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** Coupled with HeartwarmingInHindsight, one such episode of the new "Iron Chef: Quest for the Iron Legend" has Mei and Gregory, winner and runner-up from Season 12 (Boston), competing together with Season 13 (California) winner Jeremy Ford.
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** Coupled with HeartwarmingInHindsight, one such episode of the new "Iron Chef: Quest for the Iron Legend" has Mei and Gregory, winner and runner-up from Season 12 (Boston), competing together with Season 13 (California) winner Jeremy Ford. Returning to "Hilarious", Mei and Gregory wound up competing against Ming Tsai who was a guest judge during their Boston season.
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* TheRunnerUpTakesItAll: Season 5 introduced the world to Carla Hall. While she didn't win the finale, her personality led to fame as a celebrity chef and judge on various Food Network shows (and several seasons of "The Chew"), overshadowing the actual winner.
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* EntitledBastard: Richard Blais in season 8, where he seemed completely incapable of going by five minutes without whining about how he "should have won season 4", or how the current season would not be successful if he didn't win.
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* EndingAversion:
** Season 11 has the infamous [[spoiler:Nick winning over Nina]].
** Season 18 is universally acclaimed... except for the ending in which [[spoiler:Gabe wins]] because of the reports coming out of [[spoiler:his]] sexual assault accusation and inappropriate workplace romance and thus throw the extremely flattering portrayal of [[spoiler:him]] in the season to a whole new light.
** Season 11 has the infamous [[spoiler:Nick winning over Nina]].
** Season 18 is universally acclaimed... except for the ending in which [[spoiler:Gabe wins]] because of the reports coming out of [[spoiler:his]] sexual assault accusation and inappropriate workplace romance and thus throw the extremely flattering portrayal of [[spoiler:him]] in the season to a whole new light.
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Aaron Grissom competed in Top Chef Boston. He was arrested for domestic violence on November 6th, 2014. The episode "It's War" was aired on November 12th, 2014. He hasn't been heard from since.
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** Top Chef Boston's Aaron Grissom's abrasive and combative personality is this since he was arrested for domestic violence less than a week before his elimination episode was aired.
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* WhatAnIdiot: One chef decided to make beignets to serve to a crowd, however she had to make them hours in advance since she didn't have the time make them fresh at the site. When given a mediocre review of her beignets by the judges, she says outright she wishes she could have made them to order, but couldn't because of the challenge. The judges call her out in that if she was already aware of the glaring flaw in being unable to make beignets fresh, then she should have just done something else.
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*** Season 11 and 18 will forever be marred by the winners - [[spoiler: EliminationHoudini Nick and Gabe - who are accused of sexual harassment and admitted to an inappropriate workplace romance]].
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* OvershadowedByControversies:
** Any discussion of Season 2 will inevitably brought up the infamous headshaving incident that got Cliff disqualified.
** Season 9 is overshadowed by the bullying of Sarah, Heather and Lindsay toward Beverly to the point that many fans found it hard to watch.
*** If not bringing that up, the fact that the winner [[spoiler:Paul Qui]] was accused of domestic violence will pop up.
*** Season 11 and 18 will forever be marred by the winners - [[spoiler: EliminationHoudini Nick and Gabe - who are accused of sexual harassment and admitted to an inappropriate workplace romance]].
** Any discussion of Season 2 will inevitably brought up the infamous headshaving incident that got Cliff disqualified.
** Season 9 is overshadowed by the bullying of Sarah, Heather and Lindsay toward Beverly to the point that many fans found it hard to watch.
*** If not bringing that up, the fact that the winner [[spoiler:Paul Qui]] was accused of domestic violence will pop up.
*** Season 11 and 18 will forever be marred by the winners - [[spoiler: EliminationHoudini Nick and Gabe - who are accused of sexual harassment and admitted to an inappropriate workplace romance]].
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* EndingAversion:
** Season 11 has the infamous [[spoiler:Nick winning over Nina]].
** Season 18 is universally acclaimed... except for the ending in which [[spoiler:Gabe wins]] because of the reports coming out of [[spoiler:his]] sexual assault accusation and inappropriate workplace romance and thus throw the extremely flattering portrayal of [[spoiler:him]] in the season to a whole new light.
** Season 11 has the infamous [[spoiler:Nick winning over Nina]].
** Season 18 is universally acclaimed... except for the ending in which [[spoiler:Gabe wins]] because of the reports coming out of [[spoiler:his]] sexual assault accusation and inappropriate workplace romance and thus throw the extremely flattering portrayal of [[spoiler:him]] in the season to a whole new light.
