It's time to meet this week's patients and we start with Jerry, who is apparently trying to set the land speed record for the most times saying the word "crap" in a 30 second period. He's really starting to make me uncomfortable. It looks like Jer many win my Least Favorite Patient of the Season Award and given some of the gross out patients on this show, that's really saying something!
Holy Crap! This guy won't stop saying crap!
Meanwhile, in this week's installment of the continuing efforts to demean Callie, she can't handle her job again today, so she begs Bailey to takeover and run things for the day saying, " Be me, only better. Be You." Gee, how blatant. I guess the writers think they've been being too subtle for the past several weeks in telling us how incompetent Callie is now, so they've decided to club us over the head with the notion.
Bailey uses her new authority to suggest that Christina try out other specialties besides cardio, since Dr. Hahn doesn't like her, so Christina goes down to the ER where she finds a woman who comes in after collapsing and dropping her baby. She comes in worried about the baby's injury, but when she collapses again, it's clear that she's the one in trouble. Christina keeps her alive, but then Hahn comes in and totally disses on Christina and takes over the case.
As Christina stands by, dejected, we move to George and the case of the bickering couple and the kid who likes to eat marbles. It turns out that junior ate the marbles because he had to do something drastic to get his parents to shut their yaps long enough for him to tell them that he wants them to get divorced. Junior is tired of living with the Bickersons.
Our final patient is an Extremely whiney woman who is in for a facelift. She complains about her looks and her lot in life and she says that she can't even remember the last time she had sex. No surprise there. I bet the guy Wishes he couldn't remember either!
Yikes! I'd want surgery too!
It turns out that the father of our injured baby (and the husband of the collapsing woman) is C-note from Prison Break and things aren't looking good for Mrs. Note, who has major lung issues.
I guess those conjugal visits went well.
We now take an abrupt break from life and death medical drama to return to Izzy and George's dorky efforts to have sex. George gets the idea to loosen things up by offering to fulfill any fantasy that Izzy desires and this is the end result:
The Horror! The Horror!
I don't know about you, but when the fantasy session ends with the girl in the bathroom, curled up in the fetal position and staring off into space with a horrified look on her face, I find that is usually a bad sign. Sure enough, they agree to never speak of the incident again and then Izzy assures us that in spite of it all, she is sure that they do have chemistry. Uh...yeah Izz, sure ya do...
Back at SGH, whiney facelift woman and Captain Crap are both being belligerent and uncooperative, so the residents go to Dr. Bailey to fill in for an absentee Callie and solve all of their problems. Bailey's solution: Put them in a room together and let them annoy each other to death. Sounds good to me!
Help us Dr. Bailey. You're our only hope!
The Chief also happens to wonder by and notice Bailey doing Callie's job. He's starting to realize that Bailey has been carrying Callie all along.
Down in the clinic, The Amazing Marble Eating Boy is back and now he's taken his act to the next level. Apparently eating marbles didn't get enough of a rise out of his parents, so he's switched to magnets. The thing about magnets, kids, is that they like to find each other and they don't mind going through organs to do it, which makes them especially exciting to eat!
How about a side of lead paint with those? It's delicious!
After surgery to remove the magnets, we return to C-note whose wife is not doing well and he doesn't think he can raise their newly adopted baby without her. He wants to start greasing the skids to send the kid back, prompting Lexie, who has been taking care of the baby, to give him her, "I'm hating you right now" look.
Meanwhile, Derek's husband comes home and walks in on him and Mer in bed.
It's not what it looks like, dear!
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Comments (14)
DLM, So enjoyed your recap (as always). George and Izzy together have given me the skeeves since it began, because it's totally unrealistic, especially after her schizo-mourning of Denny. Why oh why are GA writers trying to make George the new McDreamy? Not gonna happen unless he gets a little less milk toast. Somehow, I think GA writers will probably sense the public's collective "ewwww" on this whole relationship and have Izzy's character realize she wasn't really in love with George as much as she just needed someone to fill Denny's shoes. Please, GA writers, I'd like to go back to watching my show without getting the heebee jeebees every 10 minutes.
1 of 14 | Posted by TheGreatAndPowerfulShaz | Posted on November 14, 2007 5:00 AM
I loved the recap! I agree the crying was very non-Bailey and I too hope that the writers return Callie to her pre-Callie O'Malley awesomeness.
I just had one nitpick, though I don't know if this may have a joke that went over my head, but Mer and Lexie dad's name is Thatcher.
2 of 14 | Posted by Nakabe | Posted on November 14, 2007 6:52 AM
Thanks for the recap. I'll get back to it in a second, but right now, I need to get a few things off my chest.
I haven't liked the George/Izzie matching from the beginning. It's just gross! The worst part was when she said he was "sexy." I about crawled out of my skin!
For some reason, the George/Callie relationship doesn't bother me as much. Maybe it's because they don't force us to like them by throwing them in our faces every few seconds. Plus, I actually like the Callie character.
Bleh...they really need to end this G/I relationship, and S-O-O-N!
IMO, Meredith's sister needs to go as well.
Oh, and I thought the writing went back to "bad..." 2nd episode bad, this past week.
I may have to drop this show once and for all.
