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Wednesday, July 4, 2012
1:35 pm
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Tagged: bitch fight, Family Night, hell's kitchen, RAWR, steak
On Monday night’s episode of “Hell’s Kitchen,” the chefs competed in a challenge requiring them to make steak dishes. Robyn’s dish was chosen to be presented over Kimmie’s. When tasted, Robyn failed miserably, and Gordon thought that the red team made the wrong choice. He loved Kimmie’s dish and thought that it would have given the blue team a run for their money – and could possibly have won the challenge for the red team. The only logical conclusion for Robyn to draw was that this was a conspiracy against her.
Or maybe you’re just a terrible chef, Robyn.
The episode left us wondering if Kimmie would make it back into the kitchen after severely burning her hand and arm on hot pan grease.
On a side note, I know the opening theme is pretaped and mostly special effects. However, am I the only one hoping that one of these days the knives will hit Robyn?
So close.
OK, let’s get into this episode. We pick up just after Kimmie left the kitchen to see a medic about her burns. Gordon tells her, “The good news is, it’s only a burn.” I don’t think Gordon understands how good news works. Then the medic puts a few band aids on Kimmie’s fingers. That’s it? They made this seem like it was such a terrible burn! Kimmie just got the same treatment Guy did when he slightly cut his finger a few episodes back. They kept telling us that she burned her whole arm! Stop lying to me, reality TV editors!
When Kimmie returns to the kitchen, her teammates are very happy to see her. Even Barbie and Dana have a lot of encouraging things to say to her! Is anyone surprised that Robyn isn’t happy that someone else is OK. She tells us that Kimmie is a crybaby. Shut up, Robyn. Burns fucking hurt. Yes, Kimmie tends to cry more than others, but this time it was totally justified!
This is what a good teammate looks like, Robyn.
It’s time for Hell’s Kitchen to open. So it’s Family Steak Night. What kind of parent brings a kid to something like this? If you agree to be on this show, you probably know what Gordon is like in this context. It’s probably a bad idea to let your kids witness that live. I have no problems with curse words at all. However, I also know there are some things you don’t say when there are little kids around.
What does “fuck off” mean, Daddy?
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aaaaah kimmie… I think she becomes likeable because she doesn’t care anymore if Robyn likes her. She’s gaining confidence. Happy for her that her burns were not severe.
I can’t stand Robyn and Tiffany anymore. Especially Tiffany. She made me understand what it is that you americans call “white trash”. I mean, can you get more vulgar than that? She’s ugly, mean and gross. At LEAST Robyn is a little funny in her delusion.
But I guess they will keep those two because only having sort of decent people in the team for the finale is just not funny enough for the show. They always keep one or two trouble makers in the final 6.
Did anyone else notice in the previews when Gordon was “yelling at the Blue Team in private”, you couldn’t see Robyn????? I can only pray she was already kicked out of the kitchen…
I also kept waiting for Barbie (or ANYONE) to mention to Tiffany that as far as we could see SHE finished every station that Tiffany was on tonight. BARBIE cooked the pizzas. BARBIE cooked the bellinis. (And she did it in English.) Tiffany is worth absolutely nothing in the kitchen. NOTHING. If I were Gordon, I wouldn’t even want Tiffany or Robyn on a show I was in charge of.
I get why Patrick was kicked off, makes me sad – because I think he could have gone further, but I get it. BUT HOW IN THE WORLD did PATRICK leave before Royce, Robyn AND Tiffany???? You know that tiny tagline at the end of the episode that says Gordon consults with Producers before making a decision, yep – THIS is the most obvious moment ever…
Okay, I know why everyone else was pissed at Brian, but he cracks me up. I know I can work with kooky people, and that’s what I see in Brian. Yes, he should have answered Clemenza in English…at some point – but it was hilarious when Gordon told him to imitate a chef. And Justin managed to show up this week, I am actually impressed by the guys left.
