# House 5/3: The Choice **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194 "2010-05-03T19:06:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/1 "2010-05-03T19:06:11Z")
Male patient lactates; docs perform karaoke. Oh boy!!! ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/2 "2010-05-04T02:44:03Z")
No posts? I seriously enjoyed this episode. First time in a while, but I haven’t seen last week’s episode yet. Looks like Wilson’s new relationship is moving rather fast! ---
**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:** [May 4, 2010, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/3 "2010-05-04T02:51:08Z")
I’m actually enjoying the focus on relationships as opposed to the POTW for a change. I don’t want it to continue forever; but it’s a nice change. I’m actually liking 13 and Foreman again because of it. Not much to say about the episode. The whole POTW of the week seemed dumber than usual, actually. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/4 "2010-05-04T02:51:22Z")
Is it really fast when it’s round two for Wilson and Sam? Seems like you’d get to skip a few steps when you’ve already been married before. The guys doing kareoke rocked, but House’s last line to Cuddy was intense. Her: I just want us to be friends. Him: That’s the **last** thing I want for us. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/5 "2010-05-04T03:52:47Z")
I liked this episode more than I have others this season. The kareoke was a hoot. I noticed when 13 was drinking her martini, House was giving her the all-seeing diagnostic eye because he noticed her hand was shaking a little. Beginning of the end for 13? And what’s with House’s boozing? Next week he’s back talking with his therapist - maybe he’s becoming an alcoholic? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/6 "2010-05-04T04:14:32Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I liked this episode more than I have others this season. The kareoke was a hoot. I noticed when 13 was drinking her martini, House was giving her the all-seeing diagnostic eye because he noticed her hand was shaking a little. Beginning of the end for 13? > > And what’s with House’s boozing? Next week he’s back talking with his therapist - maybe he’s becoming an alcoholic? Whoa…I didn’t see the hand shake. Good catch! Yeah, he is off the Vicodin but the ibuprofen doesn’t cut it, so the alcohol is dulling the pain these days. Evidently that’s why he woke up in the neighbor’s kid’s bed. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/7 "2010-05-04T06:20:10Z")
My favorite bit was when the POTW was saying, “I’m as straight as any of you are.” Thirteen gives him a look that is priceless… Also, when House kept raising the coffee cup (with the POTW’s breast milk in it) to his lips, but keeps getting distracted from drinking it. He finally shoos everyone out of the room when they really want to stay and watch him drink it. Taub continues to be my favorite character, though. Everyone else is either in awe of House or afraid of him (or, more likely, both). But Taub just seems to be internally rolling his eyes at the whole experience, knowing it is just a temporary phase in his career, and a voluntary one at that. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/8 "2010-05-04T06:49:17Z")
Hey, non-stereotypical gay characters! ---
**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:** [May 4, 2010, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/9 "2010-05-04T11:37:00Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > My favorite bit was when the POTW was saying, “I’m as straight as any of you are.” Thirteen gives him a look that is priceless… > > Also, when House kept raising the coffee cup (with the POTW’s breast milk in it) to his lips, but keeps getting distracted from drinking it. He finally shoos everyone out of the room when they really want to stay and watch him drink it. I don’t think House was distracted from drinking the coffee. He wanted to see everybody’s reactions. He raises the cup to his lips, everybody stares. He just enjoyed playing with everybody’s minds. He had no intention of drinking the coffee with the patient’s milk in it. He just wanted everyone’s rapt attention. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/10 "2010-05-04T12:12:43Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I don’t think House was distracted from drinking the coffee. He wanted to see everybody’s reactions. He raises the cup to his lips, everybody stares. He just enjoyed playing with everybody’s minds. He had no intention of drinking the coffee with the patient’s milk in it. He just wanted everyone’s rapt attention. Yeah, he was definitely toying with them. He gives the cup a “ugh, I almost had to drink that” look when everyone else leaves the room. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/11 "2010-05-04T13:04:32Z")
What was the deal at the end with the napkin rings? Taub gave then to House who put them on the counter where they were picked up and - I think - tossed in the trash by the PA. I lost interest partway through. Had no sympathy for the POTW “I’m not gay!” and his GF/BF. Hell, when he started lactating I was trying to figure out how they could have missed that he was a transexual! 😛 Must have been the least believable B&E ever. And 13 was just going to pound those 5 martinis? As entertaining as the karaoke was, it lost me because to do that back-up House and Foreman would have had to practice their moves. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/12 "2010-05-04T13:13:30Z")
