Grey's Anatomy

Season 9 Episode 18

Idle Hands

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Meredith freaks out when she hears all the conditions her baby could be born with as she finds out what the sex of her baby is. Callie and Arizona set another step in their post-plane-crash relationship and the new board finds out running things isn't as easy as they imagined.

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  • perfunctatory ...

    7.0
    Really kind of boring. One of those epis that move the story along but with no great revelations or gob-smacking teary or funny moments (well, aside from the marble!)
  • Amazing!

    10
    Very, very funny, warm, touching and exciting - it was a perfect episode. After all this drama this episode was fresh and entertaining. Everyone was great, Bailey fighting for money, April missing carnival, Cristina taking sweet revenge, Meredith and her baby (it's a boy!), and most of all Alex and Webber pranking that poor guy in pink scrubs. I loved it! More episodes like this, please!
Ellen Pompeo

Ellen Pompeo

Dr. Meredith Grey

Patrick Dempsey

Patrick Dempsey

Dr. Derek Shepherd

Sandra Oh

Sandra Oh

Dr. Cristina Yang

Chandra Wilson

Chandra Wilson

Dr. Miranda Bailey

James Pickens Jr.

James Pickens Jr.

Dr. Richard Webber

Sara Ramirez

Sara Ramirez

Dr. Calliope "Callie" Torres

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    • Meredith: (closing voiceover) At first, idleness can seem like a welcome distraction the troublemaking and the fun. Everyone needs some idle time to focus on something other than work. Even if it means focusing on something that's a little bit scary. Stepping back from work is the only way to get perspective. And it's only after we have everything in perspective that we remember where our hands truly belong.

    • Derek: How's the baby, still kicking?
      Meredith: Quiet now. Probably dead.
      Derek: Oh, Meredith, stop.
      Meredith: Well, I'm just kidding. Mostly.
      Derek: Really, I need you to stop.
      Meredith: Bad things happen, and it just makes me feel better to be prepared when they do.
      Derek: But you don't know how things are gonna turn out.
      Meredith: Right. Exactly what I'm saying.

    • Meredith: Ugh. Stop kicking in there. I mean, what are you, choking on your cord or something? Cristina, please talk to it. He or she.
      Cristina: Who?
      Meredith: The baby.
      Cristina: No.
      Meredith: The sound of my voice only makes it kick harder. For some reason, Derek can calm it down. Maybe you can, too.
      Cristina: You know, I'll talk to it when I see it. When she gets her first period. I'll take that off your plate. Or if it has a penis, I'll tell him not to think with it.

    • Meredith: (about her baby) Her eyesight is developing this week. Unless it's not. Unless she's blind.
      Derek: She's not blind. Or he's not. Or if he or she is blind, that's fine. Blind is fine.
      Meredith: What do we call it, it?
      Derek: One of us can say he, one of us can say she, and we're covered.
      Meredith: Well, no, because then it's gonna be born thinking one of us is always wrong. Well, maybe it can't hear anyway. Maybe it's deaf.
      Derek: Deaf is fine. Helen Keller went to Harvard, Meredith.
      Meredith: Okay, well, what if it's not fine? What if it's absorbed a twin body? Two heads, extra arms--
      Derek: Stop.
      Meredith: I'm just saying, if anyone's gonna have a baby with two heads and three arms and eleven toes, it's gonna be me.
      Derek: Would you just go to sleep? Please. Sleep.

    • Meredith: (opening voiceover) Work keeps our minds active. It keeps us out of trouble. When we're not working, our hands are idle, and the devil will find work for idle hands to do. And when you have an idle mind, well, that's the devil's playground, too.

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