Wow, the tempers certainly were flaring on last night's Top Chef. Thanks to one of the most colorful bottom threes in recent memory, the assembled panel of Tom, Pad, Ted, and Sam (wtf?) were on the receiving end of many angry, defensive remarks. I guess that's what happens when you have certifiable (but lovable) nut job Andrew squaring off against raging hell-bitch Lisa. As Chef Tom Colicchio loves to say, there certainly was a lot of FINGER POINTING going on.
Overall, it was a thoroughly amusing episode. The only thing that was missing was our old friend Gail. Aside from her absence, we had all the usual fun stuff: Antonia babbling about her family, blue-collar people enjoying fancy food, ghosts sabotaging Lisa's rice, and Richard Blais being AWFUL (this week, he managed to make his dumb haircut look even worse by applying some sort of elastic headband apparatus). Sadly, Bravo's screencaps don't include any shots from the Judges Table, which is too bad because that's where all the fun stuff happens, but we'll just have to make do with the other pics.
"Hi Spike. Your food will now be judged by me and someone with a very small restaurant pedigree."
"Padma, the question of the day is: do you like faux-hawks?"
"C'mon, Dale. Even I think you're being a bitch, and I'm the nice one."
"You know what, vegetables? FUCK YOU!"
"And FUCK YOU TOO, stir fry!"
"The only FUCKING thing that will save this FUCKING dish is my FUCKING sunny personality!"
"Thank God you're here, Ted. Poor Gail would have been starving after this challenge."
"The problem with this dish is that the shrimp is undercooked and the rice is raw. I don't know who would want to eat that — you know, aside from Gail."
LOVE the photocap, B-Side...perfectly captures Lisa's winning personality (and aversion to personal hygiene).
Much as I hate to admit it, I have a bit of a crush on Spike (what can I say? I have terrible taste in men, thus my affinity for hipster douchebags). I thought his Quickfire salad looked delicious--as has his squash soup and spaghetti puttanesca in previous eps.
My pick for the top 3: Richard (who seems like a genuinely nice and friendly guy, and a terrific chef--now if only he'd lose the horrible faux-hawk), Dale (who, granted, needs to grow up), and Stephanie (but no more tomato-peanut sauce, ew!).
Funny how I never watched Top Chef until this season and now I'm obsessed with it. I'm also happy as a Chicagoan because they shop at MY Whole Foods! Woohoo!
Awesome recap, as usual. I really dislike Lisa, ugh.
And I'm with maybeimamazed02...Spike is kinda cute (when he's not wearing one of his stupid hats).
You need to stop mocking Gail. Not because I feel for her, but because I fear I will pee my pants!
btw, just to clarify, I LOVE Gail. I only write what I pretend Padma says about her.
And Gail loves 'brown rubbery eggs'!
so nice to see Sam again. soooooooooo nice.
hated to see HyperAndrew go instead of that greasy bitch Lisa.
Spike is the little bitch he accused Dale of being.
i am liking this season.
hb
"Just to clarify" -I love Gail too. And I knew you did too! I loves my B-Side!
Ah, B-Side, I love hearing the inner workings of Padma's mind.
His lack of qualifications to be a judge aside, Sam was a very, very nice addition to this week's judging table. How can someone get that much hotter in just one year? He just needs duct tape over his mouth so he'll stop talking about himself and his diabetes schmiabetes.
I am fully on board Team Richard. The fauxhawk - and headband! - are absurd but he is talented and nice, if a touch socially awkward. He's probably overqualified for this show but I like seeing what he creates. I think he deserves to win (or maybe Dale), but am afraid that Bravo will decide a woman should win rather than another white man or Hung 2.0.
Great photocap.
I love the Lisa (I own no shampoo) pictures and comments. She probably turned up the rice, and needed to blame someone. I hate those people.
Richard seems really talented, but he fell short this week. He'll need to question himself about that.