# House 10/28 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 28, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987 "2008-10-28T19:35:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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 29, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/41 "2008-10-29T18:52:52Z")
> [@kingpengvin](#): > > but it is Gregory House, To be fair, he’s been called “Greg” by a few people. By his parents, by Stacey. And he’s introduced himself as “Greg House” or “Doctor Greg House”. I noticed the look of some of the scenes, too. When Taub and Thirteen were following the father on his coke run, they reminded me a bit of Stabler and Benson of _Law and Order SVU._ And I don’t get the hate for Thirteen. I like Olivia Wilde and I thought they made good use of her screen time on this episode. She showed herself to be a smart, capable doctor instead of being spotlit because of her Hodgkin’s disease or her bisexuality. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/42 "2008-10-29T19:01:00Z")
It’s Huntington’s chorea. And she is a good actor–I can’t stand the character. She adds nothing to the team except a focal point for some sexual tension and she gets to be a “bad girl”. I was unimpressed by her superior knowledge re the sliding quality scale of coke, for example. Her lines could be said by Kutner or anyone else. She doesn’t bring anything vital into the cast. She’s boring. Her bisexuality is boring. Her drug use is boring. Her disease, if she has it, while devastating to the people who have it, is boring. ---
**Author:** ![spoike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@spoike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spoike)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/43 "2008-10-29T19:07:11Z")
When House and the group were first in the conference room discussing the case and Thirteen started talking back, I enjoyed her attitude. Combine that with my gratitude that she didn’t spend the entire episode mired in angst, and I’m heading towards an actual appreciation of her character. I’m mostly completely indifferent to Thirteen, so ‘heading towards appreciation’ is a big step for me. > [@eleanorigby](#): > > I was in a hurry last night and picked the worst thing I could call her off the top of my head. She’s keeping her baby for all the wrong reasons–she wants some kind of amorphous love to just appear and carry them through. I don’t see her not being a loser, even with her baby. I can easily see her tweaking again, once that baby is up all night, crying. I don’t know if she’s a skank, but she’s irresponsible and inept… Yeah, I can understand that. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/44 "2008-10-29T19:10:05Z")
> [@The\_Controvert](#): > > Joy Cuddy would break the “equal syllables” rule of House character naming: > > Lisa Cuddy > Greg House > Jimmy Wilson > Allison Cameron > Bob Chase > Eric Foreman > Remy Hadley, Thirteen > Chris Taub > Lawrence Kutner > > (Ok, I had to “cheat” on a couple) Thirteen has a first name?😕 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/45 "2008-10-29T19:34:23Z")
> [@nevermore](#): > > Need some mustard with that? 😉 🆒 [Mmmrrph](http://gallery.photo.net/photo/577101-lg.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/46 "2008-10-29T22:38:23Z")
I liked the kiss, but I don’t get the previews for next week. Everyone else’s reactions seem waaaaay overblown for just a kiss. I have a theory, though Next week’s episode will pick up moments later, when one of them realizes they’re being, um, something, and he ends up going back in the house to continue where they left off… because seriously, does one’s **coworkers** usually lose their minds to hear that you kissed someone to ask if that means you’re dating? And I can see House telling Wilson if it was a simple kiss, but to have it common knowledge like they’re in high school?? ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/47 "2008-10-29T23:37:07Z")
> [@The\_Controvert](#): > > J > (Ok, I had to “cheat” on a couple) yeah, Bob Chase is kind of a stretch. ---
**Author:** ![Gwyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/858c86/32.png) [@Gwyen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gwyen)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/48 "2008-10-29T23:56:36Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > Am I the only one not excited about House and Cuddy possibly hooking up? We like cranky House, if he falls in wuv and gets all happy things won’t be the same. I hope they don’t get together and just act even more awkward towards each other after that kiss. > > Besides House is mine! I don’t even think that the love of a good woman will mellow House. That is WHO he is, I can’t seem him really changing. Besides, seems as though Cuddy loves grouchy House, why change? ---
**Author:** ![nevermore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nevermore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevermore)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/49 "2008-10-30T00:38:04Z")
> [@Gwyen](#): > > I don’t even think that the love of a good woman will mellow House. That is WHO he is, I can’t seem him really changing. Besides, seems as though Cuddy loves grouchy House, why change? Absolutely agreed. I am quite sure he will ALWAYS be a prickly bastard, and if Cuddy were to enter into any sort of relationship with him, it would be with the knowledge that he’s about as cuddly as a cactus, and the willingness to deal with it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/50 "2008-10-30T03:19:40Z")
