Can you explain the salt joke?
The other comment was good. I wanted to make the same, but I couldnt remember the characters name.
I really, really enjoyed this episode. Pure awesomeness. It’s now my new favorite episode - about halfway through it topped the charity poker event episode.
Based on the way they’re developing the characters, I’d say we’re going to get Bitchy Woman, Mormon Guy, and Old Guy as our new team. But I could be wrong, and I hope I am.
Could someone tell me what the 2001 reference was? I must have missed that.
While freaking out or hearing with her eyes… The whole sequence including the heavy breathing, visuals, music and some of the reaction shots were reminicent of David Bowmans trip into (?) teh Monolith in 2001
When the stranger in his office told him she was in training to be an astronaut, House had to come up with something to one-up her, so he claimed to have done something completely absurd.
IIRC, he said that right after the patient said “I’m in line to be an astronaut”. It sounds like House just took some random accomplishments that aren’t true and threw them back at her indicating he didn’t believe her. Which is silly, since House never believes anyone. 
During the patient’s synthesezia (there’s no possible way I spelled that right) episodes, the visuals were reminiscent of the “entering the monolith” sequence near the end of “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Especially the bit where they had a close-up of her eye, she’d blink, and the color filter changed.
My favorite part:
House: [to Kumar / Taj, aka #6] You’re fired!
Later…
House: Didn’t I fire you?
Kumar / Taj: No, you fired #6. I’m #9.
His number card has obviously only been flipped upside-down. 
He got fired again, but got back into House’s good graces by giving the “get her drunk” suggestion to diagnose for potential liver problems. I’m curious to see if he survives the final winnowing down (I’m assuming next week).
Oh, right.
That FM radio line is also related to Tesla, like the scribbling on the blackboard.
Riiiight. I knew that, I swear. >_>
And “Tesla Was Robbed!!!” was brilliant. Dunno who put it there or why, but it was perfect.
I feel rather good that I actually understood the physics joke.
I liked the old fellow.
What sort of accent was emanating from that one dark-haired woman? Icelandic?
That’s not so good. Once she got a space shuttle assignment, her name would be in the news and one of the docs could, patient confidentiality be damned, rat her out.
I really really really hope they hire “Kumar” and at some point House calls him “Kumar” as a nickname just to be funny.
I love Kumar, hope he stays. Having the old guy stay as an assistant/ minion could prove interesting. However I hate hate hate hate bitchy blonde applicant - even more than the Mormon, amazingly.
Sure don’t mind having Chase back, esp. if he doesn’t do much and we just get to look at him.
What with the Tesla reference, the physics joke, the twins, and other such stuff going on, I wondered if they were doing an inside joke about LOST.
Have you watched Chuck, the new show with Adam Baldwin? Very funny and unexpected random LOST reference in the pilot - it made me giggle, and I seldom giggle.
Can you name one space shuttle astronaut from the last 10 years?
I don’t think she’d have much to worry about there.
Does a hyperbaric chamber really look like that? Two whole rooms are pressurized? (The door was open when she was undergoing the treatment, so we have to assume the adjacent room was also pressurized.)
And why was there a defibrillator in the chamber if you’re not supposed to use one there?
Recognizing obscure actresses from other TV shows:
I just realized that the Bitchy Blond was the actress who played Alby’s evil wife on Big Love. I knew I recognized that catty face from somewhere! She does look really different with modern accoutrements.
Also, #13 was Jenny Reilly in the short-lived and unlamented Black Donnellys. Much hotter than Cameron, IMO, who looks like Holly Hobbie even with the hooker hair.
Agreed - bitchy blonde just has one of those face that I CANNOT stand looking at. She’d be annoying to me even if her character wasn’t a bitch. I really hope she doesn’t last.
so you missed the running guitar gag! :eek:
Something about bitchy blond reminds me of early Chloe from 24. You know, before she brandished a machine gun and everyone on the dope fell in lust.
It was Slavic, possibly Ukrainian.
Where did the name Natasha come from? None of the contestants were given names and I thought of her as “Ksenia.”
Too bad House fired her; I wanted to see more of her.