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Hell’s Kitchen Season 5 Episode 8

J was thrown out in the middle of the service in Hell’s Kitchen 5 Episode 7, so Chef Ramsay didn’t have to dismiss anyone else at the end of the show.

The chefs will be cooking tartar. Nobody’s made it before. Nobody has apparently tasted food before either. Tuna has been substituted for beef, and seabass has been substituted for scallops. None of them notice. The next challenge is the taste test.

LA volunteers very quickly to sit out for the red team. Nobody else even has a chance to consider it.

Filet mignon
Ben guesses sirloin beef.
Andrea guesses liver.

Fried egg white
Ben gets a point.
Andrea gets a point.

Beets
Ben gets a point.
Andrea gets a point.

Romaine lettuce
Andrea guesses celery.
Ben gets a point.
Blue leads 3-2.

Turnip
Robert guesses cream of cauliflower and/or broccoli.
Giovanni guesses asparagus.

Pea tendrils
Giovanni guesses spinach.
Robert guesses watercress.

Lobster
Giovanni guesses poached egg yolk (huh?).
Robert guesses mushroom (huh? again).

Black truffle
Robert guesses s***.
Giovanni doesn’t have a clue either.
Blue team leads 3-2 after both people don’t know anything.

Mushroom
Lacey guesses dicon.
Carol gets a point.

Calf’s liver
Carol is correct that it’s gross and is liver.
Lacey guesses foie gras, duck/goose liver, not calf’s liver.

Broccolini
Both are incorrect.

Sweet potato
Lacey gets a point.
Carol gets a point.
Red team takes the lead 6-4. Andrea has to be nice to Carol. Today.

For the final round, each player will have to identify 10 ingredients in minestrone soup, and as they list ingredients, they score a point, which has the potential to make the first three rounds pointless. Danny scores 3 to bring his team to 7. Paula scores 2 to give her team the win.

Red team will be doing a photo shoot with TV Guide. Blue team will be waiting on them during that shoot while prepping both kitchens for that night’s service.

Tonight is celebrity night. I recognize this guy from Will & Grace. There’s apparently someone there from Terminator 2 (a movie from 1991?) as well.

Paula’s first appetizer is spat out. Her risotto is inedibly salty.

Robert’s falling behind, so Ben is told to help him out. He interprets helping as taking over.

Paula’s next attempt at risotto is perfect.

Danny’s told that his dishes are nicely cooked.

Carol’s falling behind on meat. Chef Ramsay wants her to crank up the temperature on her oven, but she doesn’t want to burn everything else, so he’ll have to wait.

Lacey’s lost. Now it’s Danny’s turn to watch her. She tells them she’s no good at meat. Hopefully she just doesn’t burn the place down. Ramsay is willing to give her another chance (again). When she returns, Ben goes over there to try to calm her down, burning himself in the process.

Robert is handling the appetizers on his own, although his pants have split open.

Carol continues to struggle on the meat. Andrea tries to communicate her, but she’s not answering. They produce rubber food and blame each other.

Ramsay is screaming at Lacey every 30 seconds. After getting tired of hearing his voice, she just brings him whatever she’s got and sees what happens. What happens is he has to throw her off the show. She can only look back on the positive things, of which there weren’t many.

That leaves blue team two men down. They seem to be doing okay regardless. Better, in fact, than Carol’s doing over in the red kitchen.

Blue team comes together to finish serving all their tables, but Ramsay’s tired of Carol, Andrea, and LA, so red kitchen is done. Because he’s never seen more team work than he did from the blue team, they win the service.

Carol nominates herself and Andrea. Andrea nominates Carol and LA. Paula nominates Carol and LA, which LA says is personal. Giovanni picks Carol and LA (so is that personal, too?). LA nominates Carol and Andrea.

Failing as a team again, red team has been unable to come to a consensus, but LA and Carol have been nominated. Since Andrea’s name also came up, she will step forward as well.

Andrea would give herself a 6 out of 10 for the night. Her first nominee is LA, despite the fact that she hates Carol. Carol would send Andrea home. Yeah, it’s not personal.

