Some of you may have noticed I didn’t do a recap from last week’s second episode. I did see it, but it was so boring and predictable that I couldn’t find the energy to put pen to paper or fingertips to keyboard. In fact, I find this season to be as exciting as watching my 8 year old do the same dive off the side of the pool that she’s been doing for the last two years. I think the only reason I’m still watching this show is for the same reason I watched Little House on the Prairie as long as I did as a kid, and that was just to see if Laura would cold-cock Nellie Olsen that week. I think it’s safe to say that somebody is going to get decked this season or at least they are going to stage it to look that way.

Last night’s epi started after the eviction of Gabe. All of the contestants are reeling because the boy wasn’t even nominated for eviction by Garrett. The women are even blown away at the audacity of Gordo to just shake up the status quo by calling an innocent to slaughter.

At some ridiculous pre-dawn hour (6-ish), there are folks moseying about the dorms. We see Sarah getting into the shower then the telephone rings and it’s Gordo ringing up to tell then to get their arses downstairs NOW. Everybody scatters and makes lots of noise, but nobody bothered to tell Sarah who was in the shower. Then again, Sarah didn’t hear any of the noise either. Needless to say, she is the last one down and is keeping old Gordo waiting which we all know from last season you just don’t do! :O He tries scolding her but she’s giggling and I’m applauding her giggling. :laugh

Gordo tells them that part of their problem in Night 2’s failed dinner service is lack of communication so he wants to try a new challenge. One by one they will go into the kitchen and start making three dishes. They will not know what they are making until it is their turn and the person before them has 15 seconds to tell them what they are making and where they are at in process. Each cook has 5 minutes giving the respective teams 20 minutes each to finish the three dishes. The girls sit out Heather who decides that she’s going to milk the burn from the night before as long as she can even though she told the girls it was no big deal the night before.

Cliff’s Notes version of the challenge is the teams were to make tortellini, salmon and chicken. Each of the guys made fresh tortellini and had too much and the Maribel didn’t hear about the tortellini so the women had a batch burning on the stove. Even though the women never plated the tortellini, Gordo awards them with the prize because none of the men’s three dishes were completed with the right garnish. When Tom tries to explain Gordo starts to bite his face off and Tom is looking more and more like a Jewish mother who was just told her child was less than perfect. So the losers get to stay at the restaurant and wash the white linens by hand while the women get to go on a yacht with Gordo. I think the women won mostly because Gordo knew there would be bikini action and let’s just say the bulk (pun intended) of the men on this season’s show are not cover models. :laugh

The men use their time to go over the different recipes and times. What they are still not doing is working as a team. They are playing a man-to-man defense and it’s every man for themselves…even while they do the laundry. :ohno When the women come back they start to rub it in the men’s face about their day on the yacht and teasing them about how they like their laundry pressed. Heather is the loudest of them all so it’s no big shock that when Garrett makes a sexist comment about the women having dinner on the table when the men get home she’s the only one who is the most offended by the comment. The scene was so incredibly ridiculous and staged I almost shut it off here. Here’s my take on this scene: This your final two so we need to create conflict early so that the finale’ is that much more intense because otherwise they got nothin’!

3d Dinner Service

There are no bells and whistles with this dinner service. It’s just straight up menu with nobody having to do duty as waiter/waitress or valet. :rolleyes Both teams start off great. Garertt gets yelled at for his whistling and Heather gets yelled at for being too controlling in the kitchen. Heather getting yelled at makes Sarah smirk from ear to ear and I gotta say I was smirking too. In fact, I’m getting more sound bytes out of Heather than I am out of Rachel and Rachel was my favorite character going into this fiasco. As expected, an hour and a half into service things start to go wrong for both teams. The guys, however, are in the worst position because Giacomo has forgot to turn on the stove. Keith (New Kid on the Block wannabe) tells Tom he’s out of tomato sauce for the tortellini and Tom starts to make some more. Sous chef Scott tells Keith they don’t have time for a new batch and to “think of where some more could be”. The light bulb goes on over Baby Huey and he gets tomato sauce from Garrett’s section. By this time, Gordo spies Tom cutting up tomatoes for more sauce and asks him what he’s doing. Tom tries to explain and Keith cuts him off and basically throws Keith under the bus. Gordo starts to chew on Tom’s butt and he’s getting more pissed off with every word. Meanwhile, Giacomo is screwing up again and Gordo’s at his limit and he’s screaming DVM tries to get us filled with suspense by telling us that Gordo is going to do something he’s never done in Hell’s Kitchen before (cue mystery music and fade to commercial). The never before done action is Gordo is switching Giacomo with Tom. Dripping w/ sarcasm here How they managed to maintain their composure after that act is beyond me. :rolleyes:

