Episode Report Card Daniel: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Ray of Sunshine
By Daniel | Season 11 | Episode 5
Anyway, Nedra goes on a long tirade that is more bleep than uncensored speech, and she's not buying Blue trying to tell her they didn't antagonize anyone. She calls herself Mike Tyson, and Barret makes some punching motions, which until now I believe were used in promos to try to pretend an actual fight broke out at some point.
Back from commercial, we are STILL at break, and I guess I wasn't paying enough attention, because even Voiceover Guy says Blue team was teasing Mary. Zach shrugs off Nedra's threats of violence and says he's not here to make friends with the females, which, mission accomplished.
Eventually this show realizes it might want to get some cooking accomplished, so the teams head back into the kitchens, with dinner service less than an hour away. Ramsay tells them the teams haven't shown the consistency they need, and it's Jean-Philippe and the wait staff who bear the brunt of the kitchen doing a poor job. We hear a sob story from one of the waitresses about how she almost lost her job after a table complained to Jean-Philippe about her, and he reprimanded her until he found out that it was the kitchen's fault. Another waiter had a table walk out on him. Anthony feels bad, but I guess that's because he, unlike me, thinks these things actually happened, and that guests in Hell's Kitchen aren't warned that they risk long delays and sometimes not actually getting their food at all, and that the maitre'd would threaten to fire a waiter over people walking out because they're pissed the food hasn't been finished yet.
Ramsay announces that tonight they give back by supporting the wait staff a little more, and assigns Jessica and Barret to be waiters for their teams. This prompts Barret to spend half an hour getting his Mohawk just right, so it's good to know he's got his priorities in order.
Dinner service starts, with Jessica worried because she's never been a waiter before. Barret has, but apparently he's just as slow getting tickets to the kitchen. And when he does, his chicken scratch is all but illegible. Ramsay snaps at Jean-Philippe to take Barret and himself back to Belgium, and Jean-Philippe is all "thanks" at Barret. I kinda wish Jean-Philippe would give it right back to Ramsay, you know? Ramsay also rips up one of Jessica's tickets for being unreadable. Then it happens again with Barret, and Ramsay warns him that with his next mistake he's history. Again, I'm relatively certain Ramsay is happen to exaggerate the problem for dramatic purposes. Barret on his handwriting: "If you want me to write like a bitch, I guess I'll have to write like a bitch." I don't even know what that means, but I do hope he's sent home next.