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* EnsembleDarkHorse: The show had a few.
** David from ''Meson de Mesilla'', being a peppy and enthusiastic prep cook, who also was an excellent cook at his own food truck, to the point Gordon promoted him to Head Breakfast chef for the hotel. Viewers quickly warmed up to his personality, and were happy for him when Ramsay complimented his food.
** Mandy from ''The Calumet Inn'' is the most competent employee, multitasking as general manager, busser, and janitor, on top of having to endure Rina and Vanda as her {{Bad Boss}}es. The audience shared Gordon’s thoughts that the hotel was done without her.
*** In the same episode, we also have Rita, the sisters’ mother, who is presented as a sweet, humble lady, who managed to cook food Gordon liked.
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** Kevin from Angler's Lodge. He tells Gordon Ramsay, who is sitting in the dining room of his parents' hotel with a TV crew filming his every move, how much he wants to leave the lodge and return to his old life, then acts ''shocked'' that his parents found out.

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** Kevin Zach from Angler's Lodge. He tells Gordon Ramsay, who is sitting in the dining room of his parents' hotel with a TV crew filming his every move, how much he wants to leave the lodge and return to his old life, then acts ''shocked'' that his parents found out.
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** Sukie and David from the Hotel Chester. David had a car accident that left him physically disabled, which led to him letting standards slip in the hotel, losing money to the point that they are unable to afford a head chef so his wife Sukie had to do all the cooking. On top of this, the two lost their house because of all the money they lost, so they ended up having to live in the hotel. Sukie would go days without even setting foot outside the hotel. [[spoiler:Gordon took pity on them and so he paid for a head chef, remodelled the hotel and, best of all, ''[[PetTheDog paid for an apartment for the two to stay in]]'' for six months, until they found their feet. As of this writing the hotel is doing much better and David and Sukie have since escaped their Woobie status for the most part.]]
** Joanna from Applegate River Lodge, whose stoner husband and two slacker sons don't seem to care that they're a million dollars in debt or about helping to run the business. Gordon is absolutely outraged to find just how much she is exploited by her husband and sons.
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** One of the hotel owners had a policy of keeping all customer information - name, address, phone number, and ''full credit card data'' - written down in a single book, with no computer system whatsoever in use. Gordon quickly demonstrates, shortly after his arrival at the hotel, that it would be very easy for literally anyone to grab that book and run off with the credit card information of hundreds of guests. Even regardless of the desk clerk saying she could call 911 if she saw someone do this, he still points out that by the time she even dialed, they could be long gone with the book. Later, he shows this book to several guests and none of them are particularly displeased by this lack of security. By the end of the episode he's provided them a computer to keep the information stored securely.

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** One of the hotel owners had a policy of keeping all customer information - name, address, phone number, and ''full credit card data'' - written down in a single book, with no computer system whatsoever in use. Gordon quickly demonstrates, shortly after his arrival at the hotel, that it would be very easy for literally anyone to grab that book and run off with the credit card information of hundreds of guests. Even regardless of the desk clerk saying she could call 911 if she saw someone do this, he still points out that by the time she even dialed, they could be long gone with the book. Later, he shows this book to several guests and none of them are particularly displeased pleased by this lack of security. By the end of the episode he's provided them a computer to keep the information stored securely.
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** One of the hotel owners had a policy of keeping all customer information - name, address, phone number, and ''full credit card data'' - written down in a single book, with no computer system whatsoever in use. Gordon quickly demonstrates, shortly after his arrival at the hotel, that it would be very easy for literally anyone to grab that book and run off with the credit card information of hundreds of guests. Even regardless of the desk clerk saying she could call 911 if she saw someone do this, he still points out that by the time she even dialed, they could be long gone with the book. Later, he shows this book to several guests and none of them are particularly pleased by this lack of security. By the end of the episode he's provided them a computer to keep the information stored securely.

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** One of the hotel owners had a policy of keeping all customer information - name, address, phone number, and ''full credit card data'' - written down in a single book, with no computer system whatsoever in use. Gordon quickly demonstrates, shortly after his arrival at the hotel, that it would be very easy for literally anyone to grab that book and run off with the credit card information of hundreds of guests. Even regardless of the desk clerk saying she could call 911 if she saw someone do this, he still points out that by the time she even dialed, they could be long gone with the book. Later, he shows this book to several guests and none of them are particularly pleased displeased by this lack of security. By the end of the episode he's provided them a computer to keep the information stored securely.
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** It's also the very reason you're watching this show!