And I’m with you, still not sure how Red Team sucked so badly, but didn’t lose anyone…
I seem to be the only one who despises Kimmie even more than Robyn, and believe me, I feel gross for saying I dislike someone more than Robyn. hame Elise isn’t in this season, then I’d have two people to hate more than Robyn. But Kimmie just disgusts me. Everything she says and does, even just looking at her hideous fat face and lack of neck just makes me taste vomit in the back of my throat. She’s just crass, gross and trashy, with a one digit IQ and a 14 word vocabulary. And I fear for my friends, they want to make a drinking game based around this show. If they take a shot every time Kimmie says the word “bitch”, they’ll suffer alcohol poisoning before the show’s even halfway through and I don’t want to be the designated driver in the way to the hospital!
Plus, she clearly attempted to sabotage Robyn with the timing. Yeah, she really should have asked Christina if Christina’s garnish is ready, but come on. Christina is standing like 3 feet away from Robyn, she can speak up on her own and say “This time on garnish, how long till you serve your meats?” Also, considering she’s cooking garnish for both Robyn and Kimmie’s dishes, she did not communicate with Kimmie at all, only communication I saw was after Gordon chewed Robyn out. And Kimmie just kept changing the times afterwards and Robyn stupidly did not know how to deal with it.
I’m sorry, I hate Robyn, but I hate Kimmie more, and I would not mind the sabotage so much if fucking Shamu owned the fuck up to it! I hate fat scum-suckers that act all tough just because they’re freaking huge but then don’t have the balls, or ovaries, or whatever the fuck Kimmie’s got, to back up their loud tough talk. And I do believe Kimmie really does care what Robyn thinks, because she never wastes an opportunity to scream at Robyn, be it starting the screaming or following Robyn’s initial scream I just wish Kimmie’d drop dead already. I mean, look at the size of her, she has her own gravitational pull. Add to that the fact that she smokes, and honestly, how much longer can she have left? Yeah, I’m being real ugly and harsh, but I’ve had bad experiences with people like Kimmie, and I’ve had a lot on my plate to deal with lately. Don’t judge me!
The sabotage was crystal clear to me, and I feel the only reason the rest of tthe team kept their mouths shut was because they dislike Robyn more. Well, except Barbie, who’s just calmly going by what she has to do (which is prep and cook!) while she lets the other women self-destruct in their petty bickering and cliques like the morons they are. It’s why Barbie’s easily my favorite and I do hope she wins the whole thing. She and Justin are the only people I’d sorta trust in a kitchen, but I’m not really rooting for Justin because I keep forgetting he exists.
I’m sorry to be a nitpicker, but I can’t stop myself. A Bellini is a cocktail, the little buckwheat pancakes that they were serving are called Blinis.
Though I am fairly sure that these “chefs” would fail equally at preparing either one.
@awfuleyebrow – are they basically pronounced the same? Is that why we are confused? (Because, they don’t tend to put the food names in the translations at the bottom of the screen.) I’m always about being ed-u-ma-cated, though!
Yes, the pronunciation is basically the same. I know it is a detail that has absolutely no bearing on any of our lives, but I am a sucker for random, useless, trivial information. Therefore you must all suffer my nitpickery. Sorry.
I used to dislike Kimmie,but she’s kind of growing on me,like a benign fungus. Robyn,on the other hand,strikes me as a male who had a sex reassignment surgery that just didn’t take. It will be interesting to see how she does on the men’s team. I don’t see Clemenza saying, “Watch the language. There’s a lady present.”
However,we may hear, Watch it guys. She’s got a knife.”
@awefuleyebrow: Thanks for clearing the bellini/blini thing! I tried to look it up and, what confused me most was coming across a recipe for a pancake made with the cocktail. I thought that was what they were making! That would probably taste weird with smoked salmon!
