History Series / HellsKitchen

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''[[OnceAnEpisode Jean-Philippe/James/Marino/Matthew,]] [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere open up Hell's Kitchen.]]''

''[[OnceAnEpisode Jean-Philippe/James/Marino,]] [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere open up Hell's Kitchen.]]''

** When the Red Team in Season 17 won a day of go-karting as a reward, the footage of them go-karting was edited to also look like the UI of ''VideoGame/MarioKart'', with 8-bit music even playing. And in case of the reference wasn't a blatant enough, this was a reward for winning a pasta-making challenge, which is Italian like [[Franchise/SuperMario Mario and Luigi]] themselves.

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* UnPerson: the mystery of JR, the thirteenth contestant in Series 3. He appears very briefly in the initial signature dish challenge, he has a named peg with his jacket on it, there are thirteen dishes presented to Ramsay, in a later series his burnt portrait is seen... but apart from this, nothing. no clues, no full name, no examples of his cooking skills on display. he is gone even during the signature challenge and no mention is ever made again. Various theories have been advanced to explain this, some even plausible, but it looks like a mystery that will never be solved unless more evidence shows up. According to the Hell's Kitchen Wiki and Joanna (from Season 3), JR was caught posting malicious rumors about the latter, which promptly got him the boot really early on.

** Season 8: Literature/GulliversTravels, as the contestants besiege a tied-down [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever ultra-size Ramsay]] with [[LighterAndSofter food and cooking tools]] (just before he [[BreakingTheBonds breaks loose]]).

** There was also a difference in how elimination nominees were decided. In earlier seasons, Ramsay would just pick whoever had been the least bad performer as the Best of the Worst and get them to decide on the nominees. Starting at around Season 5, however, Ramsay largely dispensed with the Best of the Worst role (only assigning it when someone turned in an exceptionally good performance compared to the rest of their team) and almost always had the nominees decided on by team consensus. Also, Ramsay didn't overrule the choices of who was nominated like he would in later seasons. He likely started doing this to make sure that the better contestants weren't being forced to leave unjustly.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gordon will often give one to a contestant/team when they are screwing up during dinner service. Contestants also can give one to each other at various points in the season, such as Trev delivering one to Raj in Season 8 and Jennifer giving a short one to Elise in Season 9.

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* GagBoobs:
** Season 11's Nedra, who actually points it out herself several times.
** Season 8's Emily described herself as "a little boobalicious" and was forced by Ramsay to cover herself with an apron during the signature dish competition. Nona ridiculed this to the ConfessionCam.

* The Challenge: The chefs are divided into two teams (one team wearing red, the other team wearing blue) and have to complete a challenge. The challenges vary greatly so the contestants never know what to expect, although there are some recurring challenges, like the Blind Taste Test, that appear every year. Commonly, the chefs must use unusual methods of determining the ingredients they will be cooking with, such as picking balls out of a pool, herding animals into cages or rolling a die at a craps table. The dishes they create will then be scored against each other, by Ramsay and sometimes additional guest judges. The team with the most points get rewarded (getting a massage, eating with Gordon at a fancy restaurant, etc.) while the losing team faces punishment, usually doing very tedious tasks such as mincing meat and grinding peppercorns by hand, sorting through rubbish, prepping both kitchens for dinner service, cleaning the dining room, or handling the food deliveries. When it comes down to the final six contestants, there is only one winner for the challenges, but sometimes they have the option to choose one of their fellow contestants to share the reward with. At this point, the punishments drop off. The losing chefs do the prep work for dinner that night, but that's because it needs doing and they're not off on a reward, so they do it.

* The Challenge: The chefs are divided into two teams and have to complete a challenge. The challenges vary greatly so the contestants never know what to expect, although there are some recurring challenges, like the Blind Taste Test, that appear every year. Commonly, the chefs must use unusual methods of determining the ingredients they will be cooking with, such as picking balls out of a pool, herding animals into cages or rolling a die at a craps table. The dishes they create will then be scored against each other, by Ramsay and sometimes additional guest judges. The team with the most points get rewarded (getting a massage, eating with Gordon at a fancy restaurant, etc.) while the losing team faces punishment, usually doing very tedious tasks such as mincing meat and grinding peppercorns by hand, sorting through rubbish, prepping both kitchens for dinner service, cleaning the dining room, or handling the food deliveries. When it comes down to the final six contestants, there is only one winner for the challenges, but sometimes they have the option to choose one of their fellow contestants to share the reward with. At this point, the punishments drop off. The losing chefs do the prep work for dinner that night, but that's because it needs doing and they're not off on a reward, so they do it.

Expect Ramsay to show no mercy to the competitors, as it's his kitchen, and his reputation on the line if they screw up. They are put through their paces in a series of physical, mental, cooking and tasting challenges and dinner services, where they must prepare and cook food to Ramsay's exacting standards. They must coordinate with their teammates to ensure that all the food for each table is ready at the same time -- if it isn't, Ramsay may force them to start the whole table again. If one or two individuals are failing, Ramsay may kick those chefs out of the kitchen for the remainder of the dinner service. Alternatively, he may kick the whole team out of the kitchen, often using his [[CatchPhrase trademark phrase]] "Shut it down!"/"Switch it off!".

Much of the show's appeal (even among those who normally hate RealityTV) comes from the fact that it features the same kinds of people that plague these types of shows... but in a shocking subversion, they're ''punished'' for being stupid attention-starved assholes and ''rewarded'' for showing competence, maturity, and respect to both to each other and especially Chef Ramsay.