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* EarWorm: The theme song
* FollowTheLeader: Has the same premise as The Travel Channel's ''Hotel Impossible'', but featuring Gordon Ramsay rather than Anthony Melchiorri.

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* EarWorm: The theme song
* FollowTheLeader: Has the same premise as The Travel Channel's ''Hotel Impossible'', but featuring Gordon Ramsay rather than Anthony Melchiorri.
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* WhatAnIdiot: One of the hotel owners had a policy of keeping all customer information - name, address, phone number, and ''full credit card data'' - written down in a single book, with no computer system whatsoever in use. Gordon quickly demonstrates, shortly after his arrival at the hotel, that it would be very easy for literally anyone to grab that book and run off with the credit card information of hundreds of guests. Even regardless of the desk clerk saying she could call 911 if she saw someone do this, he still points out that by the time she even dialed, they could be long gone with the book. Later, he shows this book to several guests and none of them are particularly pleased by this lack of security. By the end of the episode he's provided them a computer to keep the information stored securely.

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One of the hotel owners had a policy of keeping all customer information - name, address, phone number, and ''full credit card data'' - written down in a single book, with no computer system whatsoever in use. Gordon quickly demonstrates, shortly after his arrival at the hotel, that it would be very easy for literally anyone to grab that book and run off with the credit card information of hundreds of guests. Even regardless of the desk clerk saying she could call 911 if she saw someone do this, he still points out that by the time she even dialed, they could be long gone with the book. Later, he shows this book to several guests and none of them are particularly pleased by this lack of security. By the end of the episode he's provided them a computer to keep the information stored securely.
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* NightmareFuel: At the Cambridge Hotel, Gordon is told that the hotel is haunted by a four year old girl, and naturally dismisses it when told the ghost roams the third floor. Upon being told that the hotel owners will have to live upstairs if the hotel fails, Gordon decides to go and investigate. The atmosphere is creepy at best given the floor's state of disrepair, but then Gordon finds a mannequin lacking its hands leering out of the window at the street below. The music does not help at all, nor did the early hint of something upstairs in one of the cuts to a break, zooming in on an ominous figure in the third floor window.

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* NightmareFuel: At the Cambridge Hotel, Gordon is told that the hotel is haunted by a four year old girl, and naturally dismisses it when told the ghost roams the third floor. Upon being told that the hotel owners will have to live upstairs if the hotel fails, Gordon decides to go and investigate. The atmosphere is creepy at best given the floor's state of disrepair, but then Gordon finds a mannequin lacking its hands (with simulated ''blood'' at the stumps) leering out of the window at the street below. The music does not help at all, nor did the early hint of something upstairs in one of the cuts to a break, zooming in on an ominous figure in the third floor window.
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* UglyCute: Gordon's dog Rumpole, whom we meet in the Four Seasons Inn episode.

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* UglyCute: Gordon's dog English bulldog Rumpole, whom we meet in the Four Seasons Inn episode.

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* FollowTheLeader: Has the same premise as The Travel Channel's ''Hotel Impossible'', but featuring Gordon Ramsay rather than Anthony Melchiorri.



** The Town's Inn. Oh, goodness, the Town's Inn. Baskets filled with bugs, refrigerators and freezers that are kept outside and the state of the rooms. Ramsay discovers a horrid smell coming from his room and does a swab test under the mat then pops it into a reader that tests bacteria. Anything above 30 is supposed to be a danger zone. The reading turns out to be 803. The owner admits that she has had ''diarrhea'' and some of it may have gotten tracked into the room.
** The swab test came up again in "Brick Hotel" with a reading on a bathroom shower curtain of '''''5680'''''.

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** The Town's Towns Inn. Oh, goodness, the Town's Towns Inn. Baskets filled with bugs, refrigerators and freezers that are kept outside and the state of the rooms. Ramsay discovers a horrid smell coming from his room and does a swab test under the mat then pops it into a reader that tests bacteria. Anything above 30 is supposed to be a danger zone. The reading turns out to be 803. The owner admits that she has had ''diarrhea'' and some of it may have gotten tracked into the room.
** The swab test came up again in "Brick Hotel" with a reading on a bathroom shower curtain of '''''5680'''''.'''''5,680'''''.



