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[TWoP Nikita]

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Chef Ramsay puts the contestants through a physical challenge involving lobsters; while the challenge winners enjoy a day on a yacht, the losing team must clean hundreds of pounds of fish; Ramsay is disappointed by a disorganized dinner service.

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[cooksdelight]

So, Gina just quits?? Did she take her puppet with her? Dang, I was looking forward to more puppet antics. How bizarre.

I hate "to be continued" on this show because you know they are building up something that will ultimately be nothing.

[Shugardrawers]

Gina was just insane! Has she even seen the show before? She did realize that it involved a great deal of yelling & confrontation is encouraged right? I saw absolutely nothing to support her claim that "everyone loves me". Really? Because no one could stand her from day one and she added no entertainment value whatsoever! Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Please tell me Jeremy is being kicked out too. Please? Good for Mary for owning her mistakes and her part in the team's failure and also for taking the criticism constructively instead of ignoring everyone and pouting.

Now if only GR would stop screaming constantly. I realize it's part of his schtick but I usually have to stop watching by mid season because I can't take the constant screaming. I hope he's not that way in his REAL places of business!

[olivia1]

GR complains on Kitchen Nightmares when the staff yells or talks where customers can overhear, but everyone in the Hell's Kitchen dining room can hear him yelling and cussing. Oh well, I guess the rules don't apply to him,

I was glad, but surprised that Gina just walked out.

I believe GR will just give Jeremy a pep talk next week. Big build-up for nothing.

[nottopbravo]

Mary to go next week.

[Modernwhimsy]

I think Gina comes from a place where people don't tell her no. She comes off as very self absorbed. She took her puppet and stormed out of the sandbox. Eh.

Seriously the squirrel on that dude's head isn't bugging the shit out of anyone else?? It's a 3 colored limp fauxhawk with long hair. It's so distracting!!!!

So we learned tonight that her definition of hoo ha are her boobs? Weird.

[cooksdelight]

I don't notice the squirrel as much as I do the guy with the weird haircut that has the HK logo on one side of his head. I keep staring at it, so I guess he achieved his goal of getting noticed. Couldn't tell you his name, however. I like the guy who hurt his foot, he was the one last week who was making the most sense in his THs.

Mary looked like she was going to throw up while in the elimination line. Has a chef ever done that? She might be the first if she keeps messing up.

[biakbiak]

Gina's quitting was so anticlamtic for such a batshit insane contestant that I fear her returning, or maybe there was an error on her psychological profile and the producers didn't find out until after they started filming and gave her that exit storyline.

[gryphon]

I was feeling good about the women's team now that Gina left...but I'm not sure now. There are some bright spots. Mary's voice grates.

[Modernwhimsy]

Agreed on Gina's exit being anticlimactic. And really considering how much dramatic airtime she got on the front end, she announces she wants to leave, Ramsey says BuhBye like he could give less than a rat's ass about it and on to the challenge. Very weird sequence or editing. Usually they would try to make that moment more of a tussle, if not just a TV tussle.

HairLogo and SquirrelHawk can both go....get a haircut!

HurtMyFoot will probably end up leaving. Hard to cook long hours on that. Not only painful but it will never heal without ice, elevation and rest...and that is if nothing else is wrong with it.

HooHas actually made sense tonight while arguing with Gina. I was shocked.

[Ladayada]

Really? Where do they find these people? Send in the "Worst Cooks in America" contestants and it would still be a tossup as to who would win.

[GaT]

I really thought Gina would be there for the entire show driving everyone crazy. What a surprise that she just decided to leave.

[mertensia]

Jeremy really should not be there. He's just too slow moving.

I'm so glad Gina the egotist left. I wonder if she had a hard time being out of NYC; I work at a hotel and some of the New Yorkers who vacation here (Arizona) are just so uncomfortable because they are not in NYC, we don't have East Coast accents, the scenery is different and some things they expect they don't find here.

[chesslover]

I wonder if anyone has thought of writing the cooking times on the arm/hand?

[OlfinBedwere]

Considering how hot it gets in a kitchen, that'd be a really bad idea. The ink would get washed off as the chefs started to sweat, which at best case would render the writing illegible, and at worst would get on the food, doubtless causing Ramsay to explode when he gets handed inky scallops.

[bemusedinCO]

Someone upthread mentioned plants- that some of the contestants could be plants. Bet Gina was one, chosen for the drama/craziness and to give GR someone to eliminate early on, to give the real contestants another week to compete. I'm thinking that Gina may even be an actor, with minimal cooking skills other than what she learned growing up, whose scripted role was to act crazy, disappear whenever real kitchen work was involved that would tip us off, and then quit early on. I also suspect that GR was told that "this season we cast at least one contestant who will will quit early on" so he was not surprised.

Edited by bemusedinCO, Mar 20, 2013 @ 9:23 AM.

