So what is it like when Gordon comes back to check in? Everyone's happy, healthy, wealthy, and attractively airbrushed. YAWN. G-Ram does have the mayor and deputy mayor of New Jersey stop by and award them with a special day in their honor, but honestly, at this point, I'm so bored with success stories. Does that make me a bad person?
Moving on to Peter's on Long Island, probably the most dysfunctional of all the Kitchen Nightmares so far, including the roach-infested Dillion's. They're basically a bunch of loud, obnoxious, crazy Italians. Coming from a bunch of loud, obnoxious, crazy Jews, I just gotta say--I call 'em like I see 'em. Bottom line, the co-owner Peter is a huge bully, and looks kind of like a meatball with chiclet teeth, guest starring on Miami Vice.
This whole restaurant thing is just until Tubbs gets outta rehab.
G-Ram tells Crockett he's a big tool shed, and Crockett recommits to the cause. Peter's is still open (of course), successful (of course), and Peter still wears brightly colored blazers with tee-shirts, completely unironically. Don't you just love a happy ending?
Thank you for reading, and I promise, I will return next week with the huge snarkfest that will be the first official episode of Kitchen Nightmares, i.e. a complete train wreck that mostly stays that way and we aren't subjected to all of this touchy-feely, fuzzy-wuzzy, all's-well-that-ends-well bullshit.
See you next time!
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Comments (12)
Oh, wow. You totally called our that airbrushing (severely annoying). Great captions as well.
And I can't help but remember that with actual episodes, brings that little moment in time when Gordon changes out of his civilian clothes into his chef's jacket. Yum.
1 of 12 | Posted by alex_w | Posted on September 8, 2008 2:37 PM
Hey, AuJew, welcome.
What is up with everybody lusting after Ramsay? The man scares the living daylights out of me?
Anyway: There was one failure conspicuously missing. Lela's. Apparently, it didn't even stay open long enough for the show to air, like, it hit the wall while other episodes were still being shot. Heh.
2 of 12 | Posted by Anonymous | Posted on September 8, 2008 7:42 PM
Count me in on the G-Ram lust bandwagon. The fact that he's a little scary sometimes just makes it better...
3 of 12 | Posted by wintersux | Posted on September 9, 2008 4:53 AM
alex_w: agreed, can't wait til thursday, when he's back to his usual, delightfully brooding chef self.
Anonymous: Thanks!! I do remember seeing an episode from last season of a restaurant that had closed and they mentioned it before the credits. Is that the same one? My mom loves Ramsay too. I don't know what it is. Something about a man who can cook like that and scream like that. He's probably excellent in bed.
wintersux: Couldn't agree more. There's something very appealing about a man with that kind of ability to intimidate the biggest, craziest Italians from the tri-state area.
4 of 12 | Posted by AuJew | Posted on September 9, 2008 6:42 AM
Welcome AuJew! We have the "sister shows" (I'm doing the "Kitchen Nightmares" ripoff, "Salon Takeover With Tabatha") so we're almost like sisters! Er, brothers, I mean (sorry, I forget sometimes that I'm actually a big fat hairy male) except you get a bitchy Englishman and I get a bitchy Australian (same thing, kinda). You did a great job, and I look forward to reading more from you!
love & hugs,
xoxox
J-Mo :)
5 of 12 | Posted by J-Mo | Posted on September 9, 2008 12:29 PM
Welcome AuJew! We have the "sister shows" (I'm doing the "Kitchen Nightmares" ripoff, "Salon Takeover With Tabatha") so we're almost like sisters! Er, brothers, I mean (sorry, I forget sometimes that I'm actually a big fat hairy male) except you get a bitchy Englishman and I get a bitchy Australian (same thing, kinda). You did a great job, and I look forward to reading more from you!
love & hugs,
xoxox
J-Mo :)
6 of 12 | Posted by J-Mo | Posted on September 9, 2008 12:30 PM
Welcome AuJew! We have the "sister shows" (I'm doing the "Kitchen Nightmares" ripoff, "Salon Takeover With Tabatha") so we're almost like sisters! Er, brothers, I mean (sorry, I forget sometimes that I'm actually a big fat hairy male) except you get a bitchy Englishman and I get a bitchy Australian (same thing, kinda). You did a great job, and I look forward to reading more from you!
love & hugs,
xoxox
J-Mo :)
7 of 12 | Posted by J-Mo | Posted on September 9, 2008 12:31 PM
Okay, normally I don't repeat myself thrice over, but I had weirdness with posting that last comment. Sorry 'bout that!
love, J-Mo :)
8 of 12 | Posted by J-Mo | Posted on September 9, 2008 2:11 PM
LMAO j-mo!!!!! that was a hot mess and i loved it.
you may have known me by a former name, mrsdaddytom. it didn't feel right to maintain that handle when i wasn't recapping top chef. thought it was time for a fresh one.
so yay! we can be snarkettes together on sister shows!!! love and kisses to you! xoxox
9 of 12 | Posted by AuJew | Posted on September 9, 2008 2:22 PM
AuJew/mrsdaddytom! Congrats on joining the recapping family and GREAT JOB on your first recap!!!
10 of 12 | Posted by LoLo | Posted on September 9, 2008 9:42 PM
Welcome AuJew! Great recap. Considering how boring this episode actually was, I was suprised I could actually laugh while reading instead of staring quizzically at the random assortment of letters displayed due to you falling asleep on the keyboard after having to blog such a boring ass episode. It's so nice to see I'm not the only one who's completely in love with G-Ram...he's a sexy, sexy man. Imagine, a man who could blow your mind in bed and then make an amazing breakfast the next morning..
Anyway, enough daydreaming. I can't wait to see what kind of garbage pail restaurants are on deck for this season. When seeing the before and after shots of each place after the experiencing the magic that is Gordon Ramsay, it kinda makes me want to steer clear of any eateries that don't have a silver spoon plaque hanging on a wall.
11 of 12 | Posted by jaded | Posted on September 10, 2008 5:43 PM
Thanks for the recap, AuJew - glad to see you transitioned over from TC. (which the TC Tour Bus is coming to my town next weekend, and I'd be all OMG!OMG!OMG! about except Daddy Tom won't be there. Boo... )
And yeah, there's something about Gordon... maybe it's the slightly psychotic, he'd-do-you-against-a-walkin-cooler-wall-then-go-back-to-making-risotto vibe I get off him. MmmmmMMMM!
"Meatball with chiclet teeth!" Perfect! :)
12 of 12 | Posted by teri00 | Posted on September 12, 2008 10:17 AM