The scene at the end of House sitting on his bathroom floor and popping the Vicodin reminded me of the scene a couple of seasons ago when House was in the full-blown throes of addiction and hallucinated having sex with Cuddy just before he shipped off for his rehab stay.
I felt awful for House at the end. He was begging her not to dump him.
Loved the musical part!
It’s also exactly where he was at the end of last season after the building collapsed when Cuddy showed up just in time to stop him.
Me too! Me too! 
I loved that sequence and song. I loved the episode. And I really want to smack Cuddy. I agree with just about everyone here in that I can’t believe she is mad he slipped, especially after his particularly vulnerable exposure of himself in the last episode (I think, the one where he came over half-lit saying “I choose you”).
As I recall, at the end of that last episode, she got this kind of “oh shit” look on her face, like she knew she was stuck. I suspect that after the honeymoon period wore off, she started looking for an out, and this was the first one she saw.
Oh yeah - I had forgotten about that. She did look like “holy crip he’s a crapple” - when he got all head over heels and sloppy. I still want to smack her. In fact - I had forgotten about that completely but I remember now wanting to smack her then too. As another poster once said about some kid or something - she makes my smackin’ hand itchy.
She got what she wanted (House off drug and in a committed relationship with her) and she hated it (apparently).
The dumping thing was for a “TV writers’ reason”. Something people never actually do, but sounds sort of plausible. The reasoning was too contrived. Also, nothing new about House was revealed to her.
I liked their relationship in this season. I think it was a stupid move of the writers to end it. Even more so in this way that felt forced. House is “shooting the zombie”, if you catch my drift.
Exactly. I remember the thread from last week when I said he looked so happy and she has this look of doom on her face.
Yup.
Yup.
Yup.
I have loved this show from Day One, but I’m getting tired of this, too. House is an unrepentant asshole - that’s why I watch the show. Give me my unrepentant asshole back!
Is that a lot like the TV trope for referring to the TV Trope website?
I applaud the attempt to try something new. I didn’t like it, but at least they tried.
The musical sequence reminded me of some scenes from the film “Across the Universe.”
Do you suppose Wilson will lecture Cuddy the way he usually does House?
I loved it, just finished watching it. The musical number reminded me of “Tommy”. And I bet the cast just loved doing this show. And hooray for Taub, doing the wise thing… Next week’s show looks ominous, but there’s one more season to go for House. The real question is, will Cuddy forgive him and take him back?
Nice touch with the Wilhelm Scream when he shot Zombie Taub.
Good thing House brought his axe-cane.
This just goes to show something I’ve believed for a long time. Any show, of any genre, can be improved through the addition of zombies. Just as any food can be improved through the addition of bacon.
We only really saw parts of how their relationship worked. But I don’t see it as surprising that they play out very differently. Consider that he had met her and been with her for a while before he got the infarction in his leg. He was an ass before that, apparently, but he specifically said in the final episode of last season how much that constant pain changed him. And, obviously, he didn’t become an addict to Vicodin until afterward either.
Beyond that, Stacy and Cuddy are very different. I see Stacy as very much a female version of House, without the hardcore addiction. She seems much more self-reliant, manipulative, whereas Cuddy is generally more needy and emotional. I think it’s quite possible that House was never really there for Stacy, but it was just fine with her. And its really only with Cuddy’s greater need for that, and House losing what amount he may have had with the pain and the addiction that magnified that problem.
I couldn’t agree more. She dumps him for being selfish, where I actually think his motives were about as pure as they could be for him, that he KNEW he had to be there, and was willing to give up his sobriety so he could manage the pain enough to be at her side. Then when she finds out, she can’t be there for him, knowing how vulnerable he is and that he was finally really trying to open up to her. Seriously, what a cold-hearted, self-centered bitch.
It seems to me that she is needy, but she doesn’t know how to give back. Like she knows that him just being with her and having sex with her makes him happy, and it did, but that she wouldn’t need to give anything else back to him in the way that she demanded him being there for her constantly. There’s no way she doesn’t know when going over to his place to ask him about it that she’ll put him right back hard on Vicodin. Quite frankly, it is a huge knock against her in my eyes, making her quite unlikable.
As someone with an addict family member, I feel she was foolish getting involved with him beyond their friendship, but I can’t blame her for breaking up with him when he started using again. I’ll start blaming her if she goes back to him.
It feels to me people are piling up on Cuddy without acknowledging what House did. If he had just said ‘I want to be there for you, but I don’t know how’ they would have avoided the Vicodin. House has a tendency to want to fix problems without anyone else knowing (or at least no one other than Wilson). See Rachel and the money.
As soon as I realized she was sick I thought “shark jump, we’re done here.” I mean seriously, is there no such thing as a happy relationship in this place? And does every woman in a relationship have to die or nearly so? How come the men never get sick?
Tired. of. it.
And when he disappeared instead of rushing immediately to her side, I thought “Dump his ass, now. Nothing to see here. No change has occurred.”
I watched the rest of the episode on faith, really hoping they would reel me back in. But I couldn’t even make myself care about any of it.
It’s all quite realisitc though, I give them credit for that. How many times have I heard a man say “I could get clean if I only had the right woman in my life.” And my stock response is, “No, you’ll get clean when you lose the right woman.” And I’m always right.
So maybe now he really gets clean. And maybe Cuddy has it out of her system, and marries Wilson, which is what was supposed to happen from day one. 
Huddy are not done yet. The whole point of pairing them is to see them go through agonizing bumps, of which this is merely the first.
Given Wilson’s history, how long would that have lasted? Divorced twice at the start of the series. Third divorce after the series began. Assuming Wilson and Cuddy’s friendship is at least as deep as Wilson and House’s, would that have even been enough to keep them together? Wilson is at least as flawed as anyone on the show. He always seems to find a way to sabotage a relationship, even after he had gotten back together with Sam.