This week, the chefs had to wrestle with crabs. [Insert inevitable crabs joke here.] Photo from Bravo.

For this season’s Top Chef , DCist will be bringing you our “woulda, coulda, shoulda” take on how the cheftestants are faring. Every week we will highlight one individual who was doin’ it wrong.

This week’s Top Chef was all about local ingredients, including Maryland blue crabs, a Virginia farm and local chef Patrick O’Connell, who served as guest judge. And frankly, we’re glad it finally happened. There’s a lot to the D.C. food scene beyond our best-known restaurants and seeing it on Top Chef was refreshing. But that said, there was plenty of other entertainment to be had in this week’s episode.

Does anyone else find the Angelo-Tamesha thing a little creepy? He’s very enamored (read: obsessed) with her. Their conversation outdoors at the beginning of the episode, where he sits next to her and whispers sweet nothings into her ear about basketball championships — we can only guess he was talking about the Lakers — was more than a bit strange. Even stranger was when he said, “I also feel attracted to her because I see a lot of myself in her.” Actually, scratch that, strange is the wrong word. It’s entirely predictable for Angelo to say he would find someone like himself attractive. We can only imagine what it must be like when he looks in the mirror each morning.

Once we got past the Angelo/Tamesha weirdness, it was on to the Quickfire, where the contestants were greeted by a table that was literally crawling with blue crabs. Oh delicious, delicious table of crabs. We made it about 30 seconds into the Quickfire portion of the episode before the producers cut to the all-too-predictable joke about someone “having crabs.” The only real surprise here was that it was Angelo making the STD joke this episode, instead of our usual schlockmaster, Alex.

Spoilers after the jump.