* NightmareFuel: At the Cambridge Hotel, Gordon is told that the hotel is haunted by a four year old girl, and naturally dismisses it when told the ghost roams the third floor. Upon being told that the hotel owners will have to live upstairs if the hotel fails, Gordon decides to go and investigate. The atmosphere is creepy at best given the floor's state of disrepair, but then Gordon finds a mannequin lacking it's hands leering out of the window at the street below. The music does not help at all, nor did the early hint of something upstairs in one of the cuts to a break, zooming in on an ominous figure in the third floor window.
* UglyCute: Gordon's dog Rumpole, that we meet in the Four Seasons Inn episode.
* WhatAnIdiot: One of the hotel owners had a policy of keeping all customer information- name, address, phone number and full credit card info- written down in a single book, with no computer system whatsoever in use. Gordon quickly demonstrates, shortly after his arrival at the hotel, that it would be very easy for literally anyone to grab that book and run off with the credit card information of hundreds of guests. Even regardless of the desk clerk saying she could call 911 if she saw someone do this, he still pointed out that by the time she even dialed, they could be long gone with the book. Later on he shows this book to several guests and none of them are particularly pleased by this lack of security. By the end of the episode he's provided them a computer to keep the information stored securely.
** Kevin from Angler's Lodge. He tells Gordon Ramsay, who is sitting in the dining room of his parents' hotel with a TV crew filming his every move, how much he wants to leave the lodge and return to his old life, then acts ''shocked'' that his parents found out.

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* NightmareFuel: At the Cambridge Hotel, Gordon is told that the hotel is haunted by a four year old girl, and naturally dismisses it when told the ghost roams the third floor. Upon being told that the hotel owners will have to live upstairs if the hotel fails, Gordon decides to go and investigate. The atmosphere is creepy at best given the floor's state of disrepair, but then Gordon finds a mannequin lacking it's its hands leering out of the window at the street below. The music does not help at all, nor did the early hint of something upstairs in one of the cuts to a break, zooming in on an ominous figure in the third floor window.
* UglyCute: Gordon's dog Rumpole, that whom we meet in the Four Seasons Inn episode.
* WhatAnIdiot: One of the hotel owners had a policy of keeping all customer information- information - name, address, phone number number, and full ''full credit card info- data'' - written down in a single book, with no computer system whatsoever in use. Gordon quickly demonstrates, shortly after his arrival at the hotel, that it would be very easy for literally anyone to grab that book and run off with the credit card information of hundreds of guests. Even regardless of the desk clerk saying she could call 911 if she saw someone do this, he still pointed points out that by the time she even dialed, they could be long gone with the book. Later on Later, he shows this book to several guests and none of them are particularly pleased by this lack of security. By the end of the episode he's provided them a computer to keep the information stored securely.
** Kevin from Angler's Lodge. He tells Gordon Ramsay, who is sitting in the dining room of his parents' hotel with a TV crew filming his every move, how much he wants to leave the lodge and return to his old life, then acts ''shocked'' that his parents found out.out.
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** The swab test came up again in "Brick Hotel" with a reading on a bathroom shower curtain of '''''5680'''''.
-->'''Ramsay''': I'm gonna wash my hands. (''bleep'') hell. (''rings a fire alarm, evacuating the hotel'')
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* WhatAnIdiot: One of the hotel owners had a policy of keeping all customer information- name, address, phone number and full credit card info- written down in a single book, with no computer system whatsoever in use. Gordon quickly demonstrates, shortly after his arrival at the hotel, that it would be very easy for literally anyone to grab that book and run off with the credit card information of hundreds of guests. Even regardless of the desk clerk saying she could call 911 if she saw someone do this, he still pointed out that by the time she even dialed, they could be long gone with the book. By the end of the episode he's provided them a computer to keep the information stored securely.

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* WhatAnIdiot: One of the hotel owners had a policy of keeping all customer information- name, address, phone number and full credit card info- written down in a single book, with no computer system whatsoever in use. Gordon quickly demonstrates, shortly after his arrival at the hotel, that it would be very easy for literally anyone to grab that book and run off with the credit card information of hundreds of guests. Even regardless of the desk clerk saying she could call 911 if she saw someone do this, he still pointed out that by the time she even dialed, they could be long gone with the book. Later on he shows this book to several guests and none of them are particularly pleased by this lack of security. By the end of the episode he's provided them a computer to keep the information stored securely.
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** The Town's Inn. Oh, goodness, the Town's Inn. Baskets filled with bugs, refrigerators and freezers that are kept outside and the state of the rooms. Ramsay discovers a horrid smell coming from his room and does a swab test under the mat then pops it into a reader that tests bacteria. Anything above 30 is supposed to be a danger zone. The reading turns out to be 803. The owner admits that she has had ''diarrhea'' and some of it may have gotten tracked into the room.
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* WhatAnIdiot: One of the hotel owners had a policy of keeping all customer information- name, address, phone number and full credit card info- written down in a single book, with no computer system whatsoever in use. Gordon quickly demonstrates, shortly after his arrival at the hotel, that it would be very easy for literally anyone to grab that book and run off with the credit card information of hundreds of guests. Even regardless of the desk clerk saying she could call 911 if she saw someone do this, he still pointed out that by the time she even dialed, they could be long gone with the book. By the end of the episode he's provided them a computer to keep the information stored securely.