3 of 14 | Posted by ThisShowRocls! | Posted on November 14, 2007 7:53 AM
Good recap. Good to see the writers have picked up on the fact this Izzie-George thing is painful to watch and completely unbelieveable. You do see hot girls with nebbishy guys, but they have to have something going for them: funny, successful, smart, anything (single at least?). George is none of these things. While even as an intern who failed his boards he's smarter than 99% of the general population, in the SGH world he's a failure, and also a mopey sad sack in a pathetic, ill-conceived marriage to boot. No way a girl like Izzie would ever see him as more than a friend.
BTW, whenever I see Dr. Hahn all I can think of is "It puts the lotion on its skin, then it puts the lotion in the basket." I don't think I'll ever get past it.
4 of 14 | Posted by JasonR | Posted on November 14, 2007 7:56 AM
Hi DLM! Another great recap!! I laughed out loud as I read it. I can hardly wait till your next recap. I agree that George and Izzy are not a good match. He's better off with Callie.They need to go back to portraying her as the strong, intelligent doctor she once was. This weak, incapable version is unrealistic based on the past story lines.
5 of 14 | Posted by vmiller825@hotmail.com | Posted on November 14, 2007 8:42 AM
Good recap.
Dear writers (you have time to read this while you are on strike)... we are tired of the George-Izzie story. (I do get why she is attracted to George - she is a Type-A "rescuer" - I just don't care).
I liked Callie before she was promoted. Strong and confident.
There is no crying in baseball or Bailey... ever.
6 of 14 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on November 14, 2007 10:51 AM
While I do agree George/Izzie doesn't work. I disagree that someone like her would not be with someone like him. I disagree that they are not on the same level looks wise or that she is out of his league. She is good looking but she is not that hot. Anyone with a hi-def tv knows Katherine Heigl is not that serious. Plus they are friends, and these type of things tend to happen between male/female friendships.
7 of 14 | Posted by bakismaki | Posted on November 14, 2007 11:51 AM
JASON R!!
I am so in love with you right now!! I knew that I knew Hahn from somewhere!! As soon as you said that I felt a weight had been lifted!!! a big MUAH! but that still doesn't explain why I hate her!
8 of 14 | Posted by shelley | Posted on November 14, 2007 12:54 PM
JASON R!!
I am so in love with you right now!! I knew that I knew Hahn from somewhere!! As soon as you said that I felt a weight had been lifted!!! a big MUAH! but that still doesn't explain why I hate her!
9 of 14 | Posted by shelley | Posted on November 14, 2007 12:56 PM
Is Dr. Hahn gay? Perhaps that is why she has no interest in Sloan and doesn't want to be around Christina. Maybe she is attracted to Christina's skill and doesn't want to be around her and let that show.
10 of 14 | Posted by efog | Posted on November 14, 2007 12:59 PM
I never bought that Izzie-George relationship. I think that Izzie just wanted George because he had always been there for her as a friend, and she couldn't face losing him, especially right after Denny died. She wanted him to be at her beck and call.
I personally think it has tainted her love for Denny. It's sad to think about the episode when Meredith died, and Denny was there, just waiting for those magic moments when his path would cross with his beloved Izzie.
I still think Katherine Heigl is a beautiful woman; however, Callie has a more beautiful face. Meredith? Not even in the running--and that squeaky voice!
I stopped watching the show when the George-Izzie thing got serious. I may start again if they break up!
11 of 14 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on November 14, 2007 8:33 PM
>BTW, whenever I see Dr. Hahn all I can think of is "It puts the lotion on its skin, then it puts the lotion in the basket." I don't think I'll ever get past it.
ROFL!!!
what a fine piece of acting that scene was.
JasonR, you're HILARIOUS!
12 of 14 | Posted by babeblue | Posted on November 15, 2007 10:13 AM
So I have to say that at first I thought Shelley got this site confused with eHarmony & I really didn't want to have to read through her budding cyber passion for JasonR.
Then I googled It Puts the Lotion on Its Skin... and now I can say with the unfettered joy that Izzie and George would express if either of them got laid right... THANKS! I REALLY NEEDED THAT!
I'm now ready to knock Shelley down to get to you first, JasonR. It has been gnawing at me since the first It's My Heart! No, It's My Heart war when Denny was still gasping out his love for Izzie, and I never would have put my finger on it, but for you. I KNEW I'd seen those chipmunk cheeks and snide & sassy snarl somewhere before. I feel a lightness I haven't known since Burke got shot.
Seriously, JasonR, what can I do for you?
And shelley, I'm sorry I ever doubted your love for JasonR. & I can't explain why I hate her so much either. I always have, even when she was in the well. Even more now that I know she's not gonna get flayed before the credits roll. I think it's the cheeks.
p.s. ditto on Bailey wouldn't cry (maybe one dignified tear to punctuate It's About Time, but not the full on blubbering)
p.p.s. No, Hahn said she's NOT gay & that's why Christina can't hump her way onto the schedule anymore. Is it that inconceivable that a woman could be heterosexual but just not find Sloan's trolling for new pussy unattractive?
13 of 14 | Posted by zoo keeper | Posted on November 20, 2007 10:06 AM
oops -- not find it attractive. Damn those double negatives.
14 of 14 | Posted by zoo keeper | Posted on November 20, 2007 10:08 AM