I Am A Tree
Friday, September 29, 2006 at 08:45am by freakgirlTwo things about last night’s Grey’s Anatomy:
1) What does the title mean? I am a tree? What?
2) My TiVo cut off at the end! What happened immediately after ___________ walked out of the shower?
3) How dumb is George that he would even think Meredith’s tiny little panties would, in any universe, fit Callie?
1. Kerry said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 9:08 am )
2) Derek sat on the bed, took the glass from Addison’s hand, drained it, and said “I feel better now.” Then he got up and left.
2. freakgirl said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 9:09 am )
That’s awesome.
3. mamaloo said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 9:22 am )
“I Am A Tree” is a Guided By Voices song. Perhaps there is a connection? Here are the lyrics:
I am a tree – I show my age when I dont cry
I have the leaves that will fall off when wind blows by
Dont strip off my bark – I have been stripped of it before
Yesterdays gone and tomorrow has so much more in store
You are a bird – youre taking off in every way
Say the last word until there is nothing more to say
Dont interrupt – you know the squirrels are my friends
Get off my limb – for I will break before I bend
Im planning to see
Im planning to feel you all over me
So climb up my trunk and build on your nest
Come and get the sap out if me
I am a tree!
Fruitless and free!
No symmetry!
Touch me and see!
I am a tree – counting my rings will do no good
I wont live long but I would be with you if I could
When you take flight, remember me to one who lives there
Since you have flown, theres something special in the air
(re-zoom/busy signals from the home front)
4. Soosan said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 9:36 am )
“I am a Tree”
Just a hunch, but I think it relates also to the patient who had a tree sticking through his abdomen….
5. freakgirl said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 9:39 am )
Soosan. Oh my god. I can’t even believe I didn’t make that connection. I should just stop watching television right now.
6. Soosan said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 10:13 am )
…and make cupcakes full time???? pretty please???
7. freakgirl said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 10:46 am )
Ha ha! I wonder how long it would take me to start hating cupcakes.
8. Soosan said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 10:56 am )
You’d be dropping them off at the local bar, a la Lizzie and the muffins
9. freakgirl said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 11:30 am )
Or, Izzie.
10. Soosan said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 12:00 pm )
You know.. I knew that sounded wrong, but I just went with it. I must have been channeling my closet love for Lizzie McGuire!
11. AMG said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 12:06 pm )
My husband wrote that song. Seriously.
The patient with the tree – obviously, that what the title referred to. But I think that the tree metaphor also applies to Izzie, post-Denny.
12. freakgirl said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 12:29 pm )
Your husband wrote that song? How cool.
13. anna kathryn said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 1:22 pm )
pretty sure the writers were also going for the metaphor — the father felt responsible for the son’s injury, i.e. felt like the tree in his son; Bailey felt responsible for Izzie’s huge blunder, i.e. she’s the metaphoric tree in Izzie. did that come out making sense?
I think I had a heart attack when McSteamy came out of the bathroom, hilarious with the ACTUAL STEAM.
dating both men? wtf? I guess it makes sense, but seriously? Finn? he’s so lame. And my fiance is like a real-life Finn. But that is way boring on tv. And I, you know, love my fiance and Mere so clearly does not find Finn all that desirable.
So glad Callie is moving out of her creepy lair. Loved her last week and this week, and we HATED her last season.
anyone catch the CTV preview for next week? it’s a little more revealing than the ABC one(though it’s clearly a dream sequence).
14. mamaloo said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 1:26 pm )
Why, as I live an breathe! It’s Mrs. Gillard! Funny running into you around here! Come visit over on my blog sometime and catch up. I miss you, my dear.
15. freakgirl said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 1:54 pm )
I didn’t get to see any previews.
Meredith so cleary WANTS to love and desire Finn. I can’t believe these guys are going to have to compete for her heart. BLAGH.
She totally should’ve pulled the old Kelly Taylor “I Choose Me” option. Of course, then we’d have to watch her pretend to knit another ugly sweater again all season.
16. Cheri said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 3:09 pm )
Every Grey’s episode has a song for a title so it kind of makes me wonder… do they think of a song first and sort of write an episode around the theme of the song or do they just find a song that seems to fit or is it just coincidence… or?
I thought the same thing about the panties and not fitting Callie. But George is pretty clueless. But here’s a tiny thing that bothered me… would it have been too much for Meredith to have actually THANKED Callie for claiming the panties? I would have been thanking her profusely every time I saw her.
17. Kerry said ( Friday, September 29, 2006 at 3:44 pm )
I loved that Alex has apparently dropped out of Alanon and gone back to his angry Manslut ways.
I also loved Daddy Burke’s “Hang in there” to Christina at the end. It’s going to be funny if she realizes the way around Mama is to out-Southern/traditional Korean her.
18. Michael said ( Saturday, September 30, 2006 at 5:31 am )
If I had McSteamy’s body, I’d always wear just a towel.
19. sar said ( Saturday, October 07, 2006 at 12:38 am )
i just got around to reading this, and there is a reason you’ll always be my favorite, FG. and that reason is #3.