On the ladies side, Maribel is having a hard time getting the Wellington’s “done” properly. So, following the standard practice of Gordo’s kitchen, when a chef messes up you yell and scream and belittle them. so there is no way in hell in their frustrated state they could ever produce the correct product.

A Visit From Table 37

There is a pair of actresses sitting under the stairs and they say that an hour is far too long to wait for their entrée’s. I agree with them, but they are getting paid to show up and wait for endless periods of time until food shows up. However, one of the women at Table 37 is bound and determined to earn her SAG card with this appearance and requests to talk to the chef about having to wait. For whatever reason, Gordo treats her with kid gloves and assures her (via Maribel) that her Wellingtons will be up in 10 minutes. To add drama, they put up a time clock to see if Maribel can get Table 37 their food before they up and leave. Maribel fails and the women stand up and storm from the restaurant…aaaaaaaaaannnnnd SCENE! That was so rehearsed it was painful.

Now that the women are going downhill (thanks to Maribel), Gordo shuts down the kitchen. It’s obvious the boys are going to lose since they didn’t manage to get one entrée out. Gordo is disgusted by the men’s performance everybody has to nominate somebody for eviction.

Long story short…everybody voted for Tom and Tom voted for Giacomo. Gordo sees some potential in Tom still (or he’s waiting to see how far he can push him before Tom takes a swing) so he tells Giacomo to get out. That’s it for this week’s rather redundant episode of Hell’s Kitchen.

On a side note, I have to share with you something I saw on this weekend’s Reality Remix (Fox Reality channel) they had a correspondent at the Reality Stars convention in Nashville, Tennessee and Amanda Avilla got to interview Dewberry. He’s now sporting some facial hair. :wub: The following picture doesn’t do him any justice, but I just had to share.

Hey FG... is that Johnny Fairplay and his dead grandma in the pic with your Dewberry?

Yeah, I know lpatrick. Apparently, Johnny Fairplay got his arm stuck in an elevator too. :laugh

I know this is off topic of the Kitchen and another awesome recap...but is Johnny Fairplay wearing a hospital gown???

JFP did a LOT of creepy things at the reality convention... I've seen many pictures that I would not like to ever see again.

Great recap, FG.
I was wondering who that was in the hospital gown and I didn't even recognize him as Johnny Fair Play. Thanks for the pic. Since I didn't watch HK last season I am assuming Dewberry is from that show?

Here he is Squish...isn't he dreamy!! :wub:

Yes, JFP is in a hospital gown. Like I said earlier, he got his arm stuck in an elevator and had to go the emergency room.

Now...back to our regularly scheduled program!

<still chuckling> funnygirl, that recap was more entertaining than the actual show was. good to see you over here from the ANTM boards!

I really wish Virginia would give it a rest with the hitting on Chef Ramsay. OY! He's married with 4 kids already girl! :rolleyes:

You'd be surprised how little that matters to a lot of people in the service industry. There is a lot of -- ahem -- slap and tickle going on among both the back and front of the house, and a lot of people don't let a little thing like marriage stop them. Not that I approve--personally, I think it complicates the workplace and is just plain disgusting when one of the parties is married. But it happens a lot.

I'm not going to be able to dine out anymore with that kind of information. Tell me they aren't "doing it" on the prep areas girlchef!!! :O

:lol: Thanks for the laughs, FG.

OK, I won't tell you :laugh . Just kidding. But to be safe, I and most of my colleagues thoroughly sanitize our stations before beginning work.
Actually, the coolers are where most people get caught smooching.

Hey, guys, isn't this supposed to be a family friendly site? :laugh

Actually, I think that Virginia is hurting her chances in the game with her behavior. Ramsay already doesn't think that she's mature, serious, or capable, and what she seems to be telling him is that she did this to meet him.