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Chef! (1993)

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Chef!, a British comedy TV show that ran from 1993 to 1996, concerns the life of famed English chef de cuisine Gareth Blackstock (Lenny Henry) as he attempts to maintain the prestigious Château Anglaise, the best French restaurant in England, while dealing with his tumultuous marriage. Gareth's rampaging rants and incessant insults provide much of the comedy for the show.Only three characters have significant roles throughout the show's three series run: Gareth, the star; Everton, an apprentice chef and frequent target of Gareth's abuse; and Janice, Gareth's wife who has to deal with his issues every day.Other characters appeared for shorter durations: Gustav (series 2 and 3), a once highly regarded chef who declined due to a drinking problem Lucinda (series 1), the sous chef—directly subordinate to Gareth—who, despite her petite size, is sometimes shown to have a bite whereas Gareth has a bark
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Happens often in the first two seasons. Gareth and Janice will spend 90% of an average episode bickering but there's usually at least one scene that ends with them embracing. "The Big Cheese" opens with Janice mad at Gareth for not spending enough time with her, but she eases up on him after he serves her a delicious salmon mousse.
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Card-Carrying Villain
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Card-Carrying Villain: Gareth isn't technically a villain but he still fits the description nonetheless, as one of his prime running gags is his unabashedness (and even pride) at his own wretchedness. "I am Gareth Blackstock and I am a thoroughly unpleasant person! I am a bastard! My bite is much worse than my bark and my bark is ATROCIOUS!"
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: "The Big Cheese" frames Gareth's hunt for unpasteurized Stilton like a drug deal, as he meets with a shady supplier and tries to dodge "the cheese police." This is also Hypocritical Humor: While Gareth claims he can't stand "dopeheads" in his kitchen, he acts basically the same way when it comes to the food he wants.
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Roguish Poacher: Frustrated with the quality of his game meat supply, Gareth resorts to purchasing from a poacher. He then gets a better price from a policeman who pulled him over after making the deal.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: How Gareth perceives health and safety inspectors.
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Aborted Arc: The second season opener, "A River Runs Through It," puts a lot of emphasis on Gustav's background and struggle with alcoholism, which gets a few references in later episodes. By Season Three, these parts of his personality are completely dropped. Savannah harbors a crush on Gareth in the early episodes of Season Three but this is completely replaced with the love triangle between Gareth, Janice, and Rochelle in the penultimate episode of the series. Instead, Savannah is pursued by Cyril, who she snogs once but has no feelings for, and Gareth ultimately gets her to stay at the Chateau by letting her take over for him while he's in Jamaica.
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The Dreaded
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The Dreaded: Albert Roux, a celebrity chef who books a table at Le Chateau in the first season and is known for his critical nature. Gareth panics even more when Albert asks him to decide, knowing that whatever Gareth picks is the best he can do. The health inspector in "A River Runs Through It", though by his next appearance he's been downgraded to yet another irritant for Gareth.
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French Jerk
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French Jerk / Cultural Posturing: One of Gareth's rivals during an international cooking competition mocks him simply for being British. He turns out to be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, though. In the same episode, the Cultural Posturing is inverted when even most other British people laugh themselves sick at Gareth wanting British wine. Their absolute dread at realizing that they must use British cooking to compete with French chefs using French cooking, for the favour of French judges, is quite a sight.
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Money Dumb
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Money Dumb: Gareth is, in his own words "stupid about money". The restaurant is constantly struggling, in large part due to his overspending on ingredients, such as on unpasteurized Stilton cheese.
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Second Prize: Subverted in an episode where Gareth begins bemoaning the unfairness of it as he places second in the hors d'ouvres section, which is compounded when he then places second in the entree section. He is barely able to suppress his rage when he goes on to receive third place in the dessert section, only to discover that, as he was the only contestant to place in more than one category (and indeed, every category), he has won the overall first place.
