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[nottopbravo]

Here we go:


Kimme gone.

Edited by TWoP Mars, Jul 29, 2012 @ 4:53 PM.

[Pepper the Cat]

Goodbye Kimmie.,
Don't let the door hot ya where the good Lord spilt ya.

Will not miss her and her Barbie hate at all.

[Grimes]

I hate Kimmie as much as everybody, but really? Serving raw chicken twice in a row? That should be an automatic boot right there.

[ChainofFools]

So Kimmie thinks she should be rewarded for cooking after she supposedly got burnt, and I say supposedly because she looked like she thought she had messed up the catfish again when the great grease caper of 2012 happened. Guess what Kimmie, your saying you got burnt on the face, arm, hand, or anything else when frying is the equivalent of saying you got splashed with water when washing a dish. The fact that you seem not to get this proves more than anything how completely unready for prime time you and you natural beauty are.

Clemenza: When you first said you don't know what collard greens are because you are from New York, shows how stupid and unaware in terms of cuisine you are, but then I looked at you and realized that not only have you clearly have never been in a vegetable isle, and remembered that the self-professed king of Italian Cuisine did not know what eggplant tasted like, and I realized that you probably don't kow what carrots, corn and spinach are either. Then when you actually had the nerve to slam both Brian and Robyn because of their protein errors when you routinely f-up whatever station you are on, most notably when doing meat and fish, it dawn on me that the reason your skin is that complexion is most likely because the flow of oxygen is being cut off from your brain. This explains your never-ending delusions when it comes to your performance, and your insane thought that anyone should look to you in deference to anything other than stupidity and incompetence. Can you go next followed by Robyn.

Dana is showing herself to be a nasty piece of work more and more. It really is a shame that basically all of the women cheftants this go round are absolute horrors as human beings, and barely adequate cooks overall.

[Rachel Pringle1]

Kimmie's "Catastrophic cat fish!" To Kimmie I say: sometimes a devious person digs a hole for their enemy to fall in but instead, the person who dug the hole falls into it" I am glad to see Kimmie leave.

[ZoloftBlob]

Dana is showing herself to be a nasty piece of work more and more.

I don't know, I thought she was pretty nice about Barbie giving her the death glare on reward. Boo hoo, Barbie, Dana won the challenge for the team.

[ChainofFools]

Actually, Dana contributed to the win as did Kimmie and Barb, she could not win the challenge for the team if either lady bombed ala Dana's good buddy Christine. I think Barb's reaction to her was because dear Dana clearly forgot this basic fact.

[fugop]

Yea, I always find it obnoxious when the last person to get a point for a team thinks the win was all due to them. Everyone who got a point should take credit for the win. End of story.

Then again, I find myself rooting for Barbie simply because those other women are so hateful. I cheer every time Barbie outlasts one of them just because it's driving them crazy. Barb's still there so suck it, Kimmie!

[ZoloftBlob]

Oh agreed, but really, my vibe on it was that Barbie was pissed that she wasn't getting the hero edit - I don't see her calmly and sagely accepting that kind of win - if her dish had been the decider, I think we would have been hearing about it all during the reward. I don't really have a horse in this race - my thinking is that Christina will be the female finalist - but the mini meatloaf by Dana was the decider and it wasn't like Dana was being all "Bitches! I carried you all!".

Barbie, for all her "she can't cook, she can't cook, *I* can cook" isn't exactly head and shoulders above all the candidates, in my opinion. Better than Kimmie, and I am hoping Robin goes next to complete the trifecta of hate, but she's not so hot to trot that she can get away with the smugness or with the dirty looks.

Edited by ZoloftBlob, Jul 23, 2012 @ 10:29 PM.

[angelita100]

How would she know what her "edit was." At this point I don't think Barbie can stand any of them and why should she.

Edited by angelita100, Jul 23, 2012 @ 10:32 PM.

[ZoloftBlob]

I worded badly. What I meant was, she felt put out that Dana was claiming the victory. Which Dana was, a little, but not without *some* reason - she won her own point and then the challenge was won because her dish was deemed the best. And I just don't think Barbie, if she had been in that position, wouldn't have been crowing a little bit as well, and I do think she would have been annoyed at getting the same sort of death glare. She doesn't like them, which is fine, and she may not be willing to make an effort to win anyone over but neither Dana or Christina have been that unpleeasant to her. I don't think Barbie has deserved a lot of the crap that the idiots Tiffany, Kimmie, and Robyn put her thru, but neither do I think she's the innocent blameless victim who has never been unpleasant herself. Dana was crowing a little bit, Barbie decided to be a bitch and give her a nasty look, and got called out on it.

