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#86: 16 Chefs Compete/15 Chefs Compete
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Show: Hell's Kitchen
Original airdate: July 21, 2009

"I'm not no bitch!"

First things first, a confession: I cheated a little bit with this particular ranking. In addition to this actually being TWO episodes (aired as part of the two-hour season 6 premiere special), but I've also tacked on a bit of next week's episode, as the actual episode itself ended in a cliffhanger halfway through the epic confrontation. And what epic confrontation am I referring to? Well, it can speak for itself, but it knows what it is. Of course, I'm talking about Joseph, a hotheaded ex-Marine (yeah yeah, no such thing as an ex-Marine, but this dude disgraced the Corps with his behavior) vs. Chef Gordon Ramsay himself, which started when Chef Ramsay asked him to explain why the two people nominated by his team for elimination were nominated. But even disregarding that, this season premiere was already amazing, Chef Ramsay's mid-service elimination of Louis during the very first service would've already made this a top-flight episode, and season 6 in general was just awesome with three of the best chefs in the history of the show (Dave, Ariel, and Kevin, at least before he was invited back in a later All-Stars season and flopped like the Monstars had stolen his cooking talent). So yeah... this season was already off to a great start even BEFORE Joseph's all-time meltdown in which he straight up challenged Chef Ramsay to a fight, cussed him out (and got cussed out right back), and was tossed out right then and there. This was the greatest episode in Hell's Kitchen history and the highlight of my favorite overall season. Chef Ramsay, clearly, is nobody's bitch.