Knives are out as Sophia (pictured) and Ashlee take on Josh and Andi in the sudden death elimination round. It's Sudden Death night for two teams, and given that one of the teams facing possible elimination is Ashlee and Sophia, it's also Sudden Death for the audience's will to live. Will these terrible women be kicked out, or will we all have to hurl ourselves into the ocean? We begin with the opening titles, eerily prophetic as they show Angela and Melina getting drunk. And then straight to the MKR kitchen, where a maverick cameraman runs wild with crash zooms. The teams enter. "I don't think we're one of the bottom two cooks," says Ashlee, desperately confused about how many people are actually present. Pete tells the teams they will have to cook their very best three course meal. Manu tells them that the judges are expecting "amazing meals," indicating that he is suffering from short-term memory loss. Not looking confident ... Josh and Andi take on 'babes' Sophia and Ashlee. Josh and Andi are going to cook a recipe of Andi's Burmese grandfather, which enrages Sophia, as she is Asian and she has made it quite clear that nobody else is to be Asian in her presence. Josh and Andi wish Ashlee and Sophia good luck: Ashlee and Sophia do not return the favour, as they feel it would be going against their nature to act like decent human beings for a few seconds. And it's into the kitchens, where Josh immediately starts to describe the dessert he is making and simultaneously putting everyone to sleep. Meanwhile Sophia and Ashlee call each other "babe." For their dessert they are making a blancmange, or as they call it, "blonk-monge," their pronunciation skills at about the same level as their people skills. On the other side, Andi says, "As you know, Josh," but then for some reason tells him what he already knew, which is an incredibly dull story about her grandfather. Sophia is scoring the duck, not for any culinary reason, just out of sadism. Ashlee says "blonk-monge" again, and one can tell that a comedy sensation is being born here. The audience has happy visions of these two being followed for the rest of their lives by cackling mobs shouting "BLONK-MONGE!" at them. Josh tells Andi that he thinks their dish is a good dish. Andi agrees. Everyone applauds at their easy, spontaneous conversational style. As we swing from one kitchen to the other via that weird pan that makes it look like the camera is being carried on the back of a drunken stork, Kerrie is very worried because there's half an hour to go and Josh and Andi haven't cooked any fish yet. Also Andi hasn't done the "frigging sauce" yet, and we begin to wonder exactly what the hell they've been doing this whole time. Kerrie is nearly in tears, both over Josh and Andi's predicament and the fact that Craig is standing too close to her. Suddenly we are subjected to a burst of disturbing horror-movie piano, the expectation growing that a mutant baby is going to leap out of someone's oven and bite Manu's face off, or Pete will finally give in to his craving for brains. With less than twenty minutes to go, Josh decides that possibly he might want to cook something. Andi orders Josh to take control of his fish. Josh gives the fish a stern talking-to and enrols it in school. Things are going more smoothly on the other side, where Sophia has found her duck cooked perfectly, and tries to introduce a shock twist by calling Ashlee "bella." However the duck's skin isn't crispy, and we revert to "babe." Manu begins yelling at the teams to start plating because he just can't stand not being the centre of attention. Andi is stressing over her sauce. Ashlee calls Sophia "babe." Sophia calls Ashlee "babe." This happens four or five times in a row. Ashlee is getting stressed by Sophia's demands, and to be honest, being called "babe" by someone who's bossing you around does nothing to make it more enjoyable. As the babes mount up, one begins to suspect that this pair literally doesn't know each other's names. They start to fight over paper towels. Their friendship has become a Beckett play. Time is up, and Andi bursts into tears, knowing her grandfather would disapprove of Josh's personality. Ashlee and Sophia, meanwhile, continue to argue about whether Ashlee put more dressing on the plate or not, their long-suppressed loathing bubbling to the surface like so many human bones bobbing to the top of a cauldron. It's time for the judges to taste. As the entrees are served up, Irish Chef's face makes it clear he doesn't think much of the