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Heather,
I gotta disagree wholeheartedly with you here. If Marcel had been friends with Cliff, yeah, those would have all in good fun hijinks. But the other chefs have repeatedly bullied and snubbed him all season. Yeah, he's a bit of a twerp, but nothing he has done has deserved this "Lord of the Flies" treatment. Tom Colicchio in his blog says he would have sent all four of the culprits home and I think he was right. Cliff might have been the muscle but Ilan was trying to goad the others into hateful activities. And as others have pointed out, if you look carefully at the scene, Elia is laughing away with a full head of hair.
Even the producer in her blog and Lee Ann from the previous season say they never saw anything from Marcel that could fuel such intense hatred. It was a classic example of groupthink and it's a shame that you bought it.
So does this mean were you one of the Heathers or Mean Girls when you were in high school? or a wannabe?
