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Grey's Anatomy

Ep.	Title	Air/Pub'l	Grade	Author
4-17 Recap	At Last Freedom, Part 2 - Derek and Meredith finally manage to succeed -- both at surgery and at acting like mature adults. Both things are miracles in their own right.	2008.05.22 2008.05.28	A	Lauren S
4-16 Recap	Big Pimpin' Freedom, Part 1 - Meredith and Derek go further than they've ever gone before -- covering so that their two patients can have sex before going under the knife.	2008.05.22 2008.05.27	A	Lauren S
4-15 Recap	Crazytown Losing My Mind - Meredith fights with her therapist, Cristina goes on a cleaning spree, Ava imagines a pregnancy and a brain tumor patient thinks she's Cinderella.	2008.05.15 2008.05.21	B+	Lauren S
4-14 Recap	Sex-and-Tell The Becoming - Mark's a man-whore, Meredith is clearly still in love with Derek and vice-versa, George is the Chief's fake assistant and has to collect sex reports, and Alex is trying to prepare himself for the baby that doesn't actually exist. Just another day at Seattle Grace.	2008.05.08 2008.05.13	B-	Lauren S
4-13 Recap	I [Heart] Addison Piece of My Heart - Addison is back in town and spends her day in Seattle hugging people, making sweeping stereotypes about Los Angeles, and opening people's eyes about all sorts of relationship-related possibilities.	2008.05.01 2008.05.07	B	Lauren S
4-12 Recap	Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! Where the Wild Things Are - There aren't actually any tigers, but there are lions (the interns fighting to win a surgical contest) and there are bears (who, we see in living color, can rip out your intestines.) Oh my!	2008.04.24 2008.04.30	B+	Lauren S
4-11 Recap	Another One Bites The Dust Lay Your Hands On Me - It was too much to ask that one person on the staff should have a happy life with a functional marriage. After an accident endangers the life of their baby, Bailey and Tucker are the latest marriage to fall apart.	2008.01.10 2008.01.14	C+	Lauren S
4-10 Recap	Dance The Night Away Crash Into Me, Part II - What else can you do when your patient dies, or your maybe-boyfriend kisses another woman, or your husband ends your marriage through your intern? You've got to just dance it out.	2007.12.06 2007.12.12	A-	Lauren S
4-9 Recap	I Probably Would Have "Forgotten" To Give Him the Right Pain Meds, Myself Crash Into Me, Part I - Bailey is put to the test, but her awesomeness shines even brighter when she has to treat a white supremacist whose idea of body art is to tattoo one of the most offensive symbols in world history across his abdomen.	2007.11.22 2007.11.28	A-	Lauren S
4-8 Recap	Back To School Forever Young - When loads of high school students are admitted to the ER after a horrible bus crash, each of the docs is taken back to his or her own high school experience, complete with cliques and stereotypes.	2007.11.15 2007.11.21	B	Lauren S
4-7 Recap	Dinner And A Movie Physical Attraction...Chemical Reaction - The Chief and Derek are doing it. Izzie and George would probably rather be doing it than Doing It. And Mark wants to be doing it with Hahn, surely followed by Doing It.	2007.11.08 2007.11.14	B+	Lauren S
4-6 Recap	Bridezillas Kung Fu Fighting - Two women clutching a wedding dress between them try to win a dream wedding, and the symbolism is crashing all around as Callie learns to just let go, so that she doesn't turn nasty and bitter and scalp someone.	2007.1.001 2007.11.07	B+	Lauren S
4-5 Recap	Ashes To Ashes Haunt You Every Day - Meredith has finally figured out how to put her mother to rest somewhere that she loved, and she and Richard together…rinse her down the drain of the scrub room. It's really much more touching than it sounds, I promise.	2007.10.25 2007.10.30	A-	Lauren S
4-4 Recap	Everyone Hates Izzie The Heart Of The Matter - Well, Callie and Alex do, at least, when both of them find out about her doing the hanky-panky with George. Miraculously for Izzie, no one else seems to figure out what's going on, but we can all still hope for more shunning in the future.	2007.10.18 2007.10.24	B	Lauren S
4-3 Recap	The One Where George Admits It Let The Truth Sting - Meredith and Lexie begin to maybe sort of accept each other, Cristina acts sad to get surgeries, and Alex gets Edward Herrmann as an intern. But all of those will probably be overshadowed by the fact that George finally confesses to Callie about that whole Izzie slip-up.	2007.10.11 2007.10.16	N/A	Lauren S
