Alex reads a letter that Richard left behind to Jamie and Carla and they all cry. Geeze, everyone is seriously emotional this season.

Jamie’s the last remaining member of Team Rainbow and she’s fine with that. To be honest, we’re fine with that too. The smore was ridiculous. Not that we don’t wish there were more gays around for longer. We do, but we also want them to be smooth-cookin’ gays.

Rocco diSpirito is not a real Italian but close, according to Fabio.

When we realize it’s a breakfast challenge, we’re stoked, because we love breakfast a lot. What?! Jamie says she doesn’t like breakfast. Seriously, girl, try to stay in our good graces.

So the Quickfire is a breakfast amuse bouche and Rocco says use bacon, please.

Radhika’s mini omelette and potato pancake sounded good to us.

Daniel’s cornflake zucchini blossoms sounded cool but apparently his “flavors weren’t balanced.” He made Rocco’s unfavorite list.

Ariane’s French toast sounds a bit run of the mill. But Rocco likes it.

Jamie did a play on a BLT breakfast sandwich which redeems her in our eyes (we might possibly love BLTs more than breakfast) and makes Rocco’s favorites.

Leah’s bacon, egg and cheese sounds to die for. She’s a favorite and she wins. A copy of his book “Rocco Gets Real.” Um, cool.

Leah’s all frontin’ on Jamie for hers being two bites instead of one. And Jamie’s a little bitter about losing to Leah again. Uh oh. Drama ahead?

Fabio made espresso and brioche. No bacon. Rocco didn’t like it.
Jeffrey made potatoes and fruit and yogurt and, and, and…

Their Elimination challenge is to create a dish for a 2 ½ minute presentation on live TV. Hmmm, it feels like we’ve seen this idea before, on the Food Network…

Fabio’s sweating it because of his English language skills. It’s kind of nice to see him underconfident for once.

Eugene’s going to do sushi. And then suddenly everyone’s behind the counter cutting their own pieces of fish.

We can’t help but wonder how Alex is going to show Crème Brulee in 2 ½ minutes much less make it in an hour.

Leah’s going to lean on her immunity by doing a crappy job.

Go Radhika! Go Carla! Why are they so adorable? Cause they’re weird and cute. We can’t wait till more people get kicked off and they get more time to shine.

Their elimination presentation and dishes:

Ariane – tomato and watermelon salad with feta (original, simple, perfect) – Top Three

Stefan – hot soup with a cold personality (that figures).

Jamie – green salad with duck egg, raw egg white, folded arms - Bottom Three

Hosea – ahi tuna roll with wasabi peas

Daniel – skirt steak with lotsa smoke and mugging

Alex – he doesn’t get anywhere close to finishing his presentation and his crème brulee wasn’t set (um, duh) - Bottom Three

Eugene – tuna sashimi with pea pod salad

Jeffrey – shrimp malfouf roll, confident and gets it done – Top Three

Fabio – tuna, asparagus, carrots etc, (fresh outta the boat)– Top Three

Melissa – blackened habanero shrimp, (Tom spits it out!) – Bottom Three

Carla runs out of time but created a good dish.

Leah runs out of time.

Radhika runs out of time.

Jamie cries herself to sleep. Alex didn’t want to “pussy out” and do a salad, which was pretty rude to say on several levels.

Tom wakes up Fabio, Jeff and Ariane at 2 am because they’re dishes are going to be judged on The Today Show. Ariane’s stoked.

They like Ariane’s.
They like Fabio’s.
Kathie Lee spits out Jeff’s. Uh oh. What the heck was that about? Shrimp tail?

Ariane totally wins. Carla is equally stoked back at the apartment.
Rocco gives her a bag full of his favorite tools. And she gets to present a dish live on The Today Show. That’s so awesome. Congrats, girl.

Melissa’s they called inedibly hot. She thought it was fine.

It’s all about Jamie’s uncooked egg. She knows she screwed up.

Alex admits he set himself up for failure. And they agree when they kick him off. Laters, dude.

Leah and Hosea are like giggling crushed out teenagers. For some reason they only show them doing that in the middle of the commercial break though. Weird. Also, who cares?