I have a whole rant planned about Robyn, Royce, and Tiffany outlasting Patrick, which I will place in my own recap next week, but I just have to say one thing to Gordon/production/whoever made that call: BITCH, PLEASE. If Patrick is reading these recaps (which I’m so sure he must be), he can rest assured that he was eliminated because he wasn’t bringing the requisite amount of white trash melodrama to the table, not because he bunged up some steak. Royce is ridiculous, Robyn is literally insane, an Tiffany couldn’t be bothered to give a damn enough even to lie about giving a damn. This show is like the ANTM of the competitive cooking show circuit.
@potatomom: i’m really enjoying your most recent comments, they make me laugh. thanks for lightening up a bit and having fun with us.
” That would probably taste weird with smoked salmon!”
One of my favorite shots involves tobiko, ponzu, and a raw quail egg, so a smoked salmon drink doesn’t sound too odd to me.
Actually, now I’m wondering how to put one together. It would have to be citrus-heavy.
@Chris Velazquez : Come on, Kimmie isn’t the only one who says “bitch” all the time. Except for Barbie and Christina who are a bit lighter on the swearing, those girls are all the same on that particular topic.
I don’t even care about the swearing. Hell, I’m french, I lose count of how many times a day I say “putain” and “merde”. Some behaviors are just so much worse than swearing. Robyn has looked for trouble and conflict since the first day, and I just don’t want to talk about Tiffany who is the most gross person I have ever seen ^^.
And as for the sabotage, you might be right, even if it is NOT the vegetable station that control timing, it is meat and fish, and Robyn SHOULD have talk to Christina. And she shouldn’t have lied to Gordon. Everybody knows what happens when you lie to Gordon. Even when you’ve been sabotaged.
Great recap!
BlueCanary- we can’t wait to read your rant! And we 100% agree that Patrick was kicked to the curb because the producers were dissatisfied with his drama level. We stopped watching last season when it became obvious that the best chefs were getting kicked off for this very reason.
“. . . Tiffany who is the most gross person I have ever seen.”
Ah, so she really is more than just another pretty face. She should have interviewed than she is on Hell’s Kitchen to prove that she is more than just another white trash piece of merde.
Dana is the one I’m beginning to dislike the most. Her confessionals have a really high creep facter. She always seems like she’s fighting smiling when she’s saying things that aren’t smile-worthy. I don’t know that I can really put into words. She just doesn’t seem at ALL genuine or something. Like she’s reading from que cards or asking “Was that okay? Did I get it right guys?” after every thing she says.
And Robyn deeply needs to be medicated. And to have her jaws fixed since only the bottom one (and her bottom lip) move.
Tiffany is just nasty. I vote her most likely to spit in a customers food ‘just because’.
I would not want to eat in a restaurant where anyone but Christian, Barbie or Justin worked.
@Crankyguy : there is not enough words in english for me to say what i think that “woman” is. Each other girl in that team has her own kind of bitch, but somehow Tiffany manages to be all kinds at once. Everytime i see her i think “ew”, everytime she talks i think “ew”, she just plain disgusts me. EEEWWW. ^^
@timgunnssister, I think I know what you are getting at about Dana. Her demeanor somehow reminds me of some local TV news anchor who reports about a deadly car crash while never forgetting her practiced mannerisms of forced smiles and coquettish head tilts and wide open eyes. Dana is not exactly like that, but gives off a similar vibe, smiling where smiling is inappropriate.
@BlueCanary: I am excited for your rant too!!! If this truly is the ANTM of cooking shows, then Robyn is Jade (cycle 6): the delusional one who is masking infinite insecurities by being a bitch to everyone. Granted, Jade got better outside the show. I actually like watching her YouTube recaps when she does them. I don’t think Robyn has the potential to EVER be likeable.
I kind of figured that Patrick wasn’t going to win, but for him to go out over Robyn (who acted like a 2-year-old in front of Gordon), Tiffany (who admitted that she doesn’t care 100%), and Royce (who is Royce) is BS. Gordon probably HAD to proclaim there was no winner so he could take out someone who brought minimal drama while creating a somewhat believable elimination.
@Leto: After rewatching the episode, I don’t think it was intentional sabotage. Robyn and Kimmie were just acting like children and didn’t want to communicate with one another. I think they both are at fault for what happened.
