After so many stellar shows, I wasn't surprised to see it slip a little. And by slip a little I mean it wasn't amazing, just great. I think it's a very interesting direction the writers are taking with Meredith, losing her friends and it's causing me to squirm a bit. It's great now, but if they keep it up it could get old, real fast. Kinda like McDreamy and Addison's relationship. Okay, he's pissed, we get it. And now he's gonna frak it up because he and Meredith will have an affair and there's another reason to not like the supposed "protagonist". I don't know why I'm going on about the things this show is doing wrong because I love it. I just had to get that bit of frustration out.
She doesn't really appreciate the male bonding
Poor George needs to get laid. I mean I know he just got laid, but that really shouldn't count. Sorta like "vacation booty". If you're in another state it doesn't count, right? Right? Sh** I hope not. Anyway, George is a changed man, at least his hair's changed. He doesn't want to be the object of Meredith's affection anymore. Honey, you never were. He tried to look like McDreamy but, ha, come on now, there really isn't a comparison. George is cute, definitely, but McDreamy? George takes out some scissors and cuts his long locks. Christina's in the kitchen when George and Burke come in, after a five mile run. They start making breakfast and have great banter. Christina just stares at them. Burke tells her that George has some issues and I wonder about his shoulder issue because it seems to be doing much better. Christina looks like she feels a little left out.
Meredith and McDreamy meet on their path of love, and walk the dog. Is that what the kids are calling it these days? Meredith bitches and moans about her friends still being mad at her and we realize he doesn't know what she did. If he knows her he can figure out it probably has to do with fraking someone.
At the hospital George is still avoiding Meredith hard core. Everything just wants Meredith to apologize to him, but she claims she has, that he won't listen to her. I know how he'll listen, go kick him in the balls. Wait, that won't help, but it'll be damn funny. Ball humor always helps a situation.
This man even makes an oxygen tube hot
During rounds the docs visit Denny who's still not looking too good. I mean he looks good, who can complain about dimples like that. While Izzie gives the lowdown on his condition she and Denny do a little flirting. Always good for the heart, sex. Unfortunately Denny's condition's getting worse and Izzie and Alex volunteer to be assigned his case, much to Izzie's confusion.
I wonder what he does during sex
The next case is a woman, played by Natalie Cole, who has a brain aneurysm. Apparently you can walk around and have a good ol' time with one of those, until it bursts, then you die in about two seconds. Her husband's there, they've been on vacation. The reason for their visit? This is a good one. They've decides that since she's going to kick the bucket at any minute, to live life to its fullest. In living life to the fullest they decided to have a little fun while at dinner. She was, ah, under the table if you get my drift, when she had a small muscle twitch. There is no "small" twitch when you have d*** in your mouth. She clamped down and instinct took over for the husband because she stabbed her in the neck with a fork to get her off. That'll teach her. McDreamy tells them that he wants to take a look at this so called "aneurysm" and see if there's anything they can do. She refuses, having had too many tests and second opinions already. She just wants to live their life to the fullest until the end.
The final patient is Addison's. The woman's pregnant and has ruptured the membrane. She's been bedridden and is just waiting for the baby to come out. Her husband is there and can't stop staring at Addison. He says she looks like Catherine Deneuve. Yeah, I had to look her up too... http://imdb.com/name/nm0000366/ Anyway, Addy's flattered. When she finds Derek later looking at some x-rays she brings it up and wonders to him if she looks like Catherine Deneuve. He ignores her because he has better things to do then stroke his wife's ego. The guy goes on and on about how beautiful she is and when they're both in the cafeteria eating, she invites him to join her. Later, Bailey sees right through this and calls her on wanting Derek's attention but taking it wherever she can get it. Unfortunately this doesn't last that long, as soon as the man's wife has her baby he ignores Addison. Back to square one I guess.
It's a little too soon for 'take your son to work day'.
Dr. Bailey's finally back to work but she hasn't unlatched the baby from her breast. She claims the nursery was full and her husband is away. I think she just can't let go. The Chief notices this and wonders what the problem is. Bailey gives him some lip and he backs down. Christina happens to be standing there when a trauma comes in and Bailey hands her the baby. Christina doesn't know what the heck to do with him. Later, the Chief walks in on Christina trying to change a diaper. She offers to let him take over the duties, or as I like to call them, doodies, but he refuses and runs the other direction.
Man, put some peanut butter on him and call it a day
George gets approached by Meredith again and instead of taking the elevator with her, runs to the step. Not sure if the steps are the best choice for him, seeing he fell down them last time, but he does anyway without incident. He goes to consult with the lady doctor who flirted with him last time. She wonders why he didn't call and he says that he did, but hung up. She thinks that's cute. Yeah, just what every woman wants, a man with no backbone. Very sexy. In the "nasty" shot of the night, some teenager's in the emergency room because he's broken his finger. I considered a picture to go with this to show everyone but it disturbs me too much. He was playing hockey and his finger got caught in the net. It's broken in about 120918492749827 different places. They want to operate on it but since that'll put him out of commission for the upcoming game that night, he doesn't want to do it. Scouts will be there and he could get a scholarship. He promises to come in the next day but they don't think it's a good idea. They do just wrap it up though.