4-2 Recap	Don't Do Drugs Love/Addiction - Because if you do, your house will blow up! And you might hurt your innocent, older, Tony-winning neighbor! (Although if you did do drugs, you might be able to dull the pain of watching George and Izzie together.)	2007.10.04 2007.10.10	B-	Lauren S
4-1 Recap	Doe, A Deer A Change Is Gonna Come - Burke's out! Lexie's in! George has stayed at the hospital! Meredith and McDreamy call it quits! Izzie treats a deer! You might think I'm kidding about that last one, but you'd be wrong.	2007.09.27 2007.10.01	B	Lauren S
3-25 Recap	Breaking Up Is(n't) Hard to Do Didn't We Almost Have It All? - Derek and Meredith might be breaking up. Burke leaves Cristina. Alex is messed up when it comes to women. Callie wants a baby with her husband who slept with his best friend. Welcome to an extended episode featuring the messed-up love lives of every single character on the show.	2007.05.17 2007.05.21	B-	Lauren S
3-24 Recap	3-2-1 Contact Testing 1-2-3 - Do you think we could get the Bloodhound Gang here? They could maybe use science to track down why this show got so bad. Or at least solve the mystery of why everything goes so wrong for Meredith. This week, her father blames her for Susan's death and she nearly flunks her intern exam.	2007.05.10 2007.05.15	B-	LTG
3-23 Recap	You Can't Have Too Many Dead Moms The Other Side Of This Life, Part II - At least that seems to be what the writers think, since Meredith loses her second mother this season, and appears to lose the father she just started to get back along with it. Hey, now that we know Addison can't have kids, maybe she'll adopt her!	2007.05.03 2007.05.09	C	Lauren S
3-22 Recap	L.A., L.A., A Hell Of A Town! The Other Side Of This Life, Part I - The surf is up and Addison's fertility's down! And overpaid guest stars are scattered around! L.A., L.A.! It's a hell of a toooooooown!!! (For a spin-off. And some other stuff happens in Seattle.)	2007.05.03 2007.05.07	B-	LTG
3-21 Recap	Kids, Don't Pee In The Amazon Desire - No, seriously. The fish they pull out of the nether regions of the chairman of the hospital board will be enough to drive this lesson home. Unfortunately it doesnât stop the execution of all of the other bad ideas the doctors have, like not communicating honestly, falling in love with the wrong person (barf), or the last two people who haven't had sex with each other doing it in the on-call room.	2007.04.26 2007.05.01	B-	Lauren S
3-20 Recap	What? No Cyndi? Time After Time - If there's ever an episode whose title should have telegraphed a soundtrack choice, this was the one. And they totally let us down.	2007.04.19 2007.04.24	B	LTG
3-19 Recap	My Favorite Mistake My Favorite Mistake - Do you think Shonda was meta enough to name this episode based on the fact that trying to make us believe Izzie and George are meant for each other seems like a huge mistake? I'm not sure, either. It might be a fancy coincidence, but either way, it's a mistake of a storyline.	2007.03.22 2007.03.29	C-	Lauren S
3-18 Recap	Really? Them? Scars And Souvenirs - We find out that Cristina has a thing for very old men as her med school lover shows up as a candidate for Chief of Surgery. And Meredith starts the process of reconciling with her father. But despite anything interesting happening, the show is ruined as George and Izzie end up in bed together.	2007.03.15 2007.03.21	B-	LTG
3-17 Recap	Into The Light Some Kind Of Miracle - Meredith contemplates death and decides it's not for her, though unfortunately it is for her mom. It's a shame her mom doesn't have a best friend like Cristina to pull her back from the brink single-handedly. Get your hankies ready, they're going to make you cry.	2007.02.22 2007.02.27	B+	Lauren S
3-16 Recap	Splish Splash Drowning On Dry Land - Meredith's taking a bath. Or bobbing about in Puget Sound. Until Mini-Meredith points Derek in the direction of the floating corpse. Or potential corpse. Everything else that started last week just kind of progresses, but it's all really filler until we find out what happened to Meredith.	2007.02.15 2007.02.18	C	LTG
3-15 Recap	Disappearing Act Walk On Water - In the first of a three-part Very Special Episode, a ferry accident brings in tons of victims, but each intern ends up with one in particular that puts them to the test. Oh, and Meredith may or may not end up dead after being pushed into the Sound.	2007.02.08 2007.02.13	B+	Lauren S
