I'm really going to enjoy writing for Grey's but it sucks that I have to take over for m_ruv, because he was funny, and there was no way that I am going to be able to come close to the way he was able to come up with jokes about Ellen Pompeo's face and Sara Ramirez's breasts more quickly than Angelina Jolie could adopt third world babies. But the show must go on, so let's get it started, shall we?

I know I said I love Grey's, but there are some things I can do without. I really don't have a handle on the necessity for the constant voice overs. I've always been the "don't explain to me what I am watching, I knows what I am watching because I turned it on and I am watching it!” Alas, as with my problems with the dude on Heroes, I will have to let this one go. Per usual, Meredith starts us off by saying that "Nobody believes their life will turn out just kind of OK. We are filled with expectations of the trails we will blaze." I would agree for the most part, but some people out there just have lower standards. I count each day that goes by without a new picture of Britney Spears or Paris Hilton vag as a blessing. Asking for more would just be greedy, no?

As I watched the last year, I always thought that Burke and Christina were the best couple. Nobody would imagine that two people with such hug egos could co-exist in the same hospital, let alone the same room, but they made it work. If making sacrifices for your partner is the true measure of a relationship, betting on these two would be easy. And then there was the tremor, which seemed like it would be small, but proved itself stronger than anything you could find in a Kevin Bacon movie.

What's the point? Oh yes. Christina and Burke, Meredith and Derek were having dinner, which is great, except that Christina and Preston are still trying to get the other one to speak first. This is a situation that clearly requires a Dutch oven, but being as they are eating, something else will have to be done. Until then, it's the "International House of Silence" as Meredith puts it. If only the two of them had kids that got lost on their way back home from Saskatchewan, they could have called this episode "Babel".

Although there is not much speaking going on, Christina drops the bomb that the Chief is retiring and that he was thinking of naming Burke as the new chief. This surprised the He-Shepard because apparently, The Chief asked Derek about being the chief as well. Of course McDreamy is babbling and Meredith is babbling and talking about how a couple can be in a relationship and not talk. Seriously, all we need is a deaf Asian girl to start flashing people and this episode really is Babel.