Jeff is nicknamed Don Johnson by Richard. Also Richard thinks Leah has a nice rack. Is that appropriate because he's gay? He really reminds us of some skeezy gay guys we have known.

Melissa’s bangs are so weird. Grant Achatz – molecular gastronomist shows up to school them in the Quickfire.

Padma thinks a chef needs to learn how to roll with the punches.

They have to remake a Top Chef Cookbook recipe for the Quickfire. Then half way through Padma comes in and yells stop – we want soup instead. Ha, ha, that's a good one.

Carla feels like MacGuyver when it comes to soup. Jaime could make soup everyday for the rest of her life.

Stefan – coconut shrimp and scallop, seems alright

Ariane – diced lamb, beef broth - overcooked

Daniel- somehow pulls off ham and egg soup.

Richard – black bean and rice and peppers – needs acid.

Melissa – Italian wedding soup – badly blurred line.

Fabio – mushroom and asparagus soup – flat flavor

Carla – shrimp, tomato and coriander – they like this.

Leah totally pulls off her tuna tartare.

Jaime rocked it and she knew it. Ah the egos. But then Leah totally wins, ha ha.

Teams of six for the elimination.

Donald Trump is the most richest and "powerfulest" man in New York according to Daniel. But no it’s the Foo Fighters and they get to cook them Thanksgiving.

One burner, microwaves and toaster ovens. No fridges or freezers. Ugh. Poor chefs.

Daniel, Alex, Ariane, Carla, Jeff, Eugene and Richard are on a team. “Team Cougars”

Butterball Turkey, Stuffing, Roasted Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Pork Roast, Macaroni & Cheese, Pumpkin parfait, Banana Smores, Peach Cobbler

- Best thing was the turkey (Ariane redeems herself) and the mac and cheese with bacon. Desserts pretty bad.

Radhika, Fabio, Stefan, Hosea, Leah, Melissa, and Jaime. “Team Sexypants” - why this name - we're not sure.

Butterball Turkey, Stuffing, Roasted Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Gravy, side salads, Pumpkin tiramisu, fruit crisp

- Turkey not as good as the other team. Desserts awesome.

Then it starts raining. “It start to rain in my tiramisu.” - Fabio

By the "skin of their ass" they get it done – Eugene.

Padma is flirting with Fabio. Is anyone else noticing Padma's increased flirtatiousness season by season?

Ultimately, everyone feels the teams were pretty evenly matched. Who will get to see the Foo Fighters?

Team Sexypants wins. One of Team Cougar will go home. Plus they all have to stay behind and do dishes. That feels sad for them.

Daniel undercooked potatoes, Richard, Carla and Jeff made shitty desserts. Looks like Carla’s safe.

Uh oh Team Rainbow’s going down and we can’t say we really care. Richard’s either a fake gay or just fake and gay. And he’s out. And he cries a lot. Bye bye Richie.

Richard is sad about the breakup of Team Rainbow. We should be too, but we’re glad that Team Rainbow now consists of two experienced chefs. In fact, Jaime kicked ass this week.

Fabio thinks this is a game of Super Mario Brothers – he’s going to take home the princess. Ummm…

The Quickfire – a dish that New Yorkers spend over a hundred million dollars a year consuming. Our first two guesses were bagels and pizza, but no, it’s hot dogs!

Both Euros are doing panini dogs. We’ve always thought of panini’s as faux-European café food.

Jill made a grody looking summer roll, but not her own hot dogs.

Eugene made a maki dog.

Hosea’s looked good; so did Carla’s.

Stefan made a “world dog.” That is a dumb name.

Jaime accidentally made Padma eat bone. Uh oh.

The Bottom – Jill, Stefan (he needed to be knocked down a notch)

The Top – Radhika (wins!), Fabio, Hosea

The Elimination - Open a New York restaurant for 50 New Yorkers for lunch – each chef comes up with one dish. Jeff takes a lead in organizing the masses. They’re in teams of 5 each for appetizers, entrees and desserts.

Jill’s going to make ostrich egg quiche. We all sat here and loudly wondered why she would choose to make quiche with an ostrich egg. It just seems silly. She should have poached it or something.

