Feeling the pressure to succeed and provide Susan with the life he promised, Jack urges the rocketry team to take a risk and start testing their experiments at full volume….

After Professor Mesulam gives his blessing to the project, Jack and Richard set off to create Caltech’s first ever rocketry team. But Caltech’s acceptance has come with caveats, and, coupled…

In 1930s Los Angeles. Jack Parsons works as a janitor at a chemical factory by day, but, by night, he nurses a secret ambition: to build rockets that will take…

A family game of Hungry Hungry Hippos ends in tragedy.

Chip laments becoming a fake Christmas tree person.

Chip sees a homeless person in a library.

Christine and Martha listen to harp music at brunch.

Martha serves tilapia for Thanksgiving.

Bakersfield gets a frozen yogurt machine.

Chip incorporates a San Joaquin Valley earthiness into his clown routine.

Christine brings the celery

Christine eats a carrot.

Chip learns how to transfer a call.

The three remaining home cooks must each prepare a three-course menu for the judges; the home cook with the best overall menu wins the prize and the coveted title of…

The three remaining home cooks must each prepare a three-course menu for the judges.

The final four split into two teams to cook one entrée for the judges’ mentors: chefs Daniel Boulud, Jonathan Waxman and Lidia Bastianich; an elimination leaves three cooks moving on…

The cooks face a series of pressure-filled skills tests using beef; the two weakest contestants go head-to-head.

Then, the remaining five receive a heart-warming mystery box challenge in which contestants will create a dish inspired by their loved-one.

The Top Six face the Restaurant Takeover Challenge at Providence in Los Angeles. The home cooks split into two teams and must feed a dining room filled with 48 guests.

A mystery box challenge involving food scraps; a mystery box challenge involving fresh ingredients.

The remaining home cooks must serve restaurant-quality dishes to 25 California firefighters.

The contestants learn they will be competing in the Tag Team Challenge.

The cooks split into two teams and must serve 100 dishes to airmen in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the March Air Reserve Base.

The Top 12 face their third skills test and replicate the proper way to break down a halibut. Those who fail to impress the judges are then tasked with creating…

The contestants must make a dish that features a deep-fried element as the judges cook alongside them; the elimination challenge features a citrus-centered dish.

The Top 14 contestants are split into two teams to compete in a fine dining challenge and are to cook 39 dishes for a group of very discerning judges who…

The remaining home cooks pair up for a skills test to create a restaurant-quality dish featuring five ingredients—only to leave one contestant without a pair. The contestant cooking solo gets…

The contestants face a mystery box filled with fresh seafood and must create a dish using two items from it. The chefs who fail to impress the judges will face…

The contestants cook for Season 7 winner Shaun O’Neale’s wedding.

The contestants face a mystery box challenge where they must create a dish using one common ingredient—walnuts. The winner will receive three huge advantages. Later, the kitchen welcomes American soccer…

The Top 20 venture out of the kitchen and head to the historic Anheuser Busch brewery in Los Angeles for their first team challenge of the season. The two teams…

In the first skills test of the season, MASTERCHEF host/judge/executive producer Gordon Ramsay teaches the home cooks how to properly break down a crab, before the contestants must replicate his…

In the first mystery box challenge of the season, the Top 24 must prep, cook, and plate one dish featuring an ingredient unique to each of their home states.

Forty-three of America’s finest home cooks compete in the Battle of the Apron challenge, during which they will face off against each other to earn a spot in the Top…

The three judges each choose eight home cooks to mentor throughout the competition.

Judges Gordon Ramsay, Aarón Sánchez and Joe Bastianich each will have eight aprons to hand out to the home cooks whom they deem worthy – and they then will mentor…

Seg races to save his city from being overtaken as the bottling of Kandor begins.

Seg must decide if he can make the ultimate sacrifice in service of the greater good of Kandor.

A resistance movement begins to form to impede the Voice of Rao’s increasing power and influence.

After a failed coup, Daron punishes the conspirators. Lyta and Dev go in search of Jayna.