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Grey’s Anatomy on ABC

A new viewer would need an organizational flow chart to understand the complexity of sexual relations at Seattle Grace Hospital.  Love triangles?  That’s bush-league stuff.  On Grey’s Anatomy (normally on Thursdays, 9:00 p.m. ET), it’s more like love dodecahedrons.  Usually, the manifold sexual hijinks among the show’s crack surgical team don’t warrant much attention in this column; but this week, the decidedly mature content of the medical soap opera aired at 8 p.m. instead of its regular 9 p.m. timeslot.  For airing racy content during the Family Hour, the January 23^rd rerun of Grey’s Anatomy has been named Worst TV Show of the Week.

At Seattle Grace, no matter what’s going on in the operating room, the surgeons really have only one thing on their minds.  Thus, the show opens with Miranda teaching her colleagues how to perform a new surgical procedure.  But Callie leaves because she has a headache and needs coffee.  As she rises, her girlfriend, Arizona, whispers into her ear, “I have a cure for a headache that doesn’t involve coffee.” 

Meanwhile, Meredith walks into her guest room and finds Alex and Lexie in bed together after a night of drunken sex.  Meredith is upset because Alex’s wife, Izzie, is returning after months of being missing-in-action and Lexie just broke up with Mark (who incidentally slept with Addison during a cross-over, cross-copulation episode with Private Practice).  Meredith chastises Alex for cheating on his wife, despite the fact that her current husband, Derek, cheated on Addison, his wife at the time, and Meredith was his mistress.  Confused yet?  Perhaps the following bit of dialogue will explain how these characters continually find themselves in the same revolving door of sexual partners:

Meredith: “Izzie leaves and Mark gets a kid and you two decide that the best way to deal is to mash your genitals together?”

Alex: “No freaking way you get to judge us! Or give relationship advice! Besides, you were like a total dirty mistress like two weeks ago.”

Lexie: “Are we calling me a dirty mistress?”

Meredith: “That was two years ago and his wife didn't have cancer!”

Lexie: “Because I've only been with like six guys in my whole life. Okay, Alex and I, we've done it before. That was recycling. It was like good for the environment.”

Alex: “Izzie's gone. I was horny. She was there.”

Lexie: “Oh crap, I am a dirty mistress. Oh god, you're going to tell Derek and then Derek's going to tell Mark that I'm a whore!”

Mark really has no right to call anyone a whore...nor do any of the characters on this misbegotten show. 

Nevertheless, the amount of sleeping around on Grey’s Anatomy is mind-boggling – and much of it happens at the work place.  For example, Callie and Arizona are shown making out hot n’ heavy in the on-call room.  Arizona caress Callie’s backside.  As they grope one another, Arizona tells Callie, “You’re hot.”

Callie responds, “You’re hot, too.”

Arizona, “No, you’re hot hot…You have a fever.”

As it turns out Callie has chicken pox – perhaps the only infectious disease that would have stopped them from pursuing their passion.  Who says the characters on Grey’s Anatomy don’t practice safe sex?

All of this happens within the first ten minutes of the show at the very beginning of the Family Hour.  Perhaps broadcasting a rerun one hour earlier than normal doesn’t seem all that terrible.  Broadcasters are quick to point out that with the advent of digital video recorders and online content, viewers watch shows whenever they want.  According to the networks, the Family Hour is an antiquated notion. 

But if broadcasters feel that the Family Hour is pointless, then family programming in general suffers.  After all, they aren’t going to program family-friendly shows for at 10:00 p.m. any time soon.  Once families lose the Family Hour, you can bet that all family programming is sure to follow. 

For strong sexual content at an inappropriate timeslot, Grey’s Anatomy has been named Worst TV Show of the Week.