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The FN seems committed to destroying whatever but of credibility it has left. This entire episode was a commercial for Red Lobster. Now they've gone beyond product placement. A sponsor can virtually buy an entire show. But even worse is Guy Fieri, whose show is supposed to be a love note to independant, quirky, regional, family run restaurants, shilling for TGIF - a homogenized, standardized, national corporate chain. The kind of place that is destroying the "diners and dives" he's supposed to be a champion of. You can say that's him as a person, and not FN, but it still shows that FN is all about selling out.

Can they just go out and get Mario, Bourdain, et al back? Heck, Padma just released a new book - spend some money and get her 10 episodes - she actually seems to have a perspective and niche that is missing. Just give me a morning of Ina, Bobby, Mario, Nigella, and Alton Brown. For the love of God.....no more "She's a former Navy SEAL, a DJ, AND a single mom who knows how to cook" or "Watch Guy shove more diner food in his mouth and begin to moan before his tastebuds can even react.." How about someone say once, "You know, this avocado, fennel, sorbet burger kind of sucks...."

Ed Levine: can you use your power as an Iron Chef America judge to stop Tischman or Fogelson in the hall and tell them to pull their heads out of you know where? Otherwise I fear new episodes of "America's Best Buffets at Strip Clubs", hosted by Guy Fieri and sponsored by Hormel Chili will be wedged in between "Down Home Neely's" and "30 Minute Meals". Heck, give me more Dave Lieberman - I learned something on his show every week at least.

Or maybe I'm just an old bitter 38-year old man yearning for reruns of "Cooking with Claudine" on PBS. Jack Pepin: save us from our self-destructive ways......