Line #10 YMMV/HotelHell


1	* AccidentalInnuendo: As pointed out by many people, Ramsay said to Ari that the biggest problem with the Juniper Hill inn was "[[PrecisionFStrike fucking Robert]]". It's not hard to assume that people took it the ''other way''...
2	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Was Rina from ''The Calumet Inn'' lazy, or was she suffering from undiagnosed depression? There's a bit of evidence to both.
3	* 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.
4	* EnsembleDarkHorse: The show had a few.
5	** 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.
6	** 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. Her story of being a single mother working 60-70 hours a week won over a lot of fans' sympathy. The audience shared Gordon’s thoughts that the hotel was done without her.
7	*** 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.
8	* DiagnosedByTheAudience:
9	** ''Multiple'' episodes depict people who appear to be hoarders. Juniper Hill Inn, Monticello, and Town's Inn.
10	** Rina has been diagnosed as having depression by the audience, as well as emotional abuse by her sister.
11	** Lisa from "Hotel Vienna" displays traits of bipolar disorder with her manic and depressive states and hair-trigger temper.
12	** Some people have suggested that Karan might have had some form of dementia.
13	* HarsherInHindsight: Looking up what happened to some of the hotels after - including Town's Inn - it's easy to see that sometimes it wasn't for the better.
14	* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Rina from ''The Calumet Inn'' did indeed find herself... as a caregiver to the elderly. As hilarious as this may sound, she took to it well.
15	* HilariousInHindsight: ''Four Seasons Inn'' and ''Roosevelt Inn'' were listed as "Pet friendly". Pet Friendly hotels became a much bigger business in TheNewTens and it became one of the reasons the "Roosevelt Inn" actually persisted.
16	* NauseaFuel:
17	** 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.''
18	*** 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.]]
19	** On first seeing the pool at the Meson de Mesilla from a distance, Gordon commented that 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 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.
20	** The Towns Inn. Oh, goodness, the Towns Inn. Baskets filled with bugs, refrigerators and freezers that are kept outside and next to the trash, 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 luminometer that monitors the presence of ATP (an organic compound that provides energy for ''all'' types of living cells) using bioluminescence, measured in relative light units (RLU). Anything above 30 RLU is supposed to be a danger zone; the reading turns out to be '''803''' RLU. The owner admits that she has had ''diarrhea'' and some of it may have gotten tracked into the room.
21	** The swab test came up again in "Brick Hotel" with a reading on a bathroom shower curtain of '''''5,680''''' RLU.
22	-->'''Ramsay''': I'm gonna wash my hands. (''bleep'') hell. (''rings a fire alarm, evacuating the hotel'')
23	* NightmareFuel:
24	** 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.
25	** Brian, the head chef of the Keating Hotel, fainting right in front of Gordon from being completely burnt out by everything the owner Eddie has put him through, he wasn't exactly being hyperbolic when he said this job was killing him!
26	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: A meta example. Vanda Smrkovski, one of the owners of the Historic Calumet Inn, expressed (via her [[http://web.archive.org/web/20170722183509/http://www.vandalizedsmirks.com/blog/life-lessons-and-confessions-part-3 personal blog]]) her disappointment in the new Thai menu that Gordon provided in honor of her mother's cooking, primarily criticizing it for its lack of authenticity.
27	-->'''Excerpt from Vanda's blog:''' ... even a 15-Michelin star chef is capable of committing one of the gravest culinary atrocities known to the Asian world: Preparing Thai food that is 20 calibers off in the authenticity scale.
28	* UglyCute: Gordon's English bulldog Rumpole, whom we meet in the Four Seasons Inn episode.
29	* TheWoobie:
30	** 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.]]
31	** 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.
32	** Dave and Dede from Angler's Lodge, who [[OutlivingOnesOffspring lost their 10-year-old son]]. Dede was very despondent and didn't want to leave her bed for years despite being the one who handled the employees. Dave, on the other hand, coped by surrounding himself with work and pushed the locals away because of it even if they were trying to help them recover from the loss at first.
33	** JerkassWoobie: Rina from Calumet Inn - apparently she was somewhat forced into the position and may have been suffering from genuine depression... and took it out on everyone else ''except'' her family. She seemed to be genuinely interested in trying to find some purpose.
34	* ValuesDissonance: Pet Friendly hotels were seen as super niche in the time the episodes were filmed, but became much bigger business in TheNewTens and TheNewTwenties.

Context YMMV / HotelHell