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Rachael Ray’s come a long way. Even if you’re still not excited by her food, you can’t deny she’s no longer the annoying, impossible-to-watch host she was 4 years ago. Sure, the stupid catchphrases are still there, and there’s more movement in the Great Wall of China than in her eyebrows; but gone is the obnoxious over-exuberance over oregano and  nerve-grating frenetic energy whilst simply stirring a pot of sauce. She’s calmed down a lot, and in a good way.

The toned down Ray-Ray v2.0 isn’t without her flaws though, as evidenced by this awkward clip from Saturday’s episode of 30 Minute Meals. Someone forgot to remove the top from the bottle of oil, and Rachael just stood around in near deafening silence for THIRTY NINE SECONDS as she slowly emptied it into the pot. The entire episode is 22 minutes long after commercials, or 1320 seconds, so she spent 3% of the show on this one bottle. Someone’s fired.

Sorry for cutting off the story about the “REALLY EXCITING” thing she was doing in Cape Cod. I thought there was enough excitement in that video clip. Judgment call.

Props to Rachael Ray for, albeit subtly, publicly paying homage to how painfully lame her catchphrases are (YUM-O and DELISH!) – but her willingness to play along wasn’t enough to save this “Funny or Die” video from completely bombing. Comedy’s definitely not her thing but at least she gave it the old college try. Don’t quit your day job, Ray-Ray.

(Hat tip to Aimee for sending this in!)