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2[[caption-width-right:350: He's going to help, ''whether you like it or not.'']]
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4->''"I'm forty years of age, and I've gone to a lot of restaurants, but I've never, ever, ever, '''ever''' met someone I believe in as little as you."''
5-->-- '''Gordon Ramsay''', telling off Sebastian Di Modica in "Sebastian's"
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7''Kitchen Nightmares'' is a British-American cooking-themed RealityShow in which chef Creator/GordonRamsay visits struggling restaurants and attempts to turn them around. It began in 2004 as ''Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares'' on Creator/Channel4 in the UK before {{Creator/FOX}} adapted the series for American audiences in 2007.
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9The show shot up to [[MemeticMutation near-viral]] levels of popularity after it featured the infamous Arizona-based Amy's Baking Company in two episodes. Tropes specific to those episodes should go [[Recap/KitchenNightmaresS6E15AmysBakingCompany here]] (the first episode) and [[Recap/KitchenNightmaresS7E1ReturnToAmysBakingCompany here]] (the "return" episode).
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11At the end of the seventh US season in mid-to-late 2014, Ramsay announced that he decided to end the show so that he could focus on other projects, although he didn't rule out the possibility of returning to it at some point in the future. Since then, he has filmed one new season for the UK version of the show (titled ''Ramsay's Costa del Nightmares'') in late 2014, and a sequel series titled ''Series/HotelHell'' (which premiered in 2012 but didn't air further until the 2014-2016 period), focusing on hotels instead of restaurants.
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13In 2018, Ramsay launched a new show, ''Series/GordonRamsays24HoursToHellAndBack''. The format is basically the same idea as ''Kitchen Nightmares'', but with Ramsay first eating at the restaurant in disguise and with a countdown clock of just 24 hours to renovate the restaurant, as well as a few other new touches added in.
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15In May 2023, a new season of ''Kitchen Nightmares'' was announced, with filming starting the next month. Studio Ramsay produces the new season, as the original series was produced by ITV Studios America (now known as ITV America) in association with Optomen and A Smith & Co. The new season premiered in September 2023.
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17[[https://www.youtube.com/user/KitchenNightmares The show's official YouTube channel]] posts various clips and some episodes from the US and UK versions in their full, uncensored glory, and has since branched out to air episodes of ''Hotel Hell'' and ''24 Hours to Hell and Back'' as well.
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19!!Tropes pertaining to the show in general:
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21[[index]]
22* KitchenNightmares/TropesAToD
23* KitchenNightmares/TropesEToN
24* KitchenNightmares/TropesOToZ
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