@KartofflMutter: Thanks for reading! It’s nice to see you again.
Robyn may be a woman, but I don’t think anyone will be confusing her for a lady. I can just imagine the men crying themselves to sleep at night because of her!
@JimBob: Come to think of it, smoked salmon with some kind of peach glaze (possibly made from bellini) would probably be quite good.
@Chris: I don’t particularly like Kimmie either. I think I liked her this episode because Robyn was so heinous – even by her own standards!
@timgunnssister: I never noticed that with Dana before. Now that you mention it, I can’t unsee it!
@Leto: There is a special kind of disgusting about Tiffany. Even Clemenza, in all his sweaty glory, is somehow not as gross as Tiffany!
@MummyButterfly: You’ve got my hopes up now! I hope you’re right!
I really think it’s going to come down to Barbie, Christina, and Justin. It REALLY feels like Christina and Justin are getting winner’s edits. Barbie is still a bit of a toss up for me. I could also see Clemenza taking it. I don’t think it’s super likely, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened.
Oh! @Jane and Blanche: Thanks for reading! I really hope that at least a few good chefs get to stay until the end. I just want the winner to at least be believable.
Robyn seems to have more testosterone in her than most men.
We shall see how she does with the guys. Seems a better fit.
Those were mini pizzas? They looked to be your standard 12″ pizza. I wonder how many hamburgers the kids left uneaten after gorging on pizza.
They throw away more food than they serve on this show.
As soon as Ramsay said that both teams lost, I knew Patrick was going home and Robyn was moving to blue. It was too obvious.
As a native Vermonter, I would like to officially petition the show to stop stating where Tiffany is from. She’s a disgrace to the great Green Mountain State.
I think the only real “threats” to win this thing are Justin, Kimmie, Christina, and (shockingly) Barbie.
@crankyguy We have exactly that kind of local news anchor here. Blonde, wide eyed, smile never wavers, cheerful to a fault. “There was a fiery crash on interstate 5 today. All seven children in the van were pronounced dead at the scene!” she will proclaim with a chipper grin worthy of any high school cheerleader. It’s really disturbing.
Yeah, Dana has that in her. I don’t think anyone is feeding her lines though, I just think she is genuinely enjoying the trainwreck that is unfolding all around her. She hasn’t been too severely affected by it herself, so all she really has to do is sit back and watch the show. It beats getting drawn too much into it herself. That seems to be Barbie’s tactic too — sit back and enjoy yourself while your competitors self-destruct in the most spectacularly entertaining way possible. I would probably do the same thing.
@Spike – I agree with three of your four, I don’t think Kimmie is mature enough to get to the end. My picks are Christina and Justin for the final two. And I have I feeling Tiffany will be booted next week (preferably on Monday night, lol)
@featherhead: ssshhhh! you’ll jinx it!
I’ve been watching this show since season 1, and I strongly suspect that Gordon has a short list when the show starts and he locks in a chef for the position by episode 3. In every season there’s at least one or two chefs who raise no drama, make mistakes but never get sent home, and are ofttimes not even featured until mid-season.
I got pretty certain after Season 5 – Christina was a chef with little experience who sometimes screwed up and brought very little drama, but despite being nominated twice (maybe even three times?) and being singled out by Gordon for her lack of experience, she still took home the win. That made no sense unless Gordon had already decided early on that she would be the one.
For this season, I suspect we’ll see at least either Christina, Justin or Barbie in the final three, and possibly all three. Although Clemenza is competent, my gut says he’s not the one.
The rest are just TV trash material.
Okay, that plating was kind of awesome. Thanks for getting that screencap for us. It is amazing what gets passed people whose minds simply don’t operate on the same dirty level the rest of us live at.