The restaurant, it turns out, is Tom Collicio’s Craft. The people they’re cooking for are all New York chefs that tried out for Top Chef but didn’t make it. Uh oh.

Fabio’s talking about the princess again. Seriously, where did he come up with this metaphor?

We almost missed this snippet in the middle of the commercial break where Leah is cuddling with Hosea. What is going on here? Heterosexual funny business?

Ariane’s worried about her meringue being too sweet. She’s extremely underconfident as usual but unwilling to fix the obvious problem. Though we must say, we’re not impressed with Richard’s attitude about tasting her food. If you have to resort to those kind of tactics in a competition, you’re worried you’re not good enough.

The lunch patrons file in and start with their bitter ranting. We spotted a spiky-haired lesbian, why didn’t she make it on?

The Food:

Jaime – cold corn soup – Judges - really liked it. She just wanted to “celebrate the season.” That was unnecessarily corny. Get it? Corny.

Hosea – cold crab salad with avocado –Judges - underseasoned, bad crab. Yeah, why would you not rethink your dish if you had to use crab out of a can, Hosea?

Fabio – Beef carpaccio with funny olives - Judges– that was funny that he thought he was getting dissed, but they liked it. Especially the olives. – he wins!

Leah – scallops – they called her plating 80’s

Melissa – avocado and grilled peaches - yawn

Stefan – halibut with micro greens

Eugene – open face meatloaf sandwich

Jill – ostrich egg quiche – didn’t taste good, uninventive – lamest defense of her dish. And she totally gets eliminated.

Jeff – chicken and cornbread

Alex – pork tenderloin with veggies – judges didn’t seem to like this one.

Ariane – lemon meringue martini – Padma actually spit it out.

Carla – rustic apple tart – They liked the pastry – favorite dessert.

Richard – banana bread with peanut butter and grape gelato – too kid-like

Radhika – citrus avocado mousse – too much like guacamole

Daniel – ricotta pound cake – good but too easy

Tom was overall not very impressed with the chefs’ takes on New American. Everyone’s in the dog house.

Ariane’s having another confidence crisis. Don’t worry, if you keep it up, you’ll go home next week.

Next week – the Foo Fighters? What do they have to do with food? Foo is close to food?

Carla’s so tall with eyes that are always wide open. She’s kinda weird, hence we automatically like her.

Richard’s inner queen wants to know what Padma is wearing! So he’s kind of bearish on the outside, queeny on the inside.

The Quickfire will also be an elimination! OMG! Just kidding we already knew that because of the preview. But it’s still totally intense.

Round two is to chop out a perfect brunoise with the apples.

Radhika, Patrick, Leah and Lauren are still left after this round.

Finally, we get to see some actual cooking. Lauren’s is the most boring thing ever. That’s like a TGI Friday salad. Radhika’s sounds delicious. Leah’s looked good. She’s safe. Radhika’s safe too! And Patrick stays for his slaw salad. We’re just glad Radhika was safe. And Lauren’s was lame but we do feel bad for her having to leave before even getting to unpack.

This is an awesome elimination challenge. We love it. We hope somebody makes Borscht. (But they don’t.)

Okay Jamie is gay. We just thought she was all San Francisco. It can be hard to tell here. She joins with Richard and Patrick in Team Rainbow. Um, that’s kind of cheesy guys.

Then there’s Team Euro inhabited by Fabio and Stefan. “We’re both European, we both like soccer and we’re both super competitive.” And they’re already pissing people off.

Someone in the room makes a good point about Daniel and Fabio: That’s the difference between an Italian from Italy and an Italian from New York.

Um, Jamie is actually wearing a rainbow shirt.

Richard thinks Tom is cute. Welcome to the club, Richie.

Jeffrey is a hot mess at the end of the elimination challenge, literally running flat out back and forth at one minute left.

So here’s the teams and who won and lost from each one:

Jeffrey and Fabio – Ozone Park – Latin food – Jeff wins even though he didn’t finish plating

Melissa and Leah - Little Italy – um Italian food – Leah wins by a dash of salt

Patrick and Danny – Chinatown – Patrick’s was one note with gummy noodles, Daniel wins even though his sucked too

Hosea and Carla – Brighton Beach – Russian food – Hosea rocks it and Carla goes down

Stefan and Ariane – LIC - Middle Eastern – Stefan rocks it, Ariane’s lamb was good but her risotto sucked – undercooked faro.

