Well. Did you hear about the big MasterChef controversy last week? Seems the producers and editors were caught “faking a crowd.” I would have written a post about it, but to me, this is nothing new. When I was fortunate enough to work in television, we had a famous quote: “Oh, that’s OK, we’ll fix it in editing.” And we did. If you’ve ever seen the movie Broadcast News, you know what I mean. Often, especially in interviews, the celebs are pressed for time. Therefore, you shoot the interview, the star blows a kiss on the way out the door, and you turn the camera on the host and shoot “reaction” shots. Five minutes of smiling and head nodding. Always uncomfortable for me, until I made someone sit in the star’s vacated chair off camera, so at least I was half-assed reacting to someone. My point being, it’s TV, people; they manipulate us like muppets. Don’t fret. It’s just a simple fact. Or, if you’d like to hold on to the illusion, those two women in orange in the crowd shots? They were twin sisters out for a little lark together. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
In terms of tonight’s show, the plan was the same as last week; a Mystery Box Challenge and an Elimination Challenge. The mystery box contained lamb, so right away I was slightly green, but someone please make me a fried feta walnut fruity compote side dish like Tracy’s!
I didn’t blame judge Joe Bastianich in the least for losing his cooking religion all over Jennifer, when she served up her still mewling lamb. Obviously, Jennifer is not familiar with my Gordon Ramsay’s famous rants over raw food, on both Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares. However, Joe’s phrasing was interesting … “It would be dangerous to serve a piece of lamb like this to a judge.” Oh. So I guess it would be fine to poison a regular person then? Huh. Well I never!
My lovely Gordon Ramsay had some illustrious judging comments. No, even more than usual. Here’s a few of my favorites. …
“Is there anyone who is a little bit jealous of Adrien’s nuts?”
“[This dessert] is like I’ve gone to the doctor’s office for a skin graft on my butt and stuck it in caramel.” That was said to Max, which I adored, because he had just told the camera what a genius he is.
“It (points to Jenny’s dessert) should come with a health warning sign. You should have staged a trip up and dropped it. …”
And finally, concerning Alvin’s effort, “It’s like a coffee blot clot!”
Oh Gordon, Gordon. Um. Have you been watching gory movies or having serious health issues lately? Please call the number I snuck into your pant pocket last time, and let me know!
Bottom line — Alvin bit the dust. I personally would have “lamb”-basted Jenny (Get it? See what I did there?) but I’m not a judge, unfortunately. Little or no attention was paid to Guisseppe, Ben and a few others, so I predict we’ll see more of them tonight.
Ya’ll stick with me, ya hear?
Clacked by Tara Shrodes
on Jun 28, 2011 @ 00:32 EST5EDT
Your Gordon’s comment might have been a little gross, but hell, it looked like a coffee blood clot! I wouldn’t have eaten that sucka :-)
I loved the dressing down the judges gave all the contestants after several miserable submissions.
And I think he’s saving Jenny’s Lamb-blasting for a later date, cause it’s coming!
I so wanted Keith to send that in as a quote for Sunday’s Quotation Marks, but he said it was more of a visual, LOL. The coffee bloodclot cracked me up, though.
Of course, I was partial to the whole “butt” quote, Deb.
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It’s too bad Alvin was too over the top with his methods and too vocal about them while not being able to put his preparations where the judges’ mouths were. He deserved the heave ho.
Next up for me: That cocky little asshat Max and his mascarpone…
Max is such a rash. But Jenny will go first methinks.
I think we need to keep Suzy and Max in this thing for a while longer — the sexual tension is building! ;-)