ENTERTAINMENT IN MOTION presents ……
DINNER IMPOSSIBLE
SEASONS 3 - 8
SEASON 3 – 11 x half hour hours / 1 x one hour
IE-0301 / Cruise Against the Clock
Robert Irvine goes to Ketchikan, Alaska where he comes face to face with his largest challenge: a 2900 passenger cruise ship! The ship is docked at port for the day and Robert's mission is to create a light buffet of hors d'oeuvres for a sail away party that will take place in 7-1/2 hours!
IE-0302 / Air Force Anniversary
It's the 60th anniversary of the Air Force and Sheppard's Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas is throwing a party to celebrate! Chef Robert's orders are to create a gourmet meal for 1,000 decorated officers, enlisted and VIP'S.
IE-0303 / Medieval Mayhem
Hear ye, hear ye . . . Chef Robert Irvine will cook for royalty at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. King Henry VIII of the Renaissance Festival has requested Chef Irvine's culinary expertise to create a royal feast fit for a king, his fiancée, Princess Anna of Cleves and 30 guests.
IE-0304 / Circus Juggling
Chef Robert arrives at the Big Apple Circus to a ring filled with performers. He receives his challenge from Carrie, the Host and Barry, the creative consultant, to create a celebration dinner for the 30th anniversary of the circus. The hard part is satisfying the palates of the people of many nationalities who work with the circus. The dinner and buffet will be set-up in the ring after the show.
IE-0305 / Robert and the Chocolate Factory
Robert heads to the Hershey West Chocolate Factory in Pennsylvania to receive his mission. He must feed 150 factory workers, executives and guests a gourmet five-course plated dinner by 7pm incorporating chocolate into each course.
IE-0306 / Late for the Luau
Robert is given his challenge oceanside and told that he will have to create a luau for 150 people including resort guests and Hawaii natives. Renowned Hawaiian chef Sam Choi will give him a lesson in luau food and Robert will have to create multiple dishes with the food and equipment provided and work with some special local help. Can Robert speed up Hawaiian Time or is this Dinner Impossible?
IE-0307 / Santa Fe Struggle
Robert heads to Santa Fe, N.M., where he faces the challenge to prepare a quintessential New Mexican meal to commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the city. Robert will have six hours to cook for the 60 guests using only traditional methods, such as horno ovens, in an outdoor 18th century kitchen and in 30- degree weather!
IE-0308 / Culture Class Wedding
Robert's mission takes him to the Woodmark Hotel in Kirkland, Washington where he is expected to create an unforgettable meal for a cross-cultural wedding! His challenge is to create a gourmet menu that fuses Asian and Irish cuisine, consisting of hors d'oeuvres and a 4-course plated dinner for 150 wedding guests in 9 hours. This wedding is incredibly emotional and special for the family, as the bride's dad has been diagnosed with lung cancer and the couple pushed up their wedding date six months (from August to January) to ensure that he would be at their wedding.
IE-0309 / Groundhog Daze
Chef Robert Irvine lands in Punxsutawney, Pa. to make a gourmet Groundhog Day breakfast for 250. He'll have to work through the night, and work through some rough patches with some surprise guest chefs from his past. If Robert can't make this mission a success, he may find himself in Groundhog Day all over again.
IE-0310 / Firehouse Fiasco
The heat is on Robert to cook a celebratory dinner for 75 fire fighters congratulating their colleague in a big promotion. He has seven hours to navigate a tiny kitchen and some inexperienced helpers to make this meal memorable.
IE-0311 / Operation Improv
In this challenge, Robert heads to the DC Improv Comedy Club in Washington, D.C. to receive his mission. Robert has just six hours to feed 225 audience members a gourmet three-course plated dinner, including a four-item entrée incorporating a meat, chicken, fish and vegetarian dish. The catch is Robert must use 15 ingredients that the improv troupe had brought for him.
IE-0312 / Brewhouse Bites
Robert has just seven hours to get a cram course in brewing and create a five-course gourmet meal using Michelob Craft beers for 100 of the top brewers and tasters at Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis.
