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After a disappointing dinner service on Monday night's episode of 'Hell's Kitchen' (Tue., 8PM ET on FOX), the teams tried to rebound when cooking for Olympians. Unfortunately, the adage that there's nowhere to go but up didn't apply.

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Elise stopped arguing and hating on Carrie when she undercooked the fish herself. At least she had the integrity to take her lumps. Monterray, however, failed to follow directions and wound up with sous-chef Scott Leibfried in his face.

Gordon Ramsay isn't about making people happy and giving them what they want. And that's exactly what happened in the surprising elimination on this week's 'Hell's Kitchen' (Tue., 8PM ET on FOX).

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First, after the red team decided -- and she volunteered -- to send Carrie over to the men's team since she and Elise simply cannot get along, Ramsay came along with an idea of his own. Natalie should join the men instead, and the rest of the women had to get over it and make it work.

Natalie came through as a leader for the blue team during the opening challenge, while the women wouldn't let Carrie take over, despite her repeated efforts. Even after their loss, they continue to pile on while they cleaned up and the blue team went off to relax.

Giuseppe and Tracy were the team leaders going into Tuesday night's installment of 'MasterChef' (Tue., 9PM ET on FOX). They faced a daunting challenge as well, as the judges for this next phase of the competition would be the usual judges' mothers.

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Tracy made the bold decision to serve fish -- even though Gordon Ramsay's mother admitted she doesn't like fish -- and it paid off. Meanwhile, Giuseppe's team came up just short, though it looked like things were pretty tight throughout.

In the Pressure Test, the dish was Eggs Benedict and suddenly the former team leader found himself floundering. He wound up in the bottom two alongside Derrick. Giuseppe's undercooked dish faced off against Derrick's sloppy and dry-looking Eggs Benedict.

Who says you can't find love in Hell? For a while, we thought we might have stumbled onto the wrong reality show, but it was indeed 'Hell's Kitchen' (Tue., 8PM ET on FOX) we were watching. You wouldn't have thought they were in the midst of one of the most intense culinary reality shows on all of television to watch Carrie and Brendan, though.

While most of the contestants were cramming and preparing for the dinner service the following night, these two were giggling and flirting like they were on a school field trip. This, after a brutal loss to the men led to the women literally drinking meat for lunch and then cut the meat delivery that night into portions.

It was a night of decadence and disaster on 'MasterChef' (Mon., 9PM ET on FOX). As the Top 11 competed in the box challenge, they discovered a second box with the judges; one that revealed four pound lobsters. Later, the winner of the lobster challenge chose truffles, and boldly chose to compete in the second challenge as well.

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Christian had perhaps the hardest time in the opening challenge, because he felt he deserved to be one of the three finalists. As only the finalists' dishes are actually sampled, Christian must have felt passionately enough about it to disrespect the competition by tasting his own dish.

Leave the kinder, gentler Gordon Ramsay to those wussies on 'MasterChef!' If you're serious about cooking, and you can take the abuse, welcome to the Season 9 premiere of 'Hell's Kitchen' (Mon., 8PM ET on FOX).

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This must have been the most brutal opening week in 'HK' history, as it was enough to send one contestant to the hospital, and yet still someone was eliminated!

To his credit, Jason Zepaltas certainly had the will to stay in the competition, but his body just wasn't having it. He started feeling dizzy in the kitchen, leaving his teammates concerned. After an hour of struggled breathing, the medics were called in and he wound up getting oxygen.

Graham Elliot is a world renowned chef and judge on Fox's 'MasterChef' who'll be guest blogging for AOL TV from time to time this season. Here are his thoughts on this week's episode ...

It's great to get out of the kitchen in the field challenges and see the competitors cooking in professional kitchens and for the public -- not just the judges. But when Gordon handed over his kitchen to the cooks AND they had to cater a party for the Hollywood clientele -- I knew it would be a tough ride.

As the cooks get to know each other better, the team picking gets more interesting. They take into consideration friendships, talent, and the ability to follow their lead. Ben ended up with Charlie's Angels and Christian chose more of a variety.