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Blatant Lies: Gareth warns his kitchen staff in the first episode that they're all expendable and so they'd better work hard. Five minutes latter his boss suggests staff cuts and Gareth says he couldn't possibly do without any of them.
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In the same episode, the Cultural Posturing is inverted when even most other British people laugh themselves sick at Gareth wanting British wine. Their absolute dread at realizing that they must use British cooking to compete with French chefs using French cooking, for the favour of French judges, is quite a sight.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Gareth does fill out the Jerk part easily, handily, and even to his own great satisfaction. However, he is also willing to give credit where it's due, praise good work, and even, on one notable occasion, deliver a sincere apology when he discovered he'd wrongfully accused Everton of smoking pot. The very first episode establishes this trait, when he's unable to bring himself to fire an incompetent employee (previous employees having tired of his personality and quit in protest before he had to). After Lucinda fires the guy for him, Gareth bursts into tears and hugs him goodbye.
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Women Are Wiser: Janice and Lucinda. Averted with Renee and Savannah.
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Bumbling Sidekick
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Bumbling Sidekick: Everton. He does eventually get better. Everton does know how to cook, but it's mostly fast-food cooking.
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Big Damn Kiss: The series ends with Gareth giving one to Everton, for bringing his passport to the airport.
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Gareth is constantly making quips and putting down anyone who displeases him, and his rudeness often leads him to make mistakes. However, he is still a Supreme Chef and his culinary skills excuse a lot of his bad attitude. In one episode he's able to stop Janice from being mad at him through the power of a well-made salmon mousse.
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Drill Sergeant Nasty: Non-military example, though Gareth does run his kitchen like he was preparing an invasion.
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Hair-Trigger Temper: Gareth. Although he's particularly sensitive about food, he's liable to hit the Berserk Button whenever stressed.
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Rich Bitch: Renee. She mellows out a bit as the series progresses, though.
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Missing Mom: Gareth's mother left when he was young, presumably tired of her Jerkass husband. This also explains Gareth's choice of cooking as a career; his father's cooking was so horrendous that he took it up just to stay fed.
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Gilligan Cut: Done frequently after Gareth's tirades.
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Took a Level in Dumbass: Gareth makes plenty of mistakes in the first two seasons, but in the third he starts doing outrageous things like saying inappropriate stuff to customers out of nervousness or getting his arm stuck in the window of a moving car. See Flanderization above.
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Jerkass Has a Point: While Gareth's tantrums are unnecessarily rude, there's often at least some legitimate reason provoking his outburst. He frequently loses it over his staff's lack of cleanliness, for example, or the inability of others to do their job. Even his rant at the customer who asked for salt before tasting his food was based in truth, as the customer himself admitted shortly after: it really didn't need salt.
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Supreme Chef: Gareth, obviously. Surprisingly, Everton when it comes to Caribbean food.
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The Stoner: Gareth thinks it's Everton, but it's really Piers.
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Foreign Culture Fetish: Invoked by Gustav, who is really a Londoner named Garry Lambston but changed his name because, as he puts it, you had to be French to get a decent cooking job when he started out.
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Put on a Bus: The entire supporting cast of chefs changes each season without explanation. In Series 2, we lose Lucinda, Piers, and Otto, and in Series 3 we lose Crispin, Deborah, and Donald. In addition, Alice disappears halfway through the second series.
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Food as Bribe: More than a couple of times he's had to bribe police with meals at the restaurant. In one episode, he tries to calm down an irate Janice with a salmon mousse, but she just gets angrier (at least until she tastes it).
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Auto Erotica: Averted, much to Janice's dismay. Played straight off-screen for Crispin's dad, caught with another man's wife/girlfriend in the back of the Roller.
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They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: In Episode 1, Everton assumes too much familiarity with Gareth by calling him "Stock," his old school nickname (which it turns out he really hates).
