Dissecting Grey's Anatomy: Ferryboats Edition
Sure, a lot went on in this episode of Grey's Anatomy. Patients didn't quite make it, doctors got to prove themselves and slight retribution was even had. But by far the most important thing to take away from last night's northwest medical opus was the triumphant return of ferryboats. That's, right, folks. Dr. McDreamy, in what can only be interpreted as a shout-out to Seattlest, ushered in the triumphant return of this season's most-mocked sentence: "I like ferryboats." Context? Unnecessary. Intent? Needless. Tone? Smarmy-charmy. Seems like the good people at Komo must've finally let ABC in on the joke.
The episode begins like any other--Meredith providing voice-over to neatly explain via medical metaphors the show's theme. This week's life lesson? Don't procrastinate. So everyone's favorite lapdog, Georgie-boy, starts the episode off with a cute if ill-conceived attempt at bringing his crush-worthy roommate Meredith some coffee. He spills it all, naturally, and then sits through Izzie berating him for not just asking her out already. So that means George got burned twice that morning? (Insert polite laughter here).
The two platonic roomies head off to work, leaving a snooze-pressing Meredith to fend for herself. She's late, but so is Cristina. Of course, Cristina is late because she was getting it on (again) with Dr. Burke in the supply closet-cum-love shack, but both make it in time to see the world's largest tumor growing on a woman. Sick. George looks like he may vomit and/or pass out, which frankly just makes him all the more endearing.
Alex graciously flirts with the tumor-lady to everyone's surprise. No one thought he possessed the ability to be so genuine and nice to another human being he wasn't trying to worm the pants off of, but he quickly proves everyone right when he accidentally leaves a p.a. system in an examining room on and the patient overhears him smack-talking her. Big time. After he's done waxing philosophical on her many layers of disgusting, she decides to go through with a risky surgery but only after banning Alex from the OR. Booyah! Unfortunately, about 10 hours into the procedure, all is lost and the patient is declared dead.
Dr. Bailey, aka The Nazi, warns Dr. McDreamy against openly favoring Meredith. He gets a bit carried away, though, and kicks her off his surgery only to let her back in when she convinces a Parkinson's patient to go through with a more complicated procedure. Meredith tries to talk to The Nazi about the awkwardness of their work situation and succeeds only in making it more awkward and in pissing off her boss even more. Oops. Ah, well, must not bother her too much cause at the end of the night she's back with Dr. Shepard, wine in hand, telling him about a great spot where you can see the ferries. And ladies and gentlemen, I give you the line: "I like Ferryboats." Uttering this phrase not once but two times in a single season? Someone get this man an Emmy.
Izzie meanwhile is left to pick up the slack on the floor after the batteries in Dr. Alex's pager die and he can't be reached. She ends up, after a slight breakdown, opening up a heart patient's chest and removing BY HAND a blood clot. She saves the patient's life, yells at MIA-Alex and wins the approval of Dr. Burke.
Someone who already won the approval of Burke (how's that for a segway) is the good doctor's love partner, Cristina. He did her a favor by letting her scrub in on the tumor surgery but tells her he can't favor her anymore. Except, you know, in the boudoir. Which he commences to do right there in the supply room (which just so happens to have had a gurney moved into it. How convenient!).
The episode ends with George making one last attempt at having a casual drink with Meredith--something that comes off as a proposition for her to simply "drink alcohol," but when he comes across her empty bed in the middle of the night, he realizes she must be seeing someone else and is clearly heartbroken. Oh, Georgie.
Grey's Anatomy
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