This week's Grey's Anatomy was all about making fresh starts, turning over new leaves, finally installing that replacement shower curtain liner—a truly original New Year's theme that no previous TV show has ever explored.
We open with George at the apartment, struggling with the dog. As expected, the dog's resentment that its owners are never home has boiled over into hellraising rage in the span of just two episodes. Izzie, oblivious to everything except her transmissions from the mother ship, tells George that she's thinking of coloring her hair red. As long as the cuffs and collars match, fine by me. Meredith arrives and, combining a newly growling, Kathleen Turner voice with her innate Earth-mother, Jane Goodall folk wisdom, manages to calm the canine devilspawn. George is unconvinced, complaining that the foul beast always tries to mount him from behind. Yeah George that's what dogs do to BITCHES.
At his trailer in the mountains, Dr. He-Shepherd brings back a trout he's caught with his bare hands between sets of one-armed pushups on the riverbank. Unimpressed by such showy masculinity, Dr. She-Shepherd rejects her mate's piscine offering and says she hates country living. Dr. Webber, meanwhile, visits the nursing home to see his old flame, Meredith's mother, Ellis. She flirts with him shamelessly and Alzheimersly before she getting distracted by a plate of Oreos and her zoo animals coloring book. Dr. Webber tries to tell her something but can't bring himself to do it.
At the hospital, Dr. Burke asks Cristina whether she's given in to the spirit of auld lang syne and decided to move in with him. Cristina says she doesn't do resolutions and besides, you dumbass, the Korean new year isn't til the end of the month. Since Cristina's unable to answer, Dr. Burke asks her an easier question—what was she planning to do with their baby before she miscarried? She passes on this one too and opts for the physical challenge instead.
Dr. Webber tells the assembled interns he's resolved to enforce the rules and won't allow anyone to work more than 80 hours a week. The nurses will have to work extra to compensate, and nobody likes a cranky nurse, except maybe in East German porn. Izzie starts to retort that Alex will be sure to "cheer up" the nurses with offerings of frankincense and syphilis. But suddenly she gets a message from Jesus, flips the bipolar switch to its sweetie-farm-girl setting, and says she's made a resolution to "let things go" and no longer torment Alex about his philandering. Izzie apologizes, asks how Alex's medical boards went, and even says she's pulling for him. Wow, they really must have upped her dosing for 2006.
Dr. Webber steps into the O.R. to tell Dr. Burke that one of his heart transplant patients has found a donor. The donor is in Idaho, so Dr. Burke decides to dispatch Dr. Bailey to check the heart's viability. Ooh I cannot WAIT to see Dr. Bailey's showdown with Sea-Tac airport security. Dr. Webber then sends Cristina home because she's exceeded her 80 hours for the week. She resists mightily because she has no life outside the hospital aside from her liquor cabinet and reruns on the surgery channel.
Dr. Burke's heart transplant patient turns out to be the love child of Nicolas Cage and Steve Carell. He immediately has the hots for Izzie, whose Prozac-addled curves set his virally-afflicted heart aflutter. A true match.
It's been all downhill since Leaving Las Vegas
Dr. Bailey grumbles that The Man sure didn't cap the work week at 80 hours when she was an intern. Chronic foot-in-mouth sufferer George says that the extra rest will be good for Dr. Bailey since she's so pregnant. This elicits the much-feared "dubious black woman" threat posture, which George attempts desperately to stave off by saying Dr. Bailey is "fresh, spry, you glow." Yes, George, she glows like a giant fetus-laden brown dwarf.
Dr. She-Shepherd's patient is a young girl firmly in the Hilary Swank mold. Though named Rebecca, she goes by "Bex"--like the beer, only more modern. Why not Yuengling? Anyway, St. Pauli Girl has an enlarged pelvic lymph node that needs to be removed. While drawing her blood, George notices that she has some nasty razor-blade scars on her wrists. Ah yes, the old mental-illness twist. Genius!
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Comments (20)
I thought Mr. hotty-heart patient had a very Robert Downey Jr quality about him.
funny recap!
It wasn't the best episode, but I thoroughly enjoyed it anyway.
*yay to Sandra Oh for taking home the Golden Globe!!!*
1 of 20 | Posted by Meesh
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Posted on January 17, 2006 10:30 PM
The wife of the guy who ate his book is the actress who played Julie, Ross's girlfriend on Friends. I felt so triumphant when I figured that out...
2 of 20 | Posted by kittyw
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Posted on January 18, 2006 6:43 AM
The wife of the book guy was also one of the daughters in the Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan~
3 of 20 | Posted by opleiadeso
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Posted on January 18, 2006 7:09 AM
"At 14 I was a hermaphrodite..." That caption was hee-larious!
Also, I agree with you Meesh (#1), heart guy looked more like Robert Downey Jr. than Nicholas Cage, but he is hairy like Steve Carell.
Also, in the beginning of the show, I was prematurely excited when George said he needed a haircut! To my dismay he kept the greasy mop. I don't know if he would necessarily become handsome, but it would please me.
4 of 20 | Posted by AvaMarie
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Posted on January 18, 2006 7:42 AM
m_ruv, I thought you were a bit grouchy about this episode when doing your recap, do you even like this show at all?
I think we all saw it coming that the dog was going to go crazy, so either the writers already had this planned or they started getting word of Animal Rights groups getting pissed off...either way, the dog will be going back soon.
