History Series / GreysAnatomy

* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** In "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer", Cristina offers Meredith some advice:
---> "If you're that lonely there are excellent vibrators. I can give you a catalog."
** As Callie and Maggie needle Meredith about not returning a hot doctor's phone calls in "Odd Man Out", Callie makes a crack about Meredith being "stuck on vibrate".
** Carina [=DeLuca=] does an entire study on female sexuality in Season 14, watching brain patterns as participants masturbate in an MRI. Amelia decides to contribute and inadvertently [[spoiler: discovers she has a brain tumor]].
** In "Personal Jesus" April deals with a man who tried cutting off his hand to stop masturbating because the Bible said to. She gets into some QuoteToQuoteCombat with the man as to how literal the Bible is. Carina ultimately weighs in with the medical benefits of masturbation.
--->'''April:''' When God created the world, he ''also created metaphors.''
** Meredith notes in "Games People Play" that she has a "really excellent back massager".

* HasTwoMommies: Sofia, who was initially raised by biological parents Mark and Callie and Callie's wife Arizona.

** In "Out of Nowhere", an [=ECMO=] (blood oxygenator) machine has a hose come loose on a helicopter, drenching Jackson and Maggie in blood. They arrive at the next hospital looking like they "stepped off the set of Film/{{Carrie}}", and Maggie notes they ''very definitely'' traumatized the man's daughter.

** Covered in blood, Jackson notes that he and Maggie looks like they "stepped off the set of Film/{{Carrie}}".

%%* WillTheyOrWontThey: TheyDo - Meredith and Derek, Callie and Arizona. Izzie and Alex, but she was PutOnABus. Mark and Lexie [[spoiler: don't]]. Cristina and Owen got divorced, but this if anything seems to have ''strengthened'' their relationship. April and Jackson do. Cristina breaks up with Owen again at the end of season 9 since Cristina realized he wanted to have children and she never wants to. She thinks he'll never be happy with her because of this, and at the beginning of season 10 she says that this time they are broken up for good. In season 10, Callie and Arizona are broken up due to Arizona's cheating and are seeing a marriage counselor.

** A man comes into the ER after saving a woman by pushing her out of the path of an oncoming bus. His face is disfigured, so it takes a while for the doctors to find out the victim is George.

** One of the most unreal things it's how surgeons are depicted following patients from their hospitalization up to the discharge. In this show, surgeons visit patients in the ER, supervises them during clinic exams or when they undergo radiological examination and personally brings them to the OR, while in real life surgeons usually deal with patients only when they visit them to determinate if they need surgery or not, when they explain them the surgery they need, during the surgery, the post-op, and months later during the follow-up visit. Apart from nurses and, sometimes, psychiatrists and OBs, it is a show where it seems that there are no internists, radiologists, UAP and other medical figures.

** Callie is the entire othodpedics department, despite starting the show as a resident and lacking an orthopedics attending to teach her.
** Until Own becomes Head of Trauma, the ER seems to lack any actual specialists outside the [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience brown-scrubed residents]].

''Grey's Anatomy'' is a LongRunning Creator/{{ABC}} MedicalDrama. Its creator and showrunner was Creator/ShondaRhimes, and it is this work which put Rhimes on the map.

Beginning its life in 2005 as a MidSeasonReplacement, ''Grey's'' quickly became known for being sort of, well, quirky, especially given its genre: in addition to [[NameMcadjective McNicknaming]] and using the word "seriously" more than we use the word "JustForFun/{{egregious}}", the show focused more on the romantic and sex lives of its characters rather than on the medical cases. Case in point: the first scene of the pilot episode is {{Narrator}} Meredith Grey waking up after a one-night-stand with a hot guy named Derek and rushing off to her first day as an intern at Seattle Grace Hospital... only to discover that said one-night-stand, Dr. Shepherd, [[OhCrap works there too.]]

The show follows the lives, both personal and professional, of a group of surgeons at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital (formerly Seattle Grace, and then Seattle Grace-Mercy West following a merger in Season 6). Most episodes are narrated by Meredith, a world-weary intern struggling to deal with her mother's Alzheimer's syndrome. Though initially focused on Meredith, the other four interns and their immediate superiors, the show has introduced numerous characters since its onset, resulting in a large ensemble cast. Additionally, the show has matured somewhat in later years; the wackiness and sexcapades have been largely toned down, resulting in a more serious character study. Some found this [[ShooOutTheClowns deplorable]], but the show continues to pull high ratings.

