Loved this episode, the series is great so far. I hope they don't get rid of the cast members that generate the entertainment like "Rebel Billionaire" that show started off really strong but the cast sucked. That being said I watch this show for G-ram the guy is hilarious. B-side why the half-hearted censorship? I don't think I've ever seen f-ck and shit together like that before.

In: I have a doctorate in music from the University of Southern California.

Out: I drive a Dodge Stratus.

I loved all of the horrible things that Chef Satan snarled at the team members and the patrons. Loved it when he called Jeff the "little f**cker", and Dewberry Muffin will be missed! What a puss! I thought the Maitre'D just kept saying "no but I have an education". I wanted the Music Doctor to punch him just for being smarmy. Does Hell's Kitchen have bouncers? Who was the guy that rescued Jean?Lookin forward to next weeks' episode/ recap! Hope Satan really lays into that little pissant Andrew.

dude. i tuned in because of your recap/recommendation last week. thanks. it was hil-f*cking-larious! poor dews... so short a time and such a lasting impact. carolann who?

it's so stressful watching this, since i remember working in restaurant kitchens and having maniacal bosses like that. but throwing out perfect lamb chops would never happen!

and puh-leeeze re: the "patrons". they're eating at a restaurant set on an old fox lot on labrea. if the producers wanted to pass off the "customers" as real customers, it's just not working. we're screaming at the tv: "what are you bitching about? you're an out of work actor getting screen time and a free meal. get over yourself." did the "patrons" have to sign SAG/AFTRA waivers for their meals? shyeah.

it's amazing how much better everyone looks in their chef coats...they're so thick, they cover nearly everything.

i think pretentious chris is strangely cute. but then again, he doesn't have many lookers to compete against.

I kept being irritated at the TV because I swear those were cucumbers not zucchinis.

I thought you might say something about that.

Maybe it's just me.

Re: catchphrase . . .

How about "You're out of the frying pan and into the fire!" or

"If you can't stand the heat, get the F*CK out of my kitchen!"

I love Gordon!

Everyone knows that you should NEVER mess with someone who has a Doctorate in Music. People like that are extremely violent and crazed. For example, have you ever seen a music conductor wave an orchestra baton? Those things are scary!

I took a shot of whiskey every time Chef Ramsay uttered a bad censored word, was mean to a customer, or whenever "Whatever" girl said "whatever."

As for the comment above about Chris being "cute," I won't comment on his face, but I did notice he had strange looking feet. I noticed this when he was brushing his teeth. I would have rather looked at Jeff's kidney stone.

Dude, you're dying? Whatever.

Happy Gal - "If you can't stand the heat..." -- that's actually pretty good!

Gnarkill - because of certain contracts we have with certain sponsors, we're not allowed to have R-rated content on our site. alas, the sad reality of big business.

"if you can't stand the heat..." definitely gets my vote.

What about "Dawberry, you've been flambee'd"

You know good reality TV is a fine line. I know its fake, but I need to have at least a sliver of actual reality come through for me to enjoy it. Yes Road Rules/Real World challenge is full of media whores creating fake arguments and overreacting for the cameras, but the sheer stupidity of those people always shines through and makes it worthwhile. Yes Apprentice is people trying to get 15 minutes of fame and the “job” they get is really a PR thing, but Trumps a delightfully obnoxious host, and the people really get cutthroat.

But Hell’s Kitchen is just TOO fake. I don’t believe Ramsey’s tirades for a second. He’s just trying to be the “New Simon Cowell”. And his assistants are the same. The “angry no nonsense” sous chef characters. And that “restaurant”? Whatever. It’s a goddamned soundstage. Those “customers” are all just people who want to get facetime on a reality show so it’s a contest to see who can create the biggest disturbance. “IF I order Pizza, I’ll get on this episode for sure!” And the whole “shut it down” thing. If any chef ever did that in an actual restaurant, they would never survive. Its all a stunt to create fake tension. You know the girl eating pizza B-Side, how exactly did she get involved? SHe knew she was entering a soundstage to be on a reality show right?

And now the only thing that kept me watching is gone. My sweet Dewberry. And let me tell you. nothing gets me going then a sweaty Dewberry.

I’ll defend the Caesar salad comment though. Those things are a pain in the ass to prepare. You have to fold in the partially cooked egg at jus the right time, add the oil in small batches while tossing. It’s a pain. Its worth it though because the store bought stuff doesn’t even touch it.

All that being said I saw a commercial for next week when one of the cooks was telling Simon, OR Gordon, or whatever, how she heard cold water boils faster than hot water. THAT could be the glimmer of real stupidity that could make this work.

Coconuts, if you took a shot of whiskey for every bleep, "whatever," or sign of rudeness, you must have been passed out drunk by the first commercial break!

