Of course, I’d be referring to Callie & Arizona when I say this, and hopefully it is the FINAL heartbreak for them, because when (AND THEY WILL!) get back together, they’ll be together for all eternity.

Surgery of the Week.

Only one major, major surgery this week: FAT MAN!

Sorry, Bailey. Slip of the tongue… I’m off the case now, right?

Anyway, this guy is told he will die without surgery and Alex gives him an ass kicking when he tells him how selfish he is being. Fabulously though, he is saved by the surgeons. After he falls over and breaks his ankle. The guys hasn’t walked in 10 years. Why on Earth did these so-called ‘clever people’ let him walk with all that weight? I know why.

Because Callie wasn’t around. Tut.

Romantic Moment of the Week.

Again, this week’s romance was a little more heart-breaking that romantic.

The thing is, it could be said that this was actually quite romantic.

Yeah, so they broke up in the end, but the way in which is was done was perfect. You see, this pair didn’t break up because they came to hate each other, they broke up because they love each other so much. Sound crazy? Well, Arizona explains that she wasn’t comfortable with being the person to stop Callie having a baby, so she sacrificed her own happiness in hope that Callie will find someone who does want a baby.

With a final kiss, Arizona says she will simply see her love at work.

Bailey Moment of the Week.

Right at the start of this week’s episode, Bailey gave a speech about sensitivity skills.

This wins Bailey moment of the week because, well, it’s pretty much the only one. I’m not appreciating this lack of the best characters. (By best characters, I mean Bailey & Cristina.)

Anyway, she teaches the interns and some of the residents about sensitivity skills this weeks for the incoming fat guy. And one by one, she proceeds to kick them off the case as they make rude jokes about him. It’s hilarious anyway.

Quote of the Week.

This week actually had quite a few funny moments, but this section from Little Grey made me laugh.

Melissa: I couldn’t ignore it. After the news, I just had to call.
Lexie:The news?
Melissa: Well, we’re going to have a baby. I’m pregnant.
Lexie: How? Um. Uh. Eh. Um. I mean, wow! Congratulations! That is — that’s joyous news.

The way Chyler Leigh (Lexie) delivers this line to the patient’s wife Melissa is actually hilarious and something we’ve not seen enough of when she’s on screen. And to be honest, it’s what we were all thinking.

Overall Episode Rating: 7 out of 10.

Better than last week, especially because of the last Callie/Arizona scene and the humour, but I’ve seen better from Grey’s. Next week, we see teen star Demi Lovato playing a schizophrenic. Let’s hope it’s an episode to remember.

This episode is now renamed ‘Bent Not Broken.’ I’ve decided this because of the lovely Arizona’s speech towards the end of this episode. She delivered the line “I’m not broken” so perfectly that I immediately thought to find a song with ‘broken’ in the title. It also helps that Arizona is, well… bent. *silence* Not to be derogatory in any way, of course.

Surgery of the Week.

To be quite honest, I can’t really remember any surgery this week other than this:

Excuse the graphic quality of the above photograph.

I love that freakish stuff always happens at Seattle Grace Mercy West. Can anyone remember the guy with the bomb in his chest? Of course, nothing is simple during surgery, and cardio surgeon Teddy sneezing right on cue during a pivotal moment of holding the body cavity still in order for Owen to extract the hook. Woops.

This results in Derek nearly firing Teddy and giving her job to a more qualified surgeon. Luckily, he declines, meaning that Teddy keeps her job and leaves us keeping our fingers crossed that she and Owen will finally get together! (Again.)

Romantic Moment of the Week.

Okay, this wasn’t really romantic, but actually quite heart-breaking.

After watching Callie & Arizona bicker about having a baby throughout the entire episode, Callie tells her girlfriend that she doesn’t need a baby. Of course, she doesn’t mean it and starts to cry.

This followed by Arizona simply saying the word ‘don’t', followed by a kiss. The kiss itself was very romantic, but mostly, it was just extremely sad that Callie has given up her dream for Arizona. Again, this act seems quite romantic, but anyone who knows Callie’s romantic history will know that she is always the one who has to work in a relationship. Give her a break, Shonda!

Bailey Moment of the Week.

I’m appalled that Bailey actually got less screen time than a freakin’ newborn baby this week. But whatever.

Bailey’s top moment this week was when she told Lexie to stop letting Alex walk all over her.

Lexie realized that they had misdiagnosed the hook in side guy and that he was in fact infected. Bailey simply tells her to stop doing what Alex says because he is giving her sex and do what she has to do for her own career. Right on.

Quote of the Week.

This week, Bailey states the obvious.

You may be thinking ‘then why does she get quote of the week?’ Well…

“I’m Dr. Bailey. I know everything.”

