Monday, May 30, 2005

Hells Kitchen - Season Premiere

Holy shit. Just when I thought that all the good shows had finished for the year I get hit with a powerbomb called Hells Kitchen. Its a new reality show where famous British chef Gordon Ramsay has 12 people competing for a winning prize of their own restaurant. All of them have varying degrees of restaurant experience from none to "executive chef". The best part though is Ramsay, the guy is a total dick, a British dick, he makes Simon Cowell look like a fucking kitten. I'm not even joking Ramsay is brutally mean just for the sake of being mean. Its great. The way I look at it is like an army drill sergeant in boot camp. He has to be excessively hard on the contestants to get them ready for the harsh reality that is the restaurant business, and anyone that has worked in a restaurant or more specifically a kitchen knows how fucking crazy it can be. But wait he isn't just a dick to the contestants and staff he is a dick to the customers too, when a couple of blonde women came up to ask why their food was taking so long (they had been waiting 90 mins for their appetizers) he told everyone in the kitchen to "ignore the bimbos" and then he told them to "Fuck Off". Later on when another 2 women from the same table came up to say that they had been offended by what being told to fuck off earlier he told them to go back and tell them he meant it and then got the maitre d to escort them away. Other highlights of the show is that there is an overweight fellow by the name Dewberry, Yeah I'm fucking serious its Dewberry. I laughed every time I thought about his name. He is obviously being set up as the patsy, but it works. The funniest thing about him is when you look at the guy he really looks like his name should be Dewberry.

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

I just saw the new version. It was ok. I havent read the book or heard the original radio version but I have seen the BBC mini series from 1981. The mini series was 3 hours long so obviously this version had to be cut down (there were also things that were added) I was disappointed that my fav joke from the series was cut. The extended joke about his house being demolished and about the plans being in the cellar. This one they merely said they were in the cellar and the heart of the joke was the detail about how far in the cellar they were also the explanation about the plans to demolish the earth......whatever.... I also thought that Marvin the paranoid android was funnier in the BBC series.