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oncetherewasaway	Aug 12 2007, 10:33 AM
McEditor Posts: 1,625 Group: .Grey Girls. Member #23 Joined: October 25, 2006	[size=7]PODCAST[/size] Podcast for Epi 4.12, "Where The Wild Things Are": Karev sports facial hair, Meredith wins the sparkle pager and George lives in a “crapartment”. We’ll have the lowdown on all that and more in today’s official Grey’s Anatomy podcast, hosted by abc.com. It’s six weeks later in the world of Seattle Grace, and our favorite residents are in the middle of a “lion-fight”. The episode was full of animal references, from bear attacks to Izzie being “sleek like a cheetah”. But we’ll leave it to Executive producers Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers to continue the animal allusions. They’re here to chat about the last episode and give you a tiny tease for next week’s new episode, “Piece Of My Heart”, which includes the reappearance of the one and only Addison Forbes Montgomery…. Shonda & Betsy: BB: It feels really, really good to be back, the energy’s really good, everybody’s really excited to be working. It was really nice to see all the writers again and all the cast again… rambles about the commissary… What I actually loved about this episode is that the energy for this episode is amazing, and personally I think that’s got to do with the intern contest that you guys came up with, well the resident contest, which was really such an amazing call back to the competition of these characters. SR: The episode’s called “Where The Wild Things Are” and I loved the contest because we had been talking about animal instincts and what makes people feral and crazy, and we had been talking about what it would be like to see the interns living in the hospital, and came up with this idea of a surgical contest which apparently in some hospitals is a real thing, which makes you feel pretty good about being sick right? BB: Yeah, you go in and you go “Woo, somebody smells!” and it’s not you… SR: But literally they’re earning points for doing procedures, they’re earning points for watching surgeries, they’re earning points for solving medical mysteries and it makes them all a little bit crazy, which I think is great. BB: My favorite moment is when Izzie says “I’m sleek, like a cheetah”, which is great because she is, everybody’s a bit cheetah-like and a bit crazy and wacky. I also really loved that when you win, you get the sparkle pager. SR: We felt really strongly about the sparkle pager, in the writers’ room we were a little bit obsessed with the sparkle pager, and it started off just being you get a prize and we started thinking about what the prize could be, and I kept thinking the best thing in the world would be to get any and every surgery you ever wanted, really. If you’re in this contest, that’s what’s interesting to you. Bailey gives it to them and to me, we just started thinking that it was this pager that Bailey had literally painstakingly hot-glued little glitter things on, we were saying it was a bedazzled pager. For ages, over the years, as it had been passed down she just kept re-gluing all the ones that had fallen off this pager. BB: Well that’s the great moment where you find out that the Chief actually participated in this contest too, all the way back in 19… whatever that would have been and this was a longstanding tradition, way before Bailey even. SR: Yeah, absolutely. BB: So also I have to say, our props person Angela, who is phenomenal, she had quite a selection of pagers, they were pretty fabulous. SR: She brought me about 4 or 5 pagers, I got to pick the one that I thought was the coolest one, I thought it had to be a unisex one… I was pretty hot for the pink bedazzled pager but we thought the red and white was very medical. BB: The other great thing is, if this is “Where the Wild Things Are” and these people fight like animals and it’s highly appropriate for this group of people including Clea DuVall and Jason O’Mara, to come in after the bear attack. SR: As victims of a bear attack, exactly. We spent a lot of time talking about that. Could people be attacked by a bear, and I was saying could they be attacked at the zoo, and then we came up with just - it’s Seattle! You’re not that far from camping in Seattle, so it felt good and necessary and right that they would have been camping and been attacked by a bear. That was awesome. BB: I think both Clea DuVall and Jason O’Mara are terrific in this episode. I think we were really lucky to get Jason, who is in a show called Life On Mars, and also we’ve been a big fan of his for a long time so it was great to get a chance to work with him. SR: Here’s a little tidbit for you guys, he has a very hot Irish accent. So that American accent that he’s doing on the show? Not the way he talks. That’s how good an actor he is. (more rambling about the hot accent) BB: But he plays a wonderful American accent and a tortured character who, I don’t know about you, but if I was his rebound girl I’d be pretty damn happy. SR: That’s what she says! BB: That’s what she says, even though she has that massive skin flap, which is really concerning… I love that, when she takes off her hat and it’s like… Meredith’s expression is like” OK, that’s so not right”, and she’s “What are you looking at?” SR: …. Just a piece of your head hanging off. You got a little something over there to the left… BB: Feel the wind rushing through? That would probably be it. I liked that hat though… SR: Well I spent a lot of time choosing hats too. BB: Well she