Greys Recap – Holidaze
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Thanksgiving
We open with the Chief and Meredith – and the Chief gives a load of bull about the drinking, yet offers to mentor Meredith. I’m not sure what I think about this – if he’s sincere about wanting to help her or just trying to cover his ass. Derek thinks there’s something fishy, but doesn’t know what the fishy is.
Xtina blows off Owen for the cardio goddess. Who takes out a heart and puts the patient on machines. Of course the patient has no family so her “we’ve only had 4 dates” dude decides to stay. Meanwhile Owen and cardio goddess have all kinds of TEH AWKWARD due to her “oh hai I lurve you.”
Bailey is keeping the divorce a secret from her family.
Some 18 year old hottie comes in looking for Mark. She thinks Mark is her dad. Lexie walks up just then too. (hottie looks familiar – I can’t place her though). Derek, Arizona and Lexie have to do brain surgery on a little kid. On Thanksgiving Day. Cuz that’s fun. Lexie is freaking about the 18 year old potential step/boyfriend/daughter and Derek is huge help talking about how much Mark got around, “There could be a gaggle of Sloans.” Meanwhile they can’t fix the kiddo. Further meanwhile – the paternity test says the girl is Mark’s daughter. Which he announces. Along with, “Lexie she’s gonna move in with us for a while.” Lexie responds by cutting the tip of her finger off. Gross. But. You can see how it would happen.
Christmas
Chief is still teaching Meredith.
Lexie’s finger is healing. Mark is totally awkward with the daughter. Like can’t talk with her awkward. However he babbles about it to Derek. Which he finally confesses that he knew the mom was pregnant, gave her money and ran away. Oh and they are creating some new whatever to be able to fix the kid with the brain problem. Cuz that’s how this show rolls. Should just go call it McGyver’s Anatomy. Then the hospital suddenly runs out of money and they can’t make their new equipment anymore. They offer up their bonuses to the Chief only to find out there are no bonuses that year. Derek throws down, “I’ll write a check, how much.” Arizona counters with, “I’ll split it with you.” They look at Mark, “I have a teenager, what if she wants to go to college?” Leading us to the best line of the show, Arizona: “Have you met her?” (#snort) “Fine, I’m in.” At long last, the Chief apologizes for trying to fire Derek.
Bailey’s dad shows up because the chain of family gossip got the news to her parents about the divorce. She sneaks her dad into the surgical viewing room, Callie comes to talk to him and she babbles a lot of stuff about surgery, and then about dating women, and then about Bailey and the divorce, and then Merry Christmas. (Yes it is just that random.) Bailey’s dad gives this whole speech about, “I have been a proud father” and you know it’s not going to go well. Of course it doesn’t. He doesn’t like that she’s doing surgery on Christmas Day, that she broke her family, set her son up to fail . . . it’s pretty horrible. Bailey fixes it so that she and her dad can go to the Shepherd Grey house for Xmas dinner so her dad thinks she has some kind of life and will GTFO.
Girl without the heart is still alive. She’s getting tired of being in the bed. Xtina points out that with the Christmas and New Years season that it’s “organpalooza”. 4 date dude is still around. Girl wants to go outside to see snow. Cardio goddess says they’ll make it happen, and then babbles on about Hunt. The patient loves the being outside. Hunt comes and wraps Xtina in a coat … it’s all pretty and lovely, just in time for the girl to collapse. Girl is septic, low blood pressure and won’t survive general anesthsia to FIXIT. So Bailey says “then we won’t put her under general.” (HUM WHAT?)
Okay so Xmaspalooza at the Shepherd Grey house. This is the MOST FUCKED UP room of people EVAR. Owen is playing guitar while Cardio Goddess looks at him longingly (GET OVER IT ALREADY). Arizona and the Chief are singing “Baby it’s Cold Outside” to Owen’s guitar playing. Lexie and vapid “have you met her” teenage daughter are bickering about the fact Lexie gave her 50 bucks to go buy a Christmas present and she bought a snow globe of Seattle. “What? He likes Seattle!” Mark and Derek collaborate in the corner while Thatcher and Meredith talk in the kitchen. Lemme break that down for you.
Ellis Grey marries Thatcher and has Meredith. Ellis Grey shags the Chief. Thatcher leaves and has Lexie. A little while later Mark Sloan shags someone who has vapid teenage daughter. After that Mark shags Dereks wife. Derek leaves his wife and falls in love with Meredith. Now they are all hanging out in dead Ellis Grey’s house.
Thatcher totally knows Chief is back in the bag, but when he tries to talk to Meredith about it, she’s really pretty much a hateful bitch with a smile on her face. Which … I get it … but … just this one minute – fuck off Mere.
New Years
Mark’s daughter is pregnant and freaked out and finally kinda normal. Which gives Mark the chance to comfort the daughter like he now wishes he would have comforted the mother.
They do the surgery on the boy with the brand new instrument of awesome. There’s lots of happy and kissing in the OR. Right after that, Xtina sees Owen looking at Cardio Goddess with dirty in his eyes. Owen and Cardio Goddess have a whole emotional thing in a room where he freaks out about why now, why now, I loved you then blah blah, Cardio Goddess goes on and on about lurfing him too and Owen says, “I love Christina.” Thank you, Owen. Xtina finds the no heart girl a heart in a brain dead teenager and celebrates – till Teddy shows her the other side – the man next to the person who will be giving the heart. Xtina goes to Owen pretty much like “look I know I kinda suck sometimes but…” and He grabs her in one of those screen kisses that look awesome for the drama of it, but I’m pretty sure I would beat Scout if he did it to me. Owen is all “I LOVE YOUUUUUUUU” good guy, that Owen. Everytime they put him in a situation where the stereotypical tv thing would be to screw up, he does the stand up thing.
No heart girl who got a heart gets engaged to 4 date guy, by the way.
Joe calls Meredith over to the bar b/c the Chief is. bombed. So the Chief orders another “club soda” and gets Meredith some tequila. And we close the show.
I dunno. We’ll see kids. Sorry this was a little disjointed, the pace of the show was really fast and I got lost, and I realize now that I totally missed telling you about Bailey verbally kicking her dad’s ass at the Christmas table … so here – go read Greys Writers and get another perspective …. catch what I’ve missed.
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I love this. I think you should recap each week. It’s better than watching the show. The dinner scene killed me. Dude, they are going to discuss surgery at dinner. THEY IS SURGEONS.
Two things, one: I adore Arizona. I may have stopped watching if it weren’t to see what she says and does next. Two: Wasn’t there another sibling? Doesn’t Lexie have a sister? Am I the only one who remembers her?
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Sloan’s pregnant daughter used to play Lily on All My Children. She’s all grown up now! I adore Arizona, too.
It’s funny – the show depressed me, but you made me laugh. So there you go.
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I liked this episode, but agree, it was very fast and a big change from the two-episodes cover one day pace. Still have a little whiplash. On the other hand — wouldn’t really have wanted to drag those drama stories out longer.
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