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Grey's Anatomy

By m_ruv | Wednesday, February 15, 2006 | 10:25 am | 39 Comments

greys2-12-06mYeah, 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.

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“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.”

Back in Dr. Burke’s O.R., Meredith is standing over the patient with her standard dazed, botoxic expression. Noting that Dr. Burke and the bomb squad guy are whispering at the door, Meredith gets annoyed and says they’re treating her like a patient—she’d rather they just tell her the news straight out. Burke says they’ve learned that SGH’s main oxygen line runs directly under the room they’re in. Meredith asks what that means, saying that she has an inkling but doesn’t trust herself because she tends to be “glass half empty these days.” N.O. S.H.I.T. Unfortunately, she’s right—if the bomb were to explode over the oxygen line, the whole hospital could blow up. The bomb squad guy says all they have to do is move the gurney carefully to another O.R., which Meredith doesn’t like the sound of.

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The Many Faces of Ellen Pompeo. Clockwise from upper left: happy Meredith, sad Meredith, excited Meredith, frightened Meredith, surprised Meredith, hopeful Meredith, angry Meredith, despondent Meredith, horny Meredith, shitfaced Meredith.

Outside, Dr. Webber starts breathing heavily and collapses against the wall. Great timing! They get him into one of the hospital rooms, and fortunately his EKG turns out normal. Before long, Izzie walks in sporting her sex hair once again. Dr. Webber keeps trying to get up, but Izzie says he needs to stay in bed, plus Mrs. Webber says the chief’s gonna have to body-check her personally if he wants to get out of the room. Now that I would pay to see.

In the hallway, George pesters Dr. She-Shepherd with questions about Dr. Bailey. Can we drug her? Can we force her to have a C-section? Can we declare her temporarily insane? Are they really casting her as the Oracle in The Matrix 4? Dr. She-Shepherd quickly gets sick of this and snaps at George that she’s doing all she can—and then UNLOADS on him, telling him to shut up and stop asking so many stupid questions. George does the sulky puppy-dog eyes and slinks away—whatever George, you were being OBJECTIVELY ANNOYING. He hides in the stairwell and runs into the missing paramedic, Hannah, who’s hiding at the bottom of the stairs, having cut her hand in a nasty fall.

In Dr. He-Shepherd’s O.R., Cristina sees Meredith and the bomb squad pass by the door, so she runs outside to see what’s going on. They’re moving the entire gurney slowly down the hallway to another O.R.—wait, I thought Dr. Webber just said there wasn’t another O.R. available for Bailey’s C-section. Ahh, details. Anyway, Meredith and the bomb squad guy run down their planned procedure once again, after which Meredith kindly tells the man she doesn’t like him very much. Endearing! Meredith continues to whine that she has her hand on a bomb and that she’s freaking out and has to pee to boot. Cristina tries to distract her by mentioning that Burke said “I love you” to her last night while he thought she was sleeping. Great, THAT certainly won’t set off Meredith’s self-pity instinct or anything.

As George treats the cut on Hannah’s hand, Hannah asks whether Meredith still has her hand on the bomb. George says that Dr. Milton was a coward to leave Hannah by herself in the O.R., but Hannah replies that she’s a coward too because she ran away—she’s disappointed in herself because under pressure she didn’t stay and do but rather turned and ran. George immediately loses his boner for Hannah since, as we know from last week, he has a doer fetish.

Izzie, now sporting sexy post-sex glasses in addition to the post-sexysex coif, says the test results show that Dr. Webber had an anxiety attack. Alex asks who’s gonna break the news to Dr. Webber—Izzie responds, “I gave you sex in a linen closet, you tell him.” You “gave” him sex? What are you, like the sexual Salvation Army? Regardless, Alex finds the trade fair enough and runs off to tell Dr. Webber.

Meanwhile, Dr. She-Shepherd can’t even get Dr. Bailey to turn over in bed, let alone push the baby out of her ladyparts. She-Shepherd gives up and starts to leave the room in order to get Dr. Webber’s authorization for an O.R. and an emergency C-section. But then George breaks in and tells Dr. Bailey that he expected more from her—after all, she’s Dr. Bailey, she never gives up or hides from a fight. In short, she’s a DOER! George immediately mounts Dr. Bailey and expresses his doer-lust physically. Actually, George delivers one of the best scenes he’s had so far: he says that yes, there are a lot of crazy things going on that nobody can control, but the delivery of the baby—that they can do. This appeal finally gets through to Dr. Bailey and results in a very nice scene. Well done, well done.