As team leaders, Christian and Ben had very different styles. Christian is decisive and made his own menu and assigned courses while Ben was all about teamwork and feedback. I can't say there is a proven formula for winning. It really comes down to execution. Does the food taste good?

Gordon Ramsay may have the reputation in America of being this hard-nosed drill sergeant who tears down contestants on game shows, but judge Joe Bastianich is certainly giving him a run for his money on 'MasterChef' (Tue., 9PM ET on FOX). That said, though, we can't blame it for losing his cool at a contestant this week.

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In the elimination challenge, Adrien Nieto once again presented a dish that looked like it had been plated by a child bringing a dinner-in-bed to Mommy on her birthday. With the side dishes in bowls, the presentation was cluttered and unappealing and not even close to how it was supposed to look.

Last night, Tracy and Esther were sitting pretty as winners on 'MasterChef' (Tue., 8PM ET on FOX), but winner quickly turned into team leader as the contestants stumbled upon a beach-side challenge.

As team captains, Tracy and Esther were tasked with choosing their teams for the challenge of making sausage sandwiches for a group of 100 bikers.

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When mealtime came, Tracy's Blue Team was serving up their sandwiches, while Esther's Red Team wasn't ready yet. By the time the challenge was over, the Blue Team had cemented their victory and the Red Team was facing another Pressure Test.

With the Top 16 determined, the stakes were bigger than ever on this week's 'MasterChef' (Tue., 9PM ET on FOX). And so was the number of people the contestants had to cook for. Split into two teams, they were tasked with preparing a five-course meal for 350 people at a Los Angeles cafeteria.

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The losing team in this challenge would face off in a pressure test that would see one of them going home. To make things even more dramatic, the teams were tied going into the dessert round, where the Red Team beat the Blue Team with a fresh fruit dish.

It was a topsy-turvy night for one contestant on 'MasterChef' (Mon., 9PM ET on FOX) as the Top 18 contestants settled into the competition. With two cooking challenges, one chef found his or her dishes sitting toward the top of the heap, only later to have the second dish quite literally flung around the plate in disgust.

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The mystery box challenge opened the night, and only three dishes would be tasted by the judges, based on their appearance.

Jennie, Suzy and Cristian were selected, and all three got mostly rave reviews from the judges. Cristian won the challenge, and immunity for the week, but it should have spelled smooth sailing for the other two as well tonight, right?

Gordon Ramsay may be a big chef now, but in his youth he was known for being quite the soccer player. So it's not that surprising to hear that he and his wife like to go out for dinner with their friends soccer legend David Beckham and his wife Victoria -- a.k.a. Posh and Becks -- from time to time.

Ramsay was telling an anecdote about one such outing on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' (Weeknights, 12AM ET on ABC) when he lost his cool after host Kimmel kept interrupting him. It was a lively night for the person with their finger on the ABC censor button as the potty-mouthed chef started cursing.

The problem was that Kimmel simply couldn't get his head around the idea of the famously super-skinny Victoria actually letting food pass her lips. (And we're sure he's not the only one.) When Ramsay -- let's face it -- rather implausibly claimed that Posh "eats like a horse," Kimmel said, "What kind of a horse? A very thin horse. ... One of those carousel horses?"

The blood of superstar chefs-in-training started flowing fast during the latest 'MasterChef' (Tue., 8PM ET on FOX) challenge.

As judges Gordon Ramsay and Joe Bastianich considered their own cuts, the contestants were put through a grueling test of basic kitchen skills that proved to be harder, and more dangerous, than it first looked.

Fox continues it's love affair with Gordon Ramsay, despite the failure of 'Cookalong Live.' This week, for example, Fox renewed 'Kitchen Nightmares' for a third season, and you know that 'Hell's Kitchen' is coming back, so Fox and Ramsay are getting along like peanut butter and jelly.

Fox has added more 'Kitchen Nightmares' to its programming menu.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Gordon Ramsay vehicle has been renewed for a third season after garnering decent ratings for Fox on Thursday and Friday nights. In the series, Ramsay spends a week working with a struggling restaurant in an effort to revive business.

On Thu., Mar. 11, 'Nightmares' saw 8.4 million viewers. A rerun on Friday, March 5 saw 3.5 million viewers.