I worked for a huge insurance company that decided to divide its legal departments in a major US city into sections denoted by the letters a through e. And they also decided that when sending out letters copying these legal departments that the typists would indicate which legal department was copied by using that letter designator followed by the word ‘lit’ (for litigation). Sounds reasonable. It went through a gazillion chains of command and was approved by all kinds of management levels and implemented. I got my first letter back from the typist and had to take it to a manager and ask him if he really wanted to send out letters copied to ‘clit’. It took him a moment but when the light bulb went off he turned red and the next day they had new litigation designators. LOL I could not believe no one saw that before I did.
So yeah, you gotta love penis plating. Especially on family night.
@Fnord: I don’t really think it will be Clemenza either. However, if he did win it, I wouldn’t be greatly shocked. At this point, he’s kind of a wildcard.
@Andyourlittledogtoo: I want to work for that legal department!!!!!!! I used to work for an agency that had codes for the different offices around the country. The office I worked for was IFOCK. It had been that for DECADES before anyone pointed it out. I can’t believe no one noticed. I’m glad that you appreciated the penis plates as much as I did. Once the whole thing was plated, you couldn’t tell. However, it made me laugh that we a member of the camera crew zoomed right in on it!
@featherhead: Maybe if all of us hope REALLY hard, we can will Gordon to kick her off. (Even though it’s already taped.)
Better yet, we had different district offices and due to their locations their employees sometimes had a higher ratio of black employees or asian employees or whatever. Local people in local jobs, no big. But then they merged them. And that is when we found out that our two predominantly white-employeed districts had been using a different name for their filing system than the rest of us in more diverse districts did. The computer designated them ‘M’ and ‘S’ files (a primary file for a person/claim and then all others were secondary files that you didn’t work out of, to keep things from duplicating or getting confusing when more than one claim per person was active). While the rest of us called them ‘master’ and ‘secondary’ files, these two non-diverse districts it turned out had been calling them ‘master’ and ‘slave’ files. Suffice it to say our African American coworkers were not pleased. But the non-diverse managers claimed to be completely mystified by the complaint. I’m so glad I don’t work there any more.
I find it hard to believe that Tiffany is not a plant from central casting – drunk lazy buffoon pretending to be a chef, no experience necessary. It would make more sense than anything else at this point.
As for the Robyn/Kimmie size difference, that doesn’t necessarily mean anything in a fight. One of the toughest fighters I ever knew was this old biker who was five feet at most and he was universally respected as someone you did not want to get into a physical altercation with because he was fierce and he never gave up and he always won no matter how big a guy he was brawling with. He was a tough little dude. Robyn may be little but she has that stringy psycho thing going for her, while Kimmie may be large but she seems soft and would probably be easy to psych out and pull down. Just sayin’.
I don’t usually watch Hells Kitchen but this recap makes me want to work this show into my schedule! Awesome job! Thanks for the recap PopePhilly!
@Jawade: Aw, thanks! The show is definitely high on entertainment value. Fox lets you watch it on their website if you can’t work it into your schedule.
@crakyguy#14…DYING lol! *bonding over comment from previous epi*
Not just another pretty face indeed! Delusional & disgusting is so not a good combo.
@timgunnssister#15…ME TOO! I can’t stand Dana because of the EXACT same reasons you mentioned! I was done with her a long time ago. Smug for nothing little beeyotch.
Oh yeah..I almost forgot:
Robyn is on drugs. There I said it! Clear case of needing a fix rage!
Oh Jeeze! I hope I didn’t jinx us!! Tiffany has done nothing in the kitchen except stand around while everyone else cooks for her. I’m just hoping now with the teams getting smaller that Ramsey finally notices what she’s not doing. Fingers crossed people!
Dana reminds me of Nellie Oleson.
You know.
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln462b0xd41qbjni1.jpg
@Timgunnssister: I tried to frown the way Robyn does in every single picture of herself. I can’t even come close without it just being uncomfortable. I think “Robyn’s Meth Jaw” is going to be the name of my new ska band.
