Their biggest mistake was bringing Rachael Ray and Emeril to tour the lab and sign off on the project.  That's when Spielberg caught wind of it.

"Forks and Spoons", by Randall Munroe, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License

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Their biggest mistake was bringing Rachael Ray and Emeril to tour the lab and sign off on the project. That's when Spielberg caught wind of it.