'Grey's': Everything We Know About ER's, We Learned in High School
As promised in promos, a high-schooler shows up in the ER with a pencil shoved in his left eye which, you'll recall, last week we thought was a metaphor for the writers' strike. But the pencil was shoved in his eye and his brain, which means this week's episode is a metaphor for how high school messes with your brain.
It all starts when a bus full of high-schoolers crashes and the captain of the pom-pom squad is injured. She has broken her heinie. Sure, it would have been better if she'd been a cheerleader with a broken heinie, but still, it's pretty great. Pom Pom Queen thinks her life is over because her heinie is broken, and so is her leg, and her face is messed up, and one of her "friends" is going to take over as captain of the pom-poms after talking to God about it. Callie tells her to stop whining so she can tell her it's just like when she, Callie, got fired as chief resident.
Was high school really this annoying? (ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Pencil In Eye Guy calls his mother on his BFF's cellphone only it cuts out while he's talking and he tells BGG that thanks to her lousy cellphone, "Mom is gonna think I died." Which means he will die in the episode (only an idiot makes a crack about "dying" when in a TV accident). Pencil in Eye Guy doesn't officially die -- he falls into a coma from which he has no chance of waking up when McDreamy pulls the pencil out of his head while his soon-to-be-new-love-interest, Nurse Rose, waxes philosophical about how the stars of "Grey's Anatomy" are a clique -- just like high school!
Speaking of McDreamy, turns out that in high school he weighed 110 pounds, had bad hair and acne, played in the school band and was not popular. This we learn when Bailey yells at him because her high school crush, also a victim of the bus crash, continues to use her to do things for him while a patient, just as he used her to get through math in high school. (I thought only chicks did that.) And yes, Bailey is still really steamed that User Guy did not invite her to prom -- which wouldn't make her look pathetic if she were in college. As chief resident and a married mom, however: kinda.
McDreamy is now free to date other women in front of Meredith. Literally. At the same bar. Sure, it's resident un-hot weirdsmobile Sidney he's with, but still, a date's a date. Meredith apparently likes to watch because she watches -- while making snippy observations about how it's a fake date to make her think he's healthy and moving on. Because: Why would anyone who could have her -- for break-up sex, anyway -- go out with anyone so unattractive, and strange? I'm guessing Meredith was a pom pom in high school.
Meanwhile, George and Izzie are barely speaking to each other, having learned the hard way that having sex with your best friend can ruin a good relationship. Izzie demands George give back the keys to her house, and nobody cares.
And no high-school experience would be complete without the Embarrassing Parent:: Meredith's dad comes to the hospital drunk, with a cut-up hand. He prattles on merrily about his excuse for getting fractured -- dead second wife's birthday -- and how she's his fave daughter. Meredith likes Fractured Dad - -- only less so when half-sister Meredith Lite tells her Mom's birthday isn't until March and that dad tells all his daughters they're his fave. And oh, by the way, she was high school prom queen. Meredith hyperventilates, causing Chief to explain to her that going to him for help is like ... visiting the principals' office. Yes, he really did.
-- Lisa de Moraes
Lisa de Moraes
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November 16, 2007; 11:41 AM ET
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Posted by: Another Former GA Fan | November 16, 2007 1:20 PM
Hard to tell the high schoolers from the doctors. They all act the same.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 16, 2007 3:04 PM
pull this show. I found the entire metaphor completely overused. how DUMB do the writers think the viewers are?
(apparently, dumb enough to watch - this episode was almost okay were it not for the HS BS)
Posted by: puh-leese | November 16, 2007 4:32 PM
Don't talk s**t about Bailey, Pookie.
Posted by: tyeinmd | November 16, 2007 9:38 PM
Isn't her name Christina and not Christine?
George and Izzie are getting harder and harder to stomach. To me, they are the only doctors on the show who truly act as if they are still in high school.
Posted by: me | November 18, 2007 12:58 PM
Haha!
Someone posted on last week's blog the following:
"I don't think there are ANY grown-up writers for this show, only adolsecent girls. Stupid is as stupid does."
Then, this is what we got this week! Haha, how appropriate!
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Will Gizzie please die already?