What an awful version of “Modern Love” underscoring that entire segment. Made me load up Bowie right when it went to commercial, just to get that out of my head.
And Alex is a dick; he knew his words were hurting the patient dude.
Well, Alex does have a point about Izzy getting a bit too close, but…
Yes, Alex is a dick.
“But I got the directions off the internet!” Quite a mantra, that.
And I am liking Sara Ramirez coming to the show.
What did you think of the gore stuck on the fork when Meredith pulled it out? Ewwww…
I’m glad Meredith finally told McDreamy about sleeping with George. He handled it well, like a friend. And to see him trying to make amends with his wife, for real, was heartening.
I liked this episode. Except for bringing a three?-week old baby to the hospital. WTF?
Yeah, the baby thing just didn’t sit well with me either.
Also, what the heck does the chief do? I mean, he takes crap from his attendings, residents, and his interns now?
Addison Montgomery-Shepard really does look like a young Catherine Deneuve. However, I still hate her and can’t wait until she goes back to NY to be with McSteamy. She’s quite the attention fiend and that does not bode well for her marriage, if she’s willing to flirt with a guy whose wife’s baby she just delivered.
Of course Izzy prefers Denny to Alex. Alex is an irredeemable ass. I hope they don’t kill off Denny. He’s awfully cute (he played the dead husband in Weeds IIRC).
How funny was it seeing George and Burke jamming out with the trumpet/clarinet duet? I do feel bad for Christina, though. She didn’t sign up to move in with both of them.
Funny how that works – I’m big into Bowie, except for that five-year period of suck in the eighties. For me, “Modern Love” is the first track on the first album of pure, unadulterated suck that the man put out. It was weird to hear it reworked into something that didn’t make me want to bang nails into my head to make it stop. 
I’m really liking the hot intern that’s got her sights on George. Contrasts a little sharply with his personality, I guess, but she’s a hell of a consolation prize.
This storyline with Izzy and the Incredible Dwindling Man is giving me a terrible, terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. It’s sweet, she’s sweet, he’s impossibly sweet and stoic – but you just know it’s going to put everyone through the wringer, and not end well. (And then Alex will magically turn on a dime and go from being a total dick to being sensitive and supportive just when she really needs it. Bleah. Better to put a stake through his heart now.)
And as for the new daddy that was flirting all over Dr. Shepherd, it would have been neat if they had him make a bit of small talk about the pink-misted bomb-disposal guy. (Whenever I see that guy I think of his role as the socially-inept security guard in the CSI episode “Boom.”)…which ends with him trying to be hero and carrying a bomb out of a high school – only to get blowed up real good.
Bringing the infant in to work stretches credulity rather a bit (especially in the ambulance bay… WTF?!) but it provided ample opportunity for Sandra Oh to do her “squeamish” routine, which is fine by me. I could watch that forever. Hilarious.
OK, my wife likes the show. I tried to like it. But there isn’t a single likeable or realistic person on the whole goddamn show. Burke is a prima donna. Sandra Oh’s character is a distant, prickly touch freak. Gray is a waffling, uncertain sex hound who’ll fuck anything. Alex is a dick. George is a basket case. Izzy is cute, but that’s all. Bailey is a sandpapery tough-as-nails-carbon-copy of whatshername on ER. The chief is a doormat. It’s almost as if, in trying to make it all realistic and human, they have made each of the characters into total caricatures.
I give up. I’ve watched it for the last time.
Okay, I’ve only just started to live down the shame of being one of those that thought Dr. McSteamy (not so much in this photo, though)was played by Leonardo DiCaprio, but now I come to find out that Denny Duquette is not, in fact Robert Downey Jr. :smack:
Did anyone else think it was RD j? Anyone at all? Please?
And on top of it, my coding is all to cock :smack: :smack:
Sory folks. No wonder there was no response to my post. (Yeah, that’s why).
I didn’t catch the credits, but was that Natalie Cole playing Mrs Fork-in-the-Neck? (the patient who was so skeptical about having the brain operation…)
Yes. No, really, I’m sure this time. 
I was a bit confused when they asked for an MRI of the fork lady before they removed the fork… large magnets and metal do not mix…
Why not? MRI doesn’t imply anything about large magnets!
Saywhatnow Resonance Imaging?
Yeah. She broke her arm on the set filming that episode.
I like Burke a lot and I guess I don’t see him as a prima donna. He’s good at what he does and he’s perfectionistic. But I guess I am in the mindset to like (enjoy, not necessarily think of them as good people) the characters since I like the show in general.
I agree; she should have held on to her apartment (always a good move in my book) just to have a quiet place to rest when she needs it.
I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that it will turn out she used to biologically be a man. Just a wild guess.
It was a nice episode though I feel like the writers are just putting Christina through drama for the sake of seeing how much like Gumby they can stretch her.
Burke did pick George as his guy at the very beginning of the show. They’re relationship (friendship) is blossoming as they discover how alike they are. I can see George becoming more like Burke in time, he is skilled and it just takes time to grow confidence.
Alex is an ass, but I do understand where he is at. A girl goes on dates with you, sleeps with you, and you’re still on good relations. It just seems like Izzy should know better and should realize what Alex thinks the relationship status is.
Enjoying the occasional episode of flirting doesn’t say anything about the stength of a person’s marriage. And, of course, Derek’s been a cold fish for months now, so you cannot blame her for wanting a little attention.
As for Alex, Denny and Izzy, I’m mostly on Alex’s side (and not entirely because my name is also Alex). Izzy’s willing to be with Alex and to have sex with him, but she’s never forgiven him. If I think Derek’s an ass when he does it to Addison, I have to think Izzy’s an ass when she does it to Alex. And I do. If you can’t forgive them, there’s nothing wrong with that. But you can’t keep them dangling halfway along forever.
–Cliffy
If they’re stupid enough/insecure enough/penitent enough/desperate enough to let themselves be used like that, go ahead. People who keep coming back for more casual abuse obviously want it.