FINALE!!! A lot of Twitter and FaceBook viewers are just like NOT wanting to see Tash or Kyle ever again on the show. Yes, fine they brought the drama so we kept watching, which means we will probably be seeing them again. A far as a chief stew and stew, they just have the worst work ethic. I think Tash has the worst work ethic of ANY chief stew in Below Deck history. Not sure if I would give that same honor to Kyle as the worst work ethic of 2nd or 3rd stew in Below Deck History, since there gave been some bad ones, but for sure he’s in the top five of the worst.
And wtf he seriously FAKED the seriousness of that ankle sprain?
And Tash allowed it? And they go to the trouble of even bringing a stew on for ONE CHARTER??
Okay I’m getting ahead of myself.
I would love to see Elena back though.
And Dave STILL couldn’t get those fucking pancakes right. This time he made them super thick and completely under cooked, when the dude very specifically said he likes them crispy on the edges,. (aka not under cooked.)
So Elena is sleeping through her alarm, which is kind of understandable that she’s exhausted given that she just arrived the previous day, is probably jet lagged (not sure where she arrived from though, surely she wouldn’t have come too far to do one charter.) and she started busting her ass the second she took her stilettos off. Not sure why neither of the girls goes in to wake her when by 11, when she’s not yet emerged.
I was thinking, is this a set up, so they can bitch at her and shun her? Doesn’t seem like their style, that sounds more like Kate Chastain. But you never know.
This dude reminds me so much of my ex-husband. Here we have his all time fave look, sleeveless black Tee with some sort of idiotic ‘I’m a big tough guy’ shit on the front. I don’t know what the hell it says, it must involve ‘fuck’ because there’s a word blurred out. He looks like a moron.
Just like my ex-husband. (liar, cheater, no interest in his children ever)
Dave’s still chasing after Tash constantly and asking if she’s okay? This idiot doesn’t know if he really wants her attention, to just ignore her. Speak to her only when it’s work related and be cordial, but really short otherwise, and for chrissakes stop following her around like a lost fucking puppy.
Dude she gave your number to the this psycho and blamed you for the whole thing, just to make herself feel better.
She told him about those pissy messages he sent that night, after she jerked him around all day, and blatantly ignored him just for fun. Did she include that part to this D Bag ?
Her yaps are so excruciating. “My personal life has affected the entire season.” She doesn’t care, but trying to sound like she. She is one of those people that loves to hear herself talk.
Inappropriate relationship with the chef, and I know people hook up, but purposely jerking the chef around just for fun, when you’re the chief stew, is so unprofessional. I have to agree with Kate Chastain, even though i normally do NOT, that she is more suited for a stew on a Carnival Cruise.
Also an inappropriate relationship with a stew, as in, too friendly, and favoring him over the other stew, (which Kate also does, just sayin, so maybe she belongs on Carnival too) thereby allowing him to get away with doing less work, and receiving all of the accolades, thereby causing a hostile work environment for Nat, since any normal human would find that frustrating.
Which lead to her having to voice her frustrations to the Captain, address it with her, and then got called a snitch, ‘disrespectful.’ Poor management of time, and work load, on her phone constantly, putting her messy love life before doing her actual job, and shunning the better stew.
But hey, how ‘bout those cocktails though?
Nat notices Ellie’s absence, but guess she doesn’t go to her cabin to check on her?
I think Dave is the only chef, other than Rachel maybe, that didn’t have constant fits of anger, and tantrum after tantrum. The meltdown over Tash’s antics doesn’t count.
He doesn’t even have a meltdown over making breakfast, when guests all request different styles of eggs and what not, like they usually do.
Granted he can’t seem to get the pancakes right, but he also didn’t cry and moan about it like a bitch.
He only got huffy that one night when Tash was being an asshole to him as usual, and the whole dang crew, including the deckhands were all standing in the kitchen staring at him. Who wouldn’t be irritated by that? I can’t stand people at me when I’m trying to do something.
So Pancake Dude requests them being ‘thicker’ and thicker is what he got. Part of the problem is, if you ask me, his inability to communicate effectively. Dave made crepes previously. They weren’t even pancakes. So by saying ‘thicker’ now Dave thinks he wants super thick pancakes. No, thicker compared to crepes.
