1x04 French Fight - Kitchen Confidential Episode Guide

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- Episode 01x04

Episode: 01x04
Title: French Fight
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 1AKT09
First Aired: Dec. 05, 2005

Season 1 » Episode #04 - French Fight

Kitchen Confidential - 01x04 French Fight

Summary: Television and film star Michael Vartan will guest-star as Michel, an arrogant, womanizing French chef who steals from Jack's menu and seduces Mimi, his head waitress, sparking a brutal feud between Nolita and a rival French bistro.

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01x04 French Fight (21:58) (Full Episode)

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Teddy Wong	played by John Cho
Michel Valentine	played by Michael Vartan
Cameron	played by Sam Pancake
Ramon	played by Frank Alvarez
Adam	played by David Aranovich
INS Agent	played by Barry Sigismondi
Iqbal	played by Iqbal Theba
Customer #5	played by Keith Pillow
Babette	played by Rebekah James

Season 1 / Episode 4: - French Fight

Michel: So, you have taken my baker?
Jack Bourdain: I have taken your baker. I am a baker taker!
Michel: And you don't think it was a little bit excessive?
Jack Bourdain: EXCESSIVE? Uh, you raided my menu.
Michel: Why are you so threatened by me, eh? Is it because maybe you see in me what you hate in yourself?
Jack Bourdain: Oh, no I don't have an annoying, filthy Frenchman in me.
Michel: Ha! Everybody's got an annoying, filthy Frenchman in them Jack, just ask your girlfriend.
Jack Bourdain: She's not my girl... Take the Lamb off the menu.
Michel: Return my creepy baker then we'll talk.
Jack Bourdain: [laughs] no.
Michel: Ok then, I guess it is how you say "On"?
Jack Bourdain: Oh, mon amie. It is TOTALLY HOW YOU SAY ON!
Michel: It is on.
Jack Bourdain: Yes, I said that.
Michel: Ok.
Jack Bourdain: Yeah [walks away]
Michel: Your cusine is Caca!

Season 1 / Episode 4: - French Fight

Michel Valentine: Your cuisine is ca-ca!

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: When the "Creepy Baker" is pointing at Teddy, he is initially pointing with his left hand but in the next shot, he his pointing with his right hand.

TRIVIA

When Jack ('Bradley Cooper') is explaining to Mimi about Michel (Michael Vartan), he said, "It's like we worked before." This is an in-joke referring to when Cooper and Vartan worked together on "Alias" (2001).
Guest-starring actor Michael Vartan as a chef with whom "Jack" Bourdain and his colleagues start a feud. Vartan and Cooper had previously worked together on "Alias" (2001), and paid homage to this in a character in-joke whereby Bourdain says: "It's like we worked together before or something."

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