Radhika and Jill - Queens – Jamaican food – Jill wins and Radhika’s was too mushy

Jamie and Richard – Astoria – Greek food – Jamie wins, Richard’s lamb was overcooked

Alex and Eugene – Indian food – Eugene wins by making a traditional Indian dish without knowing it – that is awesome.

Melissa says sweat was coming out of her pants during the judging. Eww.

Stefan, Eugene, and Leah are on top – Stefan wins – we’re sure that will help with his ego problem – especially since the judges mentioned that three other times the winner of the first challenge won the whole competition.

Patrick, Ariane are called out for losing group – Patrick goes home. And while we’re sad to see a gay go, we have to say, “What the heck was someone still in culinary school doing on this show? They couldn’t find a cute gay who had actually graduated and maybe worked for a year or two?”

Okay, with all that business out of the way, let’s get down to our real interests. Who are we into so far? We’re totally riding blind with these judgments. We just watched their 60 second bios and made up our minds based solely on that. Of course, we reserve the right to change our minds later, but it will be interesting to see who lives up to our expectations.

Alex rocks some pretty cool patchwork pants and a cute hat. We usually like folks that wear hats (of course Spike was the exception last season).

Radhika was a park ranger and we think she’s pretty cute.

Carla a caterer from D.C. who just gives us a good vibe.

Also Gene from Hawaii/Vegas who started out as a dishwasher seems adorable.

Jaime we could go either way on. We’re just not sure yet.

We’re somewhere between ick and no opinion on Ariane, Lauren, Leah, Fabio, Danny, Hosea, Jeff, Jill and Melissa. But surely some of them will surprise us and possibly others will rub us even more the wrong way.

Anyhow, we’re excited to find out. Watch this preview of the first quickfire challenge. The producers are really raising the stakes.

The beginning of the episode has Nathan and Preston both without shirts on. They should have used those shots in the previews. Oh wait, maybe they did. Then they're all running around shopping and taking naps in the car in between stores. Poor, tired bunnies.

Nathan buys a sarcophagus-like trunk. Ondine is much more organized in her shopping and we're proud of her for that. Preston looks good in those aviators.

Nathan has to have seven guys move his giant trunk and he knows it's much too big for the room but he feels too bad to have them move it again. This we understand, regardless of what Margaret says later at the judging. Our point is more like - ever heard of a tape measure?

Todd shows up to see how they're doing and is super-nice like always. Why is he so sweet? Then they all go swimming. More partial nudity!

Nathan's making a paper plate chandelier that is totally sweet.

Ondine's carpenters are overloaded and behind schedule and she's wiggin'.

Nathan also does that sweet custom painting for his dining room.

Preston's ahead of schedule as always. He should be a time-management guru or something.

Now for the big reveals (and can we just make a plea for the hundredth time that they spend more than two second showing us the finished rooms):

Ondine: Her bedroom was by far our favorite of her rooms and of everyone's bedrooms.

It was gorgeous and creative and organic. We liked all the wallpaper she used.

While the judges really liked the pink couch room, we were less than enthused about that room.

They also loved the kid's room and we were whatever about that. But we were still in love with her study/guest room from last week.

Preston: His living room made us yawn. Those green drapes are not what we would call "colorful", Preston. His dining room we actually liked, but the judges were underwhelmed. That thing with the oranges in the vase was totally silly.

We liked his office except we weren't so much into that pop art. The bedroom was nice and soothing. The guest room that Margaret loved, we thought was utterly dull.

Nathan: We loved his dining room and his office.

And the foyer we liked too. The kids room was totally pleasant. The sarcophagus room was weird and his bedroom was still pretty lame. Overall he had the most right stuff going on of all three. And ultimately we think he did deserve to win.