George gets Dr. Bailey to sit up and then really DOES mount her—only from behind, since he’s apparently a rear-entry sort of chap. Anyway, while straddling his boss, he says “Let’s have this baby.” George, you such a baby daddy.

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“Once more, with FEELING!”

In Dr. Burke’s O.R., they’re ready to operate on bomb guy. The plan is for Meredith to pull out the ammo very slowly and then Dr. Burke to jump in quickly and get to work. Meredith says she “guesses” she’s ready. Glad to hear your heart’s in this, sweetcheeks.

Cristina returns from the hallway into Dr. He-Shepherd’s O.R., where he asks her how Hannah is doing in the other room. Apparently Cristina caught George’s truthtelling disease, because she suddenly blurts out that it’s not Hannah with the bomb but Meredith. GREAT. I can’t tell whether this is totally implausible—after all, Cristina hid her pregnancy for weeks, so why not this—or whether she’s unconsciously forcing He-Shepherd’s hand. Anyway, just at this moment, Mr. Bailey starts flatlining. At roughly the same time, Dr. Bailey pushes mightily and the top of her baby’s head appears.

Next door, Meredith apparently has started reciting her last will and testament: “To Derek, all my love; to Cristina, my luxurious collection of bath salts; to Izzie, my fingerpaints and Nembutal; and to George, my tampons.” Then Meredith starts to freak out just as Hannah did earlier. The bomb squad guy tries to talk her down, saying that even if she dislikes him, she needs to listen to him—if it helps, she should try to pretend he’s someone she actually likes. This advice yields a remarkably dumb, Matrix-y scene in which an imaginary Dr. He-Shepherd appears amid angelic lighting, offering Meredith words of encouragement. This just doesn’t work and doesn’t fit the show.

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“Why did we agree to do this scene?” “Your guess is as good as mine, dumbass.”

Just as Meredith pulls out the ammo, the baby pops out of Dr. Bailey’s unmentionables. George gazes at this miracle of motherhood until Dr. Bailey shouts at him to stop staring at her “vajayjay.” I am totally trademarking this expression and selling T-shirts. Meanwhile, Dr. He-Shepherd is unable to resuscitate Mr. Bailey, who’s still flatlining. I really thought Mr. Bailey might not make it, but then He-Shepherd strikes him in the chest out of frustration/desperation, and whaddya know, it works. Vive le réalisme.

Meredith carefully hands over the bazooka shell to the bomb squad guy, who walks very slowly out of the room with it. Meredith’s curiosity gets the better of her, so she goes out into the hallway to see what the guy is planning to do with the explosive. The thing promptly blows up in his hands, killing him, destroying the hallway and several adjoining rooms, and knocking Meredith back on her ass and cracking her head on the floor.

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“Hmm, that looks like an explosion”

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“Yeah, I think I’ll move back a little bit”

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“This is Le Tigre—I use it for footwear”

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“Did I leave the oven on?”

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“Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world I feel like I can’t take it”

When we come back from commercial, though, no one makes any mention whatsoever about the fact that, you know, A BOMB JUST WENT OFF AND KILLED A GUY AND DESTROYED LIKE FOUR ROOMS. Am I just an idiot, or was this really odd? I even wondered whether Meredith had maybe just dreamed up the whole explosion, because literally nobody says a word about it. Regardless of what we’re meant to think, it’s handled very awkwardly. Anyway, what does happen is that Drs. Burke and He-Shepherd emerge from the elevator to a crowd of people eagerly awaiting news of the patients. Notably, Burke calls He-Shepherd “Derek” as they exit the elevator. Ooh, He-Shepherd 1, Burke 1.

Burke says the ex-bomb patient has made it through; he also gives credit to Hannah for her gentle touch in plunging her hand into the guy’s chest cavity. After the mini press-conference, Dr. He-Shepherd asks frantically “Where is she?”—although it’s Dr. She-Shepherd who comes running, there’s no question that he meant Meredith. Helpfully, Mrs. Webber says, “Mhmm that is not the she he was asking for.” Wow, “Thanks for Spelling That One Out for Us, Writers!”

Afterward, Cristina and Izzie have Meredith in the shower and are removing her scrubs and washing the blood off her face. True, she has a cut on her forehead, but I still don’t buy that after an explosion and severe whiplash she was able to regain consciousness, let alone stand up. Nonetheless, it’s a clever parallel to the lesbian shower fantasy from last week, capped off when George himself walks past and sees the three women together. Fortunately he doesn’t drop the towel this time.