Eddiebosox, Gordon Ramsey has had 4 shows in the UK over the past several years, none of which were a competition for him to mimic Simon Cowell, and he is acting now just like he always did on those shows. In addition, food critics say that even before the very first show, he was abrasive, foul-mouthed, and difficult with staff, customers, and critics alike. When it comes to having a harsh personality, I think he's the real deal!

I love this show and your recaps. I wish Kidney stone would have left. Dewberry was just fun to watch.But eww the t-shirt, I think Gordan should have said "Nevermind put the jacket back on and leave"

HAHAHAHA!.. i'm still laughing 2 days later.. my favorite line was when g'ram called dewberry a big fat overstuffed muffin.. tears are pouring right now.. the funny thing is dewberry really does look like a overstuffed muffin... and those man boobs were truly disturbing.. had to be at least a d cup.. i wonder if his nipples get hard when he's aroused? they must stick out at least half an inch. i love this show..my boyfriend can only shake his head in dismay.

I have more to say about this show. But I just had to get this off my chest.

WHAT THE FUCK WITH THE KILLING OF ALL THESE ANIMALS & THEN YOU BITCH ABOUT HOW THEY DIDN'T COME OUT RIGHT SO LETS THROW EVERYTHING AWAY!?!?!?! All these lambs parts & squids & I just think it's frikin disgusting & horrible.

Forget about all those starving people out there that could eat what that prick throws away. But all these animals are killed & for nothing.

I can't wait till this phase in America ends. It's all about being mean & selfish & assholes.

I'm gonna miss Dewberry soo much, if only because I won't get to hear Gordon say his name anymore.

Great show (and, as always, great recap)! I have to say I loved it when Chef Ram called Chris a "lazy f**ker". He's about 1000 times better to watch than Simon Cowell - you know this is what he's really like. It's hard to fake a perfectionist control-freak! Besides, whether it's real or not, it is fun to watch Chef Ram jump all over these restaurant "patrons". How many times have you been in a restauarant when some self-important starts making a loud stink over something? It is all good fun!!

I have some friends in the resaurant business. Supposedly the way that G-Ram talks to the contestants is really the way that chefs talk to their sous chefs. My friend is a restaurant manager and a very nice girl in general. The kitchen screwed up an order (I think somebody asekd for no dairy in their pasta). She walked back into the kitchen and yelled "What the fuck is this?!"

The chef repsoned "What the fuck do you think it is?!" And the conversation carried on like that. Supposedly that's just how it goes in the Kitchen. I don't think G-Ram is that over the line in tht regard. I'm not sure why he berates his own customers though, that's just for TV I guess.

Am I the only moron on the planet who did not know what a sous-chef was before this show????

If I am, please don't tell me.

GEneieve, they died so we could laugh while he shoved their caracsses on dewberrys mantits.

Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, TVGasm for adding both this wonderfully awful show and Beauty and the Geek to your repertoire. Words cannot describe how happy these make me.

I <3 you guys!

"beach ball in a mosh pit"!!! HA!

catchphrase? steal from trumps wing shackL

"you're frierd!"

Also, the Friends rerun was on last night where Phoebe dates Monica's sous-chef, and when he explains that as a sous-chef, he's under Monica, Phoebe says, "I sous-stand."

Classic.

Excellent summary!

I wonder if Dewberry's parents were trying for a "classy" name like "DuBarry", but just went all Southern instead.

Catch phrases

Your goose is f-ing cooked!
Your souffle is f-ing fallen!
Your hollandaise is f-ing broken!

Basically any cooking problem with G's expletive of choice.

Am I the only one to notice... that Jeff(kidney stones) Doesn't have any shoulders??? I'll miss you Dewberry.. Your sweaty ass face and your Man-Boobs.

my first time on this site...I LOVE IT!

excellent recap!

Although I loved him, i'm glad Blueberry is gone...I just couldn't watch another episode of him sweating all over everything! eww!

In the South, it's common to name kids (boys and girls alike) with family names (as in last names.) Dewberry could have been his mother or grandmother's maiden name or the last name of someone from a few generations before where the name hasn't carried on. I know girls named Cooper, Calvert, Bingham and the like, so a boy named Dewberry isn't a stretch.

Sorry Bunnyhop, we all knew what a sous-chef was...

I thought a Dewberry was a little computer.

Who the F,,, would call a kid Dewberry? Does he have sisters and brothers? What are their names?

Dewberry with a Rasberry Beret!! What a picture that conveys..

So happy you are doing this show !!

See you next week !

Your recap's hi-larious.

"I HAVE A DOCTORATE IN KICKING YO ASS!!"

Hehehe.... I wish, oh how I wish.

This SHOW kicks ass.