He wants regular style pancakes! If you didn’t check out my pancake recipe link yet, these are perfect, and most likely exactly what he was looking for.
Tash goes over the breakfast requests with him and he doesn’t bat an eye, not even at having to do the dreaded you -know -whats for third time. What’s his fascination with this blow torch? He uses it for everything.
So dahdahdah, the pancakes come out and they’re like 4 inches thick. His girl immediately says he’s not going to like them. Dave, dude! I don’t get why he never re -communicated with him on the original instructions. Didn’t seem like he was paying attention since he was knee deep in Tash drama.
Telling Tash ‘thicker’ was confusing because he was comparing them to crepes. He didn’t mean thick pancakes. Tash prob went down and told Dave, he wants them ‘thick.’ Oh my God. I shouldn’t be this annoyed by this by I just am.
It’s hard to believe Dave didn’t realize if he made them this thick, they would need to cook for a fair amount of time of each side. Also looks like he blow torched them again. Jesus.
A least the dude is NOT being as jackass about it. He even says “I don’t want to hurt his feelings.” Said not guest ever, on Below Deck, in reference to their food not being correct.
I mean at this point, it’s just funny. That this renowned and talented chef can’t make a fucking pancake.
I’m still going to partially blame it on the European vs American style cooking issue. But he could have taken 5 minutes to research American pancakes, at least to see a fucking photo?
If he saw the typical American pancake even just in a pic, he prob could have figured it out.
Okay enough !!!
Elena slept until 11, when she was supposed to be up at 9.
Tash bitches in her yap about it – “fucksake I got enough on my mind I don’t need this right now.” Spare us!!!!!
#1 – she could have gone in and awakened her, #2, this chick has already done more since her arrival the previous day than you and Kyle have done all fucking season.
Guests are jet skiing, and I hope they left the gaudy, “costs as much as a house” jewelry in their rooms. When Sandy tried to make a joke about it earlier, Necklace Guy didn’t seem too amused.
So Tash is in her cabin dealing with her ongoing boy drama, I assume. With a little nudge from Producers, Dave sits in the galley and reviews messages on his break of Psycho calling him a ‘bully.’ Project much dude? These types almost always accuse everyone else of displaying THEIR behavior. Reminds me of someone.
I wonder if it will ever come out who the hell this douche is? Tash should totally out him. Wonder if he;s on the Bravo payroll? he should be.
Sadly even if she does, I am sure he will get other girls to be in a relationship with him, and he will treat them the same fucking way, and they will keep putting up with it, until they don’t. Then he’ll proceed to blame everyone else but himself for numerous failed relationships. And move onto the next one. After this dude has been bullying HER around via harassing text messages for two fucking months, and it’s been all super fine and cool. Remember the one day she did the talk to text in front of Nat (so she could flaunt her drama I guess – why would you be dying for your co worker to know you’re in an abusive relationship?) She talk texted her sister to tell him to leave her the hell alone with his abusive psychotic bullshit, so she could fucking work? Dave’s a bully though for calling her a name one time. And apologized, and never did it again. Right.
I also wish he’d figure out how to spell ‘you’re’ correctly for crissakes. In his yap he’s pissed that Tash would refer to him as a bully of all things. I don’t blame him.
He goes to find Tash, and make sure she’s okay, AGAIN. She claims to him that “this is not the Tash she is” or some shit. Also Tash (in a previous episode) – “I once broke up with my fiance on the boat, who I was sharing a cabin with, as we were doing a crossover.” This is the ‘Tash she is.’
A normal sane person would have waited until they were off of the boat, to avoid the total awkwardness and drama of being stuck sleeping in a cabin with someone you just dumped.
Stop playin with Dave, stop playin with the viewers. Probably did to this dude exactly what she did to Dave. Came in all hot, then woke up one day and found him annoying, and just started giving the silent treatment. Boat ‘ghosting’ I guess.
She yaps and continues to blame Dave, and make it the biggest deal ever, that he called her a slut via text that night when he was pissed off. She is a fucking slut. He could have called her a hell of a lot worse.
She’s claiming she “learned” from her mistakes. Yeah right.
They dock for dinner due to the weather. The table looks impeccable thanks to Nat. I’ve never heard of ‘sea bream’ before. Dave said before it’s similar to sea bass. It looks like it’s even lighter than sea bass. Here’s the skinny on it if you like seafood and you’re curious. I proably won’t be able to find this where I am. I honestly am surprised I never heard of it. I thought I knew everything.
