Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | 1 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Happy Anniversary, You Bunch of [Censored]
By Daniel | Season 10 | Episode 1 | Aired on 06.04.2012
So after the customers presumably ordered in pizza and wings and leave, Ramsay addresses the teams in front of the kitchens and lays down some stats: a hundred diners, eighteen chefs, zero entrees served. But one team sucked worse: the Blue Team, because at least the Red Team got their appetizers out.
The men discuss who's going to be up for elimination. Patrick figures it should be the two idiots on appetizers, because that's what really cost them. Royce whines that he couldn't get even one Caesar out because there were no anchovies prepped. Guy, who was responsible for it, doesn't see the big deal in that because all you have to do is go to the fridge and get them, which is true.
Clemenza's approaching it from a different perspective: who will be a better asset to the team in future competitions? He thinks Don is useless, which Don thinks is unfair because he didn't get a chance to do anything. Tavon also thinks it's unfair, and figures -- in a somewhat befuddling display of logic -- that Royce should be gone, because Royce screwed up just as bad as Tavon did but was Tavon's assistant.
With the women watching, the men file back into Hell's Kitchen and stand in front of Ramsay. Patrick tells him the first nominee because they couldn't recover from his raw squab. "You got screwed by a pigeon," says Ramsay, helpfully.
The second nominee is Don. Ramsay's surprised, because Don didn't even cook. So not only did they screw up the dinner, but they came to a "crap consensus" for elimination, he pulls Royce forward with Tavon anyway.
Tavon says he takes responsibility, and Ramsay asks him to rate his performance (using chef's positions as the scale). Tavon says, "Prep cook who got thrown onto the line." Ramsay counters with "dishwasher on a shitty day." Heh.
As for Royce, he didn't perform well tonight, but he was sabotaged and he's shown Ramsay what he can do with his signature dish. Ramsay asks him about the sabotage, and then Royce clumsily tries not to name names, and then blames Guy anyway. Guy admits to forgetting the anchovies, but that's hardly sabotage.
Ramsay's pissed off because he wanted the 125th dinner service to be special, and then he says his decision is Royce. A couple of the women gasp, but of course it's one of Ramsay's patented "back in line" moves, and not even Royce looks like he believed he was being eliminated instead of Tavon.
Tavon surrenders his jacket to Ramsay and leaves the restaurant. "Nobody wants to go home first, but I did what I did. I messed up," says Tavon, but he's looking forward to sitting on the couch and watching Royce go home the following week.