After a great Thanksgiving episode, Grey's Anatomy was back in good form again this week. Moreover, George Dzundza fans the world over were delighted at the spectacular amount of screen time he was given. It was like Basic Instinct all over again! Anyway, on we go...
The episode opens with an ominous aerial pan over Seattle. Drama! Indeed, the first scene is at the nursing home, where Ellis Grey is freaking out about Dr. Webber going back to his wife. As she rants frantically, Meredith looks miserable. She tries to get Ellis to understand that all the events she's worried about happened a long time ago... back when men were men and Shelley Long was a bankable star. At first it looks like Ellis is finally understanding Meredith's words, but then she snaps back into dementia, exclaiming that Webber left her because she had a daughter, so she should never have had kids in the first place. Ooh, this would've made a great Mother's Day episode.
"How's my puffy Renée Zellweger look? I've been practicing."
At the hospital, a whole crowd of doctors is in Dr. Webber's office. And may I just say Webber is wearing a GREAT sweater. Love that cranberry, chief. Bailey is royally pissed, demanding to know what punishment Webber has in store for Burke and Cristina. Webber claims there's "no definition of justice within the four walls of a hospital"—please let's not overwrite, WRITERS—and technically and legally Burke and Cristina did nothing wrong, and besides nobody died. He orders Cristina back on rounds with Bailey, which prompts all manner of protest from our favorite Nazi. She finally assents sassily and leaves with Cristina. Webber then pressures Shepherd to do another surgery to fix Burke's $2 million hand. Burke says he doesn't want Shepherd's help.
"And yes, my first solo album will be titled Cranberry Playa"
George goes to visit his dad in his hospital room. Mr. O'Malley laments that his other boys aren't very responsible, so he tells George that his life insurance papers are in his nightstand and his "magazines" are hidden out in the garage. Initially George has no idea what his dad means, since when George thinks magazines he reflexively thinks of CosmoGIRL and Ladies' Home Journal. But then he FINALLY gets it just in time for Callie to walk in and overhear everything. George makes his way out, refusing to say hi to Callie even though his dad asks him to be nice to her. Mature!
On one of those spectacular floating walkways at the hospital—who designed this place, Richard Meier?—Shepherd laments that he could've done some tests on Burke's hand had he only known that Burke had a tremor. Burke says he doesn't want another surgery, since Shepherd caused enough damage with the first one. Great, now he's officially blaming Shepherd for the tremor—what a douchebag.
In the locker room, the interns backstab Cristina and drool over her seemingly imminent downfall. Meredith tries to defend her by saying Cristina merely made a mistake. Cristina finally arrives, and the others shun her, particularly George. After they all leave, Meredith asks Cristina how things are with her and Burke. Cristina says the two of them are existing in total silence. She rebuffs Meredith's other attempts to be nice and caring, since she hates people fawning over her. Bailey comes in and angrily collects them to go on rounds.
Dr. Montgomery asks whether Meredith might be interested in her case—it's Meredith's long-lost half-sister Molly, who's in for an emergency C-section. Meredith tries to distance herself, saying Molly isn't really family, but then Meredith's stepmother comes over and tries to make nice. My word, Mare Winningham AND George Dzundza in one episode? It's simply too much.
Back in Mr. O'Malley's room, George's mom lays out breakfast for the interns. Unfortunately, George's brothers arrive suddenly and devour the food like hyenas, leaving only the bones, which Dr. Torres crunches with glee. Dr. Hahn asks for an intern, so Bailey assigns her Cristina. The other interns are shocked, since they figured Cristina was firmly on the punishment track.
But Bailey leads them out in the hall, smacks them all silly with her bejeweled handbag, and says if they don't stop whining she won't show them what's behind the door to patient room #2. When she opens the door, it turns out to contain a pair of adult conjoined twins. The interns now understand that Cristina certainly got the most boring case of the day.
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Comments (14)
Great recap as always, m_ruv! I totally would have missed the Barbara Walters cameo if not for your recap. :-)
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it before or not, but Dr. Hahn reminds me of someone. It's been bothering me for a couple of weeks now and I think I might have finally figured it out: Big Brother 6 winner Maggie. http://www.cbs.com/primetime/bigbrother6/_guests/_maggie/
Does anyone else see it?
1 of 14 | Posted by JayhawkAnne
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Posted on December 6, 2006 7:47 AM
"It's a surefire ratings smash!"
m_ruv, you are so funny. why don't you write more tvgasm recaps???
2 of 14 | Posted by stella
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Posted on December 6, 2006 9:00 AM
PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE DALAI LAMA...
Classic. Great recap.
#1, Dr. Hahn was also in the Silence of the Lambs. You know, the one who spent the majority of the movie in the well.
3 of 14 | Posted by parttimecynic
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Posted on December 6, 2006 9:09 AM
parttimecynic (#3)- Yes, I remember her well from Silence of the Lambs. Who could forget her scene with Monk's Capt. Stottlemeyer (a.k.a. Buffalo Bill), "It rubs lotion on it's skin. It does this whenever it's told." I just meant that I was obsessing that she looked like someone else, such as the Nerd Herd leader, Maggie.
4 of 14 | Posted by JayhawkAnne
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Posted on December 6, 2006 10:05 AM
Great recap. Burke really is a douche. I can't believe I like McDreamy more than him now, and I used to HATE McDreamy.
All of the interns EXCEPT George relented on Cristina in the end since she's done nothing but ridiculed him whenever he's messed up.