The judges summed it up rather nicely when they said that if you want something fun and playful, go with Ondine. If you want polished and sophisticated, go with Preston. But Nathan brings the magic, which can also be risky. It seemed like a no-brainer that he would win this competition for a while now. So congrats Nathan! And so ends another season of watching interior designers do their thing.

Are you guys sad that Eddy-weddy had to go home on his birfday? We are definitively not sad about it. Sure, we’ll even grudgingly admit he had some talent. But who cares? He was irritating to the max. Let’s start back at the beginning.

It’s Eddy’s birthday. Preston’s not one of the three bananas or whatever.

Their challenge is to design one room in a townhouse. They get to do the rest of the three bedroom house if they make it to the final. $85,000 budget for the whole house, 20,000 for the first room. Geeze Louise.

Nathan started with vacuuming and magazine fanning.

We can just assume Eddy popped out of Martha’s womb or something.

Ondine is left a mystery to us.

Ondine’s doing a small room. Cool. Yes, Ondine, it would suck to not win. We’re glad you think that way, because sometimes… we just want you to try a little harder.

The Shopping:

There’s some major tension going on. Preston put his stickers everywhere. Eddy’s kinda mad.

Ondine is bad at shopping. That sucks. She did this at IKEA too. We stress out when shopping too, so we feel ya, Ondine. But seriously, you need to keep it together.

Eddy, however, is good at shopping; we’ll give him that.

Back at the House:

They’re having hard liquor for Eddy’s birthday. Preston doesn’t join the party because he has some alcoholics in his life. Some of us like Preston because he needs a lot of alone time and some of us still just like him for his man cleavage. Also we think that Nathan and Eddy are just jealous of him because he’s hotter than them and pretty talented as well.

Nathan’s wasted and in drag. He looks good in a wig. Ondine’s a total fag hag. Eddy’s jealous of the man-cleav.

The Stress:

Ondine’s feeling good. Yeah! On no, her desk won’t fit in. Suddenly she’s wiggin.

Preston’s is uber-organized and always done way ahead of time.

Nathan is so nice about Ondine’s room. Eddy’s confused and thinks he might be a tranny? Or he’s trying to talk Christian Siriano-speak?

Todd comes around to say nice things. He tells Ondine – window treatments, Nathan – don’t cut out all the crazy and Eddy – don’t be too subtle.

If I were a judge on this show, I’d automatically kick off anyone who used wicker in anything but a patio room.

Not impressed with Preston’s plates on the walls.

Nathan’s seems boring so far. Uh oh.

Ondine abandon’s the drapes. Uh oh.

The Judging:

My friend says, “Oh, it’s that horrible Jeff,” when Jeff Lewis appears.

Nathan’s is too sparse maybe. What? $20,000 wasn’t enough to get curtains? That doesn’t seem like much of an excuse to us. The judges weren’t wowed by Nathan. Thought the bed was blah and it didn’t all necessarily go together.

It’s true, India, Preston is easy and soothing on the eyes. His space is nice, except those tired wall plates. Preston’s swank and sophisticated. Jeff said too much furniture. Still not enough personality in his design.

Ondine’s wallpaper is fly. Actually her room is our favorite this time. We’re surprised because of her last couple of rooms. But we’re stoked. Graphic and bright, but Adler thought it could have used more color. Jeff liked the black and white. Margaret thought it was edited well.

Eddy’s is called “Easy Breezy.” East Hampton Cover Girl bedroom? “Walkers, bedpans and oxygen tanks,” is what Jeff says about Eddy’s room. Ha! He looks like he’s going to cry. And then they leave and Jeff really starts it, “Look what he’s wearing.” And “I just don’t think he has good taste.” Can he do sexy? Jeff says, “look at him!”

Preston and Ondine are into the finale! Yeah kids!

Are they going to kick Nathan off? OMG!

Thank the gods! It’s Eddy! Can’t wait to never see you again. Ha ha!

Next week: the finale!

Andrea gets flowers and a poem from Ricky Schroeder. She is quite homesick.

We’re glad Ondine is still in it. She just seems cool.

If we hear Eddy talk about how he knows everything because he works at Martha Stewart one more time…

A Pop Design is thrown at them. And it seems really easy. And sort of boring.