After dinner service, a losing team is usually selected (this can also be both teams) from which one or two of the weakest competitors must be nominated by their teammates for elimination. Those chefs that are nominated must then stand in front of Ramsay and tell him why they think they should stay in Hell's Kitchen. He will then decide who to eliminate. Sometimes he will ignore the nominations entirely, or send home a chef from the winning team. On rare occasions, he will choose not to send anyone home, if both teams had a good service or someone had already left due to personal or medical reasons. He may also eliminate a contestant in the middle of dinner service as well.

''Hell's Kitchen'' features 12–20 chefs, selected from the thousands that apply each season, competing in various cooking challenges and working in the kitchen of a Hollywood soundstage turned into a fancy restaurant. The prize is a head chef position at a prestigious restaurant, usually with a $250,000 salary. Sounds simple enough, but what provides this show's appeal is that these aspiring chefs must compete and work together under the watchful eye of Ramsay.

* The Challenge: The two teams have to complete a challenge. The challenges vary greatly so the contestants never know what to expect, although there are some recurring challenges, like the Blind Taste Test, that appear every year. Commonly, the chefs must use unusual methods of determining the ingredients they will be cooking with, such as picking balls out of a pool, herding animals into cages or rolling a die at a craps table. The dishes they create will then be scored against each other, by Ramsay and sometimes additional guest judges. The team with the most points get rewarded (getting a massage, eating with Gordon at a fancy restaurant, etc.) while the losing team faces punishment, usually doing very tedious tasks such as mincing meat and grinding peppercorns by hand, sorting through rubbish, prepping both kitchens for dinner service, cleaning the dining room, or handling the food deliveries. When it comes down to the final six contestants, there is only one winner for the challenges, but sometimes they have the option to choose one of their fellow contestants to share the reward with. At this point, the punishments drop off. The losing chefs do the prep work for dinner that night, but that's because it needs doing and they're not off on a reward, so they do it.

* Elimination: The chefs must tell Ramsay who they have nominated from their team and why. If he is not happy with their choices or reasons, he may overrule the nominations. Either way, the chefs he names must "step forward". He will then ask each chef why they think they should stay in Hell's Kitchen. After they've all had their say, Ramsay decides who to eliminate. Sometimes, he will eliminate someone who didn't "step forward" or even someone on the winning team. Rarely, he may send more than one contestant home, or none at all. Sometimes he will move contestants from one team to another, for various reasons, or ask them to nominate one of their team to go to the other team. Often the moving of contestants is done at the stage when the chefs are "stepped forward" and may be eliminated; Ramsay will ask for their jacket, to make them think they are being eliminated, then say to them "You're in the red/blue team!". Sometimes he will ask for their jacket, only to say to them "it's filthy dirty, put on this clean one".

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Where the British ''Hell's Kitchen'' differed from other such shows was that its head chef and mentor, Creator/GordonRamsay, [[HarshTalentShowJudge didn't hold back in calling out the celebrities on their blatant incompetence]] (as opposed to the relentlessly cheerful chefs that normally appeared on these shows). [[note]]In his autobiography, Ramsay was clear that he would never, ever, repeat the British format with completely inexperienced, egotistic and entitled people, as it reflected so badly on his own professional skills and he was concerned at the damage it could potentially do to his reputation. He singled out a career politician with a sense of entitlement a mile wide - who refused to do what she considered as "menial work" (basic prep - she argued other people should be doing this for her) for special bile.[[/note]] This show caught the eye of some American TV execs, who decided they wanted their own version. The resulting new version was one of the few instances where the TransatlanticEquivalent was widely regarded as being better than the original.

''Hell's Kitchen'' features 12–20 chefs, selected from the thousands that apply each season, competing in various cooking challenges and working in the kitchen of a Hollywood soundstage turned into a fancy restaurant. The prize is a head chef position at a prestigious restaurant, usually with a $250,000 salary. Sounds simple enough, but what provides this show's appeal is that these aspiring chefs must compete and work together under the watchful eye of Creator/GordonRamsay.

Expect Chef Ramsay to show no mercy to the competitors, as it's his kitchen, and his reputation on the line if they screw up. They are put through their paces in a series of physical, mental, cooking and tasting challenges and dinner services, where they must prepare and cook food to Ramsay's exacting standards. They must co-ordinate with their teammates to ensure that all the food for each table is ready at the same time - if it isn't, Ramsay may force them to start the whole table again. If one or two individuals are failing, Ramsay may kick those chefs out of the kitchen for the remainder of the dinner service. Alternatively, he may kick the whole team out of the kitchen, often using his [[CatchPhrase trademark phrase]] "Shut it down!" or "Switch it off!".

After dinner service, a losing team is usually selected (this can also be both teams) from which one or two of the weakest competitors must be nominated by their teammates for elimination. Those chefs that are nominated must then stand in front of Ramsay and tell him why they think they should stay in Hell's Kitchen. He will then decide who to eliminate. Sometimes he will ignore the nominations entirely, or send home a chef from the winning team. On rare occasions he will choose not to send anyone home, if both teams had a good service or someone had already left due to personal or medical reasons. He may also eliminate a contestant in the middle of dinner service as well.

One of the most popular shows on Creator/{{FOX}}, particularly in the summers. Its popularity has led to the adaptation of another of Ramsay's British shows, ''Series/KitchenNightmares'', featuring all the swearing and screaming of ''Series/HellsKitchen'' but without the competition. They even put him in charge of a show he ''wasn't'' on in the UK, ''Series/MasterChef'', although he's nicer there, tending to show disappointment instead of anger, and giving a lot of constructive criticism.

* NeverMyFault:

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Not to be confused with the [[Manga/HellsKitchen2010 manga]] or [[Ride/HellsKitchen haunted house]] of the same name, [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan]], or the former title of ''Webcomic/TheBoyWhoFell''.