This week on Grey's Anatomy, its morning time at the Karev trailer park and Karev is bustling around getting ready for the day. He maneuvers the piles of crap that are cluttering the already teaspoon size trailer, he showers and dries off with dishtowels, he brushes his teeth using a bottle of jack to rinse because the sink doesn't work and he finally leaves the trailer ready to face the world. When he opens the door he is greeted by the warm embrace of his new wife Izzie.
Kidding, it was a bear, but I'm not sure which is worse. At the hospital he insists to Izzie that the joys of living in a trailer have to come to an end. It's time to move back into the fraternity house. Izzie tells him to suck it up and deal because at this point, she is not moving backwards. She has to keep moving forward and if that means living like trailer trash and fighting off bears, so be it.
The Chief meets with his staff and recognizes that it has been a tough few days, what with a quarter of the hospital getting fired, but everyone needs to pull it together and be tough. He lets them know that despite the million questions they keep interrupting his speech to ask, he has no answers. So in the mean time, please enjoy this fabulous breakfast spread that our newly available funds have allowed us to afford.
In the ER, Yang is frantically trolling for a surgery she can get in on. After being kicked off two services recently she's pretty much f-ed if she can't start logging some hours. Her search is interrupted when Daddy Grey gets led into the ER by Lexie. She doesn't know what's wrong with him and Grey suggests testing his BAC. He swears he hasn't been drinking but wishes he could have made a toast at her post-it note wedding ceremony. The happy family reunion is interrupted when dad throws up blood all over Grey's shoes. He just ruins everything doesn't he?
All the residents fight over who gets to work on him except Grey who looks like she couldn't care less. Karev gets assigned his procedure as Lexie swears to Grey he isn't still drunk. Grey gives her a look that proves that she cares about this story line about as much as I do.
We find Sloan treating an elderly gentleman removing some excess skin thing. Naked old man back....sexy. The old man is accompanied by his overprotective pompous son and his overbearing wife. They keep talking to the old man like he is senile and they finally leave to go get him coffee. When they leave, the old man lets Sloan in on his BIG secret. The real reason he is here is because he has met a young chippy at his retirement home and he wants new wood in his stick to give to her. Finally, a patient Sloan can relate too.
Yang and Izzie are joined by the Major who invites Izzie to scrub in on a surgery. She is very excited and bounces off to go prep. When she leaves Yang is like WTF? I am dating you! The Major tells her he doesn't play favorites and he needed someone with a light touch. And since Yang is about as soft as the implant about to go in Pappa's Johnson, she's out and Izzie's in.
Meredith tells Derek the status of her dad. She can tell that he is having liver failure and about to die. I'm sorry what....liver failure is a real thing? How much do you actually have to drink...and for how long do you have to be a heavy drinker to worry about that? Just curious...Anyways, Daddy Grey needs a transplant.
The bad news for Dad is that you have to be sober for at least a year, and he is only pushing 90 days. 90 days sober though! That's not bad. They ought to celebrate, break out the champagne. Oh, wait, nevermind. So Dad can't get on a transplant list, but Lexie offers a piece of her liver to dad. I mean, he gave her a Barbie growing up, it's the least she can do. Grey watches the conversation progress with complete disinterest.
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Comments (5)
Great recap.
This merger thing - won't they still have TWO functioning hospitals? Or are they actually going to vacate a building? If they're going to keep them both (and re-name Seattle Grace) why would there be a need for a reduction in staff?
1 of 5 | Posted by Clair | Posted on October 15, 2009 9:47 AM
Great recap! I used to love this show, but all they did was kill people and screw each other. Boring! Actually, I take that back, that would be an interesting life...anyway, I think the reason they REALLY need to merge with Mercy West is that everyone's slept with everyone else at this hospital. They need new blood (literally and figuratively)...and probably some new sheets from that hospital!
2 of 5 | Posted by dearcrabby | Posted on October 15, 2009 9:51 AM
Can somebody tell me why Alex and Izzie can't afford an apartment of their own? Even as residents, they're pulling in 70K between the two of them. Make with the rent, you mooches!!
3 of 5 | Posted by Emmyloo | Posted on October 15, 2009 11:07 AM
Yeah, I don't watch this show anymore. It used up all of my good will last season. Look on the bright side, though: maybe the merger will bring some new and interesting people to the show.
4 of 5 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on October 15, 2009 3:05 PM
This show really had about 1.5 good seasons, but I'm still watching for some reason. Then again, I watched every damn season of ER, including about 7 years after I stopped caring. Probably just habit, inertia and loyality . . same stuff that allows me to stay married and faithful after 14 years . . LOL.
Anyway, hospitals merge all the time and keep multiple location. I think the cost savings come with having things like one HR department, one laundry, greater purchasing power for supplies, etc., and they can also have less doctors because they could have a guy like Shepard do on-calls at both hospitals.
BTW, that doctor Yang was sucking up to was, I believe, the running joke neurosurgeon who used to run the dept before Shepard showed up, with the running joke that no one knows or cares who he is. He got a couple scenes while Shepard was getting drunk in his trailer during his freakout last season.
5 of 5 | Posted by JasonR | Posted on October 16, 2009 8:04 AM