# House season premiere tonight - 20 Sept. 2010. Warning - open spoilers may be likely. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480 "2010-09-20T23:20:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/41 "2010-09-22T08:59:10Z")
> [@Lakai](#): > > I wanted to slap House when he tried to break up with Cuddy. I saw this more as testing her resolve. > [@fusoya](#): > > every episode was either lupus “It’s _ **never** _ Lupus!” > [@Zeldar](#): > > I won’t even try to defend the formula, since I started a thread not too long ago lampooning it, down to the timing of “the look” which tends to occur at the :50 (give or take :05) mark week after week.. I keep expecting a glowing lightbulb graphic to appear above his head. It’s fun to try and predict it before it happens. Also, formulaic shows are good for drinking games… > [@Zeldar](#): > > 1. Perfectly ordinary day going on for some attractive, physically fit individual I see the formula more as: Some individual in their daily life seems like something might be wrong with them. But no, it was just a hiccup or something. Fake out! Suddenly, someone _else_ in their vicinity collapses and must be rushed to the hospital. > [@Earthbound\_Misfit\_I](#): > > I don’t think I could stand a happy House either. What makes the show worth watching is how crass House is! Well, there’s levels to House - sarcastic, tell it like it is, and truly crass. I’m quite happy with just a sarcastic, tell it like it is House, without needing the overboard crassness. I’m not a Huddy fan though. I always saw his exgirlfriend (the woman from Sisters) as a better match. But I don’t think Huddy is doomed. He was making a lot of personal progress with the woman he met at the psych center. Also, that had to be one of the least sexy scenes in TV history. House was oozing blood and covered in dust and mud. Yech! ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/42 "2010-09-22T09:10:22Z")
I’m sure it’s obvious, but who is Huddy? ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/43 "2010-09-22T12:18:45Z")
Huddy = House + Cuddy relationship. ---
**Author:** ![Earthbound\_Misfit\_I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Earthbound\_Misfit\_I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthbound_Misfit_I)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/44 "2010-09-23T01:11:27Z")
Let me be the first to say, “I truly am sorry” > [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Why the hell would you assume House-in-a-relationship would be Happy House? \*\* No relationship has ever made _me_ particularly happy!\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Earthbound\_Misfit\_I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Earthbound\_Misfit\_I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthbound_Misfit_I)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/45 "2010-09-23T01:16:05Z")
Isn’t Stacy (chick from Sisters) House’s ex-wife? > [@jackdavinci](#): > > I’m not a Huddy fan though. **I always saw his exgirlfriend (the woman from Sisters) as a better match.** But I don’t think Huddy is doomed. He was making a lot of personal progress with the woman he met at the psych center. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/46 "2010-09-23T03:13:41Z")
Ex-girlfriend. For some reason, no woman has ever wanted to be Mrs. Gregory House. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/47 "2010-09-23T04:12:15Z")
Am I the only one who thinks Wilson may have been right and House is indeed hallucinating the presence of Cuddy? ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/48 "2010-09-23T06:44:47Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Am I the only one who thinks Wilson may have been right and House is indeed hallucinating the presence of Cuddy? I really don’t think they are going to go there. We already explored that storyline. They haven’t yet explored House and Cuddy actually trying to have a relationship, so that’s more likely. Plus, it took years of gradually increasing his dose to get to the point of hallucination. I don’t think 2 pills would have gotten him to that point after a year of sobriety. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/49 "2010-09-23T13:34:11Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Am I the only one who thinks Wilson may have been right and House is indeed hallucinating the presence of Cuddy? That wouldn’t explain Cuddy’s absence from the hospital while the problem with the neurosurgeon was happening, or the multiple scenes from upcoming episodes where House and Cuddy clearly are an item. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/50 "2010-09-23T15:14:26Z")
