How ‘Top Chef’ Navigated Its Biggest Change in 21 Seasons

It’s just after noon on a Wednesday, but the holding area at the Tribeca studio where Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen is filmed could be confused for one of the nearby clubs on a weekend night.

The crack of a can of alcoholic seltzer opening every few seconds adds percussion to the ABBA song that’s blaring over the loudspeaker. The cackling guests’ gossiping about Real Housewives is interrupted by a producer, who is giving them instructions on how to scream the name of the episode’s game during filming: “Pick! Your! Power Bottom!”

I’ll leave it to you to Google what the innuendo is there, but the game title is a reference to the current season of Top Chef, on which two contestants named themselves the Power Bottoms—whether or not they understood the reference is unclear.

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