Carol and Andrea are safe. LA will be leaving Hell’s Kitchen.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 5 Episode 9, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on Fox.

American Idol Season 8 Episode 24

The top 10 performed in American Idol 8 Episode 23, and tonight one more person will go home.

Adam Lambert is safe.

Matt Giraud is in the bottom three.

Kris Allen is safe.

Lil Rounds and Michael Sarver stand up next. Between them, it’s a safe bet that Michael is in the bottom three. Lil is safe, and Michael is the second person in the bottom three.

Allison Iraheta is safe.

Anoop Desai is safe.

Danny Gokey is safe.

Scott MacIntyre and Megan Joy Corkrey stand up last, and both of them could easily be in the bottom three. Scott is in the bottom three, so Megan is safe.

Of the bottom three, Scott is safe. That brings us down to Michael Sarver or Matt Giraud. Of the two, Matt shouldn’t be there, so this would be an opportune time for the judges to save somebody, but I’d wager that Michael’s met the end of his rope.

Matt is safe, and Michael Sarver is going home. The judges will not be saving him.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of American Idol Season 8 episode 25, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.

American Idol Season 8 Episode 23

Alexis Grace was sent home in American Idol 8 Episode 22, which brought us down to the top 10.

Tonight is Motown night with the guidance of Smokey Robinson.

Matt Giraud
Song: Let’s Get it on by Marvin Gaye
Randy: Challenging for the top spot.
Kara: I think there are a lot of girls going yeah, let’s get it on. Solid performance.
Paula: Tasteful, classy, spot on.
Simon: Brilliant choice of song other than the corny bit in the middle. Voice absolutely suits that kind of song. One of the frontrunners.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-01

Kris Allen
Song: How Sweet It Is to be Loved by You by Marvin Gaye (playing guitar)
Kara: You didn’t do James Taylor or Marvin Gaye. You did Kris. Everything right.
Paula: Infectious personality. Brilliant.
Simon: Smart. But still need more confidence.
Randy: In the zone. All good.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-02

Scott MacIntyre
Song: You Can’t Hurry Love by Diana Ross and The Supremes
Paula: Whole new life to your performance.
Simon: How much more can you take? Not a great version of the song. Completely the wrong song. A bit cheap.
Randy: Hotel kind of performance. Better singer than that.
Kara: Brought tempo tonight, finally. Not crazy about the liberties with the melody.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-03

Megan Joy Corkrey
Song: For Once in My Life by Stevie Wonder
Randy: Trainwreck. Doesn’t really fit what you do.
Kara: All over the place. Bad notes. Song took you over.
Paula: Was not the right song for you. Confusing.
Simon: Horrible. Atrocious.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-04

Anoop Desai
Song: Ooh Baby Baby by Smokey Robinson
Kara: Pretty good job for such a hard song.
Paula: For the most part, not only spot on but also sweet.
Simon: Great vocal. Looked as if you were half asleep.
Randy: Nice to hear but turn it up next week.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-05

Michael Sarver
Song: Ain’t Too Proud to Beg by The Temptations
Paula: A little Las Vegas loungey. Not always reaching the notes.
Simon: Couldn’t wait for it to end. Screaming and shouting. No chance of winning. Just not good enough.
Randy: Song is too big for you.
Kara: Who are you as an artist?
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-06

Lil Rounds
Song: Heat Wave by Martha and the Vandellas
Randy: Front of the song was a little bit torture but cool toward the end.
Kara: Diva that everyone was waiting to hear… but it wasn’t the right song. Screaming at certain parts.
Paula: Like hearing a classic song for the first time.
Simon: Authentic tribute to the sound of Motown. However, there was no moment. Too fast.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-07

Adam Lambert
Song: Tracks of My Tears by Smokey Robinson
Kara: One of the best performances of the night. You showed artistry on that stage.
Paula: Completely in your own league. Element of surprise but an extention of who you are as an artist.
Simon: The best performance of the night. You have emerged as a star.
Randy: Sang such tender moments still using everything in your arsenal.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-08

Danny Gokey
Song: Get Ready by The Temptations
Paula: First class performance every week.
Simon: Clumsy and amateurish.
Randy: Dope voice. Not your best performance but loved the energy.
Kara: Good but not great.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-09

Allison Iraheta
Song: Papa Was a Rolling Stone by The Temptations
Randy: Blazing Hot
Kara: America, you gotta vote for her. You sing like you’ve been singing for 400 years.
Paula: Awesome. Amazing.
Simon: You are a survivor. One of your best performances.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-10

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of American Idol Season 8 episode 24, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on Fox.

