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You know you were sad when they ran a re-run last week and there was no recap on this here metblog. It’s all okay now, sweetie, last night we had a new episode and I diligently sat in front of my mini-tv with my laptop and lovingly captured it all for you. Yes, just you. It’s all after the jump.
Love,
me

And we jump right in: Sandra Oh is running Burke’s board and everyone is jealous. Somehow the team thinks it’s because she’s sleeping with him. Should we believe that no one notices that Burke can’t do surgeries on his own? What kind of non-observant hospital is this? Isn’t observation a skill that’s required in doctors? I’m so confused, but whatever. I’m allowing it because this house of cards is going to fall down eventually. And hard.

We cut over to George following Callie. He begs for her to talk and only gets a shouted “George!” I love that she’s being so hard ass. No one does this in real life. Hey, I’m feeling a theme!

Then we see Meredith breaking in on McDreamy, who has already just been surprised by someone named Nancy who is lounging in his bedroom while he is showering. Again, who does this? So he’s conveniently about 95% naked with a strange woman when Meredith runs into the trailer. Of course she runs off despite the fact that TV convention is that Nancy is obviously a relative of some kind. Ooh, of the not nice kind, as she calls Meredith the “slutty intern.”

Quick shot of the Space needle. Hi, Seattle!

Izzie, George and Meredith are in the elevator. Its Izzie’s first day back so she’s freaking out. Again with the “fine” when not really. She’s nervous as hell but zips out on the HR floor. Of course she doesn’t notice that George and Meredith are freaked themselves over their love lives, so when she leaves George and Meredith channel their best friends for each other. They make a non-dating pact saying that they’re going to focus only on work. Yeah, that’s going to work, I’ve seen this show.

Case A. One Mr. Pruitt needs a cardiac-auto-transplantation aka the Humpty-dumpty surgery. This surgery consists of taking the heart out, taking the tumor out, then rebuilding the heart. That sentence made me think of the $6 million man. Burke freaks because Sandra Oh didn’t tell him about this. Uh-oh.

Bailey is in Chief’s office being told that she is going to be in charge of Izzie again. Despite her protestations, Chief insists, telling her that if the concerns about her judgment are going to be cleared it has to start with her. Izzie is Bailey’s intern again.

Case B. Woman comes in who is pregnant with twins. George gets all geeked out over the fact that she has two uteruses (uteri?). She’s in because one of the twins is developing less well than the other. Can a person have two uteruses? This show is just crazy now. Crazy, I say!

Izzie is checking in with Bailey who lays down the law. Izzie can’t do anything except observe. That’ll be a change, huh? She’s got to earn back the trust of the hospital, starting by shadowing Meredith. Uh -oh. Meredith is the boss of Izzie. Waves! Love it.

In the hall Meredith and her shadow, Izzie, encounter McDreamy and hello! Nancy is back. I was totally right - as always - Nancy is the sister. She’s from Connecticut and is out to prove the east coast stereotype of rude and abrupt. Izzie dubs her McBitchy, which is, I must say, totally accurate. But she is also pretty in a too-thin kind of way.

Back to Burke who is concerned about this made up surgery. Sandra Oh attempts to assuage him by calling them a “well-oiled machine.” She’s going to fuck up isn’t she? This little hallway pep talk breaks up and Burke is immediately confronted by Bailey. She wants to know if he knows about doctor’s who have concerns about her judgment. Since he’s all freaked out about cheating on his surgeries, he blows her off. She thinks it’s about her, like everyone does in this show. What? Context? Never.

Case, where are we? C? Girl comes in with nasty, badly burned hand. She claims she burned it on a tea pot while studying for the bar. Apparently she’s failed the bar before and gets distracted. Yeah. Okay.

And we’re back with McBitchy who is pressing her brother about why the slutty intern’s panties were on the bulletin board. Mention is made of Kathleen, who I assume is another sister. Later, those of us who weren’t already in the know will find out that Kathleen is the shrink sister. God, that’s a lot of doctors for one family. Anyway, we find out that McBitchy is an OB too. McDreamy shuts her up like every sibling can, by saying she’s sounding more and more like mom every day. Ouch. Low blow.

We’re in with Case B - aka the freak with two uteruses. The father of the children enlightens George, and us, with a relationship analogy. Are you ham or eggs, chicken or pig? Do you get it? I didn’t. He explains that the chicken is involved with breakfast, whereas the pig is committed. Cute, but it’s always dicey using the word “pig” in an analogy. I wonder who that’s going to come back to haunt. George, perhaps?

Poor Alex is getting the shit work since he is assigned to McSteamy. He’s just been handed McSteamy’s phone in order to talk to the DMV about switching McSteamy’s license and registration. George swoops in and gloats about the two uterus freak. Ah, that’s nice, isn’t it?

McBitchy catches up with McSteamy and Addison. They were all BFF at some point, that’s clear. Let’s get the band back together! Kidding. McDreamy catches them catching up and snits off. When McBitchy runs after him, McSteamy and Addison sigh that they miss her. I think I won’t for the sole purpose that there will be less Mcs to type.

Back to freak. Mr. Ham and Eggs is talking to the belly about sports. In a nice change of events, the baby he’s talking to is a girl. Addison comes in to give them the news that both babies are healthy but that they weren’t conceived at the same time. The timing of the conceptions is 6-weeks apart. Oh come on! Two dads? Nooo. This is getting too much. I mean, it’s not just me is it? In any case, the father of one of the babies has a baby-fit and storms out.

