Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Wanna See Crazy?!
By Monty Ashley | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 06.03.2008
Out in the dining room, customers are complaining about not having food. Jean-Philippe's plan is to send out more water. I'm not sure that'll do it. Chef Ramsay spots Matt popping something into his mouth, but Matt claims he's not eating; he's just tasting. It does look like he's "tasting" pretty large chunks of meat there.
Corey comes out with a rubber glove on and looks like she's just rounding up pans now instead of cooking. Ouch. Christina gets an order wrong (two rib-eye instead of two John Dory) and gets shouted at from about an inch away from her face. She interviews that her game plan was to keep from crying. He tells her to get lost and asks Matt what's cooking. Matt does not know. Man, at least Christina knew what was cooking, even if it wasn't exactly what had been ordered. Bobby smugly interviews, "I don't know what's up with the rest of those chefs. I hear every word he yells out." And yet, it turns out that Bobby has only one John Dory going, even though Chef Ramsay just spent quite some time shouting at Christina that there should be two. Apparently Bobby is just reflexively saying "Yes, chef." He ends up having the fish ready, but mostly by coincidence.
Then Matt brings up some meat that's undercooked and overcooked at the same time. Upon being told to look at it, he tries to take it off the tray. This leads to Chef Ramsay throwing meat at him, knocking the tray to the floor, and bleeping up a storm. Then Matt reaches around Chef Ramsay to look at a ticket, even though Ramsay is directly asking Matt not to touch him. Matt claims to have a migraine and gets yelled at because Chef Ramsay does not want the ticket taken away. At this point, Chef Ramsay is just staring at Matt in disbelief. He asks Matt what's going on, and Matt mutters, "I'm busy getting yelled at."
Naturally, Chef Ramsay heard that. He hears everything. Is Matt really complaining about being yelled at for serving overcooked meat? He is. Is he arguing with Chef Ramsay? Oh, yes. Matt interviews that he's a team player, and that the problem is that everyone else is not a team player. So the problem isn't you, it's the team? That's why you cooked the food wrong? Got it. It's surprising how much time "team players" spend blaming the team for things they mess up, isn't it?
Matt starts to melt down, complaining about a migraine in every sentence, not knowing what he has cooking ("two of... those") and generally giving up. Everyone in the kitchen, including Chef Ramsay and sous chef Scott is standing around staring at Matt as he takes some aspirin or something. Chef Ramsay takes a shot at humor ("I've had a migraine ever since you walked in here!") and tries to talk Matt down, but Matt literally will not stop talking, saying "I know. I know. I know." through everything Chef Ramsay says. I've known people that did that. It's pretty annoying. Chef Ramsay takes Matt by the hand and leads/drags him through the kitchen and into the back room. He might as well be dragging him by the ear.