Season 8 Episode 2 “Poaching Profits”
This isn’t THE beginning. But it’s our beginning.
Okay first of all there’s Lenny. We like how in the info it says “Cooking with Lenny” in Los Angeles but it’s Chattsworth. Who knows where Chattsworth is? No one.
Look at the flies in his meat locker. As usual, of course, it’s his staff who is responsible.
Their smoker is the best in town. But then, how many smokers are there in Chattsworth? I mean come on, you bought an expensive smoker, congratulations.
Ignore the fact that there is no light coming into the restaurant, it’s the catering business that is ruining everything.
Lot’s of things are wrong and missing... hmmm!
It’s like walking into a classroom. There are three desk missing, the projector is gone, and my computer is broken “there must be something going on!”
In order to build excitement, you gotta have that sweet pan shot of cool Chattsworth streets. LAKE MANOR DRIVE. Cooking with Lenny definitely does NOT look like that weird restaurant your grandpa takes the whole family to but then doesn’t offer to pay the check. The musical notes on the sign and the fair-style list of breakfast foods definitely imply haute-cuisine.
Today’s sweet eye candy is Brooke Williamson, hopefully Lenny paid for the high rollers package and can enjoy all that the Mystery Diners have to offer.
One of Lenny’s pride and joys is the smell when you walk in.... is that what also attracts the flies into the meat locker?
Brooke Williamson is a hugely successful restaurateur but because of a nasty divorce??? Maybe? now has to pawn her services and help shitty dives in Chattsworth learn how to do basic bookkeeping.
We are starting to feel bad for Lenny. I mean, yeah, it’s a dive, but he seems like nice guy. Luckily, a quick google reveals it is still in business, phew.
We are only 3 minutes in.
The fly does a cameo on left. We are wiring up the restaurant. We are also going to put cameras in random and arbitrary place but they will be guaranteed to pay off. Some cameras are levitating, attached to nothing. Don’t think about it.
Kiel. K-I-E-L will be helping us today.
Waitresses sing “Coooooking with Leeeeeny “. Our favorite part isn’t hearing the whale butchered. It’s hearing the whale cooked afterwards.
J loves BBQ. That’s his name. Not Jay. He doesn’t have time for pain in the ass mystery diners. We sympathize with J and his BBQ eating ways.
We are going to randomly choose a table to listen in on, but it’s going to provide a summary of everything that is wrong with Lenny’s. “For HEAVEN'S sake, you live in our country, speak the language, you Slavs!”
J is trying to convince “Shell” to come in but she doesn’t work at the restaurant? The plot thickens!
Wait, wait, wait! Lenny is concerned about his catering gigs, but there isn’t a catering gig until next week and J is planning a catering gig for tonight??? Dun, dun, dun.
Delicious Dish catering, we can guarantee she won’t be able to taste the difference!
“Wait, no one requested your theme song!” - J is using the song to cover his scam!
We kind of think this show MUST be real because otherwise this script would definitely be thrown out. Who makes this shit up?
Thank God, Brooke is here to set us straight. This company is never going to succeed like this.
OMG HOW LONG IS THIS FUCKING SONG???
In the time that they have been singing this song, he has told Carlos to go deliver he catering food, he has told that waitress to cover for Grace, and he has had time to pedantically clap. This must be the 6 minute extended cut reprise of “cooking with Lenny”.
“It looks like half of your staff just hopped into that truck.”
THANK GOD [Chase-CAM] is on the case! “Don’t follow too close!” says our fearless leader.
“I can’t see where they went!”
Thank God then, that Mystery Diners, having never made a single mistake in its history. Never missing an image, never missing an important audio tidbit, can now, in its first time ever, capture everything by RELEASING THE DRONE.
I would now like to take this moment to honor Trevor Jacobs and his “pasty ass skinny white legs” for helping release said drone. It is truly the unsung heroes who make Mystery Diners possible.
“Release the drone” *drone proceeds to make the noise of 17 lawnmowers* “ahh... no one will suspect this”. Lenny meanwhile never knew that the magic of flight was possible until this moment.
While the drone sees all, the most important question remains... who films the drone?
*drone randomly starts spinning because Lenny needs sound* Charles then refers to the drone as SHE making all of us feel a little concerned for him as the drone starts free falling.
“It could compromise the whole sting” No one is sure what that means since it is not like they are trying to create a legal argument. “Oh I discovered your loud ass drone so now you can’t fire me. HAHAHAHAHA”
TIL that drones have a beeping noise like dated jet planes when they are about to crash. We also learned that when a drone crashes it creates the same SMPTE color bars as an 80s TV.
We have never seen Stiles so pissed before. His eyes conveyed that heads will roll when he gets back to the compound.
Lenny is so badass that he has a phone that requires only two boop boops to call his manager.
Honestly, when J said “who are these people?” you could hear his heartbreak at the thought of Lenny not trusting him.
After firing all the bad apples because of that one day, literally everything is back to normal now, including the fact that no one under 57 eats at Lenny’s.
4.8 out of 5 stars