Addison and Bailey are having a little pow-wow so that Chief can come up and ask them if they can sew on a button. Both claim ignorance and we find out that the Chief hasn’t called his wife. Buttons aren’t hard people. I know this because that is the one and only thing that I can sew.

Case C, Burn victim is being treated by McSteamy and finally someone in this hospital is paying attention to something other than themselves. Surprise surprise, it’s Izzie. She gathers from burn-girl’s reactions that she probably burned her hand on purpose to get out of taking the bar again. When Izzie approaches Grey about it, she gets lectured. I like how she tells Meredith to get off her “high friggin horse.” Right, like that’s going to happen.

In the hall, Bailey adds her name to Burke’s fake surgery. Uh-oh. While elsewhere George screws up the ham and eggs analogy to get him in deeper water with Callie. Didn’t I say you had to be careful when you bandied about the word “pig?” Always right, people, always right. Also? George is a dumb ass.

The team is having lunch in a room with a sedated “really old guy.” Ew. Totally not appropriate. Sandra Oh freaks because it’s not quiet. George admits to inadvertently calling Callie a pig. Meredith figures that since George cheated on their pact that she can too and Izzie declares that everything’s changed. I am really uncomfortable with the fact that they’re using that room so I’m glad when the scene is over.

Case A’s wife is blowing up at the nurse when Sandra Oh runs in. Sandra Oh is surprisingly sympathetic and tells her that she is just looking out for her husband. Then she goes and erases Baileys’ name from the board. Mark my words, that is not a wise move.

Freak is freaking. I think they’re going to deliver a baby.

McBitchy and McDreamy at lunch. She presses again about Meredith and he tells her that it’s none of her business. It comes out that McBitchy has slept with McSteamy as well. Dude gets around! I hope he’s safe because if not he’s got to have at least 50 STDs. Seriously, who hasn’t he slept with? McDreamy gets her to back off by revealing that Addison and McSteamy had that two month thing. McBitchy is taken aback. I wonder if she’s jealous.

Sandra Oh is policing the board when Meredith shows up to ask if she’s mad at her. Sandra Oh says that she has bigger things in her life right now. Really? Bigger than Meredith’s sex life? How can that be?

Bailey freaks about being taken off the board.

Mr. Ham and Eggs back. He wants to know about the babies. George manages to use the metaphor correctly this time and asks him if he is ham or eggs.

Alex is looking at a picture of a uterus on his computer so McSteamy questions his commitment to a career in plastics. He smarts that the freak is more interesting than being on hold with the DMV. McSteamy pulls rank and stalks off in time for Alex to hear about the baby(ies?) being delivered.

Burn girl is being very obvious about how she’s going to go home and reburn herself so she doesn’t have to take the bar exam again. Several meaningful looks are exchanged between Meredith and Izzie and finally Izzie confronts Burn Girl. And…she’s right. Burn girl has already failed 5 times. I think there’s a limit, isn’t there a limit to how many times you can take the test? Anyway. Burn girl freaks out about being pathetic and a failure and Izzie completely commiserates. Except, I’m going to have to say that killing someone is probably worse than failing a stupid exam. But that’s just me.

Hey, Seattle! What? Just two establishing shots today? What’s up with that?

And now it’s surgery time. We’ve got the baby thing and the heart thing at the same time. Addison gives the worst pep-talk ever to George while Sandra Oh takes out the heart tumor with Burke. The undelivered baby in the spare uterus starts to move and Alex jumps in with some boxing story to save the day. Oh wait, more surgery, this time on Chief’s shirt. He gets McDreamy to sew it on for him and they chat about the trauma of divorce. And then everyone’s okay. No one is dying this episode. Phew!

Outside surgery, Alex gets chewed out by McSteamy who tells him he’s out of plastics and now he wants his phone back. But Alex isn’t the only one who’s in trouble. Bailey ambushes Burke in the hall and wants to know why he took her off the board. “Why, I’m afraid I just couldn’t use you,” he eventually stammers.

Can I just say that there are a lot of commercials during this show? Holy cow.

Anyway, we’re back and McDreamy and McBitchy are having a little chat before she heads off to the airport. She gives him the good advice to take a step back and get some space. We’ll see how well that works. He thanks her and she’s out.

Izzie and Meredith take Burn girl to the psych ward. Ha! See what the truth gets you? Locked in the crazy bin. But she does need it.

Down in baby town, we learn that Freak girl had her boy and that the girl is still in womb. After asking after him several times, the father decides he’s the pig and comes back to the room.

McSteamy propositions Callie. She turns him down, but not before Alex spies on them.

McDreamy runs into Meredith and apologizes kind of for his sister. She’s east coast he says. I called it!! He’s going to take that space, isn’t he? Of course he is. She agrees.

Chief runs into Izzie as she’s leaving. Apparently Meredith gave her a gold star on her report card that day. He welcomes her back.

Callie tracks down George and apologizes for being rude. She gives him a speech about how happily independent and successful she is. “Don’t chase me any more…unless you’re ready to catch me,” she says. And after all that chasing he lets her go. Oh people.

In the locker room Meredith tells Sandra Oh that she’s there for her if/when she needs it and leaves.

We close out the episode by watching Sandra Oh update Burke’s board. The shot turns and we see Burke watching her sadly and then as we rotate around more we see Bailey who finally, finally! gets to be one who figures out what’s going on there.

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