Time for a Botox Intervention - 
by m_ruv
Yeah, this week's Grey's Anatomy was a panty-buncher. Would the bomb go off? Would the writers be able to keep up the tension in the second half of a two-parter? By and large it was a success, though the most interesting parts this week actually came in the realm of character development rather than suspense. Ratings were great once again, and we also learned that, as of yesterday, the show's entire first season is available on DVD.
Meredith starts off with another voiceover saying that patients get a certain creepy look/stench when they sense that death is imminent. The monologue seems to be repeated almost verbatim from last week: once again she asks how you'd spend your last day on Earth if you knew the end was coming. Next, we're treated to a brief soft-porn shot of Izzie and Alex, who have yet again formed the beast with two backs in the supply closet. They're so naughty, in fact, that Izzie shows up at the nurses' desk still fixing her copulation-chic hairstyle.
Dr. Burke steps into Dr. He-Shepherd's O.R. and asks how Mr. Bailey's brain surgery is going. Apparently the injury is pretty dicey, and any missteps could cost Mr. Bailey his power of speech, though his mojo will remain intact. Burke says it was stupid of He-Shepherd not to evacuate when he was ordered to; He-Shepherd retorts the same and says the two of them should consider a change of profession. Ooh, spinoff potential! Burke and Shepherd as pastry chefs? dairy farmers? ninja monks? Anyway, He-Shepherd says he doesn't want to be the guy who kills Dr. Bailey's husband; Burke says he doesn't want to be the guy who kills everyone in the hospital.
In the other O.R., Cristina and the guy from the bomb squad tell Meredith that it was pretty stupid of her to take over for Hannah and stick her hand in the guy's chest. Meredith spits back that she doesn't really like being made fun of when she has her hand on a bomb and somebody's velcroing a flak jacket to her boobs. For god's sake, where did she pick up her sense of humor—TEHRAN? Burke tells Cristina to leave the O.R., saying this isn't just another "cool surgery" but a truly dangerous situation. She resists, but Burke insists that he can't perform the surgery with her in the room because he's too distracted by the sight of her ravishing "treasures of the Orient," if you know what I mean. Cristina finally leaves.
In the intern locker room, George says the stress of the bomb scare has made colors seem brighter to him; Alex says it's heightened his sense of smell. Hilariously, Izzie tells them to shut the hell up, since nobody cares whether the blue is bluer or you have super smelling powers if Meredith could die at any moment. Just when I was thinking Izzie might actually have ONE IOTA OF SENSE IN HER, what does she do? SHE STARTS LAUGHING. We're treated to the much-anticipated debut of her "talking-to-myself-out-loud" voice as she admits that she often has inappropriate reactions when she's feeling stressed. Wow, I hadn't noticed. She runs out, presumably to go find her sock puppets or eat some Play-Doh.
Banned from Dr. Burke's O.R., Cristina goes into Dr. He-Shepherd's and foists her internly services upon him. He asks her how Hannah is doing with the bomb next door; Cristina lies and says "Hannah" is hanging in there fine. In Dr. Webber's office, meanwhile, Dr. She-Shepherd tells the chief to calm down. Of course he's totally unable to, what with the bomb scare, Dr. Bailey in labor, and the news that OMG Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are on the outs. She-Shepherd says Dr. Bailey's contractions are getting frequent but she's still refusing to push, so they may need to do an emergency C-section. Dr. Webber protests that there's no O.R. available; She-Shepherd says he better build an O.R. out of Legos and Q-tips or find her a helicopter to take her to another hospital or they might lose the baby entirely.
Alex finds Izzie in the linen closet, babbling incoherently and wearing her panties on her head. She starts to mention that she has an odd tendency to laugh at funerals, but then interrupts her own story to start sucking face with Alex. Sure, nothing says "healthy response to a crisis" like INSANE CACKLING AND NYMPHOMANIA. Alex backs off, and Izzie starts mumbling about how she got jealous of the fact that Meredith gets to be the one in surgery with the bomb. Now Alex kisses Izzie back, helplessly aroused by the jealousy-bipolarity one-two punch.
"I want Jesus juice and I want it NOW"
When George tells Dr. Bailey they're considering an emergency C-section, she refuses and says she needs a ride home because she's NOT having the baby until tomorrow. George warns that she could lose the baby, but she doesn't want to hear it and tells him to leave. Outside, the leader of the bomb squad tells Dr. Webber that the bomb is stable and ready to remove. But from the hospital blueprints Webber discovers that Burke's O.R. is situated immediately on top of the hospital's main oxygen line (used for general anesthesias), which would be a less than ideal spot for an explosion.
Back in the linen closet, Izzie and Alex have apparently parked the beef bus in tunatown YET AGAIN. Man, she's worse than Lil' Kim. Izzie suddenly gets up to leave, saying she absolutely must do something to help during this crisis. She then valiantly offers her vaginal services to the entire bomb squad, "just to take the edge off."
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