Episode Report Card Keckler: C | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Day 1
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 06.03.2007
The Red Team has started to fall apart as Melissa -- put in charge by Ramsay -- annoys the girls with her bossiness. It gets worse when plates of Joanna's overcooked spaghetti are sent back. When Joanna loudly blames the rejected spaghetti on Melissa because she was interfering with Joanna's process, Ramsay asks sous chef MaryAnn if the Red Team is arguing again. They are, she confirms. The Blue Team also implodes as sous chef Scott, getting more lines than he's had in two years, screams and swears that he can't believe they've run out of Beef Wellington, chicken, and lettuce. Finally, the moment we've all been waiting for -- Ramsay has had enough and orders Jean-Philippe to "shet it down!" Poor Jean-Philippe has the unhappy task of telling the few remaining diners, some of whom have been waiting hours for their food, that the kitchen is now closed. I think the new L.A. fad diet will be structured around going to Hell's Kitchen and not eating for three hours.
With the restaurant finally emptied, Ramsay shakes his head at the two sweaty teams and informs them that they all suck. Vinnie stupidly mouths off to Ramsay, saying that if Ramsay had just told him how he wanted a dish done, he would have done it that way. Everyone else's eyes bug as Ramsay calls Vinnie a "two-faced lazy little [bleeper]." Vinnie, not learning anything, questions the use of the word "lazy," and it's only when Ramsay asks him if he needs his "[bleeping] ass wiped" that Vinnie finally clams up.
Vinnie's moronic behavior aside, the Red Team ended up sucking more than the Blue Team. Ramsay rakes the girls over the coals for all their in-team fighting and dubs them "Hell's Bitches," and, since Melissa was the "best of the worst," she gets to put two of her teammates on Ramsay's chopping block. After talking to each teammate individually and promising Tiffany that she won't be sent home, Melissa presents Ramsay with Joanna -- for overcooking the spaghetti and arguing with her, I guess? -- and Tiffany. As in, the one she promised wouldn't be sent home, but also the first one to screw up the fried quail eggs. Ramsay looks them over and decides that while Tiffany was a hard worker, she just didn't have the passion. Tiffany hands over her jacket to be impaled on her assigned meat hook and doesn't seem too upset to be the first casualty in Hell. Before sending the remaining contestants off to bed, Ramsay reminds them how much better they all need to get if any of them have any hope of winning the proffered head chefship.