Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Contend It Like Beckham
By Daniel | Season 10 | Episode 11 | Aired on 07.09.2012
Over in Blue, Robyn's mouthiness actually seems to be a plus, as she's calling out orders and times and impressing the hell out of Brian. The narrator says Robyn steered Blue's ship through "most" of the appetizers, and that "most" suggests rocks up ahead.
Sure enough, when Royce starts trotting up some Wellingtons for Blue's entrees, Ramsay mutters "unbelievable" and brings them back to show everyone that all three are cooked differently. "And you expect me to put that on the same table?" he says. Royce mutters an apology and says he'll fix it, while Robyn glares holes in his back. "Royce has no idea what the fuck is going on," Robyn tells us, comparing him to an ostrich with its head in the sand. He is foundering somewhat, having difficulty getting the order corrected. Every time Ramsay calls over to see how long it's going to take, Royce says "five minutes" and finally Ramsay orders the men out into the pantry or hall or whatever behind the kitchen.
There he yells at them for embarrassing him in front of his soccer-god countryman, and orders them to improve their attitude. Meanwhile, Robyn is left to cook by herself, and some sort of damn circus calliope music starts up for some reason, to show how what a juggling act she's doing trying to take care of all the stations by herself. The American Idol twits laugh at her, because contestants on reality shows are pathetic, right, you two? RIGHT, YOU TWO? The men come back in and hope to get some entrees out at some point tonight, especially since the women are already halfway through their entrees.
Then Tiffany serves up a cod for sea bass, and then she does it AGAIN even after being yelled at for doing it. Eventually she gets the sea bass out, cooked properly.
Sadly for Blue, "cooked properly" is not in the vocabulary tonight. Back from their pep talk with Ramsay -- well, "pep talk" isn't the right phrase. "Pep scream" works better -- Royce cooks some pork shop to the consistency of a rubber boot and Clemenza burns his cod. Ramsay then calls Clemenza out for looking like a slob, with his jacket all dirty and gross and encrusted with the juice of a thousand poorly cooked scallops. "You're cooking like a donkey," says Ramsay. Not even an animal with individual digits on its feet, let alone opposable thumbs! Harsh!
Barbie and Kimmie get Beckham's pork chop out, as well as his son's spaghetti and meatballs. Barbie's excited because she thinks that in England once ye cook yon pork choppe to perfection, thou art then betrothed to the rich footballer. Ramsay also yells out praise to Barbie for her perfect pork and Wellington, and entrees are flying out.