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* WhatAnIdiot: One of the hotel owners had a policy of keeping all customer information- name, address, phone number and full credit card info- written down in a single book, with no computer system whatsoever in use. Gordon quickly demonstrates, shortly after his arrival at the hotel, that it would be very easy for literally anyone to grab that book and run off with the credit card information of hundreds of guests. Even regardless of the desk clerk saying she could call 911 if she saw someone do this, he still pointed out that by the time she even dialed, they could be long gone with the book. By the end of the episode he's provided them a computer to keep the information stored securely.securely.
** Kevin from Angler's Lodge. He tells Gordon Ramsay, who is sitting in the dining room of his parents' hotel with a TV crew filming his every move, how much he wants to leave the lodge and return to his old life, then acts ''shocked'' that his parents found out.
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* UglyCute: Gordon's dog Rumpole, that we meet in the Four Seasons Inn episode.

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* UglyCute: Gordon's dog Rumpole, that we meet in the Four Seasons Inn episode.episode.
* WhatAnIdiot: One of the hotel owners had a policy of keeping all customer information- name, address, phone number and full credit card info- written down in a single book, with no computer system whatsoever in use. Gordon quickly demonstrates, shortly after his arrival at the hotel, that it would be very easy for literally anyone to grab that book and run off with the credit card information of hundreds of guests. Even regardless of the desk clerk saying she could call 911 if she saw someone do this, he still pointed out that by the time she even dialed, they could be long gone with the book. By the end of the episode he's provided them a computer to keep the information stored securely.
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** After first seeing the pool at the Meson de Mesilla from a distance, Gordon commented on how it was "full of crap." When he tried to take a swim the following morning however, he found out that his throwaway remark was ''literally'' right. The same was also true at the Four Seasons Inn, except this time it was dog crap, apparently from the owner's dog, Layla.

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** After On first seeing the pool at the Meson de Mesilla from a distance, Gordon commented on how that it was "full of crap." When he tried to take a swim the following morning morning, however, he found out that his throwaway remark was ''literally'' right.''literally correct''. The same was also true at the Four Seasons Inn, except this time it was dog crap, apparently from the owner's dog, Layla.
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** After first seeing the pool at the Meson de Mesilla from a distance, Gordon commented on how it was "full of crap." When he tried to take a swim the following morning however, he found out that his throwaway remark was ''literally'' right.

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** After first seeing the pool at the Meson de Mesilla from a distance, Gordon commented on how it was "full of crap." When he tried to take a swim the following morning however, he found out that his throwaway remark was ''literally'' right. The same was also true at the Four Seasons Inn, except this time it was dog crap, apparently from the owner's dog, Layla.
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*** The stained bed in the Monticello Hotel episode is even worse. This time, the mattress and sheets in question used to be in the owner's house, so everyone immediately knows whose semen is staining the sheets.

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*** The stained bed in the Monticello Hotel episode is even worse. This time, the mattress and sheets in question used to be in the owner's house, so everyone immediately knows whose semen is staining the sheets. Seeing how the owner was also a raging alcoholic, it's probably [[PottyFailure more than just semen stains.]]
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* NightmareFuel: At the Cambridge Hotel, Gordon is told that the hotel is haunted by a four year old girl, and naturally dismisses it when told the ghost roams the third floor. Upon being told that the hotel owners will have to live upstairs if the hotel fails, Gordon decides to go and investigate. The atmosphere is creepy at best given the floor's state of disrepair, but then Gordon finds a mannequin lacking it's hands leering out of the window at the street below. The music does not help at all, nor did the early hint of something upstairs in one of the cuts to a break, zooming in on an ominous figure in the third floor window.
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* BileFascination: Many episodes have guests showing up to the hotels because they heard Ramsay is filming there. They must know the hotel will be awful enough to warrant an episode, but they're still willing to spend money to be there.
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** After first seeing the pool at the Meson de Mesilla from a distance, Gordon commented on how it was "full of crap." When he tried to take a swim the following morning however, he found out that his throwaway remark was ''literally'' right.