had to have a hat that was big enough for a skin flap for God’s sake! SR: And that didn’t show the blood… and that looked like a hat that someone would really, really wear… There was a whole hat choosing process with Mimi our costume designer. BB: I liked the tan, we were actually going to don you in a tan. She actually went through a whole hat period, she starting playing round with the whole idea of wearing a hat, which I think would be awesome around the office, except, don’t you think it would be funny to walk in and you have a meeting with Shonda and she’s in a big-ass hat? Not like a casual cap… SR: …like a big giant wide-brimmed… BB: …Southern gothic, big hat with flowers on it or something… or maybe like a hippy hat. SR: Yeah, exactly. BB: But let me simply say that we actually jettisoned that plan. We didn’t end up going with the big hat look. Your hair looked really great the next day. SR: I stopped just short of wearing the hat and then my hair resolved so… BB: Your hair totally resolved itself, which is awesome. Just a little bit of personal sharing, because we know how special that is. SR: Speaking of hair though, people have different hair! Sloan is clean shaven, Karev has some spicy facial hair, and he does look very good with facial hair, and Izzie got a hair cut. BB: She did. She cut off all her pretty blonde hair. SR: Part of what was big about that was I wanted to really show that time had passed, and so I remember calling up Justin three weeks before we started shooting and I said “Start growing your facial hair!” And Katie wanted to cut her hair and I was like “Go for it!” So it actually turned out pretty good, because I felt like it enhanced that feeling that we had been away for a while. BB: So it’s about 6 weeks since we last saw our doctors at Seattle Grace. SR: Meredith sort of finds her ‘thing’ in this episode too, which was really important. I loved the idea that they were all participating so wildly in this contest and Meredith wins, only to realize that it’s not about the contest at all. For me that was what was interesting to see both her and Izzie trying to solve these medical mysteries, and Meredith… I don’t want to talk too much about it because you’ll watch it evolve over the next few episodes, but Meredith proposes this clinical trial to Derek and says “I think I’ve found a way to save lives”, which I think is going to be amazing. And Izzie is sort of left having lost but feeling bad about it, and I loved this feeling, that she was sitting in the clinic licking her wounds (animal instinct) when the Chief comes in and basically tells her that she was in a lion-fight. I loved his lines “The signs you bear are the signs of a competitor. You know you were in a lion-fight, even if you didn’t win doesn’t mean you don’t know how to roar.” To me, that was just amazing in terms of watching her evolution as well, realizing what this contest was about. Plus, she got to work with Cheech Marin who is wonderful. I couldn’t believe he said yes, I couldn’t believe he came in and did it, he was wonderful. BB: That incredible monologue, when he’s livid, which is just one of the best things ever and he’s such a good actor. You see the comedic side of Cheech a lot in things, but you really, really feel for this guy… SR: He’s a really fine actor. BB: Especially when he was getting his spinal tap. SR: … And he was all sad… and I loved the “Fluids and rest? FLUIDS AND REST??” He’s lovely and his part is funny and moving at the same time, which is great. BB: You know what I think is really important is throughout all this, Izzie honestly didn’t think she was abusing this patient, she honestly thought there might be something wrong with him. SR: Well, at the very least she convinced herself there was something wrong with him you know? BB: Well in her conscious she did, yeah. SR: And she was trying very hard to diagnose him and figure it out. And what else is going on is Hahn and Callie becoming better friends than they were when we last saw them just starting to become friends. They’ve been really hanging out together, which is a nightmare for Cristina, because the person she is friends with and roommates with is now best friends with the person who tortures her on a daily basis. BB: It’s pretty much worst case scenario. SR: And she can’t get in! She wants to figure out a way to get in to this nice thing that Callie’s got going, like she can be friends with her - I can be friends with her, maybe it’ll be good for me, and it just never happens. Which I love, I love to watch her fight it and be miserable. BB: What’s great is this is the one area where she really doesn’t have the skill-set, you know? She just bashes up against things, bashes her head against the wall and tries to get in. SR: Making the friends is something Cristina is really not very good at doing. BB: No, nor is she good at friendship subtleties, it’s pretty much just smack up against it… SR: It’s why she and Meredith get along so well. BB: Exactly. SR: They don’t DO any of the subtleties, they just… they are just out there. BB: I think it’s great for Callie, after going through everything she went through with George and wading through the McSteamy muck, that she actually… SR: To get to have a friend… BB: … and have some fun and hang out, and Addison left and Addison was a really good friend of hers, so I feel like it’s a great thing to be able to see the gals hang out and also see a more fun side of Dr Hahn, who can be a bit of a hard-ass, but… SR: It’s nice to see her lighter side and realize