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The bottom two teams are predictably Teams Gorilla and Bear, leaving Team Lion safe in the middle. Scar calls on Team Bear first over the mushrooms, and Dale jumps in to say it was his idea to put cheese on the mushrooms to make them look prettier. This amusingly backfires, for the judges hated the cheese. Dale idiotically gets himself into more hot water when he admits he didn't taste the mushrooms after he cheesed them up. Because of his own big mouth, Dale's now put himself in danger of elimination when it should have only been Nikki in trouble on that team. It would be a fitting way for him to go.

You should have been prepared for this when you drew "bear." You're in Chicago.

Over on Team Gorilla, Yoda admits it was a big mistake to pre-mix her crab dish, and Daddy Tom lets her off easy. Valerie tries to cop to the same mistake, but this doesn't work out as well for her when Daddy Tom points out that it wasn't just the pre-made blinis that was a problem - the rutabaga was too raw and overpowered everything else. This is the second week in a row that someone's screwed up rutabaga (last week being Jennifer in her lasagna), so I think it's time to retire that veggie until the chefs can figure it out. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like everyone keeps pronouncing Val's dish as a "bellini." Bellinis are yummy drinks that help me through a hangover on Sunday morning. They are not cold olive-stuffed mini pancakes. Wtf?

Poor Antonia, the only one of Team Gorilla who didn't mess up, is forced by Daddy Tom to choose between Yoda and Valerie. Without hesitation or explanation, she picks Yoda. I'm sure her reasons for picking Yoda are laying somewhere on an editing room floor, and I do think she made the right choice - Yoda also made a second dish that went over well with the judges, and she was last week's winner. She'd have to screw up a lot more to get booted today, so Antonia's playing it smart by picking the girl she thinks is going to stay anyway. Kudos to Antonia for not doing the weepy "this is SO haaaaard!" crap that a lot of female contestants do in this position. You know Nikki would have.

The judges kick the losers out for deliberations. They rehash the failures of Valerie's dish, and while they bitch a bit about Yoda's crab salad, the Coyote points out that her successful banana bread is her saving grace. Surprisingly, they don't mention the fact that a Gorilla would be more likely to eat a Snickers bar than a crab. For Team Bear, the judges debate which is worse - Nikki's original crappy mushrooms, or Dale's decision to make them worse by adding cheese and then failing to taste them.

YWhat'd they do, get a local high school A/V club to shoot this scene?

So who goes? The contestants are called back in, and after yet another recap of why they all suck at life, Scar announces their decision - Valerie's got to pack her knives and get the fuck out. As if that wasn't obvious this entire episode.

So what did you think? Did you think Valerie's elimination was as predictable as I did? Who do you hate the most - Twitch, Dale, or Evangelos? Do you think his brush with elimination will make Dale less of a pompous asshole? And is anyone else eagerly awaiting Ted Allen's return?

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