Seattle Grace Hospital Gossip Center

Fantastic

2008-05-14T14:20:00.001-07:00

Isaiah Washington just figured out a way to make me like him even less. Fantastic. The notorious homophobe and all around douche-bag is now suing Grey's Anatomy. That's right, suing. Why? No, it's not about that incident with T.R Knight, or him getting fired. He's suing because Grey's Anatomy featured his image in a newspaper clipping on last week's episode. Yeah, Grey's Anatomy portrayed the character of Dr. Preston Burke (who they own) in a newspaper clipping announcing that the character (who they own) had won a prestigious award. And now, Isaiah is suing. Sorry, but I really don't think he has a case, considering he signed his life over to them when he decided to be a part of the show and be the character that they made up. Personally, I think he's looking for any excuse to get the money that he should have gotten from the show, you know, had he not completely fucked it up by gay bashing his co-star. Too bad.

The whiny little bitch that fucked up his own career and is now looking for someone else to pay for it. Asshole.

Another Poll For My Lovely Readers

2008-05-11T19:49:00.001-07:00

Recently, Katherine Heigl has once again taken up her fight to get out of her contract with ABC to leave the show that made her famous, Grey's Anatomy. This is only the third time I have heard about Katherine trying to ditch the show for a glamorous movie career. She first threatened to leave the show over a salary dispute when the show was relatively new. Then she wanted to leave the show for her budding movie career, even though she referred to one of the movies that sky-rocketed her to fame as sexist, and was an alternative option for the lead role in another one after the director's first choice bowed out. Katherine Heigl is pretty much an all around spoiled little brat who, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to leave the show that brought her fame and recognition. Katherine has been acting in two-bit movies and unknown roles since 1992. Now that she's finally famous, she's all too eager to shit all over the show that got her there. So what do you think about Katherine leaving Grey's? Is the show better off without her or is the loss of Isobel Stevens going to be disastrous for the show? Share your thoughts in a poll!

By Far The Best Episode I Have Seen In a While

2008-05-11T15:58:00.000-07:00

Well done, Grey's Anatomy. You are finally back on top again. You know what you're doing and I love it. You've been giving a few lackluster episodes for the past couple weeks, but this past week, you have renewed my faith in the beacon of awesomeness that is and always will be Grey's Anatomy.

Now, the episode kicks off with a ghostly reminder of a past character; Dr. Preston Burke. He has won some kind of super special, hard to actually attain, surgical award. Now, being the good friends they all are, Mer, Izzie and George do their best to shield Cristina from discovering the news that has been posted on the Bulletin Board. However, once she sees it, she is immediately overcome with a mixture of hurt and jealousy. She barely pays attention while Dr. Hahn explains a super rare case of a patient in need of a heart transplant, who just happens to be in a plastic bubble to shield her from infection in the weeks before her transplant. Dr. Hahn notices Cristina's absolute lack of interest and asks if she would rather be in the morgue today. Cristina, to everyone's surprise, agrees to go to the morgue, where she... get this... SINGS. Like a Virgin by Madonna, to be exact.

Izzie's continues to serve absolutely no purpose this episode. She is the only one who knows that Ava isn't actually pregnant with Alex's baby, and yet, she doesn't tell him because it would be entirely unethical to reveal her patient's test results to someone who is not her patient... even if it is Alex. And even if Alex is getting ready to throw his whole life away on a lie.

Meredith's therapy is going fairly well, until her therapist explains to her that the sentence "He's with Rose" [he being McDreamy] should bother her. Because everyone, apparently even her therapist, knows that Meredith should be with McDreamy, not Rose. However, Meredith is hell bent on being totally okay with McDreamy and Rose as a couple, despite her incredible need for McDreamy getting in the way of her working functionally with him. They are now on their fifth clinical trial tumor patient, who just happens to be a gay soldier. None of their trial cases have survived and McDreamy believes it is because they haven't saturated the tumor enough with the virus. And so, they plan to inject the virus in two places of the tumor, however, they have to inject the tumor at exactly the same time... to be completely in sync. And there is this incredible moment during the procedure where Meredith is injecting the tumor with the virus too quickly and McDreamy tells her to look at him and they eventually sync up completely just with their unspoken connection. Ah, it was fantastic.

But, the part that actually made me cry was the love story the two gay soldiers. It was so tragic and beautiful. Since they are both in the Army, it is impossible for them to be openly in love. Don't ask, Don't tell policy and all that. Not to mention the soldier-with-the-brain-tumor's homophobic father. Anyways, the father catches the two of them making out and banishes his son's boyfriend from the room. But he doesn't leave, he just waits downstairs. The soldier with the brain tumor has an opportunity to talk to him before he goes into surgery, but he refuses the offer because he thinks he is protecting his lover by not outing him with the Sergeant right there. (i'm not entirely sure why he is present there, but whatever). Unfortunately, the soldier dies in surgery and there is this heart wrenching moment when his father allows his boyfriend in for one last time to say goodbye. And he bends and kisses him so tenderly that it just broke my heart.

Adelle, the chief's wife, is apparently the nurse's union representative. The nurses are on strike because McSteamy is such a man whore and has slept with pretty much every nurse in the hospital. And so, to avoid a lawsuit, Adelle suggests that every employee in the hospital record every sexual relationship they have had with any other Seattle Grace Employee. Hilarity, of course, ensues. First, the Chief enlists George to be "intern to the Chief", an entirely fictional position, but a great way to convince his wife that he isn't as busy at the hospital anymore and that he may be changing for the better. Basically, he uses George to try to win back his wife. George's mission, as the Chief's intern, is to go around collecting all the sex forms from all the employees. Rose awkwardly tries to explain to George that she doesn't need a form, because well, she's not sleeping with McDreamy, but she quickly changes her mind when McSteamy reams her out for using sex as a weapon and a way to keep McDreamy interested. She then hunts George down to ask for a form, and then sets off to find McDreamy so they can go home for the night together. But, burn of all burns, McDreamy wants to stay at the hospital with Meredith for "the patient". The Chief singles Bailey out as the only one to not fill out the form because he assumes since she's a single mother that she is never going to get laid ever and that the very idea that she could be sleeping with someone else in the hospital is funny. She, obviously, goes on one of her Bailey tirades and rips the chief a new one. Alex, forgets to put Lexie's name down on his form, which immediately enrages Lexie. Not exactly an unreasonable reaction, since no one really wants to think that they are forgettable in bed.

Callie and McSteamy are still doing the horizontal tango, but after being called out for being a man-whore, he wants something more with Callie; someone to talk to. Callie is having no part of it, as she only really wants his body, and not to hear him speak. Hahn is pissed that Callie is blowing her off, but surprise of all surprises, it's not because she wants in Callie's pants, it's because she doesn't have friends and got used to Callie's camaraderie. Crazy, I know.

This episode was crazy good. This is the first episode since the second season to actually make me tear up. I commend the writers for doing such an amazing job this week. And even the previews for next week look awesome. Ah, the Grey's I always knew and loved is slowly returning to us. And thank the TV Lord above for that.

the couple we are all rooting for at this point

Patrick Dempsey on Ellen

2008-05-06T16:54:00.001-07:00

Patrick Dempsey was on Ellen this past week and in case you missed it, of course, your friendly neighborhood blogger has it for you. Honestly, I could never get enough of Patrick... not even if I tried, so I can only hope you appreciate him as much as I do. I can only assume you do since most of you (over half) decided you would want McDreamy operating on you in surgery in a recent poll.

So here it is, the clip of Patrick Dempsey on Ellen.

I have no idea what to caption this with because 1) it's kind of self explanatory and 2) if you don't know who Patrick Dempsey is, I just do not know what to do with you.

Hope

2008-05-05T10:55:00.000-07:00

The theme for this week's Grey's Anatomy was hope. You know, kind of like the feeling you felt as day by day went by without a recap of the last episode. But fear not loyal readers, finals are slowly coming to a close and with it, more free time to devote to Grey's.

Let's begin with Addison. She returned to Seattle Grace this week with a new and improved L.A outlook on life. Which she expressed through hugs. Hugs for Meredith (who stole her husband) and hugs for Alex (who she slept with and experienced much awkwardness with). She even had a Ghandi quote or two for Izzie. I understand the surgical purpose she served this week, but what other purpose did she serve really? To remind everyone of all the awful stuff that has happened? Perhaps the most awkward moment was when she proudly declared what a happy couple Mer and Der made when she first saw them in the hospital. Yeah, that was a fun moment for all involved. In addition, she stirred up all the feelings Bailey has been trying to hide about her husband moving out of the house. And finally, she pointed out to Callie that she and Erica were acting as if they were a couple. And Callie, being thoroughly weirded out by this decided to act all crazy and go sleep with McSteamy at the end of the episode to... i don't know, prove she was straight or something. Hahn, obviously, looked on with growing jealousy. The practical reasons for Addison being there was a baby who's heart was developing outside of it's body. And, though I was sure this 'visit' was going to be the segue to reincorporating Addison into the show, she ultimately refused the Chief's offer to let her return.

Now onto Meredith and Derek. They are working together on a clinical trial to cure Brother A's (from last week) tumor, which is gradually getting worse. Before they go into surgery, Brother A is completely blind and trying to hook up his wife with hot, single doctors. Mer and Der are completely professional the entire time, though Derek reminds Meredith not to get her hopes up about this experimental surgery. And although he is obviously referring to the actual surgery, I can't be sure he wasn't figuratively referring to their relationship.

May I point out that there was almost no reference or screen time to Derek and McSlutty nurse at all except for a moment when Addison asked who McDreamy was banging now, and McSlutty happened to be standing right next to her. Awkward moment #5 for Addison.

Ava (or Rebecca, if you rather) returned to get a pregnancy test. Oh, and guess who she thinks the father is?! That's right, our very own Karev. Turns out, she's not really pregnant after all, though neither of them know that, and Karev spends the day getting emotional over babies and the prospect of being a daddy. Though, of course, he's not half as sensitive to Ava about it.

Cristina continually tries to steal the sparkle pager awarded to Meredith in the last episode, so that she could get in on Hahn's surgeries. Hahn is still being a cold hard bitch to Cristina, and flat out refuses to teach her, praise her or congratulate her. Hell, she barely maintains courtesy. Cristina demands to know why and Hahn is once again condescending, but she later admits to Addison that Cristina reminds her of herself at that age. Why that's a bad thing, I have no idea.

Izzie tries too hard to fit in with George and his intern friends. But obviously, the interns don't really want to hang out with their boss. Again, Izzie feels inadequate. And reckons that feeling of inadequacy by finally acting like a boss while her interns watch. She essentially tells a patient to shut it so she can explain all her options. By the way, the patient is an HIV patient who happens to get pregnant. Expecting that there is no way she could have this baby without passing it to the baby, she assumes her only option is abortion. Since Izzie is too nice, the first time she explains the alternate options, she doesn't really get the point across that there is a 98% chance that the baby will be born completely healthy with the right prenatal care. I don't know about you guys, but I think Izzie is starting to lose her usefulness. Yes, she was always the surgeon with the best bedside manner, but now she doesn't even do that right. She is constantly second guessing herself, feeling inadequate to the residents, but out of place with the interns. She really should just stop trying to fit in and be the Izzie that I know and love. Go fall in love with another patient, sweetie. Please.

Really, that's it. It was a boring episode. And even though I was actually pretty busy for the past couple of days, this episode was so boring that I sort of dreaded having to write a review for it.

The lovers and "leave her"s

When you think Disney, you obviously think... Grey's?

2008-04-30T18:08:00.001-07:00

Disney has decided to release the blu-ray disc of Grey's Anatomy, starting with the complete fourth season, to be released September 9, 2008. They're starting with the fourth, and (i'm guessing) working their way back. All I know is they plan to release all seasons, starting with the fourth. And just in case you aren't a fan of blu-ray, the run-of-the-mill DVD of Grey's Anatomy fourth season is being released the same day.

September 9th, 2008. Mark your calendars!

Awww, my favorite couple.

Spoiler Alert

2008-04-30T08:33:00.000-07:00

Now that our beloved show is back on TV, the internet is practically flooded with spoilers about the upcoming episodes. The newest spoiler to hit the internet involves two of our favorite doctors, Callie and McSteamy. Yes, it has been done before. Sure, they've already done the nasty, but the latest rumors are that Callie and McSteamy are going to take their naughty extra-curricular activities and make it legit by becoming an actual couple. This latest bit of information has many implications.

Callie and Hahn are probably not going to be a couple.
unless, of course, Grey's Anatomy takes it to a level they've only flirted with in certain character's fantasies: the threesome. However, how all three of them can carry on a real relationship with each other is kind of beyond me. You see, this isn't Hedda Gabler, and triangular relationships are just not done these days, as far as I'm aware. (I'm sorry for that literary reference. I just took my Lit Final...)

The writers might be gearing up to have Callie and Hahn fight over McSteamy.
and wouldn't that just be the craziest plot line. I don't really see Hahn lowering herself enough to get involved in a chick fight over a piece of man candy. And really, let's be honest, McSteamy does not need anyone to boost his ego. He clearly already thinks pretty highly of himself.

The Hahn-McSteamy hints that the writers have been dropping will probably cease
and thank the holy lord for that. That relationship is like the stuff of my nightmares. Hahn is scary. Like, really scary. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be surprised if she had a dungeon in her basement specifically for torturing kiss ass interns and the men she views as below her. Think chains and leather. Ew.

The GLAAD Media Awards Were on Saturday

2008-04-28T05:59:00.000-07:00

The GLAAD media awards (that is, gay and lesbian alliance against defamation) were held on Saturday and guess who was a speaker? That's right, our very own T.R Knight, also known as Doctor George O'Malley. T.R spoke about Lawrence King and Sammie Williams Jr., who were murdered for their sexual preference. T.R also shed light on a Sally Kern, Oklahoma State Representative, who has been quoted as saying that the 'homosexual agenda' is responsible for destroying our nation and has compared gay and lesbian men and women to terrorists.

In addition, T.R Knight observed the annual day of Silence on April 25th, 2008. The day is in honor of those gay and lesbian men and women who have been silenced over the years by oppression and hate crimes. The point is to vow to stay silent all day to emphasize just how loud their forced silence is. Though I did not participate this year, I was active in the day of silence every year in high school. Way to go, T.R Knight. It is a wonderful thing you are doing, bringing attention to the silent oppressed. The fight is not over until those like Sally Kern realize the extent of their ignorance.

Isn't he just such a cutie?

The Surgical Poll Results Are In

2008-04-28T05:14:00.000-07:00

Last week, I asked you via poll which surgeon you would trust to cut you open. And it seems our dearly beloved interns turned residents just do not have your vote of confidence. The highest ranking surgeons were well established in the surgical world of Grey's Anatomy compared to the relative newcomers. Dr. Shepherd (McDreamy) and Dr. Hahn were the highest ranking surgeons, with McDreamy beating the pack easily. The results are as follows.

Out of thirteen votes, 7 (54%) decided they would like McDreamy to be there savior. And I certainly don't blame you. I would easily place myself in McDreamy's capable hands. And you can take that any way you want to.

2 of you (15%) chose the next best, Dr. Hahn. And I really don't know what you guys were thinking. Hahn might be capable, and extremely good at her job, but have you been paying attention to how she treats the family? Goodness! No bedside manner to be found anywhere.

With one vote each (8%), the new residents filled out the rest of the votes, with notable exceptions. George and Izzie got no votes. I blame it on this whole 007 business. And Izzie, well, she just spent the last episode putting a patient through excruciating and unnecessary procedures all in the name of winning a surgical contest. Serves her right.

