It's time to give thanks in the middle of the Los Angeles summer. To get them in the mode of telling everyone around the dinner table what they are thankful for, the cheftestants have a fifteen-minute Quickfire to prepare tasty meals from canned goods. The big twist is when Colicchio names five winners who have immunity from the Elimination challenge. The rest -- Marcel, Betty, Carlos, Michael, Elia -- have to prepare a "cutting-edge" Thanksgiving. And all without D.B. Sweeney or Moira Kelly. The losers have to serve the new-fangled Thanksgiving to the judges and the five Immunity-drenched cheftestants. Elia, after the Quickfire, is just about ready to give up on the whole damn competition, but agrees to make the soup portion of the Thanksgiving feast. In the middle of prep time, she has a literal meltdown and gives herself a ganache facial. She treats Carlos and Betty to one as well. After a little straightforward talking with Colicchio during his usual Sniff 'n' Sneer, Elia regains her confidence in Colicchio and decides that it's okay for him to be her judge after all. However, I continue to remain unconvinced. Tony Whoredain (tm heebie jeebies) shows up as guest judge and has a few calculated but surprisingly hysterical judgments to toss with the salad. The way it all shakes down is that pretty much everyone sucks except Elia. Marcel gets props for actually taking the whole cutting-edge approach seriously and trotting out a few foams and gelees, but his turkey roulade was dry. Funny thing is, Bourdain ends up loving what Michael tried to accomplish even if it was "Flintstonian." Funnier thing: I didn't end up hating Bourdain as much as I expected. Not only does Frank run off at the mouth on how much he hates Marcel while judging his Thanksgiving dish, but earlier in the process, we get the whole "if you touch my stuff again, I will beat you so bad your mother won't even recognize you" bit that the Bravo promo monkeys have been taunting us with since the very first episode. What's he so apoplectic about? His toothbrush was on the floor. Funny thing is, the cameras specifically showed us that the toothbrush was SPECIFICALLY in the Dopp kit, so Frank can just suck it hard and lose the whole tired Goodfellas act. At the Judges' Table, Betty shows her true colors (yet again for me, but maybe for the first time for others) when she screamingly throws Carlos and Marcel under the Top Cheffian bus and blames those who actually lended a helping hand in her failed brûlées for those failed brûlées. Elia is declared the winner with Marcel a sort of afterthought second. As they all await the fate of the next-eliminated in the back, Betty and Marcel get into it. Betty gets all Scanners with her tendon-bulging blue neck and calls Marcel "selfish" (even though he helped her, unselfishly, and she didn't offer to help him), and he FINALLY calls her a bitch. Because she is. Sadly, the tender-hearted Carlos is sent home because his salad was really sort of pathetic.