History Series / WorstCooksInAmerica

* LongRunner: The show has made 20 seasons so far.

** All but eight of the overall winners of WCIA were from the red team and all but seven of the overall winners are women.

** Let's be fair, Alina was rather intolerable during the episode in question, becoming extremely bossy to Chet and shooting down his guesses even when he was correct. [[labelnote:Context]]The teams had to work together to figure out the ingredients of an already-prepared dish.[[/labelnote]] Her intolerance to his contributions caused their team to miss a few key elements and could have cost them the match.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Since Season 7, it seems that every odd-numbered will be a "Celebrity Edition," in which celebrities who're terrible cooks will compete to try and improve their cooking skills. There's typically a smaller number of contestants, one person is eliminated each week (and it doesn't matter which team they're from), the cash prize is double to $50,000 while the losers got $5,000 (and the money they won was donated to a charity that they were competing for).
** The spin-off, "Worst Bakers in America", focuses solely on desserts.

* Season 17 (blue team) -- Adrian Read (29), a Zumba instructor from Bronx, New York.

* Season 1 (red team) -- Rachel Coleman (23), a marketing website editor from Brooklyn, New York.
* Season 2 (red team) -- Joshie Berger (36), an attorney from Brooklyn, New York.
* Season 3 (red team) -- Kelli Powers (40), a stay-at-home mom from Los Angeles, California.

* Season 7 (red team) -- Jenni "[=JWoww=]" Farley (29), reality TV-star best known from "Jersey Shore" and "Snooki & [=JWoww=]."

* Season 12 (red team) -- Hazell Mckenzie (36), a graduate student from Brooklyn, New York.
* Season 13 (blue team) -- La Toya Jackson (61), a singer and icon.
* Season 14 (blue team) -- Bradley Garcia (22), a model from Miami, Florida.

* Season 16 (red team) -- Tonya Harding (48), a retired figure skater and reality TV personality.

* Season 1 (red team) -- Carla Johnson from Las Vegas, Nevada.

* LongRunner: The show has made 17 seasons so far.

** Season one also had some features they ''couldn't'' use again, such as ''not'' telling the recruits just what show they had been chosen for and asking for their first dish to be their "best" dish. Also the final episode had the judges completely in the dark and believing it was the chefs' dishes they were judging.

* Season 20 (blue team) -- Ari Robinson (28), a teacher from Simpsonville, South Carolina.

In October 2nd of 2016, a spin-off focused on baking premiered, titled "Worst Bakers in America", headed by chefs Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale (who hosted the blue and red teams respectively), and brought back two contestants from Worst Cooks, namely David Rosenberg from Season 6 and Carla Johnson from Season 4. It received a second season in July 2019, with Jason Smith replacing Duff as the blue team captain.

** Another for Anne is knife safety. She will run up to a recruit and draw on their fingers with marker if she sees them holding knives incorrectly -- specifically, with their index finger extended over the back of the blade.

*** Two chefs in Season 4 were sent home for sanitation issues (Dr. Bob in week 2 cut his finger and continued to cook without even an attempt to bandage the wound; Aadip in week 3 licked his fingers during the main dish challenge and returned to cooking without washing his hands; in both cases they likely would have been sent home anyway for failure to follow directions, but the sanitation made it a particularly easy decision).

** Anne's DSN tendencies are brought out by recruits who are visibly screwing around, refusing to take boot camp seriously and generally treating her and her kitchen with disrespect. She has a lot of patience with recruits who are ''actually'' struggling; ''none'' with recruits who are only struggling because they aren't taking her teaching seriously.

* JawDrop: Sarah's jaw drops in "Blast from the Past" from Season 6 after Tyler tells her that the the truffle he's holding is worth $350.

** One contestant from Season 8 admitted that she thinks that may have actually killed a relative of hers with her bad cooking--she mentioned that she had made a birthday cake for the relative, but the relative died shortly thereafter. To be fair, the relative's death was probably just a coincidence--the contestant had mentioned that the relative she made the cake was for was pretty old (I think it was her grandmother or something), so the relative probably just died of old age.
* LetsSeeYouDoBetter: Most of the recruits are on the show because of their families--either the recruit went there for their family, or their family sent them there.

** The spin-off, "Worst Bakers in America", which focuses solely on desserts.

** Season 3's Tiffany started off mellow and likable, but became rather smug and jerkish later on. As a professional poker player, she should have known better.

* LadyInRed: Downplayed with Anne Burrell. There has yet to be any other Red Team leader.

** Rachael Ray (Seasons 7, 9, 10, 11)

* LadyInRed: Anne Burrell. There has yet to be another Red Team leader.

* SadisticChoice: Of a cooking variety. In the second-to-last round of season 3, which was a challenge to prepare food for school children, Bobby is forced to choose which contestant to send home and which one to take to finals. Melissa handled her time perfectly in the kitchen, but her food was disliked by the kids. Vinnie handled his time poorly, but the kids loved his food. [[spoiler:He chose to send home Melissa.]]

** All but seven of the overall winners of WCIA were from the red team and all but seven of the overall winners are women.

** All but seven of the overall winners of WCIA were from the red team and all but six of the overall winners are women.

** Kimberly from ''Worst Bakers'' had a fear of eggs. Considering that eggs are a staple in most baked goods, she was doomed to have a hard time from the get-go.