Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Things Fall Apart
By Daniel | Season 10 | Episode 8 | Aired on 06.26.2012
Roshni's struggling, but she's taking inspiration from the fighters at the chef's tables, who get up when they're knocked down, or whatever. Sadly for her, Patrick serves up some stone-cold lobsters. With no hint of irony, Royce grouches that it's like Patrick has never cooked shit before. Did anyone remind him that Royce literally cooked and served lobster shit, like EARLIER THAT DAY? God, I hope so.
Tiffany serves up perfect Wellingtons, and Ramsay tells her so, but he's in no mood to laugh about her earlier screwup. It's kind of awesome the way his steely glare shuts down her giggliness. Red's entrees are heading out at a nice clip.
But Blue is still trying to get on track, and Patrick serves up some more subpar lobster, so Ramsay calls everyone to attention to tell them that not one of them knows what the fuck is going on, and they're embarrassing him in front of the tough guy at the chef's table. Ortiz smiles, and then gets out his cameraphone so he can videotape Ramsay throwing the lot of them out of the kitchen for serving up cold lobster for the second time tonight. Justin says, "I don't want to get out, chef." Dude, you do not want to die on this hill. Ramsay asks with a growl if Justin wants to argue with him, and Justin wisely decides to make himself scarce.
Red team finishes up their last table, and then Ramsay shoos them all into the Blue kitchen to finish the orders for the other diners. They're firing on all cylinders, and round out the service.
In the dorms, Justin's scared. "He's really mad," he says. Like even for Ramsay, Ramsay is mad, is what he means. Chef Scott shows up to send everyone downstairs so Ramsay can talk to them, but Ramsay meets them in the hallway before they can defile the kitchen with their presence. He tells them Red finished brilliantly for them, and wants to know how Red can be so much better. Blue tries to say they're not, but Ramsay starts listing off Exhibits A through ZZZ, and no one on Blue can really argue in favor of soupy risotto and cold lobster. Ramsay orders them back upstairs to come up with two people for elimination, and advises them not to take long.
Patrick, hoping to shift focus away from him onto ANYONE else, immediately nominates Brian and Clemenza for the appetizers. The others seem to agree, and Clemenza starts objecting, calling it fucking insanity. Brian is similarly unimpressed, saying people are overlooking their own mistakes. He nominates Patrick and Roshni, and Clemenza agrees. Not surprisingly, Roshni does not.