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Eagle Land: Averted with Piers, whose American-ness is never the source of a joke at all, and is mostly written as a perfectly pleasant fellow. Played straight in the third series with Savannah, an obnoxious Californian woman.
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New Old Flame: Lucille in the last two episodes.
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Angry Chef: Gareth Blackstock. While talented, Blackstock is arrogant, tyrannical, and is often rude to employees, friends, and family members.
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The Alcoholic: Gustav.
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Denser and Wackier: The third season drastically ups the amount of physical gags and sitcom setpieces. The first episode alone features Gareth getting his arm stuck in the window of a moving car, Savannah doing a cheer with heads of lettuce, multiple Naked People Are Funny gags, a Groin Attack through a mail slot, and a fire in the kitchen that leads to all the sprinklers going off.
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Cool Car: Gareth and Janice own a classic red Jaguar E-Type roadster, which they have to sell in order to purchase the restaurant. Janice in particular is in tears at losing such a beautiful machine without even "christening" it.
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One-Note Cook: Initially, Everton and Jamaican food. It sends people into bouts of euphoria. Otherwise, he's hopeless. He gets loads better at it once season two rolls around.
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Took a Level in Jerkass: Everton in Season 1's "Rice and Peas", when Gareth puts together a Caribbean night to please his father, because he's the only one in the kitchen with any familiarity with Caribbean food. He does it again in Season 2's "Masterchef", when he is given the title of "Deputy Chef" as part of a scheme by Gareth to teach him a humility lesson (see Springtime for Hitler above).
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The Inspector Is Coming: Gareth has to make the perfect salmon mousse for Albert Roux.
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A Day in the Limelight: "Rice and Peas" and "Masterchef" focus on Everton's cooking. "A River Runs Through It" introduces Gustav and gives the most focus on his alcoholism. "Private Lives" is about how the chefs' personal problems bleed into the kitchen, specifically focusing on Crispin, Deborah, and Donald.
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: In "England Expects", mixed with Gratuitous French: "MISE! EN! PLACE!"
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Cluster Bleep-Bomb: Gareth's rapid-fire expletives toward Everton are caught on camera, and Lucinda reads a review on the newspaper: "A special BAFTA award for swearing in a documentary should be minted at once!"
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Mood Whiplash: Gareth's above-mentioned freakout over a customer asking for salt is followed by him taking a phone call from the boss in the kitchen...notifying him the restaurant is in receivership.
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Character Filibuster: Gareth repeatedly goes on them.
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Accidental Misnaming: Anita Lawrence keeps calling Janice as Janet.
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Catchphrase: "Give me strength!" "Shut up, Everton/Janice!" Everton would also append "sorta thing" onto the end of most sentences. When he didn't, other characters looked at him funny until he did. Sometimes, just to be safe, he'd say "sorta thing sorta thing".
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Fourth Wall Psych: In a season one episode, Gareth wigs out on Everton in his signature style. After a minute or two, they pause, and Everton slowly looks at the camera. Then Chef does. This is, of course, the camera placed there earlier by a documentary film crew.
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Everyone Has Standards: Gareth is extremely short-tempered and quick to anger but he also recognizes and respects real culinary talent. In the first episode he promotes Lucinda to sous chef because she genuinely earns it, and in "Rice and Peas" he does begrudgingly acknowledge Everton's talent for making Caribbean food.
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Added Alliterative Appeal: "BBC Bosses Ban Bollocking Blackstock."
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Kindhearted Simpleton: Everton is a nice but naive young man who makes lots of rookie mistakes in the kitchen and is often the target of Gareth's ire.
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Pregnancy Scare: In Season 2's "Time Flies", driving Gareth and Janice into a panic over how they'll afford to raise a child when the restaurant is losing money.
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Double Standard: Gareth and his wife separate at the beginning of the third season. She begins dating again... he sees her doing so but does not confront her. After some mental anguish, Gareth goes on a single date with a woman and kisses her... his wife sees it, slaps him, and prepares to not only finally divorce him, but take his unborn child away to another continent in retaliation.
