History Recap / KitchenNightmaresS4E14Oceana

* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: When Gordon arrived, the young woman to serve him lunch admits to have been fired ''four times'' in the last year, only to be allowed back after each time. Ramsay is quite astonished, to say the least.

* VomitDiscretionShot: Gordon threw up immediately after smelling rotten shrimp from the fridge. He was very fortunate that a trash can was right beside him at the time.

Gordon travels to Oceana, a restaurant in bustling Bourbon Street in the heart of New Orleans - a city famed for its Creole cuisine and soul food. Unfortunately Oceana desperately needs a large spoonful of both heart and soul to ensure its survival.

* TwitchyEye: Chef Damon blinks extremely frequently, sometimes even one eye at a time; this becomes especially pronounced when he is angry.

* StealthInsult: Moe: 'I'm speechless!' / Ramsay: 'Good! I like it when you're speechless.'

* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Gordon calls the meatheaded lunk, Moe, a "busy idiot", which means ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Moe, however, is combative and reacts quite badly to being called that, so his brother Rami has to calm him down by saying that in Britain, "busy idiot" is a compliment, with the infamous quote, "He's from British, he doesn't speak English."

* RedOniBlueOni: Moe and Rami, the co-owner brothers of the restaurant. Moe is [[HairTriggerTemper extremely hot-tempered]] (when the restaurant has to be shut down due to serious food-safety issues, Moe literally throws a couple of chairs across the room), whereas Rami is more level-headed, even a little self-aware.

* NiceToTheWaiter: Gordon's almost apologetic to have to send the waitress back with the food.

* LethalChef: Chef Damon had to be fired during the episode because Gordon and the owners could see the restaurant couldn't move on with him.

* LethalChef: Chef Damon had to be fired during the episode because Gordon and the owners could see the restaurant couldn't move on with them.

* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: When Gordon arrived, the young woman to serve him lunch admits to have been fired ''four times'' in the last year, only to be allowed back after each time. Ramsay is quite astonished, to say the least.

* BrokenPedestal: Downplayed. Owner Moe is the first one to defend chef Damon, dismissing any critique Gordon has and basically saying he has no right to complain since he knows nothing about cajun cuisine. But when Gordon shows him how lax and lazy chef Damon's methods are, and how much food spoils due to it, he really starts to see how much of a problem Damon is

* BlatantLies: Nearly everyone was willing to ''lie'' to Ramsay about the condition of the food - except for Rami, because he cared enough about the business to be honest. They lied to Ramsay about having not frozen the crab cakes, only for that lie to be shot down by Rami, and they admit to Ramsay they have lied after being exposed. They even have a rather weak excuse for doing so: they don't get enough customers and they pointlessly make big batches of crab cakes. Next, they try to withhold the details of when the duck that Ramsay ate earlier was made, which is still not being honest as it is lying by omission, and they deny knowing when the duck was cooked... only for Moe to admit that it was cooked a month before and it was made outside of the restaurant's premises. Worst of all, nobody was even ''ashamed'' of that simple fact (except for Moe and Rami, perhaps). This alone [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere almost got Gordon to say "screw it" and leave, as he will]] ''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere NOT]]'' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere tolerate being lied to by people he's trying to help.]]

* TheAlcoholic: Moe really stands out in this regard. He's late for the re-opening... strongly implied to be due to him drinking (or [[DrugsAreBad doing something worse]]). He even ''leaves'' during the dinner rush to "take a break".... probably to go drink somewhere private.

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