Hell's Kitchen/Awesome

• Who were the two final contestants in Season 6? Dave and Kevin, both of whom were injured (fractured wrist and two sprained ankles, respectively). Dave won.
  • Dave also had a Crowning Moment an episode before. Each contestant had to cook a dish of a certain style (Mexican, Indian, and one other) for master chefs of that style. He got Indian, which he had admittedly never cooked before. He won the challenge.
• Another from season 6, when there are only six contestants remaining, the dinner service started off so badly that, for the first time ever, Gordon and sous chef Scott walked out of the kitchen. Immediately, Tennille and Kevin took charge of the kitchen themselves, managing to rally up despite the mistakes of others and Suzanne's unwillingness to send food out. Cue Ramsay returning and kicking out those who were doing badly, and Tennille, Kevin and Dave finished the service themselves with no more mishaps.
• In an early episode of season 7, the entire red team was pulled from service. Gordon and sous chefs Scott and Andi cooked everything by themselves and finished the service.
  • Happens again in season 9. Gordon threw out the entire red team except for Jennifer in the middle of service. Jennifer (along with Andi and Gordon), went on to finish the service spotlessly.
• Rarely happens, but moments that show a customer going up to Ramsay and complaining while he's trying to work the kitchens and/or being a real douche about their complaints or being really rude to Ramsay, Ramsay will tell them off.
  • Case in point, when one lady decides she had waited for her food long enough and confronts Ramsay about it, he didn't even bother looking at her when he waved her off and said "Take the giraffe back to the table, yes?"
  • Another one from Season 2, when a customer comes up to Ramsay and whines about his risotto not having enough pumpkin in it:

Ramsay: Right. Well, I'll get more pumpkin and I'll ram it right up your fucking arse. Would you like it whole or diced?

• JP's crowning moment of awesome (Season Six, Episode Two): "Ladies first". After he dished out the "Listen to ME!" against Van.
• In the first episode of season 8 to feature the final six, black-jacketed contestants, they had to create a dish and have it judged by a panel of five three-Michelin-star chefs. The judges each held up a numbered card (like at the Olympics) for presentation and then again for taste; the best score any judge could award for either category was 10. It looked like Gail, with a score of 87, would win the challenge, until Russell presented his dish...and received perfect scores in both categories.
• The Season 8 blue team completely fell apart in one service, and Ramsay started kicking them out of the kitchen one by one. Eventually the only chef left was Trev who, despite coming within an inch of being thrown out despite being in the winning team during the previous episode, finished the blue team's service by himself. Even though Trev has largely been The Scrappy of Season 8 (with the obvious exception of Raj and Sabrina), it was hard to deny he had kicked ass just this one time.
• In Season 4 we had Jen, THE prototypical Reality Show cutthroat bitch. Near the end of the season, she remarks that the previous service practically gave her a heart attack. We immediately cut to a Confession Cam with Petrozza, the man Gordon praised for being selfless and polite:

Petrozza: You cold bitch, you finally feel like you have a heart? Why, because you know there's a good chance that your ass is going on the chopping block, that's why you feel like you have a heart? Or are you just full of shit?

• Jennifer from Season 9 losing her shit with Elise, who has been blaming her own problems during service on the rest of the team for 8 weeks now. Watching nice, even-tempered Jennifer finally ream out the Queen Bitch (and actually getting her to shut up!) was pretty cathartic. The following is from the 10th episode.

Jennifer: Shut up for five fucking seconds! That's the problem: You don't shut up! Cut to Gordon looking slightly shocked.

• In an early episode of season 2, Heather, who would eventually go on to win the entire season, she burned her hand (but recovered), and was forced to sit out the rest of the service...but that didn't stop her from directing her team to victory as she waited for the ambulance to arrive.
• Probably a small one, but early in Season 9, Sous Chef Andi had enough of Elise's bickering and lack of respect once during prep, and told her she needed "to show some fucking respect." This is the first time Andi finally had to tell off a contestant.
• Your mileage will vary, but in Season 9, Tommy got kicked out of the kitchen along with Jennifer (who was assisting him on appetizers) and Elise (who consistently messed up on fish). After calling back the team to chew them out and send them to the dorms, Tommy stayed behind to ask Ramsay why he got sent out, since Jennifer was the one making almost all the mistakes on the station, such as miscommunicating and taking his dishes up before they were ready. Chef Ramsay took it about as well as he takes any chef disputing his decisions, and ended up informing Tommy that he would "stick his head in the oven and talk to him through the gas burner!" Tommy's response? "Do it!"
• During the finale of Season 9, Paul, despite losing the final tasting challenge to Will and being saddled with Carrie and Elise on his team, manages to pull out a win. He does so by being the sole chef the entire season to get Carrie and Elise working together.
• In the first season, we have Elsie who was famous for being "a mother of six". Well, when she was one of the last four contestants had been chewed out by her fellow competitors (Although it was slightly her fault cause as she was on TV she stated how she won the challenge for that day) and is off to be eliminated. Ramsay knew something was up and had questioned her if she was fine. Elsie could've taken the chance to chew out her fellow competitors...she took the blow herself. Sure she was eliminated, but she showed much grace and maturity during that moment and kept her head up high the whole time.
• Julia from Season 3 was one of the biggest underdogs in the entire series. A simple Waffle House chef from Atlanta who pretty much didn't fit with everyone's fancy backgrounds, she was able to keep her calm in the kitchen and lead both her team (and once the Blue Team) out. Ramsay was so impressed that he would personally send her to Culinary School so that she could eventually come back to win the competition hands down.
• Robyn of season 10 had a minor one in the first episode - cooking her signature dish perfectly and then, while the other women were making crude sexual jokes ("How do you know when a scallop's cooked perfectly? When you touch it and it feels like a cock!") she got up and studied in the living room, and was one of the only well-prepared women on the team.