5 of 14 | Posted by keenai
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Posted on December 6, 2006 10:37 AM
Oh m_ruv, I knew when I saw Christina doing the "running whip stitch" again, you would be sure to comment on it...and I'm so glad you did. I mean enough already, we know this thing works. Why not try another procedure we haven't seen before.
Great recap as always. I loved the cranberry jokes.
6 of 14 | Posted by LeslieAnne25
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Posted on December 6, 2006 11:16 AM
'if he wants her to respect him he has to do something worth respecting. Like lie in bed in a lumberjack outfit all day and do crossword puzzles until his heart gives out.'
HA!!! thank you for that, m_ruv, i still haven't forgiven the writers for all the Denny crap they put us thru last season. Loved the cranberry comments, so in keeping with the holiday!
7 of 14 | Posted by Tati
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Posted on December 6, 2006 11:24 AM
"Cristina steps in and furiously starts doing her infamous running whip stitch, since apparently that fixes everything from tachycardia to leaking mitral valves to constipation."
HaHa loved that! If only it could fix that constipated look on Mer's face.
8 of 14 | Posted by msCCRN
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Posted on December 6, 2006 3:29 PM
"...he does go by the name "Luxury Divine" when he's onstage at The Plum Smuggler on Tuesday nights."
Dear God, I almost peed myself when I read that (okay, I peed a little...satisfied?!?) The Plum Smuggler....HAH! "Bull's ass...that's great!"
Between that and the 'Passive-agressive Dalai Lama" comment, I'm quickly running out of underpants here.
9 of 14 | Posted by Shaz
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Posted on December 7, 2006 6:45 AM
m-ruv, loved the recap.
I think the twins storyline was so bad. I guess they needed something to unite the surgeons, and this was it.
Love how Dr. Bailey has to stand on a step stool to reach in surgery.
10 of 14 | Posted by may1
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Posted on December 7, 2006 11:23 AM
Great recap m_ruv
George is getting on my last nerve lately and I thought Meredith was pretty bitchy but it was a good ep
so sad we have to wait till Jan 4th for another :(
11 of 14 | Posted by memyI
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Posted on December 7, 2006 4:06 PM
Sweet, a shout out to the ever-popular SGH quasi-outdoor cafeteria! Your lumberjack, crossword, heart patient joke was the bestest. Loved Izzie shooting down the first coffee request. Burke drives me craaaazy...don't care what happens to him.
12 of 14 | Posted by tvtvtv
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Posted on December 9, 2006 6:04 PM
Kudos, m_ruv, for making a silk purse out of a sow's ear. I couldn't get excited about this episode until I read the recap and relived the good moments.
The "new" George is really getting on my nerves. His pissy, bitchy attitude is just too much to bear, but, remember that I predicted, several weeks ago, that George was going to follow T.R. Knight out of the closet. That will explain his over-the-top anger toward sweet Dr. Torres and his own siblings.
Burke or Shepherd, one of the two (I'm betting on Burke), is going to be leaving SGH. That ex-friendship is getting more and more bitter, and it will be easy enough to keep Burke apart from Christina.
Happy to see Bailey becoming more relevant in this show. She's no longer "the Nazi" but she can still crack that whip. Alex and Izzie are due for another closet rendesvous, too. WTF ever happened to that check?
I sincerely regret that this show has the Pomp as the central character, as, with the possible exception of Izzie, she is the worst actress in the bunch. Her curled lip when she attempts to be soulful makes her look mean and bitchy instead.
Let's see what they come back with in Jan. Incidentally, I'm getting tired of these truncated seasons. Let's get back to the old method where we had all the new episodes run sequentally and then do the reruns. I suspect thay do this to avoid us defecting to another network and watch the shows we missed there.
13 of 14 | Posted by Tony A.
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Posted on December 11, 2006 11:12 AM
Winning(ham)
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I guess they really are beating themselves up over whether to get the surgery or not. HAR HAR HAR.
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Like lie in bed in a lumberjack outfit all day and do crossword puzzles until his heart gives out.
OMG - SO funny!!!! Thank you!
All of the interns EXCEPT George relented on Cristina in the end since she's done nothing but ridiculed him whenever he's messed up. --> --> --> --> --> --> I think the reason that George hasn't let Christine off the hook is that she intended to continue her charade with Burke right through the operation on George's father - who wouldn't be mad at someone who put your father's health at risk?
The "new" George is really getting on my nerves…That will explain his over-the-top anger toward sweet Dr. Torres and his own siblings --> --> --> --> --> --> I think that George is pissed at his brothers because they refuse to see what he has become [a very responsible, educated doctor who holds the lives of his patients in his hands every day] and will only see him as what he used to be [the klutzy baby of the family]. Sad to say, I have some experience with this myself as a doctor/lawyer who is fifth of six kids and the youngest boy. George needs to realize that they are the ones with the problems and that it is about THEM, not HIM - and then he needs to bitch to his freinds, like we all do about our families, and avoid going home as much as possible.
As for Callie - LOVE her, but not the boffing McSteamy the day she broke up with George. That was tacky, even if they weren't together any more - has nobody in this hospital ever heard the expression "You don't s--t where you eat"?
Hopefully
1 George will apologize to Callie for being an ass/she will understand because of the strain he's been under, and
2 Callie will apologize for being insensitive and jumping into the sack the first moment she could [of course she knew people would find out!!!!][or at least she should have]/George will realize that everyone makes mistakes and also realize that after sleeping with the hottest doctor on staff she came back to George because she LOVES him so
14 of 14 | Posted by Lestat1966
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Posted on December 24, 2006 9:18 PM