Is It Cake? Is Super Weird, And Now I Want Cake

Yes, this show is absolutely as bonkers as you think it is. Mikey Day is probably the best host they could have chosen, managing to be even weirder than the premise. I dare you, though, to watch the entire season and not end up adoring him as he goes from a total goofball who is doing a show that could be a “Saturday Night Live” sketch with no adjustment to someone who actually tears up as he has to eliminate contestants. It’s lovely! I also have concerns about the wonky turntable he and the cakes come out on since everyone seems to be very close to falling off of it. 

This is a weird show, but I bet you, like me, watched the videos on social media where people made cake look like furniture or animals or hamburgers or something. Although I’m super creeped out by food that looks like other food (gum should not look like a hot dog, my good people), I’m fascinated by the work that goes into something that won’t even last. Certainly not when Mikey Day puts a knife through it. 

In a way, that’s part of the odd charm of the show. He’s got a giant knife that slices things in half like sneakers or dinosaurs. With the lighting (shown in the picture above), it looks like murder is happening. Like, what if Mikey Day goes bananas and decides to just run out and murder a contestant or something? The show is bizarre enough that I did wonder if they’d set up a (fake) stabbing at some point.