Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Know, For Kids!
By Monty Ashley | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 04.22.2008
Now there's a montage of people shouting encouragement. Louross! Jen! Christina! Craig brings Chef Ramsay a meatball instead of a clam! Oh no! Here's the spaghetti with clam! But it's raw! Oops! How long on the replacement? Craig doesn't answer! More shouting! A minute! But the women are done! The red team wins! Jen is pleased! Too many exclamation points! New paragraph!
The women are sent over to help the blue team, who are reluctant to accept the help. Shayna says "What do you need?" and Craig says "I got it". Repeat about twenty times. Craig does not answer when Chef Ramsay wants to know how long will be, and then he kind of snaps, throwing a pan and shouting, "It's coming up right now! [bleep] question!" Jen informs him, "You got some attitude, son."
The service is over, and Chef Ramsay liked Jen the best. The men lost, and Ramsay heaps abuse on Craig, then leads Ben down the primrose path: "Ben. What you've done and your ambitions. You do seriously surprise me." Ben gets a bit puffed up: "Thank you, chef. I was hoping you'd see that. I mean, I give it all I got. Give you a hundred and ten." Chef Ramsay continues: "You surprise me to how [bleep] you are." Ben: "Oh. Thank you." Craig is gleeful that he's not the only whipping boy. Chef Ramsay continues, "I was expecting more. Hey! Maybe you shouldn't have quit your [bleep] day job so early."
Bobby is named best of the worst because he makes Ramsay feel safe in the kitchen. He will be selecting two nominees. Upstairs, Vanessa is back with some news: she has to see a plastic surgeon on Monday. Yow! And her right hand is completely bandaged and splinted. Wow, that sucks.
Meanwhile, Craig is explaining to Ben that although he, Craig, was on the pasta station, "there's nobody to blame but everybody" for the pasta problems. Interesting theory. Bobby stops by and takes Ben off for a talk, which means that Craig has an interview where he explains that he is too gosh-darn independent to have a one-on-one with Bobby. "[Bleep] everybody. I don't need anybody's [bleep]," he explains. Talking to Bobby, Ben knows that Chef Ramsay hates him and thinks he might as well go home now. Matt stops by and thinks Craig should be put up.
Downstairs, the men are lined up. Bobby has selected Craig ("He's like a broken compass in the kitchen. Whichever station he's at, he's pretty much lost." He's also like school in summertime, right?) and Matt ("He's a little nervous"). Ben is relieved not to be one of the two nominees, but Chef Ramsay wants to hear from one more person. Ben knows it's him, and steps forward to defend himself: this won't get him down and will make him work harder. Craig claims to have determination and to be embarrassed. Matt is ashamed about the raw chicken. Chef Ramsay wants to get rid of all three of them.