> [@spoike](#): > > Did you really think she was a skank? I know she was a tweaker, but she stopped as soon as she found out she was pregnant. She knew she’d made stupid mistakes, but she wanted to stop the cycle. She really seemed to want a better life, for herself, and her daughter. By the end of the show, I actually found her a little inspiring, as sad as I was for Cuddy. Smart people tend not to screw up that badly. Smart people _are_ better parents, all else being equal, than stupid people. (After all, is there anything that smart people _won’t_ tend to be better at?) That kid lost out on a good thing. Mom is selfish, and too dim to realize it. That’s the problem. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/51 "2008-10-30T03:38:17Z")
> [@Sublata](#): > > I feel the same way – I like cranky, cynical House, and hands off, he’s MINE! I feel just that way about Cuddy. Though I do increasingly identify with House, insufferable iconoclast that he is. ---
**Author:** ![Vihaga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Vihaga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vihaga)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/52 "2008-10-30T03:51:19Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Mom is selfish, and too dim to realize it. That’s the problem. I think she knew it. I do think she realized that she was keeping the baby for her own sake rather than the kid’s. And you never know, she might be okay. I’ve known people who really straightened themselves out after they had a kid. Sucks for Cuddy, but House didn’t want her raising a meth baby, anyway. Or getting sperm from a dork. Or getting sperm from someone who wasn’t “someone you like.” I think him being a jerk to her about the kind of mother she’d be was jealously laced with him not wanting to see Cuddy with something less than ideal, and he only knocked it off when the threat was neutralized. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/53 "2008-10-30T14:14:40Z")
Great episode. I was bothered/distracted a bit by Cuddy’s “medical” domination of the baby-mama, however. I don’t know anything about medical ethics, but surely Cuddy’s acting as doctor to the mother of her to-be-adopted child presented an obvious and impermissible conflict of interest, right? ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/54 "2008-10-30T14:20:54Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > Great episode. I was bothered/distracted a bit by Cuddy’s “medical” domination of the baby-mama, however. I don’t know anything about medical ethics, but surely Cuddy’s acting as doctor to the mother of her to-be-adopted child presented an obvious and impermissible conflict of interest, right? Yes, and I think there should have been someone from the adoption agency hanging around to make sure that kind of conflict didn’t occur. ---
**Author:** ![Sublata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Sublata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublata)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/55 "2008-10-30T14:21:16Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > Great episode. I was bothered/distracted a bit by Cuddy’s “medical” domination of the baby-mama, however. I don’t know anything about medical ethics, but surely Cuddy’s acting as doctor to the mother of her to-be-adopted child presented an obvious and impermissible conflict of interest, right? I suspect you’re right, but hey, this is the Hugh Laurie Show, not the bar exam. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/56 "2008-10-30T16:43:18Z")
Scrubs. Season 3. Episode 1. “My Own American Girl”. PotW has: Familial Mediterranean Fever. Deja Vu all over again. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/57 "2008-10-30T16:55:20Z")
> [@Sublata](#): > > I suspect you’re right, but hey, this is the Hugh Laurie Show, not the bar exam. 😃 Of course–and I know House is not exactly a paragon of proper medical ethics either. 🙂 I think I just had a feeling rather akin to what the average ethical doctor sometimes has when watching this type of show. (Or what the average ethical lawyer might feel while watching Boston Legal, if it weren’t all so much fun!) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/58 "2008-10-30T17:03:39Z")
> [@Gwyen](#): > > I don’t even think that the love of a good woman will mellow House. That is WHO he is, I can’t seem him really changing. Besides, seems as though Cuddy loves grouchy House, why change? He had the chance with Stacy and sent her packing, I guess because he just wanted to win and didn’t want the relationship, or can’t allow himself to be happy, etc. I can’t see him in a real relationship; the last one he had was with Stacy before the chronic pain. ---
**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 30, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/59 "2008-10-30T17:10:50Z")
Could one of my fellow fans here refresh my memory on why House initially broke up with Stacy? (I may be the only person alive who liked them as a couple, tho keeping them together probably wouldn’t have been good for the growth of the show.) ---
**Author:** ![Atomicflea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Atomicflea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomicflea)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987/60 "2008-10-30T17:44:08Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > Could one of my fellow fans here refresh my memory on why House initially broke up with Stacy? (I may be the only person alive who liked them as a couple, tho keeping them together probably wouldn’t have been good for the growth of the show.) They slept together and she decided to give him another chance, since she felt he would always be “the one”. He turned her down because he felt they would be happy for a time, then he would say something to fuck it up and maybe she’d forgive him at first, but that he had already been down that road with her and couldn’t do it again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-10-28/469987.md?page=4)