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Cool video taking the piss out of Gordon Ramsay and Kitchen Nightmares – it’s very funny and does make a few valid points!!

Enjoy

Chief Plonker
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

Wow, some Brits turned on Gordon Ramsay’s show and didn’t like the swearing, what did the F%#$wits expect? Apparently Great British Nightmares featured 243 F-words and 312 swear words and I F%#$king loved it. It was also great to see it appeared on the torrents within hours of screening, so the rest of the world could get their dose of QUALITY Gordon Ramsay programming!

After putting up with the crappy Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares US version, this programme, which was essentially two Kitchen Nightmares Episodes mixed together (with real follow-ups as the UK version usually does!).

That’s right, I loved the $h!t out of it – clasic Gordon, he really cares, puts in 100% effort and does eveything he can – lots of great ideas and messages for restaurant and business owners alike! He so often seems more passionate than the business owners themselves and more often ready to put the hard work in!

Some of the swearing stats include:
F-word was used 240 times
312 swear words in 103 minutes – that’s one every 20 seconds
37 obscenities in 95 seconds…one every two and-a-half seconds.
The first F-word 31 seconds into the show
Complaints from 49 viewers who rang Channel 4
In the two-hour show Ramsay swore 243 times, 187 of them using the F-word.
The chefs and restaurant owners swore 69 times
The worst swearing comes 29 minutes into the show after Ramsay tells restaurant boss Justin Rowntree where he is going wrong.

When Justin doesn’t accept the criticism, his childhood pal Richie Russell – the restaurant’s chef – explodes in a 95-second outburst, telling Justin to listen to what Ramsay is saying.

At the height of hypocrisy, one newspaper printed many of the ‘offensive’ exchanges – how can you be outraged and then replace a few letters with other characters and think that is ok?

Here is quote from the article; the chef (not Gordon Ramsay strangely enough, which seems to contradict their position!) to the business owner and best friend.

“He says: “You’ve got to cut the f***ing bulls***. Why the f***are you still trying to make out you’ve f***ing got something when the f***ing, when the damage has been done.

“We already look like a couple f***ing t*ts so shut your f***ing mouth and f***ing listen. If you tried to turn it around at 2pm today me and him are f***ing off.

“I ain’t f***ing staying here. Just cut the f***ing crap to turn things around.

“He’s here to f***ing turn it round. You can do it without me or f***ing with me because I’ve had enough of

this f***ing charade because I don’t need this f***ing s***.

“I’ve got to stand next to him and show my tubs of f***ing s*** that I’m f***ing cooking. You’re f***ing… you’re not f***ing listening to him, he’s trying to f***ing tell you.

“I’ve tried to tell you for two years about every f***ing thing. Food, bands, and I told you that, but you don’t f***ing understand so show him some f***ing respect or else I’m f***ing going at 2pm that’s the… f*** it, that’s it, no f***ing bull****.

“F***ing dangle me like a f***ing puppet. Don’t take the f***ing p*** out of me any more. F*** this s***.”

Richie storms off and Ramsay says: “The dynamics of the top tier of your business is f***ed.”

Then he comforts Richie, telling him: “F***ing hell… well you got that off your chest.”

Just reporting the news Sunday Mirror – what bullsh!t

David Driscoll
The Plonker Club

The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

A few nights ago on Fox, as part of their ‘confuse the crap out of everyone’ or possibly using dartboard programming – a new episode of Kitchen Nightmares USA aired.

This episode was for Cafe 36 in La Grange Il.

Episode 11 of season 2 wasn’t bad – there are some things that Fox won’t do away with – like annoying spoilers throughout the show, and recaps after ad breaks – I’m sure these shows are about 30 mins of footage (the torrents I watch here in Australia are 42-44 minutes (no ads). As always Gordon Ramsay’s passion for change and want to help came through – and this one wasn’t a bad story. A sweet old couple with no experience, who put in over $1.1 million (plus not drawing paychecks since the business opened) at least this one wasn’t just one big fight.

Please bring on the new series form the UK and fix the US series.

There is the final episode in the series airing on Jan 22 in the US according to the Wikipedia entry for Hells Kitchen.

Bring on more ‘QUALITY” Gordon Ramsay.

David Driscoll
Chief Plonker at The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite

www.theplonkerclub.com

While reading between the lines on some old google alerts, I was ecstatic to discover that new episodes of my favourite television show, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares have already been made! Yes that is the UK edition and not the bastardised over-hyped, poorly edited, super predictable US version!

The report talked about how a restaurant that was ‘rescued’ four months ago had Gordon Ramsay there four months later (from mid-December) to shoot his part of The Great British Food Fight. the restaurant is Silversmiths Restaurant in Sheffield City.

I can’t wait until I can go back and see a Kitchen Nightmare where I can learn something about restaurants and maybe a recipe or two, not just hyped up confrontations, a contrived story line mixed with renovations and a happily-ever-after ending. Not to mention the editing of fights where the peoples clothes change colour as they appear to make a number of exchanges, just one – before the revalation occurs (midway through the final service). Add to this the American arrogance of inviting Gordon Ramsay to your restaurant, then telling him he can’t cook, doesn’t know what he is talking about and that there is no problems because all of the customers love whatever the offend dish/feature is.

I only really watch the show because I am a Gordon Ramsay fan, and occasionally the script isn’t followed to closely.

In case you can’t tell, I’m not a big fan of the cookie cutter US version, it is like a cross between Jerry Springer and a renovation show, with lots of spoilers and recaps to fill in the time!

I’ll email Channel 4 and Optomen to see if I can find out when we can expect this! There will definitely be a counter on The Plonker Club homepage for this one, similar to the one we have for Hell’s Kitchen USA Season 5!

2009 is already becoming a great year!

David Driscoll
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerlcub.com

Right on the heels of my previous posting about a failure of (another) Gordon Ramsay Restaurant – from Kitchen Nightmares in the UK that is, (see Another Gordon Ramsay Lover Goes Under) comes dire news of a similar vein in the US.

It seems that J Willy’s BBQ House, may be closing up at the end of January unless a buyer can be found. J Willy’s had apparently been up for sale at the time of airing of the show (they are now looking for a partner) and once again ,the cause seems to be the global credit crisis. According to the local newspaper, the South Bend Tribune, (follow the link here) the business will be taken off the market at the end of January.

At that point, who knows what will happen to the made-over restaurant and the interesting BBQ Sauce (side) business that resulted from input by Gordon Ramsay? Around the time of the show airing, I remember seeing the owner promoting the episode on the Fox forums, inviting people to the restaurant for the (long-delayed) screening and plugging to death the BBQ sauce.

Well it may be plugged for the last time at the end of January, we will wait and see.

David Driscoll
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com