Gordon Ramsay's disguise fetish has scored a new TV show

We're very excited to watch a supercut of the least comfortable moments from Fox's new Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service in like a year.

Gordon Ramsay's disguise fetish has scored a new TV show
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If you’ve never treated yourself to a half hour sitting down to a “Gordon Ramsay lets people put him in a crazy disguise” supercut, you’re really missing out: Ramsay’s ongoing efforts to Mrs. Doubtfire himself in order to catch restaurateurs putting too-greasy hush puppies on a menu is a sight to behold, mostly because a) Ramsay is not a good actor, and b) Ramsay is extremely delighted at what a good actor he is. (Also, he often literally rips the mask off to confront the owners; the whole thing is extremely Arrested Development, with a skosh of Scooby-Doo.) Ramsay’s disguise-play thing was already a major component of Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell And Back, his most recent TV show in the Kitchen Nightmares “Hey, look at this fucked-up place where your food gets made” genre of shows. Now, though, it sounds like he’s set to get even deeper into his dreams of being the Tom Cruise of saying “Look at how fuckin’ big this menu is, mate,” as Fox announced his new series Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Service this week.

Tragically, all of the material in the sneak peek trailer released today appears to have been created specifically for the promo, with an eye toward making Ramsay look like his own private definition of cool, so we don’t get to see how the show’s “food spy” conceit works in the real world. (Note: Gordon Ramsay’s definition of cool appears to still be firmly stuck in 1996.) The actual conceit of the series sounds pretty much like Ramsay’s other shows where he yells at people for how messy their kitchens are, with the added trick of having undercover workers spying on their co-workers on his behalf. (Also, he intends to sneak in after-hours with a black light, which should scratch that gross itch that these shows primarily exist to service.)

Or, in Ramsay’s own words: “With undercover help and cutting-edge technology, I get to go full on ‘MI6’ with these restaurants — and they’ll never see it coming.” (We’re pretty sure that doesn’t mean watching a Michelin-starred chef exercise a license to kill on someone trying to serve him out-of-date clams, but hey, we could always get lucky.)

 
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