They’re setting us up for the season ending cliff-hanger when House dramatically downs a handful of Vicodin. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/13 "2010-05-04T13:28:25Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Yeah, he is off the Vicodin but the ibuprofen doesn’t cut it, so the alcohol is dulling the pain these days. Evidently that’s why he woke up in the neighbor’s kid’s bed. I missed the first 15 minutes, so I didn’t see him wake up in the neighbor’s kid’s bed. I just assumed that he had had such a good time hanging out and drinking with 13, Chase, and Foreman that he was starting to drink more. Addictive behavior and all that. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/14 "2010-05-04T13:28:34Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I don’t think House was distracted from drinking the coffee. He wanted to see everybody’s reactions. He raises the cup to his lips, everybody stares. He just enjoyed playing with everybody’s minds. He had no intention of drinking the coffee with the patient’s milk in it. He just wanted everyone’s rapt attention. See, I’d thought that he would just put regular cow’s milk in the sample container, and actually drink the coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/15 "2010-05-04T13:30:22Z")
Hey! House is a stomach sleeper, just like me! I was aghast at the list of anti-gay “treatments”–drugs, aversion therapy and shock treatments. Does anyone believe that SHIT really works? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/16 "2010-05-04T13:39:22Z")
I’m just glad someone finally caught them breaking and entering! Of course, they still didn’t get in trouble for it. > [@salinqmind](#): > > I noticed when 13 was drinking her martini, House was giving her the all-seeing diagnostic eye because he noticed her hand was shaking a little. Beginning of the end for 13? Funny, I was watching that scene with House and 13 in the bar and thinking “They haven’t mentioned her Parkinson’s in a long time. I guess they’ve dropped that story line.” Then I see her hand shake as she picks up the martini glass. > [@randwill](#): > > They’re setting us up for the season ending cliff-hanger when House dramatically downs a handful of Vicodin. With Dead Amber looking over his shoulder? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/17 "2010-05-04T13:48:31Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Funny, I was watching that scene with House and 13 in the bar and thinking “They haven’t mentioned her Parkinson’s in a long time. I guess they’ve dropped that story line.” Then I see her hand shake as she picks up the martini glass. Minor nitpick: 13 has Huntington’s, not Parkinson’s. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/18 "2010-05-04T13:59:23Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Hey! House is a stomach sleeper, just like me! > > I was aghast at the list of anti-gay “treatments”–drugs, aversion therapy and shock treatments. Does anyone believe that SHIT really works? Unfortunately, a pillar of several popular religions is that it does, or at least might. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/19 "2010-05-04T16:52:53Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > Unfortunately, a pillar of several popular religions is that it does, or at least might. Love in Action did “reparative therapy” for those with so-called “broken” (gay) behaviors for a while, though they might have stopped. There was no ECT or injection that I know of but there was a lot of therapy, workshops, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/20 "2010-05-04T17:54:26Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Hey! House is a stomach sleeper, just like me! I don’t think that’s the norm. When they’ve shown him sleeping before, he’s tended to be on his side. It seems to me pretty stereotypical that someone who has been drinking will usually be portrayed sprawled-out, face-down, and fully-clothed. I liked the episode. The PotW was kind of lame, but I think that the sub-plots really did a good job of driving home the overall theme of the season of relationships and finally revealed what we’ve probably all been suspecting, that the reason he doesn’t seem any better is because he isn’t. Obviously, the big reveal was at the end, but the openning, combined with the drinking he was doing while out with 13 and the guys and having fun makes it pretty clear that he’s probably been drinking pretty heavily for a while. I’m also kind of surprised that Taub didn’t see the whole napkin ring thing coming and was surprised that it was House that was in the bidding war with him. I did like the final scene with Cuddy; that last line was great. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194.md?page=2)