The three that did get a vote were Meredith (of course. I mean, she is the namesake of the show), Cristina (another shocker...) and Alex. Yes, some people want Alex Karev to do surgery on them. And well, why not? He has been referred to as the underdog by more than one person as far as I can tell.

Bailey also got a vote. But the other residents that received no vote at all, quite surprisingly, were the Chief, Callie and McSteamy.

Thanks for voting you guys. You have no idea how exciting it is to slowly watch participation in my polls go up.

A really cool picture of our winner, complete with carefully placed advertising.

Hypothetical Hospital Stays

2008-04-25T10:04:00.000-07:00

Alright, let's say you are seriously injured. I mean, really sick. Let's just say you're surgery sick. And through no fault of your own and with a little bit of luck and maybe some magic, you end up at Seattle Grace Hospital. Who would you want to operate on you? And I don't mean that kind of operate, you pervert. I mean seriously slice you open and tool around with your insides. Who would you pick to be your surgeon?

If someone's missing from the list, you can post a comment to share your opinion. And if you wanted to make things really fun, post a comment telling us what you think you would need surgery for!

Sorry, Fridays make me a little giddy...

Who Let the Dogs Out?

2008-04-25T05:07:00.001-07:00

Finally! The much anticipated return of Grey's Anatomy. I celebrated Thursday, April 24th as if it were a national holiday. I canceled plans, I amassed all the necessary food assortments (that being junk-food and soda) and sat my butt on the couch a full half hour before the show started. I didn't want to miss a thing. And I have to say, even knowing a good deal of what was supposed to happen during this show, I was still surprised. Grey's Anatomy never disappoints.

Anyways, the show begins with the usual Meredith voice-over. This one is about how we're not much more than animals... blah de blah de blah. I really do hate those Meredith voice-overs. Apparently, it has been five weeks since in TV land since the faith healer and baby Tuck's unfortunate tangle with the bookcase. The residents are living in the hospital due to a surgery contest with a point system (you see, living in their own homes might result in them missing out on an awesome surgery worth lots of points). The resident with the most points gets some kind of fancy prize. Meredith is in therapy, which obviously made me almost giddy. But she's not there for McDreamy, oh no. The fact that he is all lovey dovey with Nurse McSlutty has nothing to do with it. Although, I must say this, McDreamy seems more indifferent to this relationship than Nurse McSlutty, who proudly proclaims to Lexie at the nurse's station that she loves him. Yeah, ok... A bit over the top, don't you think?

Callie and Dr. Hahn are like BFF now. I must say though, that there are some pretty strong lesbian undertones going on in their friendship. Maybe they're just close, but I don't know. I sense something juicy.

McSteamy just doesn't know what to do with himself now that Dr. Hahn and Callie are off doing their thing and completely ignoring him. And on top of that, he's a little jealous of McDreamy's new relationship with Nurse McSlutty, who he doesn't like at all. He was under the impression that after the Addison/Meredith triangular cluster[bleep] of love, that McDreamy and he were going to hang out and be single men together. And now he's lonely. I have two things to say about this plot-line. One, McSteamy is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters. Because he looks out for his buddy and he doesn't like Rose. Now, if he out-right hated her for no good reason, well, I might not feel the same. However, he just doesn't feel right about her and wasn't shy about vocalizing this to McDreamy. My hero! And two, McDreamy certainly does move from one relationship to the next, doesn't he? And I'm not talking about ending one relationship only to start a new one. That considerate, albeit disjointed way of dating just isn't for him. He'd like to sail from one relationship right into the next without all that being-single-for-five-minutes business. Think about it, he was still technically married when he started that stuff with Meredith. And he was still with Meredith [technically] when he tongue wrestled Nurse McSlutty. Damn boy, take a minute to breathe between women. Good god!

Moving on, there is still a little bit of unexpected tension between George and Izzie now that the Gizzie affair is over. And thank God for that (the end of the relationship, not the tension). Several different times Izzie makes some passive aggressive comments about her instincts being all wrong (what with her deciding to sleep with a married man and all) and George is now living in one of the grossest apartments I have ever seen, with Lexie. Lexie and Meredith have this almost sisterly bond over Lexie's sticky fingers, but as soon as Lexie tries to get personal, Meredith becomes all business and distant. I have faith that they'll work it out eventually. Not that I expect them to giggle over boys while braiding each other's hair or anything, but I hope one day, they will be able to communicate in a sisterly way.

I suppose it's time to actually talk about the patients. I mean, this is a medical drama, after all. The meat of the medicine is directed at this one group of campers who have been attacked by a bear. Two brothers and a wife. To make this a little easier to understand, since I have no idea what their names were, I'll name the brothers Brother A and Brother B. Ok now, Brother A is married to the girl there. He married this chick after 10 days of knowing her. She's a middle-class waitress, and I guess he's supposed to be loaded or something. Brother B is just there to be a wicked cool patient. We don't really know anything about his personal life. Anyways, Brother A, Brother B and wife decide to go out into the wilderness to camp. Brother A decides it would be a good idea to reach out and touch a baby cub, which prompts Mama Bear to come and tear the everloving crap out of everybody. Brother A has a hole in his hand, meaning you can actually see through it. Wife is missing part of her head, meaning her skull flap is just kind of hanging out on the side of her head. And Brother B's intestines are on the outside of his body rather than on the inside. And what's really weird is, Brother A drove all of them to the hospital instead of waiting for an ambulance. The other patient is just an old man with an ankle injury.

Now, keep in mind there is a surgical contest going on. So not only are the residents trying to pick the grossest cases, but they are also trying for a point system. The points I caught were 1 point per stitch (Brother B needs about a hundred of them) and 80 points for solving a medical mystery (Izzie thinks ankle man probably has a serious disease no one will catch because they're all focused on the ankle). Cristina is ahead in points when the patients roll up. She picks Brother B because all those stitches will seal the game for her. However, Bailey (who is officiating the contest) decides Alex and Cristina will share him. Alex has a chance to catch up to Cristina if he can do more stitches than her, which seems likely since she has to leave every hour to give Dr. Hahn an update about Brother B. Meredith gets Brother A, who seems to be a pretty straight forward case. However, as she learns more about his erratic behavior (like touching a baby cub when he knew better, marrying a woman he only knew for 10 days and driving everyone to the hospital rather than wait for an ambulance), she starts to suspect that Brother A has a tumor that is affecting his judgment. And guess what, if she's right, she's solved a medical mystery and she wins. Izzie spends her day trying to find some kind of life threatening disease in the man with the ankle injury. She orders tons of unnecessary and rather painful tests (including a spinal tap) and leads this man to believe he's dying from some unheard of disease all so she can solve a medical mystery and win the contest. Turns out, the guy only has the flu. He's appropriately unhappy about this.

Brother B dies because, well, his insides became his outsides and not many people can handle that kind of stress to the body. Brother A actually does have a tumor, which can't be operated on, and wife just gets her head sewn up and everything is fine. Meredith wins the surgical contest because of Brother A's tumor, although she doesn't seem very excited about it. Her prize is a red and white striped sparkly pager. A magic pager it seems, because it gives her the power to decide which surgeries she wants in on. Basically, this pager gives her the power to take someone else's patient if she wants it. Oh, and obviously, she'll be the first resident paged. The other residents are obviously unhappy about this, but I'm sure they'll all get over it.

All in all, this was a really good episode. Gross, bloody and appropriately sentimental what with all the freeze frame shots of McDreamy and Nurse McSlutty engaging in PDA right in front of Meredith. Meredith is handling this break-up with McDreamy much more maturely than she did the others. When Izzie and Cristina try to console her, as best friends are likely to do after a breakup, by calling her mean and awful, Meredith tells them to stop. Because Nurse McSlutty isn't an awful person (I beg to differ) and she has accepted that she and McDreamy are over. She's in therapy to deal with her many many issues and she even brings herself to consult him about a possible treatment for Brother A's tumor, even though it is painfully obvious that she would rather talk to anyone else. I'm pretty proud of my little Meredith. Being all adult and mature and actually trying to get healthier. I could just pinch her little cheek.

Essentially, I loved it. I loved all of it. And it was nice to have a quick Grey's fix after such a long withdrawal period. All is right with the world. Grey's Anatomy, we welcome you back with open arms.

The loveliest thing I have seen in a long time.

Will The New Episode of Grey's Anatomy Live up to the Hype? - The Results

2008-04-18T04:56:00.000-07:00

So the results of yet another fantastic poll created by yours truly are in. Awhile ago I asked you guys if you believed that the new Grey's Anatomy episode will live up to the hype, or if the writer's strike has ruined television for all of eternity. And you all answered with a resounding yes, Grey's Anatomy is going to rock. In fact, there was no other alternative according to you, as 100% of the responses were in support of the new episode, and everyone's favorite show, returning to the air as soon as humanly possible.

And the countdown has begun. Grey's Anatomy will return in:
6 Days!

Speaking of the sexiest cast on TV

Depressing Thought It May Be

2008-04-14T17:37:00.000-07:00

It is time to look ahead to the end of season 4. This will air on May 22nd and surprise! will last 2 hours. From 9 until 11, everybody's favorite show will say goodbye to yet another season in style. I'm not sure what the season finale would be about, what will happen or who is getting kicked off this season (I'm kidding! Totally kidding, Grey's Gods. Let us lose no more characters). But the basic point of this post is that season 4 is, in total, 17 hours long. So, despite the writer's strike, season 4 actually will turn out to be fairly decent, length wise. And the return of Grey's Anatomy will be about a month long before it leaves again for the summer. I'm not sure how the re-runs of the season will sustain us throughout the summer. Hopefully, I'll have a life on Thursday nights this summer and it won't really affect me. Now, I realize I'm rambling. So, in case this made absolutely no sense whatsoever, I shall sum up.

Grey's Anatomy is returning April 24th, but it over for the summer on May 22nd
The season finale will last 2 hours. Yay!
In total, season 4 or Grey's Anatomy will be 17 hours long. Meh.

I hope you enjoyed this little newsy tidbit.

A somewhat morbid looking picture of the Grey's Cast

The Big Day Is Almost Here

2008-04-14T06:12:00.000-07:00

The new episode of Grey's Anatomy waits for us just around the corner. Most of us are nearly giddy with excitement. I know, for my part, I've been spending the last couple weeks brushing up on Grey's Anatomy Season 3. And here, brushing up means laying in bed for hours on end watching episode after episode while my roommate rolls her eyes at my intense lameness. Don't worry, Grey's hasn't become such an obsession that it's messing with my schoolwork... well, not yet anyways.

Anyways, since it's been a pretty slow couple of weeks news-wise, I've started to wonder whether the time lost will make a difference to Grey's Anatomy fans. Did the writer's strike turn you off television completely? Do you think Shonda Rhimes has had enough time to write a truly fantastic 'welcome back viewers' episode yet? Or, is your faith in Grey's Anatomy and all it's dark and twisty characters so strong that you do not doubt for a minute that the triumphant return of Grey's Anatomy to television will be enough to inspire ticker-tape parades and eventually lead to statues of all the residents that stand 30 feet tall in the heart of Hollywood? I want to know what you think. So, of course, I made another poll. Yippee! I've been starting to miss those little suckers, you know?

6 Weeks Later: The Spoiler Edition

2008-04-07T05:54:00.000-07:00

Heads Up Everyone! There are spoilers afoot!

More spoilers are being released, and though they are not really all the juicy or interesting... or really "news", I will do my civic duty and post them here. Well, you've been warned. If you keep reading and you don't want to know what's happening next, it won't be my fault.

Callie and Hahn will be rooming together. I have no idea what happened to the whole Cristina/Callie roommates idea. Maybe I missed something?
Lexie and George will be living together as roommates as well and apparently their new digs aren't that great. This is probably a result of Izzie and George finally realizing months after everyone else did that they are icky as a couple.
The residents, minus Meredith, will be competing in a surgical contest. I have no idea what that means or even what the ethical logistics are. But I do know that Bailey (of all people!) will be judging the contest. WHAT?!

McDreamy is dating McSlutty Nurse. Gross.

And I think that's pretty much the gist of it. Tune in April 24th to catch all the action as that will be the premiere of the new episode!

Ellen Pompeo IS Alive

2008-04-04T10:46:00.001-07:00

Now, since Grey's Anatomy has gone off the air, Ellen Pompeo has been laying low. In fact, there's been almost no news about her. She searched for an apartment and wore a questionable outfit, which has since been determined 'Hot' by our readers here at the Seattle Grace Gossip Center. However, tonight on the Late Show with David Letterman, Ellen Pompeo will make a little visit. If you're having Meredith withdrawals, be sure to tune into CBS tonight. Maybe she'll even drop a couple juicy tidbits about upcoming plot lines.

Damn, Ellen, you look down right appealing!

McDreamy Smells Nice

2008-04-04T10:41:00.000-07:00

Patrick Dempsey, the doctor that flutters young hearts everywhere each Thursday night, is coming out with his own cologne. In cooperation with Avon, McDreamy plans to release his scent sometime in November, with a mass release to come sometime in 2009. Though there is no word yet on what the scent will, well, smell like, Patrick and his wife have been involved every step of the way. In fact, Jillian (Dempsey's wife) has been working with Avon for nearly two years.

How much luck do you think I'll have convincing my boyfriend to smell like McDreamy on a regular basis?

How very GQ of you, Patrick.

I Did NOT See This Coming!

2008-04-04T10:34:00.000-07:00

We all breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Gizzie Affair started to look like it wasn't going to survive. However, we very nearly escaped a real life imitation of Gizzie! Ah, the horror! When the show first started filming, the ever ballsy Katherine Heigl had her eye on T.R. For the first couple of weeks, she flirted aggressively and was baffled when the invitation was not returned. Katherine said, "When we were filming the pilot I was single and so was he and I kind of had my eye on him. I was getting nowhere and I was super-confused. I was like, ‘Hello? Do I have something hanging out of my nose? Why aren’t you paying any attention to me?' Needless to say, it quickly became a friendship once he told me."

I really have to say, I absolutely did not see this coming. I feel blindsided for crying out loud. Is nothing sacred and pure? Must everything be tainted by lust?

Nice face, Katherine.

Accidental Friendship

2008-04-04T06:29:00.000-07:00

Hallmark is the equivalent of Lifetime. This is fact. And now that I know, my favorite resident Miranda Bailey is set to star in her own Hallmark Channel original movie, Accidental Friendship, well I've decided to start stocking up on chocolate and tissues now. The movie is about a woman who finds unexpected friendship in a female police officer. Not much else is known about the film, except that it is set to air on television at the end of the year. I absolutely cannot wait.

Chandra Wilson showing off her many awards for Grey's Anatomy

Helpful Additions

2008-04-04T05:41:00.000-07:00

Anne Dawes, writer of Grey's Anatomy: An Unauthorized View From the Other Side, recently reminded me that I'm missing a few hook-ups on my chart. Some I had completely forgotten about. Now, that's got to tell you that this woman knows her stuff. So go buy her book. Seriously.

Anyways, here is the updated chart, with help from Anne Dawes. I've decided to make it a completely different color to keep it consistent.

Just as a reference, in case you (like I) forgot some of these people:

Mrs. Seabury: The sheltered woman who came in for surgery to treat her cancer, but decided last minute to cancel the surgery. She decided to live the rest of her life doing all the things she never did; like shop-lift, eat a lot of sugar and apparently, have sex with Karev in the bathroom of Joe's bar.

Steve: Meredith's one-night stand who ended up coming to the hospital the next day due to prolonged erection that just would not go away. As a result, Derek (McDreamy) had to be called in to treat what they believed to be a neurological condition.