One of the LongRunners, the show's future was put in doubt when leading lady Creator/EllenPompeo -- who has made no bones of the fact that she stayed in the role for [[MoneyDearBoy the stability of a steady paycheck]] -- officially left in November 2022, partway through Season 19. Rhimes has always claimed that the show would end when Pompeo decided she'd had enough... But Rhimes has since left to work for Creator/{{Netflix}}, leaving [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krista_Vernoff Krista Vernoff]] as showrunner. The question of where ''Grey's Anatomy'' will go without the eponymous Meredith Grey is, as yet, undetermined.

One of the LongRunners, the show's future was put in doubt when leading lady Creator/EllenPompeo -- who has made no bones of the fact that she stayed in the role for [[MoneyDearBoy the stability of a steady paycheck]] -- officially left in November 2022, partway through Season 19. Rhimes has always claimed that the show would end when Pompeo decided she'd had enough... But Rhimes has since left to work for Creator/{{Netflix}}, leaving someone else as showrunner. The question of where ''Grey's Anatomy'' will go without the eponymous Meredith Grey is, as yet, undetermined.

** Intern Ross in season 9 working under Meredith accidentally orders the wrong test, as a result they don't find out her liver is failing until it is too late. The patient needed a liver transplant, but [[WhatAnIdiot Ross ends up accidentally destroying the liver]] so they have to get a second one. When they get to the second liver, they see that [[OhCrap it has]] [[ContrivedCoincidence a mass on it.]] Subverted at the end, when a biopsy reveals that the second liver was actually fine and the patient survives.

* BaldnessOfSickness:
** Izzie winds up hairless due to her chemotherapy.
** Played with in "I Must Have Lost It on the Wind". Monica is informed that due to her head wound she'll need to be partially shaved to treat it. She takes the opportunity to go completely bald in solidarity with her bald-due-to-cancer boyfriend.

** Several episodes featuring a visiting surgeon who likes to have music playing and OR personnel dancing to it. Complete and total nonsense to the point of insanity. No surgeon is going to do this, no Chief of Surgery is going to allow it, no self-respecting nurse or technician is going to go along, and if a mistake occurred during surgery while people are dancing instead of doing their jobs, the malpractice lawsuit would bankrupt the hospital.

%%** TheChick: Izzie.

%%** TheChick: April.

''Grey's Anatomy'' is a LongRunning MedicalDrama. Its creator and showrunner was Creator/ShondaRhimes, and it is this work which put Rhimes on the map.

Beginning its life in 2005 as a MidSeasonReplacement, Grey's quickly became known for being sort of, well, quirky, especially given its genre: in addition to [[NameMcadjective McNicknaming]] and using the word "seriously" more than we use the word "JustForFun/{{egregious}}", the show focused more on the romantic and sex lives of its characters rather than on the medical cases. Case in point: the first scene of the pilot episode is {{Narrator}} Meredith Grey waking up after a one-night-stand with a hot guy named Derek and rushing off to her first day as an intern at Seattle Grace Hospital... only to discover that said one-night-stand, Dr. Shepherd, [[OhCrap works there too.]]

One of the LongRunners, the show's future was put in doubt when leading lady Creator/EllenPompeo -- who has made no bones of the fact that she stayed in the role for [[MoneyDearBoy the stability of a steady paycheck]] -- officially left in November 2022, partway through Season 19. Rhimes has always claimed that the show would end when Pompeo decided she'd had enough... But Rhimes has since left to work for Creator/Netflix, leaving someone else as showrunner. The question of where ''Grey's Anatomy'' will go without the eponymous Meredith Grey is, as yet, undetermined.

** One episode featured the surgeons lying about the time of the surgery, as the patient's insurance benefits had just lapsed and it wouldn't be covered if it was recorded as being done on the actual date, so they backdated it to the previous day. That's ''insurance fraud'', it's a ''criminal offense'', and the insurance company ''will'' find out about it. Not only will the surgeons face charges, but the hospital could very well lose it's accreditation.

* Several episodes featuring a visiting surgeon who likes to have music playing and OR personnel dancing to it. Complete and total nonsense to the point of insanity. No surgeon is going to do this, no Chief of Surgery is going to allow it, and if a mistake occurred during surgery while people are dancing instead of doing doing their jobs, the malpractice lawsuit would bankrupt the hospital.
* One episode featured the surgeons lying about the time of the surgery, as the patient's insurance benefits had just lapsed and it wouldn't be covered if it was recorded as being done on the actual date, so they backdated it to the previous day. That's ''insurance fraud'', it's a ''criminal offense'', and the insurance company ''will'' find out about it. Not only will the surgeons face charges, but the hospital could very well lose it's accreditation.