[Booklord]

Kimmie: "I can't believe my best friend Tiffany is gone!"
Dana: "Weren't you blood enemies a few services ago?
Kimmie: "But now that she is gone, I realize how much I miss her! [sob]"
Barbie: "Poor Kimmie I shall console her with my pity face."
Christina: "Barbie, please! She won't win. Everyone knows she won't win. Torturing her at this point is just mean."
Barbie: "Christina has a point. Kimmie threat has been nuetralized. New target for psychological manipulation. Dana."

Guest judge: "Ugh! This pork is raw!"
Brian: "Idiot! I'm a [bleeping] idiot!"
GR: "Don't eat that! It's instant death!"
Guest judge: "Raw pork is bad but I'm pretty sure it won't kill me."
GR: "Oops I might be referring to Brian's chances of winning."

Guest judge: "I can't decide between Dana's dish and Robyn's oversalted dish. Let me spend several moments thinking it over."
Robyn: "I hope I win. I hope I win. I'm sure the gagging motion was simply her getting overcome by the wonderful taste!"
Guest judge: "I choose Dana's!"
GR: "Victory to the red team! Who had the best dish?"
Guest judge: "I gotta go with Dana"
Dana: "Wait a minute. I barely beat Robyn's saltfest, but I have the best dish? I'm so confused!!!"
Christina: "Let me enlighten you on the concept of the commercial break, and how the final dish is always close."

Dana: "Barbie, why are you staring at me?"
Christina: "Dana, don't look her in her eyes!"
Barbie: "What's the matter Dana? Is there something wrong with my face?"
Kimmie: "Awkward. I feel Dana's pain but I don't want to risk Barbie's antagonisms while I'm on the edge after losing my best friend."

GR: "What does that fish taste like?"
Brian: "It tastes like fish."
GR: "Are you [bleeping] joking now?"
Brian: "Could it be chicken? pork? I'm sure it's one of the white meats."
GR: "Get out now you insane clown!"

Head waitor: "Despite that going back to the kitchen after be ejected is normally suicide, I suggest you try it anyway."
Brian: "I take your none too subtle hint and pray that Ramsay isn't setting me up to lose my jacket instantly."
GR: "What are you doing back? I kicked you out!"
Brian: "I will do better! The fish tasted like [bleep]. Give me another chance chef!"
GR: "Get back to work!"
Robyn: "That made no sense! I smell a conspiracy!"
Clemenza: "No just some obvious acting"

GR: "Barbie, you forgot to season the garnish! Are you trying to give my sabotage techs the night off again?"
Barbie: "Sorry chef. I'll do the next one better!"
GR: "I don't see how you can't as doing it twice in a row will get you sent to the hospital to be evaluated for a possible stroke."
Kimmie: "Ah Happiness and joy, if only my best friend Tiffany were here to enjoy this."
Barbie: "All goes to according to plan. My easily corrected mistake will further drive my team against me while not being near bad enough to risk my elimination."

GR: "Two raw chickens in a row! And you can't cook catfish! Burned on one side, uncooked on the other. You have awakened my wrath! Get out! Get out! Get out! Get out!"
Clemenza: "Not again!"
Justin: "I didn't do anything! I should stay!"
GR: "He finally speaks! When I recruited you as one of the pre-selected favorites, I told you to keep your head down and avoid the drama. But you're approaching invisible mute! Why didn't you even try to lead? I'm starting to favor Christina! Get out!"
Sabotage tech #1: "Maybe we were too rough on them."
Sabotage tech #2: "If the Robyn can't figure out the cooking oil she's frying the chicken in is only luke warm twice in a row then she deserves what she gets. You didn't see Christina falling for it. Besides Brian's over the top reactions are so funny I can't resist messing with him. Now let's go back to destroying Kimmie."

