As everybody knows, although onscreen Grey’s Anatomy can be almost fatally tedious, off-screen Grey’s Anatomy is brilliant.
You want a comparison? OK. Onscreen, the latest episode of Grey’s Anatomy revolved around a bunch of doctors wondering who’d be asked to perform some surgery on a patient. For approximately the billionth time.
But off-screen? Off-screen the latest episode of Grey’s Anatomy revolved around dollop-faced actor TR Knight throwing the mother of all strops and walking off the show because nobody’s giving him the attention that he obviously deserves. See – which one would you watch? Oh, neither? Actually, us too.
We’d love to be a fly on the wall behind the scenes of Grey’s Anatomy. That’s mostly because we’d love to vomit on everyone’s lunch and give them all food poisoning, but because it’d allow us to see the extent of the rumours that the actors all hate the writers, the producers all hate the actors and the actors all hate each other.
It certainly seems that way, what with actors fighting, actors screaming homophobic slurs at each other, actors turning down awards because they thought their scripts were terrible and producers firing actors because everything was getting a bit gay. And now, the cherry on the cake – there’s been a Grey’s Anatomy walk-off.
TR Knight – who plays, um, someone on Grey’s Anatomy – has apparently decided to leave the show because producers refused to change the title of the show to The TR Knight Medicine And Meaningful Looks Hour, change all the characters’ names to ‘TR Knight’ and make everyone walk around the hospital in TR Knight masks singing a song of TR Knight’s composition entitled Ooh Yeah TR Knight Is So Flipping Great. Or, you know, something. People reports:
Why does Knight, who remains a fan favorite, want to leave? ?Have you seen the show lately?? says a source. Knight has received little screen time this season, with the show focusing on controversial storylines like the romance between Katherine Heigl’s Izzie and her long-dead lover, Denny.
We can’t help feeling that TR Knight is acting like a little bit of a petulant brat here. After all, Grey’s Anatomy is an ensemble show, and sometimes everyone can come to the forefront with a storyline about hardcore necrophilia. It happened with Cheers and it’s damn well going to happen with Grey’s Anatomy.
But still, you can see why TR Knight is so keen to quit Grey’s Anatomy – stars like Sandra Oh and Katherine Heigl and Patrick Dempsey have long since started to make the transition to movies, and there’s little doubt that TR Knight wants to follow suit.
True, he’ll have to wait until someone writes a movie script about a tubby-faced Little Lord Fauntleroy who looks like he’s about 12 years old, and then cross his fingers and pray that the director’s top 35 choices for the role all turn it down. But that day will come, we’re sure of it.
Gullyman says
So Funny, and so true.
Cindy says
I have to say that I think these actors act like spoiled brats. I guess I don’t understand the dynamics because I live in the real world, but if I have a job, I can’t belly ache and complain all the time to and about my boss, not without getting fired.
George (TR Knight) certainly hasn’t had great story lines as of late and his love interests have not panned out. But from the gossip mills out there right now, they state he hasn’t gotten them because he is griping and complaining to his bosses.
I think that the show does a great job of showing all the actors lives in the show and would do so for him if he behaved.
Of course none of these people live in the real world where employment is down, the economy sucks and we have to tow the line to keep our jobs.