The Biggest Loser Couples 2 Episode 12

After the blue team lost yet again, Cathy volunteered to go home in The Biggest Loser Couples 2 Episode 11.

Black team’s shocked that Aubrey’s still there.

Ron says he would do the same thing if it meant keeping his son safe, although Cathy actually kept Aubrey safe rather than Kristin. Whether that was the wisest move to protect the team is hard to say.

Not that there are teams any more. They’re going to singles. Mike finds out that his original shirt fits over both himself and Aubrey.

The first thing they will do as individuals is pick who will train them for the rest of their time. They have half an hour to think about it. Mike has made an effort to get to know Jillian as well as he knew Bob, so he’s got a tough choice. Filipe, however, being the whiner he’s been, is jumping up and down that he gets to pick Bob. Not that he listened when they told him he was with Jillian. The others seem pretty split as well if they’ve been on both sides. Laura, though, has been training with Jillian since day one, although Jillian did throw her under the bus and got the others to say (the truth) that she was the weakest link.

They will pick in order of percentage of weight loss so far.

Tara: Jillian
Mike: Jillian (by coin toss)
Helen: Jillian
Kristin: Bob
Filipe: Bob
Sione: Bob
Ron: Bob
Laura: Jillian
Aubrey: Bob

Having just chosen Bob as her trainer, Kristin’s already worried that he won’t be able to focus on her and instead will be focused on Sione and Filipe.

The challenge will consist of two parts. In part one, they have colored blocks with the exact amount of weight they’ve lost, which they can divide amongst their opponents. The total amount of weight that each player has will be added in part two. What’s part two? That will remain a mystery for the time being. However, immunity is up for grabs.

Aubrey splits between Tara and Helen. Ron splits between them as well. Sione and Filipe mostly target Tara. Mike continues the Tara onslaught. They all find this quite amusing, but Tara is having trouble handling this. Helen splits her weight between all the people who targeted her. Tara goes for her biggest competitor. Tara ends up with the most weight on her scale at 257 pounds, and she doesn’t want to talk to anyone. She just wants to be left alone. She’ll talk to her partner Laura, though. She’s decided to throw the next weigh-in and send herself home. Laura wants to return the favor from all those times earlier in the season and get her to stay strong through the stressful times.

So here comes part two. They see a bunch of cars with all their colors. We all know this challenge will not involve driving. NASCAR Cup driver Clint Bowyer is there as a special guest, and he’s got a message to set goals and keep going to meet them. In addition to immunity, the winner will be a VIP guest at a NASCAR race. Each of them will be pulling a car that weighs over two tons nearly half a mile. The extra weight from part one will be added to the cars.

Ron: 37 pounds
Mike: 63 pounds
Filipe: 67 pounds
Aubrey: 72 pounds
Sione: 92 pounds
Helen: 215 pounds
Tara: 257 pounds

Ganging up on Tara makes sense, but this whole ganging up on Helen thing really didn’t. Mike and Sione get off to a quick start. Tara’s got them in her sights and is trying to catch up. She catches up to Mike and takes second place. Now she just has to go for Sione. From the corner of his eye, he sees Tara coming up on his tail. Despite the efforts of the others to give this challenge to Sione, all they did was anger Tara, who easily walks away with the challenge win and immunity. Mike crosses in second. Sione wore himself out early and finishes third. Filipe, Helen, and Aubrey follow. Mike and Aubrey return to help Ron finish. As another part of her reward, Tara will be going for a ride with Clint.