GR: "Kimmie burned the catfish again! You people are incredibly incompetent! Granted some of the fault is mine, as I've allowed some of the worst cooks ever invited into the show to survive so long. But I was hoping that some leaders would emerge. But I see none! Here Christina take this raw catfish. You were my hope! That you would take this disfunctional team and lead them to victory! But no! You seem helpless as Justin as your teammates crash and burn around you!"
Sous Chef: "Are we really going to finish for both kitchens?"
Customer: "I told you to eat before you came!"

Christina: "I gotta go with Kimmie. Barbie's agrees. Kimmie won't vote for herself though she probably should since she was by far the biggest disaster in the red kitchen. Dana?"
Dana: "I can't decide between Kimmie and Barbie. Kimmie screwed up the worst but Barbie's campaign to make me hate her has nearly corrupted all common sense."
Christina: "Dana, come with me to the bathroom."
SMACK!
Dana: "Thanks Christina, I needed that! I choose Kimmie!"

GR: "Robyn vs. Kimmie. Kimmie goes into over-emotional overdrive at the slightest provacation and gets frazzled easily. Robyn is in need of serious therapy and suffers from the delusion that her team is engaged in a conspiracy to sabotage her. It's [bleeping] hilarious that she thinks she still has any chance to win. I could decide based on cooking skill but what fun would that be? Robyn's personality disorder easily outweighs Kimmie's hysteria. Besides I really need to wipe that grin off Justin's face. Kimmie give me your jacket."

Edited by Booklord, Jul 23, 2012 @ 10:49 PM.

[GrrlPower]

Dana: "Barbie, why are you staring at me?"
Christina: "Dana, don't look her in her eyes!"
Barbie: "What's the matter Dana? Is there something wrong with my face?"
Kimmie: "Awkward. I feel Dana's pain but I don't want to risk Barbie's antagonisms while I'm on the edge after losing my best friend."

So Barbie is the antagonist now? Maybe I missed something b/c all I see is Barbie responding (maybe in a not-so-nice way, but who amongst us would be nice in her situation) to her teammates going for her throat every week. I realize that Dana and Christina have the *winner* edit, but they are no less racist than Kimmie, Tiffany, and Robyn. Co-signing bullying and intimidation makes Dana and Christina just as guilty as the other two. It's been a week since the last episode for us, but for the contestants, this staring incident is just the day after Dana and Christina voted for Barbie's elimination despite Barbie's flawless service - I would still be pissed too.

Once again, Barbie was being a great teammate (despite her treatment) and gave Christina great advice about doing an egg wash on fried chicken, but it was ignored. That seems to be even more evidence that it's not just Kimmie, Tiffany, and Robyn who are disrespectful to Barbie (and you can't say that it's b/c these contestants don't want advice in a competition b/c in that same challenge, Christina asked Dana about leaving the skin on the chicken). Is Christina still not deserving of Barbie's passive-aggressiveness?

BTW: Kimmie wasn't just some innocent grieving over her BFF - her crying spell was interrupted every 5 seconds with rounds of "Ima beat Barbie's ass" BS again. I just can't feel sorry for Kimmie supposedly being "on the edge" when she immediately goes back to her vile intimidation tactics.

The singing of ingredients was awkward. I can do without that again (although the woman who sang 'collard greens' was on point).

Edited by GrrlPower, Jul 23, 2012 @ 11:54 PM.

[Felix541]

So Barbie is the antagonist now? Maybe I missed something b/c all I see is Barbie responding (maybe in a not-so-nice way, but who amongst us would be nice in her situation) to her teammates going for her throat every week.

Yeah that's antagonistic, especially when she's also been pretty passive aggressive. She's dishing it out, just more subtly than the braying asses on her team.

BTW: Kimmie wasn't just some innocent grieving over her BFF - her crying spell was interrupted every 5 seconds with rounds of "Ima beat Barbie's ass" BS again. I just can't feel sorry for Kimmie supposedly being "on the edge" when she immediately goes back to her vile intimidation tactics.

I don't think anyone is disagreeing with you there.

[Booklord]

So Barbie is the antagonist now? Maybe I missed something b/c all I see is Barbie responding (maybe in a not-so-nice way, but who amongst us would be nice in her situation) to her teammates going for her throat every week.

