'Top Chef: Las Vegas' - Padma and Natalie Portman Get Nasty

For a girl who doesn't eat meat, guest judge Natalie Portman sure did enjoy talking about it a lot in this week's episode of Top Chef: Las Vegas. Honestly, dick jokes at dinner? On national television?

Before we get to that though, we have to stop for a few giggles over this week's Quickfire Challenge. The competing chefs were tasked by guest judge and master Italian chef Paul Bartolotta to create modernized TV dinners inspired by classic television shows. Insert TV Guide product placement here as the whole silly challenge was apparently their idea.

Overall, the Quickfire was rather boring this week, with two notable exceptions. First, Mike Isabella actually admitted he had never seen an episode of Seinfeld. What the hell rock has he been living under? I'm beginning to suspect Mike is actually an alien from the planet Rude & Obnoxious.

It was Jen, however, who provided the most entertaining bit in the Quickfire. Jen waxes poetic about how she relates most to the character of Pebbles in The Flintstones because "Pebbles has a really cute little boyfriend Bamm-Bamm who's nice and strong. I don't know that I like he carries a club around and pulls her by the hair... but could be fun sometimes." Jen's saucy smirk as she fantasizes about having her hair yanked about by a muscle boy is only a foreshadowing of things to come...

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