Episode Report Card Keckler: C+ | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Day 6
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 07.08.2007
The losing Blues have to scour the garbage bins for recyclables. Rock is pissed and he lets everyone know it: "I grew up in the ghetto, in the hood, and I ain't never been in no trash." Brad suggests that they take their punishment like men, but Rock turns into an angerball. I mean, he totally loses it. Smashing stuff around, tossing stuff, scoring his own Bleep-O-Fucking Meter, the works. Out back, Scott shows them what they're recycling: piles of plastic and glass bottles. They need rinsing and sorting. See, that's not that bad. I was worried they were going to have to reclaim trashed food, so Ramsay could make a point about how much they've been throwing out all week. Didn't he do that in Season One or Two?
After a Champagne-fueled limo ride, the Reds and Ramsay arrive at the photo shoot and squee all over the place. During hair and makeup, the girls tease Ramsay about wearing makeup. "Chefs don't wear makeup," Ramsay informs them. Moving on to his hair, Jen hopes that he's having someone do something with it: "You look like you got stuck in a wind tunnel, or something." Ramsay, embarrassed, thanks her for that. After hair and makeup, the girls come out in their dresses. Bonnie's got on a blue and white patterned number that looks like it could be an Uli creation, Julia walks self-consciously out in a short green high-waisted dress that does nothing for her shoulders but much for her bosoms, and Jen totally ruins her black sheath by dropping her mannish jaw and sort of waving her arms around...mannishly. Puzzlingly, they eat and drink after the makeup was applied. I guess they can always have their lips redone, but Jen really needs to keep her mouth shut when she's chawing through her grub.
Back in Hell, the Blues recycle. But then! In a twist! Rock is called to the photo shoot! Gasp! I wonder if they changed their mind and decided he needed to be prettied up and posed as well! Poor Rock. He arrives at the shoot and just stands there, waiting for the other clog to drop. The girls eye him and wonder what he's doing there. Anyone who couldn't predict this turn of events hasn't watched enough seasons of this show. Was it last season that a contestant -- all smelly from something -- was dispatched to the photo shoot to dispense Champagne to the winners? Saying that he'd "rather be complete from start to finish," Ramsay asks Rock to take out a bin of trash FROM THE PHOTO SHOOT and recycle it. Bonnie sympathetically groans, "No way!" through a mouthful of lipstick, food, and Champagne. Not done with his torment, Ramsay asks what stinks. It's Rock. Ramsay offers Rock a sandwich for his journey, but Rock turns him down, saying, "I'm great, I'm full of bullshit already." Seriously, poor Rock. However, do you think he brought it on himself? If he hadn't bitched so much about their loss and punishment, I doubt they would have sent him. It wouldn't have been dramatic enough. I wonder if they would have sent Melissa instead, just so she could see exactly what girly stuff she was missing out on by moving to the Blues. Wielding kitchen equipment, like pizza cutters and electric mixers, the Reds are posed around Ramsay like Charlie's Angels. Someone really should have been holding a crème brûlée torch. After Ramsay tells Jen to watch where she's "rolling that pizza cutter," we see the finished In Touch cover, and I'm sort of disappointed they didn't slap "Hell's Bitches?" over it.