And she so obviously does. The way Chandra Wilson says this line is actually perfect. Comedic timing and all. I gotta say that Bailey remains to be one of my favourite characters, and she has been from the very beginning.

Overall Episode Rating: 6 out of 10.

I actually enjoyed parts of this episode, but it’s general depressive nature has given me cause to give it a lower rating than the last episode. I loved all the drama with Callie & Arizona because it was perfectly acted, but the whole Mark/Sloane/baby thing is getting far too blue now. Let’s move on.

Push. Push? Ehh, another title I don’t understand.

Look at Webber, looking all happy with himself. Yep, he’s happy ’cause Shepherd chose his surgical methods over Hunt’s. Well DUH, the black man always beats the ginger. (No form of ginger racism intended there, by the way, it was just a joke relating to something Webber said in the episode!)

Surgery of the Week.

Not a surgery as such, but this week, Callie made cartilage.

I’m not sure if this is a wholly new discovery or something, but the way in which Callie reacts is pretty much like it’s something that’s never happened before.

And to be honest, making cartilage? Surely that is the work of a genius.

Romantic Moment of the Week.

Not heavy on the romance this week. So I’ll go with a moment that started out romantic and slowly declined into a time of sadness.

Callie & Arizona decide they’re the golden couple at Seattle Grace right now. Which they pretty much are, as we don’t seem to see MerDer an awful lot because of Pompeo’s real life pregnancy.

This is also followed up with the dialogue:

Arizona: You’re amazing.

Callie: We’re amazing.

I mean, that’s romantic in itself, right? Nothing like romance over some newly made cartilage…

Of course, this descends into the unhappiness when Arizona tells Callie she doesn’t want kids. And she doesn’t notice that Callie is actually devastated. Oh dear. We’ll see what happens there.

Bailey Moment of the Week.

Bailey gives in to the cute anaesthesiologist.

Yep, it seems that Bailey finally has a new love interest since her divorce.

Throughout the episode, she was determined that they would not have sex. But the end of the last scene contained some steamy kisses, which looked like they were going somewhere to me…

Quote of the Week.

Again, Bailey wins here.

She gives one of her hilarious speeches to Callie. The Bailey/Callie relationship is actually pretty funny, if you ask me.

Let me tell you a little somethin’ about my ’surgical field’, okay? I prep my surgical field with soap and water. I keep my surgical field the way God made it. I don’t need a member of the Ukrainian KGB waxing it smooth so that it can be mistaken for the surgical field of a 5 year old girl. I am a woman. And a woman is meant to have something on her surgical field. If a man can’t deal with a little somethin’ on the surgical field, a little nature, a little God, then that man has no business getting near my surgical field.

And after that monologue, Callie simply states “Fine! I’m not putting a gun to your head!”

Big lol. Points to anyone who can work out what ’surgical field’ is a euphemism for.

Overall Episode Rating: 9 out of 10. I really enjoyed this week’s episode. Way more than I enjoyed this week’s ‘Skins’ episode. Awesomesauce.

There’s no Grey’s this week (bummer!) so there’ll obviously be no recap until next week.

This episode saw flashbacks of 3 of our favourite surgeons: Miranda Bailey, Richard Webber and Callie Torres. I thought Torres was a bit of a strange choice because she’s not as high profile as the other two, but it worked anyway. Check out 90s Bailey:

Quite hilariously, she went by the name of ‘Mandy’ back then.

Surgery of the Week.

I would say surgery of the week, but it’s really surgery from 5 years ago.

That’s right, we see Callie operate on what I think is a victim of severe polio. I mean really severe. Check out the picture!

Anyway, Callie reforms the bones in this guy’s legs in order for him to walk again. It’s a real tear-jerker. And shows the talent of the surgeons at Seattle Grace.

Romantic Moment of the Week.

Again, more of a sexual moment, but still it was pretty romantic.

Yep, that’s a young Ellis Grey and an even younger Richard Webber getting it on in the on call room. Of course, the pair were cheating on their partners during this time, but it is obvious now why they couldn’t keep their hands off each other. This was a pretty great part to the story.

Bailey Moment of the Week.

Turns out Bailey wasn’t always a hard ass.

That’s right, as an intern, ‘Mandy’ let her resident surgeon walk all over her. Until this moment, anyway.

Bailey took it upon herself to find the real diagnosis for one of her resident’s patients, lashing out at her because she did not do her best to treat her patient. Webber witnesses the whole thing and takes her into his office to tell her what a fine surgeon she will become. Don’t we know it?!

Quote of the Week.

I don’t want to bore you with the details of the quote this week. Because basically, the quote of the week is the Hippocratic oath.

I’ll give you an extract:

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

Etc… etc…

The oath was recited by (current day) Webber to the rest of the surgeons at Seattle Grace, leaving us all feeling proud to be surgeons. Even though we’re not. But whatever.

