# 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:** 2
**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, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/21 "2010-05-04T18:11:37Z")
> [@Nature\_s\_Call](#): > > Minor nitpick: 13 has Huntington’s, not Parkinson’s. Ya know… I stopped to think about that as I was typing and couldn’t remember which one it was. It figures I’d pick the wrong one! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/22 "2010-05-04T18:50:58Z")
Always nice to see Susan’s Sarandon’s daughter, whom I think is gorgeous. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/23 "2010-05-04T20:02:20Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Always nice to see Susan’s Sarandon’s daughter, whom I think is gorgeous. Yeah, she’s lovely, and interesting looking. And the only thing I liked about last night’s episode. ---
**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, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/24 "2010-05-04T20:19:48Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Always nice to see Susan’s Sarandon’s daughter, whom I think is gorgeous. I didn’t realize that. But looking back, I should have figured it out from her bulging eyes! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/25 "2010-05-04T20:27:36Z")
I really liked 13’s line while she was drinking martinis with House - “Okay, so my self-pity is optional. What about yours?” Scorch pow! ---
**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, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/26 "2010-05-04T22:31:14Z")
I liked House’s comment to Wilson, re: Chase and Foreman. “I got to thinking, these guys could be my friends. Then I sobered up.” ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/27 "2010-05-04T22:54:30Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I really liked 13’s line while she was drinking martinis with House - “Okay, so my self-pity is optional. What about yours?” Scorch pow! It took me a while to figure out that 13 was getting drinks sent to her from other patrons. At first I was wondering why the hell she ordered three martinis at the same time. Also, wasn’t it somewhat of a HIPAA violation for 13 to blurt out to the former boyfriend, who she didn’t even know at that point, that the guy was in the hospital? I didn’t think you could do 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, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/28 "2010-05-04T23:41:17Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > It took me a while to figure out that 13 was getting drinks sent to her from other patrons. At first I was wondering why the hell she ordered three martinis at the same time. > > Also, wasn’t it somewhat of a HIPAA violation for 13 to blurt out to the former boyfriend, who she didn’t even know at that point, that the guy was in the hospital? I didn’t think you could do that. You do realize she was breaking and entering when she said that right? 🙂 ---
**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, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/29 "2010-05-04T23:59:14Z")
> [@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? Someone does: > **[loveinaction.org](http://www.loveinaction.org/)** ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/30 "2010-05-05T00:05:47Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > You do realize she was breaking and entering when she said that right? 🙂 I’d rather deal with the law than HIPAA. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/31 "2010-05-05T00:46:12Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Also, wasn’t it somewhat of a HIPAA violation for 13 to blurt out to the former boyfriend, who she didn’t even know at that point, that the guy was in the hospital? I didn’t think you could do that. I think you can certainly tell people that someone is in the hospital without running afoul of HIPAA (“Doctor, what happened to Fred? I dropped him off at your office and when I came back from some errands, he was gone.” “I can’t tell you.”). You just can’t tell them why without permission. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/32 "2010-05-05T05:26:18Z")
You know, House actually did pretty good socializing with 13 while they were out (without needing a song and dance routine to pull it off). I could see them having a relationship. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/33 "2010-05-05T13:13:17Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > You know, House actually did pretty good socializing with 13 while they were out (without needing a song and dance routine to pull it off). I could see them having a relationship. Wouldn’t **that** piss off the 13-haters! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/34 "2010-05-05T15:13:07Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > 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. This bugged the hell out of me. I kept saying to my husband “when did they rehearse this??” ---
**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 5, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/35 "2010-05-05T15:20:19Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > This bugged the hell out of me. I kept saying to my husband “when did they rehearse this??” Hell, even I noticed that. I suppose we could fanwank that they had a quick huddle before going on stage - but I don’t think that would work. When I was in law school, we did a “law revue” musical production. It took me and four other guys about two weeks before we mastered a routine that consisted (roughly) of: 1.) Turn clockwise. 2.) Three stylized paces forward. 3.) Pop collars. 4.) Sing briefly. 5.) About face. 6.) Three paces back. Coordination is _hard_. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/36 "2010-05-05T16:24:03Z")
I did enjoy this episode, but I think they badly mangled the issues with the POTW. All along everyone assumed it was a foregone conclusion that he simply MUST be gay and therefore MUST be hiding this tremendous secret from his fiancee. Um, guys? You have a bisexual _in your main cast_. One homosexual relationship does not rule out attraction of a heterosexual nature. At one point, one of the doctors says “He may love her, but he needs to have sex with other men.” Guess who said that? THIRTEEN SAID THAT. ARGH. What was much more interesting, and much more ignored, was the deeply-seeded self-hatred this guy must have or have had to put himself through “Dr. Liberace’s He-Man Quackery Camp”, apparently with little to no external compulsion. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/37 "2010-05-05T16:31:48Z")
No thoughts by anyone as to the PA and the napkin rings at the end? I thought it weird. They obviously focused on it, but I couldn’t figure out exactly what happened and why. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/38 "2010-05-05T16:43:43Z")
Weren’t the napkin rings what Taub bought on e-bay (bidding against House) so he could pretend to have made them in his “pottery” class? In the end, he doesn’t need them because he decides he won’t cheat on his wife after all. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/39 "2010-05-05T17:20:51Z")
Yeah, but Taub gave them to House, then House put them on the counter, then the PA picked them up and (from sound) apparently tossed them in the trash. The (gay?) PA and House had had a run-in earlier, with the PA threatening to go to HR. Did House intend them as a gift to the PA? Did the PA think he was screwing House by tossing them? Or was it something metaphorical about Taub’s affair/marriage/something esle being so easily disposable or something? I dunno - just seemed to create more questions than add anything to the story, especially given the emount of camera time devoted to it. I had to rewind it to even figure out what happened to them. The PA was previously shown kinda far in the background, so he had to cover some ground to pick them up so soon after House put them down. Then they do not show exactly what the PA does with them. I surmised a trashcan by what I thought I heard on the soundtrack. Just struck me as odd. Seemed to me that it must have meant _something_, but I couldn’t figure out what that something might be. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/40 "2010-05-05T18:39:02Z")
Don’t worry, Dinsdale, it struck me as odd, too. I was like “wtf reason does HE have for wanting to trash the napkin rings??” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194.md?page=3)