The WORST episodes of Grey's Anatomy
Every episode of Grey's Anatomy ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Grey's Anatomy!
A drama centered on the personal and professional lives of five surgical interns and their supervisors.
#1 - Love in the Ice Age
Season 21 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/10/2025
Bailey welcomes a renowned surgeon, whom she greatly admires, to Grey Sloan to help on a challenging case. Meanwhile, Teddy, Owen, Jules and Ben team up to save the life of a patient who has been impaled by an ice pick.
#2 - Wedding Bell Blues
Season 19 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/18/2023
Simone’s wedding day arrives as Jo and Link’s relationship hits a major turning point.
#3 - Everything Has Changed
Season 19 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2022
After a long six months, Grey Sloan Memorial has reinstated its residency program. A group of talented and striving young interns has been recruited as the attending surgeons work to rebuild the program to its former glory. Meredith, still functioning as the interim chief, sees Nick for the first time since she rejected his offer to move to Minnesota. Meanwhile, Bailey tells Richard she is not ready to return to work; Levi works up the courage to break disappointing news to Jo, and things turn awkward when Link realizes he has met one of the interns already. With Amelia and Maggie’s help, the new doctors are thrown into their first day on the job dealing with injuries from a recent tornado.
#4 - Out for Blood
Season 18 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/26/2022
Due to a blood shortage, Grey Sloan Memorial is setting up a voluntary donation center. Meanwhile, Nick asks Meredith for help with his patient and Winston is hung up on his relationship with his brother.
#5 - Stronger Than Hate
Season 18 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/19/2022
A dinner party is thrown at the sister house in Nick’s honor. Meanwhile, Grey Sloan Memorial receives a victim of a brutal hate crime.
#6 - I'll Cover You
Season 18 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/12/2022
A former patient of Link’s, Simon, is in the ER with his pregnant wife; and Bailey receives an offer from Nick.
#7 - Should I Stay or Should I Go
Season 18 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/5/2022
Bailey faces an unhappy Catherine who is facing audits for several of her Foundation hospitals. Meanwhile, Addison is back at Grey Sloan; tensions rise between Meredith and Richard, and Owen returns to work.
#8 - Road Trippin'
Season 18 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/31/2022
Tensions at Grey Sloan Memorial rise as the effects of the physician shortage begin to show. Meanwhile, Meredith struggles to step away from work as she spends a sick day at home with Zola, and the hospital receives an unexpected visitor.
#9 - Legacy
Season 18 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/10/2022
While Meredith, Amelia and the team prepare for Dr. Hamilton’s long-awaited, groundbreaking surgery, Bailey receives an unexpected offer. Owen’s impatience makes him a difficult physical therapy patient, forcing Link to intervene. In Minnesota, Nick makes a liver transplant a teaching moment.
#10 - It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
Season 18 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/16/2021
The doctors of Grey Sloan Memorial celebrate the holidays; Hamilton and Meredith prepare for a milestone on their project; Link wants to spend the holiday with Amelia and Scout as a family; Schmitt is faced with a difficult decision during surgery.
#11 - Today Was a Fairytale
Season 18 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/9/2021
Dr. Hamilton takes his frustrations out on Meredith, so Nick gives her a chance to blow off steam by scrubbing in on a surgery. Back in Seattle, Link and Jo take their kids to a fairytale theater performance that goes wrong. Bailey and Dr. Lin attend a recruitment fair in hopes of attracting more doctors to Grey Sloan but find themselves ill-prepared.
#12 - Save the Last Dance for Me
Season 16 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/13/2020
DeLuca can’t figure out what’s going on with his incurable patient Suzanne and he turns to a diagnostics genius, Dr. Riley from UCSF, for help. Bailey checks in on Joey, a foster kid that Ben brought into Grey Sloan. Meanwhile, Amelia is getting the results of her paternity test and Jo confronts her about how she is treating Link.