Overall Episode Rating: 8 out of 10. Loved the flashbacks this week and Sara Ramirez looked stunning. One of the best episodes in a while.

Last week saw the return of Izzie. This week saw the return of Arizona’s heelies.

Hurrah! We shall rejoice.

As much as I would like to spend the whole review talking about how much I missed those little booties, there are more pressing issues at hand.

Surgery of the Week.

Although it wasn’t really a surgery, Altman notes that Karev performed a miracle this week: he blocked a tear in the main aortic artery.

Now I don’t know a lot about surgery, but Alex’s instinct saw him cut open his patient out of the OR and stick his hands right in there. Turns out, this saved a life. Kudos.

Romantic Moment of the Week.

You know when I say ‘romantic’, I often mean ’sexy’.

And this week, our resident sex-a-holics really lived up to their name.

Yang and Hunt did the deed at least four times during the episode. One of these times saw Yang end up with burns on her behind and another meant that Yang skipped a major surgery, but it was worth it in the spur of the moment.

Too bad it ended in tears…

Bailey Moment of the Week.

There were SO many great Bailey moments this week that it was hard to choose which was best.

In the end, I thought I’d praise the fact that she finally put an end to the looming storyline of how Webber needs to seek help.

We also saw Miranda give the anaesthesiologist a stern talking to in true Bailey fashion, but people have been trying to convince the (ex-)Chief to go to rehab all day, yet Bailey was the only one who succeeded.

Brownie points go to Chandra Wilson (who plays Dr. Bailey) week – those were a lot of speeches, and every one of them was acted with stunning conviction. Awesome.

Quote of the Week.

For the past few weeks, we’ve had large paragraphs of text for our quotes.

So this week, I thought I’d go for one of Robbins’ rare one-liners:

“This really isn’t gunna work for me…”

The fact that these 3 are sharing a bed really is comedic when you cast your eyes and ears on it. LOL-a-thon indeed.

Overall Episode Rating: 8.5 out of 10. Great drama, great acting, great story lines without over-powering us.

Next week, it’s Valentine’s Day in Seattle. But which of the couples will be truly happy?

You’re probably thinking ‘Another Grey’s review? Already?!’ But I have to admit, I only posted so late last week because I’m a huge procrastinator. Also, we’re totally having a bit of a clean-up here at the Wiggle, so your Grey’s reviews will actually be published every Friday.

Without fail… Possibly.

Anyway, this week we see the return of Izzie… Again.

The picture above may look like a fairytale ending, but trust me, it’s far from it.

Surgery of the Week.

There was actually more surgery than usual this week. But in the end, I chose to praise Dr. Altman once again.

I don’t really even approve of Altman as a character – I’ve never really warmed to her. But this week, we saw her do something selfless.

This week, her surgery was to remove a tumour from the lung of a large, gay, male singer. Before she went into surgery, the singer told her he couldn’t live without his lung – he wouldn’t be able to sing any more. So what did Altman do? Altman saved the frickin’ lung! In the words of Meredith, Altman “was a God today”.

Romantic Moment of the Week.

Romance… Uhhh…

There was actually more breaking up than romance this week.

So the only thing I could really come up with for this category was the way in which Lexie and Arizona admired their better halves this week. Arizona claims she “finds her [Callie] miraculous” and Lexie says “everything he [Sloane] does is sexy”. Sweet? Very.

And the fact that they confide in each other (they don’t really know each other so well, do they?) makes it even sweeter. Love or surgery? I think they’d both probably choose love.

Bailey Moment of the Week.

So the Chief has an alcohol problem. Duh. We sorta noticed it this week when he gave Grey a super-difficult surgery when it was previously given to Bailey.

But she got it back just in the nick of time.

The way she snatched the surgery out of Grey’s hands showed her who was boss. Just face it, Mer: you’ll never be Bailey.

Quote of the Week.

I’m not sure if I should label ‘Quote of the Week’ under ‘Quote(s) of the Week’ from now on. I suppose it’d make sense.

So, QUOTES of the week this week go like this:

Arizona: You’re hot.

Callie: You’re hot too.

Arizona: No, you’re… (unsure) hot.

Callie: (Laughs) Oh, okay. Thanks!

Arizona: No stop, I think you have a fever… (Uncovers Callie’s chest.) What is that?

Callie: What?

Arizona: Oh my God. Pox. Pox! You have chicken pox!

YES. During the search for a bit of fun before they scrub in, Callie & Arizona stumble upon something very different. Chicken pox!

Sounds stupid, but the way they did it was actually pretty funny, and we later see Callie going insane over her scratching. Amazing.

