This week’s episode was all about Jimmy Fallon. Since I’m not an elderly person or a hippie, I have cable TV and thus don’t know who he is. But I played along long enough to see this was one of the better edited episodes of the year, right up until they gave away the fact that they were getting rid of Fabio at the very beginning of the judging. You know when the judges don’t have ANYTHING good to say about someone’s dish? When they give no glimmer of hope for the poor schmuck? Well, that’s what they did to Fabio. Here are some highlights of how I knew he was going:
- His job was to cook a hamburger with french fries on it, and he admitted that he had never cooked a hamburger before. I don’t give a rat’s ass how ‘fine dining’ you are or what country you come from, if you have never cooked a hamburger there is something wrong with you. Unless you are the dude from The Gods Must be Crazy.
- He made meat out of beef and brisket and pork belly and some other crap that didn’t seem like it should be mixed together. It was like when you mixed a little of every kind of booze from your parents liquor cabinet into one glass and drank it. Then your step dad came home and made you do push ups over a knife. It seems like it would be good, but it isn’t.
- He made some kind of cheese in a dish that went on the side. THAT’S NOT HOW YOU DO IT!
So the judges ripped him a new one and the other people who were in the bottom three got compliments. Dale’s sandwich was ‘good but too salty’. Tiffany’s soup was ‘good but not really chicken and dumplings’. Fabio made “dry meatloaf with green curdled cheese sauce”. They didn’t even tell him that his plate looked nice. Dude didn’t have a chance. But, on a positive note, Padma may have dressed like a pirate during the quickfire (see above), but she was wearing a wicked short dress the rest of the show. And after the jump, get a look at the deliberations with Jimmy Fallon at judges table and imagine her short skirt. Under the table. Invisible to you. Sure was short. But enough about that – the judging was kind of interesting if you care about that kind of thing. WHICH I DON’T!
Go watch the video:
You forgot to mention the most important Fabio fail of the night! HAMBOORGOR! Come on. I don’t care how Italian-accentified you are, say it like this: HAMBURGER!!!!!
I was glad Carla won. I LOVE CARLA. She cooks with LOVE!
I can cook with love if people just want cream of Acadia soup.
WHOO!
I thought he was saying “ham BOOGER”, and that was enough to send ME packing! I mean, damn, just think about that for a sec!
Anyway, sad to see him go, and over a burger, no less. Fabio should get his own spin off show, though. Marcel has one, dammit! Hopefully this won’t be the last we see of him…. I love that Italian charm! 😉
You seriously dig Top Chef. That’s intriguing to me. You intrigue me in a very intriguing way. A way that makes me find myself intriguing because of the amount you intrigue me.
Were you intriguing yourself while you wrote that?
I ran out of batteries and I needed the remote.
I like Fabio and I was sad to see him go. Jimmy Fallon has had some great ideas for his show lately, but the turn he took on Top Chef All Stars made him seem like a spoiled little princess. Dale’s salty steak n cheese should’ve been the deal breaker, not Fabio’s new take on an American classic. Princess Jimmy Fallon obviously loved swallowing Dale’s salty offering. Made him feel right at home.
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