Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Jay! We're Dancing!
By Monty Ashley | Season 7 | Episode 8 | Aired on 06.29.2010
The blue team drinks a lot of wine. Autumn laughs a lot. By the end, she is so drunk that Gordon is openly mocking her for being a lightweight. Meanwhile, it is apparently difficult to wedge peanuts through a meat grinder. When the blue team arrives in the kitchen, they're all clearly drunk, having continued to drink on the plane home. Sous Chef Andi looks kind of disapprovingly at them, but I might be projecting. Fran hopes that the blue team will be hung over tomorrow. Given Autumn's problems interviewing, there's a chance. She falls off her bed while taking off a boot.
The hot tub makes its first appearance this season, as Holli gets Ed to drink more. Siobhan joins them, and it all gets very embarrassing. Jay and Benjamin take a seat next to the hot tub, and they appear to be wearing safety goggles, for some reason. Holli dares Ed to get naked, and everyone joins in the dare. And he does. So now there's a drunk, naked Ed. Nice work, everyone.
There's a full moon. I mean, in the sky. You remember how I used to make fun of this show for always showing a full moon whenever it was nighttime?
The next morning, the red team is chipper and ready. The blue team is not. There is the sound of vomiting. Of course, they have eight hours to get it together enough to prep the kitchen before dinner service. They seem to be having a little trouble doing their jobs and remembering what's on the menu. The red team is definitely more on top of things.
Dinner service! Fran is on appetizers, which is her first time making risotto here. Holli checks on her, and the risotto is acceptable. Whew! On the blue side, things are a little disjointed, and Jason's scallops are a little overcooked while Jay's risotto is missing salt. On the first table! Chef Ramsay gives them a motivational speech that I can't make out at all, since it's about 60% [bleep]s.
Fran's next risotto is undercooked and doesn't have enough butter. Siobhan is a little annoyed in an interview. On the blue side, they move to entrees, but on the garnish station, Autumn is 20 seconds behind on potatoes. And then they're salty! Oh no! Shouting! Loud noises!
Siobhan is behind on some scallops, which gets Chef Ramsay's attention. She thinks some of the scallops in her pan are golden brown, but most of them are black. He calls her a donkey (it's been awhile!) and throws her out of the kitchen into the dining room to eat the scallops she claimed were edible. Benjamin takes over the fish station in her absence. When Siobhan comes back, she admits that she [bleep]ed up most of the scallops. Benjamin tells Siobhan to take over the dessert station, as Chef Ramsay looks on disbelievingly. She tries to help him and he tells her to "just get out of my station, please. Just get out of my [bleep]ing station."