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Rewatching the episode and I do not like Ana yelling, “Emergency! Emergency!” at the ferry ticket clerk. Don’t abuse people’s good will with false claims like that.

I immediately thought it sounded weird for the dad to be out of state while mom raises eight boys on her own. I mean, great if that works for them, but it's an odd way to raise a large family. Still, I think people are reading too much into the "empowering" comment. It struck my ear funny at first too, but I see it as him trying to acknowledge that he's away, she has a lot of responsibility at home without him, and one of the ways they make it work is that it is understood that some decisions that normally would require a sign off by both parents are going to be made by her alone. He "empowers" her to make his 50% of the decision sometimes. That's a good thing. I don't think we have to read it in the worst possible way to make him a bad guy.

Those poor children caught in the throuple/stripper mess.

Are they having trouble finding contestants for each season? It seems that, more and more, Jeff is making a big deal out of encouraging people to apply. Right at the beginning of the show when we’re eager to start a new season, we get videos of people saying, “No way! Are you kidding me?” Instead of introducing teams and getting on with the game, the first 10 minutes feels like a recruitment campaign. C’mon everybody at home! You can be here too!

Isn't an English pub all about the homey, welcoming feel of the place? Soccer and rugby and darts? A place to have a pint with the regulars after work? Otherwise it's just a restaurant where you can get mashed potatoes and sausages. The Grumpy George didn't seem to have any of that atmosphere, either before or after the renovation. I do like the name, though.

Oh, the throuple couple has kids. Ugh. The Paris woman is insufferable. You assumed an international pilot from the U.S. lives a lavish lifestyle. You had a kid with a old middle class guy who lives in a modest, poorly decorated house. Get used to it. Juan is never going to adjust to that instant family life in Wyoming. It is genuinely endearing to see Mahdi appreciate the American freedoms he never had in Iran. Now we wait for him to start condemning American culture because it is not like Iran.

Update: Now only $999,751 in debt! And we have metal utensils!

If ever there was evidence disproving that a young "throuple" must be having the hottest sex imaginable, there it is. I imagine all their encounters involve some cheesy dress up and end with the two women on the bed while he's standing alone in the corner trying to convince himself that he's really enjoying it.

I wonder why they edit out the cost of those huge fast food drive-through runs. We heard him order an enormous list of food and then I was on the edge of my seat waiting to hear the total. But they cut that part. I'm sure production pays for it, but still, we want to hear it! It could be another guessing game for me, seeing how close I can get to the total. I already do that with the first weigh-in and I'm getting pretty good. In the previous episode I was so close, just off by a couple pounds. This week I was way off, though.

“You haf to buy de bullet!” I wish one of his routine questions was “What did you eat on the way down here?”

I think about that often with this show and Bar Rescue. With that kind of debt, they’d have to be spectacularly successful for years to even get back to even. Just even. And then you still have no savings, no emergency funds, and no retirement plan for the elderly owner. It sounds hopeless once you’ve reached that amount of debt.

Odd that Ramsay didn’t even mention the clamshells, much less address it.

Good to see a restaurant that benefitted from the experience. But oh my god the styrofoam clamshells. It’s a bit of a personal peeve, but it would turn me off so much to sit down in a restaurant and have my food delivered in a styrofoam clamshell. And the gumbo in a tall styrofoam container? I could handle a styrofoam plate and bowl. Wouldn’t like it, but I could get past it if the food is good. The clamshell is takeaway, cheap, not even casual dining level.

“No, there is no competing product that is -exactly- like our product with the same meaningless design details and the same color and name and made by the same people at the same price. Nope, no competitors, by that definition of competitors.” And the sharks always just say, “Great!”

Heyyyyyy bitches!!!!! That’s what you want from the person you’re going to put in charge of a multimillion dollar operation.

