johnmiller

I think the point is that there HAS to be SOME reason to go to his places. There are fast-food chicken places all over! So to have another one, it really needs to be either really great or have something about it that is special. The thing I most noticed is how thin the chicken is. After being breaded and fried, I would think that it would be tough for it not to get dry and/or chewy.

I'll bet that contestants for this had to sign a CRAZY contract, likely ensuring that Guy could do anything he wanted with their ideas and not compensate them beyond the minimum union day rate for each day they were on the show. If the show was union. Otherwise, it was even less.

Was that on the final episode that Guy said all that? Or was it earlier? Or was it on his website or something? I would say that I would go back through the final episode to see, but I deleted that baby from both my DVR and from the Trash bin as quickly as possible. :-) Did you watch Hunter "try" to introduce the guest judges on Sunday's GGG episode? He had to keep looking over at the teleprompter throughout the one minute of introducing the judges. Because memorizing one minute of material is too much for the "Heir Apparent."

I am guessing that there is more than that he is getting. I think that they said his "first year salary" was included. But, beyond that? No one knows. Maybe not even Guy. It was chosen for them. It is Philadelphia.

That Alex Guarnaschelli competition show that just came on recently is a Guy Fieri product. Knuckle Sandwich productions, I think. "Guy's Chance of a Lifetime" is of course one of his productions. Since Antonia Lafaso is one of his posse, I am pretty sure that the "Julia Child" challenge show advertised tonight will be one of his. So it sounds like Fieri is cranking through his contract as quickly as possible. Maybe just so he could retire and be done with it? It's clearly quantity vs. quality. If he's eating his own food, he's REALLY in trouble! :-)

(SPOILER) Kevin won. We all knew it from the first episode that he was going to win. Ex-military, pumped up, a winner all day. Not that I thought that any of the others should have won over him. But it was a typical Reality TV thing where you know they have decided who's going to win from the beginning, and unless they really mess up, that person will win. And we still have next to no idea what Kevin won. Are they buying him the land the building goes on, the building, all of the equipment, everything? Just some of it? We still have no idea.

It's like Joe Rogan. The dumber their product, the more money they make.

Who wants to bet that the pumped-up ex-Army guy is going to win? This seemed almost guaranteed from the beginning.

Again, the editing is NUTS in this show! As someone who has taken filmmaking courses and has worked as a recording engineer, I notice almost instantly when something is dubbed in. And in this show it happens A LOT! In Episode 6, when Guy is making his judgment of the contestants in Branson, it seemed that every other sentence was dubbed in. And then, soon after, you are still getting that. Antonia is just talking about the next challenge outside Nashville, and even in that, there is stuff being dubbed in. The fact that, close to this show's end, we STILL don't really know what the heck the "prize" really is, what are they doing in this show?

They really needed to do psychological evaluations on these contestants before they put them on this show. Chelsea and Cayton both had meltdowns in Episode 4 in Branson, Missouri. They both completely came apart when Fieri rightly criticized their not being able to run the kitchen like they were supposed to. Plus, the editing, as usual, was odd. They left the last team off until next week. And, in the same episode, it sounds like they're going on to Nashville?

My remembrance is that he had shifts that he had to cover. And the one he had to go home to do was one of his shifts that he did not have covered.

She's so beyond toxic. I get it: She's on this self-help-fueled thing where she endlessly needs to go on and on about how "incredible" she is and how "awful" everyone else is. But, she keeps talking about all these "amazing" jobs she had. If they were so great though, why in heaven's name did she quit them to run a chain chicken place? Did she get fired? I can imagine how that would have happened, her being the way she is. Any Fieri show is going to be a circus, a sideshow, with a freak show added to just push the whole thing as far over the top as possible. But this thing sometimes seems more like a telenovela than another Food Network game show.

Elmer Fudd? :-)

A lot of restaurants are about having a business partner and a chef partner. The Business Partner is the money guy. The Chef Partner obviously runs the kitchen and makes sure that the food works. Lofaso "owns" whatever restaurants, but they are likely partnerships where the money guy has a sizable portion of the financial responsibility and therefore the profits.

Thanks for proving my point! :-)

Cliff is great! I loved "Chef Boot Camp" because it actually involved discussions about the technical parts of cooking and making choices. He also made great comments, like "It's already dead, you don't have to kill it" when someone was overcooking their protein. I never heard about his bad behavior on Top Chef since I don't watch that show. I will have to look into that. But, his own show is really good. I'm not sure how much he is going to get to do when it comes to mentoring people on "Worst Cooks" based on the first episode. That's his strength. We will see on Episode 2.

Ramsay did. Apparently.

Fieri's youngest son, Runner, Pointer, whatever his name is, actually has a personality. Just skip over Hunter, send him to work at one of Guy's restaurants, and get the younger one on TV.

I agree. It's pretty nuts. But that's the contest.

This goes to my theory about children of famous people: That famous parent was lightning in a bottle. Their child will not have whatever talent their parent did. Hunter is just Human X and has none of his father's personality. Probably has what little cooking talent his father has either. Fieri is all self-promotion and salesmanship. That is the only "talent" he could pass on to his child.

So many of the contestants have such massive egos. I guess that fits with a Fieri program, but it's really tough to care about what happens to them.

"Ascension" = Being zapped! Kind of like "Logan's Run." So, Hari being killed by Raych, and Gaal being jettisoned into the void is just ignored, and we're not supposed to worry about it? Pretty odd. I personally feel zero connection to who these latest characters are supposed to be. I was invested in the first two episode's characters, but I guess they're gone now, right?

That was hilarious! And, the fact that they had to keep bringing it up made it even funnier. The whole point of these hyper-expensive, "hip" restaurants is to separate the rich from their money. My gosh! It's just food. I can go into a Sam's Club and get essentially the same Prime Meat that these restaurants get, and create a good dish for a tiny fraction of the price.

Okay, NOW I have to watch it! :-) It's hard to believe a majority of what goes on with "Reality" Television. So, with Joe, who knows? But, he has a choice of what to do on TV, and he's chosen, or has agreed to, being an asshole on Master Chef.

"This isn't the last you'll see of me" = This IS the last we will see of you. :-) It's like in a horror movie, where you never say "I'll be right back," because you WON'T be right back! When these contestants say that we will be seeing them again, they are pretty much guaranteeing that we won't be seeing them again. I am guessing it is a default exit line when a contestant can't come up with anything else to say on the way out.