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** And another in Season 7. While briefly controlling the pass, he catches Ben trying to call out the tickets. The ''awesome'' smack-down is not long in coming.

** Most people would drop out of the competition after breaking one of their arms. When Season 6's Dave finds himself in such a situation, he stays in the competition... and eventually {{spoiler|''wins''}}.

** It goes without saying that Chef Ramsay himself is an example. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TG45_26izc This] is all the evidence you'll ever need.

* [[Bald of Awesome]]: Sous Chef Scott, as well as Season 6's Kevin.

** There was also a difference in how elimination nominees were decided. In earlier seasons, Ramsay would just pick whoever had been the least bad performer as the Best of the Worst and get them to decide on the nominees. Starting at around Season 5 however, Ramsay largely dispensed with the Best of the Worst role (only assigning it when some turned in an exceptionally good performance compared to the rest of their team) and almost always had the nominees decided on by team consensus.

*** Bryant from Season 13 was the last contestant to be named Best of the Worst, so it is possible that Chef Ramsay has done away with it for good since then. The most likely reason for getting rid of this aspect of nominations is to keep contestants from making decisions based around emotions and personal biases rather than what is best for the team.

** Up until Season 5, at least a third of the contestants in each season were people without any real professional cooking experience. However, Ramsay got sick of people who constantly tried to use their lack of kitchen experience as a crutch for their mistakes (Jeff from Season 1, Ben from Season 4, and Lacey from Season 5 being particular offenders), and so starting with Season 6, the rules were changed so that only people with at least two years of professional experience under their belt are allowed to apply to be on the show. Oddly enough, were the current rules enforced throughout the show's history, Season 4 winner Christina wouldn't even have been allowed to apply for the show when she did.

* [[Eat That]]: Some of the punishments for losing challenges involve this. One punishment in Season 6 was having to drink a blended mix of several fine-dining dishes.

{{quote|'''Dave''': You're not supposed to drink duck.}}

** Melanie from Season 12 is considered to be one of the best looking women to set foot in ''Hell's Kitchen''.

** Christina and Corey from Season 4 are also very nice looking.

*[[Far East]]: One of the contestants in Season 8 expressed worry at having to make sushi because they had "never even eaten Chinese food" before.

** Another example from the same challenge: Melissa was excited to be paired with Gail to make sushi, since Gail is Asian and "logically" should be good at sushi. She never bothered to learn that Gail is Filipino, not Japanese, and the two went on to produce the Red Team's worst sushi.

*[[Hide Your Gays]]: Averted: there are many gay contestants, and an out lesbian actually won Season 2. At least three of the four red team sous chefs have also been lesbians.

*[[History Repeats]]: Season 9's Will competed in another competition called ''[[Chopped]]'' in 2009, ending up eliminated in second place that episode. 2 years later, competing on ''Hell's Kitchen'', he made it to the finale... only to again finish in second place.

*[[Hopeless Auditionees]]: Most contestants on the show come from backgrounds that make them seem as if they should theoretically be good chefs, even if the reality is somewhat different. On the other hand, some of the contestants (such as Season 4's Dominic and Season 6's Louie) can't even boast this, coming from backgrounds that would not make them capable in any way, shape or form of running a fine dining restaurant, and it's not hard to imagine that the producers have deliberately put them in there as fall guys.

** In one case, the contestant was a cooking teacher, but never attended culinary school. Ramsay pretty much lampshaded her chances in the first episode (but didn't bring it up again until she was eliminated).

** Suzanne had one in Season 6. During a challenge when the chefs had to prepare crepes, Suzanne went ON and ON about what the inspiration for her dish was. Tennille sums it up best:

{{quote|'''JUST TELL HIM WHAT'S IN THE CREPE!'''}}

 

*[[Manipulative Bastard]]: Joanna in Season 3 proclaimed herself to be one of these. Unfortunately for her, the reality was somewhat different; she failed to talk Melissa out of nominating her for elimination after the first service, and then in the third service she actually talked Ramsay ''into'' kicking her out, after he pointed out that the rationale she gave for why Jen should be eliminated made her far more deserving of being kicked out.

'''JP:''' There are, I don't know how many people which would be willing to be in your shoes right now.

'''Andrew:''' You know what? *removes shoes* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Then they can take my shoes, JP]]. *leaves* }}

* [[Rant-Inducing Slight]]: LA spaced out in the middle of one service during Season 5, which caused Ramsay to yell at her repeatedly until she woke up. While Ramsay was yelling at her, he called her a "silly cow," which by Ramsay's standards is a very mild insult. However, it was still enough to cause LA to go on this ''huge'' rant in the [[Confession Cam]] segment that followed, about how if anyone other than Chef Ramsay had called her a "cow," she would have beat the shit out of them there and then before walking out of the kitchen.

* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: After Raj's appearance on the show, most ''Hell's Kitchen'' related message boards were swamped with people posting about how Raj was obviously an actor that had been planted to add some entertainment to the show by being a constant screw-up, and that the producers were a bunch of stupid assholes for thinking that anyone would believe Raj to be a real cook. A cursory bit of Googling reveals enough pages mentioning Raj prior to him appearing on the show (in some cases dating back to 2003) to show that unless Fox went to an absurd amount of trouble to make a background for someone only in the show for three episodes, Raj really is just that crazy.

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Jeff from Season 1, Andrew from Season 7, and Will (he almost did) from Season 9. See [[Rage Quit]] above.

** Even {{spoiler|Ramsay and Sous Chef Scott}} went into this in Season 6 and in Season 7.

** To boot, he didn't just tell her to go to culinary school. He literally ''sent'' her there; he paid her entire tuition out of his own pocket because he truly believed she had a tremendous amount of potential.

* [[Serious Business]]: Joseph mentions point blank at the reward in Season 6, episode 1, that he only cares about winning and not enjoying a pleasant break that the blue team earned as a victory. Even ''Chef Ramsay'' is shocked about this.