gotta watch it in unsubtitled japanese...waaay more entertaining.....also seems the old black-gloved " host-o" [the one that chomps on the pepper in the intro] has been spotted in current home market "duramas"..[sit-coms to us...]still sporting the weird do.

 

Everyone knows who's going to ultimately win the basketball championship; like lambs to the slaughter. Iron chef tho...

 

I missed it. So what happened? Did Flay lose again? Did he jump up on his cutting board again?

 

I don't get food network either. I used to watch the purely Japanese version of that show. It was hard understanding what was going on since that one guy talks like a mile a minute. Really stressed my translating ability.

 

I guess Flay wouldn't do it again!! I think he is not that stupid..huh?

 

Flay wins. Reminds me of the WWF but I watch it ( IC not WWF) every week.

 

Flay won... but it was rather interesting because if you listened to the comments by the tasters, you would have thought otherwise...

-Shing

 

That's WAY too easy -- IC all the way!

BTW, for any of you who are serious IC junkies, there is a quite active newsgroup on usenet: alt.tv.iron-chef
It's kind of a hoot to lurk there every once in a while.

 

as posted by another iron chef fan (which mirrors my sentiments):

The only reason Morimoto lost the re match in Tokyo was because the fool from the American Embassy gave Flay a score of 19, which in itself was questionable, and then gave Morimoto an unheard of low score of 14. Now, in all the years I've been watching Iron Chef, I cannot remember anyone anywhere being given a score of 14 unless his or her dishes were a complete wash-out and abysmal failure. In addition, you could see that Chairman Kaga had a real problem just announcing the results, and even went so far as making his statement about how the scores were above reproach. Bobby Flay showed his spoiled brat attitude throughout the match, and the coterie of fans there to support him were acting like really boorish small children. Overall, as an American, I was thoroughly embarrassed both by Bobby Flay's behavior AND by the voting by the American official from the Embassy. Those votes should have been removed and the taster disqualified. Chairman Kaga should have used the same set of tasters for the rematch that he had used for the first battle. Iron Chef the show suffered a blow to its reputation of fairness by allowing this travesty to take place.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ricosuave
[B]as posted by another iron chef fan (which mirrors my sentiments):

The only reason Morimoto lost the re match in Tokyo was because the fool from the American Embassy gave Flay a score of 19, which in itself was questionable, and then gave Morimoto an unheard of low score of 14. Now, in all the years I've been watching Iron Chef, I cannot remember anyone anywhere being given a score of 14 unless his or her dishes were a complete wash-out and abysmal failure. In addition, you could see that Chairman Kaga had a real problem just announcing the results, and even went so far as making his statement about how the scores were above reproach. Bobby Flay showed his spoiled brat attitude throughout the match, and the coterie of fans there to support him were acting like really boorish small children. Overall, as an American, I was thoroughly embarrassed both by Bobby Flay's behavior AND by the voting by the American official from the Embassy. Those votes should have been removed and the taster disqualified. Chairman Kaga should have used the same set of tasters for the rematch that he had used for the first battle. Iron Chef the show suffered a blow to its reputation of fairness by allowing this travesty to take place.