# House 4/16: We need the eggs
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-4-16-we-need-the-eggs/618979
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 16, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-4-16-we-need-the-eggs/618979 "2012-04-16T18:26:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2012, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-4-16-we-need-the-eggs/618979/21 "2012-04-18T11:48:44Z")
> [@Edward\_The\_Head](#):
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> Did it say she was approved or NOT approved. I didn’t get a good look at it but I thought it said rejected in it and House threw it out because he wanted that last bit of time with her.
She was approved, which means that INS won’t be snooping around anymore, which means she could take off and go find an apartment on her own somewhere, which means he might be developing feelings for her since he hide it from her.
As for taking the Real Doll’s temp, I think that was a swab to get cultures from her mouth and I agree, they spent a A LOT of time with that doll that turned out to be nothing. And it wasn’t just the cost of the doll. It was wardrobe for the doll. Surgery on the doll, the actor when the doll came alive, all the extras the reacted to the doll when it was being pushed down the hall. The friend that liked him but couldn’t date him because she thought he already had a girlfriend.
All these things had so little to do with the root cause of his illness that I’m not sure one could even call them red herrings. It’s either bad/lazy writing or “this part of your life is strange so we’ll focus all of our energy on it and only it” which I suppose they’ve done before.
Also, I recognized the neti pot when they first picked it up. I didn’t really think about it, but I knew what it was. How the hell did Chase just think it was nothing more then a funny shaped tea pot? I can’t imagine him not knowing what it was. Or at the very least House should have been able to say “Was it a neti pot?” He shouldn’t have had to explain to hit team of doctors what it was.
I suppose he was explaining it to us.
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### Author:  [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-4-16-we-need-the-eggs/618979/22 "2012-04-18T11:51:08Z")
er…nevermind.
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-4-16-we-need-the-eggs/618979/23 "2012-04-18T13:55:30Z")
The doll was a direct parallel to House’s “paid companion”. It was a way of investigating and explaining the attraction and ultimately unfulfilling nature of the stand-in relationship. Because although it meets the stated, obvious needs of touch and release, in the end, we need the eggs.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-4-16-we-need-the-eggs/618979/24 "2012-04-18T14:18:31Z")
> [@TruCelt](#):
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> The doll was a direct parallel to House’s “paid companion”. It was a way of investigating and explaining the attraction and ultimately unfulfilling nature of the stand-in relationship. Because although it meets the stated, obvious needs of touch and release, in the end, we need the eggs.
:smack: That’s what happens when I write about an episode first thing in the morning, two days after seeing it.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-4-16-we-need-the-eggs/618979/25 "2012-04-18T19:00:12Z")
This was the best episode in a looong time. A classic _House_ in many ways.
The letter from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (INS no longer exists) said that fake wife had qualified for citizenship (not a greencard or residency). Of course once she gets citizenship she can dump House, etc. So that’s why he threw it out. (How come people throw things like this in a garbage can rather than actually destroying them or removing them from the apartment? Bad plot device.)
Why she would qualify for citizenship so soon is weird. 3 years is the minimum for a spouse of a US citizen and then there’s delays on top of that. We lost a year with House in jail, but no that much time has passed.
I love Taub and his new lady friend. “Was that a different baby?” … “No.”
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### Author:  [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-4-16-we-need-the-eggs/618979/26 "2012-04-18T19:39:35Z")
I know this show isn’t too concerned with reality, but really? How much is House paying that bunches of gorgeous hookers would audition for his custom?
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-4-16-we-need-the-eggs/618979/27 "2012-04-18T20:21:00Z")
> [@ftg](#):
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> I love Taub and his new lady friend. “Was that a different baby?” … “No.”
Are both of the mothers white? I’d surprised someone who saw a baby for a few minutes in a supermarket could tell it a apart from another baby they saw for a few seconds in a crib a few days later. IIRC, both babies are the same age, right?
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-4-16-we-need-the-eggs/618979/28 "2012-04-18T20:22:35Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> Are both of the mothers white? I’d surprised someone who saw a baby for a few minutes in a supermarket could tell it a apart from another baby they saw for a few seconds in a crib a few days later. IIRC, both babies are the same age, right?
LOL! You’re not a girl, are you? 😃
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-4-16-we-need-the-eggs/618979/29 "2012-04-18T20:48:34Z")
> [@TruCelt](#):
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> LOL! You’re not a girl, are you? 😃
Hell, I have trouble telling which first grader is mine when they call come rushing out of the school.
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