Ryan quotes from Top Chef

I'm not a big sports fan. Do I look like a sports fan? No, I'm not. I feel that I'm metrosexual or whatever the hell you want to call it. I spend my money on good clothes, I like to go out and dance..

Padma

Your challenge is to create a dinner where each course is inspired by your favorite movie.

I love movies, I'm a total movie buff. This is an opportunity to be really creative.

I start thinking, I have seen 2 movies in 3 years, so.. great.

[talking head] I draw knives, and I get Mark. This guy's fucking.. New Zealand, New England.. where the hell is Mark from? We're not going to have anything in common!

Why don't we just put down a bunch of movies?

Yep, so what are your movies? I love Dumb and Dumber. I think it's funny as shit.

To Kill A Mockingbird.

Right, old school..

Crazy Bad..

Crazy Bad? What's that?

[talking head] "Like, what movies do you watch?" And he starts naming this stuff, and all I hear is "blaaaah blaaaah blahhhh."

[talking head] He has not seen Once Were Warriors or Mad Max or Bad Boy Bubby.

What about the Christmas movie?

Which one?

Oh, oh, oh.. What's the one with the kid that gets shot with a B.B. in his eye and they go get Asian food instead? You know what I'm talking about? He takes the glass light for his mom's Christmas, and he puts it in the window..

I don't know.

And they go and have Chinese food and have duck instead of normal turkey because the turkey got fucked up? It's a normal Christmas movie.

Do you know what it is? I don't know.

It's a Christmas fucking movie..

Yeah, what's it called?

And they sit down at the table.. [goes to Spike and Manuel] What's that Christmas movie, you guys? "You got your eye shot out.."

A Christmas Story.

A Christmas Story. Got it. Duck.

[talking head] A Christmas Story is something that, you know, all the families, everybody's seen it. It's, um.. it's.. I believe it's a comedy.

Nice legs.

Thank you.

Nice legs.

Thank you.

Tom

[to Ryan]. I'm not quite sure why you chose a dessert, and also a dessert I would never think it a million years to see at a tailgate party.

I wanted to have a whole dining experience at my table. And that's where I was hitting. I wanted to be able to say "Okay, so somebody doesn't eat chicken, but, wow there's a dessert. And you know, doing a dessert, I don't think was too left-field.

I don't think a dessert is left-field. I just think poached pear with [crème fraîche]and huckleberry sauce was a bit left-field. I just think there would've been more options that would've been more appropriate.

Personally, I wanted to cook the way that I think I would personally like to see at a tailgate. I don't eat heavy. I don't eat ribs. And I thought of these people and said "Cool, I'm gonna serve chicken. Instead of serving something on a bun, I'm gonna do it in the application of a salad form."

The bread salad that I got was almost all bread. And I guess I was expecting for it to be sort of moist and found it really dry.

I dissected a tailgate party and the caliber of people that I'm cooking with, and I'm looking at them, and I'm like "I have to do something different." You know, the people that came up, everyone was super sweet at this event. Ladies coming up for recipes, and "How did you make this?" and "Why would you do that, and this and that." and "Wow, pea stew on top, finishing a chicken." "This is quite interesting. We love it." And bringing in, I hate to use the word "California flair-"

Tom

But, this challenge was not about that. This challenge was about simple food, to the masses, in the form of a tailgate.

Yeah, totally fair.