Eddy calls Jonathan Adler “elf.” That strikes us as rather rude.

Preston has pillows weirdly balanced on the floor under the coffee tables. What good are pillows on the floor under a table?

Eddy wins immunity. Ugh. And he feels like he doesn’t need it. But little does he know, it's going to save his butt.

Ricky Schroeder’s across the street!

Their budget is $22,000! Holy cow! Their challenge is to design a room around one of these crazy chandeliers. Eddy gets to pick what order they choose in. Actually, I think Andrea gets the coolest one. The tall skinny green one.

Preston always does masculine hotel. If he could just call it something else.

Ondine’s doing feminine, worldly eclectic. We don’t really like the sound of that.

Andrea’s doing Hollywood Glam with dark brown wall – this is probably the first thing she’s done that we actually like.

Eddy’s doing whatever Eddy does.

Nathan’s taping off crazy patterns for his spoiled rich girl room.

Preston tries to help Nathan but he says no. Why do they all hate Preston so much? Are they just jealous of his excellent man cleavage?

They go shopping at L.A. Mart for crazy expensive shit.

Eddy talks about Martha Stewart for seriously another ten minutes. My lord. Nathan notices it too. Also Eddy’s using a bunch of Martha Stewart furniture and he flew on Martha’s jet and was really good at kissing Martha's you-know-what. Eddy also doesn’t need positive feedback from Todd. Geeze, can he get any worse?

The judging:

Andrea’s glam was good. Her accessorizing and coffee table generally were a little off. The judges tell her to snap out of it and get some confidence. She says she wants to go home! The shock!

Not really into Ondine’s this time. That’s too bad. The judges didn’t like it either. Adler called it frumpy. She would have been out if Andrea hadn’t decided to go home.

Preston’s cocktail lounge is kind of cool but we totally agree with Simon about the objects being in negative space in order to stand out. Also that’s enough about balance. What are you a Libra? The judges loved it. Glamorous and elegant and a little quirky. And he wins!

Eddy has no regrets and his traditional room totally didn’t go with that chandelier. The judges totally hated it. Ha ha! At last! Adler called it gruesome. In your face, Eddy!

The judges ask Nathan what drugs he’s on and he says acid. They loved the feeling and experimentation of the room. We loved that horse.

Nathan calls Preston slick and sleek. Sounds like envy...

Next week: Nathan wears a wig!

Nathan’s sad that Wisit left. We are too. We already miss that little guy. Who will sing arias for us now?

Just six designers left. The challenge is to design for the year 2108 – the room of the future in raw three wall spaces. They get carpenters, $7000 and two and a half days. Oh what we could do with $7000.

Lobby for the golden clone is Eddy’s idea. “Two people can be beautiful and make a really busted baby.” Oh geeze. We’re into the idea of cloning, but Eddy continues to give us the heebeegeebees.

Andrea’s idea is pod housing in pink. Hmmm.

Natalie goes Jetsons. Seriously.

Preston’s is a modern hotel traveling in space. That totally bores us.

Nathan’s painting his walls practically black, using old furniture as artifacts, then he finds out Preston is doing black walls too and he’s totally P.O.ed.

Eddy comments on his red paint splatters, “It looks like Patrick Bateman from American psycho just chopped up about five girls.” And that’s supposed to be attractive?

Ondine completely freaks out at IKEA.

Natalie imitates a stripper. Complete with pole.

Oh no a pop design. And it’s actually a pop quiz this time.

Nathan wins immunity again. Everyone’s pretty annoyed by this.

Andrea’s stressing out. Ondine’s stressing out and spills a can of paint.

Nathan calls Ondine a roadrunner on acid. She spills another paint can, this time all over Eddy’s furniture. Geeze, Ondine, pull it together.

What the heck is Kelly Preston wearing? She looks like a crazy lady.

Which means it’s time for the judging:

Natalie’s idea is apartment style living area on hydraulics with wonky colors. The judges said she had some good ideas but they weren’t pulled off that well. Out!

Ondine took the concept of global warming and no daylight,. To us it doesn’t look so great style wise. The judges said they were good ideas that didn’t come to fruition. They didn’t love the fans/fireplace the way they came out. It lacked polish and foundation.

