Episode Report Card Lauren S: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Shit Hits the Fan
By Lauren S | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.22.2006
The girl is conscious again and now in bed, Alex picking glass out of her leg while she explains that she literally flew through a window to him, Addison, and Mark. The wife of the driver comes over; her name is Mrs. Dickerson, and flying-glass girl, Janelle, knows her. Mrs. Dickerson asks her if she needs anything and hovers, which raises a bit of a red flag in my eyes -- a red flag with giant sequined letters reading, "Guilty!" while confetti shoots out of the flagpole and a marching band plays beneath. Janelle explains that Mrs. Dickerson is her best customer and then the doctors manage to shoo her away. Mark wants to know why Addison is there and shoos her away, too, until Janelle comments that she hopes Mr. Dickerson didn't kill her baby. Mark gets Addison's high-heeled self back over in a jiffy. Janelle finally seems to take in her surroundings and woozily comments, "The doctors... hot men. They're all really hot. They are, aren't they? It's not just cause I'm wearing a plate glass window?" Addison assures her, "Nope, they're man candy." I'm glad there's finally a show that will admit they have an unusually high quotient of smoking hot employees rather than passing it off as an everyman's hospital. Boss Man Candy flirts with Addison, and Janelle coughs up blood. Yummy.
Izzie enters the O'Malley room, and since George ignores her, his dad introduces Mrs. O'Malley, played by none other than Debra Monk, known and loved by me as Maureen's mom in Center Stage. Once again, everything that is good in this world comes back to that fine motion picture. Mrs. O'Malley knows Izzie's name since she's one of George's roommates, which she refers to as some kind of "set-up." Mr. O'Malley has clearly heard this before and assures her that this is how the kids are doing it these days: "Men and women live together without being... men and women." Izzie laughs as Mrs. O'Malley clarified, "So, it's nothing sexual." The word "sexual" coming out of his mom's mouth is what finally makes George acknowledge that he's not the only person in the room, and he blows up at her as Izzie laughs it off and assures her that it's not. The Brothers O'Malley have been sent back to work, so the room is a lot quieter and the collective IQ a lot higher. Izzie explains that she's going to be prepping Mr. O'Malley for surgery with Dr. Burke. Mrs. O'Malley lights up at the sound of his name and Izzie agrees that he's wonderful, all of which makes George tense up even more than normal. At that moment George gets a page, which confuses everyone since it's his day off. He doesnât explain it but takes off on his mysterious mission. Once he's gone, his mom hopefully asks again if there might be anything going on between him and Izzie. She just wants Georgie to be happy, is all.
In with the newly dead guy, Burke asks Dr. Hahn if she would have done anything differently than he did. His surgical prowess is proven when his rival tells him, "Given the size of the wound, I would have given up sooner." She then asks him how he's doing, referring to the last time they met, which resulted in donor-organ shenanigans and an unfortunate bullet to the arm. She is apparently at the hospital to do a consult, and the two continue to verbally spar.