Home for the evening, Cristina puts her head on the pillow and asks Burke whether he’s awake. Upon hearing him safely snoring she says she loves him as well. I was expecting Burke’s eyes to open, but they don’t. At the hospital, Dr. Bailey presents her baby boy to her husband in a nice moving scene, marred only by the fact that she’s named the baby “William George Bailey Jones.” Why not throw a “Van De Kamp” in there somewhere just for good measure.

And back at the house, Izzie stops by Meredith’s room to say there’s someone at the door to see her. Oh great, JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES. Actually, it’s Dr. He-Shepherd, noting that Meredith “almost died today.” Incisive! He turns to leave when Meredith mentions that she can’t remember the last time they kissed. He-Shepherd leaves through the door but then he comes back in and says he remembers it was a Thursday morning. Meredith was wearing “that ratty little Dartmouth T-shirt”—WOOHOO—and smelled like some kind of flower. Only he says flower like “flahr,” which reminds me of that time the Chenbot tripped over her words and coughed up part of her robot innards.

Despite He-Shepherd’s smarminess, the conversation is touching, as they both clearly leave a lot unsaid. As He-Shepherd tries for a second time to walk out, Meredith interrupts him this time to say, “Lavender. My hair smelled like lavender.”—ooh, romantic. “From my conditioner.” JESUS, this woman can’t go five seconds without a buzzkill. As He-Shepherd leaves, the episode ends with the voiceover asking yet again—I think we’ve wrung all we can out of this one, writers—”If you knew this were your last day on Earth, how would you want to spend it?”

All in all, I really enjoyed this episode, since it kept up the tension from last week and featured some great moments for George, which were long overdue. That being said, I think it’s time to call in the crisis team for Ellen Pompeo. I know she’s supposed to be prickly, but after the last few weeks she’s become one of the whiniest, least likable TV protagonists in recent memory. I still do like her for some reason—god knows why—but they’ve got to make her more fun, and soon. Also, what is with the croaking—she sounds more and more like Marge Simpson every week. Finally, and most important, BITCH PUT DOWN THE BOTOX. We don’t care if you have crow’s feet—you’re ten years older than Katherine Heigl for god’s sake, we’ll cut you some slack—but I tend to like to see facial expressions, not feel like I need to uncover them with a hammer and chisel.

Thoughts? Good? Bad? Will George get together with Hannah? Will Burke and He-Shepherd get gaymarried? Is lavender the new black?

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39 Comments

  1. 1
    J Unit
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 10:49 am

    The Many Faces of Ellen Pompeo

    That should be a post card.

    I think George is going to get together with Hannah to see if her EMT partner is available.

    This is only my third Grey’s anatomy episode, and I really like it, but I wish there was a way to turn off that soundtrack sometimes.

  2. 2
    AbbyAnn
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 10:52 am

    “They’re moving the entire gurney slowly down the hallway to another O.R.—wait, I thought Dr. Webber just said there wasn’t another O.R. available for Bailey’s C-section. Ahh, details.”

    The reason no OR was available for an emergency C-section was because of the evacuation. Given that Meredith’s patient was the one with the bomb causing the evacuation, it was okay to let him have another OR (and they had to get the bomb away from the central oxygen line.)

    Obviously none of this was terribly realistic, but it was fun to watch!

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    AbbyAnn
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 11:01 am

    Also, I think the ending shower scene was supposed to be the show’s way of addressing the explosion–they were helping Meredith, who looked like she was in shock, to wash off the blood from the explosion. But they should have explained how the two surgeries kept going and were successful with a big explosion in the middle of them that would have rocked the rooms, and Meredith’s hearing should have been affected. If only He-Shepard had been yelling when they remembered their last kiss while she kept saying “Huh?” and cupping her ear…

  4. 4
    mojorising
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 11:07 am

    I also thought it was really strange how the explosion was never addressed, especially considering Meredith kept telling the bomb squad guy how much she didnt like him.

    Normally, I really like this show but I thought this episode was disappointing.

  5. 5
    CB
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 11:22 am

    I loved that Bailey named her son after George. I think those two have such great chemistry.

    Looks like next week Dereks EX Friend shows up and hits on Meredith AND Addison. WHat a prick. Should be some good action between Derek and this guy! Oh and the fact that he tells Addison that her husband is not in love with her…ohh SNAP.

