What Serenity reference? Do tell.
Many great lines tonight, mostly from House of course, though the “pull your head out of the dead baby’s butt” line to Chase was a bit much.
Chase praying was the most touching scene I’ve seen on this show. It made me cry.
I like the “I’m not rich” story line ahead!
The ‘Serenity’ reference…
(I wont get the quotes right, but…)
In House’s speach to Foreman at the end… he talks about why it’s not good to be ‘content’… and that if everyone was content all we would do is sit around, not eat, and die in our own mess… which is why we need conflict and challenges… I took that as a ‘blow by’ reference to Serenity and the Miranda project.
Tonight’s “The L-Word” marathon.
You watch “The L-Word”?
With the mute on.
And that House tracks Cuddy’s fertility cycle!!
It was a so-so episode. I’m surprised no one has commented on the husband. I immediately recognized him from “Remember the Titans.”
I give up - what’s the L-word?
It’s a show on Showtime about a bunch of lesbians. When it came out a couple of years ago it was considered to be sort of a female version of Queer As Folk, but it’s evolved into quite a different show from QAF. (I like both).
“You know that expression about assuming? How when you do it, you make yourself an ass to me?” Classic House!
And when House lets out that nutty shriek when he gets freaked out by Freeman not arguing with him!
They missed a great opportunity there after the woman’s baby died.
Wait, that would have been evil, wouldn’t it? Maybe House should have asked her the questions…
He might have shrieked because Freeman was a voice inside his head, and Foreman was the other doctor. 
Just saying…
:smack: I knew that felt wrong as I typed it!
I wonder how House would react if he ever did hear voices? Would he take their word for it or fight back?
I remember now what bugged me about this ep. If they were both in recovery, she would totally know that her husband was drinking. Wouldn’t she remove herself from that situation, or at least confront him? Or was it supposed to be that he only started drinking after she started going nuts, to drown out the trouble at home? And so she was too out of it to know?
And Hosue jumps right to the breaking and entering–You, go to the house and look for Lithium. It’s like that is the first step rather than a last resort after they realize the patient must be lying.
Now that Foreman is all sweetness and light, it would make a funny episode if House caught something that made him the same way. Then all the rest of the hospital staff could go: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Remember when House got laid a while back?
“I will drop the n-bomb.”
I’m relatively new to House and I have a theory: They had to “restart” Foreman so that 2 or 3 seasons down the line he and nicey-doc (don’t remember her name. The preachy one) can get on with the jungle fever.
I don’t know about anybody else, but if I was nicey-doc I’d have him arrested for attempted murder.
When he stuck her with the needle, not only did he endanger her and subject her to the same suffering he later found he could not handle, but he endangered the whole damn hospital because they were not sure how infectious this disease was. He jabbed her, potentially infected her and then ordered her to search the the cop’s house. After doing such a fucked up thing, the HAD to restart him.
The nicey-doc is Cameron. Perhaps 2 or 3 seasons down the line, though I’m still waiting for her and House to get it on…
Joel and I have been watching House for a few weeks now, including reruns on USA, and I have to admit there’s one thing that bothers me: don’t any of these patients have any other family? Take last night’s episode. Didn’t these people have parents of their own or siblings who would care that the mom and baby were sick? That would want to come see them? Even if they weren’t allowed in the room with the patients, at least sit in the waiting room with dad? It never seems like there’s enough family around.
It got to me as night especially because the wife is committing suicide by cancer. I’m all for the right to die when cancer is terminal and the patient is suffering needlessly, but she’s just been diagnosed. There’s no indication she’s beyond treatment. Plus she emotionally distraught about the loss of her baby. After House’s speech, it appears the husband no longer blames her, or at least recognizes his own culpability, but he didn’t appear to be taking any steps to save her life either. If someone swallows a bottle of Tylenol and tells the EMTs she doesn’t want to live, do they just let her die? I don’t think so. It sounds to me like she still isn’t in her right mind, and the husband isn’t any better. So where are their parents and siblings? Why isn’t anyone else speaking up? Why are the parents left wrestling with this all alone?
I don’t know. I’m heartened to hear there be more next week (we went to bed before the preview). It wouldn’t be right if that’s how the story ends.
I was out of the room for some of this episode, and I missed the breaking-and-entering. Did they really? I don’t remember them ever going back to the apartment. I figured for once they were able to make a diagnosis without the B&E.
Also I thought that they came up with the drinking problem through speculation, then confirmation from the patient(s). But did they actually find hard evidence of this? With all the back and forth theories I got confused - were both parents drinkers or just the dad?
Maybe I should just wait for the DVD if I managed to miss all that!
They didn’t show Chase (I think it was Chase) going to the apartment, but he came back and reported that there was a bottle of vodka hidden in the back of a drawer. They assumed the wife was alcoholic, and later concluded that both the wife and husband were. Someone mentioned that they had met at an AA meeting.
Also, though I know asking about medical realities is somewhat beside the point, I have a question about Wilson and Cuddys “date/not date”. He swiped her spoon from the restaurant and tested the miniscule amount of saliva on it for every cancer indicator, and concluded that she didn’t have cancer. Do all cancer’s have indicators that would show up in bodily fluids? If so, what’s the point of tissue biopsies?
Heh, and “Watermellon farm”. He’s pushes the line.
Anyone else notice House drop his cane and RUN to the mothers room?