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* WhatTheHellPlayer: The judges did this to Sharone and Whitney in the penultimate episode of the first season,after the former served up a dish made up of''[[CordonBleughChef fish livers]]'', while the latter used mostly canned ingredients for her dish, figuring the food critics they were serving to wouldn't know the difference. Gordon openly said that he considered the two to be the best cooks in the competition, and couldn't believe that one of them was now going to be eliminated before the final.

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* WhatTheHellPlayer: The judges did this to Sharone and Whitney in the penultimate episode of the first season,after season, after the former served up a dish made up of''[[CordonBleughChef of ''[[CordonBleughChef fish livers]]'', while the latter used mostly canned ingredients for her dish, figuring the food critics they were serving to wouldn't know the difference. Gordon openly said that he considered the two to be the best cooks in the competition, and couldn't believe that one of them was now going to be eliminated before the final.
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* RedBaron: Alvin Leung, the "head" judge of ''[=MasterChef=] Canada''. You'd think [[CanadaEh he'd have some nice title about politeness or moose]], right? Nope. "Demon Chef".

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* RedBaron: Alvin Leung, the "head" judge of ''[=MasterChef=] Canada''. You'd think [[CanadaEh he'd have some nice title about politeness [[CourteousCanadian politeness]] or [[MooseAndMapleSyrup moose]], right? Nope. "Demon Chef".
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* ThreatenAllToFindOne: Downplayed in some episodes. Gordon Ramsay will, instead of naming the bottom two/three cooks of the night, say something to the effect of "you know who you are" to make them step forward.
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** Season 3 has a moment where the kicking wasn't to the person's face, but still very cruel. When Gordon, Graham, and Joe discuss where Christine should be stationed, who at that point was a very strong competitor despite being almost completely blind. Both Gordon and Graham want her in an important position, and then ask Joe for his thoughts. His response? "Coatcheck". Even Gordon is absolutely shocked.

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** The Judges noted that Christine has an amazing palate due to her blindness; culinary school students would often be blindfolded during a taste-testing assignment to better allow them to understand the flavours of various foods and spices. Christine, being actually blind, has all of this heightened, allowing her to make minute adjustments to the taste of her dish on the fly because of this sensitivity. As expected, during the course of the season Christine did not fail to deliver.

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** The Judges noted that season 3's Christine Ha has an amazing palate due to her blindness; culinary school students would often be blindfolded during a taste-testing assignment to better allow them to understand the flavours of various foods and spices. Christine, being actually blind, has all of this heightened, allowing her to make minute adjustments to the taste of her dish on the fly because of this sensitivity. As expected, during the course of the season Christine did not fail to deliver.



** Season 7 had Andrea (Cuban-American) and Alejandro (Venezuelan) exchanging some of this during a team challenge.

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** Season 7 had Andrea (Cuban-American) and Alejandro (Venezuelan) exchanging some of this during a the Military Veterans team challenge.



* PermanentPlaceholder: During Season 11: Legends, instead of the regular Tag Team challenge the show introduced a new two-person team challenge called The Wall, likely created to work with production changes brought on by the COVID-19 virus during filming. The Wall was like a more intense version of Tag Team, where two paired team members are on opposite sides of a huge wall and have to make identical dishes without being able to see each other. By the next season 12: Back to Win, with the COVID-19 set restrictions gone the Tag Team challenge was brought back but The Wall also returned as another challenge. Season 13 also included both challenges.

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* PermanentPlaceholder: During Season 11: Legends, instead of the regular Tag Team challenge the show introduced a new two-person team challenge called The Wall, likely created to work with production changes brought on by the COVID-19 virus during filming. The Wall was like a more intense version of Tag Team, where two paired team members are on opposite sides of a huge wall and have to communicate and make identical dishes without being able to see each other. By the next season 12: Back to Win, with the COVID-19 set restrictions gone the Tag Team challenge was brought back but The Wall also returned as another challenge. challenge, and Season 13 also included both challenges.doing the same.



** Joe Bastianich left after Season 5 as it took too much of his time. However, he has returned (see TheBusCameBack above for more information).

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** Joe Bastianich left after Season 5 as it took too much of his time. However, he has returned in season 9. (see TheBusCameBack above on his character page for more information).