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Hypocritical Humor: In the first episode, Gareth takes great delight in telling his staff how useless and replaceable they are. Not five minutes later he's telling his boss that he can't fire any of them because they're the finest staff he's ever had and irreplaceable.
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Fiery Redhead: Lucinda.
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Mixed Metaphor: Cyril Bryson. "This is the eye of the needle that breaks the camel's back!"
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Berserk Button: For Gareth there are many times. One of the most memorable occurs when he overhears a customer asking for salt before tasting his meal.
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Freudian Excuse: Gareth frequently engages in rants about his childhood, which might explain his Jerkass behaviour. His father - when he shows up - is a worse Jerkass than Gareth himself.
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Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Janice frequently plays this role, although it's typically futile.
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A Man Is Always Eager: Averted. A Running Gag is that Janice frequently complains about how rarely he's in the mood for it.
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Cooking Duel: The second season finale was about a multi-participant cookery contest, with Gareth cooking for England.
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Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Gareth's rants. Everton provides a nice contrast sorta thing.
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Inappropriate Pride: Chef Gareth Blackstock takes unabashed pride in the fact that he's a tyrannical bastard.
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Gareth and Everton apparently were like this as children, and become something like this again to some extent when reunited as adults (just with a boss/subordinate overlay).
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Flanderization: Gareth's behavior seems to turn towards this in series 3. While he is prone to mistakes and occasional pratfalls in the first two series, he's still shown to be competent overall and has several soft-spoken or kindhearted moments to counteract his outbursts. In the third season he is cartoonishly over the top, bursting into tears while singing or getting so desperate for Janice's phone number that he walks around naked.
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Groin Attack: Janice rather indelicately seizes Gareth's meat-and-two-veg when he's being difficult while the two are lying in bed.
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Dirty Cop: PC Bosworth, the local poacher, is a lighthearted example. Also Gilbert Waterman from the National Rivers Authority, who sold Bosworth the tracking-tagged salmon that he sold on to Gareth.
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Consummate Professional: A big part of why Gareth is such a Jerkass: he's a skilled and experienced chef and has little patience for errors. However, this often leads to Hypocritical Humor, since Gareth himself can't meet his own impossibly high standards.
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Malicious Misnaming: Happens with Renee in her debut episode. She hates being called "Reeny," something Gareth exploits to torment her.
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Same Race Means Related: In the first episode, Gareth is meeting an old acquaintance from school, Everton Stonehead, in the dining room of his restaurant. One of the subordinate cooks, Piers, asks sous chef Lucinda if they're brothers, stating you don't often see black men in their restaurant. Lucinda points out that not all black people are related, adding, with cheerful snark, "I'm given to understand that some of them haven't even been properly introduced."
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Food Porn: Don't watch this show if you're hungry. In-Universe, Gareth treats a documentary made of his food this way. He was unconcerned - and even glad - that there was no focus on him, and that his cooking took center stage. He mentions he wanted to watch it agin, and again, and again...
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Alice in Season Two looks and acts quite similarly to Lucinda from Season One.
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Girlfriend in Canada: After Savannah develops a crush on Gareth, she starts sending herself bouquets from her imaginary boyfriend to try to make him jealous. It doesn't work.
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Running Gag: From season one, Lola, the maître d’hôtel, stealing bites from plates and going into near-orgasmic moans with each one.
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Beware the Nice Ones: Getting Gareth mad isn't the worst thing you can do in the kitchen; it's getting Lucinda mad...
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 Chef! (1993)
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Same Race Means Related / int_91c7ee2f
 Chef! (1993)
hasFeature
Second Prize / int_91c7ee2f
 Chef! (1993)
hasFeature
Where Do You Think You Are? / int_91c7ee2f
 Chef! (1993)
hasFeature
Work Com / int_91c7ee2f