Colin Marlowe: The hot-shot doctor Cristina slept with while in grad-school. Burke admires him and looks up to him as a mentor-type guy, but has a little problem with his idol having slept with (and continually pursuing) his girlfriend.

Hank: the hockey player that Izzie was dating long before the Alex/Denny/George thing happened. He's the one she tried to avoid by throwing a huge party at Meredith's house, which she didn't even end up attending seeing as she had a chance to do brain surgery right before she was about to leave for the night.

That should about cover it. If you don't know who Joe is, you clearly don't watch the show and I'm not about to explain to you that Joe (and his bar) are central to the existence of the show. If you are confused about who Thatcher Grey is, just go away now. Really. As an extension of that, Susan Grey is critical to some pretty serious plot lines. So once again, if you don't know her, well, I'm not going to explain it to you.

Thanks, Anne, for all your lovely contributions.

A time to celebrate!

2008-04-04T05:06:00.001-07:00

I just reached 10,000 hits! Yay! And, more and more of you are participating in the polls. The latest one, Hot or Not, which analyzed Ellen Pompeo's retro disco diva all white ensemble, accrued a total of eight votes. That's an all time high! Anyway, let's bank my mounting excitement for a while and give you the results of that poll.

75% of you (6 votes) insisted Ellen's outfit was indeed, hot! Though I don't personally agree, it seems most of you thought she pulled off the John Travolta circa Saturday Night Fever look.

On the other hand, 25% of you (2 votes) agreed that Ellen's fashion statement missed. And missed horribly, at that.

Thank you, dearest readers, for boosting my ego and taking part in my polls. Now we can all just forget the girlish squeal I projected into the universe when I realized people actually read this blog.

Remember McVet?

2008-04-03T06:52:00.001-07:00

If you honestly do not know who I'm talking about when I say the name "McVet", this website is probably not for you. You should just continue along with your merry browsing. However, if you do remember McVet and were sad to see him go, don't worry! Because you can see him again in a new film, Max Payne, which is apparently a film adaptation of a video game.

Chris O'Donnell, the cutie that played Meredith's boyfriend in season three (and also saw to all the medical needs of her dog) is slated to star alongside Mark Wahlberg, another hottie, in the crime drama about a cop, out for revenge after being haunted by the death of his family. Oh, sounds juicy.

The film is due out October 17th, 2008.

McVet making Meredith all McSwoony.

Grey's Anatomy for the Intellectutal Mind

2008-04-03T06:45:00.000-07:00

Haven't quite had enough of Grey's Anatomy lately? I have the perfect solution for you. A new book has been released, claiming to explore the subtle metaphors and symbolism throughout the first three seasons of the hit show. The book, Grey's Anatomy: An Unauthorized View from the Other Side, written by Anne Dawes and Helen Dina aims to answer questions about the show that you've always wondered about, but never really got any answers for. In addition to a thorough examination of the show and it's hidden meanings, the reader also gets a trip down memory lane, with highlights from all the most popular episodes. Your copy is available on amazon, or you can visit the book's website here.

The cover of what is sure to be a new best-seller. Go get your's today!

Hot or Not?

2008-04-01T11:57:00.000-07:00

So what do you think? Ellen Pompeo: hot or not?

She could be trying to revamp the classic Saturday Night Fever or maybe she lost a bet. High waisted pants on anyone without a curvy figure has the potential to be catastrophic. But what do you think? Is she pulling it off? Or does the cardinal rule still stand: Absolutely no white pants after Labor Day.

Elisabeth Reaser May Get Her Own Show.

2008-04-01T11:47:00.000-07:00

But don't worry, it's not a spin-off. The show, Mythological X, which sounds sort of like a sci-fi thriller series, is about about a woman who discovers through a psychic that she has already dated and dumped the man she is destined to marry. I assume the series, if it gets the green light, will zoom in on Elisabeth's character (Annabel) going backwards through her dating time line to find out which one she is destined to be with forever. I'm also guessing, hilarious hijinks will ensue.

You know, I'm actually sort of looking forward to this show. I mean, there's only so much growing Elisabeth can do on Grey's Anatomy as Ava/Jane Doe/ Rebecca. In this case, having three names and two different personas is kind of getting a little dull. I mean, so far, her only plot-line has been falling in love with Alex as Ava and living the life she had before her accident as Rebecca. And the back and forth is getting kind of monotonous.

The show, Mythological X, will air on Fox should the pilot get picked up. Right now, it's only in the "sell, sell, sell" stage of television production.

Elisabeth Reaser shining those pearly whites in an attempt to sway producers to pick up her new show.

Katherine Heigl Tries to Take Back What She Said About Leaving Grey's

2008-03-31T14:04:00.000-07:00

The biggest news about Katherine Heigl, besides her marriage to Josh Kelley is the constant push and pull of will she or won't she? Leave Grey's for her super huge movie career, that is. But now, Heigl says she never had plans to leave in the first place. "When I come back to Grey's, I am actually really excited. After nine months a year for four years, of course you're going to think, 'I want to be someone else for a while.' I landed really good things and I did them on my breaks. It broke up the monotony of the character and I'm very, very grateful for opportunities. But Grey's is such a good cast. Everybody is amazing."

Wow, Katherine. That's a whole lot of love for your Grey's cast. Maybe you've finally realized you probably shouldn't burn bridges as you head towards you're glamorous film career? Or maybe you're just covering all your bases. It still kind of sounds like you're sick and tired of Isobel Stevens. Oh right, you can go back to Grey's now that you've taken a break from being Izzie for a while. It's only your job, woman!

hey look, it's that chick who's now too good for the show that built her career!

Dear God, Help Us All!

2008-03-31T08:34:00.000-07:00

Just a few mere months after the writer's strike ended, another strike looms on the horizon. The actor's agreement with media moguls, though I'm not quite sure what it's called, is set to expire this summer. And adding to the problem, the two major unions that make up the actor's camp have decided to split and go it alone against the big guys. SGA and AFTRA have split with AFTRA saying, "For the past year SAG leadership in Hollywood has engaged in a relentless campaign of disinformation and disparagement," and SGA's President saying, "AFTRA's refusal now to bargain together with us and their last-second abandonment of the joint process is calculated, cynical and may serve the interests of their institution, but not its members."

Come on guys. Get it together. I promise you it's not worth another strike. Plus, if I have to miss out on any more Grey's Anatomy new episodes because you greedy bastards can't get along, well then, heads are going to have to roll. And you can count on it.

Please, let's try our best to avoid a repeat of this!

Why Didn't I Know About This?

2008-03-31T08:20:00.000-07:00

T.R Knight has a boyfriend. I'm guessing we didn't know about this until now because well, he's 35 and his boyfriend, Mark Cornelsen, is 19. Yeah. But the cat is out of the bag as the two were spotted house hunting in the Hollywood Hills yesterday. My goodness, but they are moving quite quickly.

T.R still refuses to talk about how he feels about the conflict with Isaiah Washington some time back. If you don't know what "incident" I'm talking about, then you are in way over your head and you probably shouldn't be reading this page.

The cuties house hunting in Hollywood. (PS: check out mark's shirt) :)

McDreamy Has a Need for Speed

2008-03-31T06:10:00.000-07:00

In addition to being drop dead gorgeous, and keeping us all occupied with trying to figure out if he and Meredith will ever work it out, McDreamy has now taken up racing. Patrick Dempsey, better known to us as McDreamy, is in Homestead Florida for the 25o mile Gainsco Grand Prix of Miami. Dempsey's co driver, Joe Foster, and he will be driving a souped-up and specially painted No. 40 Hyper Sport Mazda RX-8. If I knew even the slightest thing about cars, I'm sure I would be impressed by that. However, as it stands, it means about the same to me as all those super long, fancy, diagnoses the doctors of Grey's Anatomy are constantly throwing around.

This is not the first time Dempsey has raced and he's really not half bad at the sport. Last year, in the same race, he came in sixth. I won't be watching, because even Patrick Dempsey cannot interest me in a sport in which the only action is cars taking left turns all day long. But I wish him well anyways.

You race that car, Patrick Dempsey!

Sara Ramirez + Teddy Bears = Soo Freaking Adorable

2008-03-30T14:28:00.001-07:00

Sara Ramirez has signed on to the Project Teddy Bear section of the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, sponsoring Lisa Spodak. The fund raiser involves celebrities who have volunteered to sign their autograph and take a picture with a teddy bear. These things are later auctioned off and the proceeds are sent to the person being sponsored to help with medical bills, care and medications. Sara's teddy bear picture and autograph was auctioned off for 127.50$ on March 21st. And the picture is absolutely adorable. Here, take a gander.

Sara and her too-cute-for-words teddy bear

More Polls

2008-03-28T10:38:00.000-07:00

Last time, when I asked you guys if you thought Katherine Heigl's off-set behavior made you like her character Izzie any less, I got a dead lock three way tie. You all seem to have extremely different views on Katherine v Izzie:

2 of you said: I don't think her behavior off-set is really all that bad.
Another 2 of you said: Izzie is a sweetheart. Whatever Katherine does off-set has no bearing on Izzie.
And yet another 2 of you said: They're both pretty annoying.

Thanks to all those that participated. And, well, if you didn't get a chance to participate in that poll, it's okay because, I bring you another!

Who would you rather be BFF with?

Kate Walsh to Star Opposite Paul Bettany

2008-03-28T05:20:00.000-07:00

Paul Bettany is probably one of my favorite movie actors of all time. Seriously. And now that he's teaming up with Kate Walsh in a doomsday film called Legion due out in 2009, there is one more movie added to the list of must-sees. According to imdb.com, the movie is about God losing faith in humanity and sending his legion of angels to take care of business on Earth.

Humankind's hope lies in a group of misfits holed up in a desert diner -- where the archangel Michael happens to be as well. Kate plays a character by the name of Sandra Anderson. We can only hope this movie is as amazing as all of Paul Bettany's other movies. And with the added star-shine of Kate Walsh, who has starred in such classics as Wake Up Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie, Family Man and Under the Tuscan Sun, I'm sure this latest movie will be a hit... hopefully. And if not, at least Kate always has Private Practice and Grey's Anatomy.

Sheesh, not the best picture of Kate, now is it?

More From Justin

2008-03-28T05:08:00.000-07:00

Justin Chambers is finally talking about his stay at UCLA's medical center a few months back, citing he suffers from a biological sleep disorder. According to Chambers, he would only sleep about an hour a night and hadn't had any real rest in two full months. Justin said, "It's a biological sleep disorder. Your mind keeps racing, and your body is tired. It wants to go to sleep, but it can't." As many of you may remember, shortly after Justin checked himself in, another high profile celeb was also afmitted: Britney Spears. And Justin had something to say about that, too. "I only got attention because Britney came. Otherwise, it would've been private." The Grey's Anatomy star blames Britney's media circus for shining the spotlight on his otherwise secret hospital stay.

Maybe all this explanation is Justin's way of coping with his disease, although he now says that after his hospital stay he regularly gets six or seven hours of sleep a night and that he's fine. However, this could also be damage control; an excuse for his erratic behavior in Palm Springs.

Justin Chambers before his troubled mind refused to let him sleep

Justin Chambers is Cr-Razy

2008-03-27T14:20:00.000-07:00

Remember when Justin Chambers checked himself into a psych ward a couple months back? Yeah, he said it was due to exhaustion and sleep deprivation. Well, maybe he should consider a return visit. His behavior in Palm Springs this past week just screams, "someone please save me from myself!" At first, he tried flirting with a waitress. And when the waitress showed no interest, he slapped money out of her hand. When the waitress bent down to pick up the money, he is quoted as saying "That's right, bitch, that's where you belong. Pick up the money!"

As if that kind of behavior isn't appalling enough, he apparently passed out at the table and when he awoke, starting yelling about being a father of five and how he was a good dad and everyone should leave him alone. This tirade was completely unprovoked, as he was unconscious on the table prior to the explosion.

You know, I really wish I was making this up. Because apparently, all my favorite characters on my favorite show ever have serious issues. Katherine Heigl is kind of a brat. Justin Chambers has a hidden hobby for verbal attacking and degrading palm springs waitresses. And then of course, there is the excommunicated Isaiah Washington with his hated filled messages against homosexuality. Unfortunately, nothing about this story is fabricated. We even have pictures.

Behold!

Justin Chambers doing his best to ruin his own reputation and the reputation of the critically acclaimed show that made him famous, Grey's Anatomy

Heigl Wasn't Supposed to Be Cast in Knocked Up At All!

2008-03-24T07:17:00.000-07:00

Katherine Heigl, who has criticized the movie that made her famous (Knocked Up) for being sexist, apparently wasn't supposed to be the star in the first place. Judd Apatow's first choice for the role of Alison Scott was Anne Hathaway. However, Anne backed out citing the movie was too radical for her (i'm guessing she is referencing that part at the end where they show a baby's head crowning). Katherine was quoted as saying "I think Anne found the film a little too radical especially with the shot at the end! Seeing a baby's head poking through was a little strong but the reaction of the audience at that point was so extreme. They just screamed - especially the men!"

So, let me get this straight, Katherine. You're only too happy to star in a role considered "too radical" by the actress that was supposed to play the role, but as soon as the movie makes you famous, it's suddenly a sexist film. Right? Yeah, I thought so.

And just so we're clear, does this picture of you objectify women? No? Alright, just trying to follow you're crazy logic.

Katherine Heigl not being objectified

The Chart

2008-03-24T07:07:00.000-07:00

To help you keep track of who is doing who on the show where more hook-ups happen than surgeries, I have devised a chart to help you keep up. This chart only tracks who has actually slept with whom, while omitting make out sessions, because really, that could get messy. If you see any mistakes, please let me know. Also let me know if there are any hook-ups I've missed.

SPOILERS!

2008-03-24T06:14:00.000-07:00

Turn back now if you are the type of person that likes surprises. Luckily for you all, I am not one of those people. And, I have the low down on the returning episodes of Grey's Anatomy. Worship me later if you feel the need.

Last chance before I reveal the spoilers. Better go, now.

First up, Meredith is going to be a stronger, more independent woman when the first episode returns on April 24th. She'll be navigating the waters of a world without McDreamy. As you all know, the pair broke up in the last episode before the writer's strike. However, by the fifth and final episode of the season, McDreamy and Meredith will have worked things out and will be together for good. I wonder what that means? Does "for good" translate to "until next season" or does "for good" translate to "a wedding". I doubt it, but I do sort of feel like Grey's Anatomy owes me a wedding ever since the fiasco of Dr. Burke and Dr. Yang. Another reason I highly doubt a wedding: Nurse Slutty is still around. Yeah, I felt the same way.

Second: Izzie and George have finally figured out that they are better off as friends. Halleluiah!! I thought the writers would never get the point. Even after I pretty much spelled out that the Gizzie affair is an abomination and the most incestual, nauseating relationship I have ever witnessed on TV aside from that one time I accidentally caught a viewing of Flowers in the Attic on Lifetime. I kind of attribute traumatic experiences like watching a brother and sister do the nasty on TV to my ultimate life goal of becoming a fantastic psychologist. And yes, I realize Izzie and George are not related in any way, shape or form, but my extensive knowledge of their off-screen sibling-like relationship ruins any chance of taking their characters as lovers seriously.

And finally, as I've already reported, Addison is back to do some kind of serious surgery either on a pregnant woman, or an infant. You can see her in the second episode. And I guess Ava is back. Call her what you will: Jane Doe, Ava, Rebecca, Karev's love interest, whatever. I don't really care much, so I won't report on it. Eventually the writers will take me seriously when I say Karev needs to be with Izzie.

