Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Come at the Queen, You Best Not Miss
By Daniel | Season 9 | Episode 4 | Aired on 07.26.2011
And later, Red Team's back in the kitchen, doing prep work for the night's service, with sous-chef Andi popping in and refusing to take Elise's garbage. "Would you stop talking to me like I'm your fucking child?" says Andi, god bless her, in response to Elise's chirping. Elise, like a child, talks back as she insists she's not talking back. "I'm here, you're here. Get it straight," Andi points out, holding the Andi hand much higher above the Elise hand. "You're so fucking disrespectful," Andi snaps at one point. "This is the first time I've smiled all night," says Carrie, who in reality actually smiles all the time like a psycho.
Apparently, there are some VIPs in the dinner service tonight at the chef's tables, putting extra pressure on the teams, although they're the kind of VIPs that require an onscreen graphic for anyone to actually know who they are. We've got Misty May Treanor and Jen Kessy, who are champion volleyball players, dining in the Red section, and the Blue section has a bit of an upgrade with Olympic swimmers Mark Spitz (who now appears to be eighty years old) and Janet Evans.
Krupa's going to play hostess to the Red chef's table, and she's really excited because she knows who they are. Jonathon is assigned to look after Spitz and Evans, and he declares himself a Mark Spitz fan.
Let the cooking begin! Elise, on appetizers, messes up the first order of scallops, but not too egregiously, and Ramsay shows her how to do it right, and she gets the next one perfect. Over in Blue, Tommy delivers a Caesar salad that's swimming in dressing, and Janet Evans doesn't like it, so Jonathon brings it back and throws it in the trash, and Ramsay gets pissed at him because only Ramsay is allowed to do that! Once he's done getting mad at Jonathon, he gets mad at Tommy, who gets right to work on another salad.
Red Kitchen: Carrie is co-coordinating appetizer times. You're never going to believe this, but there is much bickering between her and Elise. "Elise and Carrie fight, no matter what. It really brings the rest of us down," says Jennifer. It's wearying watching the condensed version every night; I can only imagine what it must have been like to live through this.
The Blue Team is managing to get their appetizers out, but the trouble starts when Monterray screws up a sea bass entrée. It falls apart on him. Sous-Chef Scott shows him how to use the spatula to prevent it, and Monterray is less than willing to admit he did anything wrong, and Scott calls him out for making out like it's the fish's fault for falling apart, and it quickly devolves into Scott and Monterray screaming at each other. You see, you don't DO that to Monterray. He don't care WHO you are! "Fuck you!" "Fuck you too!" That's how it ends. Jonathon tells us the way that went down, Ramsay should just send Monterray home right now. He also seems to get it in his head that Monterray's a dead man walking, so he starts giving Monterray grief too. Monterray certainly knows that Jonathon is no Sous-Chef Scott, so he gives it right back, and Will needs to come in and yell at everybody to get back to their stations, back to work. Janet Evans and Mark Spitz look on in horror/amusement.