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Irvine sets up a fourteen dishes connected to moves like the Chop Block, Claw Hold and Frog Splash. Those all sound easy enough to think of connecting food items—chopped salad, a crab dish and frogs legs. However, Irvine is stumped at moves like The Pedigree, RKO and Sweet Chin Music. This leads to an awesome series of clips where The Miz and Jim Ross have to explain what these moves are and The Miz even puts Irvine into some of the move positions, including The Pedigree! This is great because it’s clear that Irvine has no idea what to make of any of this, but he quickly and decisively figures out whatever dish he wants to create and tries to BS a reason it fits into the concept of a WWE finisher. What a worker!
Oh and JR makes…what else? BARBECUE SAUCE! BARBECUE SAUCE! BARBECUE SAUCE!
Meanwhile, The Miz continues to run amuck. He can’t even cut a chicken into parts properly, so Irvine has to dumb down his tasks even more, slicing fish and cutting puff pastry. He does impress later on making ice cream bon-bons. This is a dish named after his move “The Skull Crushing Finale”, which he smoothly suggested when Irvine needed one more dish. The Miz also cuts a promo on George the sous-chef. He discovers that George’s son’s favorite wrestler is Rey Mysterio. In response, he tells George to tell his son that “I’m The Miz and I’m Awesome!” You know what, for this episode, he was absolutely that.
Not soon after getting yelled at by Chef Irvine, we get a close up of The Miz cutting a promo about how he shouldn’t be treated that way and that Irvine better get with the program, etc. Then the camera pans and we see he’s talking to a baked potato with a smiley face. Yes, during this show THE MIZ CUTS A PROMO ON A BAKED POTATO.
Gail Kim arrives on the scene to service the chef. I’m sorry, to help the chef with the service.
It’s more than half-way through and only two dishes have been semi-completed and the rest are either not done at all or in varying stages of construction. Not to fear though, that’s always how the show goes—we are now firmly in the “heat” section and building up the tension to the comeback and the finish. Jim Ross has to leave to go do…Jim Ross things I guess. It’s a bit of a downer because J.R. actually knows what he’s doing. J.R.’s role here was criminally small, clearly running into the glass ceiling of the Culinary world. Quite frankly, I blame his lack of push on Chef Irvine not knowing what kind of talent he had in the kitchen. The man owns a restaurant for godsakes, use him appropriately!
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