The Pomp Is Back in Town - 
by m_ruv
Lo, autumn. A time to celebrate the good things in life, the simple joys. Pumpkins. Puppies. Pompeo. Yes, this week marked the return of our favorite playground of emaciated WASPs and Korean Jews, Grey's Anatomy. Honestly, I haven't been this excited since I found out they were releasing the Color Me Barbra special on DVD. Anyway, to the show.
We pick up right where we left off at the end of last season: the ludicrous SGH prom night, with Meredith fleeing the hospital tearily, apparently having failed to choose between Finn and He-Shepherd. This scene is of course accompanied by a cooing, silken-voiced narration in which Meredith notes that time loses all meaning in the O.R., whereas outside the O.R. time takes pleasure in kicking our asses, slowing down and speeding up whenever it's least convenient. In short, Meredith feels as if she often gets Stuck In A Moment She Can't Get Out Of. It happens Time After Time. If only they would give her One Moment In Time, when she's more than she thought she could be, etc.
At the Shepherds' trailer, we see that She-Shepherd somehow found Meredith's FILTHY LACY BLACK PANTIES OF ADULTERY in the hospital the previous night. Never mind how she got her hands on them, but she certainly is not pleased. Izzie, meanwhile, is still all dressed up like Barbie and lying on the floor of her room back at Meredith's house. Apparently she's been on the floor all day—god only knows where/how she's gone to the bathroom—and the interns seem to expect Meredith to be the one to go talk to her. You know, since Meredith is comforting, empathetic, and certainly not the least bit self-absorbed.
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Izzie then has a flashback—oh great, a FLASHBACK EPISODE—to the welcome reception for the new SGH interns when they were first starting their program. Given Izzie's hairstyle, it appears that this reception took place sometime during the Nixon administration.
"Hey! Let's drop some quaaludes and go roller skating!"
We see Izzie and Alex's first meeting. Unsurprisingly, Alex insults Izzie from almost the first word, which of course gets her all hot and bothered. Izzie's flashback ends and we see that George has gone into the bedroom to try to comfort her. Despite George's entreaties, Izzie remains resistant to such basic life objectives as eating, talking, and changing her clothes.
"If you put your ear right against the floor, you can hear ELVES!!"
At the hospital, Dr. Bailey is accosted by George Lopez, who's there from the morgue to pick up Denny's body. He asks Bailey to identify the carcass, and she agrees that it is in fact Denny, still deader than a doornail, thank god. As the body is heeled off, Bailey pauses and gets emotional, patting the body and telling ex-Denny "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry you got killed off before seaon three, when the $250 grand per episode kicked in." Astutely observed!
Back at the house, Meredith has kicked off the Convince America I'm Not Anorexic Tour 2006 by wolfing down sandwiches. Cristina, ever attuned to the Torah, says they should mourn more properly by sitting shiva and ordering in—none of this lite-bread-and-air sandwiches bullshit. Meredith says she's just eating to distract herself, since she made a teensy little mistake and lost her panties during the prom.
Speaking of those filthy, corrupt panties, we see that OMG SHE-SHEPHERD HAS WASHED THEM AND PUT THEM IN HER PURSE, ostensibly to take back to the hospital. Back at SGH, He-Shepherd asks Webber if someone can cover his rounds, since he wants to go "take care of things" with Meredith. But Bailey announces there's an incoming head trauma patient and the hospital is already overloaded. What with the early flu season. And prom decoration cleanup.
The head-trauma woman and her husband were in a car accident, which they had while already en route the hospital to see a doctor about flu symptoms they'd been having. Just as the husband starts coughing uncontrollably, syphilitic nurse Olivia shows up with a newborn baby that somebody found in a trash can in a local high school bathroom. One would have hoped Olivia had succumbed to her moral ruin sometime over the summer, but sadly it appears she is indeed back for this season. Alex takes the trash-can baby over to She-Shepherd.
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