that even if she’s mean to Cristina, she’s not mean to everybody. BB: No, and by the way she wears a nice cocktail dress. SR: She does. BB: I noticed, and that black trenchcoat suit in the beginning when they both come in, they both look sort of smart. SR: And Rob was not happy about the costume budget that day. Good clothes though. BB: No, I bet he wasn’t. Rob Corn by the way… SR: Bossy McBossy… BB: Bossy McBossy, our Executive Producer/Director, he directed this episode and he’s kinda rockin’… SR: He’s not kinda rockin’ - he’s really rockin! He’s a rockstar. BB: OK he’s very rockin’, but we like to downplay it… if you’re listening Rob you’re not that rockin’ and wait till you see the cost and budget on the next one. Also we had a guest editor on this one too, Matt Ramsey (?), who’s editor on Private Practice now, used to be an editor on Grey’s but came over to help us out because we had a little pinch in the schedule, but he did an awesome job too. SR: He edited episode 3:09 of Grey’s, the big Cristina… blood… Macbeth episode, where she tells on Burke. So he knows what he’s doing. BB: He absolutely does, he’s a veteran of the wars and it was fabulous to have him back briefly. SR: One of my favorite things about this episode, and I think I’ve probably said that twice already but this is also one of my favorite things about this episode, is Lexie stealing things. Lexie steals things all throughout the episode. And I think my favorite moment is when she steals the painting off the wall! BB: I like “Ooh, fruitbowl!” SR: Yeah, that’s good too. BB: I think it’s really sweet at the very end when she says to George in the crapartment, “I’ve never stolen a thing in my life, I’ve never even stolen like a lipstick…” I don’t know. She’s really friggin’ good at it, and I think maybe denial runs in the Grey family, that’s all I’m gonna say, because she stole like a pro in this one - she’s stealing flowers from right underneath the nose of the person who got the flowers, which I was kind of like “That’s some bold movement.” SR: But I love that she and George are living in this horrible, hideous crapartment (we started calling it the crapartment the moment we came up with it), and there’s roaches everywhere and TR could not have been funnier having to faux-crush roaches, it’s very stressful for him. We literally put live roaches in the scene with the poor man. BB: They were not tiny roaches. SR: No, they were BIG roaches. They were huge. BB: I was appalled at the size of the roaches. The roachiness of the roaches was gross. SR: It was horrible. But it was awesome, because they do live on an interns’ salary and while Meredith may live in her mother’s house and Cristina and Callie may both have money, if you’re not living in Meredith’s house you don’t really have any place good to live. So I thought it was great that he was living in this crappy, crappy apartment. The other thing that’s new about this episode, if you’ll notice, is that Meredith is in therapy with Dr Wyatt, which we thought was interesting simply because I’ve always been very against the idea of people being in therapy but I felt like where we’re heading with Meredith, she had finally reached a point where it was fully and completely necessary for her character to go there. But I love that she comes in saying I’m not planning on talking, I read a study that I just have to sit here and I will have the same effects as if I had actually talked. This is great. It’s true, it’s really a study. It was really interesting to us. And then at the end she realizes that she better start talking because she’s got some problems. She likes the Der, and he’s with Rose. BB: He’s with Rose. You know I think it’s still going to be a little tough for her to talk. SR: Oh yeah, the talking’s not going to be easy. BB: By the way, if you’re going to walk in a door and your therapist is Amy Madigan you’d better start talking. Cos she’s great and you want to take advantage of whatever the heck it is she’s got to say. I think it’s going to be interesting and we’re going to see more of Dr Wyatt. Now, next week we have something kind of exciting and cool, which is… SR: … the appearance of Addison Forbes Montgomery! BB: There you go! She’s back! For one episode… she’s visiting. SR: She’s visiting. She’s doing some stuff that only Addison Forbes Montgomery can do, both surgically and personally. BB: Which means she’s wearing some smokin’ clothing and has some beautiful shoes on probably, as well as... SR: Laboutins. BB: She gets some Laboutins? SR: I saw them, and other things. BB: Damn, I wish I was her size. I know, right? I think it will be a great episode to watch because I think she brings some perspective back to Seattle Grace. SR: Which we would tell you more about but we can’t, you need to watch it, and we’ll talk to you about it afterwards. Meet us back here, right here, in this spot…. BB: … on the sofa. So, we’re looking forward to talking to you again next week, about episode 4:13. SR: 4:13 is called Piece Of My Heart, which is very ‘a propos’ actually, as all our titles are. BB: Yeah, exactly. It’s always based on the song title. SR: It only gets better. I’m Shonda… BB: I’m Betsy… “Grey’s Anatomy.” [size=14]-------------------------------[/size] [size=7]Season 4 .... Part 2[/size] Grey's Anatomy official podcast, April 9th 2008. 