Old friends and familiar faces

It's a Slow News Day

2008-03-21T06:21:00.001-07:00

So i brought you another exciting poll. Recently, Katherine has been in the news a lot, and not a lot of it is flattering. She's gaining a reputation for being a diva by demanding a higher salary on Grey's Anatomy, referring to the movies that made her famous as sexist and fluff, and last but not least, trying to get out of her contract on Grey's early to focus entirely on her developing film career. I thought it might be nice to generate some discussion and see how you felt about the situation. Will Katherine's off-screen behavior have an effect on how Grey's fans view her character Izzie?

Katherine Is a Ballsy Little Girl, Isn't She?

2008-03-20T06:11:00.000-07:00

In addition to being a bossy little brat while working at Grey's Anatomy, Katherine proves she's not much different in her personal life. Apparently, she got so tired of waiting for Josh to propose that she actually confronted him about what his intentions were. She was quoted as saying that "I knew early on how much I adored this person and when I tried to imagine my life without him I really couldn't. So it felt very real and very right pretty early on. I didn't want to just date, I wanted to move forward." She even went so far as to pick out her own diamond for her ring. The two met in 2005 and married in December of 2007.

Well, whatever works for you, Katherine.

Katherine is a machine when it comes to getting what she wants

In other Grey's news, more completely vague and unsurprising information has been leaked about Kate Walsh's one episode return to Grey's Anatomy. Dr. Addison Shepherd returns to Seattle Grace for a little visit just as a patient in dire need of emergency neo-natal surgery is admitted. Well, how very shocking. Of course, nothing has been leaked about a possible rekindling romance between Addison and McSteamy, who are obviously meant to be together. But if Kate's character ends up performing a surgery on her only visit to Seattle Grace, perhaps it's possible for her to return to the show. Coincidentally, as it stands, Addison can have her job back any time she wants it as offered by the chief when she originally decided to leave. Maybe Kate's spin-off isn't going as well as predicted?

Kate contemplating her permanent return to Grey's

TR Knight's Lost Dr. Pepper Commercial

2008-03-19T08:23:00.000-07:00

Long ago, before the fame of Grey's Anatomy, the actors we have all come to love were simply struggling actors waiting for their big break. As a result, there can be some very embarrassing clips roaming around on the internet. As we've already established, Chyler Leigh (Lexie Grey) starred in a low budget movie in which the script called for her to kiss her co-star, who also happened to be her brother. Katherine Heigl was in a cutesy Disney movie called Wish Upon a Star in which she had a short bob and wore blue eyeshadow. That's right. I said blue eyeshadow. And now, I've discovered that our beloved TR Knight (Dr. O'Malley) starred in a Diet Dr. Pepper commercial. And in this commercial he has, wait for it, BLONDE HIGHLIGHTS! Good god, I just can't take it. If you think you can stomach it, here's the clip.

Oh, TR Knight. I promise to love you, even in your blondest moment. But, for shame. Really.

Is There a Baby Heigl on The Way?

2008-03-19T06:51:00.000-07:00

No, not quite yet. But the couple is planning to try. Katherine wants to start as early as July, after only 6 months of marriage. Meanwhile, hubby Josh Kelley wants to be married for a year and a half before trying to bring kids into the mix. I mean, considering they didn't live together at all before they were married, I think Josh has the right idea. I think it's important to figure out if you really can live with each other, quirks and all, before you bring children into the picture. (Personally, I'd want to find all of that out before I got married, but what are you gonna do?) The couple has decided to compromise and start trying sometime in December, after only a year of marriage. Well, I wish them luck and look forward to seeing a little Heigl-Kelley hybrid in the future.

Ready for a baby?

Grey's Characters Make It Onto Another List

2008-03-19T05:19:00.001-07:00

The characters (as well as the actor's and actresses that play them) on Grey's Anatomy have been making top ten lists since, well, forever. Katherine Heigl was voted top woman on the 99 Top Women's list. Justin Chambers was voted sexiest dad while Katherine shared another honor with hubby Josh Kelley as sexiest couple. A scene from one of Patrick Dempsey's earlier movies made the top ten list of worst nude scenes ever (hard to believe, I know). And now, we have another.

Meredith Grey (Ellen Pomeo) and McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey) have come in third on a top ten list of hottest love scenes for their sex scene in an exam room. I'm sorry I can't be more specific, that's really all that was listed. However, when I read this, two things immediately popped into my head.

Meredith and McDreamy being all McLovey

1. Why isn't that list riddled with Grey's Anatomy interludes? That's pretty much all that show is about.

2. Which time Meredith and McDreamy had sex in an exam room are they referencing? There's been quite a few. An exam room is kind of their favorite place to do the naughty.

I wish I had more for you, but the only other news is Katherine Heigl is still whining about wanting to leave the show for her big movie career. I'm not exactly sure why since Katherine has referenced her own movies as "sexist" (Knocked Up) and "fluff" (27 Dresses). Currently, she's busy comparing herself to other big time movie stars that got their start on hit shows and then made the leap to Hollywood. Most shockingly, George Clooney. That's right. Katherine Heigl is comparing her situation to when George Clooney left E.R to make awesome movies. She has also made reference to Tom Hanks, who got his start on Bosom Buddies before taking off into the world of Cinema. But last time I checked, neither Knocked Up or 27 Dresses were comparable to Forrest Gump or Cast Away. Personally, I think Katherine Heigl is headed the same direction as David Caruso. And all I can do is sit here and watch, horrified as one of my favorite new actresses puts her career in a car and pushes it off a cliff. And I bet it will make a big exposion, too.

Why, Katherine,why?!

Because I Love You

2008-03-18T07:52:00.000-07:00

I have found a video of bloopers from the movie Enchanted starring, of course, the incomparable Patrick Dempsey. And to reward loyal readers, I bring it to you.

Enjoy!

Patrick Dempsey: adorable AND funny

Movies Movies Movies!

2008-03-17T04:55:00.000-07:00

Imdb.com is my best friend, as it enlightens me to projects my favorite Grey's characters are working on in the absence of new episodes and when news is slow. Last time I reported on Katherine Heigl's attempt to bail out of her contract in order to focus on her burgeoning film career. Well, it seems our lovely leading lady is slated to star in a movie called The Ugly Truth which will begin production April 15th in Portland, Oregon. Apparently, the movie is about "a romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love." No offense to Katherine Heigl, but if she plans on leaving Grey's to make generic chick flicks like this one, she's not exactly proving that she is a serious actress. Make a movie about the Genocide in Darfur, act brilliantly in it and then make a couple more controversial movies that the general public doesn't get but is poignant and makes a statement and then maybe we'll consider you more than a TV actress. But enough of these Knocked Up knock-offs. You won't survive forever on them, you'll just get typecasted.

Starring opposite our favorite Seattle Grace resident will be Gerard Butler, who starred in PS. I love you, which also featured Jefferey Dean Morgan (That's Denny to all you Grey's lovers). What a coincidence. Anyways, now that I've played my own version of six degrees of separation, its time to bring you even more movie news.

There's no movie poster for The Ugly Truth, but I'm sure it will looks something like this and this.

Chandra Wilson is currently making a movie about Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to congress, called A Single Woman. Chandra will be the voice of Coretta Scott King. Imdb reports only that the movie will be out in 2008. Now these are the kind of movies Katherine needs to get herself involved with.

Chandra Wilson looking absolutely fabulous.

My! I Have So Much To Tell You All!

2008-03-12T09:08:00.000-07:00

First up:

Patrick Dempsey is opening a cancer care center called The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope and Healing. And though you may think that Eric Dane's recent cancer scare may have prompted this, it is in fact his mother's ovarian cancer scare that started the project. And it seems to be a family affair as Dempsey's sister will be running the center as its new coordinator while Patrick focuses on the public education campaign. Patrick says his mother's fight which began 10 years ago left him feeling lost and hopeless and without much information on the subject. He hopes this center will not only help families fight the cancer, but educate them on the disease. Patrick's mother is luckily cancer free and in remission. The center will open on march 31 in his hometown of Maine.

The Noble Patrick Dempsey

Next:

Katherine Heigl is kind of a full time brat on the set of Grey's Anatomy. Rumors have been swirling that she wants out of her contract and that if it were up to her, Izzie would be killed off. Now, why on Earth would Katherine want to drop out of the show that made her famous? Why, to focus on her ever so popular movie career, that's why! Seems Katherine is a little worried that being tied down to one of the biggest shows to ever air on television will prevent the little princess from being that big time movie star she's always dreamed of being. I'm sorry Katherine, but to bail out on the show that gave you your popularity will only serve to make you less popular. And, your movies aren't that great. They're cute. They're kitchy. But come on, Katherine. You're not exactly Drew Barrymore or Julia Roberts.

But don't worry folks, Katherine's not going anywhere. She still has two more years left on her contract and jumping ship early would only cause her a lot of headaches she doesn't want. However, this is not the first issue ABC has had with the darling diva. Last year, as a fairly new actress on the scene, Katherine got into an argument with her producers about her salary and claimed they didn't value her as much as Sandra Oh. (News flash Katherine, Sandra has been around forever. And she's brilliant. Don't go preparing yourself to have your hand-prints immortalized in front of Grauman's on Hollywood Boulevard just yet.)

The Diva Katherine Heigl

And Finally:

Guess who has some spoilers for the upcoming new episodes of Grey's Anatomy? I do!

Spoiler Alert!
If you don't want to know what happens, stop reading. I'm ending this post with spoilers on purpose. Don't worry, you won't miss any news.

Shonda Rhimes told Entertainment Weekly a few tasty tidbits about the direction Grey's Anatomy will be moving in future episodes. Shonda says she would love for Meredith and McDreamy to get together for real and explore what it means to be in a serious committed relationship. However, Nurse Rose (or the slutty nurse as I so lovingly refer to her) will be appearing in five more episodes. So we're not quite rid of McDreamy's other love interest quite yet. And finally, Jane Doe will be back for three more episodes. (I believe Shonda is referring to the lovely Ava)

Whew. That was a lot of news to cover. Well, enjoy!

You Can Buy Katherine Heigl's Oscar Dress

2008-03-05T15:03:00.000-08:00

Katherine Heigl is auctioning off that fabulous red dress she wore to the Academy Awards. You can go to the Clothes Off Our Back auction page to place your bid. You have about 12 days to place your bid. The auction is currently at 2,750 dollars, but it's probably more than that once you've finished reading this. It may be a lot of money, but keep in mind, it is an Escada dress.

And it's beautiful! Although, admittedly, it's probably a little out of your price range. However, all the proceeds go to benefiting hunger relief, girls' scholarships in Africa and enriching the lives of artists. Yay charity.

Katherine's beautiful gown, which she wore to the Oscars.

Kate Walsh Backs Barack

2008-03-04T13:07:00.001-08:00

Kate Walsh is throwing her weight behind Barack Obama and has decided to support his campaign. She spoke at a rally supporting Barack Obama last night at Texas A&M University. Kate has been traveling across country with the Barack Bandwagon in support of the presidential candidate. Initially Kate thought she would vote for Hillary, that is until she met Barack at the 2004 Democratic Convention. The first thing Barack did upon meeting the Private Practice star was to congratulate her on her spin-off, which earned him Kate Walsh's undying support. Walsh was also impressed with the diversity amongst his supporters, who span all races and ages.

Though all of this is fantastic, and I believe that people should vote for whoever they want, I don't really see any persuasive points in her speech. Essentially, Barack buttered her up by catering to her ego concerning her spin-off. And that's why Kate thinks you should vote for him? Personally, I'm voting for Barack as well, but only because he seems to be the lesser of all evils. Kate, if you want people to vote for Barack, you need to give them a reason. A reason beyond the fact that he apparently likes your show. How about his position on health care? Or maybe his plan for Iraq? Ooo! I know! His education plan. Seriously, Kate. Pick one. Research his views, and then support him and try to convince others to vote for him.

Kate Walsh supports Barack because he likes her show

Eric Dane to Star in Marley & Me

2008-03-03T10:12:00.001-08:00

Eric Dane is reportedly on board to co-star in the movie Marley and Me based on the book by John Grogan. The movie is about a journalist and his wife, who move to Miami for a newspaper job. The journalist's best friend (Dane) suggests that the couple adopt a puppy to satiate the wife's desire for children. The puppy, named Marley, although adorable, is quite the handful and hilarity ensues. Also starring in the film is Owen Wilson, who will play the journalist and Jennifer Aniston, who will play Wilson's wife. The movie is due out on Christmas of 2008.

What an adorable little puppy!

The cover of John Grogan's best-selling novel, which the movie is based on.

The Poll Results Are IN!

2008-03-03T08:30:00.000-08:00

It was interesting to discover that I have a total of three loyal readers...

Not exactly a huge confidence booster, but what are you gonna do?

Anyways, the results for Poll #1, which asked "Should Meredith and Derek get back together?":
67% of you believe it is possible if Meredith gets over her abandonment issues, while 33% of you say, well of course they should get back together. They're soul mates after all.

Poll #2, which asked "Do you think George and Izzie have a shot?" resulted in a resounding no with 100% of you answering that the Gizzie affair was an abomination.

And Poll #3, which was kind of my favorite, has you split down the middle on who is the cutest couple at Seattle Grace.
50% of you say that Meredith and McDreamy are the cutest couple, while the other 50% insist that the cutest couple is McDreamy and McSteamy.

Cutest Couple?

At the very least, the three readers I do have evidently have a sense of humor.

Sara Ramirez and T.R Knight Support GLAAD

2008-03-03T06:56:00.000-08:00

For those of you who don't know, GLADD stand for Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. As you all know, halfway through the third season of Grey's Anatomy, TR Knight, who is openly gay was verbally attacked by his castmate Isaiah Washington who played Dr. Preston Burke. Washington was reprimanded, asked to publicly apologize and was eventually let go, which I personally believe to be the best course of action. Discrimination of any form should not be tolerated, especially amongst those who work closely. Anyways, TR Knight (Dr. George O'Malley) and Sara Ramirez (Dr. Callie Torres) have put out PSAs to spread the word that hate is unnecessary and counterproductive. Ok, so maybe that's how I feel about hate and discrimination, but you get the point. Sara recently filmed her GLAAD PSA in spanish.

And here they are.
TR Knight's GLAAD PSA
Sara Ramirez's GLAAD PSA in spanish

TR Knight and Sara Ramirez looking absolutely stunning

Kate Walsh Back at Seattle Grace?

2008-03-03T06:47:00.000-08:00

You heard it, folks. Kate Walsh (AKA Dr. Addison Shepherd) is returning to Grey's Anatomy. I know what you're thinking. What about Private Practice? Well, fear not. Private Practice isn't getting cancelled as far as I know. And Kate is only guest starring in one of the new episodes set to air in April or May. And though we may only have her for one show, it will be so nice to see her smiling face again. If there's one thing Grey's Anatomy has been missing lately (minus actual episodes) its Dr. Addison Shepherd. Man, I miss seeing that shock of red hair gliding down the hallways, keeping Karev on his toes. Oh Addison, why did you have to leave?

Well, anyways, it will be good to have her back, even if it is only for one episode. When I get details as to when exactly that episode will be airing, I will gladly inform you.

Kate Walsh looking fabulous as always

Who's YOUR favorite character?

2008-02-29T05:34:00.000-08:00

My favorite character just happens to be the ever loveable and completely hug-worthy George O'Malley. Sure, he's still an intern and yeah, he has this really bad habit for falling for girls that are really really bad for him, but he's my favorite all the same. I love to see him bumble his way through the melodrama of the hospital, ever so innocently. He's cute, he's funny and he's the namesake of my kitten. So he will always find himself a special place in my heart. Even if he does fall into some truly cringe-worthy relationships.