Sandy is joining guests for dinner, and the one dude tells this extremely off color ‘Jack and Jill’ joke for the toast. Sandy pretends to be amused. I mean she is gay, but this joke was more appropriate for a table of teenagers.
This is such an easy going Deck Crew, since they got rid of super intense moody fucker Jason of course. Reid seems to have recovered from the little spat with Courtney, when he tried to make a joke using words with more than three letters.
Reid is way too anxious to help Ellie with the cabins. She’s taking advantage of that, as she should, and sends him to the laundry room. Maybe she wants to get rid of him too. He is being a little too
Kyle texts Tash that he’s coming back to the boat. It’s been like two days, and his foot is magically feeling better, after they brought someone on to do his work for him.
I’ll have to watch the tip distribution better this time, to see if he got in on the tip. It made me think he did, when Sandy pointed out “he’s not fired he’s just going tot he dock.” Then he proceeds to admit he exaggerated his injury to get out of working.
And what’s worse is, that his chief stew allowed it. It was so weird to me, that that Tash kept saying “I’m not sure what you’re meant to do.” And he never answered. Do you think the staying- off-of it for- a -week, was a lie? Do you think he requested crutches instead of a boot to make it appear more dramatic, like he couldn’t do anything at all? He still could have been given sitting down jobs- folding laundry, chopping shit for Dave, ironing not putting weight on it.
Nat treats the crew to a funny impersonation of Sandy’s mannerisms during the tip meeting.
She should totally do Natasha too, the way she was in her yaps with all of her stupid boy drama, and excuses for sucking at her job. Now THAT wold be funny. Or Kyle, when he was so in love with that dude he knew for three seconds.
Tip is $20k, which is $1800/person, she says.
Okay so let’s break it down here to see if Kyle got a cut. I’ve never really “done the math” to determine who all is in on the top. I always assumed the Captain was in on it. Though I think they should opt out of it. Surely their Captain salary is pretty substantial?
Not a math major but counting all crew INCLUDING Kyle and Sandy, I’m coming up with ten people.
Those two, Dave, Court, Mzi, Reid, Storm, Tash, Nat, and Elena. If tip was $20k, and everyone got roughly $1800, there has to be an 11th person? $1800 X 11 = $19,800. Who’s the 11th person? Tash’s ex-boyfriend turned boyfriend turned ex-boyfriend?
So it sounds like Kyle was in on the cut and one other crew member? The Engineer, who we usually don’t see unless there’s an issue? I never realized that if that’s the case. Unless the Captain gets double?
WOW. Just WOW dude. The foot is fine, clearly, and you arrive back to the boat after all of the work is done, to collect your almost $2g in cash for DOING NOTHING.
Like does he at least buy dinner and/or several rounds of drinks that night? Does he for real accept that whole wad?? Not to sound like Ramona, but “WOW, just wow.”
So these jerks made $17,000 in just tips in like not even two months? I assume they get some sort of hourly wage, plus of course Bravo pay. I need to get on this yachting thing. I can clean rooms and carry plates, and make drinks. How hard can it be??
Kyle returns carrying all of his luggage, no crutches, no problem. Dave rushes to help him. Dave – stop. Stop being such a fucking pleaser. It gets you nowhere. Believe me, I know.
Considering what Elena wore just to arrive to the boat, not really surprising to see the number she selects for the crew night out. What she wore on her arrival day, would have been more suitable for tonight, and what she is wearing now is more suitable for a super formal cocktail party, where she is trying to go home with someone. Or get paid by someone, if you get my drift. Way too much. Or too little.
I think I even said last week if that was a casual outfit for her, what is she going to wear on the night out? I was pretty accurate. I think I said that.
Whatever. She seems like a sweet girl. And hard working. Russian and that general European area, chicks are fucking gorgeous and have amazing bodies. Like what the fuck? And dudes? Not super attractive. It’s almost funny. Like Italians, I like to joke, and wonder why the average height of Italian dudes is like 5’4” or 5’5” and average height of Italian women? You would think they would be really petite, but they’re more average for women, like also 5’4” or 5’5.” What’s going on there? These poor women can’t even wear heels without towering over their dudes. Like Melissa and Joe Gorga. Poor Melissa always slouches, and does this odd head tilt so she appears shorter, when she’s photographed with Joe. Teresa had to do it with her Joe too. At least Luis is tall, she can stand up straight now. She slouches and head tilts in photos with the girls though for some reason, since they’re all petite.
