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Turns out, the nerds and copycats are prevailing on Survivor: Shark Jump Island this season! Who’da thunk it? We watched the first half of the show and taped My Name Is Earl, and boy am I glad we did, because I got to see Bahston Rahcky and “Boo” and for some reason, this is the season of the “nickname”. I literally laughed out loud when Jeffy told Bahston Rahcky to “Just pick one” when smahrt-ass Rahcky said he had lots of nicknames.

Sadly, The Architect, who divvied up the teams, was the first one to head to Exiled Snake Island…and…that’s when we flipped over to The Office, where we finally got to see Phyllis and Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration get married at…Pam’s wedding. That’s right. Everything from the food (”I sent the chicken back.” “That was fish.”) to the colors to the wedding dress to the flowers to the invitations to the band (yay! Scrantonicity!) was the same as Pam had planned for her wedding with Roy.

And…how awesome was Roy last night? I was gunning for Pam and Jim all last season because Roy was an overstuffed wad, but this year…Roy’s a changed man. He likes Pam’s art, he admits he wasn’t “there” during the planning…then he slips the band a twenty to play “their” song. That’s awesome…and the look on Jim’s face when Pam & Roy left the reception hand in hand? Priceless.

THEN…I flip over to Grey’s Anatomy, and a ferry catches on fire in Seattle, because it has been hit by a cargo boat. In retrospect, this is frighteningly ironic because when CU and I were floating over to Bainbridge Island, I saw a cargo boat in the distance and said to him, “I hope that doesn’t hit us. That would suck.” No joke. You can ask him.

What did you all think of Grey’s last night? Other than the scene in the elevator when Addison tells the Jerky Boys to lay off the Chief’s new hair color and the final scene where Meredith is knocked over into the Sound and the little girl just walked away…was it as dramatic or heart-wrenching as I think the writers intended? Or, was it a pale attempt to up the ante on last year’s bomb-blast episodes? The fact they’re dragging this into three episodes, I’m sure, means the fun and games have just begun but…having just closed out a 3-episode story arc on Studio 60…I’m already wanting things to wrap up.

Personally, I liked the non-crisis storylines the best…Callie and Sydney competing, it appears, for Chief Resident…McDreamy telling Meredith he is, in fact, her “knight in shining whatever” and McSteamy continuing to bring the funny by blurting out, “YOU AND YANG ARE GETTING HITCHED?” while Burke and Derek share a tender moment of sharing and confiding. Speaking of Burke and Yang, CU hasn’t decided which couple-name he likes best…Bang or Yurke. I like Prestina.

As far as disaster-themed episodes of medical dramas go, I thought the one where the plane crashed in downtown Chicago last season on ER was better. I bought Neela practicing triage a lot more than our quirky quartet…although I guess I should cut them some slack because Neela wasn’t an intern who had just consumed the entire contents of her refrigerator, flirted with an attending, tried to drown herself in a tub this morning (”I did NOT try to drown myself.”) or attempted to navigate the confusing waters of newlywedworld. Oh wait…Neela’s done two of those things.

Maybe next week, the ferry will actually sink…and no one will be able to find Meredith. It’ll be like that scene in Titanic, only with better music.

Side note: I just finished listening to the ABC official Grey’s Anatomy podcast…and Shonda Rhimes & Betsy Beers said if you miss next Thursday’s episode, you’ll be really, really sorry. Once again, the biggest Grey’s episode of the season, and CU is out of the country. I think he has wi-fi in his room though, so I’ll send him 200 reminder emails to download it from iTunes on Friday.