Derrick comes out of his own room, much to Grey's relief. He asks why everyone is up at 3AM but is distracted by the Jenna Jameson moans pouring from Izzie's room. Alex tells them to relax, she is probably just thoroughly enjoying her newly manicured lawn south of the border, all by herself. Derrick then hears Sadie from another room and realizes that Meredith has invited another pledge to live in the fraternity house. This is why Derrick has always lived in a trailer: nobody freeloads off of you when your house has wheels.
Izzie comes to the door sweaty and out of breath. Alex offers to come in and help her out with her new extracurricular activity but Izzie insists that she is sick and doesn't want him to catch it. So, one upside of having sex with a ghost is you won't get caught cheating on your boyfriend.
Nope, nobody in here, but me and my rabbit...
Bailey arrives at the hospital and is surprised by the new graveyard shift doctors who are there. Yang, Meredith, George and Alex are all in attendance and ready to help. Bailey, well aware that the residents aren't unselfish people, remembers that the last resident to be awarded a solo surgery had just completed an appendectomy. They all begin to beg, plead and kiss ass to be granted Bailey's number two for the surgery.
An unrelated trauma comes in with Major House and George is assigned to his service. Yang and Meredith get to work on the appendectomy and Alex gets a recently admitted abdominal pain. Bailey assures him though that it could be something worse so...fingers crossed! If only Major House were around to hear this overwhelming compassion for patients. It's seriously moving. And I hope the next time I'm getting a pap smear the doctor tells the nurses, don't worry girls, maybe it's something worse!! Fingers crossed!
Meanwhile, the interns are down in their personal lab and have one of the no-name interns under anesthesia. They debate over what they should do to him now that he is numb. I vote for drawing a penis on his face. That shit never gets old. Seriously though, if he wakes up in a bathtub filled with ice I'm totally calling bullshit on this writing. The interns, being interns which apparently translates to morons, forgot to put the catheter in, and the numbed no-name pees himself. That's probably why they prefer you do this kind of stuff in front of REAL DOCTORS. Poor guy. Peeing in front of your classmates is even worse than the dream where you show up naked to school.
Ok, you draw the penis I'll shave his eyebrows
Sadie tells Lexie that Meredith doesn't think they can be intern BFF's because Lexie is too wholesome. Never one to back down from a challenge, Lexie proves she's not all rainbows and Davy Jones records by suggesting they should remove no-name's appendix. No-name instantly pisses himself again. When he refuses to participate, Sadie volunteers herself to be the patient under the agreement that she gets to take out Lexie's afterwards. When did writers from Nip/Tuck join Grey's Anatomy? What's next, Denny is going to turn into The Carver?
In another room, McD, Major, Sloan and Torres examine a man who jumped through a window in the middle of the night and plummeted two stories, all while fast asleep. I'm not impressed because I've done similar drunk. Torres can relate to someone waking up and not knowing how the hell they got there. She's been homeless, straight, married, gay and now she's all alone and doesn't know how she got there. By the way, does anyone else remember when Callie was loaded? Yeah, me neither.
So they all start examining the sleep walker, and something irks me about this episode. How are all these doctors here all the time? I understand that the show is about them, but do they not sleep? And do they all have to work on every patient together? And, when did McD get there? Wasn't he at home sleeping? I know this is such a minor logic flaw when elsewhere Izzie is banging ghosts and the interns are taking out appendix' (appendici?) downstairs. But I digress...
Anyways, while they are examining the sleep walker, he wakes up and freaks out! He thrashes around like a fish out of water as they all try to control him. His poor daughter stands behind, begging him to calm down. He levels Torres in the face and she does down faster than Izzie at a haunted house. Nice, kick her while she's down Grey's.
OMG my dad is soooo embarrasing!
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Comments (12)
Great re-cap, extra funny this week! The plot line with Denny may suck but the jokes had me laughing out loud!
1 of 12 | Posted by jamz | Posted on November 25, 2008 2:25 PM
OMG, February! No no no no no! I've already reached my limit of being skeeved by this story. It has made me hate Denny, that overly possessive bastard. Where is the Ghost Whisperer when you need her? (Having her own problems with a dead guy, actually.) I wish Izzie would just ask him "Why are you doing this?" and have him give her a straight answer. This way, it just makes him seem like a pig. And why come back after so long? Because Shonda Rimes can't think of anything else, I guess.
