Shake Your Groove Thing

"Is Meredith the only one who doesn't know the size of this thing?"

Season 1 Episode 5. I missed an episode yesterday because the internet at school sucks, so this is 1 of 2 for today.

Adulthood. That is the theme of this episode. From the 'Meredith Grey monologue' at the beginning and end and all of the drama in between.

Meredith is having a problem with exhaustion between taking care of her mother and the stress and long hours of being an intern. While assisting Dr. Burke, she squeezes the patients heart and realizes that she 'popped' her glove (her fingernail poked through). The patient is fine so Meredith doesn't say anything.

George assists Bailey and Dr. Webber on Mrs. Drake's surgery. Mrs. Drake seems to like George, so he gets to prep her for surgery. During the surgery, which is supposedly because she's a smoker (even though she says she quit cold turkey years before) is not as easy as it seems when they find an old towel from her last surgery at Seattle Grace under Mrs. Drake's lung-the reason she was having difficulty breathing. Duh! Bailey sends Cristina to find out who the surgeon was for the initial surgery. Guess who?! Preston Burke. Cristina tells Bailey and Bailey tells Cristina to keep quiet about it.

Meredith and Burke's heart patient, Mrs. Patterson, crashes and Meredith confesses that she popped a glove and possibly nicked the heart in front of the patient's husband. Can you say lawsuit? It ends up that it wasn't Meredith's fault at all, but actually occurred because of the patient's recent major weight loss.

The hospital is abuzz with the party happening later that night at Meredith's. The party that Izzie is throwing for her boyfriend who is coming into town. It started out small, and then progressed to just about everyone in the hospital (minus Alex). Meredith seems to be the only person who is unaware of the party.

Alex is treating a man who says he feels like he has samurai swords stabbing him in the back. He knows the patient is an addict, but Shepherd forces him to treat him anyways.

Cristina and Burke start to get a little friendly in this episode. Coffee anyone?

Meredith goes to the nursing home so her mother can sign her power of attorney and all of her other personal things over to Meredith, but when she gets there Ellis isn't lucid enough to do it. Meredith, not happy at all, goes home to find her house crawling with hospital staff. She's pissed for about a minute and then decides to drink tequila from the bottle and dance on the table with Cristina and George.


Izzie, who has been on discharges all day, has one more patient to sign out. Except before she is able to do that, he (being Alex's pain med addict) falls and hits his head on the floor. Sub-dural hematoma.


Hank, Izzie's definitely good-looking boyfriend, shows up at Mer's a bit confused. He finds Meredith, Cristina and George playing strip-something and asks where Izzie is. Of course she's still at the hospital. Hank goes to find her and is not happy that she has invited so many people. He wanted to spend time with her. She wanted him to meet her friends, and he didn't have a problem meeting her friends when she was a model. When he still doesn't understand that the hospital is her life now, she breaks up with him and just goes back into the hospital.


Meredith, clearly drunk, is dancing outside her house.

The next day when Izzie comes home, Meredith and George are in the living room with empty alcohol bottles everywhere. Izzie takes a drink of one-not George or Meredith's! At work, Meredith is called into the chief's office with the people from legal. They say that even though the patient didn't crash from her mistake she is still a liability. Burke speaks up about the towel and gets Meredith off the hook. It took him five years to speak up; Meredith spoke up soon enough to save the woman. He said that there should be no fear of retribution for surgeons or interns in this kind of situation.

Music:

'Wake Up' -The Ditty Bops

'Tiger, My Friend' -Psapp

'Money Girl' -Dee

'Evil' -Interpol

'The Edge of the Ocean' -Ivy

'Sparkle Me' -The Buffseeds

Quotes:

GEORGE: "Do you even know who’s that was?"
IZZIE: "I’m hoping it was yours."
GEORGE: "Nope."

IZZIE: "Holy Mother of Destruction."
MEREDITH: "You missed Doctor Palooza."
IZZIE: "Apparently you didn't."
MEREDITH: "I should probably never speak to you again." 

DEREK: "You know, in some states, you could get arrested for that... So you blew me off for a bottle of tequila? Tequila's no good for you. It doesn't call, doesn't write, not nearly as much fun to wake up to."
MEREDITH: "Take me for a ride, Derek." 

HANK: "Is, uh, Izzie Stevens..."
CRISTINA: "You must be Hank... he's very large and hockey-like. No, Izzie's not here right now."
GEORGE: "You and Izzie will give birth to very tall blonde people. Kind of like Barbies."
HANK: "Izzie said she was going to be at home, she didn't say there was gonna be a party."
MEREDITH: "Which pisses both of us off. Would you like some tequila? It helps."
HANK: "When do you think she’s gonna get here?"
MEREDITH: "Don’t know. But we’re low on ice, Hank."
HANK: "I’m serious."
MEREDITH: "So am I. We’re interns, Hank. Hospital owns us. It’s what we do."

GEORGE: "Full house."
CRISTINA: "Royal flush. Get naked, baby boy!"

MEREDITH: "We're adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop?"

IZZIE: "Hank just needs to realize that doctors can have fun. We're not all workaholics with God complexes."

CRISTINA: "We ARE workaholics with God complexes."

MEREDITH: "It's my party and I'll get drunk if I want to."

BAILEY: "Something careless this way comes."

CRISTINA: "The bigger the party, the less time for bad sex with the hockey player. "
IZZIE: "Would you stop saying that? "
CRISTINA: "Ok "
IZZIE: "Hank and I have great sex." 
CRISTINA: "Mm hmmm" 
IZZIE: "All the time." 
CRISTINA: "Mmm "
IZZIE: "In fact, we'll probably have sex after the party, or during the party." 
GEORGE: "As long as you clear it with Meredith."

We're only 4 days away!!!! It's almost here!