freaky flix and food
When I was in my late teens, I would stay up super late on Saturday night to watch a strange TV show. For the longest time as a child, we only had access to what TV we could drag in via our rooftop antenna (not all that interesting or atypical really). Early Sunday morning, after SNL and before the X-Files reruns, was a show that was uniquely bizarre in my recollection. On WTVH (Channel 5 in Syracuse, NY) and hosted by Ron Curtis, Jr. (son of the iconic [to Syracuse local television] news anchor, Ron Curtis Sr.).
Freaky Flix & Food (very little online except for the expired trademark application) aired at 00:30 to 02:00 [or later?] on WTVH starting in early April 2000. The application for trademark described the show like this:
A SERIES OF TELEVISION PROGRAMS FEATURING A MOVIE AND HOSTED BY PERSONS WHO INTRODUCE THE FEATURED MOVIE AND DISCUSS THE MOVIE AND COOK FOOD ON THE SET BEFORE AND AFTER COMMERCIAL BREAKS.
Very much In the same vein as Dinner and a Movie (which aired on TBS between 1995 and 2011), but with terrible, old, sci-fi b-movies from the 60s (e.g. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians). My recollection is that the cooking wasn't necessarily related to the content of the movie. I remember an episode where the food was "bowtie pasta with sweet peas, lemon, and fresh basil", but I couldn't hazard a guess on what the movie was.
During the early run of the show, there was more variety to the guest hosts who came on, but as the show wore on, Charlie Celi, the owner of the Central NY leather goods store "Forever Leather" became a frequent guest (as well as, I assume, major sponsor of the show). Celi was already well known for his odd tv commercials, and later for this rant about Hillary Clinton (then junior US senator for NY) running for President in 2008.
I can't find anything other than whispers about this show online. It was a little like a fever dream at the time. I feel like it may have just been a Ron Curtis, Jr. passion project that the station aired instead of a test pattern, but it's been airing occasionally in my head for 20+ years now.
Update
I found some footage from the show on YouTube. It's every bit as campy and amateurish as I remember. Not quite "public access television", but far from what you'd see on during the day. They also reference the "food" from the episode; Paranormal Peanut Butter Balls which makes me think there may have been a tie-in between the "food" and the "flix".