You always think harder is better. Maybe next time I patrol, I should carry bricks and use a stake made out of butter.

Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'


Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]


SailAweigh - Jul 09, 2007 9:48:02 pm PDT #592 of 23273
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I'm watching how peeps are made. It's all about the air.

They claim that it used to take 27 hours to make a peep by hand, now it takes them 6 minutes.

Pizza topping? I don't think so. Maybe as a dare.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 10, 2007 3:19:53 am PDT #593 of 23273
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I want nothing but good stuff for Julia -- she's never worked with or tasted lobster before and she still manages to cook it well.

I'm pretty sure that's why he picked her dish on that challenge.

She did that??????? Ewww... I didn't see that one.

Thankfully, Julia stopped her. I SO wish it had been Ramsay who caught her trying that, though.


Toddson - Jul 10, 2007 4:10:45 am PDT #594 of 23273
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

That was the same show where he chewed out Joanna for not realizing her crab had gone bad ... and missed seeing her licking the tongs. ew.

I'd really like to know - does Ramsey look at footage to see what people do when he's not actually watching them? 'cause there have been some things that have happened he didn't actually see but that were caught on tape.

And I think he tends to prefer the women - all the challenges they've won have involved them going somewhere with him and he gets all sweet and charming. The one challenge the men won - they got a spa day.

Go Julia!


Frankenbuddha - Jul 10, 2007 4:12:43 am PDT #595 of 23273
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

And I think he tends to prefer the women - all the challenges they've won have involved them going somewhere with him and he gets all sweet and charming.

I always think "He's softening them up for the kill, isn't he."

Also, my kittens are on Brad or Bonnie going home next. Maybe Josh, but Brad seems like Vinnie redux and Bonnie's one abusive Ramsay remark away from a total meltdown. Outside of a personal screw up of epic proportions, I think Julia, Rock and Jen are going to be the final 3.


Toddson - Jul 10, 2007 4:28:37 am PDT #596 of 23273
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Brad can go any time, as far as I'm concerned. He seems to have delusions of competence - he keeps talking about how good he is, with nothing to back it up. Josh - eh, he doesn't seem to be very good, but he's not getting on my nerves as much as Brad. Hated seeing Rock lose it like that - and I thought dragging him over to do the trash at the photo shoot was just gratuitous nastiness, over and above the usual.

I did love when the women won the challenge - or was it the dinner service? - and Ramsey's pointing out that professional chefs, sous chefs and line chef - lost out to a waffle house cook, a nanny, and a pastry chef. heh


brenda m - Jul 10, 2007 5:05:10 am PDT #597 of 23273
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I want nothing but good stuff for Julia -- she's never worked with or tasted lobster before and she still manages to cook it well.

I'm pretty sure that's why he picked her dish on that challenge.

He didn't, though. Rock (feh) won that one.


askye - Jul 10, 2007 5:31:08 am PDT #598 of 23273
Thrive to spite them

It came down to the last dish, which was Jen's bisque against whatshisface's fancy experimental dish. Which is why Rock kept going on and on about the soup in his tantrum. (although I think he bitched about the risotto as well). Although if they did an homework on Ramsay they'd know he'd pick the prefectly executed simple dish with clean flavors. That's what he's about.


sj - Jul 10, 2007 5:46:52 am PDT #599 of 23273
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I kind of want to see Bonnie win, but I'm not sure why.

Did people see the commercial for Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares? I'm interested in seeing what the American version is like. Ramsey is so different in the British version of that show than he is in Hell's Kitchen.


brenda m - Jul 10, 2007 5:59:04 am PDT #600 of 23273
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Yeah, if you've ever seen his show The F Word it's a whole different side of him as well.


Toddson - Jul 10, 2007 8:09:15 am PDT #601 of 23273
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I think Hell's Kitchen deliberately encourages him to be at his worst - better drama, more excitement.