Anyways, McDreamy is dating. Specifically, he is dating Sydney, which is enough to make every cell in my body cringe. Ok, I get that McDreamy is trying to get Meredith moving by provoking her with this date. But Sydney? Come on. You're supposed to be torturing Meredith, not yourself!
Meredith witnesses this entire date and gushes insecurity right onto Cristina, who seems to be caring less and less about this McDreamy disaster with each consecutive show. She must be channeling the emotions of the audience.
McSteamy is watching the date, too and is cringing for me so that McDreamy knows just how upset I am with this date. Ew.
The next day, at work, George and Izzie are avoiding each other. Remember all the bad sex their having? The lack of chemistry? It's a good thing they can be grown ups about it and talk through their issues. Oops, my bad. They aren't grown ups. Meredith is avoiding McDreamy too, because of the awkwardness of having to witness her boyfriend on a date with another woman. As a result, George ends up confessing how uncomfortable it is with Izzie, now that the relationship has moved out of the safety of the friends zone. Shortly thereafter, Izzie complains to Meredith about the same thing during Bailey's first lecture as new Chief Resident. Ironically, the lecture is about growing up; i.e. not gossiping, having sex or causing drama while on duty. Since Izzie is gossiping about her personal life during this lecture, she gets yelled at. It's so nice to have Bailey back in charge.
Due to the aforementioned bus crash, teenagers are everywhere and conveniently enough, the patients all represent the major cliques in school. There are two stereotypical teenage girls with superficial lacerations. They're there to annoy the hell out of the audience and to remind us all why we hated high school so much. They gossip in the cafeteria and giggle about McSteamy, leading the audience to believe they think he's cute. When they tentatively approach McSteamy, we find out that he looks just like one of their fathers. Looks like McSteamy's losing his touch.
Another girl, the head of the pom squad (it's like a cheerleader, but with more dancing than cheering), has a huge gash across her face and a broken tail bone. This effectively destroys her ability to continue on the team and her sympathetic 'friends' waste no time replacing her and then go about their merry way. All the interaction between her friends and her is done with the highest level of fake sympathy. If you ever needed and example of what a frenemy is: that was it.
Then we have the so called freaks. A boy is brought into the hospital with a pencil sticking out of his eye. The obvious question is: Why is there a pencil sticking out of his eye? And the obvious answer is: A bully put it there. Ok, so maybe the answer isn't so obvious. But you get my point. He is a loner. No one cares about him. No one, that is, except his one friend. The only one who went to the hospital with him and waited through his surgery. His parents didn't even show up. And although there were several high school students crying in the waiting room for him, they didn't actually know him and probably couldn't say for certain what his name is. More of those fake sympathy people. These two friends only have each other. It's them against the whole high school. Unfortunately, in surgery, an artery exploded, his head swelled and he was put into a coma he will probably never come out of.
Finally, we have a patient from Bailey's past. A man who affectionately refers to her as "Mandy". We come to find out that, in high school, Bailey tutored him. He was on the track team and she pretty much did all of his homework in the hopes that he would ask her to homecoming. He didn't. Still, nothing has changed for them. Bailey turns into a giggling idiot every time she has to talk to him and she even agrees to fill out the mountain of paperwork he has to fill out for the hospital. Although several people remind her that patients are supposed to fill out the paperwork themselves, Bailey continues to fall all over herself to do whatever it is he needs her to. He has a heart problem, she saves his life, and still he takes her for granted. This encounter sends Bailey right back to high school and she takes out her frustrations on McDreamy, who she assumes was one of the popular boys in high school. One of the popular boys that would never pay attention to her; She was a smart, band geek with glasses and pretty much got ignored by every popular guy in high school except for the track star. She finally realizes that he only paid attention to her so she would do his homework for him.
McDreamy takes offense to this categorization of 'popular' kid. Turns out, he too, was a band geek, was scrawny and had lots of pimples.
Meredith's dad ends up in the hospital because he put his hand through glass in one of his drunken tirades. He asks for Meredith to do his stitches. He apologizes for all the things he said to her after his wife died and talks about how he wished he got more time with her as a kid. Meredith obviously melts when she hears this, although she doesn't show it. But all of her relationship problems stem from her daddy issues. If those were fixed, she and McDreamy could live happily ever after. But when Meredith tells Lexie that their dad was there and that Lexie should keep a better eye on him, Lexie explodes. She basically tells Meredith that their dad didn't really mean any of the things he said to her because he's a drunk and one day you'll be his favorite daughter and the next, you're an ungrateful bitch. Lexie sarcastically thanks Meredith for advising her to keep a better eye on their father and then storms off.
This whole sister thing, in my mind, is fantastic. They're working things out; learning different details about each other's lives. Although these fights might make you want to climb the wall as you watch them, they are stepping stones to creating a real relationship as sisters. And now, my psychoanalytical rambling is finished.
Secrets are a huge part of this show. Lexie blames Alex for telling Meredith that their drunken father was in the ER. Alex shoots back that he doesn't really do the whole secrets thing because its immature and, like, so high school. Lexie argues that this wasn't about some irrelevant high school secret, this was her personal family life. Then Alex tells Lexie to grow up. He had to start taking care of his drunk father at age 7 and she's 24. She should just accept it and take care of her father like a grown up.
In addition, the whole Izzie and George having bad sex thing was supposed to be a secret. However, both George and Izzie told Meredith, who told Cristina, who told Callie, who told McSteamy, who announced it to an entire OR. Eventually the 'secret' ends up on an inter-hospital emailing system and Izzie storms off to find George and break up with him. After things cool down, they finally sit down and talk to each other like adults. Both agree that they want their best friend back more than they want to be dating each other, but they don't explicitly break up. I'm sure we'll find out next episode whether they're breaking up or if they're going to try to be best friends and boyfriend/girlfriend at the same time.
Some Side notes:
- Callie apparently didn't get fired from the hospital, just from her position as Chief Resident. She uses this experience to convince the dethroned head pom that she can go back to doing what she loves instead of doing all the organizing and stuff that the head pom is in charge of.
- Frenemy (n): Two people who are best friends on the surface, but secretly hate each other and do things that will tear down the other one. Example - Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.
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