Coolio breaks free. He expands to new territories. He crashes through barriers. Painfully, maybe even.. dangerously, but and...well, there he is.

It's like there's some kind of law of efficiency in our pop culture, where a discarded star, rather than going to waste, gets recycled and reused as a sort of second-generation post-modern ironic parody of itself, typically in a low-budget context like reality TV or, in this case, a cooking show:



What the creators of the show didn't realize is that... Coolio can open doors.

EDIT: Via Ezra Klein.