Maybe she’s just so used to doing it.
Anywho, off they go. They do a ‘rose and thorn’ thing at dinner. Tash makes hers a fucking acceptance speech or some shit. My God, we don’t giver her the floor, asking her to talk about herself. We’ll be here all night. She does some fake ‘regret’ type of ‘thorn’ to Dave. Whatever. Nat really needs to do an impression of this shit. When she was on WWHL, Andy should have asked her to do that, given her the way she nailed Sandy.
So Storm is up, he doesn’t give Nat a shout-out, only because he’s trying to do what he THINKS SHE WANTS, since she didn’t like to make their relationship a whole big thing on the boat.
Nat immediately expresses her displeasure. Poor Storm cannot win for losing can he?
Oh well, this whole romance is over the second they step off the boat anyway, as usual.
I sure hope Dave stopped pining after Tash promptly when the charter was over.
But I could see Nat getting pissed, if he did give her some sappy fucking recognition. She seems like she didn’t really want him showing any affection.
She even got completely irritated when he gave her a fucking gift? A watch, not a car. Of course he would assume to not say anything in front of the crew, and of course this turns into a thing. Ever single time they go out these two bicker about something stupid. He storms off. He comes back. Is Storm his real name or a nickname?
They head to a night club. Reid and Ellie dirty dance. Kyle says he ‘won’t forget’ what Nat has done? What has she done?? Busted her ass while you took it easy, kissed Tash’s ass like no other ass has ever been kissed, and pretended to work hard? Then pretended your ankle was sprained??
The Kyle and girl van looks a lot more lit than the guy van, just sayin. The Kyle and girl van’s got screaming, asses and titties out.
Boy van – discussion about Power Rangers and jumping into the river.
Storm wants to jump in when the get back to the dock and the others do not. This turns into a thing too with Nat. Nat’s just always bitching at him it seems like. Is it just me? You didn’t do this right. you shouldn’t have done it this way, you shouldn’t have said that. Like she mothers him, it’s so weird.
He takes his shirt off to take the dip he wanted to, and Nat scolds him and tells him he’s not allowed.
He insists they were all gung-ho about it n the van. They weren’t. No one agreed. Now Storm is. as usual, all in his feelings and crying. I don’t know who’s the bigger pussy, Storm or Dave.
Klutz Kyle trips down the steps again, and then says “ankle what ankle??” Ohhhh kay- he better be answering to this shit at the reunion. Did you all see that Tash does not attend?
Tash does some sexy baton routine just to torcher Dave.
Kyle and Tash sleep together in the guest cabin. She’s “so proud of him” she tells him. I wonder if the ankle hoax is why she doesn’t attend, or just general embarrassment of her idiotic behavior?
Time for good-byes. Hopefully Reid and Ellie meet up on a future boat. I think they would be cute for a boatmance.
Kyle thinks he’s going to see Frank again. Who knows maybe he was hanging around the dock and that’s why Kyle exaggerated his injury to leave? Another tidbit – did you all see that he has proposed to someone already that he just met? (not Frank)
Sandy gives Tash undeserved accolades because she sucks ass and doesn’t deserve it.
“For the first time in a decade, I’m single.” Bitch save it. She’s already with someone new.
Again, repeating how much she’s learned. I kind of do want her to be on another season, so we can put that statement to the test. She jokingly but not jokingly, admits to the producer she just wants to find a new man, when pressed.
Dave does his typical pining and whining away in his good-bye yap. He says he’ll “never get the answers he wants out of Tash.” because the actual answers are things people that fuck with other poeple don’t admit out loud.
Like, “I was just fucking with ya, get over it.” That IS the answer to the question. Does it count if I answer it?
Storm wants to be a Bosun doing ‘dive and search charters.’ Like rescuing people, when people are missing I assume.
That sounds really noble, but also kind of a depressing and sad when there are people that can’t be saved. I feel like he might be too sensitive for that kind of thing.