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** After first seeing the pool at the Meson de Mesilla from a distance, Gordon commented on how it was "full of crap." When he tried to take a swim the following morning however, he found out that his throwaway remark was ''literally'' right.right.
* UglyCute: Gordon's dog Rumpole, that we meet in the Four Seasons Inn episode.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: After his attempt to get people to pay to stay in his accommodations failed, the proprietor of The Cambridge Hotel found other work, namely [[http://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping/32692/cambridge-hotel-on-ramsays-hotel-hell/ a civilian job at Guantanamo Bay]], which is where the United States controversially provides [[UnusualEuphemism involuntary accommodations]] to suspected terrorists. Watching the episode in that context borders on a RefugeInAudacity.

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** The River Rock Inn was pretty much {{Squick}} incarnate. From dead bugs littering the rooms, to dust and dirt accumulating everywhere, to ''sheets stained with semen''.

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** The River Rock Inn was pretty much {{Squick}} incarnate. From dead bugs littering the rooms, to dust and dirt accumulating everywhere, to ''sheets stained with semen''.semen.''
*** The stained bed in the Monticello Hotel episode is even worse. This time, the mattress and sheets in question used to be in the owner's house, so everyone immediately knows whose semen is staining the sheets.
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* MostAnnoyingSound: The Meson de Mesilla owner, Cali, and her repeated murdering of Cher tunes by karaoke.

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* NauseaFuel: The River Rock Inn was pretty much {{Squick}} incarnate. From dead bugs littering the rooms, to dust and dirt accumulating everywhere, to ''sheets stained with semen''.

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The River Rock Inn was pretty much {{Squick}} incarnate. From dead bugs littering the rooms, to dust and dirt accumulating everywhere, to ''sheets stained with semen''.semen''.
** After first seeing the pool at the Meson de Mesilla from a distance, Gordon commented on how it was "full of crap." When he tried to take a swim the following morning however, he found out that his throwaway remark was ''literally'' right.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: After his attempt to get people to pay to stay in his accommodations failed, the proprietor of The Cambridge Hotel found other work, namely [[http://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping/32692/cambridge-hotel-on-ramsays-hotel-hell/ a civilian job at Guantanamo Bay]], which is where the United States controversially provides [[UnusualEuphemism involuntary accommodations]] to suspected terrorists. Watching the episode in that context borders on a RefugeInAudacity.

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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: After his attempt to get people to pay to stay in his accommodations failed, the proprietor of The Cambridge Hotel found other work, namely [[http://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping/32692/cambridge-hotel-on-ramsays-hotel-hell/ a civilian job at Guantanamo Bay]], which is where the United States controversially provides [[UnusualEuphemism involuntary accommodations]] to suspected terrorists. Watching the episode in that context borders on a RefugeInAudacity.RefugeInAudacity.
* NauseaFuel: The River Rock Inn was pretty much {{Squick}} incarnate. From dead bugs littering the rooms, to dust and dirt accumulating everywhere, to ''sheets stained with semen''.
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* EarWorm: The theme song
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: After his attempt to get people to pay to stay in his accommodations failed, the proprietor of The Cambridge Hotel found other work, namely a civilian job at Guantanamo Bay, which is where the United States controversially provides [[UnusualEuphemism involuntary accommodations]] to suspected terrorists. Watching the episode in that context borders on a [[RefugeinAudacity Refuge in Audacity]]. http://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping/32692/cambridge-hotel-on-ramsays-hotel-hell/

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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: After his attempt to get people to pay to stay in his accommodations failed, the proprietor of The Cambridge Hotel found other work, namely a civilian job at Guantanamo Bay, which is where the United States controversially provides [[UnusualEuphemism involuntary accommodations]] to suspected terrorists. Watching the episode in that context borders on a [[RefugeinAudacity Refuge in Audacity]]. http://blog.[[http://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping/32692/cambridge-hotel-on-ramsays-hotel-hell/com/tablehopping/32692/cambridge-hotel-on-ramsays-hotel-hell/ a civilian job at Guantanamo Bay]], which is where the United States controversially provides [[UnusualEuphemism involuntary accommodations]] to suspected terrorists. Watching the episode in that context borders on a RefugeInAudacity.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: After his attempt to get people to pay to stay in his accommodations failed, the proprietor of The Cambridge Hotel found other work, namely a civilian job at Guantanamo Bay, which is where the United States controversially provides [[UnusualEuphemism involuntary accommodations]] to suspected terrorists. Watching the episode in that context borders on a [[RefugeinAudacity Refuge in Audacity]]. http://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping/32692/cambridge-hotel-on-ramsays-hotel-hell/

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