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** Season Eleven (New Orleans) has a special case with Nicholas. He was in the bottom for ''six'' time. The one time he won a Quickfire challenge he uses the immunity to not be eliminated despite being the only one who perform poorly in his team (See Shocking Elimination). He suffered a case of being OvershadowedByAwesome as he was in the bottom ''six'' times in a row [[spoiler:from episode 11 to 16]] and has temper control issue. [[spoiler:His victory over [[EnsembleDarkhorse Nina]] (who won ''eight'' elimination challenge and [[NoDamageRun never reached the bottom in any elimination challenge]]) is so problematic and angered the fans so much that even reach Wiki/TheOtherWiki page of season 11 and tainted Tom's reputation. You know he is a special case when Tom was forced to ''release the scores'' on Twitter to try to justify their decision.]]
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** Season Eleven (New Orleans) has a special case with Nicholas. He was in the bottom for ''six'' time. The one time he won a Quickfire challenge he uses the immunity to not be eliminated despite being the only one who perform poorly in his team (See Shocking Elimination). He suffered a case of being OvershadowedByAwesome as he was in the bottom ''six'' times in a row [[spoiler:from episode 11 to 16]] and has temper control issue. [[spoiler:His victory over [[EnsembleDarkhorse Nina]] (who won ''eight'' elimination challenge and [[NoDamageRun never reached the bottom in any elimination challenge]]) is so problematic and angered the fans so much that even reach Wiki/TheOtherWiki Website/TheOtherWiki page of season 11 and tainted Tom's reputation. You know he is a special case when Tom was forced to ''release the scores'' on Twitter to try to justify their decision.]]
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** All of Season 18 (Portland) can be considered this since winner Gabe Erales was fired from his executive chef position at his restaurant a month after filming ended due to allegations of sexual harassment. (The married Erales himself admitted to an affair with a coworker prior to the competition and reduced her hours while continuing to communicate with her in an [[https://ew.com/tv/top-chef-winner-gabe-erales-apologizes-sexual-misconduct-allegations unprofessional manner]].) This admission was made the day after the finale aired in which he was crowned Top Chef.
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** Edmund Konrad from Season 16 (Kentucky) will be forever known as "Eddie Money" for miscalculating the cost of a lamb purchase for an elimination challenge in the second episode that consumed a third of the total budget for the entire team. This resulted in the other chefs scrambling since they can no longer afford all of their planned ingredients, hindering their dishes.
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** Coupled with HeartwarmingInHindsight, one such episode of the new "Iron Chef: Quest for the Iron Legend" has Mei and Gregory, winner and runner-up from Season 12 (Boston), competing together with Season 13 (California) winner Jeremy Ford.
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Season 3 contestant Howie Kleinberg died at age 46 of a heart attack.
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** Episodes of Season 3 (Miami) became this with the sudden death of cheftestant Howie Kleinberg at age 46 of a heart attack.
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Kristen Kish went from winning an Iron Chef-style finale to hosting an Iron Chef show.
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* HoYay: Surprisingly, this is fairly common amongst this show. Famous examples include Dale/Richard (Season 4), Stefan/Fabio (Season 5), Andrew/Spike/Mark (Season 4),and Kevin/Eli (Season 6) from previous seasons.
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* HilariousInHindsight: One complaint about the Seattle finale between Kristen Kish and Brooke Williamson was its format being similar to {{Series/IronChef}}. Ten years later, Seattle winner Kristen Kish will wind up co-hosting "Iron Chef: Quest for the Iron Legend" with [[{{Series/GoodEats}} Alton Brown]].
* HoYay: Surprisingly, this is fairly common amongst this show. Famous examples include Dale/Richard (Season 4), Stefan/Fabio (Season 5), Andrew/Spike/Mark (Season4),and 4), and Kevin/Eli (Season 6) from previous seasons.
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** Something else that people have never let her live down were her comments towards Carla during interviews after season 5 ended. While Carla graciously and humbly accepted her mistakes, did not blame Casey and said people should not blame Casey either, Casey took the opposite approach, critizicing and speaking ill of Carla in the interviews.
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** Something else that people have never let her live down were her comments towards Carla during interviews after season 5 ended. While Carla graciously and humbly accepted her mistakes, did not blame Casey and said people should not blame Casey either, Casey took the opposite approach, critizicing criticizing and speaking ill of Carla in the interviews.