SEASON 4 – 3 x one hours
IE-0401 / Disney Dinner Dash
Dinner Impossible and Disney's Dreamer's Academy will be making dreams come true for Robert's next mission. Robert's challenge will lead him on a scavenger hunt through all four of Disney's major theme parks! The hunt concludes at Epcot's World Showplace where he will meet a new Food Network face, Jeff Henderson.
IE-0402 / Puerto Rican Predicament
On this Dinner: Impossible, Robert is in Puerto Rico to celebrate Quinceanero, a young woman's sweet 15 birthday celebration. This is an important rite of passage in Latin culture. Robert has only nine hours to create a traditional Puerto Rican feast for 100 Quinceanero guests. But the highlight of the meal is an elaborate birthday cake, which Robert must also make. Can he master the meal and the cake, or will this be Dinner Impossible?
IE-0403 / Far East Feast
For this episode Robert will be taking a culinary trip to the Far East right in our nation's capital. He'll be cooking for 250 guests at the Japanese gala which kicks off the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. In just six hours, Robert must prepare a five-course authentic Japanese meal and 1,000 sushi hors d'oeuvres. Will Robert be able to create delicious dishes out of seaweed, wasabi and soba noodles, or will this be Dinner Impossible?
SEASON 5 – 10 x half hours
IE-0501 / No Pork, No Pressure
It's the King of all Pork vs. the Rabbi. Chef Michael Symon's mission is to create a kosher meal for the 2,000-year-old celebration of Passover. He must adhere to strict culinary guidelines and face a congregation that has sampled the best of every Jewish mother’s cooking.
IE-0502 / Grand Ole Opry Obstacles
Chef Michael Symon takes the stage at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville to serve 300 country music fans and musicians a meal inspired by the country classic Devil Went Down to Georgia. With only the help of singer James Otto and a strict end-of-concert deadline, will Michael have Music City whistling Dixie or will this be Dinner Impossible?
IE-0503 / Boardwalk
Chef Michael Symons heads to the beach in Wildwood, N.J. His mission? To take everyday boardwalk food and turn it into a gourmet spread. He has just seven hours to grab all the fried, doughy, sugary, savory summertime favorites from shops along the boardwalk and transform them into an upscale feast for 300 boardwalk employees. Will he be able to find enough ingredients to make boardwalk grub go gourmet or will this be Dinner Impossible?
IE-0504 / Mother’s Day Madness
Teleflora Flowers and the International Mother's Day Shrine in Grafton, West Virginia are hosting a picnic to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Mother s Day and they know just the chef to cook it- Chef Michael Symon! His mission is to create a picnic-style meal for 150 of Grafton's mothers and their families, approximately 500 people in all.
IE-0505 / Block Party Blowout
Chef Michael Symon heads to South Philadelphia for a neighborhood block party for 100 food-savvy residents of Alder Street in the summertime and must cook up a gourmet meal based on classic Philadelphia ingredients.
IE-0506 / Hospital Hijinks
It's Nurses Week, and Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia, Penn., is hosting a thank you dinner for 250 of its best nurses and Chef Michael Symon is the chef! He'll be working with three very special Jefferson patients who have had their lives changed by the nurses and doctors at the hospital.
IE-0507 / Escape to Alcatraz
Chef Michael Symon faces his toughest challenge yet when he heads to The Rock to cook for an exclusive event for 125 guests at America's most notorious prison. With kitchens separated by a city, and a schedule that restricts his time on the island to the bare minimum, will Michael live within the limits of the law or will this be Dinner Impossible?
IE-0508 / Crayon Craziness
Crayola is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 64 box of crayons! To celebrate this event they will be holding a dinner for 150 of their employees at the Crayola Factory. Chef Michael s mission is to create an eight course-tasting menu for this event.
IE-0509 / Street Cart Critics
Bon Appetit Magazine + James Beard Foundation=the toughest food critics on earth! Chef Michael Symon will only have seven hours to create an elegant and light meal that you would find at any top New York City restaurant-- but the catch is that he must prepare this high-end meal using NYC street carts!
IE-0510 / The Pork Man’s Nightmare
Chef Michael Symon heads to Colorado Springs, Colo., for the 68th Annual Pike's Peak or Bust Rodeo. Michael has seven hours to create big time meal for a 150 meat-loving cowboys.
