After a week off, Grey's Anatomy was back in fine form. As promised, it was a pretty light-hearted episode. I didn't think the writing was quite as good as it's been in recent weeks, but it was pretty entertaining nonetheless. And as an added bonus there was NUDIE SANDRA OH.
In her profound voiceover of this week, Meredith declares that people LOVE games. Basketball, shuffleboard, hide the salami, what have you. But what's Meredith's favorite game? No, not crushing the souls of vulnerable, doe-eyed interns with her insatiable sexual appetite—it's knitting. Yep, the old bag is sitting in the doctors' neighborhood bar KNITTING. He-Shepherd tells her that she looks a little weird making a scarf at the bar. I'd add "hunched," "bony," and "Montgomery Burnsian," but hey, I was never big on yarn.
Anyway, our old bag says she's taken a vow of celibacy—and drinking is bad for celibacy because it makes her lose her judgment and the next thing she knows she's flinging her tatas around like Josephine Baker and breaking men's penises, hearts, and/or marital vows. She-Shepherd pops in to do her whole folksy empathetic bit, but Meredith just keeps complaining that all the men she meets are unavailable or otherwise ill-suited. So instead she's turned her attention to WOOL SWEATERS. Great, next week she'll probably be a full-blown lesbo, making pottery and petting the cats and wearing burlap bras.
What's up, SCOLIOSIS
Back at the hospital, Izzie too is knitting, beside Denny's bed while they play Scrabble. She complains that George isn't the same anymore since Meredith messed him up. Now he has bad hair and is making bedroom eyes at this Dr. Callie Torres character—and what's worse, Callie is "not a name." Yeah, last time I checked neither is Izzie, IZZIE. Denny ignores this and plays the triple word score "mount" for 69 points. Subtle! Izzie says she too took the celibacy vow, for whatever batshit reason the mothership fed her. Denny uses this to launch into all manner of innuendo about boobies and panties, like he does every time Izzie is around. Izzie plays hard to get, but she's about as convincing as, say, Al Reynolds at his bachelor party.
Uh-oh, looks like the mothership sent some static
At Burke's apartment, he, Cristina, George, and Callie are playing that game "Celebrity" where you put famous people's names in a hat and have to get your team to guess them via clues and charades. Cristina, as one would expect, is ultracompetitive and judges George and Callie harshly for using fecal metaphors to guess the name of FEMA director Michael Brown. Burke, pimped out with a glass of red wine, tells Cristina to calm down cause it's just a game—you know, like her old favorite, "Pin the Polyp on the Duodenum." But Cristina won't have it, so to put her in her place, Burke pretends not to know the answer to the next really easy name that comes out of the hat. Thwarted Cristina proves to be HI-LARIOUS to watch.
Prestige... decadence... ego-driven... PASSION!!!!
Sore loser Cristina is still whining about the game the next day at the hospital. To her the whole point of games is that there are winners, and anybody who settles for second-best is a self-loathing cretin, or perhaps Jennifer Aniston. The game night has only fueled Cristina's desire to get George out of the apartment. Meredith suggests that to get rid of George maybe Cristina should sleep with him and halfway through start crying. Haha, GREY HUMOR is the new black humor. But Cristina says she has to find a way to convince Burke to kick George out himself.
In Burke's O.R., Alex shows off some of his newfound medical knowledge—he's been studying apparently—but then angers Burke by commenting that the patient they're working on is "toast" because her cancer has spread so much. Cristina, meanwhile, enrolls in a laparoscopic surgery seminar the hospital is offering, taught by Kim Jong Il. Needless to say, Cristina is officially the teacher's pet and throws her hand in the air to volunteer for everything. This scene is broadly played, and Cristina just comes off as over-the-top and annoying—WE GET IT, she's competitive. Cristina doesn't understand why Dr. Webber is taking the class also. He says he just likes a refresher now and then, especially after a nice Alzheimersy sex romp.
"Today's seminar will be about laparoscopy and... STALINISM"
« Clipgasm: Everybody Cut Loose Edition | Main | Improv Olympics »
Comments (29)
Yay!! I'm the first!!
Ok, you had me rollin on the floor-laughing my ass off! You are hilarious!! The mother ship, ego-driven passion! It is all hilarious, too many funny parts to name them all!! Thank you, thank you for making me laugh so much!
OK YOU NEED TO LOOK AT THIS-SOMEONE STOLE YOUR PHRASE!! http://www.cafepress.com/buy/greys+anatomy/-/pv_design_details/pg_9/id_11669150/opt_/fpt_/hlv_t
1 of 29 | Posted by Emily
|
Posted on April 6, 2006 5:10 PM
Oh, and 1 more thing-is Callie really big or is George really small?
I mean, I am glad that they have found each other, but I don't know. I hope I didn't offend anyone.
