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10.  Season 2's Thanksgiving dinner, where half the chefs cooked for the others, was such a gift to viewers, it gives us miracles 10-7.  Let the count begin!  Anthony Bourdain was the judge for the evening, and started us out by saying, I'm looking forward to smashing the hopes and dreams and ambitions [of the contestants].  Luckily the food was so bad he could: That was so perverse, so inappropriate, I'm almost beginning to respect [the chef] and What kind of crack-house are you running here?

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Top Chef seems to be a magnet for bad holiday meals and

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Gobble Restaurant in Woodinville, WA. on Sunday Nov. 18, 2012. (Seattle Weekly/Kevin P. Casey)

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