Seriously?

Ok, so the title of this entry is a little cliche considering it's the catch phrase of the entire show, but really, there's no other response to this episode of Grey's Anatomy. During this episode, we're introduced to a pair of bloody and battered women, both clinging to a wedding dress for dear life. Neither is willing to let go, even though one has a dislocated shoulder and the other one's nose is so crooked, you could mistake it for one of those yellow signs warning against the windy back roads of rural New England. The two have beaten each other bloody in an effort to get the other one to let go of the stupid dress, and neither particularly wants the dress. You see, it's not about the dress. It's about the contest. The last one left holding on to the wedding dress, wins $100,000 to put on her dream wedding. These two psychos have been at it for days, without sleep. And neither will let go now just because they need surgery. Callie, in need of operating on these women, and also still a little pissed at George, proposes that George act as a proxy for one of the women while she's in surgery. This leaves George holding onto a wedding dress for hours on end.

Meanwhile, Izzie decides that she and George are going to have perfect sex that night. Apparently the time limit of respect for Callie has been reached. She describes how the night is going to go and says she'll even shave her legs. Because perfect sex requires shaved legs. Her patient is a heart patient who is allergic to the anesthesia. So, she has to perform awake open heart surgery with Dr. Hahn. Hahn chooses Izzie to scrub in because she's still punishing Cristina for being Burke's favorite for all these years. Izzie is her typically super nice and calming self and does everything she can to put the patient at ease during the surgery. Cristina tells Izzie that she's not hardcore enough for heart surgery. Heart Surgery is Cristina's thing. Cristina's speech makes Izzie all insecure and she seeks out George to verify for her that she is hardcore enough for heart surgery, but hardcore in an Izzie sort of way, not a Cristina kind of way.

Cristina spends the episode trying to diagnose Meredith's issues by consulting a psych book. She comes to the conclusion that Meredith suffers from severe abandonment issue, which is preventing her from moving forward with McDreamy. (I so called that like two season ago. I'm gonna be a kick-ass psychiatrist). Cristina keeps praying for an intense surgery, and when a man comes into the hospital having fallen 12,000 ft without a parachute, Cristina thinks she's found it. However, the only thing wrong with this guy after falling thousands of feet into some shrubbery is that he has appendicitis. So, Cristina is screwed out of another surgery.

Meredith compares her near death experience to the skydiver. He's feeling all clear and invincible, but Meredith tells him that feeling goes away. So whatever he was going to do, he better do it now, while he still can. (Coincidentally, he was going to tell his skydiving instructor that he's in love with her). I have hope that Meredith is going to come to terms with her issues and hold on to her McDreamy. But as Cristina pointed out earlier in the episode, "realizing you have stuff and overcoming your stuff is two very different things".

The Chief now lives in a trailer right next to McDreamy's. And with the closer proximity, the Chief invites McDreamy to a "gentleman's evening". McDreamy convinces McSteamy to join them and the whole episode, the two of them try to figure out what a Gentleman's evening is. Is it a night of debauchery at a strip club? Or is it a night of poker and cigars? No one knows, and the chief is intentionally vague about it.

But the part of this episode that really and truly pissed me off, was when Dr. Hahn found out about the gentleman's evening and made it into a sexist thing. Apparently, she's pissed she wasn't invited simply because she's a girl. She compares this situation to when lawyers used to have country club outings and would intentionally not invite their black employees. I'm sorry, but it is so not the same thing. Inviting the male attendings to a boy's night is not sexist. It's the same thing as a bunch of girls getting together to watch chick flicks in their pajama's and eating ice cream. Sometimes you just need to be away from the opposite sex for a while. But Hahn still got to go to the Gentleman's evening, anyways. I'm predicting in a couple of episodes, McSteamy is going to perform her sex change for her. Obviously, there's a little bit of penis envy going on there.

And now, for the oh-my-god moment of this episode. Alex slept with the baby Grey and Meredith walked in on them. Apparently, Alex forgot to tell Lexie that he lives with her sister. Oops.