Episode 4 Recap: Overruled.

What happened to letting the customers decide? The comment cards were supposed to decide the winner or loser yesterday, but Ramsay decided to take matters into his own hands. Twice in a row.

"There are no winning teams," Ramsay says. So he lets Rock and Jen pick a nominee from their respective teams to go home. Rock picks Josh because of his increasing vendetta against Josh. Rock decided that before the service. Really poor form, Rock! I'm starting to like him less. Jen picks Melissa, apparently because Jen likes Bonnie more than Melissa.

And Chef Ramsay says that he's disappointed that Rock and Jen have not picked the worst performers, and decides to make the nominations himself, picking Vinnie and Bonnie.

But was it really so egregious? Josh screwed up the palate challenge, putting the men's team squarely behind early in the challenge. And he may not have stood out as bad during service, but he certainly didn't stand out as good.

Even if Ramsay's decision to overrule was somewhat justified with respect to Josh, how can he quibble with Jen's nomination of Melissa? Ramsay himself called her out to tell her how badly she performed, saying that she would not be nominating anyone tonight. If she were not a proper choice, why did he chastise her like that? It makes me wish Jen had said "I nominated Melissa because you pointed out that she performed badly, Chef Ramsay, and I agreed."

But really, why even go through the process of nomination if it's just a test to see if they pick who you'd pick? Why doesn't he just start picking people off after dinner service, no discussion?

As we all know, Vinnie went home, and it was probably a good choice - he was never able to overcome his arrogance. It was hard not to laugh at the gigantic posterior bobbing away from the camera down that long hallway in slow motion.

Now for the bitchiness quotient, I suppose we're left with Melissa and Rock.