If the House/Cuddy relationship dissolves, we’ll always have Cuddy’s butt cleavage to remember. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/51 "2010-09-23T16:11:58Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > > [@davidm](#): > > > > Am I the only one who thinks Wilson may have been right and House is indeed hallucinating the presence of Cuddy? > > That wouldn’t explain Cuddy’s absence from the hospital while the problem with the neurosurgeon was happening, or the multiple scenes from upcoming episodes where House and Cuddy clearly are an item. So farm nobody has seen House and Cuddy together. The writers could milk that for the entire season, having House talk aout their relationship and everyone else saying “Yeah, right.” ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/52 "2010-09-23T19:30:31Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > So farm nobody has seen House and Cuddy together. The writers could milk that for the entire season, having House talk aout their relationship and everyone else saying “Yeah, right.” It’s possible, but the scenes from next week tend make me question that. OTOH, they could end the entire season with a Dallas type ending where the entire season was a dream. Maybe the season will end with someone rescuing House from the bottom of the collapsed building. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/53 "2010-09-23T20:42:24Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > > > So farm nobody has seen House and Cuddy together. The writers could milk that for the entire season, having House talk aout their relationship and everyone else saying “Yeah, right.” > > It’s possible, but the scenes from next week tend make me question that. > OTOH, they could end the entire season with a Dallas type ending where the entire season was a dream. Maybe the season will end with someone rescuing House from the bottom of the collapsed building. I would be very disappointed if they did something like making _everthing_ in the whole season an hallucination. It’s unfair to the viewer and takes no writing skill to pull off. But I could see the writers very cleverly depicting an entirely hallucinatory relationship in ways that make it non-obvious or at least less obvious. Sort of like in a certain movie that I don’t want to spoil for anyone who hasn’t seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/54 "2010-09-23T20:55:16Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > But I could see the writers very cleverly depicting an entirely hallucinatory relationship in ways that make it non-obvious or at least less obvious. Well they’re not being too clever about it. After Amber, I’m on full-on “hallucination alert” and I was watching closely for this sort of thing. Kinda like watching **Mission: Impossible** knowing that anyone at any time could be wearing one of those rubber masks. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/55 "2010-09-23T21:28:01Z")
If it was an hallucination, where was Cuddy all day? How could it possibly be that House just happened to have a psychotic break on the very day Cuddy went AWOL? If this does play out as a dream or whatever I’ve watched my last episode of House. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/56 "2010-09-23T21:30:03Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > > [@davidm](#): > > > > But I could see the writers very cleverly depicting an entirely hallucinatory relationship in ways that make it non-obvious or at least less obvious. > > Well they’re not being too clever about it. After Amber, I’m on full-on “hallucination alert” and I was watching closely for this sort of thing. Kinda like watching **Mission: Impossible** knowing that anyone at any time could be wearing one of those rubber masks. Yea, I think they’d be more likely to do it in ways that make it an obvious possibility but keep us guessing. Of course, Cuddy hiding anytime some one walks in on them would get a little ridiculous after a while. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/57 "2010-09-23T21:31:57Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > If it was an hallucination, where was Cuddy all day? How could it possibly be that House just happened to have a psychotic break on the very day Cuddy went AWOL? > > If this does play out as a dream or whatever I’ve watched my last episode of House. I don’t recall, did they ever specifically say that Cuddy wasn’t at the hospital? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/58 "2010-09-23T22:05:39Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > > [@Contrapuntal](#): > > > > If it was an hallucination, where was Cuddy all day? How could it possibly be that House just happened to have a psychotic break on the very day Cuddy went AWOL? > > > > If this does play out as a dream or whatever I’ve watched my last episode of House. > > I don’t recall, did they ever specifically say that Cuddy wasn’t at the hospital? Yeah. That’s why the new assistant was having to deal the disappearance of the neurosurgeon and with having the ER and the trauma center shut down. Don’t you suppose he would have gone straight to her if she were on site? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/59 "2010-09-23T22:42:08Z")
Besides, the whole reason the assistant had to deal with the disappearance of the neurosurgeon was because House had let the neurosurgeon go home after answering Cuddy’s phone. If this had all been one complex hallucination, House wouldn’t have her phone. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/60 "2010-09-23T22:47:41Z")
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