2 of 29 | Posted by Emily
|
Posted on April 6, 2006 5:12 PM
Callie is bigger for sure, but she's really sexy with the weight on.
3 of 29 | Posted by Jesus_loves_you
|
Posted on April 6, 2006 5:25 PM
M-ruv you are too freakin funny. This update was great.I loved Dr. Webber and Christina in this ep.. The mother-daughter scene was so sad, almost cried.
When you said Kim Jong Il I was crackin up remebering the Team America movie(hilarious movie btw).
4 of 29 | Posted by Vasha
|
Posted on April 6, 2006 5:53 PM
Callie looks great and George looks horrible, I love him but that hair is eww.
5 of 29 | Posted by Vasha
|
Posted on April 6, 2006 5:55 PM
"She WOULD use the freezer to prep the nips." Too funny! Great recap.
Personally, I love the relationship between Denny and Izzie. I thought it was brilliant when he broke the mood by asking her to just show him one boob. Maybe I'm just a sucker for a heart patient.
6 of 29 | Posted by Pie
|
Posted on April 6, 2006 6:04 PM
Very funny recap m_ruv! I liked this episode. George is getting some and Denny's making it known that he wants some. Meredith's attractiveness to men still puzzles me though. Is she really THAT cute to be getting hit on by McDreamy, McSteamy, and McVetty? Oh well.
My mom died of cancer so this episode made me BAWL at the end. :(
7 of 29 | Posted by zoobabe
|
Posted on April 6, 2006 6:50 PM
Zoobabe - My girlfriend and I have argued about this one. Meredith's attractiveness is so suspect, I totally find Addison much more attractive, followed by Izzy, Christina, Callie, the little red-headed nurse, Bailey and then possibly Meredith.
8 of 29 | Posted by Jesus_loves_you
|
Posted on April 6, 2006 7:01 PM
The knitting was so weird and the Meredith / He-Shep / She-Shep exchange so uncomfortable that I actually hoped for a moment it was a dream sequence. Why?! I mean, isn't that whole "young-hot-actresses-in-Hollywood-love-knitting!" thing over already? Couldn't they pass the time doing something cooler like playing MadLibs or "painting" their nails with highlighter?
Dude, we had the same gross out moments! Grey Daddy's "know her" comment and Izzie's "smell the sweater"...both vaguely icky.
I admit I too shed a few tears over that whole mother-daughter mess. And then I cried some more because I was embarassed that Grey's Anatomy was making me cry.
She lives IN the hospital?!? In that tiny brick hole with no windows and pleather furniture? Is this a joke?
9 of 29 | Posted by tvtvtv
|
Posted on April 6, 2006 7:51 PM
Meredith's Dad does resemble Spader/Shatner!
There's tons of contrived crap in all these episodes but the writing is almost above it. The cast smashing was a bit much. Sandra Oh is always on the exaggerated side of acting. I think Denny is the dead husband of Mary Louise Parker in Weeds. He's the hottest man on the show by far.
I kinda tolerate Meredith like I tolerate Kate on Lost. Their acting is like an irregular seam in a really great jacket.
10 of 29 | Posted by plethLaura
|
Posted on April 6, 2006 8:00 PM
Help me out with the timing here. How old was Meredith when her parents split up? For some reason I thought she was 7 or 8. But she must have been younger in order for her father to have another daughter in med school (minmum age there 23) and then the pregnant one was 22? Or, maybe the writers are acknowledging that Ellen Pompeo is pushing 40, so they've made her slightly older than the other interns, who are about 28, yes? She probably took a couple years off to get drunk and have sex all over Europe.
11 of 29 | Posted by Bauer's Sweetheart
|
Posted on April 6, 2006 8:38 PM
Ah, good question. (Poor Mer / Ellen is lookin' about 43 in that scoliosis screen shot.) Shonda needs to get on that one and let us know...
12 of 29 | Posted by tvtvtv
|
Posted on April 6, 2006 8:46 PM
i'm not sure if i imagined this, but i am pretty sure that at some point in the show, it was once mentioned (or we as the audience were supposed to infer) that meredith had taken off some time before med school, which would put her in her 30's and make the timeline with the younger half-sisters work.
13 of 29 | Posted by jtmoney1121
|
Posted on April 6, 2006 9:42 PM
Run away George! The woman appears to live in a hostpital hallway! that is CRAZY. weird weird weird and the dumbest part of the ep.
I loved the spelling kid. Don't know why.
Merdith's coloring is getting more ashen and weird ever week. I wanted to adjust my tv screen as I watched.
Chief's celebratory song and dance rocked.
14 of 29 | Posted by Leah3t
|
Posted on April 7, 2006 6:30 AM
sara ramirez is a theatre actress-she absolutely does not know how to cover her shoulders/bra straps.
