# House 10/21 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919 "2008-10-21T18:22:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/41 "2008-10-22T16:44:36Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > And wouldn’t an onion held near the eyes still be irritating if one couldn’t make tears? She didn’t blink or flinch. > > (Not sure about “fugly,” but Thirteen’s pal didn’t do anything for me either… had kind of a Kristy McNichol thing going on.) Um, Kristy McNichol’s cute, or at least she was back when I was a lad. When I conquer Earth, I plan to take a brief hiatus from destroying all extant copies of Buffy, House, & Xena DVDs to jaunt back in time to 1985 or so and bring her forward to be part of my harem. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/42 "2008-10-22T16:49:29Z")
**Skald the Rhymer** - But you’re leaving us _Firefly_, right? StG ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/43 "2008-10-22T16:52:51Z")
Kind of blah episode, but did like the House/Wilson interactions. What I don’t like is lazy writers who have a sick person in the hospital & No One but our show’s regulars come to see them. This woman had no other significant person in her world but 13, a one-night stand? Kind of like when Amber died and no other family or friends showed up to say good-bye. (Even Cuthroat Bitches have mothers). ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/44 "2008-10-22T16:57:00Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > **Skald the Rhymer** - But you’re leaving us _Firefly_, right? > > StG Which part of “Skald is evil and draws derives sustenance, amusement, and orgasms from your suffering” is unclear? Actually I will leave you Firefly, but only to highlight the fact that you guys only have the first, truncated season that aired on this Earth, while my continua device has given me access to the complete 7-season run, including the all-nude-all-lesbian season six opener, in which Kaylee must choose between Zoe, River, Inara, and a guest-starring Alyson Hannigan. ---
**Author:** ![nevermore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nevermore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevermore)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/45 "2008-10-22T17:08:23Z")
**Skald** raises some interesting points re: House’s reaction to Cuddy’s announcement. (Except I don’t think House is in love with Wilson; I think they have a very codependent relationship that House is desperate to hold onto, but I don’t think that it’s love in the romantic sense. YMMV.) It makes sense that House would be hurt on finding the two people he arguably cares about most sharing something like that and purposely excluding him. And **elfkin** , I think you’re partially right in that House would react badly to Wilson adopting a baby with Cuddy as his character reference, because even though he’d never admit to wanting to do something like that for either of them, I think it would sting for him to not even have been asked in either case. My prediction for next episode is that the baby lives, but the mom keeps it, which will devastate Cuddy and make her temporarily insane enough to be “comforted” by House. And then, if I had my way, she’d be comforted by her resulting pregnancy. 😃 As for Spencer, dang, I knew I recognized her from somewhere! The L Word! Thought she was fugly and a horrible actress on that, too. She’s got a nice body, but her face is kinda jacked up, if you ask me. Looks vaguely… simian. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/46 "2008-10-22T17:50:30Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > Why, WHY couldn’t they have gotten Alicia Witt to play 13?? She played Jake’s fifth grade teacher turned stripper in last week’s _Two and a Half Men_. ---
**Author:** ![Atomicflea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Atomicflea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomicflea)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/47 "2008-10-22T17:56:58Z")
The House/Wilson interaction kept me going throughout this episode. If there’s another Thirteen-centric one, I may just watch DwTS instead. I totally missed the preview. Anyone care to summarize for me? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/48 "2008-10-22T18:05:40Z")
Thanks for the summary, **spoike**! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/49 "2008-10-22T18:08:41Z")
Was it me, or did 13’s eyes look glazed/wasted at the very end when she was with the blonde woman? I loved House’s “OHMYGAWD!” and seeing the private dick again. (That means there are two dicks on the show, right? At least…) ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/50 "2008-10-22T18:10:10Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Was it me, or did 13’s eyes look glazed/wasted at the very end when she was with the blonde woman? Was she back to cruising? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/51 "2008-10-22T18:14:43Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Was she back to cruising? Yes, but it also looked as if she was back on drugs as well. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/52 "2008-10-22T18:18:02Z")
We know the baby will have an exotic problem which House will figure out at the last minute. The baby’s mother will take the kid and Cuddy will be heart broken. Then Sarah Palin will rap. ---
**Author:** ![Spurious\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Spurious\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spurious_George)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/53 "2008-10-22T18:31:24Z")
> [@nevermore](#): > > Watching now, and that opening scene was nice, but it was all Thirteen-- that other chick is not only fugly, she can’t act for shit either. I thought the other chick was [mega-hot](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331854/). Different strokes for different folks, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/54 "2008-10-22T18:36:18Z")
Yeah, I thought she was, too. Even as Thirteen’s casual pick-up. I’d totally do her. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/55 "2008-10-22T18:58:32Z")
> [@nevermore](#): > > **Skald** raises some interesting points re: House’s reaction to Cuddy’s announcement. (Except I don’t think House is in love with Wilson; I think they have a very codependent relationship that House is desperate to hold onto, but I don’t think that it’s love in the romantic sense. YMMV.) Our mileage isn’t varying. I don’t believe House harbors either suppressed ro conscious desires for Jimmy-Boy’s winky, or the reverse; I think they have a emotionaly passionate and, in some ways, primary attachment to one another. They’re like JD & Turk from Scrubs, except, of course, for the fact that House and Wilson are men. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/56 "2008-10-22T19:14:17Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > [Politedissent.com](http://Politedissent.com) Oh, bless you! Thanks so much for that. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/57 "2008-10-22T20:39:21Z")
> [@The\_Controvert](#): > > I love that Wilson was obeying traffic signals in Grand Theft Auto. That’s hilarious! I must have missed that! ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/58 "2008-10-22T22:36:27Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > She played Jake’s fifth grade teacher turned stripper in last week’s _Two and a Half Men_. Really? I’ve never watched that show but I’ll see if Hulu has that episode. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919/59 "2008-10-22T23:38:36Z")
> [@The\_Controvert](#): > > I love that Wilson was obeying traffic signals in Grand Theft Auto. > [@Enright3](#): > > That’s hilarious! I must have missed that! Yeah, it was when House and the PI were staking out Wilson’s apartment. The PI didn’t mention GTA by name, but said something like. “He’s playing that game where you carjack people. He’d make it through quicker if he didn’t stop for all the red lights.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-21/468919.md?page=2)