# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**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 24, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/61 "2010-09-24T02:27:27Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > > [@davidm](#): > > > > 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? Yea, I forgot about that part. She may simply have been at home. I know others have objected that that’s just to convenient but consider what her and House were just through at the accident site. It’s not unreasonable that they may have both felt they needed a day off to recuperate physically and emotionally. I’m not saying that’s what happened, just that I can imagine the writers doing it. ---
**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 24, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/62 "2010-09-24T02:28:34Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > 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. Good point. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/63 "2010-09-24T12:29:55Z")
In the last hallucination, he thought he had her lipstick. But he didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/64 "2010-09-24T21:02:00Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > > [@Contrapuntal](#): > > > > 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? > > Yea, I forgot about that part. She may simply have been at home. I know others have objected that that’s just to convenient but consider what her and House were just through at the accident site. It’s not unreasonable that they may have both felt they needed a day off to recuperate physically and emotionally. She would take a day off when she’s down to one neurosurgeon (who is ill) and about to lose her ER and trauma center? [QUOTE=Sigma Girl] In the last hallucination, he thought he had her lipstick. But he didn’t. [/QUOTE] So? How did that affect the hospital? ---
**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 25, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/65 "2010-09-25T00:15:13Z")
Oh, Cripes! Why did I forget that? > [@salinqmind](#): > > Ex-girlfriend. For some reason, no woman has ever wanted to be Mrs. Gregory House. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/66 "2010-09-25T23:18:11Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > > [@davidm](#): > > > > Yea, I forgot about that part. She may simply have been at home. I know others have objected that that’s just to convenient but consider what her and House were just through at the accident site. It’s not unreasonable that they may have both felt they needed a day off to recuperate physically and emotionally. > > She would take a day off when she’s down to one neurosurgeon (who is ill) and about to lose her ER and trauma center? But she didn’t know that, did she? House told her assistant she was sick and needed the day off and for him to use his own brain. Then he told Chase to tell the assistant he could do neurosurgery in order to keep the ER and ICU open. The assistant didn’t buy that of course. But House intercepted the assistant’s calls and kept Cuddy in the dark so that she would stay at his place. And probably later he would use that to make the point to Cuddy that the hospital won’t fall apart if she’s not there every minute. And later, when Wilson arrived, Cuddy hid, so Wilson couldn’t relay her the information. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480/67 "2010-09-29T05:47:36Z")
I’m also not convinced something funny isn’t going on. She is a little too enthusiastic about things. If one is going back into what one knows is a troublesome relationship, you are not going to be all cuddles and sunshine. You are going to be scared, exhilarated and passionate. You are going to be swept away, not just merrily playing board games. And it’s not going to be a sudden “Ok, yeah lets do this” thing. It’s going to have some moments of real self-reflection. And her hiding made no sense, according to the things she was saying. It just didn’t fit together right. Something more is going on. I don’t see how it could have happened, but could she have died? Or something? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-tonight-20-sept-2010-warning-open-spoilers-may-be-likely/554480.md?page=3)