'Where The Wild Things Are.' Welcome back to the official 'Grey's Anatomy' podcast, hosted by ABC . It's been a while but we are finally back on the air Thursday, April 24th at 9 pm with a brand new episode called 'Where The Wild Things Are.' To prepare you for the final five episodes of the season, executive producers Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers are here tease what they're calling season four, part two. Enjoy! Hi! Hi! I'm Shonda. I'm Betsy. This is 'Grey's Anatomy!' Don't we sound perky? We sure do. We've been gone a while. We've been gone a while which clearly means that apparently there was a tiny bit of rest in there some place...I think. I think we've all been lying on beaches doing nothing. I think...I think probably that's just the case. Just waiting to turn over with little egg timers. Egg timers...yes. Do you have any egg timers? Yeah. It's a tan. A tan. I don't really remember that because it's not something my people do. That's actually true. It's not as relevant for you. It's not as relevant. It's very relevant for me because I burn easily. I spent several months walking back and forth in front of the place where I work holding a sign which is awesome. And from all reports you did a very, very good job holding your sign. Strikes over! The strike is over. We are all back to work. I think that worked out incredibly well for everybody because we're all back to work and very excited to be back at work. Yeah, I think the thing that everybody came to the conclusion was that everybody missed working, and the show and everything about the show. And especially having all of us in the office running around like chickens with our heads cut off. It was fun. Also, you know, it was just the amazingness of getting to really appreciate the work that you get to do when everyone suddenly...you know, the people that you see every day, constantly all day, every day were suddenly in different places doing different things and it was really nice for everybody to come back together. The cast were really excited, and the writers were really excited, and the crew was excited so it was really all very good. It does make you appreciate, and also I think for you guys it was like - especially for you - a time to totally get your head sort of together and rest a little bit and think about what is going on with the show, and where the shows going and you got all frisky and excited about stuff! I did. You got beside yourself with jumpiness. I hope you people at home took the opportunity to watch all 71 episodes of 'Grey's Anatomy,' because I know we did. Yes. We did, actually, which was amazingly helpful and interesting in seeing where the characters were going. So I think one of the cool things too is that...I mean, it was unfortunate and frustrating to get to eleven episodes and stop, in some ways. But it is so great to be able to come back and finish the season. In a weird way it was a gift. I'm sort of calling this part of the season 'season four part two,' because I feel like it is a very separate season from 'season four part one.' Um..and, you know, we only have five episodes to tie all our stories in, but I think they are pretty powerful stories. The plan for season four had been very, very sort of...clear and intricate, and that got interrupted when we went down. So to come back was to come back with a fresh start, and to look at everything differently. And in a weird way we had to re-adjust things, because you can't tell the same stories in five episodes that you could in say, ten or twelve. But you also have an opportunity to start new, and do some stuff that we never thought could be done before. Exactly. And for me, part of the break was realizing that not only could we get Meredith and Derek together for good, but we could do it in a way that is going to be really, really interesting. Absolutely. You hate that idea? Actually, I love that idea. You hesitated. I did hesitate, you know. You know how I feel about Meredith and Derek. Whenever I say Meredith and Derek getting back together for good she vomits just a little bit. That's really strange and nobody really knows why. It's very very odd. No, it's not really true. We actually both love Mer and Der, and I think it was really weird and liberating to come back and say, 'You know what? They're going to be together.' Yeah. We all know they are going to be together. They're going to be together, but get...you're going to get to watch how they get together...which I think is going to be really, really interesting. And the fun part is to watch how this all happens. And one of the things which I think is cool that you guys I think were planning on doing before the show went down, but I think it has really worked to your advantage that there is a little bit of a time gap between the last episode and this coming episode, which means that things...time has passed a little. I think we are saying it is about 6 weeks, because I feel like for the audience, for you guys there has been a gap and to come back and pretend like there was no gap feels sort of disingenuous. So, for me, there was definitely a sense of needing to put a gap in there, so we said that sort of five or six weeks have passed. And in the first episode when you come back it's pretty cool - Meredith and Cristina and Alex and Izzie are engaged in a pretty high stakes surgical contest that you guys are going to want to see. Absolutely, and George has also been through a few changes as well. They've all been through a few changes. What's great is that it has actually allowed the characters to have some other things happen to them so they grow up without you a little. Yeah, they grew without you. Things happened while you weren't looking, which I think is