# House 2/16 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-2-16/486210 "2009-02-17T01:11:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Garula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Garula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garula)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-2-16/486210/21 "2009-02-18T15:30:19Z")
Did anyone else find this episode way too predictable? We knew Cuddy would really want House there, but he’d be an ass. After all, House’s character is built around the idea of dangling a small potential for humanity to the viewer then yanking it away at the last moment. Faking a breakup was the very obvious tactic right from the beginning. I’m surprised it took them that long to try it. Obviously there needed to be a twist with the priest, and making the relationship consensual and the potential disease transfer the other way around was the most obvious. I did not see the hallucination as not a symptom, but I probably should have, what with religion being so central to the episode. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-2-16/486210/22 "2009-02-18T15:35:31Z")
> [@Carson\_O\_Genic](#): > > I don’t watch the show but having a child who does, caught that last bit in passing. Sounded like Jewish music that might be played at a rite ( bris?) with a Chopinesque interpretation overlaid with “You can’t always get what you want” (Jagger-Richards). My girlfriend watches TV with closed captioning (an old habit she has). The first one was something like “Cuddy’s Requiem”, performed by Hugh Lawrie. The next song was the Jewish music, followed by “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”, and then back to “Cuddy’s Requiem”. Edited to add: D’oh! I see you beat me to it, **Eleanor**. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-2-16/486210/23 "2009-02-18T15:55:13Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > I don’t think you missed anything **Enright3**. They saved that reveal until the final montage. > > Reflecting back on the episode, one thing that I thought was a bit of a plot hole: The church kept moving him around b/c of his molestation accusations, and after moving hmi all over they ultimately moved him back to…the same city where his alleged victim also lived? 😕 Not only that, but the Catholic church is very hierarchical in nature. Maybe tomndeb will confirm this (I haven’t seen any posts from him in a while, is he still around here?) but I could see a priest getting bounced around his diocese, but I thought some of the places he said were definitely in different diocese. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-2-16/486210/24 "2009-02-18T16:02:34Z")
Also, did anyone else think Taub was a major league asshole? Was the underlying message between the kid and the priest that the kid was sorry he accused the priest of something that wasn’t true, thereby acknowledging that he screwed up the priest’s life? ---
**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:** [February 18, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-2-16/486210/25 "2009-02-18T18:33:29Z")
I liked the exchange between Kutner and taub, while talking about 13: Taub: It just makes sense she’d be more comfortable with a partner who has a map to the treasure. Kutner: But you need a shovel to dig for the treasure. Taub: You can buy a shovel. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bagga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@bagga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bagga)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-2-16/486210/26 "2009-02-18T22:27:55Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > That was one of the things which was turning the priest back towards his faith. It all seemed just a little too weird. (Translation: It was all a McGuffin so the story could have the priest stop being an athiest by the end.) Is anyone else put off by the heavy-handed moralising? Sure it’s pretty intermittent, but it doesn’t really seem to fit with having House as the main character. Because the show is so great with its rationalism when House is onscreen, it almost feels as if half the time it’s being \*House M.D. \*and the other half it’s trying to be \*Scrubs \*without the slapstick. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-2-16/486210/27 "2009-02-19T00:30:59Z")
> [@Garula](#): > > Obviously there needed to be a twist with the priest, and making the relationship consensual and the potential disease transfer the other way around was the most obvious. But that wasn’t the twist - surely the kid’s apology meant that there had been no inappropriate relationship at all (and even a consensual relationship would have been inappropriate in this case); the kid had lied for whatever reason. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-2-16/486210/28 "2009-02-19T01:21:23Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > But that wasn’t the twist - surely the kid’s apology meant that there had been no inappropriate relationship at all (and even a consensual relationship would have been inappropriate in this case); the kid had lied for whatever reason. Exactly - in this case, the Priest had been completely honest the entire time, and was being punished for it. I thought one of the doctors mentioned Leprosy early on, followed by another thoguht that someone called “Job’s Disease” … ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-2-16/486210/29 "2009-02-23T01:08:54Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > And for me he’ll forever be one of the inbred brothers from **Always Sunny In Philadelphia**. Ohhh yes. Thanks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-2-16/486210.md?page=1)