At ye olde rustick mountain trailer, the Drs. Shepherd have also just "finished" in bed. She thanks him half-heartedly for what even he admits is the most boring sex ever. (What is with everybody thanking people for sex? STOP DOING IT.) After this awkward coupling, the phone rings, and it's Meredith calling from the vet's office. But She-Shepherd assumes that it's the vet himself on the line, so she grabs the phone from He-Shepherd mid-sentence and unwittingly tells Meredith that they'll call back because they're "trying really hard to have some decent sex here." Oops.

Over at said vet's, Dr. Finn "Pride of the McGillicuddy Clan" Dandridge tells Meredith the dog can go home—he suspects it just has a virus. (My money's on canine herpes.) Finn asks whether she and He-Shepherd are together, and Meredith bumbles a response: she and Derek are just friends, he's married, she's knitting sweaters, and there's this funny problem she's been having recently, it's weird, she has a tendency to ramble these days, not sure why, but she wishes somebody would just tell her to shut up. Well here it is sweetie: SHUT THE FUCK UP. Anyway, Finn asks whether she's single, because he'd like to take her on a date. She stutters some more, finally admitting that she's not dating. Which I must agree is probably best for humankind.

At the hospital, Bailey is pissed because once again her name isn't on the board. Webber says it's a slow day and pats her on the back, which enrages her even more. Burke empathizes, so he offers to let Bailey handle Izzie's sputtering Energizer Bunny of a heart patient, Denny. Yep, that son of a bitch is still going. Cristina comes up and offers Burke a coffee, but he barely notices it. He says he's dragging a little—he didn't jog as far this morning since Coach O'Malley wasn't around and they couldn't "push each other." Speaking of, George comes up with a cappuccino for Burke, who accepts it eagerly.

George has learned that Burke's hero—some genius classical violinist from San Francisco—has come to SGH because he's having problems with his pacemaker, which Burke installed a while back. George and Burke bond rather gallingly for a few moments, and Burke offers George the patient—but George turns him down since he's already assigned. Cristina says Burke should think of her a little more, since she was lying on top of him naked last night after all. Gross, they SPOON VERTICALLY??

In the dumbest move ever, Meredith asks Alex for relationship advice. But Alex doesn't care at all whether or not Meredith goes on a date with a vet since he's not big on chick stuff like dating or yeast cream. He says as long as the vet isn't a serial killer Meredith should just do him and get it over with. Man, when they want us to hate Alex they really paint with a broad brush.

Ever the creative genius, Meredith names her vet crush "McVet." When Cristina finds out about this, she blurts out disdainfully that Meredith can never date a vet because vets aren't real doctors. At this point, She-Shepherd walks in, all flustered and pissy from her bad sex morning. The interns try to avoid her, but Alex gets trapped in the headlights and—despite his protestations that he "doesn't do vagina"—gets roped into doing OB-GYN.