Incidentally, this is bothering me (and I noticed the potential error in the TWoP recap):
I had the distinct impression that House had sent Wilson to Cuddy with the Aspy disgnosis, purposely to give her a way out that didn’t seem like she caved. Wilson coming back to House, with the book (I’m assuming it was the DSM) and curtly informing him that he was a jerk, not an Aspy, sort of cemented the idea. Yet a lot of people are jumping on it as something Wilson came up with and Cuddy agreed with, independent of manipulation by House. What say y’all?
I thought the ending with the little boy was cheesy. Like, well, most of the episodes involving sick children.
The rest of the episode was good, though, and I LOVED the running gag of House taking up space in every part of the hospital except his office, I almost died when they showed him in the chapel. Also, “veterinary hospital”? That almost beats my other favorite House/Foreman line, when House wouldn’t let Foreman write on his board because “there’s a reason they call it a whiteboard,” and Foreman said “I’ll just take my black marker then.”
And damn, no new episodes for a month. Anyone else curious about what House got arrested for?
I agree with you… House gave Wilson the idea for the out for Cuddy… Cuddy knows better as well (that he doesnt have Aspy), but also can’t have the disruptions that House was causing…
It was a pure power play for House, as evidenced by the “Don’t threaten that what you won’t do” line.
The carpet does mean something to House, it represents some degree of mortality or a “remember their feelings” thing, reminds him that sometimes he has to be nice to the patients… He hasn’t called any of the prior three cases ‘liars’, or had that major confrontation with them. He doesn’t want to lose that grounding.
As for the scene at the end… another reminder for House… remember earlier in Wilson’s office, where he discarded the toy…some would call it Kharma.
And I have to say I laughed heartily when House discovered that his ‘girlfriends’ reason for liking him was the spores… funny stuff.
Hopefully the parents realize that the reason the boy responded to House was that House treated him more like a normal child… instead of the regimnet the parents had going.
And I hope I never see things swimming in my eyeballs…
You believed that? I thought it was a pure line of BS intended to play on her naivete and convince her to go away. Sort of like the Casablanca quotes.
I loved Cuddy’s attempt to convince House that the girl was hitting on her. I got a bit nervous that there’d be repercussions for shooing the girl away in the parking lot. There still may be…
believed it or not, true or not, the act was funny as hell… and regaurdless, he wanted the girl to believe that there was a ‘reason’ for her to feel that way that wasnt real feelings… since the rest of his act was only causing her sadness, and possibly to take the stalking to the next level… this will allow her to move on.
and yeah, I kinda thought that maybe House was a little disapointed too.
'She has a mole below her left nipple."
“No she doesn’t”.
Anyone else notice House treating Cameron a little differently this episode?
And I don’t think House gets arrested… that appears to be a classic teaser twist in the making… and Foreman was making out with a blonde in the teaser as well… so who knows.
Didn’t House see the girl earlier that day in the clinic? If so he may have given her something to mimic the symptoms, (the milky tears) we know he is not above a tactic like that. His Oh damn! seemed a bit manufactured and insincere and I think Hugh’s acting is too good for that to be unintentional.
Did anyone else notice that when the carpet layers were rolling up the new carpet, the old one was still there underneath it, blood stain and all?
I assumed he was making up the “earthquake sending spores into the air” diagnosis for the stalker chick. If not, some lawyer would have come up with the “spore defense” by now.
I thought the point of the show was to show the similarities between an autistic kid and Dr. House. Both have people jumping hoops to please them, they both have trouble communicating effectively with other people, both endlessly frustrate the people around them, yet both have pure hearts.
I’m so glad that Dr. House didn’t “cure” the autistic boy.
The way I saw it was that they weren’t rolling up a carpet, they were laying the old one that contained the bloodstain. Per House’s tantrum.
I also thought House was B.S.-ing little strumpet girl about the earthquake spores.
That was the carpet pad.
Stupid nitpick, I know, but you don’t re-lay wall to wall carpet. The installers hack the old one into small pieces when they remove it prior to installing the new one.
The doctor who does the medical reviews of the show says this about the girl’s condition: “…and as for Coccidioides immitis, it causes coccidioidomycosis which leads to respiratory and sinus problems, but not the personality changes House mentions – well, at least not without causing a dangerous meningitis first.”
So I think she did have an illness, but House was making up the part about the spores being the cause of her attraction to him.
Indeed, no increased libido or other personality changes with coccidioidomycosis, just the flu-like symptoms she and her father presented with. [
](http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9F00E4D6163CF93AA25750C0A962958260) He simply made up the additional symptoms to her real condition so she’d think her infatuation for him had a medical cause and was therefore only temporary and not real. GREAT way to get her to leave him alone and save her heart from breaking at the same time. House Rocks.
Yes. It’s usually the case that something about one of his clinic patients triggers his revelations about his primary patient. Consider last week’s episode and the teen girl’s red thong underwear. . . [
](http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/articles/content/a12435/index-9.html) I think that’s why the first couple of episodes didn’t quite seem right to me. House didn’t have clinic duty, so no interactions with the hoi polloi, which I find to be one of the best parts of the show, especially since it’s what usually leads him to his brilliant diagnoses.
“I looked in the toilet and saw something I couldn’t identify, so I wrapped it up, and here it is!” :eek: I just don’t think I could bring myself to do that. I would have to see a few more BM oddities before feeling compelled to go to the clinic about it.
I used to work in a medical lab and we once had a woman who was concerned that there were snails in her bowel movements. She saved one, and put it in her freezer, then took it to her doctor. He sent it along to us for analysis.
The tech determined that there were no snails present in the sample, but that there was ‘what appeared to be an undigested piece of pasta, as well as some mushroom fragments’. The woman was livid that we hadn’t identified the snails and demanded the sample back so she could take it to another lab.
It was, at that point, a 2 week old sample that had been frozen and defrosted, and had, you understand, been shit to start with. I can’t even imagine what kind of state it was in by the time the poor bastards at the other lab got it.
