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?
And it still doesn’t explain why the other guy would feel the need to throw them in the trash.
That other guy hates House. I assumed he was throwing the package away to be mean.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He might have thrown them out. But he would never have thrown them out without looking at them first. They might have been fabulous! 