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Scalps and Scallops

Bravo next has Cliff employ this bit of revisionist history for us, "And then we realized that seeing as how it is our last Elimination Challenge, we thought it would be a good idea to try and shave Marcel's head." He then smiles. Dick, hate, DICK! He doesn't get it. He just doesn't get how wrong this was to do. "And from there, things just basically got a little out of hand," Son of Sam tells us. "Basically"? "A little"?? Cliff then -- with Ted Ilan, the eager camera man following him -- goes and seems to kneel on a sleeping Marcel and turn him over on the couch. Marcel kicks and flights Cliff, as Cliff tries to grab hold of his hands to restrain him. It's silent except for Marcel saying things like, "Get off me, dude." Cliff then wrestles Marcel to the floor and holds him down while Ted Ilan sycophantically bleats, "Samuel, Samuel! Let's go! Let's go!" No response. "Sam, let's go!" Ted Ilan insists. Nothing. Just huge Cliff holding skinny Marcel to the floor. Marcel struggles while Cliff twines his arms around Marcel's shoulders and revolves them back to clasp his hamhands behind Marcel's head. I don't know anything about wrestling but I do know that standing up, the position Cliff has Marcel in would be a full-nelson. On the floor, I don't know what it is but it looks scary. Ted Ilan screams, "Sam, come ON! What the fuck are you doing? He's holding him down, come on!" Someone's laughing. It's not Marcel. It's not me. It looks like Cliff. The camera pans over to show Sam just lounging on the couch, feet up, laughing and watching and DOING NOTHING. You're a great executive chef, dickwad. Ted Ilan keeps screeching, panting for something more to happen. "Come on, Sam!" Ted Ilan pleads, like the pathetic, needy wuss he is. "I didn't really think he was actually going to -- it was weird. It was an uncomfortable situation for all parties involved," Sam tells us. Yeah, you looked mighty uncomfortable laughing from that black leather couch of yours. Asswipe. "Elia! Come here!" Ted Ilan -- I'm pretty sure that's his nasty little voice and not Marcel's -- screams. "I cannot!" Elia calls back and you know she knows EXACTLY what's going down. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE! "He's holding him down for nothing?!" Ted Ilan calls incredulously. We see Cliff push Marcel's face to the floor again and wrestle to keep him down. Marcel tells us calmly, "I was... rudely awakened by Cliff. I'm like, 'Is this for real? Like what the fuck is going on right now? Why is there this big guy on top of me? Like, why am I, like, eating the carpet? Like, what are those fucking clippers doing over there?'" We see Cliff dangle Marcel OFF THE FLOOR in a full-Nelson before he finally lets Marcel go. Marcel tells us that he broke free and got really angry. He leaves the room, and we hear Ted Ilan bleat, "Come on -- apologize to him!" in that giggly tone of voice that is totally insincere and really imparts the bullying sentiment, "Come on, apologize to the widdle baby so he doesn't go an cwy himself to sweep!" He got such glee in him. It's the glee of being with the cool kids. The glee of probably once being bullied himself and now delighting in his cadre of burly friends who actually like him and who will now support and join in on him bullying someone else. It's the glee of the pathetic. Ted Ilan should have been booted with Cliff. Same for Sam. In fact, get rid of all of them and declare this season a total and embarrassing wash.

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