Lela is trying to stay as calm as she can in the front of the house, but when she comes back to the kitchen to find out where a couple orders of salmon are and there's no chef, she finally gets pissed and goes outside to tell Meek to get his bony tiny ass in the kitchen or get out. He tells her he doesn't like being talked to like that and can't work like this and she starts screaming "I have an autobiography and an Oscar and I know Nicolas Cage! You think I like working like this?!?!" He is way too young to remember when Nic Cage was anything other than a creepy old hair plugged dweeb, so this argument doesn't work on him. He's outta there! Gordo tries to talk nicely to him and then yell at him, but it doesn't work. The little boy jumps in his huge (comparatively) Scion and guns it.
I think we have a new candidate!
There are only about three minutes left of the show, and this is usually the part where everything miraculously comes together and we get a happy ending. And it does! Ricky takes over in the kitchen again and food starts coming out. And little Meek Sous came back!! The mayor liked the Pomona Salad so much that she's gonna suggest it on every Pomona day. Glad to know that the Mayor can't speak English, either. Keeps things in the town running consistently and smoothly. The real people in Pomona turned out to be the nicest real people ever. They tried to find so many ways to compliment the food that it made me feel a little sick to my stomach.
Oh, no please. Embarrass yourself.
The sweet touching music starts to play for the Gordo private time with Ricky. He tells him that when he first met him he thought he was a looza who would bolt within 24 hours and he was proven wrong. "Great fucking job tonight, mate!" Wow! Ricky, ya pulled through and got an acutal "You Became a Man" speech instead of a "Be a Man Speech". Now that's turnaround. Too much of a turn around. How does Gordo turn crazy people less crazy in like half an hour? Me thinks something's fishy, here.
The staff gathers round and Gordo thanks them for doing such a wonderful job. I'm feeling all warm and fuzzy inside until booming announcer guy pipes in and tells us in two seconds that Lela's couldn't pay their bills and closed down. WTF? The end. Happy Thanksgiving, Lela. Sad horns.
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Comments (9)
at the end of the show where they said that lela's shut down cuz she went broke, i didnt know whether to laugh my ass off at the abruptness of the announcement right after the happy turn-around or cry because it was depressing....
....i decided to laugh.
that line right there made the whole so-so episode a delight!
1 of 9 | Posted by aman | Posted on November 27, 2007 6:41 AM
For most of the episode that Lela person didn't do a damn thing. No instruction to her staff, no supervision, no leadership. Then Golden Gordon sent her off for a makeover and she developed the guts to sack a thief.
Wow.
Another crappy American remake of a decent British show. Grrrrrrrrrrrr.
2 of 9 | Posted by Donna Martin Graduates! | Posted on November 27, 2007 1:58 PM
What are you talking about? the fact that idiot Americans are in this, make it sweeter than the British version. And the final voiceover of "by the way Lela's closed." is classic.
Good recap, dude. And there is no shame in feeding yourself from the resteraunt freezer. It is how I got through college. In fact, i don't think I ever ate so well. Me and Buzz are goign to be having a hobo potluck feel free to come on by.
3 of 9 | Posted by mattypopo | Posted on November 27, 2007 4:38 PM
You know I bet the English version of this show is better. It's always way more entertaining watching people with no teeth try to talk! I'm kidding, sort of.
Great recap flipit.
4 of 9 | Posted by CheriesTake | Posted on November 27, 2007 5:30 PM
The episode was funny and the recap even more so. Tabitha reminds me of the waitresses at Waffle House, which is probably where she should be working not at an alleged fine dining establishment. And why, oh why did Lela sink her retirement savings, not to mention her sister's $60K into a restaurant? Restaurants are iffy investments anyway, and given how Flipit describes Pomona in the recap, it doesn't sound like a fine dining place had a shot in hell at success in that area. I hope Lela's sister has so more money to lend her so that she doesn't spend her golden years homeless.
5 of 9 | Posted by greeneyes | Posted on November 27, 2007 10:09 PM
hahaha! Oh, man. I just went back and re-read this a second time, and I think I laughed louder. Well done, flipit! Diamonds on my Fish is the next big thing! I can see it now... the picture on the CD is a cartoon salmon making the west-side signal and showing off his bling. Diamonds, indeed.
I love this show. I was very sad when Lela's closed down... I was in the middle of tearing up at Ramsey's speech to Ricky... and then they went and did THAT BAWWWW.
6 of 9 | Posted by trey | Posted on November 28, 2007 2:03 AM
Lela had NO business opening a restaurant. In addition to not having a clue about what would work in that dumpy neighborhood (I have read comments that the camera crew must have taped reels of footage to get those nice shots), she let her employees treat her like a door mat.
7 of 9 | Posted by ubiquitous | Posted on January 4, 2008 2:01 AM
Lela had NO business opening a restaurant. In addition to not having a clue about what would work in that dumpy neighborhood (I have read comments that the camera crew must have taped reels of footage to get those nice shots), she let her employees treat her like a door mat.
8 of 9 | Posted by ubiquitous | Posted on January 4, 2008 2:02 AM
Lela had NO business opening a restaurant. In addition to not having a clue about what would work in that dumpy neighborhood (I have read comments that the camera crew must have taped reels of footage to get those nice shots), she let her employees treat her like a door mat.
9 of 9 | Posted by ubiquitous | Posted on January 4, 2008 2:04 AM