(A recap for those of you who do not devote your life to the plotline of Grey's)
1. Olivia: she's the one who gave him syphillis. And although they were absolutely adorable together, she was kind of a slut and was banging Alex at virtually the same time she was banging George. Which is so not ok. And really, what new relationship will survive a good case of syphillis?

2. Meredith: Then there was that icky, gross, nails against chalkboard feeling we all experienced during their one night stand. For God's sake, she started hysterically crying in the middle of it all. They could barely see each other through the haze of awkward in that room. God, that was awful.

3. Callie: Okay, so there wasn't anything truly heinous about his relationship with Callie, except for the fact that she was sort of a control freak. George lost almost enitrely his personality and quick wit during those few months we were forced to watch Callie control him. The whole thing seemed forced and suited to fit Callie's need for more air-time on the show.

4. Izzie: I don't know why George must continually gravitate toward his friends romantically, but there you have it. This "relationship" was even more awkward than the one with Meredith. They have absolutely no sexual chemistry. Watching their first drunken interlude for the first time, I found myself praying out loud that the writer's were not doing what I thought they were doing. Izzie and George are meant to be strictly friends. Buddies. Pals. Definitely not lovers. Hear that, writer's? It's gross. It's like incest. Please, make it stop.

So there you have my favorite character. Who's yours? Leave a comment telling us which intern or resident makes you religiously tune into Grey's. It would be nice to know why, too. :)

Sandra Oh Hosts the Genie Award

2008-02-27T09:37:00.001-08:00

If you have never heard of the Genie awards, that's probably because it's an award show that honors great Canadian film. It might seem like an odd choice for Sandra to host such an award, but she was actually born and raised in Ottawa. And, she's won a couple Genie awards herself, for her roles in the movies Last Night and Double Happiness.

This year, movies such as Away From Her and Eastern Promises are nominated for the prestigious award. The awards will be given out March 3rd 2008.

The fantastic Sandra Oh (AKA Dr. Yang)

While we wait...

2008-02-22T05:10:00.000-08:00

While we await the fantastic reappearance of new Grey's episodes, I got to wondering what you guys think will happen. How would you like the rest of the season to go? And so, I've made some polls for you. Get to voting!

Your title
Should Meredith and Derek get back together?

No! How many times have they broken up so far?
Of course. They're soul mates.
Maybe if Meredith gets over her abandonment issues.
No. It's never a good idea to sleep with your boss.

view results

Your title
Do you think George and Izzie have a shot?

No! They're clearly better off as friends.
Absolutely. They're so cute together!
The whole Gizzie affair is an abomination.
I just want to know what the writer's were thinking...

view results

Your title
Who is the cutest couple at Seattle Grace?

Meredith and McDreamy
Izzie and George
Izzie and Alex
Ava and Alex
The Chief and his wife
McDreamy and McSteamy
McDreamy and the scrub nurse
Bailey and Tucker
McSteamy and Hahn
Lexie and George

view results

Various and Sundry Grey's Related Tid-Bits.

2008-02-21T10:26:00.000-08:00

First, let's start off with the good news. Grey's Anatomy is definitely airing five more new episodes of Grey's Anatomy, the first of which will air April 24, 2008. ABC finally released the time slots for their broadcasting station Wednesday afternoon. Now that there's a definite date out there in the universe, it's time for all you Grey's fans to set your countdown clocks.

In other news, the cast of Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice are going live on February 29, 2008. Nearly the entire cast of both shows are involved somehow and will perform a musical event called Good Medicine at UCLA's Royce Hall at 8pm. Whoever is working at UCLA's program council clearly know some people in high places. However, tickets are $100 and it is a one night only show. Headliners include Audra McDonald, Sara Ramirez and Loretta Divine, but each of our favorite cast members are slated to participate in the program.

Elizabeth Reaser (AKA Ava, Karev's love interest) is going to appear in the film Twilight, a vampire flick based on a series of young adult novels. The movie is about a young girl who moves with her father to a small town in Washington and becomes fascinated with a young classmate, Edward Cullen. She then meets the entire Cullen family, who are all apparently vampires. I don't know much about the books this movie is based off of. All I know is Edward Cullen is apparently every young avid reader's fantasy boyfriend. So it must be good. Good for you Ava. You go, girl.

Also, Patrick Dempsey and Katherine Heigl are on tap to be presenters at this year's Academy Awards. The pair will be doling out little gold statues this Sunday February 24, 2008. Jon Stewart will be hosting the show and Kristin Chenoweth will be singing "How do you Know?" from the movie Enchanted which starred our favorite hot doctor, McDreamy.

I totally didn't see this one coming.

2008-02-20T06:54:00.000-08:00

Grey's Anatomy is obviously one of the country's biggest shows on TV right now. But I had no idea that Bill Clinton was a fan, too! In a recent interview, Chelsea Clinton revealed that not only does her father adore the show, but he also builds their schedule around the popular drama.

I gotta say, I did not see this one coming. I mean, Grey's Anatomy is essentially a soap opera for primetime. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I mean, come on, my life is literally starting to revolve around that show. But usually, soap operas appeal to middle aged women, not middle aged men. Least of all, middle aged men who have had to run a country and worry about international relations on a daily basis as part of his job description. Well, I guess retirement really is as boring as I hear it is, if Bill Clinton builds his enitre schedule around the show so he can watch it.

Bill Clinton pondering the ever present Mer-Der relationship turmoil

"I did not have sexual relations with Meredith Grey in the supply closet!"

Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley are no longer homeless

2008-02-18T15:36:00.000-08:00

The pair recently bought a 2.5 million dollar house in Los Feliz, California, which is about 18 minutes from Los Angeles. The four bedroom, three and a half bath house sort of reminds me of the house in Father of the Bride. It is a perfectly assembled representation of the idealized American Dream house, complete with white picket fence. Which only goes to show, if you make it big in Hollywood, the American Dream is yours. Unfortunately, without the fancy Hollywood job, your reality is more likely to be that fifth floor walk-up. You know, the one with the broken elevator? It's all yours. Home sweet home.

Now I'll afford you the opportunity to hate Katherine Heigl and the perfect house she just bought to fit in with her perfect life.

Katherine's beautiful new house

PS: I'm just waiting for the newlyweds to announce they're expecting twins, one boy and one girl, and that they are also adopting a golden retriever from the animal shelter.

The NAACP 39th Image Award Were Last Night

2008-02-15T05:25:00.000-08:00

And guess who won?
Grey's Anatomy won several awards in the tv category and they are as follows:

Best drama series
Best supporting actress in a drama series: Chandra Wilson
Best writing in a drama series: Shonda Rhimes

Shonda won the award for best writing for the episode A Change is Gonna Come, which was the first episode of the fourth season in which Izzie memorably saves a deer's life and George tells Izzie that he loves her, thus beginning the ill-fated Gizzie affair. For a full recap and analysis of the beginning of the fourth season, click here.

It's amazing to me that Chandra Wilson doesn't get as much publicity as the rest of the cast. She seems to be the only one of the cast consistently winning awards for her portrayal of Dr. Miranda Bailey: The Nazi Resident (although that nickname was put on the backburner after she actually had to treat a Nazi in Season 4). Kudos to you, Chandra. You go.

Chandra Wilson (AKA Dr. Bailey: Full Time Ass Kicker)

Lexie Grey Not So Innocent

2008-02-13T18:30:00.000-08:00

Well, well. I knew Lexie couldn't be as sweet as she seemed. It seems our doe-eyed intern has a few skeletons in her acting closet. Chyler Leigh (AKA Lexie Grey) starred in a low budget B movie way back in 1997 called Kickboxing Academy. But the fact that she starred in a low rate movie is not the shameful secret. After all, every actor and actress needs to start somewhere. The shameful secret is that she starred opposite her brother, who played her romantic love interest. And the two had several kissing scenes. And we're not talking loving pecks, here. (i must pause here to say: "EW!") Better yet, Chyler was only 15 when she made the movie.

If your stomach can handle it, here's the youtube video that exposed the secret. So the narrator is kind of annoying, but whatever. The important thing here is that Chyler Leigh made out with her brother!

Chyler Leigh (AKA Lexie Grey) tainted by incest

PS: the writer's strike is over. The rumored return of Grey's Anatomy in April or May is no longer a tentative deal, but fact. Expect your 4-7 new episodes in the next 2-3 months.

Celebrity Death match

2008-02-12T15:47:00.000-08:00

So what has our little Ellen been up to since Grey's Anatomy starting airing re-runs? She's been fighting Cameron Diaz for a 5.5 million dollar New York apartment. It's a four bedroom, four bathroom flat with six private terraces. Cameron has viewed the apartment several times, while Ellen is said to have only seen it on one occasion. However, Ellen absolutely fell in love with the apartment and says its the perfect place to start her family. Ellen married Chris Ivery, a music producer, last November.

Ellen Pompeo (AKA Meredith Grey) with her celebrity death match face on.

Good News on the Horizon

2008-02-11T20:15:00.000-08:00

Recent information suggests the writer's strike is drawing to a close. With this in mind, new scripts and new episodes of our dearly missed Grey's Anatomy will be back on before we can blink. And for even more reason to celebrate, the show has been picked up for more seasons. This means we are guaranteed at least another season more of our favorite promiscuous medical residents and interns (we can't exclude George. He's the namesake of my kitten for crying out loud).

You can imagine my ecstasy upon hearing such wonderful tidings. I simply could not forgive myself if i didn't share it with you A.S.A.P. Even if it is 11pm. And even if I should be working on my psychology research project.

The people who may be responsible for abandoning my lifelong pursuit of psychology

Cancer Hits a Castmate

2008-02-07T15:19:00.000-08:00

Eric Dane (AKA Dr. McSteamy) recently discovered he had malignant tissue in his lips due to sun damage. He noticed some unusual chapping after New Years. Unfortunately, when he went to the dermatologist, the cream given to him to treat the cancerous tissue caused a bad reaction. In the absence of any new material due to the writer's strike, Eric now has some time to recover and heal from this awful ordeal. I guess that's one good thing that came from the writer's strike.

Get well soon, Eric.

Eric Dane also known as Dr. "McSteamy" Sloan

Quick! Call Scotland Yard!

2008-02-07T13:52:00.001-08:00

Katherine Heigl, and honey Josh Kelley were robbed. Someone broke into their SUV via smashing in their window and stole their GPS. Apparently, that was all the thieves took, since the two guitars laying in the backseat were left behind.

I suppose Katherine Heigl has enough money to replace the GPS. I mean, even my boyfriend has a GPS. But it must be scary to know someone violated your personal property like that. I'd count that right below catching some guy rustling around in your underwear drawer on my list of most horrifying experiences ever.

Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley

Do I Dare?

2008-02-06T12:25:00.000-08:00

Now here is an opportunity to get incredibly excited. Although the payoff could be better than our wildest dreams, it could also be the biggest letdown in the history of the world.

I'm just going to cut to the chase. Rumor is, Grey's Anatomy will resume production in March due to a tentative agreement between the writers and the production studios. That means that, if we're lucky, we'll be getting brand spanking new Grey's Anatomy episodes as early as April.

But again, none of this has been confirmed. So if you are easily disappointed, i would suggest accepting this as nothing more than a rumor and be pleasantly surprised when the new episodes appear.

The ever loved cast of Grey's Anatomy (old picture. Note Dr. Burke)

Katherine Heigl is Also Sexy

2008-02-03T20:40:00.000-08:00

So in addition to being named the top woman in AskMen.com's top 99 women list, Katherine Heigl was also named (along with husband Josh Kelley) sexiest newlywed in Victoria's Secret's What is Sexy list. Joining her is costar Justin Chambers, who was named as Sexiest Dad. Well, if anyone had any doubt before, this proves it; Grey's Anatomy is one sexy show. Whew! Is it hot in here?

Sexiest Dad, Justin Chambers

Sexiest Newleyweds, Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley

Katherine Heigl is Hot. (Well, duh!)

2008-02-01T05:23:00.000-08:00

AskMen.com has recently named Katherine Heigl as no. 1 on their Top 99 Women: 2008 Edition List. Katherine beats out other stunners such as Alessandra Ambrosio (no. 2), Kate Beckinsale (no. 3), Eva Mendes (no. 4) and Jessica Alba (no. 5). You can scroll through the whole list here.

Katherine Heigl Named No. 1 on AskMen.Com

Oh No! Say it Ain't So!

2008-02-01T05:10:00.000-08:00

Justin Chambers (known as Dr. Karev on our favorite show) has voluntarily checked himself into an L.A psychiatric ward. As an aspiring psychologist, obviously I'm intrigued. I never really figured out how to translate P.R assistants. His representative claims that he, "was exhausted and suffers from a sleeping disorder." I'm not entirely sure if that's the whole truth. And rumor is, he's staying at the same hospital as Britney Spears! A slightly more selfish version of me wonders what effect this will have on the show, since as it stands now, we really can't afford to lose any more main characters.

But in all sincerity, Get well Justin.

Justin Chambers (AKA Dr. Karev)

Not Katherine Heigl News

2008-01-26T07:54:00.000-08:00

I think I forgot just how hilarious Kate Walsh (Dr. Addison Montgomery-Shepherd) is. Of course, she's not exactly on Grey's Anatomy anymore, but I consider the spin-off Private Practice nothing more than an extension of the show. Anyways, here's video of her ranting about the Maxim Hot 100 list. And let me just tell you, she's fantastic. This clip is clearly scripted, but hilarious nonetheless. Take a look.

Kate Walsh from the hit show Private Practice

Ever Wanted a Pair of Those Scrubs on Grey's?

2008-01-24T19:14:00.000-08:00

The wait is over, my friends. You can now own your own very own pair of Grey's Anatomy scrubs courtesy of none other than Katherine Heigl. Heigl is coming out with her very own line of scrubs via Katherine Heigl Collection, which just unveiled their summer line.

Katherine said, "I have tremendous respect for women in the health care industry. I wanted to create a line of scrubs that would allow women to infuse some of their personality and style into their work apparel. When you feel good about how you look, you are more confident, more motivated, and it can lift your spirits." (AMNews)

So be a good little consumer and go buy yourself a pair to wear while watching reruns of everyone's favorite show. Or, should you be a health care provider, add a little pizazz to your work uniform. You might even be able to write it off on your taxes!

Katherine Heigl as Izzie Stevens on the hit show Grey's Anatomy wearing her ever so fabulous scrubs.

Are You Ready for This?

2008-01-18T06:32:00.000-08:00

Brace yourselves.

Are you braced? Good. Grey's Anatomy is now a mobile virtual reality game. Turns out, you can sign up to get this game on your phone, play as different Grey's Anatomy characters and generally work your way to becoming a certified doctor. You even get to perform surgeries. To see if your phone supports this game, you can go to the Gameloft Site.

Now, i'm a pretty hardcore Grey's Anatomy fan, and sure, it's going to kill me to suffer through repeats indefinitely, but I don't think i will ever be bored enough to order this game on my phone.

Man, this writer's strike thing is really inspiring some creativity to alleviate the anxiety of not having new episodes of our favorite show.

Screenshots from the Grey's Anatomy Mobile Game

I hope you're not sick of Katherine Heigl yet

2008-01-15T21:00:00.001-08:00

Katherine Heigl is on the cover of Vanity Fair and I must say, she looks absolutely stunning as she brings back a certain 1940's pinup feel. Clearly, Katherine Heigl is my favorite actress on the show and I am unfairly biased in her favor, but come on. Even you have to admit she is stunning and fabulously featured on the cover of Vanity Fair.

Katherine Heigl on the cover of Vanity Fair

Pacey at Seattle Grace?!