Eddy ‘s Golden clone foyer isn’t up or alley but it was pretty well done. The judges liked the concept and everything but the color scheme. They called it granny gone wild.

Nathan’s modern living room for a bachelor was awesome. Those wall hangings are amazing. Judges said too many accessories. Kelly loved it, Margaret didn’t.

Andrea - They’re not going to have wicker in the future, that’s all we have to say. Judges said it looked just like a room of today. She’s trying but not there yet.

Preston’s light wall is kind of cool, but it’s kind of boring otherwise. Judges – loved molding wall, but could have focused more on one room instead of two. Perfectly finished every time. Wins! Man cleavage wins!

Eddie is so annoyed that Nathan won again. But he’s already so successful, that he doesn’t really care. So why are you here Eddie, if you just want to work for Martha forever?

Wisit blow dries his hair. He’s so cute.

Andrea Shroeder doesn’t have a lot of confidence. Buck up, Drea.

The challenge to create eco-friendly offices for clients. They are supposed to pay special attention to think of ways to reduce, reuse, recycle, repair etc.

Eddie’s complaining of course – everything’s disgusting and he calls his client a dork. What a blankity blank he is.

Wisit is a non-conformist with a high taste level. Doesn’t bode well.

They go shopping for fabric scraps and then to the Top Design green showroom. Eddie won’t shut his trap about using used fabric. His attitude is just horrendous.

Oh no! A twist! India shows up and makes them pass off their clients and keys and design decisions to the person to the left. Wisit’s nervous because of Natalie’s taste. He wants to set a match to her stuff, but that wouldn’t be very green of him.

Ondine’s confused about Wisit’s color choices for masculine. Light green and cream. It is sort of perplexing.

Eddie says words like “gorg” and “delush”. Ugh.

We’re beginning to think Preston’s style is pretty boring. But we still like his man cleavage.

Ondine is shaping up to be our fave, but she’s still underappreciated by the judges.

Eddie’s fine with taking every idea of Nathan’s but is not okay with helping Andrea at all. We have a whole litany of words we’d like to use to describe him, but we can’t.

We’re worried about Wisit and his refusal to cater to the client’s interests. Plus he’s not making much of an effort to think “green.”

The judging commences:

Eddie – just stole Nathan’s ideas totally and then wins. Barf.

Wisit – way too minimal, not styled enough, or green enough. Out.

Natalie – liked her recycling bins but didn’t like her taste level. Bottom two.

Ondine – chandelier is awesome – she should have won for that alone - they liked it too, did her best with what Wisit gave her.

Nathan – we liked it, they liked it, he continues to rock it.

Preston – we thought it was too monochromatic, they thought it was well styled. Whatevs.

Andrea – utilized space planning, not gorgeous, but a big switcheroo for her so she’s safe this week.

Wisit sings goodbye. Goodbye dear Wisit, you’ll be sorely missed.

But first…What is Kelly wearing? Those sleeves and that hat are a bit much.

Eddy – Chair leg – yellow and silver, we thought blech. But the judges liked it and he wound up in the top two. Table leg - Okay it’s cool, even though he rubs us the wrong way. Judges loved it and called it their favorite word “chic.” Photo shoot leg – “I just want to do pretty,” he said. We were bored and so were the judges, they called it “granny.” Overall he was in the top. Sadly, he’ll probably be sticking around for a while and annoying us.

Natalie – Chair leg – we didn’t like how she mixed the old and new in this chair. Kelly called it, “A remnant from the Vegas Hotel – 15 years ago.” Ouch. Table leg – a dignified brunch, it was okay. Adler said her taste on the flowers was off. Photo shoot leg – a Martha’s Vineyard type sunroom that was well done. The judges called it thoughtful and she wins the Elle Décor photo shoot.

Wisit – Chair leg – he paints the fabric on his chair and we think it looks super cool. Dining leg - painted his chairs again, and then sings some opera. India Hicks loves his singing. Photo shoot leg - herringbone floor, springtime Parisian apartment, element of fantasy. We thought this was awesome and he got some props but not rewards. Overall, it seemed like Wisit put ten times as much effort and creativity into every leg. Sadly this only got him as far as the middle of the pack.

