This guy is hilarious. First he gives the critique to us viewers, then he lays down the law, drops the F bomb a zillion times while telling them what a sorry bunch they are and offers to put rockets up all their asses. So funny...

It's on my TIVO list. A GREAT show. funny as hell.

Gotta love BBC America...

I'm in Canada, they show it on food network.

Does Dish and Direct TV have different formats of channels in Canada compared to what they put out the in US?

Great show and have been watching since it began. Curious if the new FOX version where he goes to American restaurants will be just as good. I love watching the La Riveria episode in Inverness because I have been there.

There's no such thing as Dish and Direct TV in Canada.

Although some people do it illegally (blackmarket) or get a US billing address (greymarket).

I had directTV for several years with an illegal dish..trying to stay one step ahad of the service provider trying to shut us down.

Right now, the legal dish provider in Canada is Bell Express. It's an alternative to Cable. But it's exact same, same channels, same cost, just delivery is different.

The Fox version probably won't have Ramsay dropping the F bomb at all, which will really affect the show, methinks.

Inverness is as far north as I've been on this planet...

What's great about canadian networks, is they often show these kinds of shows un-bleeped.

Both Hells Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares ran on our foodtv completely uncensored. Same with Sopranos when it runs on our networks, rather than the cut up version that runs on AE, for example.

They're just words, but some "special interest" groups get offended by that shit. **** 'em.

Looking at the extended preview last night during HK I think he is a little more animated for the american version. There was a ton of bleeps and looks like one chef tries to kick the crap out of him.

I've only seen two episodes, but I am surprised more people aren't losing it on him. I mean, he just abuses them, soooo funny. he means well, though.

Yea ther were definitely a lot of F bombs lol. This show will be awesome.

Original British version is better but I still enjoyed it.


The title of this should have been "Roid Rage"

No sjit...that big gumba was insane. Nomination for biggest douche in the universe is in order. Show was great, though. They seem to have more production money, too, springing for a brand new kitchen and all. They never did that on BBC. But I hate that they didn't do the "6 weeks later" thing. Still... Season Pass.

You know what would make Gordon Ramsey a real genius?

If he got a small piece of each of these restaurants he goes in and fixes. Imagine, 5 or 10% stake in dozens of restaurants in Europe and the US on top of the restaurants he already owns outright. KA-CHING!!!

But that being said, I loved the BBC version and this one appears as if it'll become one of my favorites. Maybe it's because I once had a job in a failing restaurant and took a management gig to turn it around so I can relate to almost everything that goes on in this show.

I love to eat as my 5'10 250 frame reveals but man, what Ramsey found in that fridge and walk in was sick dude. It makes you wonder what is in the kitchen of the next restaraunt you're eating in. Looks like next week is even worse with the friggin bugs!

Ive been in many restraunt kitchens and it is very disturbing to see the conditions in alot of restraunts. I cant believe the food inspectors go into food stores and raise hell because a cooler is 1 degree to warm but there are restraunts next door with mold growing on the inside of there coolers and water dripping directly into food in there walk ins. Your best bet from what I have seen are the chain restraunts because they have very high health standards that are enforced by there corprate headquarters. Not to stereotype but of the 7 or so chinese restraunts I have been in I would ony eat at 1 of them after seeing there kitchens. another tip is if a restraunt has a OJ dispencer instead of bottled or cartoned juice dont get OJ.

Wow tonights episode was gnarly. I think they might've shot their wad early by airing this second in the season, it definitely could've been a season finale.

I was talking with someone here at work about this and she knows one of the health inspectors here in our town. She said that even though these places pass inspection that the health inspector said they would not eat in them. I guess that means the codes need to be relooked at. I just can't imagine that the place on last nights show had been open for 6-8 months and in those kinds of conditions.

That was absolutlely disgusting....I have been watching the BBC ones of recent and they seem to not be staged at all....I am suspicious that the US version might be less than reality. It seemed a little much, but I still enjoyed it.

This latest episode is the reason we should not allow roided up Italians to keep watching Mob movies over and over and over

They are both "staged" I guess. There was a article written by one of the owners of an establishment after his visit from Ramsey in the British version. He wanted to have the place steam cleaned from top to bottom but the BBC said they would not come out of he does that. I see both sides to that issue though. He doesn't want to be embarrassed on TV but he obviously knows he hasn't been keeping it clean the way he should so he wants to make it look as if he does. The BBC doesn't have the wow factor if this guy goes and sets up his establishment in a way that might not need their help.

He also claimed that Ramsey doesn't sit there and come up with all the ideas to make the place better. He has a team of people who go over the books and do some research before they arrive to see what they can do. Duh. You have to be pretty clueless not to know that Ramsey doesn't sit at a table with some coffee and come up with all this info by his lonesome.

All in all though the guy said it was a great experience and it has helped tremendously.

It's a TV show, of course it has staged moments. Someone posted a great comment towards some of the people claiming that the BBC and Ramsey were liars and keeping info from the public, etc. The comment said basically do we really want to see the accountants and the marketing team milling over books and numbers, do we really want to watch that instead?

I will try and find the link to the article.

Edit: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/food/2007/11/g...say_and_me.html

The show is pretty entertaining but I have not watched lately? What was disgusting?

That's good stuff, pretty much what I figured. TheUS version has more money to throw at it and I think in doing so they made it worse. IMO

bump, just because I can't get enough of F word, KN, and KN Re-visited.

Between this and Coupling, I Tivo like 5 hours of BBC a day.. It's 50% of my recorded shows..

In case anyone didn't know, last Thursday was the start of the new season on the BBC version of this show. Thursdays at 8pm and I believe 9pm will be last weeks which was the season premiere.

I don't know what you guys get, but our food network in Canada is currently running Hell's Kitchen completely uncensored...good times.

I have to say that I can't enjoy the uncensored versions more than the beeped ones. Just like Ozzy's reality show, the beeping makes if better for some odd reason.

yeah yeah, defend the twit, your move!



I don't even know what that means.

I need to re-ad that to my tivo list. I thought it was done.

It means it is your turn in scrabulous. I will not let you crush me this time like you did last time. Though I am losing right now.

I've been watching a ton of Kitchen Nightmares (only the british version) and Hell's Kitchen. At some point I'm sure I'll overdose on Ramsay.

I thought tonights was good despite the result. It was pretty cool how he helped out the chef.

I gree hilarious especially some of the older episodes on BBc

nevermind, you win

indeed

Ramsey made a Waffle Sundae that I wanted to take home have sex with.

Yeah the UK version does seem a bit more real. For some reason on the US version they spend about 10 min talking about what is 'still to come' then hack the show up into loads of edits with a swooshing sound every time they cut form one scene to another. Is this how a lot of US tv is?

As "reality" TV has grown in popularity, unfortunately yes.

Oh dear. It's like they think you will fall asleep if there isn't some crazy sound effect every minute
I guess this is how our 'reality' stuff will end up.