Going into the weigh-in, Kristin and Tara have the same goal: to lose 4 pounds and be the first woman ever to lose 100 pounds on campus.

Tara: 195 pounds (-3, 1.52%, immune)

Kristin: 255 pounds (-8, 3.04%)

Aubrey: 191 pounds (-4, 2.05%)

Mike: 264 pounds (-6, 2.22%)

Laura: 213 pounds (-7, 3.18%)

Helen: 177 pounds (-5, 2.75%)

Sione: 266 pounds (-7, 2.56%), over 100 pounds

Ron: 317 pounds (-10, 3.06%)

Filipe: 263 pounds (-4, 1.50%)

Once again, immunity has played a role in saving its holder, with Tara being safe because of it. That puts Sione and Aubrey below the yellow line. Now that we’re down to singles, the choice here is pretty simple and obvious, although based on the prior ganging up on Tara and not at all on Sione, they’ll probably keep the bigger threat around.

Votes
Tara: Filipe
Mike: Aubrey
Laura: Filipe
Helen: Aubrey
Kristin: Aubrey
Ron: Aubrey

With 4 votes, Aubrey has been eliminated. While she was gone, her father has lost 26 pounds, so perhaps he’s finally accepted that he either needs to lose some weight or else. In her first three weeks after returning home, Aubrey gained 9 pounds. That’s… not good. Most contestants fall off the wagon eventually, but this has to be a record. Last time she went home, she only lost 2 pounds in a month. However, she’s starting to get back into her routine and has lost 10 pounds since leaving the ranch.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser 7 Episode 13, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

The Celebrity Apprentice 2 Episode 4

Despite the fact that Dennis Rodman was too drunk to join his team at the task in The Celebrity Apprentice 2 Episode 3, Tom Green was fired instead.

After the boardroom, the men continue arguing. Clint Black tries to talk some sense into Dennis, but Dennis doesn’t have any interest in sense.

Joan Rivers will be gone for the day (wasn’t she gone day one of the task last week, too?).

ACN’s new video phone will be launched by the teams. 500 sales people from ACN will judge them.

While they’re picking project managers, Dennis is outside the huddle, not contributing. There are three teams: men, women, and Dennis. Brian McKnight will be the project manager for the men. Claudia Jordan will be the project manager for the women.

After that’s done, they will negotiate for a time slot. Once again, Dennis sits out. Annie will negotiate with Clint. Both teams want the second presentation, so they’ll flip a coin. The men call tails and get their choice.

Then we see the real reason why Trump kept Dennis around. Dennis goes ballistic on Clint, further tearing apart the already torn apart team.

When the men begin their task, Brian doesn’t see the need to call Dennis because he doesn’t want him there anyway.

Jesse James thinks that product launches are a spectacle. They need to do something like a concert. Surely somebody would like to see Brian McKnight in concert. Jesse also suggests producing a video connecting with the troops, so they’d have to head to West Point, about 50 miles away. Clint is opposed to making the trip, but Brian’s got Jesse as his second in command.

The women, who don’t have an actual star, want to write a story about a family. Melissa Rivers wants her mom to perform for a few minutes.

T-Boz, who’s apparently been on the show the last few weeks, although I haven’t seen her, is getting frustrated during the brainstorming session. Brande, likewise, is confused as to what’s going on. They’re running into a problem that they’ve given Joan Rivers such a big role, yet she won’t be there until the morning. To make matters worse, she will be arriving later than previously scheduled, and since the women lost the coin toss, it will be too late for them to be able to utilize her at all.

Time for a plan B. The women realize they still don’t have a star, so they’re still stuck with Joan on the brain, even if she’s still not really a star either. Natalie Gulbis has a private plane that can pick her up whenever she wants.

Clint feels he’s excluded and is still not happy. Brian doesn’t feel like sharing because he’s already got his show ready. Clint will be making the phone calls to line everything up, including the pizza order for lunch.