Have we ever seen Ramsay put a bought in item on his new menu? He goes ape shit when he finds out someone served him ravioli or such they bought from Sysco, but in this episode he plops an obviously bought vegan "burger" on the menu as apparently the only entrée. For that matter, have we ever seen him phone it in this much? He was fed up with them and just said, "Put some tomatoes and tofu on a plate. Fry some corn and put Taijin on it. Heat up this frozen mush patty. What the hell, here's an ice cream machine. I'm done. Fuck it."

I also thought I heard shrimp. Did Gordon’s new menu have only about five items? And just one entree — the highly processed, bought in burger? It felt like he didn’t want to waste time on more and just threw in an ice cream machine. Funny to see diners nibbling the corn ribs like chipmunks.

I thought the same thing. He was wrong, very wrong, to record without her knowledge and consent. But he told her right away, deleted it right away, apologized profusely, and doesn't deny it now. No one ever knew about it but the two of them and the recording is gone. It was only between them but Vanja and the others acted as if he had put it on PornHub.

Niles during the season: I'm just a nice, pleasant, meek fellow who finds the world a bit overstimulating sometimes. Niles during the first Tell All: Hey, I'm a man and I'm going to stand up for what's right. There, I said it. I hope that's okay. Niles in the latest Tell All: I AM FURY ITSELF AND NO ONE SHALL CHALLENGE ME OR THOSE I DEEM WORTHY OF MY UNWAVERING DEVOTION AND PROTECTION! C'MON! BRING IT! I WILL SPILL BLOOD RIGHT HERE IN THIS STUDIO AND SHAUN ROBINSON CAN'T STOP ME!

Kyle's food seems really good and he can manage people in the kitchen, but he needs to lose that sassy diva personality. It might have been fun in high school but he's a grown man in a professional environment. It is not a good look for him as a chef and a person.

I wondered the same thing. But there's a market for grooming items that are all "Duuuuude! Got some tanner here for ya, dude! Got this shampoo too, dude! And some wet wipes, but just for dudes! It's not for chicks, dude! It's for dudes!" It's stupid, but they're not the first to capitalize on it.

It has become a standard part of the Kitchen Nightmares formula to change the menu from whatever was trying to appeal to the local clientele to a Ramsay Inspired menu. I always have doubts about this working after Ramsay leaves. Sure, this place needed to use fresh seafood, lose the microwave, and trim the menu down. But other than that, it had been a successful roadside seafood shack for years. People want fried fish and shrimp, hushpuppies, mounds of fries, and that brown New Orleans gravy on white bread. It's a thing. Now its elevated, delicately plated Ramsay style seafood. There's a market for that, I'm sure, but now you're going for a different audience than you had before. It's not just a restaurant refresh; it's a different restaurant and there's no guarantee the owner or the community really want it. So many examples of that in this show. At least he didn't make them switch to scallops, mushroom risotto, and beef wellington.

All true. Not what I was addressing.

The Iberville couple's situation seems familiar. I've known couples in which one spouse is financially successful and busy with their business, but the other spouse wants to have their own endeavor. They want to be busy and productive and known for something rather than just being the spouse of the other. Nothing wrong with that. I've seen these spouses open restaurants, cafes, and a variety of little boutiques that sell children's clothing, gourmet olive oil, and such. The common theme is that they have no experience or business sense and they open establishments that need a constant influx of cash from the family finances to keep going. Sometimes that not a problem; they're both happy in what they're doing and they can absorb the business not actually being profitable. It's like a hobby. And other times, the financial loss is too much, employees get hurt, and the business owner has to find a way out. It looks to me like that's what happened with Iberville. By the time GR got there, the owner was over it all, done, not having fun anymore, not interested in trying, just wanting a way out.

No fan of Adnan or his attitudes toward women, but I did think it was disrespectful of Vanja to argue with him and mock him for saying his religion discourages him being alone with an immodestly dressed woman. There was nothing wrong with how she was dressed, other than looking like she thought she would be presenting an award at the Oscars, but he wasn't telling her how to dress. Also, does anyone else get the feeling she probably dresses that same way to pick up milk at the grocery store or get gas at the 7-11?