Tide, Tid, Tie, Diet, It, DIE! What the hell?
In Denny's room Alex is checking his vitals and he asks about Izzie. Alex says she has other, hotter, patients she's taking care of. Denny tries to be upbeat and have fun with Alex, but Alex decides to piss all over Izzie and makes it clear he and Izzie are together. Denny's crushed. When Izzie's playing Scrabble with Denny later he asks her about it. She reassures him that she and Alex aren't really a thing. I mean, yeah, they do it in the broom closet every now and then, but she certainly doesn't have the same feelings for him as she has for Denny. While they're talking, Denny starts having breathing problems. Dr. Burke comes in and says what Denny really needs is a new heart. Well no sh** Einstein. He does come up with a solution to bide some time until a new heart comes in, some sort of electrical valve. There's risk with putting it in, like having to stay in the hospital until they find a new heart, but it'll give him more time to wait for a heart. After a few loving pleas from Izzie, he decides to get the surgery, if nothing else, to piss off Alex.
Let's hope they don't meet another gurney in that narrow hall
Meredith talks to Natalie Cole to figure out why she doesn't want the surgery. She says that before she got sick she spent years not being noticed by her husband. She's afraid that if she got better, it'd go back to that, instead of the amazing relationship they now have. Her husband also talks to Derek about the situation. He tells him the same thing, that he pretty much ignored her for all of those years and now that he has finally rediscovered her, it may be too late. He wants Derek to talk to the wife and convince her to do the surgery. When Derek talks to her, he says he knows what it's like to have a cold hearted bitch for a wife, and that now that she's not like that, it could be great for many more years to come, if she would just let him do the surgery. The wife finally agrees to it, and as she's being wheeled in she makes her husband promise to do all the things they were going to do, even if she doesn't make it. She wants him to blow all of their money. Yeah, easy for her to say, she's gonna be dead and he's going to be living off Medicaid when he's 80. She pulls through and I'm a bit upset since I thought for sure she'd be Denny's heart.
"Hey, while we're here..."
When Alex gets Izzie's page to meet him in the broom closet he's ready to go. She's not ready though and scolds him for telling Denny about them. Alex gives it right back to her telling her she shouldn't have become friends with one of the patients, especially one that's about to die. She kicks him in the balls and leaves. Okay, I'm obsessed with balls today. I don't know what's going on.
Precious!
Later, in the cafeteria, Christina, George and Izzie are all talking about their respective lives. Meredith comes out to sit with them and George gets up and leaves, sitting down with his new lady doctor friend. Meredith tells the girls again that she's tried to apologize but he just doesn't listen to anorexic hos. When Alex comes up, Izzie's still pissed and storms off. This causes Alex to slam his tray down and wake up the baby who starts crying. When Christina can't get him to stop crying, she takes him into the observation room as Bailey does her surgery. Bailey listens to him cry and says that it's his "hungry" cry. I have the same cry, annoys the hell out of my roommate. Christina tries to feed him but she just doesn't know how. Burke's no help either. George comes along and scoops the baby up who immediately stops crying. Burke comments that it speaks to his good bedside manner. Bam! In your face Christina. Your boyfriend just called you a bitch. Bailey later finds Christina in the on call room, sleeping with the baby. When she wakes up she tells Bailey that she's not a babysitter, and she doesn't want to do that again. Bailey, amazingly, doesn't argue.
Even more adorable
The finger guy is back. In his wisdom, and because he must have no parental supervision he decided to cut off his finger so he could play. The internet's a useful thing. He read up on it and learned just how to do it and that it can be reattached. The kid's on a high because even with nine fingers he kicked ass in the game and made a good impression with the scouts. Luckily he brought the finger with him so they go try and reattach it. Unfortunately, whatever website the kid was on didn't talk about proper wound cleaning and the stub got infected with staph. They break it to the kid that his hockey days are over because he will most likely lose some function in his hand.
Derek pushes Meredith to tell him exactly why everyone's mad at her. He promises not to get mad, but when she tells him that she slept with George, there's a moment there where I think he may walk away, but alas, he doesn't. He tells her to apologize but she tells him to stop beating a dead horse, of course she's apologized. He tells her to do it again and again, until he listens to her. She doesn't know how and he suggests doing it in the elevator, since that's what he does when he wants to talk to her.
I didn't realize he was married to his mother
When Derek gets home that night he takes Natalie Cole and her husband's situation to heart. He tells Addison that he wasn't there for her before, and she agrees with him. After he gets that all out he apologizes. She's stunned that he's finally coming around. Me too.
"La la la, I don't see you"
At the hospital, Meredith takes Derek's advice and as George is getting on the elevator she runs in so he can't get out. She gives him a speech about them being friends, and she knows that he's still mad at her, but she'll always be there, not giving up and will apologize until he forgives her. It's a really nice moment. When the elevator opens he leaves, without saying a word to her.
All they need is Mr. McClusker my 6th grade band teacher and they'd be set
Luckily for George he has trusty old Dr. Burke at home. When Christina gets home she interrupts a jam session between the two. Burke's taking the manly route and playing the trumpet while George becomes a thirteen year old girl and plays the clarinet. Christina just walks into the bedroom, frustrated. These two are totally cute.