3-14 Recap	Mommie Dearest Wishin' And Hopin' - If you ever wondered about the genesis of Meredith's drinking, one-night-standing, and other assorted emotional issues, they're all explained in one heartbreaking conversation with her momentarily lucid mother.	2007.02.02 2007.02.06	A-	Lauren S
3-13 Recap	Amish Country Great Expectations - Can we all give up our technology and live on a farm and drive a horse and buggy? After seeing this episode, you may just want to.	2007.01.25 2007.01.30	A-	LTG
3-12 Recap	The Big Finish Six Days: Part 2 - Everything set up last week is resolved, but not all in a good way. On the good side, Derek and Meredith make peace over her snoring, and Meredith chats with her father. Also, Izzie's patient is able to walk upright, and Burke and Cristina finally speak. On the bad side, George's father dies. And on the really unfortunate side, Addison and Alex suck face.	2007.01.18 2007.01.23	A-	LTG
3-11 Recap	The Big Set-Up Six Days, Part I - Alex realizes that he really belongs with Addison instead of Mark, and that might mean more than just operating on babies; George's dad goes into really big and scary surgery; Izzie deposits The Check; and Meredith snores. We're basically just laying the groundwork for anything that might happen in Part II.	2007.01.11 2007.01.16	B	Lauren S
3-10 Recap	Get Away From Me! Don't Stand So Close To Me - Pretty much everybody spends the entire episode pushing everyone away from them. Burke pushes Cristina and Derek away. Cristina pushes Meredith away. Meredith pushes her step-mother away. George, Izzie and Alex all push Cristina away. Mark pushes Izzie away, but I think that's just so he can get a nice look as she walks away.	2006.11.30 2006.12.05	A-	LTG
3-9 Recap	The Shit Hits the Fan From A Whisper To A Scream - In the wake of a car accident, just about every secret in the hospital comes out at once, but the one with the most repercussions has got to be Burke's pesky tremor.	2006.11.23 2006.11.29	A	Lauren S
3-8 Recap	Everything's going to be fine. Seriously. Staring At The Sun - George's dad will be fine, right? Because Burke is fine, and Meredith and Derek are shiny and happy, and Bailey is confident as a mother and surgeon, and Cristina hasn't turned unusually modest. Except for none of that being true, everything is totally going to be fine. Seriously fine.	2006.11.16 2006.11.21	A-	Lauren S
3-7 Recap	All Boy Revue Where The Boys Are - It's a sausagefest in the woods as all of the male cast members except for McSteamy head out for a camping trip in the woods. Back at Seattle Grace, things are generally sad, as Bailey busts Cristina for her duplicity with regard to the O.R. board, Izzie is forced to talk about her feelings, and Addison and Callie treat a woman whose baby died in utero. And in the end, Meredith and McDreamy decide to make a fresh start of it.	2006.11.09 2006.11.13	B+	LTG
3-6 Recap	Uterus? No, Uteryou! Let The Angels Commit - Izzie is committed to her medical career. Cristina is committed to a suicide pact with Burke. George is committed to being a pig. Mark is committed to being an ass. And Derek is committed to himself, at least for a while.	2006.11.02 2006.11.07	B+	LTG
3-5 Recap	Oy, Gevalt Oh, The Guilt - Everybody feels guilt, because they've done things like killing a patient, lying to their partner, being angry with their baby, and sleeping with the wrong person (that one applies to several different characters). But nobody feels gilt, because nobody is covered in a layer of thin gold foil.	2006.10.19 2006.10.24	B	LTG
3-4 Recap	Fun With Morphine What I Am - What's your drug of choice? Mine's Demerol, but Meredith goes for morphine when she comes down with appendicitis, and hilarity ensues. She also finally gets enough clarity to make a choice, but that's actually made when she's sober. Our little baby's all growns up!	2006.10.12 2006.10.17	A	Lauren S
3-3 Recap	Yatta! Hello, Seattle! Sometimes A Fantasy - Super powers, super dating, and super stupidity all combine to remind us that if it hurts, we shouldn't pick at it.	2006.10.05 2006.10.10	B+	LTG
3-3 Recap	Sometimes A Fantasy Sometimes A Fantasy - A thumbnail sketch of the episode to hold you until the recap goes live.	2006.10.05 2006.10.04	B-	LTG
3-2 Recap	I Am A Tree I Am A Tree - Meredith decides to date. Addison gets really drunk. Izzie bakes muffins. Bailey feels guilty. Callie dances in her panties. Burke's Mama visits!	2006.09.28 2006.10.03	A-	AB Chao