Whether it's a devious plan of manipulation or revenge for slights done to her in previous episodes. The result is the same. Barbie is antagonizing her teammates. Ultimately it's a losing strategy. GR isn't going to hire someone who for whatever reason ( justified or not ) has chosen not to take the higher ground, gain her teammates trust, and work with 100% to help them to win the services and challenges.

BTW: Kimmie wasn't just some innocent grieving over her BFF - her crying spell was interrupted every 5 seconds with rounds of "Ima beat Barbie's ass" BS again. I just can't feel sorry for Kimmie supposedly being "on the edge" when she immediately goes back to her vile intimidation tactics.

Kimmie was ridiculously over the top with her emotional breakdowns. I too can't feel sorry for her every time she cries or close to crying. It just too tiresome. But I can make fun of it.

Edited by Booklord, Jul 24, 2012 @ 12:03 AM.

[Mystery]

I couldn't believe that Kimmie should thought she should stay because she's never been put up. She's been safe because she was PROTECTED, not because she was GOOD. I would've thought she was just grabbing at any justification that she could, but she seemed to really believe it. Ditto her thought that Barbie should go because of the number of times she's been up. Kimmie, if you're reading this, you can't put someone up every week and then claim that they deserved to go because of it. Some of those times were just Kimmie and Tiffany spite.

Does anyone think GR and the two chefs got out all the dinners for both kitchens, like he said they would?

[ZoloftBlob]

Does anyone think GR and the two chefs got out all the dinners for both kitchens, like he said they would?

I do. Not that hard of a menu - after all is said and done, just a lot of frying, and Gordan can sometimes be a tad ragey and judgemental, but he can cook.

And appetizers were already done. They knocked it out.

[willame]

Clemenza: When you first said you don't know what collard greens are because you are from New York, shows how stupid and unaware in terms of cuisine you are, but then I looked at you and realized that not only have you clearly have never been in a vegetable isle, and remembered that the self-professed king of Italian Cuisine did not know what eggplant tasted like, and I realized that you probably don't kow what carrots, corn and spinach are either.

The real humor here is that Clemenza works at least part time in an italian restaurant in Richmond, Virginia. Although probably not served where he works, greens are certainly well known here. Catfish and grits, too. The restaurant has received good reviews, but some of us are very happy that Clemenza has never mentioned Richmond on the air.

Edited by willame, Jul 24, 2012 @ 12:23 AM.

[NiagaraDvr]

Kimmie is the embodiment of every white southern negative stereotype. What a despicable, disgusting person. Cowardly too. And it isnt cause of her weight either.

[GrrlPower]

I need brain bleach after seeing Kimmie's ass crack.

I'm confused by the challenge in general. This was a Southern challenge, but there wasn't a Southern chef as a judge? Then the winning dish is meatballs (which I associate with Italian cuisine)? Clearly, I'm not a Kimmie fan, but I would have thought that her grits would have won out over Dana's meatballs, not just b/c meatballs isn't Southern, but b/c bacon is the easy way out - cardboard would taste wonderful wrapped in bacon. I wonder if Dana won b/c she's more, um, photogenic.

I'll admit that I have the dirtiest mind in the world b/c that butter churning did not look PG-13 - then the next scene is of Clemenza talking about balls. I had to have a few schoolgirl giggles.

Yeah that's antagonistic, especially when she's also been pretty passive aggressive. She's dishing it out, just more subtly than the braying asses on her team.

Dishing it out or defending herself? Is she just supposed to turn the other cheek? How many cheeks is Barbie supposed to have?

Kimmie was ridiculously over the top with her emotional breakdowns. I too can't feel sorry for her every time she cries or close to crying. It just too tiresome. But I can make fun of it.

I think I misunderstood the tone of your original post about Kimmie crying over her BFF. My bad :)

Edited by GrrlPower, Jul 24, 2012 @ 12:35 AM.

[lisasquared]

Welp, I won't be watching anymore. I cannot believe he sent Kimmie hope before Robyn. I don't care how she acts, Kimmie ABSOLUTELY deserved to stay over Robyn. This is a disgrace. Besides, if we want to judge these people on personality, Robyn is EASILY the nastiest, most shit-talking of the bunch. She's miserable and she cooks miserably. I'm sick of them choosing drama over quality on this show. Done.

[pollyanna]

I like Barbie -- they have all ganged up on her and used the "passive-aggressive" card. I don't see it; and if I were in her shoes I probably would have walked off the set a long time ago.