SEASON 6 - 6 x one hours
IE0602 X Games
Robert is in Aspen, Colorado to cook for 200 Extreme Athletes at the Winter X Games. Working in extreme outdoor conditions, Robert has just 7 hours to make his most extreme menu ever. Can he overcome spills, chills and hills, or will this be Dinner Impossible?
IE0601 Yahoo!
Robert is visiting Yahoo! headquarters to celebrate the anniversary of Yahoo Search. His mission: make the top 15 most searched dishes, but each dish must be made with a randomly assigned top searched ingredient! Can Robert overcome the odd parings and successfully feed 450 Yahoo employees in just 8 hours, or will this be Dinner Impossible?
IE0603 Casino
Robert is visiting Mohegan Sun, and his mission is a real gamble. Robert must test his luck at a special Dinner Impossible casino. At stake is everything from the number of people he as to feed, to how many hours he’ll have, to what key ingredients he may win or loose for the day.
The Mohegan Sun set up a special Dinner Impossible casino just for Robert. He had to spin the roulette wheel to determine how many people he would be feeding – anywhere between 900 to 1,200. To determine how many hours he would have, Robert literally rolled the dice at the craps table. Robert faced his biggest gamble at the Black Jack table. Robert had to play three hands of 21, wagering not cash, but the three most critical ingredients for any chef: oil, salt and sugar. When he won a hand, Robert could use the wagered item. But when he lost, Robert had to figure out how to make thousand of hors d’oeuvres and three course sit-down dinner WITHOUT using the ingredient!
Without giving anything away, it’s safe to say the odds are always with the house. Add in a special surprise mini mission to make an additional VIP meal in the middle of all the mayhem and you’ve go one Can Robert turn this gamble into a jackpot meal, or will this be Dinner Impossible.
Will Robert’s luck win out, or will this be Dinner Impossible?
IE0604 NBA
Robert’s on an All-Star mission to cook for the NBA All Star Weekend Cares and Cooks fundraising event. With 2000 fans awaiting the outcome, Robert has just 10 hours to create a thematically menu inspired by five teams/cites from the Western Conference and five teams/cities from the Eastern Conference. Like a true All-Star, Robert pushes his culinary team to the limit … creating nearly thirty different NBA inspired dishes.
Robert faced several obstacles including having to shop at a grocery store over 30 minutes away … and finding ways to motivate the group of students that comprised his Culinary All Star Team. Tensions were high, time was short, and it true Dinner Impossible fashion, it was a frantic race to the finish. Can Robert beat the buzzer on his All Star mission, or will this be Dinner Impossible?
IE0605 Puzzle Impossible.
Robert tackles his most puzzling mission yet. Robert’s at the American Crossword Puzzle Championships, where he’s given eight hours to feed 500 puzzle fanatics. But this is no ordinary meal; for this crowd Robert not only has to please their palettes, he must also engage their minds. New York Times Crossword Editor, Will Shortz, gives Robert his mission and explains that every dish must be presented in the form of a common culinary-based figure of speech. Robert and his team must come up with a list of culinary phrases, such as “two peas in a pod” “high on the hog” and “which came first the chicken or the egg.” Then, they must figure out a creative way to represent each phrase - with food - one plate at a time. Can Robert figure out all the pieces to this puzzle? Or will this be Dinner Impossible?
IE0606 Barbie
Robert’s preparing a 50th birthday party for one of the biggest little icons in the world: Barbie! To mark this momentous occasion, Robert is given just 8 hours to create a Barbie inspired birthday bash for 250 Mattel VIPs. Robert gets his first insight into his mission when he tours the Barbie decorated Malibu beach house, and learns he is not permitted to disturb the perfectly appointed kitchen, Instead, Robert must assemble his own outdoor cooking space - pool-side. Robert’s day gets even worse when he meets his two high-heeled helpers. They know everything about dolls, but nothing about cooking. The women quickly bring Robert down to size by informing him that each item he makes must be fabulous – and it must be no larger than Barbie’s own serving tray! This teeny tiny twist soon becomes a monstrous pain. Can Robert create enough big ideas to create miniature masterpieces? Or will this be Dinner Impossible?