Amy's Baking Company

I have Never seen a more shocking Episode of Kitchen Nightmares everything in this Episode was completely real so Real in fact that the producers had to actually step in and stop Alot of the Conflict and the Owners are the Rudest people I've ever seen and it was So shocking Well Done Gordon For Walking out and Leaving them to it not that was Necessarily the right decision he probably should've actually stopped it and shut them down for good but I mean i Do think he made a wise but also foolish decision just walking out on them leaving them to verbally abuse their customers and staff I've never been there Before i don't know if they're permanently closed now i hope they are because no one deserves to go through that at a public Bakery or restaurant or any public place.

I never write a review but after watching this episode, God bless Chef!!!! She is absolutes crazy!! And her husband is so rude to customers. He can be reasonable at times,but still. Taking your servers tips is RIDICULOUS! Not letting them touch the POS absurd. I'm a bartender / waitress I wouldn't take that!!!! She is horrible!!! 51/50 for sure. Thank you Chef for walking out! I love witching your shows. Keep them coming!! There is no helping them. I stay up every night watching HK, cooking at home with Chef, and Top Chef. Amy's only friends are probably her 3 cats and Sammy. Gooooo Chef! You're my fav!!!

Probably the best episode of 'Kitchen Nightmares'. And not just as a piece of entertainment, but as a showcase of how people can be so bad and evil with the people they are working with so the ones trying to help. Mesmerizing.

The original "Kitchen Nightmares" was fresh. It showed viewers what is going on backstage in failing eateries and restaurants. There were real people with real problems and, of course, a cocky Scottish chef who, despite being foul-mouthed and full of himself, knew how to handle a kitchen and, not least, seemed generally concerned with the establishments that he was supposed to rescue from self-destruction. But that was the UK-version.

"Kitchen Nightmares", the US variation, was a whole new ballgame. Here we had a chef Ramsay who simply loved being a TV-personality and people who simply wanted to be seen on television, no matter what the cost. The issue of food quickly became secondarily, Ramsay soon turned from cook to family-councilor and the show degenerated to a Reality-TV soap-opera.

The 'Crazy Amy' episode (as it is commonly known in its form as internet meme) summons up all that is rotten about KN-US and, to an extent, with Reality-TV. We have a couple who's obviously dysfunctional (and that is putting it mildly). Any layman psycho-analyst will tell you that the show's "antagonist", Amy, is a severely disturbed person, suffering from a histrionic personality, psychotic paranoia and possibly schizophrenia. Along comes her delusional, self-loathing husband, who likewise has dreams of grandeur, although one isn't sure if it's about running a restaurant of playing a mafia-crook (or perhaps he has watched one "The Sopranos"-episode too many). But do people really want to gawk at this on TV? That's not a documentary; it's not even Reality-TV. It's voyeurism in its purest form.

Now, I wonder, what does this have to do with cooking? What does this have to do with anything apart from gawking at the mentally unfit? What next? Will people go to Ramsay's restaurants in London and expect a bearded lady, Siamese twins and the elephant man tap-dancing? Loud, obnoxious, completely acting it out and over-acting it as long as somebody is watching; it represents much (if not everything) that people outside the US find discomforting about Americans. Which bring us to the issue of "BEEPS" on the show: In case you were wondering, yes, people tend to swear a lot – not only in the US. Few can finish a sentence without the f-word (or an n-word. Or an s-word. Or a y-word, you name it). It's a symptom of TV-programs to put "BEEPS" over how people generally talk and if you feel that this is a cop-out, you're probably right).

US TV-format is a little different from the one in Europe, we all know that (especially the FOX-stuff which, if it weren't for The Simpsons, nobody but the Jerry Springer crowd would go near with a 10 foot pole). Yes, the voice-over does sound like a desperate used cars salesman and after the 10th commercial break (no, thank you. I do not want to purchase your crap, no matter how loud you scream), one almost feels that whoever is yelling "AND Now! COMING Up!" is suffering from Tourette's syndrome.

In the end, it's just trash. One would have thought that a chef like Gordon Ramsay had more taste than that. Distasteful – that world should summon up both this episode and the US-franchise of the show. And that's not the most flattering thing you can say about a chef who was once one of the greats (we're talking about the kitchen here, not television). If this would be a pure "guilty-pleasure" freak-show, I'd give it 8/10 – but this, despite everything, still carrying the names "Gordon Ramsay" and "Kitchen Nightmares", I'll have to reduce that to a 4.

I don't watch reality television often; actually, I pretty much never watch. However, my friend showed me this episode after telling me it was one of the greatest episodes of television he'd ever seen. He was not overstating it! What an episode! The level of awfulness and the personalities involved made this legendary. See it!