[voiceover] We all remember the bed time stories of our childhoods. The shoe fits Cinderella, the frog turns into a prince, sleeping beauty is awakened with a kiss. Once upon a time and then they lived happily ever after. Fairy tales, the stuff of dreams. The problem is, fairy tales don't come true. It's the other stories, the ones that begin with dark and stormy nights and end in the unspeakable. It's the nightmares that always seem to become reality. The person that invented the phrase "Happily ever after" should have his ass kicked, so hard!
“Dream A Little Dream Of Me” · Season 5, Episode 1
In this episode: Meredith Grey (3), Derek Shepherd (1), Cristina Yang (1), Richard Webber (1), Mark Sloan (1), Erica Hahn (1)
[Seattle Grace has just been ranked 12th in the national rankings.]
Humiliating.
Yeah.
12? You're the best neurosurgeon in the country.
Thank you.
In the world. [Derek looks at him] Don't you want to say anything nice about me?
Uh, you're the best plastics guy at Seattle Grace.
[sarcastically] Nice, really nice.
Don't force me to praise you.
You know what I think? I think that number 12 ranking was a mistake. I think it was a clerical error and I'm gonna start making calls about it as soon as I get out of this surgery.
So, I've been observing teaching styles. Shepherd likes to teach by thinking out loud. Bailey is blunt and direct and doesn't over teach and Sloan, well, Sloan just likes to berate and humiliate.
I think if you really want to learn about teaching, you should talk to your students, find out how they learn best.
Mer, why do you care what I think?
Because you're my person. And if I'm gonna do this with him - be whole and healthy and be a warm, gooey person who lives with a boy, I need you. I need you on board. I need you to cheer me on. Because you're the only one who... knows me, darkly, really knows me. I need you to pretend that I can do this, even if you don't believe. Because if you abandon me now, I will never make it, and I'll never get my happy ending, and then that's just––
Life.
I'm saying please here.
I think you and Derek will make it. You'll make it work.
[voiceover] Once upon a time, happily ever after. The stories we tell are the stuff of dreams. Fairy tales don't come true. Reality is much stormier. Much murkier. Much scarier. Reality it's so much more interesting than living happily ever after.
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