Now that Kimmie is gone, you think she'll watch the re-runs and see that her drunken BFF Tiffany was the true troublemaker by repeating the pool talk about her and blaming the WRONG person for trash-talking Kimmie? (I can't remember the wrong person she named. Was it Robyn?)

Yeah, can anyone picture Kimmie being contrite? LMAO. Glad her crybaby-nasty self is off my screen. Could you possibly imagine her running a restaurant kitchen of her own?

[Ginandtonic]

I was hoping GR would surprise us with a double elimination & both Robyn & Kimmie would be gone. I guess I'll just have to be happy to say bye to Kimmie & hope that Robyn is gone next week.

[Mystery]

It's hard for me to tell how badly Robin really did, because it seemed as if she kept having to cook more chicken when Brian kept ruining the fish. Wouldn't that mess up the other person's timing?

I forgot about the shot of Kimmie being prettied up, from behind! Nice tramp stamp.

[MagniFicent]

Justin, Christina, and Dana seem to be mortal locks for the final three. Barbie could possibly play spoiler, but given the composition of her team (Dana and Christina are BFFs), she'll be up for elimination again if the red team loses. She seems to be a (mostly) competent chef, possibly around Dana/Christina's level, but her constant eye-rolling and dirty looks, and mugging for the camera do get tiresome. When she made her comment last week about how she's being nominated because "she makes faces", my initial reaction was...yup. Pretty much. You are not the Jim Halpert of Hell's Kitchen. You are not so much better than everyone else there that you get to get away with throwing smug looks at the camera every time somebody else does something stupid.

Clemenza, Robyn, and Brian are living on borrowed time. They fuck up every single service, without fail...and yet two of the three will be getting black jackets next week. /boggle

Best/worst piece of editing this week?

Kimmie: I don't need this makeover. I have natural beauty. *cut to a shot of Kimmie's ass-crack hanging out*

Edited by MagniFicent, Jul 24, 2012 @ 1:05 AM.

[whatchootalking]

Haven't seen the episode yet, but Christina and Dana are racists who happily shared a room with Barbie until Barbie turned on them? This is not right. What a horrible accusation to make when the events do not seem to support a really vicious attack on someone's character. Yes, the two of them are racists who were horrified that (white) Robyn crawled into one of the beds, messing up the successful feng shui of a Christina-Dana-Barbie roommate situation.

Co-signing bullying and intimidation makes Dana and Christina just as guilty as the other two. It's been a week since the last episode for us, but for the contestants, this staring incident is just the day after Dana and Christina voted for Barbie's elimination despite Barbie's flawless service - I would still be pissed too.

And that "flawless service" was preceded by a massively shit-stirring performance during punishment and prep. Christina and Dana treated Barbie as a friend, at least as of the episode I cite above. What would be anyone's opinion of why that changed, other than that Barbie has been antagonistic? What are the theories here? That they suddenly perceived her as a threat, while they didn't before? That they suddenly woke up racist some subsequent morning? What's the theory here?

Edited by whatchootalking, Jul 24, 2012 @ 2:17 AM.

[GrrlPower]

Christina and Dana treated Barbie as a friend, at least as of the episode I cite above. What would be anyone's opinion of why that changed, other than that Barbie has been antagonistic? What are the theories here? That they suddenly perceived her as a threat, while they didn't before? That they suddenly woke up racist some subsequent morning? What's the theory here?

If I remember correctly, the punishment you are referring to is the ice? How was that Barbie shit-stirring? That was Kimmie trying to pick a fight when Barbie was checking the order and putting ice on the edge of the truck so her teammates wouldn't have to jump up into the truck every trip.

Where do you get that Christina and Dana treated Barbie like a friend? Barbie is either ignored (as in the episodes where there were alliances and Barbie was never named by anyone as part of an alliance) or she is bullied. What friend has Barbie had in the house? Christina and Dana never treated Barbie as a friend. They both were less vile than Tiffany/Robyn/Kimmie. But when it comes down to using Barbie as a scapegoat and taking the side of T/R/K as they intimidate and verbally abuse Barbie - Christina and Dana were all for that. If you've seen or read The Help, you'll remember that Hilly was the one who committed the most vile acts of racism, but Elizabeth perpetrated racism more subtly through compliance with Hilly. In the case of Hell's Kitchen, T/R/K are Hilly and Christina/Dana are Elizabeth.

