Posted by Dustin on 06.05.2007 at 12:00 am

I watched a double dose of reality TV tonight. First I tuned into “Hell’s Kitchen” on Fox as everyone suggested I try it. I have not watched previous seasons, I have only occasionally seen Gordon Ramsey dropping the F-bomb on his BBC show “Gordon Ramsey’s F Word.” I think this is the British version of “Hell’s Kitchen,” but I’m not sure. (Speaking of BBC, Footballers Wives season 5 starts this week!)

First up, I have to ask why anyone in their right mind would want to go on this show? The man swore and insulted everyone on the show, forcing many of them to tears multiple times. Fun . . . . NOT! I do think he needs some better sayings, I mean what does gnats piss taste like?

Anyways, for those who have never seen it, here is the quick run down. Gordon Ramsey runs some restaurant in LA called “Hell’s Kitchen” where the cooking staff is made up of various people from various jobs and levels of experience. He split them into two teams, men and women, and set them cooking for the restaurants opening night. It’s a contest, the winner becomes head chef of their own place and gets a large some of money to run it. Each week one chef goes home.

This week the kitchen was a disaster. The show claimed the opening of the restaurant was the hottest ticket in town. Like I said, I have not seen past seasons, but if they are like this then why would anyone want to go eat there? The guests sat around for two hours with no food, most got up and finally left. I think only a few little appetizers ever made it out. They ended up running out of things like vegetable stock and chickens (how do you run out of these things in a restaurant?) Good thing the guests didn’t get their food, the chefs were crying so much who knows what dripped into the food!

I don’t know if they always split the teams up by sexes, but what a mistake that was! Neither team could get along, they were all too busy being caddy or trying to show one another up. One poor guy just kept going off in the corner to cry, and it looks like he’s going to have some health issue later in the season from the previews. Most of the focus tonight was on the women though, who were down right nasssssttttyyyy to one another. Let’s talk about the one woman who everyone talked bad about for being a cook at a waffle house. They stuck her in the corner peeling potatoes or something because they thought she wasn’t good enough, but she was the only one who ended up being able to fry eggs and get something done. Still they all thought she should be the one to go home. I felt so bad for her.

In the end the women’s team had to nominate two of their own for the chopping block, the winning member of the team picked by Gordon had to nominate them. This woman told one fellow teammate Tiffany that she wouldn’t be going home, but nominated her in the end and guess who went home? Yup, poor Tiffany. That was down right meaaaaannnn!

From next week’s previews it looks like one of the men is simply thrown off the show after some huge mistake. It looks like he didn’t de-bone chickens or something and served them to the customers with small bones that could potentially choke people. Like I said, who would want to eat at this place?

After “Hell’s” I tuned into “Simple Life.” It was the second part of the weight loss camp. Paris and Nicole were in deep trouble after last week’s little refrigerator stunt. They were told they had to rebuild the building they destroyed trying to bust open the refrigerator. I don’t think I ever saw them rebuild it though.

This week there really wasn’t much craziness going on as they got serious to try and help their female team members lose some weight. After helping them cheat they had to step it up, because Susan Powter was pissed after a weigh in! Can I just say I used to really enjoy crazy Susan Powter, but I think she’s just gone crazy now. I mean she had them doing cupping to balance their chakras on this episode to help lose weight? Anyways the guy camp counselor Hunter was all after Paris in this episode, taking off his shirt at every opportunity to impress her following Nicole’s bad advice. In the end the girls lost more weight than the boys and all was right in Paris and Nicole’s worlds (until Paris had to go to jail today).

Honestly it wasn’t as funny of an episode as the season premier. Next week is when they help little girls who come for beauty pageant camp. That one should be fun. I loved the preview with Nicole saying one of the little girls looked liked she was going to murder her! Then another one’s mother is crying because Paris and Nicole taught her daughter how to flip the bird. Sorry can’t feel bad for you, I mean if you saw Paris and Nicole you should have taken your daughter and run!