2 of 12 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on November 25, 2008 5:35 PM
Love Denny. I just starting watching Grey's this summer, and he was the one that hooked me in. Now that he is back, it is almost bittersweet. I love to see him, (and ohhh if only the lighting was better when he took off his shirt!), but I cannot help to think that he isn't real. HOWEVER I am interested to see where this is going, or HOW it can continue to go on. . . The Denny jokes were very amusing, I too wondered where it was that he needed to go in order to get out of bed. I should have known it would have been facebook. Love the recaps. I have been reading them all season, so I thought it was about time I registered and gave you due credit!
3 of 12 | Posted by fehrever | Posted on November 25, 2008 6:20 PM
"Izzie, I was just..." but she interrupts him. He was just what? What were you doing Denny? You were just in the bathroom? You were just changing your Facebook status to "Denny is not dead"? What do ghosts do when they slip out of bed in the night?"
haha, i love these recaps! the izzie/denny storyline is soo stupid..but atleast we're gettin lots of laughs out of it :)
im so pissed, the ONE week i dont watch greys on ABC but on ctv, i miss the lost commercial...but i saw it during the ama's :) so its all good now.
4 of 12 | Posted by pirate1505 | Posted on November 25, 2008 7:31 PM
TWSS, you always pull the extra funny out of this show. Thanks.
I never thought I'd say that the 2nd least believable storyline on this show is the ghost sex. How in the ShondaLand are all these women falling in love with GEORGE? In real life, a dude like George is that guy who pines after a woman who doesn't know he exists (See Season 1) - or the gay sidekick. TR Knight has zero chemistry with every woman they've paired him with on this show. I really wish they'd stop putting us through this.
I also wish the GA writers would Sloan + Callie already.
Fehrever, you just started watching GA? You poor thing. These last two years really haven't done the show justice.
5 of 12 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on November 25, 2008 10:10 PM
This was the funniest thing I have read in a long time!
6 of 12 | Posted by rlr123 | Posted on November 26, 2008 7:41 AM
TWSS, thanks for the shout out!! That made my crappy day at work. Denny is dead and gone please leave it alone. I too did not understand the fight between Mer and Christina. I looked at my viewing partner and said "Did I miss something?" I guess it was all that pent up rage for listening to Mer complain for the entire life of this show. Watch out though Christina...another icicle might puncture your abdomen.
7 of 12 | Posted by Yanksfan24 | Posted on November 26, 2008 8:26 AM
Denny is hotter than 3/4 of the "romantic" leads on this show. No wonder they found a (tenuous) way to bring him back.
I completely agree with blahblah's assessment of George/TR Knight. He's like watching paint dry. But after the big Isaiah Washington dust-up, they aren't likely to write George out.
I would love a Sloan/Callie pairing. They're the two best things about this show.
Please kill off Sadie...and make it Deth's fault. Write 'em both out. (We have another Grey now to justify the name.)
8 of 12 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on November 26, 2008 9:12 AM
Okay - while reading your amazing recap, I was once more depressed by the idea that you recappers are not paid appropriately. I wish there was some way you could be properly compensated - especially in today's scary economy.
This was an outstanding recap. Thanks!
9 of 12 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on November 26, 2008 11:38 AM
Your recaps are always hilarious, and point out some of what I might have missed during the show; I love them.
Just one question - I did not discover your recaps until this season so maybe I missed the explanation behind it (if there was one), but why are you calling Derek 'Derrick'??
Like I said, if it is intentional then I'd love to know the joke behind it. But if it is just a type, please correct it - IT DRIVES ME BAT SHIT CRAZY to see his name spelled out this way. Thanks, and keep the laughs coming.
10 of 12 | Posted by renata | Posted on November 26, 2008 7:04 PM
HA! @ Yanksfan re: Cristina getting re-punctured by the Karma Icicle. I feel her pain, though. She has been a very good friend to Meredith, what with the endless whining about her should-they-or-shouldn't-they rship with Derek, mom's death, almost-suicide, etc. Does Meredith EVER ask Cristina how her day went? How she's feeling post-Burke? While funny and lovely at times, their friendship is so lopsided it's sickening.
I'm with Catty about killing Meredith off for good. Although, that would leave us with a permanent Lexie to justify the title. Ugh. Or maybe...the new interns can finally get a human body to dissect in the form of *drumroll* GREY'S ANATOMY! Too morbid? Sorry.
fire@will, wait a minute...TVGASM recappers don't get paid? WTF? I'm voting for a Recapper Bailout this instant! No wonder some take awhile to post their recaps. We're lucky to get them at all...
11 of 12 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on November 28, 2008 1:02 PM
Thank you TWSS! Your recaps are where I turn when I need some lol funny. Your recap was again dead on. I also appreciated the poo shuffle story. Here I was thinking I'm the only one who does that.
12 of 12 | Posted by kelmel | Posted on December 9, 2008 6:08 PM