2008-01-15T05:59:00.000-08:00

Brace yourselves, kiddies. Joshua Jackson is scheduled to appear as a guest star on several episodes of Grey's Anatomy. I'm sorry, but I feel as though I am going to have a very difficult time believing Pacey from Dawson's Creek as a medical professional. I mean, for God's sakes, this is the same kid who played a character that slept with his high school teacher in the 9th grade. And now he practices medicine? Well, at least we'll have something interesting to look forward to when Grey's Anatomy finally decides to grace us with it's presence again. Well, ok, so that's not really fair since the only reason my favorite show is off the air is due to the writer's strike. I'm just not real happy about it. Solidarity, though, my friend. Viva la writers!

Joshua Jackson (AKA Pacey) who is scheduled for several guest roles on Grey's

McDreamy is a Jerk!

2008-01-14T11:01:00.000-08:00

I never thought that i would ever say those words in a million years, but McDreamy is a full blown, absolute and complete jerk. In this episode, he decides it might be fun to play the slutty scrub nurse and Meredith off against one another. I suppose he feels a little guilty about the makeout session with the almost computer nerd turned hussy scrub nurse because he pretty much breaks up with her and instead, presents Meredith with blueprints. Blueprints for what you ask? Blueprints for his house. But oh wait, it's not just his house. Oh, no. It's Meredith's house, too. Of course, Meredith with her commitment issues freaks out a little at this idea. So, he goes back to the slutty little scrub nurse and admits that he would love to have dinner with her, despite the fact that earlier in the episode he pretty much decided he didn't want to have anything to do with her because of his none too secret relationship with Meredith. Meredith, in an effort to deal with her family issues, decides to make omelettes for Lexie, who is currently staying with her. Lexie, being the good little sister, forgets to mention to Meredith that she is incredibly allergic to something she put in the omelettes and breaks out in hives.

Bailey gets the scare of her life when her baby is brought into the hospital after a shelf full of medical books falls on him. Tucker blames Bailey for never being around, which causes baby Tucker to go look for her in her office and wind up underneath hundreds of pounds of medical books. Bailey blames Tucker for forgetting to close the gate. Tucker insists, oh no, it was Bailey that forgot to close the gate. Bailey freaks out about being a bad mother and her marriage essentially crumbles as the team tries to save baby Tucker's life.

One of the patients at the hospital has the gift of healing via spirituality and is basically wandering room to room running her hands over various patients' auras and healing them. One of these patients include baby Tucker. The healing lady insists that the hostile tension between Bailey and her husband is not a healing environment and that the two must hold hands to save their baby. Tucker is reluctant and Bailey is willing to do anything to save her baby even if Tucker and her failing marriage is not her main concern.

Hahn and Sloan have more subtle romantic tension which Hahn refuses to give into. Meanwhile, George's mother shows up with a whole truckload of ugly hand knit unisex baby outfits for Callie since she's so out of the loop that she still thinks George and Callie are trying for a baby. Izzie stumbles upon Mrs. O'Malley and accidentally spills the beans about everything, including being the reason for the destruction of George and Callie's marriage. Being a good Catholic woman, Mrs. O'Malley reams George for being unfaithful and insists that he try harder in his marriage because adultery and divorce are just not things that good catholics do. Apparently, she's not real clear on the whole Callie hating George's adulterous butt thing.

Now then, Meredith finds out about McDreamy and Rose sucking face in the O.R and she rightfully confronts him about his technical adultery. McDreamy confesses that the whole house thing was a test that she failed miserably (Hello, what did he think was going to happen?) Meredith decides she can't do this anymore because she can't trust him and McDreamy agrees. So i guess they're broken up again? Who the hell knows.

All I know is this is the last episode for quite a while thanks to the ever so lovely writer's strike. And it was sort of disappointing. However, we are left with the cliffhanger of what is going to happen to Bailey's marriage. And of course, the ever present dilemma of whether or not Meredith and McDreamy are broken up or not. Although there will not be many recaps for a good long while, I promise to keep you updated with all the sordid hijinks of the cast's daily, off screen lives.

Katherine Heigl Got Married

2008-01-13T17:20:00.001-08:00

Ok, so I am so behind the eight ball on this one, I'll admit it. I absolutely hate being a blogger and with something super freaking exciting to say with no internet in a ten mile radius. Long story short, Katherine Heigl got married on December 23, 2007 to some singer named Josh. He's never done anything I've ever heard of, and the man couldn't even be bothered to shave on his own wedding day. But Katherine seems happy enough with him as she picks out furniture for their new home together, so whatever. Apparently this happy couple has not tried the whole living together thing before being married. I'm super curious about how that one's gonna work out.

Anyways, here's the happy couple.

Wedding Movies Left and Right for Grey's Anatomy Actors

2007-12-12T09:56:00.001-08:00

This time, it's Patrick Dempsey starring in a wedding movie as a man in love with an engaged woman, who sets out to woo her after she asks him to be her maid of honor. The projected release date of this movie, aptly and wittily named Made of Honor, is May 2, 2008. This is the second wedding movie in production for members of the cast of Grey's Anatomy. Katherine Heigl (Izzie Stevens) is also starring in a wedding movie this year (27 Dresses) as a girl cursed to always be a bridesmaid and never a bride who is in love with her sister's fiancee.

What are they putting in the water over on the set of Grey's Anatomy? Because all of a sudden, there are weddings everywhere; real and fictional. Either way, I'll be at a showing of Made of Honor sometime in May because I am starting to develop a rather intense crush on Patrick. I mean, honestly, just check out these pictures of him in Entertainment Weekly. Goodness!

Samples from Patrick Dempsey's photoshoot with Entertainment Weekly

Remember Dr. Preston Burke?

2007-12-11T15:54:00.000-08:00

The controversy surrounding Isaiah Washington and his gay bashing of openly gay co-star T.R Knight (AKA Dr. George O'Malley) seems not to have completely imploded his acting career, as many thought it would. NBC has decided to cast Isaiah Washington in a guest role as Antonio Pope for the show Bionic Woman. Isaiah appeared in the following five episodes: Trust Issues, The Education of Jamie Sommers, Faceoff, Sisterhood, and Paradise Lost.

So since the runaway hit of ABC's Grey's Anatomy, Isaiah Washington has had a career consisting of five episodes as a guest on a show I have heard absolutely nothing about. On the one hand, his career hasn't completely deflated. But on the other hand, he managed to screw up the best thing that ever happened to him as an actor. I still think he deserves it.

Isaiah Washington hating himself for getting himself fired from Grey's Anatomy

OMG! It's Katherine Heigl!

2007-12-10T10:40:00.000-08:00

Now, i know you are getting a little sick of the Katherine Heigl news, but it seems that none of my other Grey's Anatomy favorites are doing much with their lives outside of the show. And while combatting an overwhelming wave of boredom at work today, I realized I have been a Katherine Heigl fan for quite some time without even knowing it.

In 1996, I was 8 years old and absolutely crazy about Disney movies. You know, those made for TV type movies that have a feel good happy ending on the Disney Channel? Remember those? Well, anyways, my favorite Disney movie of all time was this movie called Wish Upon a Star, barring the yearly presentation of the Nutcracker Prince.

Wish Upon a Star was a fantastically cheezy movie about two high school aged sisters who both secretly wish that they had the other one's life. One of the sisters is tall, beautiful, popular and has a gorgeous boyfriend. The other is a short, stumpy, super smart loner. While sitting outside one night, they see the same shooting star and wish that they were each other. And it works! Hilarity ensues, but the important part of the movie is that they have a better understanding of each other in the end and eventually even end up liking each other.

After watching the movie for the first time, my eight year old brain was struck by the awesomeness of the older sister and the ability of the actress that played her to go from bitchy popular girl, to completely beleivable sweetheart in one scene. Okay, so the other actress had to go from sweet to bitchy, too. But I find that once you have made a first impression on me, it's rather hard to change it. In all fairness, I should have hated the popular girl for the rest of time because of my initial impression of her. But, no. I believed her to be honestly nice on the inside.

Anyways, just a few nights ago, I was laying in bed wondering to myself, whatever happened to that movie. It was a damn good movie. So, i looked it up on IMDB and lo-and-behold, the star of the movie is Katherine Heigl as the tall, popular, pretty sister. And now I know why I loved the popular sister's character so much. She was the set-up for the character Izzie Stevens. But, Katherine Heigl as a brunette kind of throws me off a little bit. She's barely recognizeable. Which is probably why I didn't realize it was her until IMDB enlightened me. Thank you Internet Movie Database.

Katherine Heigl (pictured right) as Alexia Wheaton in Wish Upon a Star

Of Course Everyone Lives Except for the Guy I Actually WANT to Live

2007-12-07T09:23:00.000-08:00

This episode of Grey's Anatomy started out with a weird slow-motion techno montage of scenes that actually happen at the END of the episode. This is absolutely not the kind of thing that Grey's fans have come to expect. It was quirky and weird and almost made me wonder if I was watching the wrong show. But after that brief wtf moment, I realized I kind of liked it. It drew me in. It wasn't the same old whoop-de-doo self involved Meredith voice over. Of course, Meredith's voice over was still there, but much less pronounced and not so much the focus of the entire intro. Kudos, Grey's Anatomy, for trying something new.

Let's start with Meredith. She is working on the paramedic in the upside down truck. Remember him? The previous episode ended with Meredith crawling over the other, dead paramedic to get to him, only to realize that the live paramedic was only barely grasping life. Well, she got the ultrasound equiptment in the ambulance and blindly ran it over his chest, without being able to see exactly what was wrong. She is relying solely on the Chief, outside of the ambulance, to tell her when to stop and diagnose the problem. Evidently, the paramedic has blood in his peritoneal cavity. Now, I'm not sure what the peritoneal cavity is, or what it does, but i do know you are NOT supposed to have blood in there. So Meredith demands an 18 gauge needle to suck the blood out. However, the peritoneal cavity is located in a very specific spot, and if Meredith goes in even a fraction of a degree off-angle, she could clip the heart and kill him. Dr. Hahn, who has been requested to oversee this process, pretty much lists all the ways Meredith could kill her patient, who is conscious (although barely so), and can hear all of this. Now this is the part where Meredith earns my undying devotion. She comforts the now severely freaked out paramedic and then quietly turns around in the ambulance and tells the ever so smug Dr. Hahn to shut the hell up. Yay! I've been waiting for someone to do that forever. Anyways, the procedure goes as planned, with the paramedic telling Meredith that it felt good once she got all the blood out of that cavity. The rescue people come in with the jaws of life to rush the paramedic off to surgery while Meredith crawls out of the ambulance with only a few cuts and bruises. The chief commends her performance and her ability to stay calm in a stressful situation. After that, the day is pretty much done for Meredith until she finds McDreamy and explains that she doesn't want him to date other people.

Unfortunately, McDreamy has already kissed that nurse he's been flirting with. And let me just tell you, I am not happy about this. I actually yelled at the television when it happened. As a result, McDreamy will get only a bried synopsis as his punishment. The computer guiding the needle for his brain surgery case breaks. That icky, slutfaced nurse steps up and says although she only has 3 semesters of computer science under her belt, she can fix it. She fixes it. McDreamy completes the surgery. His patient lives. He kisses the whore in the scrubroom.

Alex's patient, the guy with the heart problem, also lives in spite of the fact Alex clipped his tube while trying to show off for his lady friend Ava, who is sitting in the Gallery. McSteamy notices Ava there, realizes who she is, and proceeds to tell Alex he is in deep shit. But they save the guy. Once at home, Ava tries to talk to him and console him after such a trying day. Alex ends up yelling at her because she is the one that got him suspended from work. He accuses her of playing dress up when she's with him because she has a husband and baby at home. He confesses he has been sleeping with Lexie all this time, and eventually explains that Ava isn't here to talk. Apparently Ava agrees, because she says nothing to his rather harsh speech and kisses him. I can only assume they engage in sex.

Although Izzie was first assigned to this case, awful Dr. Hahn sends her off to do little errands and help with other cases. When she asks Dr. Hahn if she should update the family, Hahn demands that Izzie start thinking like a surgeon and not a social worker. So Izzie goes off to do her other duties and when his wife asks her how her husband is doing, Izzie can't tell her anything because she simply doesn't know. The wife goes on a tear, blaming bad parenting for making Izzie such a horrible person. Of course, Izzie, being an angel and unusually sympathetic to families whose loved one is in surgery, takes this to heart and later tells George that she is not, in fact, hard core. She'll never be Cristina and maybe she's not cut out for Heart Surgery. George tells her its a good thing that she's not hard core. They profess their love for each other once more, but admit that it's probably not going to work out between them. However, they're still all lovey dovey. So I wonder, are they really breaking up? Will my question ever be answered?

Bailey is still elbow deep in Nazi man, as more and more complications arise. This makes her later and later for her lunch with her husband. Since this lunch was supposed to address the issues in their marriage, mainly the fact that Bailey is never home and always puts surgery above the family, the fact that she can't come because of a surgery nearly puts him in a tizzy. George acts as messenger between Bailey and her husband, and relays messages back and forth. Finally, Baiely's husband says this is it for him. He's giving up. During surgery, Bailey claims that Nazi man's incision is kind of jagged, which would require her to pull skin to close up the incision, effectively destroying his swastika tattoo. Everyone in the O.R. agrees that the skin is jagged and that something must be done. Once out of surgery, Bailey waits around at the hospital until her husband goes to sleep so she doesn't have to deal with the fight that would surely arise. Cristina approaches her and voices her indignation at being pulled off of Hahn's services to help Bailey with Nazi man specifically because of the color of her skin. Clearly Bailey could have done the surgery herself and Cristina resents the reverse racism Bailey employed so she wouldn't have to deal with Nazi man herself. Meanwhile, Nazi man is complaining that Bailey screwed up his tattoo on purpose and George essentially tells him to shove it because a black woman saved his life today and if it had been him conducting the surgery, he would have let him die because the world would be a better place without him. Although completely out of line, I say "right on George!"

Lexie is handling the situation with exploded corroded artery guy very well, even though she is literally drenched in his blood. Honestly, the back and forth between corroded artery guy and Lexie is absolutely adorable. Lexie stops the bleeding (at least for a little while) and calms him down. In response to her stopping the bleeding and making progress in saving his life, he says, "well I love you now". And it's just sweet, and cute and sort of made me go awww, when I should have been going ewww because of the gallons of blood everywhere. Eventually they move corroded artery guy to an O.R. leaving a lake of blood on the floor under the bed and a tiny trail from the room to the O.R. Unfortunately, corroded artery guy doesn't make it and Lexie is left staring at the table where his body once was. Cristina comes in and assures her that what she did was not easy, it was brave. Lexie then tells her, she has no one. Apparently, she was sort of hoping for something with corroded artery guy, if her survived and recovered (To be honest, the romantic in me would not object). In an effort to cheer her up, Cristina takes Lexie to Meredith's house where the three of them drink and dance their troubles away. Meredith is tolerant of Lexie, if not nice to her and that gives me hope for the two of them, as well.

In the end, Nazi-man, the paramedic and the heart patient with the worrying family all live. But of course, the one guy i was really rooting for, corroded artery guy, dies. There were some tears. And i can't even remember the last time I cried during a Grey's Anatomy episode. I can't believe McDreamy would kiss that slutty nurse when Meredith is finally willing to commit. I really hope this George/Izzie thing is almost over, because it is barely tolerable, at best. Basically, I loved this episode. It reminded me why I became a Grey's fan in the first place. Of course, sometimes the show dissapoints. But it's episodes like this that I live for. There was no preview for next week, and i can only assume that is because of the writer's strike. I'll also assume that Grey's Anatomy will be re-runs until after the winter break. But I'll keep you posted, as always.