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    CB
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 11:23 am

    I also though that Meredith was having some type of daydream type thing when the bomb went off. I completely thought they were going to set this up so Kyle CHandler coul dbe a future love interest for MEredith..Guess not.

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    EdHill
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 11:29 am

    man I was praying so hard that that thing would blow her lisp sky high. She drives me nuts. The whole premise was kinda silly, but after watching a horribly goofy hour of Desperate Houswives, it was a freaking masterpeice in comparison.

    ANd way to pussy out on the explosion. No intestines and blood flying all over the place? please. 2 guys just got disintegrated and they were both apparantly made entirely of gray clay.

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    Tati
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 11:34 am

    I too found the episode a bit drawn out—u knew nobody important would get hurt, otherwise they wouldn’t have a show. Still, i was surprised that the bomb went off, but even more surprised that the issue wasn’t addressed directly either. The only clue we got to it’s having happened at all was dazed Mered. in the shwr w/Iz & Cris.

    To whoever said that abt wishing 2 turn the sndtrk off, oh LORDY am i w/ u!! it seems like they often feature the same awful, whiny & breathy female singer in every episode. awful. i’d mute it if my TV had subtitles.

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    srah
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 11:37 am

    She named the baby George Bailey? Was that because it’s a wonderful life? Does Mr Bailey have brain damage? I couldn’t tell from the few words he mumbled. I hope so.

    I’m one of those people who got sucked in by the CODE BLACK ads during the Super Bowl, having never seen the show before. So I don’t know the characters or the show that well or know who knows about the He-Shepherd/Meredith relationship, but I felt like Mrs Webber’s “This is not the droid he’s looking for” remark was for Dr Webber’s benefit rather than ours.

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    hog island
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 12:01 pm

    This episode really bothered me. On many levels but the most important is that massive herpes outbreak that every now and then pops up on Pomeo’s immobile face.

    M_ruv, what? I get no love. I’ve commented on Pompeo’s botox addiction for two weeks now.

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    Tabby Lavalamp
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 12:23 pm

    “ANd way to pussy out on the explosion. No intestines and blood flying all over the place? please. 2 guys just got disintegrated and they were both apparantly made entirely of gray clay.”

    Well, it is Grey Anatomy after all…

    Ha! Ha ha!

    Please don’t hurt me.

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    tvaholic
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 12:30 pm

    Oh my God, they killed Kyle! How could they, where will I get to see him next?

    I thought the same thing someone else said, maybe the explosion was a dream keeping in context with the show. So now the question is will they ever mention this again or will they actually talk about it, seeing as how you’ve got Izzie & Alex doing it for their country, (sorry, a little Grease 2) Meredith with potential PTSD (you know, she might get an eating disorder & GAIN some weight), and Webber with the anxiety attack. Or will all of this neatly go away?

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    D-Hoffs
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 12:40 pm

    And back at the house, Izzie stops by Meredith’s room to say there’s someone at the door to see her. Oh great, JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES.

    enjoyed that!!

    edhill: i agree…desperate housewives was weird

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    Leah3t
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 12:43 pm

    I rarely jump at stuff on the tv but I gasped aloud when old dude blew up. I was just sure the death was gonna be Mr. Bailey. So I give them props for surprising me. And naming the kid with a head nod to our favorite resident of bedford falls was great too.
    It was completely beyond me whu Cristina didn’t get slapped about five times in the episode. Bursting out into the corrider when a bomb was slowly being rolled, freaking McNightmary out when he was operating, boooo. She was annoying.

    Oh and EdHill? Stop looking at my va-jay-jay.

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    offinthewoods
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 12:49 pm

    I have had a kid, and there is no way when your having contractions like that, that you wouldn’t want to push. Its a natural tendency to want to push. You know, the doctor usually has to tell women not to push. Very unrealistic to me. Also, I thought that the bomb squad guy would stay live and take McDreamy off of Meredith’s mind for a while. Something new for a change.

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    stacyrocks
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 12:50 pm

    Those shots of Ellen Pompeo’s expression-less face were TOO funny!! “Did I leave the oven on?” cracked me up.

    About the explosion, I was so confused when the show came back from commercials and nobody is shaken up or running out of the hospital. I would think that a bomb going off would at least start the sprinkler system or an alarm. Even Shepherd & Burke took the damn elevator. I even hit rewind to see the ‘pink mist’. I was hoping for some toe or piece of shoe to land on Meredith or hit her in the face… oh well, can’t get everything right. I still really liked the episode and the recap.