Melissa tries to take control of the women’s task because Claudia doesn’t seem to have any ideas. Claudia basically tells Melissa to shut up, which Melissa finds insulting. Without Joan Rivers, there would be no Melissa Rivers, although to be fair, I’d never hear of Melissa Rivers before this show.

Eventually, Dennis Rodman strolls in, deciding he hasn’t actually quit the show. Brian would prefer he stay downstairs or elsewhere. Ivanka comes and asks Dennis to come join the group. She feels like Brian should humble himself and ask Dennis to join them. At least they can’t blame Dennis if they lose.

Brian gets hit by a bill of $4800, mostly for the monitor system. Dennis pipes up. He can get the monitors for them for free. Brian refuses that offer. Okay, now Brian’s taking this attitude of his too far.

The women are attempting to film, and all they’re getting is footage of a screeching baby. They get nowhere.

With the traffic, it takes them about 2 hours to get to West Point. Well worth it, though, because this is something that will hit home with everybody.

Dennis tells Clint he just had a bad day and that it’s behind them now, even if it’s not behind Brian.

While Claudia doesn’t appreciate the work Melissa’s trying to do, there are team members who realize she’s got experience producing shows.

Clint’s enjoying his great lack of responsibilities. If the men lose, they really can’t blame him either. Granted, it seems highly unlikely the women have any prayer anyway.

The women take 45 minutes out of their 1 hour of rehearsal time they have to get through it just once. Khloe Kardashian finds their whole thing confusing because they have too many moving parts. Brande doesn’t have much hope either. However, Melissa is attempting to make a last ditch effort at a recovery with just a few minutes left until showtime. Claudia reluctantly gives Melissa a backhanded compliment.

The women have managed to turn what little baby footage they managed to get into a decent video. Joan Rivers is happy to see that people can finally see her face that she’s spent so much money on. They’ve also got a film that ends with Brande going right in the audience to get proposed to. Finally something good seems to have come out of the women’s presentation.

Clint Black opens up the show for the men. He introduces the video of the soldier utilizing the phone in a real world environment, then he introduces the Brian McKnight performance. The audience enjoys the performance, but there is valid criticism what this has to do with the phone. They’d have done better to spend some more time on the soldiers.

Brian says that most of his team worked together as a team. Clint feels he’s patched things up with Dennis. Dennis agrees that he’ll get along well with him. However, Brian didn’t want to use him. At all.

Dennis says that, if the team lost, they can’t blame him. Clint says that Brian took command and would need to be blamed. Brian agrees that, if they lost, he should be fired.

Claudia says that Joan was the star of the team, despite only being there for about an hour. Melissa doesn’t think she was fully utilized. Annie thought it was total chaos and would have to blame the project manager for that chaos. Claudia continues blasting Melissa for no apparent reason. Melissa asks her mom to jump in to defend her, which Joan does to say that Claudia is the weakest link.

Dennis has been waiting for the women to implode.

The audience voted almost 85% in favor of the men (386-61). Brian has won $20,000 for his charity, Youthville USA.

All of the comments reinforced the idea that the vignettes were boring.

Annie points to the chaos in the room as evidence that Claudia could not control her team. Although she thought there was obnoxiousness on both sides, she gives Melissa credit for just putting her head down and doing a great job with what she was allowed to do.

Claudia tells Melissa that she knows she doesn’t like her. She’d better not like her anyway. Additionally, Melissa is very loud and obnoxious.

The men want to know why Melissa didn’t step up to be project manager if she’s got so much experience. A valid question.

Claudia acknowledges that she doesn’t like Melissa, but as much of a personal issue as she’s making it, she has to realize that attacking someone who everybody else says did a great job isn’t going to work. When pushed, she says that Khloe was the least effective person in the group. Ivanka doesn’t think Khloe’s done anything that necessarily determines a win or a loss.

Khloe would fire Claudia because of the lack of control. Joan would fire Claudia, due to her performance since day one (aka because she attacked Melissa). Brande didn’t really see all the fights because she was just doing her thing. Natalie would fire Claudia because she was the project manager.

Melissa and Khloe will be returning back with Claudia.

