I agree. She did have contact with a donkey, but it wasn’t what he thought, until she handed him the flier.
I’m still catching up on the characters…House fired Chase, Cameron quit, and now they’re an item? I know she was only interested in a friends with benefits relationship, but now they’re married? Living together?
I’d like to figure out how Chase went from being a diagnostician to a heart surgeon over the summer. That kid can really learn his medicine.
I think they’re living together but not married. Cameron works in the ER now and Chase seems to be a surgeon. Incidentally these two actors were engaged to each other briefly last year.
Some of the House/Wilson stuff was good, as always, but the episode overall stunk.
The one on Sunday night looks interesting. My DVR plans to record it from 9:15 - 10:15. I wonder what the chances are of it catching the whole thing properly without intervention?
And Jennifer Morrison/The Writers are really ruining Cameron on the days that she DOES have a line or two. They’re trying to make her all sharp, witty, sort of jaded…she thinks she’s hot stuff. I don’t like it at all. And I hate her blonde hair. Bleh.
I find it hard to find fault with my beloved House, so I won’t criticize. And while I found the whole “truth and nothing but the truth” thing a bit… tedious… I enjoyed House’s comments about how Garfield loves his lasagna.
Looking forward to after the football game 
If I could beg one thing of the writers/producers of House as this series move forward it would be to never…ever…no matter how many people beg for it while they mouth breathe their way to a Jeff Foxworthy marathon…never EVER do a Scrooge/House “three spirits=three patients” dumbass christmas episode.
EVER.
As I remember it, House noticed a St. Nicholas medal on the woman he assumed was a hooker. He went through a list of groups that claim Nick as their patron saint. He said she wasn’t any of those, and that left only prostitutes. She corrected him, saying he left out children. She danced around the hooker guess, not really saying.
By the way, pawnbrokers are on St. Nick’s list, and I think House missed them. The traditional three gold balls outside the pawn shop are a reference to Nick’s three little bags of gold.
Watching House go into a church as just… surreal.
Saint Nicolas patron Saint of
emphasis added.
She turned out to be an actress in a Nativity play. Funny after she had returned and House asked if she was in a ‘donkey show’ and she said yes as her new symptoms indicated close contact with a donkey. At the very end House comes to the church and you see her ride in as Mary on a live donkey.
But that doesn’t mean she couldn’t still be a prostitute. hooker with a heart of gold type stuff. If she’s NOT a prostitute, she’s a pretty creepy, hypersexual Sundy School Teacher.
She was flirting with a grown man. The ‘you left one out’ could have been that he left out ‘the falsely accused’ which also sticks with the theme of the episode as does her hiding her real ‘profession’.
She also pretty much admitted to being a prostitute during her return visit to the clinic. House asked her if her mother knew what she did for a living, and she said something along the lines of “No, I don’t see any reason to shame her just so that I can be self-righteous about it.” That’s still a little ambiguous, admittedly, but not very.
Yeah, I find it hard to believe that they would put a one off “joke” in the episode that would basically require all viewers (who aren’t rampant catholics) to go online, find out which “one” was left out and make the connection. I think she was a hooker who also loves the Lord. And she probably blew the donkey as well. :eek:
I interpreted it as a Sunday School Teacher, too (well, I did at the end; up until then I figured hooker).
I guess it’s pretty sad that none of you can even conceive of a hooker who may go to church.
Huh … I think the joke there is that in retrospect, it works whether she is a hooker or a Sunday school teacher. Maybe her mother is a hooker, and she feels it would be self-righteous if she went around saying “ya know, Mom, at least I have a respectable career.”
Didn’t House also say (during the first visit) that she got an AIDs test every 3 months? And that was one of his clues for guessing that she was a hooker?
Yeah, I can sort of buy that. “Self-righteous” struck me as an odd choice of phrase, even at the time. At the very least, I’m pretty sure it was deliberately made ambiguous.
However, our first alternative is a career Sunday school teacher who gets quarterly AIDS tests, immediately thinks “clap” and checks her privates when sores break out around her neck, and has the foresight to be wearing a medallion of the patron saint of the falsely accused when going to the clinic in advance of becoming the falsely accused.
Our other choice is a hooker participating in a church play.
If the writers wanted me to buy the first, they should have worked harder. Besides, I want her to be a prostitute because I want to see her hook up with House in later episodes – Jennifer Hall has a cute smile.
Concieve of, certainly but regularly attend and participate in Catholic mass? Not so much.
A pretty crappy effort that teetered dangerously toward the dreaded “Very Special Episode of House.”
I also find it phenomenally depressing to see Christmas episodes of a show in January, but that might just be me.