Love, love the recaps…hate, hate, hate this season. The level of trash, braying, and stupidity is way too much. Tiffany is pig face cunt, Robyn seems to think she is in a women’s prison the way she acts, Royce is a tool who couldn’t boil water without undercooking it, and Brian is deluded in a way that might require meds to fix him.
I agree about the Gordon likey – I wouldn’t kick him out of bed. He might yell at you during it, but you damn will have an orgasm.
@LAC: There’s just something very sexy about him. He can yell all he wants and I know I’d still enjoy it. I’m sure his wife is never left “undercooked.”
LOL!! Pope, I am sure she is well done!
O Geez. Why did he not fire whats her face? The one with the big mouth who to me is the definition of White Trash. Well she and Kimmie) Tiffany she is called. I can’t stand all 3 Robyn, Tiffany and Kimmie, so it was good to see 2 of them in front of Gordon.
What does Gordon do? Give her what she wants and to the blue team. grrrrr. And Tiffany really does not care. He must have kept her in the hope that she will beat one of the girls up?
Did you notice that Robyn has a very elastic huge mouth. Too bad that they always put something in front of her mouth when she swears, which is nearly almost. Her mouth go’s from right to left, down and up. It is fascinating but oh so scary.
O and Robyn is always blaming someone else. Always. Horrible people.
He leaves her with a nice sear. We need to use more cooking terms as euphemisms for sex.
I don’t understand how the diners eat, after seeing how the people cooking their food look. If I saw Tiffany touching my food, I would lose my appetite.
You beeyotches need to back up off my G-Ram. He is already spoken for thank you very much. Screw the wife! He can come stir my fry anytime! <–not a good one? Yeah I agree. Ok, he can come stuff my potato? How about: he can roast my…oh never mind. I'm not as good as you guys are, but seriously? Back off!
@sagittariuskim: I wouldn’t even drink the water if Tiffany were the one cooking!
@fancyface: “Stir my fry” made me LOL (and I never use the term “lol” unless I literally did)!!!! I will gladly season his meat and seal in his natural juices.
Pope – I would move out of the neighborhood the restaurant is located in that hires Tiffany.
Fancyface: LOL!! I will flip it, slap it, rub it down…with a rosemary infused seasoned rub.
RE: sexy G-Ram. With a nickname like that, he prob likes 2 serve it up RAWR! And wifey don’t mind. I know I wouldn’t!
I am honestly surprised that Kimmie has lasted this far. She is VERY redneck. Robyn is lucky because usually if you get up in a redneck girl’s face and start pointing… at the very, very least you’re wearing a splint on that finger. (I am NOT a redneck, but I have known quite a few.) They have poor communication skills, don’t understand subtlety, and tend to express emotion physically. This is why Kimmie kept trying to avoid Robyn the first time she had a conflict with her. She couldn’t explain herself properly and she knew it, so she wanted to get over it. That being said, Kimmie had better get a grip on herself because you have to talk to the people at work.
I am sorry, there is NO EXCUSE for keeping Tiffany. She is unclean. Kimmie may not have elegant manners and she may be fat, but I haven’t seen her licking a knife and putting on food. I haven’t seen her not care about burned, gross food because the people eating it are kids. And she outright admitted to Gordon she didn’t give a fuck. I don’t know maybe she has a natural talent for cooking so she can get this far half assing it? Or have people been covering for her THAT MUCH? Maybe she doesn’t like Barbie because Barbie doesn’t silently and unobtrusively do her work and Tiffany’s, too?
Wth, I don’t understand why people dislike Barbie? I think she messed up somewhat the first or second episode, but everyone has messed up. And she seems to care about doing things properly. And, if someone asks her, she will help them. Yes, Barbie is my hero… just kidding, but I see way more people who could take their asses home before her.
Oh, and Royce! The one episode… a few back when half the blue team whined about him after putting, I think, Clemenza and Guy up for elimination. All I could think is why not nominate him for elimination? Did he smuggle in a gun? No? Then nominate him! They finally do it and poof! Patrick goes instead.
People just stop hating on Robyn, there are people in the kitchen worse than her…