# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**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, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/41 "2010-05-05T21:40:03Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > 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. This is still confusing me, though, because actively cheating or no, he’s already told the lie of being in a pottery class. So either he maintains that lie (in which case he needs the napkin rings) or he dissolves that lie with another lie, or he dissolves that lie with the truth, which requires telling her that the very next day after swearing up and down that all he needed was her, he went and had sex with Maya and the pottery class was a lie to cover that up. Any ideas? ---
**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, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/42 "2010-05-05T22:25:20Z")
And it still doesn’t explain why the other guy would feel the need to throw them in the trash. ---
**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 5, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/43 "2010-05-05T22:30:22Z")
That other guy hates House. I assumed he was throwing the package away to be mean. ---
**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 5, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/44 "2010-05-05T23:32:14Z")
I assumed that Taub giving the napkin rings to House meant that Taub had decided to come clean with his wife. I’m not sure about the significance of the PA throwing the $200 napkin rings away; I do know that it bothered me because it was such a waste. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/45 "2010-05-06T01:48:52Z")
> [@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… And she briefly opened her mouth to say something, then closed it. Perfect. I’m not sure whether the PA threw out the napkin rings or just took them. I have a feeling we’ll be seeing more of him. (And what gay man would throw out $200 napkin rings, even if they were overpriced?) And that last line of House to Cuddy was uncharacteristically honest. And I was so disappointed that the rocket sheets weren’t on House’s own bed. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/46 "2010-05-06T04:48:35Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > Unfortunately, a pillar of several popular religions is that it does, or at least might. Just to make things clear, I used to go to a church with “gay ministry”, and none of that stuff was ever used. You can argue with the intent or the actual methods, but none of that stuff on House was actually there. ---
**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 6, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/47 "2010-05-06T06:51:02Z")
> [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](#): > > …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… I agree with you that this is a bit of a disconnect, but to give the writers their due: 13 \*was \*challenged on her opinion in the dialogue (I forget by whom). Her retort was that she was never dishonest about her bisexuality; she always told her lovers about it. But that the PotW did not. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194/48 "2010-05-06T13:13:26Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’m not sure whether the PA threw out the napkin rings or just took them. I have a feeling we’ll be seeing more of him. (And what gay man would throw out $200 napkin rings, even if they were overpriced?) He might have thrown them out. But he would _never have thrown them out without looking at them first_. They might have been fabulous! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-3-the-choice/538194.md?page=2)