Also- I thought her living in the hospital was weird, but the fact that she was playing video games was super cute.
15 of 29 | Posted by norrinator
|
Posted on April 7, 2006 8:19 AM
#11 "She probably took a couple years off to get drunk and have sex all over Europe."
bauer's sweetheart, your comment was mad funny (and probably true).
when darlene off of roseanne made the underwear with pantyhose comment to her daughter, all I could think was, people actually wear pantyhose without panties?!? GROSS. But apparently it’s more common than I thought:
http://tmz.aol.com/article2?id=20060405111309990001
16 of 29 | Posted by babeblue
|
Posted on April 7, 2006 10:16 AM
Ummm, that wasnt Darlene, that was Roseanne's sister, which for some odd reason her name escapes me for the moment. Darlene was Roseanes youngest daughter. Anyway, I thgouht this episode was alright. psrtly predictable, but I agree, WTF is Callie doing living in the basement? Classic OH walking out nekkid, hehehe.
Petting the cats!!! m-ruv, you are a genius.
17 of 29 | Posted by CB
|
Posted on April 7, 2006 11:34 AM
and the above post by me is why they have PREVIEW before POST
18 of 29 | Posted by CB
|
Posted on April 7, 2006 11:36 AM
Laurie Metcalf played Jackie..Roseanne's sister..she always wore flannel shirts
19 of 29 | Posted by MariaBird522
|
Posted on April 7, 2006 12:55 PM
I thought Meredith was attractive in Old School but now she looks like she should be one of the dying patients, not a doctor.
The Callie in the basement thing creeped me out a lot... I think most men in that situation would have asked about 100 other questions before getting to "do you cut hair?"
20 of 29 | Posted by flymotha
|
Posted on April 7, 2006 1:21 PM
I just hope that after George and Callie finished making out that she went right back to cutting his hair. If I have to endure another week of the shag caesar, I will vomit. It's totally distracting, and sort of makes me *hate* George for being aggressively fugly and pathetic.
I take bad hair very seriously.
21 of 29 | Posted by Greganda
|
Posted on April 7, 2006 1:21 PM
I'm glad I've learned not to eat or drink anything while visiting this site. I might have died from choking after reading "Montgomery Burnsian", just like in fact, Montgomery Burns did after trying to eat the three-eyed fish Marge served him for dinner.
I had no idea the vet was Chris O'Donnell--definitely Robin no more! He has gotten better with age. :) Looking forward to more new epis. Hopefully we'll get some soon.
22 of 29 | Posted by chick110
|
Posted on April 7, 2006 1:23 PM
PS, Greganda, I totally agree about George's haircut. It has looked AWFUL for way too long. :P
23 of 29 | Posted by chick110
|
Posted on April 7, 2006 1:24 PM
yes #11, the Europe comment was great!
#20 I agree with you. Old School she was really cute, but now. I don't know. I mean I know that her life sucks and bla, bla, bla. But get your ass out of bed and move on!! She needs to find her own man, and maybe McVet is what she needs!
24 of 29 | Posted by Emily
|
Posted on April 7, 2006 2:51 PM
emily (#1), i think they have actually used "she-shepherd" on the show, so it's the writers of grey's anatomy ripping off m_ruv, not whoever's selling the ugly hats.
i think meredith was 5 when mr. katimsky left, and they have definitely alluded to her being a little older than the others before (when she was first looking for roommates she implied another intern was too young by asking where she was when the challenger exploded)
25 of 29 | Posted by ldini79
|
Posted on April 8, 2006 2:11 PM
oh and the minimum age in med school is definitely not 23. to my knowledge, there is no minimum age, and lots of people start fresh out of college, making them 21 or 22.
26 of 29 | Posted by ldini79
|
Posted on April 8, 2006 2:14 PM
i wanted to call you out on your cheap shots on aniston and asians but i enjoyed the recap too much.
27 of 29 | Posted by aidde
|
Posted on April 10, 2006 1:20 AM
ldini79, I am so glad that someone else knows him as Mr. Katimsky. Every time I see that actor, i think of the MSCL where Ricky made fun of him and he was standing right behind him
28 of 29 | Posted by dent
|
Posted on April 10, 2006 8:25 AM
#21---i'm totally w/ u, i can't help but dislike George even more than i already do b/c of his hair, it certainly doesn't make him endearing. That character has become such a sucker---i don't care if he has a busty chck now (she lives in a hospital basement, a doctor??? come on now, people!! About as convincing as finding a doctor KNITTING in a bar!!!) None of this seems likely to me.
Izzy's sweater---HA! i can't stand her either, could care less abt the heart patient.
29 of 29 | Posted by Tati
|
Posted on April 10, 2006 11:37 AM