As you may have heard, August 15, 2012 would have been beloved chef and television personality Julia Child's 100th birthday. To celebrate, PBS Digital Studios did the only reasonable thing there was to do: they made a Julia Child auto-tune video.

Hide your kids, hide your wives, bring on the roasted potatoes.


We know this video is for novelty's sake, but please don't be surprised if you catch us listening to this in the coming weeks.

We maintain that, although her culinary prowess was impressive, the best thing about Julia was her sense of humor, her love of fun and her ability to poke fun at herself during even the most frustrating kitchen debacle. We think Julia would have totally adored this video tribute.

This video is the latest in PBS Digital Studios' "Icons Remixed" series, which recently auto-tuned both Bob Ross and Mr. Rogers. Which icon will be remixed next?

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  • Dan Aykroyd As Julia Child On SNL

    As a cultural icon, Julia became fair game for TV's top comedians. In 1978, Dan Aykroyd impersonated her on "Saturday Night Live," mocking the frequent mishaps that she encountered on the show. In the skit, Aykroyd pretends to cut his thumb while cooking, and continues the show while trying to suppress the injury, refusing to stop filming.

  • "Julie And Julia"

    Nora Ephron's film "Julie and Julia," starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, followed the lives of Julia Child and Julie Powell, a young blogger who seeks to cook all of Child's classic recipes in one year. The first major film based on a blog, "Julie and Julia" had a positive response from critics and was nominated for several prestigious awards.

  • Milestones

    In 1993, Julia became the first woman to be inducted into the Culinary Institute Hall of Fame. In 2000, she received France's prestigious Legion d'Honneur for popularizing French cuisine and in 2002, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History opened an exhibit that displayed the kitchen where she filmed three of her cooking shows in the 1990's. She was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003.

  • Paul And Julia Child: The Perfect Team

    Julia and Paul worked as a team, each using their talents to contribute to Julia's vibrant career. Paul served as a photographer, manager, proofreader, recipe tester and anything else that Julia needed him to be. He reveled in her success, supporting her in every way possible.

  • A Lively Youth

    Julia was known to be a prankster in her younger years. When she wasn't stirring up mischief, she threw her energy into various sports including golf, tennis and small-game hunting. Here, she is pictured in Smith College's 1934 yearbook.

  • The College Years

    Though she towered above her classmates at six feet two inches tall, Julia used humor and wit to fit in. Here she appears (front row, center) with fellow Junior Promenade Committee members at Smith College in 1934.

  • Julia The Spy

    After college, Julia pursued a career in writing without much success. When World War II began she decided to focus her attention elsewhere, and moved to Washington D.C., where she volunteered as a research assistant for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). In this position, Julia was sent around the world on assignments, liaising between government officials and intelligence officers. Here, she is pictured with OSS colleagues.

  • Finding Love In The OSS

    In 1945, while on an assignment in Sri Lanka, Julia met fellow OSS employee Paul Child. The two fell madly in love and married a year later.

  • Introduction To French Cuisine

    When Paul was transferred to France in 1948, Julia found herself bored as a housewife with no children. She began taking classes at Le Cordon Bleu Cooking School and quickly grew passionate about French cuisine. Soon, she partnered with classmates Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle to begin teaching French cooking to American women in her kitchen. The informal school was named The School of the Three Food Lovers.

  • "Mastering The Art Of French Cooking"

    Paul Child's position kept Julia moving throughout Europe, but she kept in communication with Beck and Bertholle, researching and testing recipes. Julia translated the recipes into English and inserted her personality into the classic cookbook "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," which was published in 1961.

  • A Surprising Success

    In order to promote her cookbook, Julia made an appearance on a public TV show in Boston, which garnered such an enthusiastic response that she was invited back to do her very own cooking show. Julia became a local celebrity on "The French Chef", and the show was soon syndicated to almost 100 TV stations across the country.

  • "The French Chef" Makes Its Mark

    Over the course of 10 years, "The French Chef" won a Peabody Award and various Emmy Awards. Julia's humor was a staple on the show, as were mishaps that she incorporated into her cooking lessons. Each show ended with Julia's signature "Bon appétit!"

  • Becoming An Authority In The Kitchen

    Like any good chef, Julia wrote a host of cookbooks following the smash success of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." She went on to pen "The French Chef Cookbook," which featured recipes that she had cooked on the show, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two" and "From Julia Child's Kitchen," which featured notes she had compiled on set and photographs taken by her husband. In 1980, she won a National Book Award for her book "Julia Child and More Company."

  • Julia Child: Celebrity Chef

    Julia's TV success extended far beyond "The French Chef." She starred in various television series in the 1970's and 1980's, including "Julia Child & Company," "Julia Child & More Company" and "Dinner at Julia's." She was just as active in the 1990's, starring in "Cooking with Master Chefs, In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs," "Baking With Julia, and Julia Child," and "Jacques Pépin Cooking at Home."

  • The Later Years

    "Retired people are boring," was Julia's motto, so even in her 90's, she was working on her next endeavor. Julia's final book "My Life in France" was published after her death in 2004 with the help of her great nephew, Alex Prud'homme. The book chronicled Julia's life with her husband in post-World War II France, and eventually became a bestseller.