Katherine Heigl Movie News

2007-12-05T10:24:00.001-08:00

Katherine Heigl, who plays Izzie Stevens, is quickly becoming one of my favorite actresses. Not only is she adorably sweet on Grey's Anatomy, but her performance in Knocked Up was hilarious as a no-nonsense woman who finds herself pregnant after a one night stand with an immature, goofy guy.

Now she is starring in a new movie called 27 Dresses where she plays a woman always destined to be a bridesmaid and never the bride. Her situation is further complicated by the fact that she is now the bridesmaid in her sister's wedding and she's in love with the groom!

Katherine Heigl is fantastic and I absolutely cannot wait to see what she does with this part. The movie opens in theatres January 11th, 2008. This gives me a solid month to guilt my boyfriend into bringing me to see it.

But in real life, Katherine has no problem landing a man. Actually, she's set to marry Josh Kelley (a singer) on December 23. And apparently T.R Knight (George O'Malley on Grey's) is going to be one of her bridesmaids. How cute is that?

Grey's Anatomy: Keeping you Updated

2007-12-04T11:00:00.000-08:00

Tonight, ABC is airing a special encore of the first part of the Grey's Anatomy Event. It seems they too have realized the problem of starting a two part event, only to break it up with a re-run right in the middle. To be honest, you could probably get more than sufficiently caught up on what happened during that episode without this special encore. Just watch the little one-to-two minute bit at the beginning of Thursday's episode, which opens with a very dramatic voice over of "Previously on Grey's Anatomy". But if you are absolutely dying to see what happened, scene by agonizing scene, well here's your chance: Tonight (12/4) at 9pm on ABC, the first half of that blasted Grey's Anatomy Event will air.

In Other News:

Apparently, I am not the only one grossed out by the Izzie/George Affair. Katherine Heigl herself says she has trouble getting into the role. On the George/Izzie plotline, she had this to say: "It was a ratings ploy. I'm trying to figure her out and keep her real." (Graciously brought to you by idontlikeyouinthatway.com).

Ha! I knew it. No way could the writers of this show have honestly thought that making Izzie and George (such close friends that they could be siblings) do the nasty was a good idea.

AND!

I know I'm a little late on this one, but I saw Enchanted, starring Patrick Dempsey, with my mom this weekend. Being a fairy tale lover from the womb, myself, I can't say enough about Patrick's performance as the unconventional Prince Charming, possesser of true love's kiss. I always love a story about a man sweeping a woman off her feet. And if that man is Patrick Dempsey, well, I guess I won't have such a hard time imagining myself as that woman.

I don't do the movie justice with my little spiel in my little blog about Grey's Anatomy. For a real review of the movie, read Courtney Smith's review here

That's all I have Grey's News wise. Check back Friday for a review of the second part of the Grey's Anatomy Event.

WTF is this?

2007-11-29T17:44:00.000-08:00

Grey's Anatomy is a repeat this week. The second half of the Grey's Anatomy event will air next Thursday. The repeat this week may be a result of the Writer's Guild strike which started on November 5th of this year as writers for many films, television shows and radio shows could not negotiate their new basic contract with the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers), which gets renewed every three years. The biggest issue is over payment on DVD sales and media broadcast on the internet. Because of the strike and the uncertainty regarding when it will end, perhaps the producers of Grey's Anatomy are attempting to stretch out the shows that are already written for as long as possible. But taking a mini break in the middle of a Grey's Anatomy Event? Come on! What happened to the guy with the exploded corroded artery? Is McDreamy really going to attempt to do brain surgery without a computer that is supposed to guide the needle? I'm on a need to know basis, here. This is taking cliffhanger to an entirely different level.

Anyways, the repeat is of the first episode of this season. If you need to be reminded of what what happened, read my review here

A picture of the striking writers of the writer's guild.

Exposed Corroded Artery

2007-11-25T15:58:00.000-08:00

So this week's Grey's Anatomy seems hell bent on grossing me out. Once again, its all about the patients, each one meant to shock, induce catharsis and just plain freak out the audience. First up, we have the guy with the exposed corroded artery. He's a young man whose narcissistic girlfriend just broke up with him because exposed corroded arteries just weren't a turn on for her. He's been flirting and noticing Lexie all day and Lexie, the valiant girl she is, has been fending him off because of her almost thing with Alex. Sure enough, Ava shows up and convinces Alex to let her watch his surgery from the gallery so she can swoon at the idea of her lover being a hot shot surgeon. In the gallery, Ava runs into Lexie and lets the cat out of the bag; that is in fact, not supposed to be there but her super hunky boyfriend Alex let her watch. This causes Lexie to go back to the guy with exposed corroded artery and the two of them plot how they're going to get revenge on their exes. As they laugh about the various and sundry ways they will torture their exes, his exposed corroded artery explodes all over Lexie, who stands there in shock. We will have to wait to see what happens with this guy until next episode, as the writers have so generously left us with a cliffhanger.

Izzie and Cristina are in competition to be on Hahn's service; Cristina because cardio is her passion, her everything, her entire life, and Izzie because she wants to prove to Cristina that she can be as badass as Cristina. However, the patients needy youngest children grabs hold of Izzie and begs her to promise her dad will be ok. Izzie, being Izzie, complies and in a singsong fairy tale voice promises that they will do everything they can to fix her dad's "hurting heart". This causes Hahn to all but growl her disgust and Hahn chooses Cristina to be on her service. However, this assignment is short lived because Bailey insists that Cristina come help her with her patient. Izzie is freed up to prove just how badass she can be. But nothing really dramatic happens and the surgery is as ho hum as all the other surgeries featured on Grey's.

Cristina is called on by Bailey who has a white supremacist as a patient and he won't let her examine him because she is black. Since Cristina is neither black, nor white (the fact that she's not white drives home Bailey's point), she is chosen to perform the examination. While examining his abdomen, she finds a huge black swastika tattooed from his chest to below his navel. Her great grandparents evidently died in a concentration camp, which leads to Cristina doing everything in her power to keep from killing him herself. Both Cristina and Bailey get him into surgery so they can repair his lacerated liver, but of course, all he can think about is getting a white doctor in the OR to make sure the black girl and the asian don't kill him on purpose on the table. O'Malley is chosen for that job. While in surgery, Bailey realizes she is late for her lunch with her husband, where they were going to talk about their marital problems because she is elbow deep in "a nazi". She takes a moment to look around the room and declares that nobody better ever call her the nazi again. The present surgeons bow their heads in understanding.

Meredith is dealing with a pair of EMTs trapped in an ambulance after another ambulance careened into them, sending the vehicle rolling until it landed on its top. One of the EMTs has no chance of living as he is trapped in a door with a large piece of metal cutting him in half. Meredith is sent to find his wife, who coincidentally works in the hospital, to give her the worst news of her life. Meanwhile, the Chief decides he needs to bring the medical equipment out to the ambulance so they can see what is wrong with the other EMT before they move him and work desperately to save his life. This EMT has a piece of oxygen equipment piercing his back, which has torn a hole in some vital organs. Moving him without knowing exactly what they will do once they have him out of the ambulance would result in serious ramifications. As Meredith crawls through the passenger side window of the ambulance, and over the dead EMT, with the ultrasound equipment, she announces that they're "losing him".

McDreamy is off flirting with the nurse from last episode, insisting with all his charm and machismo that the two of them are friends and are allowed to talk even though Meredith decided earlier that she doesn't like the idea of her boyfriend dating other women. Before she gets around to actually telling McDreamy this, he finds out that the pretty nurse was once engaged, but it didn't work out because she knew exactly what she wanted and he didn't. Which is exactly the same problem McDreamy is having with Meredith. Isn't that convenient? Anyways, his patient is the girl who caused the accident with the ambulances after she had a seizure behind the wheel. Apparently she's never had a seizure before, but thanks to that tumor in her brain, she's had two. McDreamy's plan is to drill a hole in her head and go in with a computer guided needle to remove the tumor. But wouldn't you know it, right after he gets himself inside her brain, the computer that guides the needle breaks. Looks like he's flying solo on this one.

All in all, this episode was weak for what ABC advertised as "A Grey's Anatomy Event". Sure there is a second half and maybe the plot will pick up and make me actually care about these patients, but so far it seems the writers are relying and shock and gore to grab the audiences attention. And I have to say, it's all been done before. If I wanted shock and gore, I'd watch CSI. No thanks. Where's all my drama?

All This Show Needs is a Good Rod Stewart Montage

2007-11-16T09:26:00.000-08:00

The title of this episode of Grey's Anatomy is Forever Young. The residents are forced to relive their high school experiences when a hoard of high-schoolers invade the hospital as a result of a school bus crash. Seattle Grace literally becomes a high school, complete with lunch room gossip, silly crushes and flirting and secrets. Oh, wait. Yeah, Grey's Anatomy already had all those things going for them. A certain freshman English research paper comes to mind.

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.

More of the same.

2007-11-08T19:08:00.000-08:00

Izzie and George are having bad sex. A lot of bad sex. In fact, the sex is so bad that it makes them forget that they're in love with each other. I'm guessing the reason they keep forgetting why they're in love with each other has less to do with the fact that they're having bad sex and more to do with the fact that the only time they had really good sex, both of them were drunk out of their mind on scotch. Personally, I never really bought the whole Gizzie affair. It just doesn't work. It's like incest.

Dr. Hahn is still hazing Cristina. Every time Cristina tries to be involved in a cardio case, Dr. Hahn is intentionally mean and downright rude to Cristina. She even went so far as to deliberately tell Cristina that she was addressing Dr. Grey and not her. How immature is that? Hello, you're supposed to be a professional. Perhaps you want to start acting like one and actually do your job by teaching Cristina what she doesn't already know about cardio; a specialty she is clearly passionate about.

Meredith is still having issues with Lexie, but she's trying. She wants to feel a bond with Lexie but she just can't. It's taking Meredith a little longer than Lexie would like to open up to her.

McDreamy has basically become the Chief's wife. He drops off the Chief's dry cleaning and picks it up and the two of them even have dinner and a movie night. This is because the Chief never learned how to take care of himself. He married Adelle right out of college and she is the one that has been taking care of him ever since. Now that the two of them are separated, the chief is like a fish out of water and taking advantage of McDreamy's generosity. (Oh, and the Chief saw Meredith naked when he walked in on the two of them doing the nasty)

McSteamy has a thing for Dr. Hahn. Or maybe its not so much a thing for Dr. Hahn as it is a thing for her surgical skill, her no nonsense attitude and the fact that she wants nothing to do with him. For the moment. I have a feeling that might change. I mean, Dr. Hahn can't just be the mean old lady who picks on Cristina. She has to be having sex with someone on the show.

Callie got fired, although I'm not sure if she was just fired from her position as Chief Resident or fired from the Hospital completely. Dr. Bailey has basically been doing her job for her all this time without getting any of the credit. The Chief finally caught on, fired Callie and made Bailey Chief Resident. And I say, it's about damn time. That position should have been Bailey's anyway. It's good to see Bailey bossing around the interns again. Only, they're not really interns anymore, are they?

Alex and Lexie were prohibited from doing the horizontal bump after Meredith caught them last episode. This is because, contrary to what she says, Meredith does care that she has a little sister. And she doesn't want the local playboy to use her. Even if Lexie is most willing to be used, which it seems she is.

At the end of the episode, we find out that Meredith and Lexie's dad is a drunk, and probably has been since his second wife (Lexie's mom) died. I gotta be honest, I don't really see where the writers are going with this one. He pretty much wants nothing to do with Meredith and Meredith wants nothing to do with Lexie... so the two halves of the family don't really seem to have much of an interacting plot line. Either way, this information is new, although not surprising, and yet another dimension of drama has been added to the show. More drama, more awesome. It's a time tested recipe. Man, I love Grey's.

Seriously?

2007-11-02T09:33:00.000-07:00

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.

Ghouls and Ghosts of Grey's

2007-10-29T10:37:00.000-07:00

Every network on television will at some point make a reference to nearing holidays. Last Thursday, Grey's Anatomy fell victim to this pursuit of network execs to bump up the ratings, when the writers crafted a "Halloween-themed" Grey's. It seems as though each new resident is haunted by the ghosts of their pasts. Throw in a gruesome amputation via chainsaw, and I suppose even the dullest viewer gets the hint that Grey's Anatomy is trying to cash in on Halloween. Regardless of the blatant Halloween reference, this week's show was still very very good. Plus, the chainsaw amputation was really cool to watch.

Meredith still hasn't dealt with her mommy issues. In fact, after cremating her mother, she just stuck her mother's ashes in her closet and tried to forget about it. However, with McDreamy slowly drifting away, Meredith decides she needs to put her mother to rest for good. She seems desperate to be "normal" enough for McDreamy. However, she can't figure out what to do with her mother's ashes so she pours them into a baggy and brings them to work with her. You could say her mother is haunting her. (Halloween reference 1). At work, she runs into a little boy without ears. Although he has the ability to hear, he has no actual lobes and as a result, constantly feels as if he's in a Halloween costume (Halloween reference 2). He asks McSteamy, the resident plastic surgeon to take pity on him and build him his ears for free. McSteamy agrees as long as Meredith can get a surgical team to donate their time, and the chief to donate an OR. The only way Meredith can seem to persuade residents to donate their time is to bring the boy around to each person she needs and let him "trick or treat" for ears (Halloween reference 3). Oh yes, they went there.

Alex, too, is haunted by a person from the past. Does everyone remember Ava, the woman who had a face transplant and who Alex fell in love with? Well, she came back. Turns out, even though she left with her husband, she was sorta hoping for Alex to do the romantic thing and chase her down. When he didn't, she went back to the hospital and sort of threw herself at him. Not that she was taking a huge chance there, since Alex is obviously nuts about her, but still. Thing is, Alex is sort of a coward and probably won't commit to Ava, even though he loves her because, well, he's Alex and it's sort of his tragic human flaw to screw up every good thing that ever happens to him. Ava and Alex canoodle in the room residents use to catch some z's during super long shifts, but of course, Alex is a doctor, so he gets paged and has to leave Ava there. Ava gets tired of waiting around for him and ends up leaving. But not without her shirt, which I'm guessing she left as a souvenir, but it begs the question, what did she wear out of the hospital?

Callie announces to everyone that Izzie and George are sleeping together. Cristina is disgusted, but Meredith tries to be happy for them. That's pretty much all that happens with the Gizzie affair this week.

Bailey misses her baby's first Halloween because she volunteered to help give the boy without ears the only thing he really wants. But her husband doesn't see this as a charitable thing and hangs up on her.

Cristina and Callie laugh with one another about how horrible their love lives are. At the end of the show, Callie moves into the apartment Cristina once shared with Burke. Looks like Cristina and Callie are gonna be best buds soon.

A man comes into the hospital complaining that his foot does not belong to him. He asks Bailey to recommend him a surgeon who will amputate it. Bailey responds with "I am a surgeon and I am telling you no surgeon will amputate a perfectly good foot". Instead, she offers him a prescription for anxiety medication. Apparently, this isn't good enough for the man. So he grabs himself a chainsaw and saws his own leg off. That's right folks, this man, with no drugs in his system what-so-ever, held a chainsaw to his leg until there was nothing anyone could do to save it and it had to be amputated.

Another patient, one in need of a heart transplant, is faced with an impossible task when his daughter is killed and he is offered her heart. As next of kin, he has the choice to take her off life support and give himself her heart, but does he really want to live the rest of his life with the knowledge that his daughter's heart is beating in his chest? George is the one who finally convinces the man to take his daughter's heart when he reminds everyone that his father died of heart issues too. He says that he would have given his heart to save his father if he could.

