She looked so good, in fact, that it made me want to call her Miranda.
Its rare that weve seen her glammed up and out of scrubs, and pink is totally her color.
Well done, Richard.
Credit: Ron Tom/ABC
In fact, I was feeling so good I decided to give the cute anesthesiologist an actual name.
(Also because I had tired of typing anesthesiologist.)
So I decided to call him Ben Warren.
Namely because the Internet told me that is his name.
Alas, we would be time-traveling, even though we were not watchingLost.
The conceit: Derek, a.k.a.
the new chief, had decided to bring back the boringly named Lecture Day.
As Derek said, Their losses will save you losses.
Their mistakes will save you mistakes.
In those days, she went by Mandy and had braids and glasses.
Thats how you knew it was Younger Bailey.
Surgerys a shark tank, he told her.
And sharks have teeth.
confirm youre a shark, too.
And not a minnow.
Oh, but wait.
He was hardly done dispensing wisdom.
Who made you quiet?
Also: If you never get a negative appy youre not doing enough appys.
Words to live by, people.
but no matter what they tested this poor woman for, she did not have.
Still, her symptoms persisted.
Then she finally figured it out:porphyria!
I mean, duh!
I learned when not to cut.
I learned to listen to my patient …
(R.I.P., OMalley.
She had a polio patient who could use some fixing.
But it would be risky, tricky, etc., as these things often are.
After surgery, though, he moved his foot, which he hadnt been able to do before.
Alex gave her a (based-on-fallacy) pep talk: What if Id quit in the elevator?
What if I froze?
But he did it anyway.
Man, did we ever celebrate.
Arizona totally caught on, by the way.
Men really did like moustaches in 1982.
Hooking up in the on-call room soon followed, of course.
But you know what really kills a sexy on-call-room mood?
Even when theres super-sexy bantering about a patients symptoms and possible diagnoses?
(Seriously, loved the electric, professional collaboration between these two.
(Because Gay Related Immune Deficiency didnt quite suffice, as it turned out.)
This would be the first case in Washington state, and there had only been five in San Francisco.
Hes threatening to sue us for slander!
Which, of course, meant Young Ellis and Richard were right about the GRID.
NEXT: Ellis true legacy to Richard is revealed
More era-appropriate posturing ensued.
Ten years ago you wouldnt have even been allowed in this program, he snapped.
Dont tell me what kind of oath we take.
Heavy-handed, for sure.
That makes me a mother.
That doesnt make me inept.
That doesnt make me less of a surgeon.
What can I say, I dug this despite its grandiosity.
My feminism can get to me sometimes.
Oh, Bailey and Dr. Whats-His-Name Ben were cute, yet again.
And I was choked up, despite myself.
Well see, he said.
Luckily, no.)
You cant toast a dead Irishman with a sodapop, Ellis goaded Richard.
Get this man a vodka.
Wow, whose life didnt this woman ruin?
What did you think of the time travel, PopWatchers?
Did you prefer Timid Mandy, Still-Hooking-Up-With-Guys Callie, or 80s Richard?