[whatchootalking]

Wow, you're making some leaps there, and like I said, that's a very strong accusation to lay on anyone.

Where did they treat her as a friend? I've mentioned this scene repeatedly, and it's not like it didn't happen. Friend, BFFs, whatever, they surely weren't treating her as an enemy in the scene where all three of them freaked out about Robyn crawling into the spare bed in their room in the middle of the night. I've referred to this scene multiple times. They all seem to be happily sharing that room together - just the three of them (Barbie, Christina, and Dana) - and they all state that they don't want anyone messing with the harmony that is their living situation.

That sure as heck ain't hostile!

Christina's quote is "I don't want anyone changing the energy of this room." The three people in the room are Christina, Barbie, and Dana. How could a racist possibly be comfortable with the energy in the room when one of the other two people in the room is black?!

And the ice thing, that was left at agree to disagree. At minimum, I felt the job of getting to sit in the cool truck and perform a single action repeatedly should have been rotated. It's the job I would pick every last time. I've done both the lugging and the arranging parts of similar jobs. I mean, when you move, on occasion you have the person who moves stuff from the back to the lip of the truck and the people who have to lug stuff into the house/apartment. The truck job is the cush job.

I don't believe there was any "checking of the order." Let's see, we've got some ice. And some more ice. And another bag of ice. Yep, lots of ice.

I was all for Barbie when she was mixing it up with the vile Tiffany, and I thought her question as to why Tiffany was even there with her inattention to standards was on the money. I don't like the static she's been a part of since then. Christina does not strike me as someone who goes looking for drama or trouble, and even she was really annoyed about the prep.

Edited by whatchootalking, Jul 24, 2012 @ 4:19 AM.

[FriedButter]

I don't know which was worse - Big Kim's ass crack or her blubbery belly *shudders* It was great seeing her bomb at Southern cuisine during serviceand get sent home for it.

Then the winning dish is meatballs (which I associate with Italian cuisine)? Clearly, I'm not a Kimmie fan, but I would have thought that her grits would have won out over Dana's meatballs, not just b/c meatballs isn't Southern, but b/c bacon is the easy way out - cardboard would taste wonderful wrapped in bacon. I wonder if Dana won b/c she's more, um, photogenic.

Dana's dish was mini meat loaves not meatballs. I must have missed something because I'm not sure what you mean by it being the 'winning' dish. Did Ramsay say it was the best dish overall?

[cooksdelight]

Kimmie: "I don't need any makeup. I'm a natural beauty."

Really? Maybe you were blinded by it and that's how you once again got hot grease on yourself. So much for her Southern cooking expertise.

If Robyn can't fry chicken, how does she manage to run a food truck? I know she probably has no idea how to properly fix Southern fried chicken, but still she should know the basics of fully cooking meat. Why is she just now coming to the realization that she needs to look out for #1? Oh, I forgot, she's all about forming alliances.

No more tears, thankfully. Kimmie cried just way too much, she's so overly emotional. Ramsay was right, she's just not ready to run a professional kitchen. I hope she's OK after this experience, because it looked like it really took its toll on her.

Dana's dish was mini meat loaves not meatballs. I must have missed something because I'm not sure what you mean by it being the 'winning' dish. Did Ramsay say it was the best dish overall?

Yes.

They all seem to be happily sharing that room together - just the three of them (Barbie, Christina, and Dana) - and they all state that they don't want anyone messing with the harmony that is their living situation.

That sure as heck ain't hostile!

Kimmie is in there with them. You need to watch last night's episode, plus the previews, then perhaps readjust your take on how Christina and Dana feel about Barbie.

I don't believe there was any "checking of the order." Let's see, we've got some ice. And some more ice. And another bag of ice. Yep, lots of ice.

As has been stated before, you have to count each bag to make sure the order is correct. Gordon has in the past thrown a monkey wrench in that job by putting the wrong amount of items in the truck. Then, once in the kitchen when the truck is gone, they realized they didn't count everything and were screwed. If they wanted to rotate that job, all they had to do was tell Barbie to switch because I am sure Kimmie nor Tiffany never thought of that concept. It was much easier to just bitch and moan.