Episode Report Card Keckler: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Day 4
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on 06.24.2007
As the night goes on, Rock makes sure that his team's appetizers are finally reaching their customers. However, when they get to the mains, Vinnie screws the hell out of those damn Wellingtons. On the Red side, Bonnie can't handle cooking her chicken breasts and is treated to an extended Ramsay tirade. To my intense delight, a fairly attractive and dolled-up customer gets sick of waiting for her food and asks to talk to the chef. Positioning herself at the window, she tries to speak to Chef Ramsay, who asks her to hold on for two seconds. Of course she can't follow directions and starts babbling on about her food. This is the point when I start jumping up and down in gleeful anticipation. Without addressing her directly, Ramsay finds out from JP which team is responsible for the customer's food and then directs JP to "take the giraffe back to the table, please." The Giraffe's jaw drops into her cleavage, and she turns to someone offscreen for help, saying, "He's being rude to me." Lady, did you watch the last two seasons before you came to the freaking restaurant? Ramsay instructs the Giraffe to "move [her] fucking ass," and sadly that's the last we see of her.
Vinnie continues to screw up the Wellingtons in every way imaginable -- overcooked, raw pastry, untrimmed pastry, et cetera -- and Ramsay discovers a binful of trashed food at his station. Bonnie can't handle her Wellingtons either, and when Melissa steps in, it just seems to mess Bonnie up even more. The good news comes when we hear that the Blues have served a bunch of their mains, but the bad news is that a lot of them are being sent back for being too salty or undercooked. With a big red face, Ramsay gathers the teams together and reminds them with floods of bleeps that the customers are deciding which team wins that night, so if they don't get their shit together, he's shutting down the kitchen. Next, Ramsay bellows at Bonnie for botching the timing of her chicken and Wellington, telling her she's so incompetent that he needs to dumb down and "nannify" everything he says to her.
When JP brings a chicken dish back for being too cold, Ramsay says some variant of "fuck" seven times and shuts the kitchen down. As they wait for the final decree, Bonnie cries both to her teammates and in the con-chef-ional about how she shouldn't be there. Um, Bonnie? There's no crying in the kitchen. During clean-up, Rock tells us, "I was able to channel my anger and not take it out on my team. They should have performed better and I think I should have performed better." See, that's why I like Rock -- there's no attitude, no blame. The only stats Ramsay reveals from the customer comment cards are: one, the majority of the diners who actually got their food liked it; and two, sixty-five percent of them would not eat there again. That's all. They don't decide the winning or losing team at all, because Ramsay tears up the comment cards and announces that, once again, there is no winning team. However, he thinks Rock was solid and orders him to nominate one teammate for the chopping block. Turning to the Reds, Ramsay picks out Melissa to tell her, "You will NOT be nominating anyone. Because you were bad. You were just...you were pathetic!" Hee. Bonnie won't be picking anyone either because, as Ramsay explains while dancing around in imitation of Bonnie, she never knew where her chicken was. Telling Jen she "wasn't brilliant" but also wasn't bad, Ramsay tells her to pick a teammate to get rid of.