Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Cow Cow Boogie
By Monty Ashley | Season 5 | Episode 3 | Aired on 02.19.2009
Salads are being sent back for raw shrimp. Meanwhile in the dining room, Charlie is spilling bacon bits all over customers. With thirty minutes left in the service, steaks are starting to leave the kitchen, and Andrea is apparently doing a good job. Ben brings back a medium rare steak that the customer supposedly wants fired up to a medium. Chef Ramsay will have none of that. It's strange how he only does that when the contestants are the servers. I've never seen him tell JP that the customer was wrong.
Seth interviews that maybe he was bringing back steaks that didn't have anything wrong with them. Chef Ramsay seems to be suspicious of him. And as Andrea is momentarily confused about an order, the women run out of time.
The chefs are lined up in the kitchen. Chef Ramsay tells them they're being graded (he says "examined") on their performance in the dining room, their cooking ability, and the feedback from the customers. The men's worst waiter was Charlie. The women's was Lacey. But that doesn't really matter, because the team that served the most entrees was ... but first, a commercial!
Wait, the couple in this cellphone commercial have been married 38 years and have had eleven bulldogs all named Steve? That means that either they've had more than one Steve at a time, or their average lifetime was under four years.
Okay, we're back. The women won. LA interviews that she kind of wanted to lose so they could cut some dead weight. The men are sent off to pick two nominees. Some people want Charlie. Charlie wants Giovanni. Seth also wants Giovanni because, he interviews, if he gets rid of the strongest person, then he'll be the strongest person. Great plan there, Gilligan. People tell Giovanni to his face that they're nominating him because he's the strongest competition, and he gets very angry and Italian, which is represented by the phrase "youse guys."
Back in the kitchen, the men line up in front of Chef Ramsay. J says the first nominee is Seth, who gives one of those Degrassi-style "psssh!" noises. It's because Seth doesn't have the kitchen experience. Second up is Charlie for his front-of-house performance, but while J is saying this, Seth interrupts him and asks if they could go down the line, because he's not sure J is allowed to speak for everybody. J innocently raises his eyebrows and says, "The chef asked me." Then he smirks a little as he adds, "So keep your mouth shut." Awesome. Seth keeps babbling about how he wants to make sure everyone's in agreement with J. Well, obviously the thing to do now is for everyone to back up J and make Seth look like a delusional nutball.