Private Practice: The Other Side of This Life (Parts 1 & 2)

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Unknown or never aired

Production Code

001

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  5 Mediocre

  I don't know what 'Jumps the Shark' means and that sums up this pilot - I had absolutly no idea what it was doing. Released as a couple of Greys episodes, many viewers also had no idea that it was a pilot for a forthcoming spin-off series. hide show

  Addison Shepherd is a gynecologist at Grey's hospital in Seattle who has arrived at a private medical practice in California. She is old friends with some of the staff there and is there to try and get pregnant. Not in the usual way of course but artificially. The show is mainly a vehicle for introducing the new cast and as that is done we discover that Addison is in fact barren and will not be having children after all but the good news is that she is offered a job in the practice. As a couple of Grey's episodes this was a disaster but reviewing it as a potential new show in its own right, well, maybe. I'll see how it goes but I doubt that it will get into a second series, I just can't see the potential for catchy storylines here.

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• Guest Cast

  • Shavon Kirksey Maya
  • Jane Clark Nurse
  • Bellamy Young Kathy
  • Cameron Watson Rick
  • Becky Wahlstrom Lisa
  • Stephanie Niznik Carol
  • Raphael Sbarge Paul
  • David Anders Lisa's Husband
  • Tsai Chin Helen Rubenstein
  • Diahann Carroll Jane Burke
  • Gary Hershberger Doug
  • Parisa Fitz-Henley Cammi
  • Mandy Siegfried Molly Thompson
  • D.W. Moffett Alan
  • Chris Lowell William "Dell" Parker
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• The languages spoken by Ava during surgery were spanish, french and german. [edit]
• When George enters the elevator, he presses the button for the 5th floor and Izzie is waiting to get off at the 4th. Although, when the elevator opens on the 4th floor, George gets off and she stays on it. [edit]
• When Ava was in surgery, she said "Alex, ich brauche die nächste Karte. Das ist noch das Haus." Translated from German, that roughly says "Alex, I need the next card. This is still the house." [edit]

• Isaiah Washington (Burke (receiving the "Starring" credit)) and Mare Winningham (Susan (receiving the "Guest Starring" credit)) received the "With" credit.
  
  Patrick Dempsey (Derek (receiving the "Starring" credit)) and Diahann Carroll (Jane Burke (receiving the "Guest Starring" credit)) received the "And" credit.
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• Kate Walsh (Addison) and Tim Daly (Pete) also worked together in a few episodes of The Fugitive, and, in the episode "Wings" of Eyes. [edit]
• Kate Walsh (Addison) and Paul Adelstein (Cooper) also worked together in the episode "Meat Market" of Cupid. [edit]

• Addison: I just never thought about it... What the dream would be if... I couldn't have my dream.
  Naomi: Empty office.
  Addison: Yeah, what're we doing? I thought we were going to lunch, what're we doing still sitting here?
  Naomi: We are doing what I do when I get depressed. Just wait. (looks at her watch) What time do you have?
  Addison: It's five to one. You know, I'm glad that I can't have a child. With my luck I'd probably have a kid with two heads... It's actually better. I'm grateful that I don't have to think about it, the option is off the table.
  Violet (walks in): What time do you have?
  Naomi: Five to one.
  Addison: You people are obsessed with time.
  Violet (sits down): Here he comes. (Dell walks in shirtless, carrying a surf board)
  Naomi: Hi, Dell. (they all stare for a long moment)
  Violet: Have a nice surf.
  Dell: I'll see you guys after lunch. (leaves)
  Addison (laughs): You two should be ashamed of yourselves.
  Naomi: Admit it, you feel better.
  Violet: And if not, there's another showing in an hour. And it's wet. [edit]
• Violet: Theorpy sucks.
  Pete: Said the shrink.
  Violet: No, I mean my practicular brand of theorpy might actually be full of crap. People talking about their problems endlessly, telling people to think positively, visulize their destiny...
  Pete: It doesn't work?
  Violet: I think positively, I visulize my destiny, and look, just look.
  Pete: What am I lookin' at?
  Violet: Me, and my pathetic miserable existance. He left six months ago. He was a loser! Do you know he peed a little bit every time he coughed? Like an incomptent old woman. He smelled like pee. And there I was in the car crying, and I am a serious feminist. Not to mention, my no sex couple, it turns out it was a hormone thing. In the old days we would've talked and talked and talked as Paul got sicker. My profession is becoming irrelivant. Maybe it's a good thing.
  Pete: People should just tell the truth to the other people in their lives.
  Violet: They can't. If they could, we'd all be healthy.
  Pete: Like me.
  Violet: You're not heathly, you're in denial.
  Pete: I am not in denial.
  Violet: You're in denial and you're angry. You're the angriest man I know.
  Pete: Is that why you won't sleep with me?
  Violet: You're in denial, you're angry and you use sex as a weapon to deflect it. [edit]
• Bailey (to George who is laying in one of the clinic's beds): You sick, O'Malley? (he sits up and she feels his forehead) You feel fine. Now take an asprin and get off my clean bed.
  George: You've been married a long time, right?
  Bailey: O'Malley, I do not have time to answer --
  George: Do you have doubts about your marriage? I know it may be insecurities, but really serious doubts? [edit]

• Addison: Are you there Elevator God? It's me, Addison.
  
  This alludes to the novel, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, written by Judy Blume. The novel is about Margaret, a pre-teen who is undergoing puberty. [edit]
• Pete: Unless you need to tell someone you saw Goody Johnson with the devil.
  
  This refers to The Crucible, an Arthur Miller play. It is about the Salem Witch Trials of the late 1600's. [edit]
• Episode Title: The Other Side Of This Life.
  
  The title of this episode refers to songs by David Byrne, Peter, Paul & Mary and Jefferson Airplane. [edit]