Dr. Hahn, who we may remember from the Denny episode, is brought in as the new heart surgeon. Essentially, she is replacing Dr. Burke. Before, Cristina is aware of this, Dr. Hahn basically accuses her of sleeping her way to the top. Cristina defends herself by calling Dr. Hahn unprofessional. It is only then that Cristina learns that Hahn is her new boss. This should get interesting.

The show ends with a very touching scene. Meredith finally decides to lay her mother to rest in the the sinks outside the OR. Since her mother only ever cared about her job as a surgeon, Meredith figured this is the only place she would be happy. The chief walks in on this morbid laying to rest and helps Meredith spread the ashes. Lest we forget, he too, loved Meredith's mother deeply.

So sure, ghosts were painfully obvious this episode. Everyone's past came back to haunt them. And the chainsaw scene was a clear play for the Halloween rush. But I was enthralled with every minute of this show. And maybe it's the psych major in me, but I just love it when the characters on this show start acting insane. For instance, bringing your mother's ashes with you to work in a plastic baggie. Or, perhaps even sawing off your own leg with a chainsaw. Say what you will about Grey's Anatomy, but I am addicted.

My personal Grey's experience

2007-10-26T04:46:00.000-07:00

I didn't exactly get a chance to see Grey's last night, so I don't have a preview for you. Why?

Cause, I spent last night in the hospital. Boy was that ever fun.

See, earlier yesterday morning, I went to health services to be checked out by a doctor. He listened to my lungs and was like holy hell we've never heard asthma that bad. So he prescribed me an artillery of drugs. I filled my prescription and I took the z-pack since the other one wasn't supposed to be started until the morning. Almost immediately I started feel cramps. Cramps that only got worse as the hours passed. And then i threw up, and it says right there on the z-pack package that you're not supposed to do that. So I called health services again, told them my problems and they basically said, um, get down here now. So i got myself dressed, slowly, since the blinding pain in my abdomen was nearly unbearable, and i walked myself to health services with tears running down my face from the pain. The people at health services didn't know what the hell to do so they told me they were calling an ambulance and sending me to the hospital. Alone. I freaked out and called my roommate, Laura, who is a nursing student and she hurried over from target and ran through health services to be there for me. So she came with me to the hospital.

The ambulance got there and the EMT guy loaded me into the back. He told me I had to lie on the gurney. I asked him if that was absolutely necessar. After all, i had gotten all the way to the ambulance on my own the two feet. I just got a look. So i laid down on the gurney and got hooked up to all kinds of beepy machines and got an IV put in. So I rode in the back of an ambulance for the first time ever. Then they loaded me into the hospital on the gurney. First time ever. Once at the hospital they put me in a wheelchair with an place to hang my IV. I got to tell you, I felt kind of old sitting in a wheelchair hooked up to an IV with a blanket sitting in my lap. They brought me into some little room with a computer so some lady could take my information. And then the vomiting started up again. Several times. Do you know how hard it is to tell a nurse your home address and phone number while puking up everything you have left in your body?Anyways, then they let me sit in the waiting room for about three hours. Where I continued to have blinidng pain and random bouts of nausea. During this time it occured to me that I had to call my mom. If I didn't call her and tell her I was in the hospital, I knew she would be really upset. But at the same time, I knew she would freak out. So I called her and did everything I could to calm her down. I even let Laura talk to her. Nothing was doing it. So she got off the phone and called my aunt, who works in the pacU of salem hospital. And my aunt came down in the middle of her shift to check up on me. Family, right. I was finally seen, hooked up to another IV, this time with lots of different meds and stuff for the nausea (which didn't work). Had two nebulizer treatments because the pain was acting up my asthma. And got a chest x ray to make sure i don't have pneumonia. I don't. Yay!

As I was sitting there waiting, Laura was taking pictures of all the different things they were doing to me. Nursing majors, what are you gonna do with them, right? Then some nurse moved me out into the hall because a trauma was incoming and they needed my room. I continued to just sit there, with no more treatments left to take and nothing to do for about another hour, cause my doctor was nowhere to be seen to discharge me.When my aunt got out of work, she came down and got the ball rolling. Turns out, she has a friend in the ER, who discharged me. My aunt took out my IV and i was ready to go.

Thing was, no one could give me anything for the pain in my stomach so, I just have to ride it out until the Z pack gets out of my system. Turns out, that was the problem all along. Seriously bad reaction to the Z- pack, the heaviest, longest lasting antibiotic health services could muster up. And even though the pain isn't as intense or frequent, i still have it and will continue to have it until the Z-pack gets out of my system. Yay.

Did i mention i'm not a huge fan of hospitals, unless i'm watching them on tv?

Ah, there's the Grey's I know and love

2007-10-18T18:37:00.000-07:00

This week's Grey's Anatomy was a return to the typical drama of the past. However, one storyline bugged me alot. Revamped storylines don't really hold the "oh my god" quality that I, personally, have gotten used to.

The writer's have decided to revive the theme of Cristina's competetive nature with Grey. Only this time, the Grey is Lexie. Lexie and McDreamy are bonding over Meredith, which leads to McDreamy being extra nice to the baby Grey. Of course, this gets to Cristina because in Cristina's world, all praise is awarded by merit. And since she has done everything in her power to be the best at everything, in her head, the praise belongs to her. Turns out, McDreamy was only trying to get Cristina to lighten up on Lexie and actually teach her, instead of telling her to get the hell out of the way so she could perform the surgery herself and keep all the credit for being brilliant.

The Gizzie affair hangs over the entire show. Callie knows about Izzie and George, and decides to forgive George because "they took vows" yadda yadda yadda. But at the end of the episode, she takes it back. She doesn't really forgive him at all. Callie confronts Izzie and tells her to meet her in the cafeteria at noon. It's all very high school, which I'm sure the writers were going for, since they seem to have found their target audience once again. But has no one else noticed the fractured flow since last episode? One week ago, the show was about being old, now the show is about high school drama and chick fights? Where is the consistency?

Alex finds out that Izzie and George are sleeping together and we find out that his torch for Izzie never really went out. Or perhaps his ego is bruised because Izzie slept with George, but refused to sleep with Alex after the whole Denny thing. But at the same time, Ava is still a big thing for Alex, too. So who does Alex really love? This is the question.

Norman, the really old intern I mentioned last week, accidentally tells a patient that she's going to die, when in reality, she only came in to get moles removed. The patient checks out before Meredith catches the mistake and proceeds to quit her job, put up her apartment, dump her boyfriend and buy a ticket to Iceland so she can start really living the rest of her life. McSteamy is put in charge of settling with the patient to prevent her from suing. After a new, four bedroom house, the patient isn't so upset about the wrong prognosis.

The chief's neice returns to the hospital with a huge lump in her throat, which prevents her from breathing correctly. It's the result of a resurgence of ovarian cancer throughout her chest and lungs. The prognosis doesn't look good and she decides at the age of 18, that she no longer wants to fight her cancer. She wants to go home and die in peace, and spend the rest of her days with her friends and family. The chief's wife, makes this about the baby she lost and sees her neice as the child she never had. She puts the chief in charge of changing their neice's mind, which is not something he can really ethically do, since he's emotionally involved in the case. But Grey's Anatomy doesn't really concern itself with silly little things like ethics. Anyways, the chief lets his neice decide for herself what she wants to do after presenting her with all her options and he places himself firmly back in the doghouse with his wife.

But the highlight of the entire episode is:

ready for it...

McDreamy told Meredith he wanted to marry her!
Ok, so he didn't really ask her. Why would he? Meredith is commitment phobic. But he says he'll wait for her to be ready... with one stipulation. Should he meet someone who is ready before Meredith is, well, maybe he and Meredith won't be so happily ever after.

But, oh man! He wants to marry her. I'm still giddy.

My hopes are high for the rest of the series. I'll make a weak episode allowance every now and then, simply because love like this is strong enough to forgive mistakes. But I'm not sure I'll have to make very many of those allowances in the future.

Grey's is back.

What Happened to Grey's Anatomy?

2007-10-14T16:38:00.000-07:00

Seriously, what happened to Grey's Anatomy? This past week's episode was mind numbingly dull. Each time a commercial break came along I was tempted to change the channel, but my faith in the gloriously over the top soap opera that is Grey's Anatomy kept me from changing it, hoping that something interesting would happen in the next segment of the show. It didn't.

Izzie spent the entire show trying to keep a patient whom the group lovingly named "really old guy" from killing himself after he woke up from a year long coma.

Alex gets stuck with an intern who is old enough to be his grandfather and is just as naive about medicine as any ordinary grandpa. Alex's intern keeps getting in Alex's way and inhibits his ability to diagnose patients simply because Alex feels weird about disciplining an intern that is old enough to be his grandfather. But i don't buy it. Alex has respect for no one. In fact, later in the show, he tells all of George's fellow interns that he is, in fact, a repeat intern and not some genius of medicine. Why would he suddenly have this honorable feeling of respecting one's elder?

Meredith's break up sex has reverted to secret break up sex, all in the name of sheltering poor Cristina, who no longer has Burke. I'm sorry, but since when has Cristina ever needed to be protected. Nothing gets to Cristina. Not even being dumped by Burke, apparently.

When Cristina finds out Meredith has been secretly sleeping with McDreamy, she milks her abandonment at the alter. She puts on the most unbelievable sad act anytime she's around Meredith, but instantly perks up the second Meredith walks away. This leads to Meredith giving Cristina her surgery, all in the name of cheering Cristina up.

McSteamy and the Chief preform a surgery neither of them have done before to prove that 'old dogs can learn new tricks', which crosses all borders of medically ethical, if you ask me. But i'm no nursing major, so what do i know? Long story short, McDreamy comes in and saves the day, and voila, the patient has the ability to speak again.

Lexie continues to bother the crap out of me. Lexie is assigned to Meredith in this episode, and in the name of higher education, Meredith allows Lexie to practice an intubation on a guy who has been dead for fifteen minutes prior to his arrival. Lexie freaks out because her first intubation didn't go as well as hoped and the patient dies. The patient who was already dead before going to the hospital dies, and Lexie blames Meredith for not saving him. She insists that a good doctor would intubate herself instead of letting an intern learn how to. This ends with Lexie asking Meredith what kind of doctor she is, and I just want to crawl through the screen and smack her. Why has no one noticed that Lexie isn't strong enough for medicine?

Anyways, the episode ends with Callie asking George to say out loud that he slept with Izzie, since both of them already know this is fact. Big whoop. It was entirely anti-climactic. George told Callie something she already knew. And if we're to be honest with ourselves, George knew that Callie knew. So really, what is the secret here?

I mean seriously, is Grey's Anatomy getting old? Have all the storylines been done? Say it ain't so. I will chalk this week up to tired writers. I'll even go so far as to assume one of them had a mid-life crisis. But if this series is targeted towards college aged women, why was the show so focused on old age?

Did he say meth baby?

2007-10-05T12:20:00.000-07:00

It’s very rare that a patient on Grey’s Anatomy steals the show entirely from the tangled plotlines of the characters. However, this week, the only thing that really caught my attention was the meth baby. That’s right, I said meth baby. His parents had a meth lab right there in the apartment, and the baby was crawling around in the residue left on the floor, the walls and basically everything in the apartment. And the reason he was even in the hospital was because that very same meth lab blew up an entire apartment building. Wow.

Alex is the first one to detect that something is amiss with this baby; first because he won’t stop crying and second, Alex’s super smelling powers detected the scent of crystal meth on his skin and in his hair. After a tox-screen confirmed his suspicions, Alex, being Alex, confronts the father about his obviously poor parenting skills. The father, currently high and skittish about being sent to jail, punches Alex out, steals the baby and disappears. The chief of surgery blames Callie, new chief resident, for this oversight. As if she doesn’t have enough problems.

George decides he needs to tell Callie that their marriage is over, since he’s now in love with Izzie. But when Izzie is assigned to work with Callie all day, she convinces him to delay the admission for a while. How long is a while, exactly? In the meantime, Izzie and George refuse to be physical with each other until Callie is aware that she and George are headed for divorce. There's an awesomely sultry scene in which they essentially torture/tease each other before Izzie finally walks away, agreeing that its only right to tell Callie before they start racking up the adulterous interludes. But when Izzie acts nervously and continues to drop surgical tools when Callie is the room, Callie puts two and two together and comes to the conclusion that Izzie and George are having an affair. She’s right, but I find it difficult to believe that a few clumsy maneuvers automatically add up to being “the other woman”.

As predicted, Meredith and McDreamy are not really broken up. They’re just having emotionless sex. Well, emotionless on Meredith’s end. And even though it kills McDreamy to be with a closed off, emotionally stunted woman, it hurts him even more to walk away.

Apparently, McDreamy and McSteamy are buds now. All the hostility is gone and they casually talk about the issues in McDreamy’s relationship with Meredith. McSteamy is even sent on a wingman mission to blow Meredith off for McDreamy. I'm sorry, but what happened to the fist fights? Didn't he still sleep with your wife and then try to hit on your mistress? Forgive and forget, i guess...

Cristina spends the entire episode hiding from Mama Burke, who came to the hospital to get her key so she could pick up some of Burke’s things. And by that, she meant everything except the furniture. When Cristina returns home, it’s to a completely barren apartment. Mama Burke is such a sweet lady (note the sarcasm). Now Cristina really does have nothing, when just a few episodes ago, she was about to have everything. And just to really drive home the point, Mama Burke emphasises the point that Cristina could have been one of the greatest heart surgeons in the world if Burke hadn't left her, since he was her teacher as well as her fiancee. Nice lady.

Lexie continues to try for a relationship with Meredith. (Have I mentioned yet that Lexie bugs the crap out of me?) But yet again, Meredith refuses to have anything to do with her. Lexie points out that they have the same father. Meredith counters with the fact that her father left when she was five, and that was not the kind of father Lexie had to grow up with. She blames her inability to have a functional and healthy relationship with McDreamy on her father’s abandonment, and since Lexie was a factor in that abandonment, Meredith resolves never to talk to her. The conversation brings Lexie to tears. Poor baby.

But the meth baby overshadows all of this. In fact, his treatment is about half the show. I found myself caring more about what would happen to the baby than who was sleeping with whom this week. And in case you were wondering, the baby was treated and sent to live with his grandmother while his parents were carted off to jail. What a great way to start you're life, huh?

How do you feel about Katherine Heigl's continued attempts to leave Grey's?
	The show is better off without her
	How could she leave the show that made her famous?
	I think it's a selfish move
	Izzie has lost all her usefulness anyways
	It would be a compelte disaster
	Grey's needs Izzie Stevens just as much as it needs Meredith and McDreamy

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Do You Think The New Episode of Grey's Will Live Up To The Hype?
	No, it's been way too long. The episode will probably be "blah" at best.
	It's Grey's Anatomy... They're always awesome. Of Course the new episode will rock!
	I think the writers strike ruined Television forever. I don't know if Grey's can survive.

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Is This Look Hot on Ellen Pompeo?
	Hot!
	Not!

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Does recent Information about Katherine Heigl's behavior off-set make you like Izzie less?
	Yes, Katherine is obnoxious off - set. Of course it's going to translate to her character
	I don't think he behavior off-set is really all that bad.
	Izzie is a sweetheart. Whatever Katherine does off-set has no bearing on Izzie
	They're both pretty annoying.

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Who would you want to operate on you?
	George
	Izzie
	Meredith
	Cristina
	Bailey
	The Chief
	McSteamy
	McDreamy
	Alex
	Callie
	Hahn

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Who would you rather be BFF with?
	McDreamy
	McSteamy
	Meredith
	Izzie
	Christina
	George
	Bailey
	The Chief
	Karev
	Hahn

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