food, or of the human race. Josh and Andi's fish has been cooked perfectly, but the chili is ruining it for Irish Chef. Blonde Chef disagrees, and to be fair Irish Chef thinks everything ruins everything. As the camera closes in on his face he looks like he's literally considering murdering everyone at the table. The judges talk some complete bollocks about presentation like they always do, and then move on to Ashlee and Sophia's duck. The duck is also cooked well, but the skin isn't crispy enough and there isn't enough salad dressing, and Irish Chef notes that it fails to ameliorate the essential futility of existence. Meanwhile in the kitchen, Ashlee and Sophia continue to hate each other, eyes shooting poison babes at each other. A quick break to see Denise Drysdale in a swimsuit, and we're back. With one hour to prepare the main course, the observers on the balcony clap and cheer and begin throwing bricks at Sophia's head. Josh and Andi check on the beef curry, which has developed its flavours and learned some hard lessons about life. The only problem is there's too much sauce and it looks like a peat bog. On the other side, Ashlee tells Sophia that they have to focus on their communication, but they're still calling each other "babe," and that seems to be their main problem. Who can focus on anything when they're getting "babe" shot at them fifteen times a minute? Sophia confides in Ashlee that if she leaves bones in her fish she will "absolutely die," which is one of the more unusual allergies known to medical science. Josh and Andi, meanwhile, are working on an eggplant pickle, because I guess they're a bit weird. Andi's preparation of the eggplant pickle, though, is being hindered by Josh's insistence on being a bit of a prat, when he knows that pushes her buttons. His slow-motion approach to cooking is stressing the hell out of Kerrie and Craig, who watch in rapt horror as he stares blankly at a pan of rice for five minutes, trying to remember where he is. In stark contrast is Ashlee's psychotically rapid chili and garlic chopping, which impresses Sophia to such an extent that she invokes offensive racial stereotypes to describe it. On the other side, Josh and Andi are scooping sauce out of their pot. "Are their chances of winning the challenge going down the drain with the sauce?" reads Craig off a cue card. They could be reducing the sauce down instead, but Josh and Andi don't really understand heat, so they're going with what they know. "It's a dry beef, I know this curry," says Andi, eyes narrowing. To cook a curry, you have to think like a curry. She's also tasted the eggplant and finds it delicious - Josh thinks it might be a bit hard, but he's one to talk. Manu can't wait to taste the eggplant, as he has little excitement in his life. Meanwhile Sophia is hacking at a mango with a big knife, pretending it's Ashlee's head. She tells a story about how she learnt this skill when her mother gave her a mango and a big knife in an attempt to get her to seriously injure herself. Suddenly, disaster strikes as Sophia's fish begins to curl up in the pan! Turns out even slabs of dead fish can only tolerate Sophia's personality for so long. But at least her fish aren't moving in bullet-time like Josh, who claims he's only been chopping for two seconds, contrary to Andi's claim that he's been chopping for two years. Suspicion grows that both are prone to exaggeration. On the other side Sophia and Ashlee reach a state of such unbearable tension that they call each other "babe" twenty times in a ten-second period from the stress. In come the judges again. They try Ashlee and Sophia's fish first, and are immediately hurled backwards from their chairs by the overpowering chili garlic. Manu points out that this is a traditional way of preparing the sauce. Irish Chef tells him he's a damn fool and everything is pointless. Manu disagrees. Irish Chef disagrees harder. It is decided that they'll settle it after the show in the school gymnasium. Moving onto the beef curry, Grossi Chef finds the meat cooked well, but too dry. The eggplant is also undercooked - damn you Andi why don't you EVER listen to Josh? Pete tells the other judges about how they poured the sauce down the sink, which just seems bitchy. Why not write it on the toilet wall, Pete? Night falls on MKR, and there are thirty minutes to prepare dessert. Josh and Andi think their parfait is perfect, but we've seen how well their judgment works for them. Josh tells Andi what to do and she gets snarky at him her self-awareness