Meanwhile Bonnie and Rock are bickering over the best way to iron the round table cloths. Should they use the ironing board or just iron the cloths right on the table? Rock tells Bonnie that she should know how to do these sorts of things, as she is a nanny, but Bonnie gets all huffy, saying, "I don't do laundry!" in the snobbiest voice possible. Calm down, Mary Poppins, what do you do? "I cook for the most part. I'm a chef; I cook dinner for them every night, dumbass." Well! I hate to split hairs, but someone who is employed by a family to do nothing but cook dinner is not a nanny. That's a personal chef. Has Bonnie been fibbing about her resume like Jen? Will we find out next that the family she works for doesn't even have children? (And pets don't count.) Nanny indeed!
Bonnie and Rock are so above this task.
The next morning in Las Vegas Jen and Julia head over to the Green Valley Ranch's sister resort, Red Rock, to meet someone special.
"Goody gumdrops! Meet my protégé."
It's Heather, last season's Hell's Kitchen winner! She beat Virginia's boobs to be awarded this glorious restaurant to run. We even get a quick black and white flashback of Heather being announced last season's winner before proceeding to a tour of Terra Rossa, the restaurant that was her grand prize. Heather even has some dishes for Jen and Julia to sample. Jen wants to know what "edge" Heather had over Virginia's boobs and Heather said that although Virginia was a strong competitor, she (Heather) wanted it so badly. It's just a wild guess, but I bet Virginia wanted it pretty badly too. She made it all the way to the end, after all, I doubt she was just there to pass the time. Heather also tells the girls to keep their friends close and their enemies closer, to which Jen does this:
"Mm hm. I don't know what that means."
Back at Hell's Kitchen our trio of losers preps for tonight's dinner service on their own. Bonnie pulls out a tray of monk fish and decides it smells bad so she throws it away. Just then who should come looking for monk fish but Sous Chef Mary Ann? It turns out that Bonnie has disposed of perfectly good monk fish and unless Mary Ann is prepared to enter Jen's Culinary School of Dumpster Diving, there will be no monk fish on tonight's menu. Luckily Bonnie handles this with grace and maturity, holding it together for the sake of the team. Oops, I mean the opposite of that. She loses it and starts bawling. She frets that it may be her time to go home - again.
When prep is finished the losers go upstairs to complain about Julia's win. Bonnie points out that if Julia had done her grilled chicken and cheese for Hell's Kitchen it would have been lame. This is where my previous point about Julia knowing her audience comes in. The challenge was specifically to cook for teenagers, and teenagers like much different food than fine dining adults. The challenge wasn't even to make a gourmet version of a school lunch, which may have ended differently, but just to win over the kids. And Julia did it! I don't make the rules, I just watch the show. Bonnie, Rock - zip it. I'm tired of both of your attitudes and tantrums.
Just then Jen and Julia return from their trip to regale their fellow chefs with tales of... what else? The bidet. Julia gives a riveting account of her first bidet experience and Rock and Bonnie pretend to care.
We enter into tonight's dinner service with Herr Narrator reminding us that for the first time the chefs will be working as one team. Yes, yes, the black and white uniforms. Josh is on appetizers and right away he messes up by having several pans of risotto on burners that don't need to be there. Chef Ramsay starts freaking out because a bunch of this risotto will have to be tossed and this means that they are losing money before even serving any food. He calls Josh a doughnut, which is a new one that I quite like.
"Doughnut!? I'm at least a nice scone."
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Comments (13)
I like Julia as well, she might not be a fancy cook she has the heart. I think chef Ramsey is great to offer her to culinary school. but why come back for a reality show after that? She should just open up a diner. She can cook good basic food. That's enough to bring in diners. I wish her all the sucess.
1 of 13 | Posted by bambinoitaliano
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Posted on July 26, 2007 3:48 PM
So sweet about Julia, I am very happy for her. :)
Rock is an a-hole hands down. Bonnie should never run a kitchen and Jen is....not really bad or good, just not great. Of the three I think Jen is the best choice, god i can't believe i just said that.
2 of 13 | Posted by PixieGal
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Posted on July 26, 2007 5:14 PM
waaay too funny honey...i think i'm in love with you
3 of 13 | Posted by caught.doin.it
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Posted on July 27, 2007 12:07 AM
Josh, what a waste of space. Every time they come back from elimination he'd be all like "NOW it's on". Damn fool.
Rock is a d1ckhead and I'd hate for him to win but that's who I think WILL win.
Great recap. "Bonnie tries to spell her name" was the best line out of many.
4 of 13 | Posted by LaSexorcisto
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Posted on July 27, 2007 5:38 AM
I hate to see Julia go but Chef is right about her talent. She will do great once she acquires more culinary skills. It was great to see his softer side with her.