I feel a certain emotion towards Dewberry. I mean I definitely felt he should be the one to go, but I feel sorry for the poor guy. Thank you B-Side for mentioning the narrator. He was soooo annoying. They need to get rid of him fast; he's destroying the show. I thought the episode overall was a good one. Lots of drama and lots of laughs. I still can't get over boygirl stepping over kidneystoner grawling "whatever". Unbelievable.

I often wonder if the actors...I mean, restaurant "patrons" have to audition for a role as "complaining customer" when they go back to talk to the big man, or if it's just luck of the draw....or if they have every single one of them do it and pick out the cherry ones.

Spectacular summary B-Side. I caught the first two episodes yesterday while I was home sick, and I'm kind of on the fence about tuning in Monday, though the Gordonisms alone may be worth it.
I was kind of disturbed by the squid competition too. By my count, this is the second time this season cucumbers have received hand release on a reality show (the other of course being the cluster-f that was the Apprentice Dove ad).
I can't believe no one brought this up earlier... anyone catch The Office's Ricky Gervais' cameo in this episode? Screaming UCLA music guy looks an awful lot like him, no?

I thought Dewberry was great on the show. I've been a friend and coworker of his for a couple of years now- he has an incredible sense of humor and a very caring heart. His true personality wasn't shown on HK. Don't write him off, though. I'm sure we'll be seeing more of him on other shows soon!

BTW~ "Dewberry" is his last name, not his first

I thought Dewberry was great on the show. I've been a friend of his for a couple of years now- he has an incredible sense of humor and a very caring heart. His true personality wasn't shown on HK. Don't write him off, though. I'm sure we'll be seeing more of him on other shows soon!

BTW~ "Dewberry" is his last name, not his first

Dewberry would make one of those good Southern lawyers, dressed like Colonel Sanders and hold onto his lapells(sp?) saying "I do declare!",etc.

While I agree that the restaurant patrons are clearly extras pulled off the street just to fill the place, the tension is undoubtedly real. Granted, if someone offered me the chance for a free meal by a world-class chef (and Ramsey is most certainly that - his reputation is incredible) and a chance to be on TV, I don't think I would readily complain to the chef. The pizza stunt, while hilarious, was unbelievably tacky. "I only wish your education matched your mouth" was a great one-liner, and from a Frenchman, no less! Jean-Philippe's cool head prevailed, however, and so the American jackass came off as, well, a jackass. With a doctorate. In "music". How vague.

All in all, my favorite show of the summer so far. One of my good friends is a food geek, knows all about Ramsey and his past behavior, and rest assured: it's not an act. He has a history of cursing at staff and patrons alike, and has been know to physically remove people (including a well-known food critic, once) out of his establishments. The guy used to be a footballer, fer crissakes. Just take on look at his face, with the scars and such, and the clip from next week when he tells someone to "get over here" and I can say that I wouldn't want to piss this guy off. God bless the TV landscape.

And I hear that BBC America is starting to rerun his old episodes of "Boiling Point", in which he apparently is even more brutal to his potential chefs.

rico, BBC America runs Ramsey's shows Boiling Point, Beyond Boiling Point, and Kitchen Nightmares parts 1 and 2. They are all highly entertaining, and I recommend them to anyone fortunate enough to get BBC America. Sometimes on the weekends, they do marathons of Ramsey shows. In the UK, his name gets used as a verb, as in, "He Ramseyed me" meaning "he lost it and cussed me out."

first of all..cleaning squid aint that big a deal...next ramsey is going nuts turning off the fan ...o sweat into my food....that is so attractive...the people with the pizza were great....the fancy host looks too greasy to be real...i am waiting for his hair just to slide off his head...

o dewberry isnt that bad a name ...come on yall...be nice...what is with that people being cussed at and staying........... how much money is going out the door with this place....i realize fox is gonna do well from it....gram is more of a celeb now than a chef...

Ashes, thanks for the heads-up. I'm going to have to somehow catch all of those episodes, because my appetite has been whetted. I don't even know if that's correct spelling/syntax, but I don't care. I want more Ramsey.

The customers aren't actors. In the UK seats have gone out to actors, but also singers, politicians, other chefs and all kinds of critics. Ramsey is genuinly that rude to people! He only cars about his food he doesn't give a sh!t about customers hes too rich and too successful to care! Hes the man!!!

Is Andrew the same Andrew who was on The Apprentice? It's been driving me crazy since I saw the show.

Great show, hilarious write-up by B-side. I eagerly await his next installation.

Jimmy (aka Jim to us) comes across much better in person, but seems very nervous on the show. He has a great personality. I hope he lasts a long time, but he isn't allowed to tell us. He really deserves more air time.

Catch phrase:
It's time to cut the fat.

No change that catch phrase to:

It's time to trim the fat.