# House MD, 9/12
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 12, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451 "2006-09-12T19:10:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451/41 "2006-09-14T14:22:44Z")
Any scene with Cuddy or Wilson is great. It’s interesting that House wasn’t particularly mad about them lying to him - I guess because he expects people to lie.
Yeah, the medical stuff stunk in this episode. The [medical reviewer guy](http://politedissent.com/archives/1375) gave it a D.
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451/42 "2006-09-14T15:55:51Z")
> [@faithfool](#):
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> Oh agreed. But I’d just want House for some hot monkey lovin’. Otherwise, his general demeanor would just always piss me off and make me kick him in the leg. 🆒
Yup. He just needs to lay there and look pretty. No pillowtalk, thankyouverymuch!
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451/43 "2006-09-14T16:26:35Z")
> [@Green Bean](#):
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> Oh yeah–I’m also a member of the “I knew it was chimerism the second they mentioned the other DNA” club.
Ditto. I think it’s a sign that I watch Discovery Health too much. But did you see the show where the women learned that their children actually had their absorbed twins’ DNA instead of theirs? One of the poor women almost lost custody of her kids because she “wasn’t their mother” according to DNA tests.
Anyway… does anyone else find themselves wondering if it’ll turn out that House is right and Cuddy is pregnant? And maybe while he was comatose they got a DNA sample from him and… Unethical, sure, but it fits the pattern of late 😃
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451/44 "2006-09-14T16:49:25Z")
Thanks for that website link Eleanor. I am already wasting too much time reading the old reviews … must … resist!
I saw a comment on one of the reviews about House having Blackadder on his TiVO list, maybe it’s a recurring thing? Now I am going to be watching for Blackadder references in every episode.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2006, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451/45 "2006-09-14T17:22:57Z")
> [@Trunk](#):
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> . . .no, I don’t think they said how that thing got in his neck.
I thought they said it broke off the pen he was digging at his neck with. Didn’t Wilson express incredulity that a kid broke off a chunk of something they make jets out of?
Or I might not have been paying attention. I was busy looking for the shark but haven’t sighted it yet. I thought it was Stacy for a while but I guess not.
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### Author:  [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451/46 "2006-09-14T17:28:00Z")
> [@dropzone](#):
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> I was busy looking for the shark but haven’t sighted it yet. I thought it was Stacy for a while but I guess not.
I’m betting that the shark will come in the form of Cuddy’s baby. They’ve been teasing around about Cuddy getting pregnant for so long that I think it’s inevitable that at some point they are gonna give us a baby. The arrival of a baby has been a shark-jumping moment for more shows than I can count.
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### Author:  [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451/47 "2006-09-14T17:48:35Z")
> [@dropzone](#):
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> I thought they said it broke off the pen he was digging at his neck with. Didn’t Wilson express incredulity that a kid broke off a chunk of something they make jets out of?
I think it was a section of bone pin from when the kid had broken his arm a while back and they said that it made it’s way to his neck. They all expressed some incredularity at this, and then left it alone from there.
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### Author:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451/48 "2006-09-14T18:28:29Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#):
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> I think it was a section of bone pin from when the kid had broken his arm a while back and they said that it made it’s way to his neck. They all expressed some incredularity at this, and then left it alone from there.
That’s how I recall it…
Last two episodes is less about the medical mystery and more about House’s recovery or lackthereof, and Wilson/Cuddy dealing with it…
I’m hoping we get back to more of the fun stuff.
You momma so fat…
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451/49 "2006-09-14T19:46:52Z")
> [@Achren](#):
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> Looking around on I saw that John Mayer’s [Gravity](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/johnmayer/gravity.html) is the song. Do the lyrics fit?
Yep, you nailed it. Thank you for the clarification.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451/50 "2006-09-14T19:47:00Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#):
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> You know, for a hospital administrator Cuddy seems to have lots of time to just be hanging around shooting the shit with Wilson. It’s nice when your hospital runs itself.
I knew a machine repairman in the factory who told me, “When you see me with my feet up, it means I did everything right the first time.”
I never saw _Blackadder_. So, was this “cunning plan” business a running joke? Something like, “I have a plan so cunning, it has a clitoris.” 😛
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451/51 "2006-09-14T20:24:01Z")
> [@AskNott](#):
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> I never saw _Blackadder_. So, was this “cunning plan” business a running joke? Something like, “I have a plan so cunning, it has a clitoris.” 😛
Basically Blackadder is the central character in the series, which takes place in different time periods each season. Blackadder is the stronger, supposedly smarter (er, not in the first season) but oppressed sort of guy who gets into scrapes. Has a sidekick sort of guy named Baldrick who is even more oppressed and really quite dim. Whenever there’s a scrape (and most episodes involve a scrape), Baldrick always comes up with a “cunning plan” to get them out of it. Except most of the time the cunning plan is utter bullshit and makes no sense. Laughter ensues.
Sort of like Pinky and the Brain, where Pinky is Baldrick and the Brain is Blackadder.
Hugh Laurie’s characters wouldn’t have ever had a “cunning plan” (or actually, wouldn’ thave announced it like Baldrick does) but it would be known as a catch phrase from the show.
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### Author:  [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451/52 "2006-09-14T20:57:20Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> Baldrick always comes up with a “cunning plan” to get them out of it. Except most of the time the cunning plan is utter bullshit and makes no sense. Laughter ensues.
And many of the really good lines out of Blackadder involve Blackadder putting down Baldric’s ideas.
“Baldric, you wouldn’t know a cunning plan if it painted itself purple and jumped up and down on a harpsichord singing ‘Cunning Plans Are Here Again’.”
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451/53 "2006-09-14T21:08:24Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#):
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> I think it was a section of bone pin from when the kid had broken his arm a while back and they said that it made it’s way to his neck. They all expressed some incredularity at this, and then left it alone from there.
The only way the pin in the neck possibly makes sense is if the kid put it there himself. The way I figure it, when he got his arm pinned together (or got the pins removed), the doctor said “Here’s what we’re putting in your arm” and gave him pin to play with. Then, while in the course of one of his hallucinations, he stuck it under the skin at the back of his neck (after seeing an old X-Files episode).
This is the only thing that would explain the utter unlikelihood of a pin migrating to the typical UFO chip implanting site AND the kid knowing that it was there.
Anyway, that’s the story I’m telling myself to keep this episode from being totally baffling.
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### Author:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451/54 "2006-09-14T23:57:49Z")
SOmething else that occured to me today…
House was implying that the ‘alien cells’, the cells from the superimposed twin, were somehow playing mindgames and trying to take over…
A subtle ploy of life begins at conception?
As opposed to the way CSI handled it as a physioligical anomaly that had no affect other than 2 sets of DNA?
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### Author:  [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451/55 "2006-09-15T13:34:33Z")
> [@simster](#):
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> SOmething else that occured to me today…
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> House was implying that the ‘alien cells’, the cells from the superimposed twin, were somehow playing mindgames and trying to take over…
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> A subtle ploy of life begins at conception?
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> As opposed to the way CSI handled it as a physioligical anomaly that had no affect other than 2 sets of DNA?
I’d be surprised if this show is promoting the idea that life begins at conception. I think that was just House being obnoxious. He has fondness for analogies - he’s always irritated when Cameron can’t explain her ideas in analogy form.
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### Author:  [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-9-12/372451/56 "2006-09-15T18:31:03Z")
OK, I finally got a chance to watch my TiVo of this ep last night.
That was the worst episode of House I’ve seen to date. I think there must have been some major defections from the writing staff over the break, because the first two episodes this season have been seriously weak. Like third-season David E. Kelley series weak.
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