History Funny / CutthroatKitchen

* In "Well, Hot [[IncrediblyLamePun Clam]]," Alton delivers one of the funniest sabotage introductions ever.

* In "Domo Arigato, Mr. Gelato," Alton declares both of the final two chefs the winner, due to one having a perfect pizzelle and the other a perfect gelato. Alton cannot believe it.
-->'''Alton''' This is ''Cutthroat Kitchen''. There's not laughing, there's crying.

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!!General:
* Any time a chef gets a common, everyday convenience food they don't use in their line of work (like frozen pizza, cup ramen, or [[WritingAroundTrademarks "Spiced Ham"]]) to replace one of their ingredients, and analyzes the alien substance with an expression of amazement, confusion, and disgust (usually the last one).
** A related phenomenon is when you find these experienced chefs reduced to reading the instructions on the package. It's like a mechanic having to read the instructions on a toy's packaging. Alton always finds it funny when a chef does this.
* Any time a chef not only makes a good dish with a clearly inferior ingredient, like soggy bread, wasabi peas, or The Dreaded Canned Chicken (as opposed to an ingredient that simply wastes the chef's time), but when the other contestants-- or Alton-- is clearly stunned that they managed to pull it off.
* Any time a chef is reduced to using that dreaded word "deconstructed" it's funny. "Rustic" is up there too, but "deconstructed" beats it hands down.
* Any time Alton performs a funny background event when the dishes are evaluated that reminds the viewer what sabotages the poor chefs had to face.
* Any time Alton gets involved with the sabotages.

!!Specific episodes:

---> Chef Mae: In the kitchen, I'm a goofball, but when push comes to shove, I'm a badass. ''(beat, Chef Mae looks off-camera)'' Am I allowed to say that?

** The sabotaged chef already used sabotages in the last round, but this round she loses, so both of her opponents take the chance to work together for some sweet revenge on her. When she gets hit the blown-up ingredients sabotage, one of them proudly salutes literally to the well-served dish of revenge.

* In "Greece Lightning", one of the sabotages for the final round was being forced to wear a stuffed monkey on their back without moving it with their hands, with a fine being handed if the monkey was dropped. When the sabotaged chef eventually did drop the monkey, Alton then proceeded to pretende to resuscitate it.

--->'''Alton''': I'm going to give you 45 minutes to make... Candy.\\

* The second Judges episode one has a particularly glorious moment in the final round. Alton presents his most evil sabotage ever: go through the round... '''''without''''' knowing what you're supposed to cook. Antonia, who still had all her money, ''immediately'' bets more than what Simon has left, prompting him to throw down his basket in defeat and march over to the soundproof chamber sulking.
-->'''Simon:''' Antonia, and I mean this in the kindest way: '''''curses!'''''

* Anytime a chef is reduced to using that dreaded word "deconstructed" it's funny. "Rustic" is up there too, but "deconstructed" beats it hands down.

* Any time a chef not only makes a good dish with a clearly inferior ingredient, like soggy bread, wasabi peas, or The Dreaded Canned Chicken (as opposed to an ingredient that simply wastes the chef's time), but when the the other contestants-- or Alton-- is clearly stunned that they managed to pull it off.

* In general, any time a chef gets a common, everyday convenience food they don't use in their line of work (like frozen pizza, cup ramen, or [[WritingAroundTrademarks "Spiced Ham"]]) to replace one of their ingredients, and analyzes the alien substance with an expression of amazement, confusion, and disgust (usually the last one).

* Also in general, any time a chef not only makes a good dish with a clearly inferior ingredient, like soggy bread, wasabi peas, or The Dreaded Canned Chicken (as opposed to an ingredient that simply wastes the chef's time), but when the the other contestants-- or Alton-- is clearly stunned that they managed to pull it off.

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* In "Two Chefs, One Toga," round two is gyros (Which Alton is quick to remind everyone is [[ItsPronouncedTropay pronounced yee-roh]]), and as the judge arrives:

--> '''Chef Neal:''' [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "That's when I get the idea to take the heat gun out from under the pan and just do a blow job... oopsie. I cook the quail eggs over the top... sorry."]]

* In "Fast Times at Cutthroat High" one sabotaged chef complains to Alton, "Dude, I can't see!" Alton proceeds to dock him $100 for calling him "dude". When the same chef calls him "slick" not a moment later, Alton takes away another $100. And not a moment later after that, a different chef calls him "bro": cue another $100 fine. The kicker? The hashtag for this incident is "#KidsTheseDays".

* In the first round of "A Dingo Ate My Dutch Baby" - the three sabotages during a dutch baby pancake challenge are as follows: be [[ChainedHeat stuck together]] with another chef working from the same tray and having to jump double dutch ever time the phrase "Double Dutch, baby!" is yelled, cooking with baby food ingredients, and finally in the middle of the round having to do all the cooking while holding on to a giant Dutch baby doll. The two guys end up double-dutching together, one of them working with baby food ingredients and the other stuck with the giant doll because he let it go to one of the women for a steal at $600. And both go on to the next round because one off the female chefs ''forgot to get eggs in the pantry''.