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    msado
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 12:52 pm

    Well, at least they weren’t so stereotypical to pair Meredith off with Kyle Chandler. Nice baiting.

    I also had a problem with the lack of any mention of what just happened.

    Christina Ricci also looks somewhat different but I guess that’s because her massive forehead was hidden.

    Overall, unbeliveable but great for the most part. If they’d stop playing music everytime an emotion is expressed, it’d be even better. “Just Breathe” is a grating song.

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    copperpot
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 1:34 pm

    I know that this show requires a certain suspension of disbelief to make it palatable, but this episode raised some serious in terms of what sane, prepared, and compassionate people would do. I have to take issue with the whole moving-the-gurney-to-another-location scenario. Not that it wouldn’t happen; I’m not on the bomb squad, so if I’m running it’s because I’m late and you don’t have to try to keep up. I do, however, believe that trained professionals in the bomb-diffusing field would first survey the terrain that they were negotiating when moving a WOMAN WITH HER FINGER ON THE TRIGGER OF A LIVE BOMB. Maybe I’m the only one who would look ahead to make sure there weren’t any surprises like bumpy floor seams that could potentially cause the bomb to go off and kill everyone. And football-headed Cristina just couldn’t wait to drop the gossip on He-Shepherd that Meredith was the girl with her hand on the bomb, essentially yelling “NOONAN!” at him during brain surgery. This lady’s got the bedside manner of an upside-down bedpan. Instead of collecting patients’ waste, she dumps hers all over them. Brain surgeons probably need to keep focused during surgery, especially considering all the other extenuating circumstances. What did she hope to accomplish by telling him that?

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    EdHill
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 1:46 pm

    And did anyone else nitce that after their whole “we have to move because were over an oxygen line” brou haha, the bomb goes off and the floor is fine.

    My hair smells like lavender soemtimes too….

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    medlover
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 1:50 pm

    #15 (offinthewoods), I would normally agree with you about the natural desire for a woman to push during childbirth…however, this is no ordinary woman. This is Miranda Bailey. And Miranda Bailey is tougher than Jack Bauer…why?? BECAUSE SHE TELLS BABIES TO STAY IN HER AND THEY DO.

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    Emily
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 1:51 pm

    I don’t care what any of you think. I love this show and the music is great!

    And Meredith fell in live, he had a wife, her mother has alzheimers, and she has no one! She has a right to be whiny! Go Meredith!

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    kelley
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 2:15 pm

    It bothered me that they put the bulletproof jacket on everyone involved with the bomb, but what about a helmet/ mask? It seems rather counter-productive to protect ones’ chest/heart/lungs and let the head blow off.

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    Leah3t
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 2:23 pm

    kelley- another excellent point. (and the jacket didn’t help old dude stay together when the bomb did go off)

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    gwen
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 2:25 pm

    I thought the shower scene was a pretty obvious baptismal scene [saving/purifying Meredith]. It also seemed like a bit of reference to the three muses in Greek mythology.

    tvaholic: Kyle Chandler’s starring in a pilot based on “Friday Night Lights”. Hopefully it’ll get picked up so we can get our weekly dose again.

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    tvaholic
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 2:57 pm

    Thanks gwen, I’ll be on the lookout. And Leah3t-”old dude???” Is 35ish now OLD? I thought 40 was the new 30? copperpot-”Noonan”-great!

    I know how unrealistic tv is-I had to stop watching CSI (& it’s babies) as well as Crossing Jordan because of that. I have some education in criminal investigation and crime scene technology & while it’s great these shows have created interest in science & such, but it does a bit of an injustice to the reality it’s “based” on. (Watch The First 48-excellent!!) But we all want entertainment & if shows like Grey’s showed hospital life too relaistic, who’d watch? i love the characters & that’s what this show is about, not the hospital. Ok, off my soap box, my apologies-I guess I get a little defensive when someone picks on my kids!

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    Leah3t
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 3:32 pm

    ah, i meant ‘old dude’ in the cool black folk way (a la zoolander). like how we say ‘homeboy’ about a guy who lives five states away.

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    someonespecial
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 4:12 pm

    “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.”

    Haha, funniest line ever. Again, great recap. I’m really, really, REALLY liking this show.

