Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | 11 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Today Ramsay Settled All Family Business, So Don't Tell Him You're Innocent, Barret
By Daniel | Season 11 | Episode 7 | Aired on 04.23.2013
The next morning during prep, Dan is still clearly pissed, but Michael figures that if they have a bad dinner service, they'll just lose Dan. I think that really depends on Dan not cooking well too, though, right?
Anyway, Ramsay announces that his own children are here tonight, and they'll be on the Blue side. This ruffles some feathers on the Red side, since they have clearly performed better and deserve to feed the Royal Family. They should consider the obvious benefits of not being the team that screws up the order for Ramsay's family. Then there's the montage of kids at the petting zoo and fair, looking adorable with their balloon animals. There's a kids' menu (complete with a picture of Ramsay to color in, which I'm sure all the kids must have been mad for).
The cooking gets underway, and Dan serves up a burnt Margherita pizza, and Ramsay also has to yell at him for brushing the oven in front of the pizza. Michael comes over to help, and is actually diplomatic enough about it that Dan accepts the assistance.
Over in Red, Jacqueline is dragging her arse on scallops (the kids' meals are being served alongside parents' appetizers), and when she serves them up, they're rubbery. "You've got the easiest appetizer!" Ramsay yells at her. "Fuck you, fuck you all," he adds. Happy Family Day, kids! And now, because of the scallops, cold pizza and cold fish and chips, the whole ticket has to be redone.
In the dining room, the children are getting restless, and Blue finally gets an order out, and then Red bounces back as well. Jean-Philippe charms a girl happily chowing down on her food. Then Blue starts preparing the order for Ramsay's family. There is much talk about how they're performing a symphony, which can only mean that someone's going to blow their spit valve all over the place. Sure enough, Ray somehow serves up a cold cheeseburger. "That's my family!" Ramsay yells. Seriously, Ray! These aren't emergency-room doctors or nurses or firemen! That's his family! "I wouldn't do that to your family," Ramsay says. No. I mean, he might curse them out, but at least the food would be well-cooked. Ray seems practically suicidal about it, saying he'll remember this for years, but Blue recovers, feeds Ramsay's family, and keeps going.
Red has completed their appetizers and children's meals and is moving on to entrees. Mary, nervous because of how often she's been up for eliminations, starts things off right by serving up some beautiful Wellingtons, and then Susan endears herself to me by correctly praising Mary for doing a whole 180 (instead of 360). Then someone named Gretchen Rossi, who is apparently someone on something called The Real Housewives of Orange County, is there and is impressed with the food. I'm impressed she was available!