#13 - No Time to Die (2)
Season 18 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/24/2022
The Grey Sloan Memorial doctors grapple with the aftermath of the car crash that involved some of their own; Meredith works to save Dr. Hamilton's life. Levi is impacted from his latest loss. Part 2 of a crossover with “Station 19” which starts on S05E09 ”Started from the Bottom”
#14 - In My Life
Season 17 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/25/2021
After a heart-wrenching loss, Teddy struggles to cope and it triggers memories of her past; Amelia tries to help the situation by encouraging Owen to accept and forgive Teddy.
#15 - Don't Stop Me Now
Season 13 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/27/2017
Bailey and April work to fix things between Richard and Catherine; Eliza continues to pursue Arizona; one of Alex's previous patients returns to Grey Sloan.
#16 - Back Where You Belong
Season 13 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/23/2017
Alex returns to the hospital and discovers a lot has changed since he left. Meanwhile, Jo has to make a difficult decision on a case, and Arizona tries to distance herself from Eliza.
#17 - Winning a Battle, Losing the War
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/10/2005
A bike race injures several pedestrians as well as well as participants. One pedestrian is left brain dead. Christina and Issie wish to use his organs for organ donation but with Christina's detachment and Issie's ever hopeful attitude that the man will recover, they will find the organ harvesting process an emotional one. Preston faces feelings of his dislike of organ harvesting - as a surgeon, he likes saving lives; harvesting organs doesn't save the person's life. George deals with Mac, a friend of the chief, who won't stop flirting with him. He is in need of a new liver. Meredith is fed up with Alex showing off as she continues trying to push Derek away. She also is reaching the limits of Issie's sunshine and George's politeness as she goes on living with them. Then there is their desire to see Meredith's mother's medical tapes. Getting through the day, Meredith realizes the keys to winning the race.
#18 - Tell Me Sweet Little Lies
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/22/2006
Meredith and Cristina lie to each other and themselves about their relationships with McDreamy and Burke, respectively. George is given a hard task to expel a discharged and defiant woman from the hospital. Alex learns his fate after re-taking his medical exams. At the same time Izzie is trying to stop Alex from making stupid decisions when a patient that doesn't speak English is lied to by her coach. George, Cristina, and Alex compete in a hot dog eating competition.
#19 - Leave a Light On
Season 16 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/5/2020
Bailey and Ben face a huge, life-altering decision, while Meredith, Jo and Bailey reflect on their past.
#20 - Take Me to the River
Season 22 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/26/2026
Bailey and Blue are forced to confront the emotional costs of experimental care. Meanwhile, Owen, Teddy, Simone and Dani help out at a busy rural hospital, and Richard attempts to spread information about early prostate screenings to the community.
#21 - Goodbye
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/2009
Everyone is struggling after losing one of their own and are turning to any distraction they can find. Meredith and Derek seem to be consummating their marriage anywhere and everywhere, while Cristina and Owen have been instructed to abstain from sex by Dr. Wyatt.
#22 - Map of You
Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/2013
Derek and Callie work on a brain mapping project, Richard encourages the interns to use his physical condition as a learning tool and after a discussion with Callie, Meredith considers continuing her mother’s research. Meanwhile, Shane continues to feel guilty about Heather’s death.
#23 - Here Comes the Flood
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2008
When the plumbing springs a leak, chaos breaks out at Seattle Grace as the Chief tries to put in place new teaching methods. Meanwhile, George takes his residency exam; and Derek attempts to get Meredith's roommates to move out, much to their surprise.
#24 - Much Too Much
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/2005
Dorie Russell is waiting for quintuplets, all 5 girls. Her husband seems more concerned than she is but she is set to bring her babies to their term of 36 weeks. All the departments are on call for the quintuplets as three of them have developped problems of different kinds. Meredith last night's stand shows up at the hospital with priapism and they need to call Derek Sheperd for a consult which puts Meredith in a very embarassing position. Alex and Derek must take care of a patient who has a tumor inducing thirst as a side effect. On the love side, Alex and Izzie are having some slight sexual problems, while Meredith goes on adding one night stands and Cristina is thrown off course by being "keyed."
#25 - The First Cut Is the Deepest
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/3/2005
The surgical staff tries to be optimistic as a young woman clings to life after a brutal attack. Meanwhile Meredith puts her career on the line to save a newborn in the hospital nursery, and the other interns learn that it takes more than just medical knowledge to be good at their jobs.