Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT It's Raw, Dog!
By Monty Ashley | Season 6 | Episode 2
Another half-moon! Moon continuity! Hooray!
The next morning, the teams are doing prep. Robert is acting as the red team's leader, because he does, in fact, have some idea what each of the stations is going to need. I could do without him calling his teammates "my girls", since several of them are older than him, but aside from that, he's helping. And they're sensible enough to do what they're told. On the blue side, Kevin shoves Tony out of the way and cuts some grapefruit for him to show him how it's done. As Tony's getting snitty about this, Chef Ramsay tells him he should be cutting the grapefruit over a bowl to save the juice. Ramsay complains about the grapefruits and calls Tony "speccy", as Joseph looks on contemptuously.
The teams are lined up for a pre-service pep talk. Gordon reminds them that "to add a little bit of ... magic to the dining room, we'll be serving scampi tableside." Van is assigned to customer-charming duties, presumably on the strength of his accent. He interviews, "I don't have any experience in the front of the house, but I have charisma! I have charisma! And that's what's gonna get me through this service tonight." I think he's trying to psyche himself up for this. Good luck! On the red team, Tennille is working table-side, and she is mopey about it.
Everyone's ready to go, but Tony is still slicing grapefruits. And they're not over a bowl. Horrors! The waste! Noooo! So Chef Ramsay threatens to kick Tony out and puts the Fear of Ramsay into him.
Open Hell's Kitchen!
Van asks Chef Ramsay for a rag and gets shouted at. He learns his lesson and resolves to stop asking him for things. Problem solved!
The tableside people (Van and Tennille) will be trying to coordinate their stuff with the appetizers coming out of the kitchen. That sounds difficult, since the chances of appetizers actually showing up at all are kind of low. Tennille explains that she doesn't know what voice she should use and demonstrates both "sexy" and "white boy". She claims to one table that she's a Whoopi Goldberg impersonator. That would make sense if I had mentioned that she's a black woman with dreadlocks. Oh well!
The first scallop order comes in for the blue team, and Tony immediately cooks them and brings them to the pass. Problem: he's supposed to do that in sync with several other members of the team so that the garnish and pasta are ready at the same time. Bad Tony! Start over! Tony interviews that he has to think positive, and he's starting to look like Rick Moranis. I think in Spaceballs. Or possibly the early part of Ghostbusters.