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** Arguably, Season 16 was full of such eliminations as there was no consistency in the performances of the cheftestants. For example, Natalie won the first elimination challenge only to pack her knives in the second episode. Nini won the elimination challenges in episodes 2 and 3 only to be eliminated in episode 4. Episode 6 had Brother Luck win Last Chance Kitchen to return to the main competition only to be eliminated ''in the same episode''.
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** Arguably, Season 16 was full of such eliminations as there was no consistency in the performances of the cheftestants. For example, Natalie won the first elimination challenge only to pack her knives in the second episode. Nini won the elimination challenges in episodes 2 and 3 only to be eliminated in episode 4. (The fact that it was an early Restaurant Wars episode with 12 chefs instead of the usual 8 added to the shock value.) Episode 6 had Brother Luck win Last Chance Kitchen to return to the main competition only to be eliminated ''in the same episode''.
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** Arguably, Season 16 was full of such eliminations as there was no consistency in the performances of the cheftestants. For example, Natalie won the first elimination challenge only to pack her knives in the second episode. Nini won the elimination challenges in episodes 2 and 3 only to be eliminated in episode 4. Episode 6 had Brother Luck win Last Chance Kitchen to return to the main competition only to be eliminated ''in the same episode''.
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Added to Shocking Elimination since the Season 14 episode "Booty" had the first case of a chef giving up an immunity, resulting in his elimination.
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** In an example of history almost repeating itself, a Season 14 challenge had Jamie winning the Quickfire challenge and hence gained immunity going into the elimination challenge. Like with Nick in Season 11, Jamie was in a three-person team and cooked the worst dish, resulting in the team's loss. Unlike with Nick, Jamie decided to [[HeroicSacrifice give up his immunity]] to spare teammate Emily from elimination, feeling that he shouldn't get away with a bad dish that screwed over someone else. As a result, this became a Top Chef first case of Shocking ''Self-''Elimination.
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Top Chef Colorado concluded in March 2018. Ali passed away in January 2019. She was voted fan favorite by Bravo during the season.
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** Several episodes of the Colorado season became this with the death of fan favorite Fatima Ali due to Ewing's sarcoma less than a year later.
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** From Season 9, Beverly. In a big, bad way. Though she was a pretty talented chef, she was kind of an oddball, which several other chefs seemed to HATE for some reason. During several team challenges, Sarah, Lindsay, and Heather would shoot down every suggestion she had, at one point going so far as to say that her suggestions were "too Asian". When she was on a team with Heather, during Judges Table, Heather immediately started ranting about how she had a bad "work ethic" and brought up previous challenges just to convince the judges that she wasn't carrying her weight in team challenges. Sarah and Lindsay also accused her of this during Restaurant Wars despite the fact that she had cooked some of the best food of the night.
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** From Season 9, Beverly. In a big, bad way. Though she was a pretty talented chef, she was kind of an oddball, which several other chefs seemed to HATE for some reason. During several team challenges, Sarah, Lindsay, and Heather would shoot down every suggestion she had, at one point going so far as to say that her suggestions were "too Asian". When she was on a team with Heather, during Judges Table, Heather immediately started ranting about how she had a bad "work ethic" and brought up previous challenges just to convince the judges that she wasn't carrying her weight in team challenges. Sarah and Lindsay also accused her of this during Restaurant Wars despite the fact that she had cooked some of the best food of the night.night.
*** The biggest reason for that hatred is because Beverly successfully sued her ex boss Charlie Trotter (a 1999 James Beard's Outstanding Chef and a popular figure in Chicago) for wage exploitation in 2005. This made Beverly unpopular with most of the former chefs that worked with Trotter, which includes Sarah & Heather.
*** The biggest reason for that hatred is because Beverly successfully sued her ex boss Charlie Trotter (a 1999 James Beard's Outstanding Chef and a popular figure in Chicago) for wage exploitation in 2005. This made Beverly unpopular with most of the former chefs that worked with Trotter, which includes Sarah & Heather.
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For Season 5, more people remember Carla Hall than the actual winner (Hosea).
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* DesignatedVillain: Marcel is usually framed in a very villainous light considering the subject matter, but while he is a {{Jerkass}}, that doesn't justify just how horribly everyone else he encounters treats him, down to straight up assaulting him, holding him down, and shaving his head. Even Tom mentioned that the incident made him angry and he was tempted to downright declare him the winner in retaliation against everyone involved.
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** Bryan Voltaggio is one of the most popular people to ever compete on the show due to a combination of his relationship with his brother, his charming and humble personality, and the fact that as of Season 17 he has now [[spoiler:made it to the finale three separate times and yet never won]].
