Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Things Fall Apart
By Daniel | Season 10 | Episode 8 | Aired on 06.26.2012
Brian's much more confident, but then he serves up a soupy risotto and Ramsay chews him out, much to the apparent delight of Tito Ortiz.
Christina tries again, and this time serving up a perfect dish, and Brian similarly serves a perfect dish on his second attempt. A non-copyright-infringement version of the Rocky theme kicks in, and Brian goes over to the chef's table to apologize and say, "I'm a [bleep] sometimes," and Ortiz tells him everyone makes mistakes, and then Brian does some boxing moves, which is bad enough, and he only makes it worse by adding squeaky little "pew! pew!" explosions. Ortiz can only shake his head in bafflement after Brian leaves.
Red has moved on to entrees, but Ramsay spots Tiffany absentmindedly tapping a knife against her lip and then using it to check the Wellingtons. Or, as Robyn puts it, she is basically "making out with the Wellingtons," and then Robyn elegantly starts rapidly thrusting her tongue out of her mouth. Robyn the apple-polisher loudly agrees with Ramsay that it's unsanitary.
Over in Blue, Patrick on fish and Roshni on meats are starting on their side's first entrée. But Roshni serves up raw Wellington and overcooked strip steak, prompting a tirade from Ramsay, asking her if this is the beginning of the end. More shots of Ortiz smiling. He really seems to be getting off on this.
Roshni starts over. Clemenza, who earlier screwed up pasta, can't believe Roshni screwed up steak. Is there anyone who finds steak easier to cook -- to get the correct doneness -- than spaghetti? At least Clemenza's solution is to try to help her.
Over in Red, Robyn seems to have gotten the idea that the chef's table is the table where VIPs sit so some annoying cook can blather on about herself and seemingly every single job she's had or training she has done. Amusing montage of Sugar Ray looking awkward and trapped. Robyn is oblivious (like she's oblivious to the fact that "conversating" is not a word) and thinks the Leonards loved her.
Tiffany rebuffs Barbie's attempts to come into her meat station, but then Ramsay gathers the team around (he has to repeatedly call over to Robyn before she stops bothering the Leonards) so he can show them Tiffany's shitty Wellingtons. He doesn't want to yell at them in front of Leonard the legend (a problem that he doesn't seem to have with Ortiz). Luckily for Tiffany, Barbie showily takes it upon herself to start fixing the problem, prompting Ramsay to wonder why Tiffany is letting someone else run her station and giving Tiffany the chance to blame Barbie for the Wellingtons she just screwed up.