Overall Episode Rating: 8.5 out of 10. Meanwhile, we had a lot of drama with Yang and Altman over whether she should choose Hunt over surgery and also a lot of drama over the Chief’s drinking problem. Derek tells Meredith if she lets him go to the medical board, he will become Chief and give Izzie her job back.

Decisions, decisions!

Phew! After all that holiday chaos, Grey’s is finally back! Thank God. I missed it like a child misses it’s Mother. Seriously.

And look who’s back! For one episode, anyway.

That’s right: the feisty Addison Montgomery, played by flame-haired lovely Kate Walsh. She’s actually in Seattle to take a look at Sloane’s daughter’s unborn baby, who seems to have some sort of lump. But you’ll have to watch Private Practice to find out what happens there!

Let’s crack on with it, shall we?

Surgery of the Week.

This week, Yang gets another surgery all to herself, thanks to her beloved bestie, (or not) Dr. Altman.

God knows what the surgery was in aid of, but Yang stumbles whilst elbow deep in a chest cavity. Altman watches from behind, but doesn’t seem to do anything about it.

Of course, Yang’s slice of red-headed yumminess bursts through the door, trying to persuade Altman to do something to help. However, the two begin to argue and Yang screams for Owen to ‘GET OUT OF HER O.R.!’ Calm down, please!

We later find out that Yang received no help from Teddy at all. Go Yang!

Romantic Moment of the Week.

I’m not sure this is so much ‘romantic moment of the week’, but more ’smokin’ HOT moment of the week.’ But I obviously chose Callie & Arizona’s shower scene.

Yeah, it was pretty much a ‘blink-and-you’ll-miss-it’ moment, but it was also the moment every red-blooded male, lesbian and bisexual was waiting for.

Turns out, they were pretty p*ssed off after Lexie walked in on them, but for a split second, it was damn fine.

Bailey Moment of the Week.

This week, we see Bailey being constantly hassled by Shepherd to start dating again.

When Derek convinces a colleague to ask her out on a date however, she turns him down.

This quote defines the Bailey Moment of the Week: “”It’s devastating, but not completely, because it turns out I like sleeping crosswise in the bed and not having to shave my legs.” MADE OF WIN.

Quote of the Week.

You may have noticed that Yang is forever sucking up to Altman for surgeries. Well this week was no different.

This time, Cristina explains that she’d do literally anything for more surgeries.

And then the fabulous Shonda Rhimes (the lady behind the storyline at Grey’s) leaves us with this cliff-hanger:

Cristina: Wait, wait, wait, wait. No one has ever believed in me like this. You believe in me more than I do. And I need that. I’m going to die here without that.
Teddy: Cristina —
Cristina: You know, just tell me what you want! I’ll make it happen.
Teddy: I want Owen!
Cristina: Fine! Done! Take him!

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN!

Overall Episode Rating: 7 out of 10. Not the most explosive start to the second half of the season, but it’ll do for now. Kudos to Kate Walsh, obviously.

Firstly, I apologize for not re-capping this episode sooner. But there’s a new episode this week, so I thought I better do it soon!

It’s the holidays this week on Grey’s – we see right through from Thanksgiving up until New Year. A lot of time in 40 minutes, but they manage!

Surgery of the Week.

This episode was packed with great surgical moments. But in the end, I decided to go with Derek and his brain surgery.

Because the front of the brain was not accessible first time round, Derek, along with Slone, Robbins and a bunch of other surgeons invent a new device that enters the brain from the nasal cavity.

Why does this win surgery of the week? Because they defeated all odds, creating a device that had never actually been tested before and being successful in the end. Would this happen in real life? Probably not.

Romantic Moment of the Week.

Romantic moment this week goes to Yang and Hunt, who practically chew each other’s faces off outside A&E.

In this scene, Hunt explains to Cristina that he loves her because he loves her, not because he owes her anything. This is a moment we’ve all been waiting for, because to be honest, I didn’t really know if Hunt genuinely loved her before this. Aww.

Bailey Moment of the Week.

Once again, Bailey kicks total ass this week.

This week we see Bailey’s Father, after he finds out that she had a divorce months ago and did not tell him. He worries about the welfare of his grandson and his upbringing, but Bailey lashes out at the table, on Christmas days nonetheless, and shows the whole of the Seattle Grace staff (minus Callie, who is working) why they should be afraid of her.

Quote of the Week.

It’s not so much quote of the week, but the best speech this week is definitely the amazing acapella performance in the background by Sara Ramirez (who plays Dr. Torres) who cannot actually be seen when her pipes are giving it their all.

In true Christmas spirit, she sings ‘Silent Night’, which I’m sure you all know the words to, but I’m going to give you the opening lines anyway, just to keep to usual house rules.

Silent night, holy night,

All is calm, all is bright.

That is all.

Overall Episode Rating: 7 out of 10. Not the best, but I really liked the structure and the amount of surgery this week.