[Modernwhimsy]

Cooking times will vary, even if on the same item. The reason you see them struggling with scallops is because of the heat of the pan, type of pan, size of pan, thickness of scallops prepped, amount of scallops crowded in pan, amount of oil in oan, pan is nonstick or not.....and that is just scallops. For something like protein stations the first one fired would be one thing but then you have to fire more after that. The variations are the same as above, but now with scattered start times. Thus you have to be able to touch it, blade temp it and consider rest times....that is if you are really a professional.

Tonight both sides struggled on the first ticket apps and that is always a wonder for me. Of course one of the gals has the palate of a rhinoceros so she was going to be putting up pans and pans of alkie risotto no matter what. Seasonings...yeah there is always that too!

The sick part of me would love to get yelled at by Ramsey! I need to get on that Plant list.

[JLVerde]

Pig eyed dimwit Jeremy should have hit the chopping block. He's such a big dumb pudding.

I enjoy Mary. She reminds me of Sonia on "Go On".

This show always cracks me up with the hyperbole. They talked up the luxury yacht (making it sound super huge) and when it was shown it looked like a tug boat.

I felt bad for the lobsters this episode, being flung about during the challenge. I'm sure they were praying to be boiled alive after that.

[olivia1]

HairLogo and SquirrelHawk can both go....get a haircut

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Hilarious!

HooHas actually made sense tonight while arguing with Gina.

I liked that too. It was funny with Gordon discussing her boobie nicknames with the others while they were on the yacht. Then he had to get on a little boat and zoom away. Busy..busy..busy!

[JLVerde]

HooHas cracked me up this episode.

Her whole "No-ooo" talking head followed by her telling Ramsey she wasn't wearing a brassiere (such an old lady word, it always makes me snicker) was just a hoot.

[fostersmom]

I felt cheated after Gordon shut both sides down. I wanted to see what happened when he saw the mangled lamb the one dimwit created.

[cooksdelight]

Gordon laid into someone once for using notes written on his hand or arm. I think it was that weirdo with the hat from MC, cannot remember who it was, but I would steer clear of doing something like that in his kitchen. They are supposed to know how to cook, and it's not like he gives them exotic items on the menu. A menu with recipes they are given in a notebook to study.

I like Nedra. I am not sure I would want her cooking for me, but she is a hoot and a holler to watch in action. My Hurt Foot seems like one of the few competent chefs there so I hope he heals quickly.

[Raguel]

Speaking of liking folks, I really don't know how to deal with the fact that I'm not hating one or more--or all--these Hell's Kitchen contestants. Don't get me wrong, I still think they pick these people up outside of an LA methadone clinic, but so far I don't detest anyone. Hmm...

[olivia1]

Jacqueline (JackieI think I have seen the chef named Jacqueline (Jackie) somewhere before. Does anyone recognize her from Chopped?

[Totale]

Once I looked more closely I did, I didn't remember her name but I think I remember her from Chopped, with her hair pulled back there she looked like a friend of mine who coincidentally is also a Jersey girl. Thing is on Chopped she looked really tall and here she doesn't - maybe she was competing against midgets that day.

[StinkPill]

Mary, sweetie, I have curly hair too. Please tame that shit. I thought this episode was pretty boring. I agree with the poster upthread who thinks that Jeremy will get a pep talk and sent back upstairs. This show is one of the worst when it comes to going to breaks promising us that something crazy will happen and then nothing. Oh well.

[fostersmom]

Jeremy is really young, 22. He's the youngest this year, but now I'm wondering if he's the youngest ever.

[PoorKitty]

I believe GR will just give Jeremy a pep talk next week. Big build-up for nothing.

Gordon will tell him to "focus", "get a grip", call him "big boy", then tell him "Now, fuck off!" (as in "go to bed" or some such) and that will be the extent of the "dunt dunt duhhh....to be continued" drama.

Jeremy is really young, 22. He's the youngest this year, but now I'm wondering if he's the youngest ever.

I'm sure what you meant was The! Youngest! Contestant! Evah!!!

I'm finding myself not hating any of these contestants either. I feel a bit sorry for some of the dumb bastards, but they seem to be a fairly acceptable-ish group of human beings.

[JTMacc99]

Gordon will tell him to "focus", "get a grip", call him "big boy", then tell him "Now, fuck off!" (as in "go to bed" or some such) and that will be the extent of the "dunt dunt duhhh....to be continued" drama.

Ha! it would be the most shocking thing ever on Hell's Kitchen if at least two of those things didn't happen. It's hard for me to imagine that "Big Boy" and "Fuck Off" won't happen.

[jmhm]

I'm going with Ramsay asking if Jeremy has lost his passion and his ability to fight back, which Jeremy will unconvincingly insist is not the case. There will be an awkward pause, and Ramsay will decide that he can stay because Gina went home.

I agree, it'll probably end with a fuck off, which (since we're going to have to recap the previous episode and Gina's entire two-episode glorious career) will give Jeremy just enough time to interview that he almost got sent home so he needs to step up his game before the first commercial.

I'm also going to go out on a limb and say that the Gina montage will involve Nedra saying bitch.

I'm really glad Gina went home. I wasn't looking forward to watching her fall apart on camera.

Edited by jmhm, Mar 20, 2013 @ 6:21 PM.