kind of great because I feel like that feels honest. We left Bailey at a really, really, really kind of crucial crossroads. Absolutely. Those last moments of the last episode that aired...um...it's not looking so good with Tucker. They were really kind of at odds there. Times are a little bit hard there. One of the other things that at least I know I'm looking forward to is the return of Addison Forbes Montgomery. Formally Addison Forbes Montgomery Shepherd...yes, indeed...is going to be paying us a little bit of a visit. I think she's got some issues that, you know, she's going to be working out as well. So it's going to be really really fun to see her in that context and, I also just think that between Erica Hahn (who's also going to be, sort of hitting a couple of strange and special issues coming up.) Yeah, there's going to be some interesting stuff going on with Erica Hahn, there's going to be some really interesting stuff going on with Callie. I can't tell you what those things are...no we can't...but they are really interesting, and juicy. And juicy, but...juicy is a good word. Juicy is actually a really good word. I mean, it sometimes refers to jeans and sweats but primarily it just refers to something which is sort of nice and...in our world it doesn't refer to clothing. No. See, there you go. I immediately went to the fact that I probably need some new pants. Anybody would like to send anything free to Betsy. Yes, because clearly that was...thanks so much, Shonda. We do this every once and a while, it's really helpful. Also, um, we're going to see some really interesting stuff going on for Alex. I think he's going to be facing some very interesting...Elizabeth Reaser who plays Ava/Jane Doe/Rebecca is going to come back to visit us and he's going to be having some really interesting stuff going on...that relationship is really going to come to a head in a way that's, I think, fairly surprising for the audience. Absolutely. Absolutely. We're going to see him go through some stuff. Cristina Yang has some stuff going on. We're going to enjoy seeing her do some stuff we've never seen her do before. That sounds dirty, but it's not. That did actually sound...It sounds vaguely dirty but it's not. There's going to be a lot of interesting medical stuff which is coming up. There's some stuff. As well. And it's interesting and good and sort of surprising and very intense. The Chief has some stuff. The Chief also has some stuff. Izzie has some stuff. Izzie also has some stuff. The George and Chief may have a little stuff. Which is good. There's some good stuff. Lexie...you know what? We're just naming characters here. We are. They have some stuff which is really, really great. But the reality of it is...we should name some old characters too...there's some good stuff. Exactly. There's some really good stuff. There's Doc, he was an old character. Denny was a character at one point too. Finn was a character. We can just keep naming characters but...I mean, we're being a little bit oblique because the next podcast we're actually going to discuss the episode after you see it, and it will give you a little more of a context. I mean, what we are trying to do now, here is give you a taste, a teaser, a little appetiser. A little aperitif. Perhaps we should act out a moment from the show. And I feel so bad for our listening audience. We're not going to do that. We're not going to reenact our favorite moments. I don't think...but maybe we should, at some point. At one point we will reenact our favorite moments. Maybe after the season finale. We will, huh? My favorite moments almost always involve moments with almost no dialogue, so...like Izzie crying in the bed with Denny. That would be good. You know we could just play the song...there we go...in the background. And then you guys could guess what scene took place in that song, because we'd just be staring at each other trying desperately to interact. It could be like a game. Like that great moment...there's so many moments that are wordless. That's good. Exactly. Wow. You guys must have really missed us, huh? I know you are feeling so disappointed right now, I know you are thinking to yourselves, 'Why, why am I listening to this podcast?' But you are listening to this podcast because it's the precursor, the prologue. This is the bridge, this is the bridge...to some amazing podcasts coming up. And also some really, really good television, because we have seen a little bit of it, and we think that it's going to be great. We think that it's going to be great. You don't even have to listen to us if you don't want to, but watch the episode. You know, it doesn't hurt sometimes just...we have things to say about them that might be interesting. We actually do. We actually do, and sometimes if you're just feeling lonely you can turn on the podcast and always hear babbling, which is good. I don't think we're good for the lonely people. You don't think so? No. Maybe, I think we exacerbate the loneliness in a strange way. Exactly. Because we sound so pathetic. But maybe we make them they feel lucky. You know what, that's what it is. We make you feel lucky that you are not us, that you actually have real friends. And then what happens is you call all your friends after you have listened to this and say, 'You know you're my friend.' Oh my god, yeah. See, we bring people together. This is Shonda. This is Betsy. This is 'Grey's Anatomy.' This post has been edited by jenlou1986 on Apr 11 2008, 01:46 AM


4.12 Where the Wild Things Are · SEASON 4