Welcome to Tonight's Question and Non-Answer Session
Updated 2006-09-11 17:00:00
Everyone's dealing with the fact that their fairy tales are a little less stellar than they thought they'd be while growing up. Meredith's fairy tale of a Prince Charming sweeping her off her feet to go live in a castle on the hill has turned into a smugly secretive quasi-boyfriend who won't tell her what his favorite color is and who lives in a Silver Bullet trailer on a hill in the middle of nowhere. Izzie's fairy tale was long ago dashed by a real life spent in a trailer park with a mother who made cupcakes that greatly resemble Hostess Cupcakes. George's fairy tale involves Meredith, so that's trashed all to hell. Cristina's fairy tale of living an angst-and-emotion-free life came to a crashing end the day she started sleeping with Burke and got pregnant.
Mere spends the majority of the episode trying to pry her way into McDreamy's secret past life, to little success. He finally shows her his trailer and tells her that his favorite color is Indigo. Izzie spends an inordinate amount of time worried that she can't duplicate her mother's cupcake recipe. A psychic named Duff informs her that she's missing coconut extract and this somehow makes Izzie feel that it's okay to call her mom in the trailer park and say that she's missed her. George grows a pair and gives up on Meredith and asks out a hot redheaded nurse who may or may not have an STD. Cristina schedules a termination, only to find that she has to spend the whole episode caring for a woman who has to choose between her baby's life or her own.
In the end, really, I think we discover that everyone's fairy tales aren't so different. They all suck.