Episode Report Card Lauren S: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Pay No Attention to the Surgeon Behind the Curtain
By Lauren S | Season 8 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.20.2011
Cristina has joined Callie for ortho week; Callie is crabby and moaning that while she should be grateful that Mark and Arizona are getting along, she is really just bitter about it. Cristina is texting, laughing, and totally ignoring Callie as Callie complains about how Mark and Arizona now cook together all the time and that all of their time is consumed with talking about, making, or watching shows about food. When she realizes Cristina hasn't heard a word she said she snatches the phone away but quickly regrets it when she reads a text that describes what Owen wants to do to Cristina on a conference table. Cristina brags about Owen not being able to get enough of her but Callie readily admits to being jealous since she's never even alone with her wife anymore. She then decides to change the subject to their actual case, and when Cristina asks what kind of joint they will be replacing Callie points out that this is the first time they are "co-piloting" a case and asks if Cristina thought she would choose something boring. Cristina looks a little worried.
They walk into the room where a man is sitting on the bed with his wife next to him, and Callie introduces them as the patient's parents. When he husband doesn't stand up, his wife smacks him and yells at him for his bad manners. They are already charming. Then their actual patients walks in from the bathroom -- his name is Tyler, and Tyler is staring downward with his neck almost at a 90-degree angle; he apologizes for staring at Cristina's boobs and promises he's not doing it intentionally. He's as sweet as his parents are grating. Callie explains that he has a degenerative bone disease that was aggravated by a car accident two years ago, so what they are going to do is build him a new neck in a three-day, three-part surgery. Not so much the easy-peasy hip replacement that Cristina was looking for, as it turns out.
Up in OB a stereotypical TV couple, Clay and Mary, comes in: Mary is in labor and screaming at her husband like a she-beast not to film her like all good television and movie mothers-to-be while Clay ignores her since he's too excited about the birth of their child. Meredith walks in and Mary demands drugs, so Meredith goes to take a look down south and see how things are progressing. What she sees is the baby's head, so she gets gowned up immediately to get to work. When Clay ignores Mary's repeated screams to stop filming, she finally yells, "Brain tumor!" I thought this was just their personal kinky safe word but as it turns out, she actually has one, and Meredith is a little annoyed that they didn't let her know when she arrived but doesn't have time to dwell on it because the baby is coming. Now isn't it lucky that Mary's water broke early and she was brought to the nearest hospital that just happened to have the universe's most brilliant and talented brain surgeon?