Although Claudia’s been blasting Melissa for the better part of the past hour, she has finally realized that Melissa won’t be fired, so she would fire Khloe.

Unsurprisingly, Claudia has been fired. She didn’t leave him any choice.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 2 episode 5, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

The Amazing Race 14 Episode 6

Having gotten lost trying to find the detour, Christie & Jodi finished last in The Amazing Race 14 Episode 5. However, it was a predetermined non-elimination leg, so they are still in the race, but they will face a speed bump as part of this week’s leg.

Due to the basketball overrun, The Amazing Race has been delayed about 50 minutes. A live blog will begin when 60 Minutes is over.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.

First: Margie & Luke – 12:18AM
Second: Tammy & Victor – 12:24AM
Third: Jaime & Cara – 12:30AM
Fourth: Mel & Mike – 1:01AM
Fifth: Mark & Michael – 1:02AM
Sixth: Kisha & Jen – 1:28AM
Seventh: Christie & Jodi – 3:09AM

Teams will fly to Jaipur, India, a big change from the freezing Siberia. They must connect through Moscow. Despite the hotter climate, the teams realize they’re going to be hit with massive culture shock. All teams will depart from New Delhi to Jaipur via the 5:40AM flight, meaning that the airport won’t do anything to help the blondes to overcome their speed bump deficit, although it will put all teams even and erase the current hour and a half gap they’re facing.

Mel & Mike start off with a taxi headache. Their guy doesn’t know where he’s going, and he runs off to ask. They’d get another cab, but they can’t get their stuff out of the trunk. The rest of the teams are amazed by the crowded, dangerous driving conditions, but from there they hit the poverty that forces them to tears.

Eventually, the teams arrive at their destination, Dhula village in the middle of nowhere. They just go there to be told to turn around and go to Amber Fort (except they can barely understand the voice on the other end of the phone). Tammy & Victor lead the pack, followed by the next 5 teams all bunched together, and then Christie & Jodi bringing up the rear.

The road block is to care for camels. They must load and carry enough food and water to satisfy each of the camels in their group.

Road block (in order of arrival): Victor, Kisha, Jaime, Mel, Margie, Mark, Jodi

Tammy thinks her dad would love to see Victor shoveling camel feed, considering they were born with silver spoons. It’s not entirely clear why the oldest guy is doing this physical task. That should be good news for the blondes who can make up a bit of time. However, unlike most of the other teams, Mel is smart enough to pay attention to the clue and use the basket for the food, instead of the bucket. Kisha finally realizes the “secret” of the basket when she sees Mel doing it, and the other teams are starting to catch on, too. Because he was the only one paying attention and despite all the drama surrounding how the task was supposedly too difficult for him, Mel finishes before all the others. Jodi has made up some time, but they’re still in last with a speed bump ahead.

From there, teams will race to a puppet store.

In the detour, teams must choose between movers or shakers, both of which will send them through the chaotic streets of Jaipur. In movers, teams will have to transport barrels via cycle and then find a small metal elephant. In shakers, teams must join a dance troupe, where they must shake their hips for tips to earn 100 rupees.

Before the detour, Christie & Jodi must use colored paint to decorate an elephant as their speed bump. They’d better be praying for a miracle because the detour is not difficult enough that anybody is going to lose ground on it. The dancing task sure seems simple enough anyway. Perhaps they’ll get lucky and the moving/searching task, chosen by only one team, will be harder.

Shakers: Tammy & Victor, Mel & Mike, Kisha & Jen, Margie & Luke, Jaime & Cara, Christie & Jodi
Movers: Mark & Michael

The pit stop for this leg of the race is Jaigarh Fort.

First: Tammy & Victor (win ocean kayaks)
Second: Mel & Mike
Third: Kisha & Jen
Fourth: Margie & Luke
Fifth: Jaime & Cara
Sixth: Mark & Michael
Eliminated: Christie & Jodi

After squeaking by a few times, Christie & Jodi have finally been eliminated, coming in just seconds behind Mark & Michael. Nonetheless, they leave with a positive attitude.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 14 Episode 7 Gorilla? Gorilla?? Gorilla???, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Hell’s Kitchen Season 5 Episode 7

In Hell’s Kitchen 5 Episode 6, the previously largely invisible Coi (aside from her occasional flipping out at Lacey) was eliminated.

