This week's Grey's Anatomy hosts more dead people than Turner Classic Movies. The episode kicks off with Meredith, who is up late gabbing on the phone with her best gal pal about American Idol and Ryan Gosling. Her gal pal Yang keeps interrupting to discuss crazy dead mom's journals. Apparently they are chocked full of surgical insight and have no personal emotional crap. With no crazy emotional crap, how did crazy dead mom ever work at Seattle Grace? More importantly, how did she produce someone as self-centered as Meredith? Yang is eating this shit up and calls it her version of Harry Potter. Harry Potter is so 2007, try Twilight, Yang. Apparently the late night girl talk is keeping Derek up at night and keeping him from his beauty sleep. And when McD misses out on his beauty sleep, it ain't pretty.
It ain't easy being one of PEOPLE magazine's most beautiful
Morning comes and we find Bailey bitching about marriage counseling. Derek tries to ease her worries by confirming that he and Addison did that too, and we KNOW how well that went! Mid-conversation McD yawns and complains that the Yang/Mer friendship is keeping him up at night, and not in a sexy way. Bailey laughs and reminds him that those two are a pair, like peanut butter and jelly or Sienna Miller and syphilis.
We are then introduced to Stan, a robot patient for the residents and interns to practice on. He even speaks! Apparently the pigs were too complicated so they needed something that even this group can't kill. The residents also find out there is a solo surgery up for grabs, and whoever can make it through the day without killing someone or having sex in the on call room will get to perform it. Now they are all on high alert to be picked.
Meredith and Izzie get assigned to Hahn's services. They learn that Hahn is personally attached to the patient, and we know what that means-dead. She explains that this patient has been on a donor list for a long time. As Meredith reviews his chart we learn that this guy was supposed to get the heart that Izzie stole for Denny, right before she killed him. I'm sure Izzie will handle this very well.
Our bro scene this week takes place in the elevator. Derek asks Mc Steamy to have sex with Yang to distract her from Meredith. Steamy doesn't appreciate being McD's stud horse and finds Yang unfun and is too serious, and he's sure that she won't appreciate the Noxema girl joining them. McD argues that she is a single malt scotch and will be a nice break from Sloan's usual beer bongs. Steamy continues to argue, but McD throws down the gauntlet by reminding McSteamy that he slept with his wife, so surely he can handle one uptight doctor.
You're just not gonna let that go, are you Bro?
In a downstairs corridor, Lexie is skulking around all alone and discovers her fellow interns practicing IVs on themselves. They look like they were just busted by a nark and beg her not to tell. Lexis is becoming the kid at camp who tried so hard to get the counselors to like them that they never make friends with the other campers, and in the end, everyone hates them.
Since even the Chief has emotional connections with all the residents (cough....life long affair with Grey's mom...) he asks House for an unbiased opinion to help determine who is awarded the solo surgery. Someone who doesn't know about the marital affairs, heart-stealing, on call room sex, panties on the bulletin board staff shenanigans. An incoming trauma interrupts this discussion and Yang is completely focused....on who will get the solo surgery. House gets irritated by her lack of focus on the patient and he starts to redeem himself with me for the whole pig surgery.
We meet the patient who lost his transplant to Denny as Hahn, Mer and Iz explain an experimental surgery. The surgery will basically induce a heart attack by pumping alcohol into his system and he has to stay awake throughout. That isn't experimental, I do it every Saturday during college football. Izzie's job is to talk him through the surgery and relieve his stress. That's what she spent five years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in med school on? To talk? Oooh, tell him the one about the time you stole his heart! While they are talking to him, Izzie sees Denny walk. I'd be stoked if my doctor started hallucinating a couple hours before an experimental surgery.
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Comments (11)
"Meanwhile, House, Yang, Torres and Lexie are working on the unidentified trauma patient who is in awful shape. Yang instructs Lexie to go prepare the morgue. House is super pissed and again I agree with him."
I was applauding House at that point. I usually laugh at most of these shows, but that scene hit too close to home. My father was very ill last spring (and passed away April 5th.) During his long treatment I dragged an intern, an administrator, and several nurses into the hall to yell at them on different occasions for not being circumspect about what they said within earshot of my father. They couldn't know for sure how much he was hearing and understanding, and they had no business risking making things worse for him.
I hope House continues to kick Yang's selfish butt all over the hospital.
1 of 11 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on November 13, 2008 3:12 PM
Favorite line - I know...I thought there'd be razors in heaven too.
Awesome recap!!
2 of 11 | Posted by Clair | Posted on November 13, 2008 4:02 PM
Excellent recap!
Goodbye Hahn. Glad to see you go!
I'm so over the Denny storyline. Move on please.
I thought the scene with the Chief messing wiht George was hilarious. I loved it when George finally saved 'Stan' and was all victorious and then finds out it was the Chief the whole time.
3 of 11 | Posted by akgirl7 | Posted on November 13, 2008 4:33 PM
Funny, funny recap!
"When he informs her that he was hitting on her all day, she cracks up and gives him the not even if you changed your name to Burke and spewed homophobic slurs."
Hmm....we have no proof that Isaiah actually did this. It's still George's word against Burke's. Btw, this show already jumped the shark when ABC fired Isaiah. It left a huge Burke-less hole that was temporarily filled with annoying, hateful Hahn. See ya, McBitchy Cardio Doc!
Cattyfan, that's sad about your dad. I always wondered if doctors discuss inappropriate things during surgery in real life like they do on this show. Sometimes, doctors can be really...jaded and tactless.
"Stan" is the best new character this show has seen in 2 seasons. He'll probably be getting a spin-off...
4 of 11 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on November 13, 2008 8:41 PM
Another fine recap.
We have our first black President - so can we also bring Burke back?
There were some very good scenes, well played - and props to director Joanna Kerns (and a host of other people who normally don't get credit).
I liked Yang's back story scene - obviously, House did, too.
If they are going to bring back Denny, why not go full soap op and make him a long lost twin - separated at birth - who is suing Izzie for the 8 mill Denny left her. Now THAT would be qualilty television!
5 of 11 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on November 13, 2008 10:03 PM
Ok, long time reader first time poster...This is total BS about Hahn and getting kicked off the show. Also, how did Hahn not realize that the big huge state of the art clinic is named after Denny Duquette? Sloppy writing!
6 of 11 | Posted by Yanksfan24 | Posted on November 14, 2008 8:52 AM
I was so relieved when Izzie stepped up and helped out the heart patient, and then looked up and Denny was gone. I figured that was it, she was no longer haunted by his memory and had assuaged her guilt somewhat. But, no!!!!!
During last night's episode, I got to the point that, whenever Denny appeared, I'd say, "Go away, motherfucker!!" I am so over him. If I am the average Grey's viewer, they are losing a lot of their audience by bringing him back. We can only hope that we see the end of him next week.
Otherwise, the show was great. (Of course, the ending was weird and contrived. I don't know why they did it this way, especially if they knew Hahn was leaving earlier.)
Major Sexy rocks!
7 of 11 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on November 14, 2008 7:09 PM
Did I miss the part where you decided to call him House? I know his name is Hunt, but are you drawing parallels with that other TV doctor?
8 of 11 | Posted by unwise | Posted on November 15, 2008 7:54 AM
unwise...I think it's shorthand for "quirky, socially inept, but creative and brilliant doctor."
9 of 11 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on November 15, 2008 8:03 AM
or perhaps "scruffy with slilghtly wavy hair."
10 of 11 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on November 15, 2008 8:04 AM
How about "Dr. Bonaduce"?
11 of 11 | Posted by briar | Posted on November 16, 2008 1:32 AM