Josh. What a useless cook. I can't believe this idiot was precooking the spaghetti. And this guy works in the industry?!? How many times have they cooked rissoto this season? Like a gazillion times and this clown still undercooks it! He belongs behind the dishwasher not a stove.
Rock. Good talent with horrible social skills. He'd be best running a hot dog stand by himself.
Jen. The best option for Chef. Talent is OK but she is able to get along with her peers. Her presence and demeanor is not like Julia's (at her best performances.)
Bonnie. Lucky she has come this far. Unless she is bonking Chef, she doesn't have a chance.
5 of 13 | Posted by milostea
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Posted on July 27, 2007 7:10 AM
Thinking of the top 3, I think Rock is going to win, frankly because I (nor the rest of humanity) will ever be able to forget that Jen pulled that spaghetti out of the trash and was going to serve it. What Executive Chef tries to serve garbage? If they do some sort of recap of their performance on Hell's Kitchen from beginning to end, that is just going to stand out like a sore thumb.
Bonnie just doesn't have enough experience working in a restaurant environment, so I don't think she'll be able to pull it out.
I shed a tear for Julia. I really wanted her to win the whole damn thing. But I hope she'll be back after completing her schooling. I heart her.
6 of 13 | Posted by Krizzatch
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Posted on July 27, 2007 8:34 AM
How come wonderful Julia got the axe? Didn't she get immunity or something from winning the first challenge?
I call SHENANIGANS!
HG, your screencaps etc had me giggling so much I was wiping away tears. Especially the stuff about how stupid Josh is (having to take the bus bc he thought his car was "done for" -- too funny!
I'll bet Josh thought he'd be able to keep the black-trimmed chef's jacket as a souvenir -- denied!
Also, I haven't heard or read the phrase 'goody gumdrops' for ever such a long time.
HEART!
7 of 13 | Posted by Donna Martin Graduates!
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Posted on July 27, 2007 1:22 PM
Your funniest Hell's Kitchen recap by far. I especially liked the caption under the Hell's Kitchen logo on the lockers; I was laughing for about five minutes after that.
Anywayz, I'm disappointed that this is our final three; Bonnie is obviously not competent or consistent enough to run her own restaurant, Rock is, like you said, a complete asshole and Jen's horrible lopsided face and bird's nest hair will scare away any customers. So I guess I'm routing for her.
8 of 13 | Posted by bellewhore
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Posted on July 27, 2007 4:38 PM
Well done, HG!! Great recap. There's the bitchiness that I love with TVGasm!
9 of 13 | Posted by mommyboughtyoupajamas
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Posted on July 27, 2007 6:04 PM
First of all I think this was a great recap...
Julia. The best part of this show. I suck at cooking but if someone from Waffle House can make it on a cooking reality show then so can I.
Rock. The only reason I like him is because he keeps referring to himself as the "Rock," which always meakes me laugh because he is an idiot.
Bonnie. I do not like her because she kept putting Julia down for not knowing the product, yet she is a Nannie which apparently means she is a cooking God.
Jen. Do not really have a feel for her, but since I think it will be between her and Rock I root for her.
10 of 13 | Posted by johncon966
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Posted on July 27, 2007 11:46 PM
Ugh.. I think Rock is going to win as well.. specially out of those 3.
I think the only people that ever had a chance of winning were him, Jen and Julia.. and well.. Julia is now gone.
I hope Jen wins but well.... who knows.
Rock is such an immature asshole though.
Seriously, who the hell acts like that?? I just want someone to smack the crap out of him and jap him in the leg with a fork.
What a loser.
11 of 13 | Posted by Shollia
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Posted on July 28, 2007 1:36 AM
Bonnie should have went home a long time ago. Like another poster said, she was so quick to dismiss Julia for her lack of cooking expertise, but didn't she say that she was a nanny who only cooked for three people? I never would have thought she would have made it this far. It comes to show you, a "pretty" face and an empty head goes a long way on reality TV.
If I were to choose the lesser of the three evils, it would have to be rock. Sure he's an ass, but would you honestly go to Jen's restarurant knowing the bitch would serve you stuff out of the trash?
12 of 13 | Posted by mommyboughtyoupajamas
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Posted on July 28, 2007 9:34 AM
Great recap. I just discovered this entire site and have been catching up on all the reality shows I've missed over the years.
HG your recap on RamJam going off and kicking Josh out had me ROFLMAO and subsequently searching for the video clip online. Found it! Thanks, TVGasm & Honey Gangsta!
13 of 13 | Posted by Chips.N.Whips | Posted on October 30, 2008 2:11 PM