When he compared his hands and saw that the mosquito plaguing him was in the same place on his left hand as the bite on his right, I think he realized it was just a symbol of how much his reaction to kissing Cuddy was bugging him. Pun intended.
Can anyone explain the Ric Ocasek joke?
Posts like that are exactly why you will be allowed to live relatively unmolested after the conquest.
I walked in late, and so I missed the first half. Anyone care to recap what Cuddy said about a relationship with House, and whether or not they did sleep together? I thought they didn’t.
Just a wild guess, I’d say House was referring to the classic Cars video for “You Might Think” in which a CGI mosquito with Ocasek’s head pesters his love interest.
They didn’t sleep together. Basically Cuddy, after averring that she had never thought of House in a romantic or sexual fashion, told Wilson that she was in pain and lonely, and that House was a friend and generally unhappy, and that they had inadvertently comforted one another with their tongues. She also said that a relationship with House would start off good, as his myterious, silent, bad-boy, loquacious-yet-emotionally-taciturn aura would be exciting. But before long, the emotional unavailability that made him intriguing in theory would become endlessly frustrating in practice, and they’d end up hating one another no matter how good the sex was. Wilson then observed that she was remarkably articulate on the subject for someone who had never thought about it, whereupon she told him, in a gentle, friendly, non-profane fashion, to go fuck himself.
I must respectfully disagree; when Wilson busted Cuddy on having spent a lot of time thinking about this, she had the grace to look a little sheepish, then told him to go fuck himself. 
You know, you guys have changed my thinking about the ending. I thought House was being a big, fat coward, but he has indubitably done the same thinking about their relationship as Cuddy. It might have been the braver thing to not attempt a relationship that he knows will end badly.
Yeah, Cameron and 13 were pretty interchangeable. House needs better foils.
I know, but my way is funnier. (I’m comparing post to post, not scene to scene.)
No, he was cowardly. It’s not because he chose not to purse a relationship with Cuddy; it’s because he refused to even attempt to make the changes in himself that would permit him to be happy, or at least to alleviate his general misery. Even telling Cuddy that he loves her, or wants her, would require him to risk change, and he can’t bear change.
I’m not sure if it was because he didn’t want to change so much as he hates being proven wrong. His whole persona is based on being right.
According to one line in one show, House and Cuddy did sleep together once (perhaps back in medical school):
Mine cut out before the end too, which it usually does, but wasn’t this episode on a special night or time? Weird that they single out House for the weird timing no matter when it airs.
I was amazed to see an actual Cameron plot line. Hopefully the writers have decided to actually start using her and Chase again for more than cameos. If they don’t, they should just ditch them altogether. Unless they are just keeping them for contractual reasons.
I agree. They’re just more interesting to me than Thirteen and Taub. I like Kutner’s attitude, and I feel that that character has been underdeveloped.
Okay, so this guy who was shot with lead bullets is displaying all the classic signs of lead poisoning and it never occurs to the doctors to check for it? Sheesh!
And the “toxics stored in fat are now being released because the patient is losing weight” is becoming a House cliche.
Plus which I find it hard to believe that it wouldn’t show up in his blood screen if he’s showing enough symptoms to be treated.
And House had to cut out the fragments immediately (instantly finding them amidst all the blood and goo of course) because otherwise … ? Um. Okay, I’m lost here.
I posted about this somewhere yesterday; I thought was this thread. Anyway, lead poisoning shows up as basophilic stippling on your red blood cells in the most basic, commonly-ordered screening test done in hospitals (a CBC and differential). So yeah, my conscious suspension of disbelief is working overtime with the medicine of this show as usual. 
I can’t remember the precise line, but I think House was asked something like why he doesn’t pursue the woman of his dreams, and he said he would, but Ric Ocasek wouldn’t be too happy.
I think it’s just a reference to the fact that Ric Ocasek is married to Paulina Porizkova.
Good answer. Much better than mine, and undoubtedly what the writers had in mind.
Thanks to you both.
Oh my God, oh my God! So… watching Fringe has had me craving reruns of Dawson’s Creek (Peter and Pacey are basically the same character, just a handful of years apart in age). Guess who is a guest-star in season 5? Jennifer Morrison, that’s who. She was a rich kid Pacey hooked up with for the first couple of episodes that season. I can’t believe I’ve watched House for all this time and didn’t remember she was in anything else I’ve seen.