Grey's Anatomy/Awesome
- George O'Malley's very calmly delivered speech to a white supremacist paramedic is all the more awesome for the circumstances that surround it. It's given very quietly, very passively and slightly homicidally as he changes the dressing on the supremacist's wound. It's even more dramatic when you consider the first tenet of medicine is do no harm and the entire plot-line is whether or not you should let a patient's behavior dictate the care you give. George would.
George: Well, Dr. Bailey did save your life today. A black woman saved your life at great personal cost. So maybe next time you're looking at your tattoo, and you're thinking how much better all us white guys are than everyone else, you think about that. Because between you and me, if I had been alone in that O.R. You'd probably be dead right now. (Leans in)And, uh, since we're sharing belief systems, I believe, if you were dead, the world would be a better place.
- In the Season Two finale:
Adele: How dare you send those kids away. I just told my sister her baby's cancer's back, you're damned right I'm emotional. If you don't want to bend your precious rules for Camille, fine. Don't do it for her, do it for me. Do it for your wife who says nothing about your long hours, who looks the other way while you have an affair with another woman, who sobers you up when that woman left you, who stayed with you when everyone -- EVERYONE -- said I would be better off alone. I am not asking you, I am telling you. You're gonna make this up to Camille. You're going to prioritize the needs of your family over those of your other patients. Or. You're gonna find a new place to sleep.
- Christina telling Meredith at the beginning of Season 5 what most of us have been thinking for years in one little speech… which is unfortunately undercut by the immediate Laser-Guided Karma that follows. Can be seen here.
- In "The Time Warp" Bailey is shown to have been awesome even as an intern when she chews out her Jerkass attending for being too eager to operate instead of looking at the patient's history and symptoms properly.
- The Season Six Finale brought with it quite a few of these, for quite a few characters. Special mentions go to Cristina, who manages to continue operating on Derek while a gun is to her head, among other things, and Dr. Webber for Talking the Monster to Death.
- Teddy gets one too, when she blocks the cop trying to stop Owen from running back in to the hospital to be with Cristina.
- As does Jackson, who unplugs Derek from the monitor when the shooter is taking out Owen, thus fooling him into thinking Derek has died.
- George saves a patient in the elevator after earning the nickname 007.
- In season 7 episode 11 "Disarm" Christina comes out of her Heroic BSOD and performs a major surgery in the field.
- The "letter of recommendation" Bailey delivers about Meredith in the season eight premiere.
- Season eight, episode four, Owen ordering an OR for a broken jaw, then producing said broken jaw by knocking a man twice his weight unconscious in one punch. Then later on explaining to him that no, he won't apologise, and that hurting his patients and his staff is not acceptable. All after being made Chief of Surgery a few episodes prior. Papa Wolf or what?
- Towards the end of Season Eight, the five residents have to take their Board Exams, and April, err, let the stress get to her. Resulting her attacking a cocky rival via body blow. And starting a barroom brawl. Who'd've thought that tiny thing had it in her?