, unfortunately).