Ondine – Chair leg – Betsy Johnson inspired chair. Looked sweet – almost literally like candy. Judges liked it. Table leg - southern Lily Pulitzer tea party, looks just darling to us. Adler criticizes it for not being her and she gets called out for “no emotional connection.” Whatever. Photo shoot leg - 1960’s pop hangout room in a bright Kelly green. We loved this. The judges had some problem with it, we weren’t clear on what. Pound for pound Ondine was our favorite for the triathlon.

Theresa – Chair leg - fabric was ugly. Judges didn’t like it. Table leg - Jonathan Adler’s face isn’t impressed with her description of “modern and asian” but she escapes further criticism. Photo shoot leg - blech zen whatever. The judges called it not cohesive, a nothing space. She was obviously the right pick to be out this week. She didn’t even think she was that good.

Andrea – Chair leg – boring. Table leg - boring white. Photo shoot leg – an edible garden. We didn’t mind it, although it was just mainly plants. The judges were disappointed at her lack of creative use of any materials and the mounds of dirt she used to prop up the trees. Kelly calls Andrea’s designs “vanilla.” Ha ha. She is the other one standing beside Theresa at the end.

Nathan – Chair leg - unusual and interesting. Not totally up our alley, but definitely one of the more creative. He wins. Table leg – it was beautiful and simple. He gets props for panache. And wins again. He’s sure he’s going to be poisoned now. Photo shoot leg - we were excited when he picked succulents, but the whole picture was pretty boring. The judges weren’t impressed. But he still won two, so he won the whole rigamaroll.

Not to harp on our Eddy dislike, but can we just point out how Andrea questions Eddy’s sincerity. No shit, Sherlock, we thought.

At the end, just to frame our recap, Kelly’s hair is crazytown.

Next week: more design craziness!

Wisit feels awful about Kerry’s elimination and thinks Shazia should have gone home instead. We agree on both counts. Everybody misses Big Daddy.

The challenge is to redesign bachelor pads in teams of three. They get $10,000 and will be doing lots of shopping. They’ll also get the services of painters, wallpaper hangers, seamstresses and carpenters.

Nathan’s going to flirt with the bachelor if he’s hot. Good idea.

Eddy, Natalie and Ondine get James the law student and decide to make him a design that is “pantry dropping chic.” They must repeat that phrase twenty times through this episode and it starts to get very annoying.

Nathan, Shazia and Preston get Eddy who has a million pairs of shoes and wants something simple, classic and conservative.

Andrea, Wisit and Theresa get Obi, a web producer who wants a modern feng shui look. They go with the term “masculine zen.”

Preston and Shazia are bickering and fighting. Blah, blah, blah.

Nathan calls Shazia Needy Von McNeederson, Ha.

This part is confusing. Somebody breaks a vase. Eddy acts like a jerk. The store guy isn’t taking it. Eddy says he works for the best? Martha Stewart. Seriously? We wish that guy had punched Eddy.

A Pop Design is thrown at them mid project. The winner gets immunity for the best floral arrangement.

“Nobody in the world can deny the beauty of flowers,” says Wisit. Awww…

Least Favorites: Natalie, Preston

Favorites: Nathan (wins immunity), Eddy

They describe the guest judge, Jeff Lewis, as a well-known house flipper and a bachelor himself. Ha. What about asshole supreme and OCD to boot?

The judging:

Eddy, Natalie and Ondine – pretty nice – we don’t really like the screens or wall paper or that chandelier for a bachelor. Judges – Client didn’t like it. Judges thought screens were inappropriate. They escaped having someone eliminated.

Nathan, Shazia and Preston – unfinished – Eddy liked everything except the stripes on the walls. Judges – not pretty and no surprises. Too ambitious and didn’t finish. Preston tattles on Shazia for calling him an “a-hole.”

Andrea, Wisit and Theresa – We liked this one much best. Obi loved it. They get the win of course. Judges said the, “Bedscape was tres tres chic.”

Shazia goes home saying, “Bye Preston! Sorry I called you an asshole!”