Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Things Fall Apart
By Daniel | Season 10 | Episode 8 | Aired on 06.26.2012
Red relaxes while Blue works. Robyn gets allegedly wacky with bath suds on her head, and then gets pissy because Barbie's not into sharing a bathtub with a bunch of other people. Robyn makes an issue of it, because only Robyn again can't just bask in the glow of victory. God, what is her deal?
Back at HK, Blue has finished cleaning and are prepping. Their grumpiness seems to have faded now that they're actually working with food, although I don't trust many of these guys to have washed their damn hands before they started handling food.
The women arrive with two hours to go until dinner service, and Robyn starts snapping at Barbie over whether there's supposed be another frisee salad in the station. When Barbie basically ignores her, Robyn starts nattering about sinking or swimming, and Barbie seems aghast that Robyn appears not to give a shit if her team member blows things tonight. I guess. Who has the energy to care?
Dinner service is just about ready to start when Ramsay gathers the chefs to tell them he's invited some special people to sit at the chef's tables in the kitchens for tonight's service: Blue will have former UFC light heavyweight champion of the world Tito Ortiz. God, is UFC still a thing? How many contrived ways can allegedly straight guys think up to allow themselves to watch half-naked men touch each other without feeling too weird about it? Anyway, Red team will have six-time world boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard. Robyn and Justin are entrusted with serving the chef's tables. Robyn's excited while Justin seems very, very nervous.
Dinner service opens, with Christina's seven-star lobster dish added to the menu. Blue gets off to a lousy start, with Clemenza serving up chewy appetizer pasta. Christina sends up some delicious risotto, though. In Blue, Brian rolls his eyes at Clemenza's pasta struggles, since Clemenza, being Italian, has probably cooked pasta "17 billion" times.
Sugar Ray Leonard arrives with his wife (the on-screen graphic HILARIOUSLY identifies him as author of The Big Fight. Because everyone thinks of Sugar Ray as a boxer. You just KNOW that promo was a condition of him being on the show), and Ramsay cautions Robyn to "show some grace." Look, you picked Robyn, you live with what you get. In Blue, Tito Ortiz arrives with some other dude and orders an Arnold Palmer, and a nervous Justin manages not to drown in flop sweat.
Christina's worried about the Leonards being so close to her station, because if she screws up their food, she's dead. She figures Mrs. Sugar Ray can throw a punch too. Naturally, she messes up the risotto, and an angry Ramsay brings it back to the kitchen so everyone can taste what a pile of undercooked shit it is. I love how, in interviews, the contestants are always non-ironically going, "Are you kidding me?" whenever it comes to someone else's screwup. Christina starts over.