Episode Report Card Daniel: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Ray of Sunshine
By Daniel | Season 11 | Episode 5
When the cooking gets underway, a nervous Susan is in charge of appetizers and is ignoring Amanda's instructions about when to walk and not, but things seem to work out and the appetizers start going out. Barret finally gets a readable ticket in to Ramsay, and Blue gets cooking. Well, as well as they ever do. Ray and Dan on fish are completely at a loss as to how many scallops are on the first ticket, with each convinced the other is the problem. And then Ray overcooks the scallops and Ramsay berates him and says "senior moment" at one point. His next batch of scallops is good.
Susan, meanwhile, is still running her stuff to the pass without any regard for when Amanda's stuff is ready, and she winds up sending up raw scallops. Like Ray, her next batch is fine.
Over in Blue, Dan does seem to be boxing Dan out of the fish station, and Ray charmingly suggests Dan should grab his tampons and join the Red team. He does this in a talking-head, but the two snipe at each other for real too, enough that it draws Ramsay's attention, whose mood isn't improved when Ray cooks the wrong fish for a ticket. And then "Dumber and Dumber," as Ramsay calls them, start bickering again.
And Susan and Amanda are still not communicating properly in Red, and it's Susan's turn to send up undercooked food. Ramsay calls in Jessica to chastise the kitchen for her table's half-hour wait for their appetizers. Jessica gives a half-assed and smiling "Come on, guys," and then gets dressed-down by Ramsay for not taking it seriously enough. He asks her if she wants to leave, and then she gives the team a barely more forceful "Let's go, guys."
But Red moves on to entrees eventually. Meanwhile, Barret is on an apology tour of his tables, who are waiting for their entrees. Ray's halibut, though, doesn't pass muster -- it's dry and overcooked. Anthony, serving up perfect Wellingtons, says he wants to kick them out himself.
Over in Red, Nedra and OH GOD NOW WE HAVE TO LISTEN TO MARY YELL. Sorry. They serve up raw pork, and there follows a blowup with Ramsay not understanding why it's going to take so long to get a proper one on the order. It's the only thing they're waiting on, so Ramsay makes Jessica escort Nedra out to the table to personally apologize for the delay. It's the longest we've ever heard Nedra speak without needing a single bleep, and it was truthfully a little unsettling.
Ray's got some more halibut ready. Wait, did I say "ready"? I meant "raw." Ramsay starts screaming -- "We're going down in flames. Titanic ain't got shit on us," Zach yells at us" -- and then appears to throw the whole sorry lot out of the kitchen. Ray heroically won't let his poor performance prevent him from yelling at his teammates, and then Chef James gives them shit and tells them he can't even look at them anymore.