* The only two-time winner so far, Chef Brian, was likely invited back after his first appearance, where he literally took ''all the bread in the pantry''... during a ''sandwich challenge''. Alton pretty blatantly makes up a new sabotage half-way through the challenge, auctioning off the opportunity to steal one ingredient item from another contestant, if only to make some degree of challenge.

** A related phenomenon is when you find these experience chefs reduced to reading the instructions on the package. It's like a mechanic having to read the instructions on a toy's packaging. Alton always finds it funny when a chef does this.

* In "Cutthroat Kiddie Kitchen", the person who was sabotaged with a kid-sized "Easy-Bake Kitchen"... was the biggest chef out of the four. [[spoiler:He won despite having to work in the mini kitchen.]]

* In an Oysters Rockefeller round, one chef gets all her knives replaced by an ice skate and has to harvest her ingredients from a barrel of "crude oil" (actually food-grade syrup). [[spoiler:She goes on to win the episode.]]

* In the Macaroon challenge of the Evilicious Tournament finale, Chef Yaku is forced to pick coconuts from a tree in order to get the coconut he needs. Since he's about seven feet tall and built like a truck, he doesn't even bother with the blade-on-a-stick Alton gives him to knock the fruit loose. He just yanks them down, takes them back to his prep station, and starts breaking them open with his bare hands. Crosses into SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. [[spoiler:He loses because Simon doesn't like the fried macaroon he offers up.]]

* Second round of "Mo'lassas, Mo' Problems" has ''all three chefs'' caught in the pantry when Alton closes the door at the end of the 60-second shopping time. He gives them all a scolding look and takes one ingredient from each chef's basket before letting them out: first chickpea flour, then habanero peppers (''"I'm saving you from yourself"''), and finally a head of butter lettuce. [[spoiler: They were making ''Philly cheesesteak sandwiches.'']]

* Season 10, Episode 1, "The Full Monte Cristo." First round. During the shopping time, Chef Jourdan completely zones out while getting ingredients and ends up being caught inside the pantry. Alton confiscates a bunch of broccoli before letting her out. The chefs are supposed to make a Monte Cristo sandwich, in which ham and cheese figure prominently - and broccoli absolutely does ''not''. She spends half the round trash-talking the other chefs, reaches for what she thinks is a block of cheese, and has a massive OhCrap moment when someone tells her it's actually butter. [[spoiler:She has to get her bread and cheese from a bowl of French onion soup, resulting in a soggy, beef/onion-tasting sandwich that gets her sent home.]]

-->'''Chef Mike:''' [[spoiler: I won ''[[EpicFail Chopped]]''!]]\\
(cut to wide-shot of the stage [[spoiler:as the camera zooms in on the ''Cutthroat Kitchen'' sign]])
* In the ''Camp Cutthroat 2: Alton's Revenge'': Heat Three had a sabotage similar to the "Private Bob" sabotage. Chef Daniel had to relay all prep and cooking instructions to "[[BearsAreBadNews Bob the Bear]]" (a Bob in a bear costume), and couldn't touch the food himself. He took the opposite tactic of Army chef Brad [[BearyFunny and started being very nice to the "bear," talking to it like he would a oversized, clumsy kid with a short attention span]], even ''hugging'' the bear after the round. [[spoiler: [[BearyFriendly And when he won, he chest-bumped Bob in celebration.]] ]]

* In the first round of "A Dingo Ate My Dutch Baby" - the three sabotages during a dutch baby pancake challenge are as follows: be [[ChainedHeat stuck together]] with another chef working from the same tray and having to jump double dutch ever time the phrase "Double Dutch, baby!" is yelled, cooking with baby food ingredients, and finally in the middle of the round having to do all the cooking while holding on to a giant Dutch baby doll. The two guys end up double-dutching together, one of them working with baby food ingredients and the other stuck with the giant doll because he let it go to one of the women for a steal at $600. [[spoiler:And both go on to the next round because one off the female chefs ''forgot to get eggs in the pantry''.]]

-->'''Alton:''' This is your ''underwear.'' What is wrong with you?

* In "Melts in Your Pot, Not in Your Hand" Chef Jessica gets saddled with random ingredients to add to potato skins, including aerosol cheese. She sprays some into her mouth. Chef Josh next to her says "That's disgusting," and she responds "No, that's Series/GoodEats." Cut to a zoom-in on Alton ([[DontExplainTheJoke the former host of that show]]), who looks at the camera with a surprised face and says "What?"

** Then later during the judge portion of the challenge, one chef admits to Simon that he misheard the dish and thought it was ''brisket'' and gravy. Simon totally sympathizes with the chef and says it's because these folks have accents. Cue Alton mouthing to the camera "I do not have an accent!"