''Grey's Anatomy'' is a MedicalDrama. Beginning its life in 2005 as a MidSeasonReplacement, Grey's quickly became known for being sort of, well, quirky, especially given its genre: in addition to [[NameMcadjective McNicknaming]] and using the word "seriously" more than we use the word "JustForFun/{{egregious}}", the show focused primarily on the romantic and sex lives of its characters rather than on the medical cases. Case in point: the first scene of the pilot episode is {{Narrator}} Meredith Grey waking up after a one-night-stand with a hot guy named Derek and rushing off to her first day as an intern at Seattle Grace Hospital... only to discover that said one-night-stand, Dr. Shepherd, [[OhCrap works there too.]]

** Happens again in Season 10. Attendings sleeping with interns has become so common (''four'' of the five interns introduced in Season 9 have seduced or been seduced by their bosses) that nobody batted an eye about it... until HR instituted a strict no-fraternization policy, something they should've done in the pilot episode. (If it weren't for the fact that, if they did, [[NecessaryWeasel we wouldn't have a show]].)

** The Season 9 premiere. Meredith and Cristina are cut off from each other, save [=FaceTime=], because neither of them can stand to take plane trips anymore. Derek's injuries have resulted in his left hand going numb, which may do nothing less than end his career as a surgeon. Arizona coded and her broken leg had to be amputated--by Alex, because Callie is operating on Derek's hand. Mark has reached the end of his living will and is taken off life support. And Meredith has transformed from GrumpyBear into full-on BrokenBird.

* ItsAllAboutMe: {{justified}}. April's trying to have a wedding day, but Arizona and Meredith and Cristina all drag their {{Conflict Ball}}s in instead of being bridesmaids. She tells them to get their priorities in order, and to everyone's credit, they do.

--->'''Jackson''': This place is a freakin' maze. I've gotten lost like eleven times, no joke.
--->'''Charles''': I lost a patient.
--->'''Jackson''': That's bad, dude. How did he die?
--->'''Charles''': No, I lost her. Parked her in a hallway, went to get her labs, couldn't find the hallway.

---> "I just got to Grey Sloan. I can barely find the bathroom."
** As the latest batch of interns bond in the tunnels in "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story", Dahlia notes she couldn't find the bathroom.
--->'''Dahlia:''' The other day, I almost peed in a supply closet.
--->'''Vic:''' Like, just for fun?
--->'''Dahlia:''' I couldn't find the bathroom.

** In the AlternateReality of "If/Then", Seattle Grace's colors are grey, light for residents and dark for attendings.

* DesignatedGirlFight: Averted in "The Heart of the Matter". Callie confronts Izzy over George's adultery and says she'll see her at lunch. The interns decide this means a fight, and by lunchtime the ''entire hospital'' has placed bets and Izzy has asked Alex to be her second. Callie arrives at the appointed time, Izzy prepares to fight, stands up,..and Callie says she just wanted to talk.

* WhyWasteAWedding: Meredith and Derek seemed finally ready to tie the knot, but opted out so the cancerous and dying Izzy could marry Alex before she became too weak to walk down the aisle.

** Dr. Bailey rightly points out to Cristina and Izzy that them performing an autopsy on someone without the family's consent is illegal, and that they should be arrested. When they figure out what actually killed the man, [[DoWrongRight Bailey lets it slide]]. In real life, an action like this, regardless of the results, would get all three thrown in prison for a long time.

* MoreExperiencedChasesTheInnocent: Mark Sloan, also known as "[=McSteamy=]", is an infamous [[ReallyGetsAround playboy]], whose [[AnythingThatMoves sexual appetite]] becomes such an issue that the nurses at Mercy Grey ''unionize'' in protest. Lexie Grey on the other hand is TheIngenue: upbeat, highly intelligent, and [[WideEyedIdealist idealistic to the point of naivete at times]]. While she has dated in the past, she's mostly depicted as a SmittenTeenageGirl for George up until now. When Mark shows interest in Lexi, everyone tells him to back off, and he begrudgingly does...until [[InvertedTrope Lexi goes to his apartment]], strips in front of him, and asks him to [[SexualEuphemism teach her]]. Mark relents and the two start seeing each other soon after, [[spoiler:eventually [[LadykillerInLove falling in love]]]].