Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Michael, If This Is a Lecture on How We're All Supposed to Whatever and Blah-blah-blah…
By Daniel | Season 11 | Episode 11 | Aired on 05.14.2013
Red (grilled New York strip, roasted duck breast, branzino) versus Blue (pan-seared halibut, grilled pork chop, oven-roasted filet), and diners can order off either menu, so the kitchens have to co-ordinate. In the dining room tonight: Someone named "Nikki Soohoo" from something called "Music High." And good god, Ian Ziering, who obviously hasn't done anything worth mentioning since Beverly Hills, 90210 ended thirteen years ago, is also there. Well, it's nice to see him getting some work.
Nedra is dragging her ass on scallops, while Blue gets its first ticket out no problem. Jon wonders why it can't always be that easy. You know, like it is in Red, where Cyndi and Nedra aren't communicating with each other. Nedra is looking out only for herself, forgetting, as usual, that if her team goes down, she's at risk.
Hey, if you were wondering what the bassist from OK Go has been up to lately, this episode's for you! But dude, take off your hat, please.
Then Ramsay calls Zach a "fuckface" because when Ramsay calls out the first entrée order, which, again, Red and Blue need to coordinate on, Zach's all, "I'm ready now in one minute!" No, he's not calling Zach a fuckface for his oxymoron but because it doesn't do any good to jump ahead of Red here. "You're fucking them and you're fucking me," Ramsay yells at him, and now Zach is chortling because he's having a conversation with Ramsay "about fucking" even though there is nothing true about that at all.
Red, meanwhile, still needs more time on the first entrée, and Cyndi doesn't even have the fish in the pan yet, and Ramsay gets on her case. She feels bad about dragging her team right now. And then it doesn't help that she serves up raw branzino. Meanwhile, Zach's pork chops are beautifully cooked. Ramsay goes over to Red to point out Zach's beautiful pork chops, and Mary seems particularly put out that they're getting their asses handed to them by Zach, of all people. Ramsay can't let this beautiful food wait any longer, so he sends out Blue's dishes, and then Cyndi manages to cook her branzino this time.
But a beautiful pork chop will only get you so far, and Blue gets slowed down when they serve up some cold sauce, but that seems like a solvable problem to me. There's some dispute over whether Zach or Anthony should have been the one heating it up (obviously the answer is "It was his fault!"). Poor Michael sighs that this is "really pedestrian." Poor Michael! He must hate having to mingle with the commoners.