Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Michael, If This Is a Lecture on How We're All Supposed to Whatever and Blah-blah-blah…
By Daniel | Season 11 | Episode 11 | Aired on 05.14.2013
Meanwhile, Susan's struggling on garnish, so Mary comes in to help, and Susan is of course grateful for the help -- HAHAHA! No, she's complaining that she's not learning anything from Mary that she didn't already know. Pretty cocky for someone who was supposed to sauté onions and served up some kind of onion soup instead. "I'm not an idiot," she says. [Footage not found.]
Then things click a little for Red when they start communicating again, and they've got their part of the next order ready, putting the pressure on Blue, but their dishes are fine too. Red's really starting to hum, and starting to pull ahead of Blue, and since we see Michael bragging about what a fish wizard he is, we know there's going to be a problem, and he serves up halibut that's raw in the middle. That's really pedestrian, Michael. He apologizes and refires, Ramsay yelling at him. But his next batch isn't better, and Ramsay chews him out for putting only one new one on, and reheating the other one. "You didn't have the balls to cook me two fresh," he says, and then he brings Jean-Philippe over, hands him a timer and tells him to give Michael a five-minute timeout in the back. That doesn't sound so bad! I guess the punishment is he gets stared at by stars like someone named "Lisaraye McCoy" who is on something called "Single Ladies" during his timeout.
Then Zach doesn't cook an order of pork all the way through, and Ramsay's too worn out to yell very much. Meanwhile, Red's on their last ticket, all pretense of coordination long since gone out the window. Michael's timeout is finished, and Blue manages to cook some halibut all the way through, and both sides finish their service.
Ramsay tells Red that they won, and Susan says her prayers have been answered, given that she would have been in big trouble if Red had lost.
Ramsay tells Blue to come to a consensus for one guy for elimination (reminding them to consider the candidates' total performance), and they head back to the dorm to hash it out. Obviously Michael's a prime candidate, and Zach maybe wants to show a little restraint in dumping on Michael, since he wasn't flawless tonight either. Michael says he made mistakes but wasn't alone, and that his good services are better than other peoples' good services. Anthony is also under fire for his cold sauce.
While they debate, Ramsay calls Red and says he needs to see them all in his office. They show up, nervous, and he tells them they need to select someone to join the Blue team and help turn them around. Susan tells us she can't wait to volunteer, so she can show Ramsay that she can take a losing team and turn them into winners. That's hilarious from someone who almost turned a winning team into a losing one tonight.