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    Helenann
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 7:41 pm

    No, no, no…funniest.line. evah…: “Izzie and Alex have apparently parked the beef bus in tunatown”
    I can’t stop laughing…

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    ATCmurph
    Posted February 15, 2006 at 7:52 pm

    I liked this episode, and I like the song “Just Breathe,” or whatever the title is. My only bummer part was I knew that bomb guy was going to explode. I love being shocked and surprised, and that didn’t do it. Such a shame to explode such a looker. *SIGH*

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    zoobabe
    Posted February 16, 2006 at 1:00 am

    I didn’t know it ubtil Bailey’s husband didn’t die, Then I knew that Kyle was gonna bite the dust. It upset me to see him explode. I cried so hard I scared my dog (who was asleep on the bed). The fact that they didn’t mention the deaths/explosion afterwards bothered me too. The last scence where Dereck comes to see Meredith also bothered me b/c it seems like Dr. McPricky is just torturing Meredith so she’ll never get over him.

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    JayhawkAnne
    Posted February 16, 2006 at 1:58 am

    Am I the only one who was supremely bothered by the fact that Kyle Chandler blew up? Shouldn’t he have already known what was going to happen? Oh wait…wrong show. That was “Early Edition.” My bad.

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    index
    Posted February 16, 2006 at 2:43 am

    Just to let you know,i always look forward to your recap every week,its just hilarious! If somebody see me while im reading your recap,they might think im nuts,laughing in front of my monitor..Grey’s is the best show on televison right now!

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    g-child
    Posted February 16, 2006 at 5:28 am

    Yeah this episode was just a bit too campy. The whole conversation with Meredith and Cristina when they were rolling the gurny down the hall was just ridiculous. I was also distrubed by no mention of the bomb squad guy. But as soon as I saw the Loretta Devine was guest starring on the episode I knew that all that sass she was going to bring to the hospital was going to save the day! And Ellen Pompeo has got to be the worst person to have as a voice over EVER! The lisp, the croaking, I just want to punch her in her expressionless face.

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    Laurie
    Posted February 16, 2006 at 6:58 am

    I’m going to jump on the MEredith hate wagon. My god is that character annoying. The writers have dragged out her story line with Dr. McDreamy way to long, it has made her really unflattering to alot of women and makes him look like a ass as well. Seriously, get a new love intrest in there.

    I to was hoping Meredith and the bomb squad guy would hook up. Not only is he a good looking guy, but there was some chemistry there even when he was yelling at her. And for Ellen Pompeo to have chemistry with another actor is a impressive thing.

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    Acton Bell
    Posted February 16, 2006 at 10:47 am

    I wonder if not mentioning the explosion has the mundane explanation that the episode was just too long. Shows get cut all the time for length, and I wonder if they had one too many scenes and figured they had to get the “your hair smells like flahrs” conversation in at the expense of the “WTF–did a bomb just go off?” conversation.

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    Tony A.
    Posted February 16, 2006 at 11:05 am

    Shit, I must be from China or something. I’ve been waiting for the recap to say that the scenes from the bomb removal to the final shower scene WITH the background music building and building were supremely outstanding and all every body does is rag on the other happenings. Didn’t those few minutes stir you? I thought the show should have ended with the girls in the shower washing off the blood and George walking away. It was positively lyrical. My only disappointment was that they inserted the scene of Meredith giving McDreamy a soulful look after she just saw Kyle be “pink-misted” all over the hallway.

    I agree with Christina being the most selfish, self-centered, ignorant bitch in all of TV. Who the hell would interrupt a patient transfer while the bomb sits there, inside him? Jesus, somebody shoot her before she reproduces!

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    index
    Posted February 16, 2006 at 11:44 am

    The “American Beauty” reference is really funny!!!

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    tvaholic
    Posted February 16, 2006 at 12:22 pm

    Gotcha Leah, but I guess since I missed that I am getting old.

    I actually love Christina’s character-it’s great to see a woman with balls. I loved the line where she said she wasn’t going to tell Burke she loved him because he might blow up anyway. I don’t think she was interfering with the transport of the bomb/patient, she was helping Meredith get the fact that she was going to blow up off of her mind.

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    enni
    Posted February 16, 2006 at 2:47 pm

    YES!!! My sister and I have hated Meridith’s voice for ages. happy to hear that I am not the only one that the croaking , nasal voice irritates. And the way they handled the bomb going of wasnt just dumb it was insensitive. I get not wanting to turn the episode into a weep fest but PLS.

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