No amount of death, gore, or marital infidelity could have prepared me for this.

Then came “Song Beneath the Song,” like a televised metal pole through the abdomen.įor 44 minutes, I sat slack-jawed in my living room watching surgery set to (mostly but not exclusively) the kind of late-aughts soft rock (Snow Patrol, the Fray, Anna Nalick) that I’d been too embarrassed to admit I’d listened to in college. After seven and a half seasons, I was starting to wonder what the show could possibly be building to that could top the post–Super Bowl bomb squad episode, or George O’Malley’s fatal bus accident, or the one where Ron Butterfield from The West Wing shoots up the hospital. I first started watching Grey’s Anatomy on Netflix years after this episode aired, on the recommendation of a friend, and in the months after, said friend kept asking if I’d reached the “very special episode” yet. “Song Beneath the Song” is, of course, the much-discussed (and much-maligned) musical episode of Grey’s Anatomy, in which one of the most emotionally pointed events of the show’s run is accompanied by members of the cast performing non-diegetic covers of songs that had appeared previously in the show. And as the camera pans over Callie’s bloodied body, we see a silent and unscathed Ghost Callie standing over the scene.

The early prognosis is dire: It’s Ramirez who does the episode-opening narration, which is usually performed by Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey. As the episode picks up, we learn that Callie, who wasn’t wearing a seat belt, went through the windshield. Then, before Callie can answer, Arizona drives into the back of a truck.īut the real shocking moment didn’t come until the start of the following episode, “Song Beneath the Song,” which premiered 10 years ago Wednesday. The short version is: They’re in a relationship, Callie’s pregnant, and Arizona proposes to her. The two had recently broken up and … actually, this being Grey’s Anatomy, the backstory is complicated and involves lots of sleeping around within the workplace. Then there’s Season 7, Episode 17: “This Is How We Do It.” This episode advances several major Grey’s plot threads-Derek and Meredith’s Alzheimer’s trial Richard and Adele’s complicated marriage the weird Mark-Lexie-Jackson thing and more-but it ends with Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez) and Arizona Robbins (Jessica Capshaw) driving together in the car. This is not a show for the squeamish or jumpy. One of the series’ best episodes involves two people getting impaled on the same metal pole. Across 17 seasons, ABC’s prime-time medical drama has put its leads through plane crashes, bombings, mass shootings, car accidents, and multiple interrupted weddings. Grey’s Anatomy knows how to shock people.

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