3-1 Recap	Time Has Come Today Time Has Come Today - Izzie won't get up off the floor. McDreamy and George are quarantined because of the plague. Bailey feels extreme guilt. Addison finds the panties! Meredith finds out she has to choose between McVet and McDreamy.	2006.09.21 2006.09.27	B+	AB Chao
2-27 Recap	Losing My Religion (3) Losing My Religion (3) - Webber tries to get the interns to confess. They throw a prom instead. Mere and McDreamy have sex. Denny dies. Alex saves the day. There's a boring cliffhanger.	2006.05.15 2006.05.21	A-	AB Chao
2-26 Recap	Izzie, Willie-Nillie Deterioration Of The Fight Or Flight Response (2) - Izzie pulls all sorts of scary shit to make sure Magical Heart Patient Denny gets the heart that is so not rightfully his. After being shot, Burke faces potential paralysis in one of his hands unless McWeenie can successfully remove an aneurysm. Bailey freaks on the interns for their Denny involvement, and Adele freaks on Webber for a whole marriage of issues.	2006.05.15 2006.05.20	A	Keckler
2-25 Recap	17 Seconds (2) 17 Seconds (2) - Izzie breaks the law so Denny can get a heart. Multiple gunshot wounds wind up at Seattle Grace, bringing lots of drama with them. Addison and McDreamy have it out. Burke gets shot and falls down.	2006.05.14 2006.05.19	A+	AB Chao
2-24 Recap	A Day of Damage on Walton's Mountain Damage Case - In the middle of a tragic car crash, Meredith and McDreamy fight and decide they are SO over. Callie likes to pee in front an audience and not wash her hands. Izzie tries to force Denny to love life again. George finally says more than two words to Meredith. Alex delivers a baby from a dying mother.	2006.05.07 2006.05.12	A	Keckler
2-23 Recap	Blues For Sister Someone Blues For Sister Someone - Addie and McDreamy have bad sex. Izzie and George try to give a patient a seizure. Burke operates on a famous violinist. Alex gets Addison in trouble over a patient. Bailey accuses Webber of mommy-tracking her.	2006.04.30 2006.05.05	B	AB Chao
2-22 Recap	The Name Of The Game The Name Of The Game - Mere meets her long-lost sister. Bailey has a hormonal freak-out. Alex abandons his bedside manner. Izzie knits really fast. Cristina gets schooled by the Chief. George kisses Callie. Hot vet!	2006.04.02 2006.04.06	A-	AB Chao
2-21 Recap	Superstition Superstition - Three patients die, and four are rumored to follow. Izzie dumps Alex for Denny. George is annoying, and then redeems himself by asking Callie out. Webber attends a hospital-room AA meeting. Addison hands out juju to all.	2006.03.19 2006.03.24	B	AB Chao
2-20 Recap	Band Aid Covers The Bullet Hole Band Aid Covers The Bullet Hole - Burke and George become best friends. Meredith and McDreamy become best friends. Natalie Cole has an aneurysm. Duncan Kane cuts off his own finger. Denny battles it out with Alex for Izzie's affections. Cristina babysits Bailey's baby.	2006.03.12 2006.03.17	B+	AB Chao
2-19 Recap	What Have I Done To Deserve This? What Have I Done To Deserve This? - It's the day after Horrible Sobbing Sex Night and George is moping, Mere is self-flagellating, and Izzie is picking a side, even though no one asked her to. Izzie's flirts with Denny the Magical Heart Patient, eliciting some jealous stares from Alex, and Addison gets a dose of poison oak on her punanny, eliciting some horrified looks from Bailey.	2006.02.26 2006.03.02	B-	Erin
2-18 Recap	Yesterday Yesterday - Addison's dreams of saving her troubled marriage to Derek go right down the toilet when her hot ex-lover Mark shows up to declare his love for her. Burke finds out about Cristina keeping her apartment and he's not pleased about it. In other news, George tells Mere he will always love her, and she promptly removes his shirt and beds him because that's the smart thing to do, no?	2006.02.19 2006.02.24	B	Erin
2-17 Recap	As We Know It (2) As We Know It (2) - Mere successfully removes the bomb from Stupid Von Bombgut's chest, Bailey finally pushes her bambino out, Tucker survives his brain surgery, and McDreamy tells Mere he's glad she didn't die. Yes. It's about that romantic.	2006.02.12 2006.02.16	A	Erin
2-16 Recap	It's The End Of The World (1) It's The End Of The World (1) - A man shoots a bazooka into his own chest, and could detonate at any moment. Bailey goes into labor, and her husband gets into an accident on his way to the hospital. Christina Ricci guest stars, and is awesome.	2006.02.05 2006.02.10	A-	AB Chao