at an all-time low. Ashlee and Sophia are using "jackfruit," which is apparently an actual thing. They're getting it from a tin, but Pete and Manu assure each other that it's OK to get it from a tin, and it actually tastes really good from a tin. Their panic thus mutually assuaged, they give each other a brief manly hug. Andi, who earlier told Josh that he was in charge, now begins ordering him around: something about Josh just brings out the fascist in her. Maybe it's the way he leaves his desserts sitting out for a quarter of an hour to melt. Ashlee and Sophia have their own problems, mainly revolving around their continued hilarious pronunciation of "blonk-monge." If the blonk-monge doesn't come perfectly out of the mould, it's not a properly set blonk-monge. You can't serve a blonk-monge that doesn't do that. The seconds tick away and the music gets dramatic and the parfaits melt and the blonk-monges blonk, and time is up and Josh admits their dessert isn't great but it's the best they can do, which shows what a defeatist he is. Ashlee will be REALLY annoyed if Josh and Andi win because she knows they'll be REALLY smug about it, as opposed to the quiet dignity that she and Sophia bring to every contest. The judges begin their desserts, and Josh's melted parfait is turning out to be the Andi's raw eggplant of the dessert round, in that it's in the wrong physical state. "Parfait means perfect in French, and that's far from being perfect," says Manu, desperately trying to keep up the "I'm French" charade. Moving on to Ashlee and Sophia's blonk-monge, Brunette Chef doesn't find its cohesive enough, and also notes that Sophia's tactic of pouring several bushels of sugar into the jackfruit has backfired, as the sugar has disastrously caused the fruit to be sweet. Judgment time, and Josh explains that having done the challenge it is time to hear what the judges think. That seems to clear up the complex rules of this challenge. Brunette Chef tells Josh and Andi that food needs to look fabulous and finished, because she is a very shallow and superficial woman. She gives them a seven, which they're happy with due to lives lived with low expectations. Grossi Chef also gives them a seven, but Blonde Chef downgrades them to a six because she just can't get over her obsession with parfait not being liquid. Irish Chef also gives them a six because he's just generally a jerk. Manu follows up with a six, and Pete also gives a six. So basically everyone is pretty mean, and Josh and Andi's heads drop, particularly Josh's, since his inability to understand what happens to frozen desserts when they're left out of the freezer could be what costs them the game. We move on to Ashlee and Sophia, and Pete demonstrates a new and different way to pronounce blancmange weirdly. Brunette Chef gives them a six, and Grossi Chef a seven, and Blonde Chef a seven - everything's gone topsy-turvy! Irish Chef is very stern, however - despite Sophia's assertion that she loves him due to a sort of mutual dickhead kinship - and he gives them a FIVE. They are not the first and will not be the last Asian women to be laid low by their failure to make duck crispy enough for an angry Irishman. Manu gives them a seven. Pete, despite his anger over their salad dressing, gives them a seven too, and Ashlee and Sophia have WON. Every contestant immediately tosses down some cyanide. "What went wrong?" asks Manu in the manner of someone who is just casually asking and doesn't have any ulterior motive for asking the question at all. Josh confesses that they found it hard to concentrate because they've just found out that Andi is pregnant, as if this is any excuse for undercooked eggplant and melted parfait. Everyone just ignores Josh's disgusting attempts at self-justification, preoccupied as they are by their own devastation at the news that Ashlee and Sophia aren't leaving. Anyway everyone cheers and hugs and Ashlee and Sophia clap mildly, boredom etched on their faces: they're not really interested in babies unless they're eating them themselves. And so it's off to a joyous future for Josh and Andi, and off to further misery for all the contestants left to compete against Ashlee and Sophia. At least they can entertain themselves for the rest of the series by constantly murmuring "blonk-monge" under their breaths. We finish with a sneak peek at the upcoming COMEBACK KITCHEN, in which eliminated contestants will COME BACK! But they're going to have to take orders from Irish Chef, so it probably won't be worth it.