Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | 10 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Burger Time
By Daniel | Season 11 | Episode 18 | Aired on 07.11.2013
The burgers start getting sent out to the dining room and the cheftestants follow. We get a little Mary-may-be-legit-mentally-unbalanced montage. Susan claims she knows how to work a room, and the show undercuts her by showing us how she talked about how we all need to watch our waistlines, with some of the beefier judges. She seems to realize her mistake and patronizingly says the diner doesn’t need to watch his waistline. "But as a woman, I do" she says. "It doesn’t hurt to be charming," says Susan. Judging from what we see, she doesn’t have to worry about that yet.
Jon is still in the kitchen because he can’t finish his last burger -- it’s stuck to the pan. Finally, he finishes and heads out for his own lobbying efforts and we get just a few shots of the judges discussing the entries.
Afterwards, Ramsay lines up the cheftestants and announces last place: Susan. "This is just going to be ammunition for the rest of the team to put me up for elimination," she whines. Yeah, it’s annoying when doing the worst at something makes other people think you’re the worst at it.
First place was head and shoulders the winner, Ramsay says, with forty percent of the judges picking it as his or her favorite. For a five-contestant competition, that’s pretty friggin’ impressive.
After a break we learn -- not surprisingly because of the focus on his difficulties -- it’s Jon. His reward? Spa day: Green tea facials, hot stone massages, etc. And he gets to pick a teammate to come with him and he picks Cyndi. She seems genuinely surprised and touched, and he tells us that it’s because Cyndi is really just one of the guys and won’t be all girly about it.
The remaining chefs get Jean-Philippe’s crew’s jobs for the day: Steaming the linens, vacuuming carpets, polishing silverware. "Washing the car? You are a real prima donna," Ramsay tells him. The cooks are already at work when Jon and Cyndi head out to the Dtox Day Spa, which shares a logo with Dr. Dre’s headphones, it seems. Cyndi praises the ambiance. Turns out Dtox is one of those tranquil spas, not the ones that have Norwegian death metal blaring.
Hey, how boring do you think it would be to watch the losers wash Jean-Philippe's car? As boring as you imagine, make it at least ten times that boring, and that’s what we actually have. As for the rest of the dining room chairs, Ja’Nel takes a leadership role, but it seems like that’s only because Susan and Mary don’t seem to give a shit/are incapable of doing a good job.