2-15 Recap	Break On Through Break On Through - The nurses strike, and so does George. Mere accidentally revives a DNR patient. Cristina gets in trouble with Bailey's replacement. Izzie reveals her teen pregnancy story.	2006.01.29 2006.02.03	A+	AB Chao
2-14 Recap	Tell Me Sweet Little Lies Tell Me Sweet Little Lies - Mere and Cristina lie a lot to each other. George crushes on a sweet old lady. Bailey goes into pre-term labor. Alex passes his boards. The Gang give their dog to McDreamy and Addison.	2006.01.22 2006.01.27	A	AB Chao
2-13 Recap	Begin The Begin Begin The Begin - George has an intersex patient. Izzie has a cutie-pie heart transplant patient. Meredith gets some time off. Addison still hates the trailer. Cristina frets about her lost pregnancy. Alex shows off his mad doctor skills.	2006.01.15 2006.01.20	A	AB Chao
2-12 Recap	Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer - Izzie goes crazy for Christmas. Mere and the rest of the Gang help Alex study. Bailey juggles surgery and pregnancy. Cristina grows a heart. McDreamy tells Addison he's still in love with Meredith.	2005.12.11 2005.12.17	A+	AB Chao
2-11 Recap	Owner Of A Lonely Heart Owner Of A Lonely Heart - The interns try to keep the quints alive. Addison teaches Izzie a hard lesson. Cristina is nice to Rosanna Arquette. George plays with leeches. Mere gets a dog!	2005.12.04 2005.12.09	A-	AB Chao
2-10 Recap	Much Too Much Much Too Much - Mere's one-night stand comes in with priapism. Burke gives Cristina a key. Izzie assists on a quintuplets case. Alex sleeps with Nurse Olivia.	2005.11.27 2005.12.02	B+	AB Chao
2-9 Recap	Thanks For The Memories Thanks For The Memories - Burke helps Izzie with Thanksgiving dinner. Mere volunteers to work. George has to touch his father's behind. Bailey takes down an arrogant surgeon. McDreamy does it with Addison. And Cristina just wants a drink.	2005.11.20 2005.11.24	A	AB Chao
2-8 Recap	Let It Be Let It Be - George seizes the day. Burke and Cristina go on a date. Addison and McDreamy deal with themselves, their friends, and cancer gene mutations. Bailey's pregnant. Meredith wears a Hello Kitty band-aid and rides in an elevator.	2005.11.13 2005.11.18	A-	AB Chao
2-7 Recap	Something To Talk About Something To Talk About - A man has a hysterical pregnancy tumor thing. McDreamy and Addison go to marriage counseling. Meredith is very sad. Cristina and Burke argue. Alex kisses Izzie!	2005.11.06 2005.11.11	B+	AB Chao
2-6 Recap	Into You Like A Train Into You Like A Train - There's a train wreck. Meredith gets drunk. McDreamy chooses Addison. Alex gets back to his jackassy ways. Cristina loses a leg (not really!). Two people are impaled by a pole, and it is very sad.	2005.10.30 2005.11.04	A-	AB Chao
2-5 Recap	George Is The Man Bring The Pain - Meredith begs, Alex chokes, Cristina finds her inner naughty nurse, and George finally finds the confidence he'd misplaced on his way to Seattle Grace and performs heart surgery in the elevator during a blackout.	2005.10.23 2005.10.26	A+	Lauren S
2-4 Recap	It's Not Just A River In Egypt Deny, Deny, Deny - Everyone is in denial this week, whether it's about their love lives, or…oh, who am I kidding, only Bailey's denial isn't somehow connected to a dysfunctional romantic relationship (or poor excuse for one).	2005.10.16 2005.10.19	B+	Lauren S
2-3 Recap	Make Me Lose Control Make Me Lose Control - I don't know if you've heard, but surgeons aren't very good at giving up control. They'll have to, though, as Meredith is faced with her mother as a horrific patient, and Cristina is faced with the loss of her pregnancy and a fallopian tube. And Derek has never had any control to lose, proving it by kissing both Meredith and Addison	2005.10.09 2005.10.12	A	Lauren S
2-2 Recap	Patient-centric Enough Is Enough (No More Tears) - This hour focuses more on the patients than the resident doctors and interns, though there's a bit of insight into Alex's past when he relates to a young car-crash victim.	2005.10.02 2005.10.05	B+	Lauren S
2-1 Recap	Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - McDreamy's wife Addison shows up at the hospital. Cristina is pregnant and doesn't know what to do. Joe the Bartender collapses with an aneurysm. George spies on everyone for Webber. A patient is real mean to Meredith.	2005.09.25 2005.09.28	A-	AB Chao