HOnestly I think the whole storyline with McDreamy and MEredith and Addisaton is pretty good. I mean, yeah its a bit slimy that McDreamy told Addisaton that she should just wait out his feelings for MEredith, but I think thats pretty realistic. COnsidering he fell in love with MEredith and he has to see her almost everyday, wouldnt it be a bit unfair to expect that his feelings would go away? Not to mention he is probably going through a bit of a tug-o-war considering Addisaton cheated on him and he obviously doesnt love her anymore, but he is trying to do the "right thing". And the woman he really loves is there all the time and that makes it hard for solid feelings to go away.
It would be totally unrealistic to show McDreamy totally ignoring Meredith and being completely "dreamy" with Addisaton. Especially considering the environment they are in...
5 of 20 | Posted by CB
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Posted on January 18, 2006 8:39 AM
Oh and I really think the heart transplant guy should date Izzie. She needs someone who would treat her right, and he so seems that he would. I didnt think he was all that HOT, but he certainly does have some Downey in him. They seemed to have some chemistry there and Alex just isnt mature enough for Izzie.
6 of 20 | Posted by CB
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Posted on January 18, 2006 8:41 AM
I so don't think that Izzy should date the Heart Guy. She is a loose cannon and this guy isn't going to last long, so I couldn't imagine how she would react to his death. I agree with CB on Dr. She-Shepard's expectations, but he did say he would give it a shot to work on their marriage and that includes trying to reconciliate with his wife.
7 of 20 | Posted by AvaMarie
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Posted on January 18, 2006 9:49 AM
I think Izzie should date him. A girl has "needs", she said so herself!
Oh wait- that might kill him. My bad.
8 of 20 | Posted by zoobabe
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Posted on January 18, 2006 10:49 AM
CB thanks for the comments. I LOVE the show, but if you're looking for breathless adulation of every episode, this won't be the best source. I do agree that Addison is being realistic, and I think it's interesting how sympathetic they've managed to make her character, but I think at this point Derek is just being selfish and immature.
9 of 20 | Posted by m_ruv
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Posted on January 18, 2006 10:54 AM
I do expect criticism, and I agree with you on some points, I just kind of felt like there was a lot of negative comments instead of criticism and some positive... Im sure I wont like em all and Im stickin around so I guess Ill have to deal... :o)
10 of 20 | Posted by CB
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Posted on January 18, 2006 12:11 PM
"pass on that one and opt for the physical challenge"
i got a bit nostalgic there on old nickelodeon game shows, o Double Dare 2000.
11 of 20 | Posted by Mr. Negativity
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Posted on January 18, 2006 3:51 PM
I actually think this was the best Merideth episode in awhile,, at least she wasn't giving people four hour erections, or pitiful. Also Bex only had one testis i really don't see how that makes her/im a boy when she had all the other girl parts, but whatever. ALso I'm not sure how much i like the Ann Coulter dissing.
12 of 20 | Posted by Mr. Negativity
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Posted on January 18, 2006 4:04 PM
m_ruv - I enjoyed the recap - great snark!
"Dr. Webber tells the assembled interns he's resolved to enforce the rules and won't allow anyone to work more than 80 hours a week. The nurses will have to work extra to compensate" Yeah cuz there is nothing more dangerous than an overtired doctor prescribing meds - Oh yea, cept an over tired nurse administering them ... Eek!
13 of 20 | Posted by TinkerbellAPixie
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Posted on January 18, 2006 4:58 PM
The Ann Coulter line would have been funnier if you compared Bex's Adam's Apple to Mr. Coulter's
14 of 20 | Posted by agatilao
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Posted on January 18, 2006 5:17 PM
the george getting mounted bercause he's a bitch comment is so true, don't get me wrong i think george is adorable, but he's needs to grow a pair
"she glows like a giant fetus-laden brown dwarf" LMAO
15 of 20 | Posted by hardly@work
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Posted on January 19, 2006 6:49 AM
when i saw izzy's heart patient guy the first thing i thought was "clive owen"!! no one else?
16 of 20 | Posted by baf
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Posted on January 20, 2006 1:03 PM
Rebecca = Becky = "Becks"
Not Bex.
Yes, I'm the lameass who left a comment about THAT.
17 of 20 | Posted by brett
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Posted on January 20, 2006 5:38 PM
Actually brett, not according to the ABC website. I do my fact-checking, bitches:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/greysanatomy/episodes/2005-2006/13.html
18 of 20 | Posted by m_ruv
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Posted on January 21, 2006 6:32 AM
Mr. Negativity: for bex to have a testis, probably at least half (if not all) of her chromosomes would be XY (male), so if things had gone the way they were supposed to developmentally, she would have been a male. in other nerdy news, izzy always puts her stethoscope in her ears backwards and it drives me crazy.
great recap. m_ruv, loved the use of piscine and Alzheimersly.
19 of 20 | Posted by ldini79
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Posted on January 22, 2006 11:30 AM
Hey guys,
Katherine's new film, Side Effects, is coming to the Pioneer Theater in NYC for a limited engagement, Friday, February 10th, and Saturday, February 11th. Â
Just thought I'd let you know about a good place to catch more of Izzy, if you're in the NYC area!
Click one of these links for more ticket information:
Friday show: http://pioneertheater.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=44862,
Saturday show: http://pioneertheater.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=44863.
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www.sideeffectsthemovie.com

20 of 20 | Posted by b123
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Posted on January 25, 2006 10:18 AM