Chef reached a new level of dominance over his minions Monday night: Josh actually bowed to him at the show's end. Though Ramsay must be intolerable, there was no mutiny last night, only the usual tempest of anger from Ramsay, this time accompanied by decent outbursts from Rock after the guys (plus Melissa, who was switched on the last show) lost the first challenge, a lobster cook off.  It seemed he was having one of those moments where his original anger acted as fuel, creating more anger and making him increasingly more ridiculous ("*#&^%ing BISQUE! @&!$%ing CRAB AND LOBSTER BISQUE!! THAT AIN'T ORIGINAL!  THAT AIN'T CREATIVE!!"), which entertained greatly.

After the loss, the men sifted through garbage and the women went to an In Touch magazine photo shoot.  Ramsay accompanied the women, and, as usual, he acted stiff and surly. Soon things disbanded for dinner service.

As far as dinner goes, one could start to pity the patrons of Hell's Kitchen, who never seem to get a full dinner service due to Ramsay's ending things early out of frustration.  A few mishaps occurred in the kitchen: Bonnie set a pan on fire, Julia burst into tears, and the guys generally sucked. Not much else; the guys lost and Melissa was the fairly obvious choice to be booted.