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Minutes later (in television time anyway), Irvine has completely forgotten about J.R.’s chicken. It’s all burnt and ruined, which means if they can’t find more, then he will have failed the mission.
More WWE madness as Santino Marella is in for the hot tag. He immediately steals the show by cracking eggs with an elbow. No joke, he elbow dropped the eggs. Irvine is less than enthused. However, Santino nearly marks like a school girl as Robert shows him his 24-inch Pythons. He’s pretty jakked for a chef, that’s for sure. Is there any room on the roster for a wrestling chef character?
Santino is given the task of braising scallops and he goes to work pretty well on them. Santino: "I am faster than fire!”
However, all is not peace and love with the WWE Superstars, as Santino mocks The Miz about sucking in the kitchen. To be fair, The Miz has worked very hard on the show so far, even if he wasn’t the greatest at hacking chickens. Santino throws puff pastries and the tin into The Miz’s face and IT’S ON LIKE NECK BONE (which unfortunately isn’t on the menu). A chase is averted as Irvine plays peacemaker and gets all Mr. McMahon by laying down the law and telling them to get serious.
A lot of the dishes are coming together. They even manage to find more chicken and will have enough for that dish, but Irvine gets thrown a SWERVE!!!!!!!! He had an hour left, but now thirty minutes have been chopped off his time limit as V.I.P.s have arrived in advance. He is told that there are about seventy-five guests coming. He stops everyone and organizes five plates he can serve for these guests while they complete the remaining dishes. This includes the liquid Nitrogen-enabled Asian Mist drink (earlier on J.R. explained was done by “evil wrestlers”, which I think means he believes all Asians are evil) and the Triple H inspired “Pedigree” dish—uh-oh, Triple H is jerking the curtain and NOT in the main event. That’s gonna get Chef Irvine some heat with the wrong people!
Finally we get the big comeback as Chef Irvine’s crew completes all the dishes in time. He is all smiles with The Miz, Santino and Gail Kim as the program displays the food they created. Santino shmoozes his way on the floor (a wrestler never turns down a free meal). Sampling the food, he says with a straight face: "It was an explosion of flavor in my mouth!" We also gets rave reviews from a female who was knocked out by the RKO dish (no comment), someone who looked like Mike Knox, and in one hell of a random appearance, former SNL comic DAVID KOECHNER! Or it could be Waylon Mercy, I’m not sure.
The mission has been completed successfully and the fans are going home happy. We get a wacky post script with Big Show and Chef Irvine in the ring dueling it out in a thumb war to end the show! Excellent!
This was a very entertaining hour that passed by quickly. While at times it was weird to see WWE is such an out-of-context environment, they also flourished. The Miz in particular was the star of the show.Maybe one day soon WWE will return the favor and let Chef Irvine guest-host WWE Raw. Then again, hopefully not.
