Episode Report Card LTG: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Day 8
By LTG | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 07.22.2007
After prep, Bonnie and Rock are settling in to complain about Julia's victory just as she and Jen return from Vegas. They have some pictures and can't stop going on about how glorious life would be at GVR. I'm wondering if they realize that staff doesn't actually live in those suites? It's a nice paying job, but the winner is still going to have to get an apartment. Julia is delightful as she tells everyone about the bidet: "It goes right to the spot." There are hand gestures that accompany this description.
And now it's time for service. Josh starts on apps, and he fucks up immediately by trying to stay two or three (or four or five) orders ahead of what has actually been ordered. Despite the fact that Ramsay yells at him for it immediately (when he notices what looks like five pans of risotto going despite the fact that no risotto has been ordered), Josh can't seem to stop himself. After discovering what seems to be the third pot of unordered spaghetti cooking away, and after a plate of undercooked risotto is returned, Ramsay orders Josh to take off his jacket and leave the kitchen. He throws a spoon after Josh for good measure, and then follows him out of the kitchen to scream some more and demand that the jacket be handed back immediately. And that's the end of Josh.
As service continues, Rock has a couple of screwups, overcooking some scallops and losing track of some turbot. Julia, who is on garnish for the first time (in eight services, which seems a little crazy to me), is having a tough time with the new station, and eventually shuts down and starts crying while she tries to pull it together. Rock's troubles continue, as he has trouble matching timing with Bonnie and Jen. He and Jen start sniping at each other, and it goes downhill, with a lot of words being bleeped out, some of them (I fear) much worse than "fuck." Bonnie pleads with them to calm down, and Gordon screams at them to calm down, but they keep at it until service is complete. Ramsay decides that Bonnie had the best service, and he tells her to nominate two people for elimination.
Bonnie agonizes, and eventually nominates Rock (which was a no-brainer, even for Bonnie) and Julia, who did have a worse service than Jen, so I can't complain. And then a million hearts are broken, as Ramsay eliminates Julia. But he does so with a lot of love, even offering to put her through culinary school so she can develop what is clearly a fantastic talent. With a kiss on the cheek and a long blue-tinted montage of Julia's greatest moments, he sends her out of Hell's Kitchen. I'm sad for her, but I also know she has a fantastic career ahead of her, and I look forward to eating in a restaurant of hers before too very long.