** Chrisitna Tosi left after Season 8.

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** Chrisitna Christina Tosi left after Season 8.8, being replaced by Aaron Sanchez.



** In episode 6 of ''Back to Win'', Alejandro gets a TranquilFury chewing out from Gordon when he decides to put some steaks he dropped ''back on the grill to kill the bacteria''. They were serving food to the ''Coast Guard''. He is not only immediately stripped of his team captain position, but is eliminated that episode. Gordon later gives everyone a dressing down for not living up to this season's subtitle so far.

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** In episode 6 of ''Back season 12: Back to Win'', Win, Alejandro gets a TranquilFury chewing out from Gordon when he decides to put some steaks he dropped ''back on the grill to kill the bacteria''. They were serving food to the ''Coast Guard''. He is not only immediately stripped of his team captain position, but is eliminated that episode. Gordon later gives everyone a dressing down for not living up to this season's subtitle so far.


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* OneSteveLimit:
** In ''Masterchef UK: The Professionals'', Steve and Claire are the winners of the 2009 and 2010 competitions respectively. Two of the finalists in the 2011 competition are Steve and Claire. There are also two Olis between the 2011 and 2012 seasons.
** In the Australian version: season one had a Julie and a Julia while season four had two Julias. Season five had three Daniels. Not to mention the year when Gary injured his leg and was replaced for a week with Matt Moran, leading to two judges called Matt.
** Canada season 2 and America season 6, which aired almost one right after the other (the last episode of Can-2 aired four days after the first episode of USA-6), each had an Asian guy named Christopher. They're [[AllWorkVsAllPlay very different people]].
* OvershadowedByControversy: The Australian version was hit with this ''hard'' in mid-2019. First, judge George Calombaris was fined and lambasted for underpaying staff at his Melbourne restaurant by $8 million. Then Calombaris and his fellow judges, Matt Preston and Gary Mehigan, were suddenly fired by Creator/NetworkTen over a contractual dispute.

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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Luca from season 4, while an early fan favorite generally in the first half of the competition performed well enough to avoid elimination rather than consistiently plating favorited dishes (and even Gordon wondered if he was ever going to shine outside of his percieved Italian-Cuisine crutch)... but then started just getting better and better until he became nearly unbeatable either in team or individual challenges, and [[spoiler: eventually won the whole competition even over the more consistient-from-the-start Natasha).

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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Luca from season 4, while an early fan favorite generally in the first half of the competition performed well enough to avoid elimination rather than consistiently plating favorited dishes (and even Gordon wondered if he was ever going to shine outside of his percieved Italian-Cuisine crutch)... but then started just getting better and better until he became nearly unbeatable either in team or individual challenges, and [[spoiler: eventually won the whole competition even over the more consistient-from-the-start Natasha).consistent-from-the-start Natasha]].



* PermanentPlaceholder: During Season 11: Legends, the show introduced a new two-person team challenge called The Wall, likely created to work with production changes brought on by the COVID-19 virus during filming. The Wall was like a more intense version of Tag Team challenge, where two paired team members have to make identical dishes while being on opposite sides of a huge wall unable to see their team member. By the next season 12: Back to Win, with the COVID-19 set restrictions gone the Tag Team challenge brought back but The Wall also appeared as another challenge. Season 13 also included both challenges.

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* PermanentPlaceholder: During Season 11: Legends, instead of the regular Tag Team challenge the show introduced a new two-person team challenge called The Wall, likely created to work with production changes brought on by the COVID-19 virus during filming. The Wall was like a more intense version of Tag Team challenge, Team, where two paired team members have to make identical dishes while being are on opposite sides of a huge wall unable and have to make identical dishes without being able to see their team member. each other. By the next season 12: Back to Win, with the COVID-19 set restrictions gone the Tag Team challenge was brought back but The Wall also appeared returned as another challenge. Season 13 also included both challenges.



* OneSteveLimit: Season 5 had a Sydney who went by "Syd" to differentiate from another contestant Cydney.



* WeddingEpisode: Junior Season 6's first field challenge features a wedding.

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* WeddingEpisode: Junior Season 6's first field challenge features was catering a wedding.

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