Carol is surprised she wasn’t put on the block. She should have been.

Today’s challenge is tapas style cooking. First, they’ll need to even the teams. The chef fakes out Lacey, who has performed well since leaving the women (who have not performed well since she left). They’re relieved, as is she. Giovanni, however, will be moving over to the ladies. Good luck.

The teams will have 20 minutes to create their dishes. Lacey doesn’t think she’ll go very much further if she can’t even come up with a dish, which she can’t.

Paula: pepper steak and eggs
Danny: filet mignon with mushroom ragu
Both get a point.

Lacey: mushroom bruschetta (Ben’s suggestion) on top of uncooked sauteed leeks
LA: asparagus and ginger soup – looks and tastes like it came out of the bottom of a dishwasher
Neither get a point.

Carol: ginger seared tuna with fried leeks glazed with a ginger soy reduction (bad news… there wasn’t actually any soy sauce in the kitchen, so what she actually used was balsamic)
Robert: pasta with butternut squash – good flavor, albeit too large
Point for Robert.

Andrea: lobster and asparagus ravioli – boring looking but delivers in taste
J: lobster with fennel and leek broth – too simple
Point for Andrea to tie at 2.

Giovanni: surf and turf style tapa
Ben: grilled tuna and asparagus
Both are called extraordinary, but thanks to their new chef Giovanni, red team has won.

Punishment for the blue team is a double prep with service that night. Red team, meanwhile, will go to Hollywood Park horse racing.

Giovanni wants his new team to stop bickering. If they don’t, they’ll lose again.

Lacey’s not overly interested in the punishment. Time to slack off and whine. She and Robert hate each other (still), so she says she’s leaving if anybody fights with her. Ben has to babysit her. J is okay if she just leaves. She says she quits and walks out. Robert wants her to go be a chef in a psycho ward so she can get some free therapy. Ben goes to talk to her. Again. Telling her they need her. Again. She’s not buying what he’s selling, but she agrees to go back inside.

With a positive attitude following his challenge win, Giovanni hopes he will rub off on the rest of his team. Not likely.

Chef Ramsay tastes the women’s rice, which is overcooked and mushy. J cooked it during their punishment. That means the blue team’s rice is messed up, too.

Half an hour later, appetizers are leaving the kitchen. Then they’re being brought back since they’re undercooked. Andrea and Carol hate each other again. Before going back to service, they’re forced to eat the uncooked pasta.

J’s messing up again, with cold/burned fish.

LA’s sleeping or something, so Ramsay calls her a cow.

Ramsay has finally had enough of J. He’ll be leaving the kitchen now. Not just that, he’s off the show. That was… sudden.

Giovanni seems to actually be making progress on pulling the red team together, even if they still hate each other’s guts.

Ben is struggling to cook the wellingtons, so Ramsay tells him he’s next. He’s watching him because he wants him out. Paula, however, is told that hers are perfectly cooked.

After the service, Carol and Andrea return to bickering. Carol’s about to lose her cool. Funny, I thought she already lost it.

Blue team has lost, which doesn’t surprise anyone. Ben acknowledges he performed poorly. That said, he doesn’t understand why Lacey would consider nominating him. Speaking of Lacey, Robert is tired of dealing with her emotional issues.

Robert nominates Lacey because she doesn’t care. Lacey nominates Robert because he nominated her. Danny nominates Lacey due to her attitude and threats to quit. Ben nominates Lacey for the reasons already mentioned. Regardless of the nominations, Ramsay wants Lacey to step forward along with Ben.

Ben admits that he was the worst performing chef on the blue team tonight. He’ll tell the truth no matter what. Ben gets one more chance. Lacey can also get back in line. Since J was already booted, nobody else is going home. Lacey agrees to work with her team, even though she hates them like she hated the red team.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 5 Episode 8, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on Fox.