House’s characters – a different point of view
“Meet my diagnostic posse… Hot, Dark and Darker.” – House
We have become accustomed to knowing the characters on House through the viewer’s eyes. And why not? It’s what TV does. “Locked In,” though, provided us a couple of new opportunities for getting to know House and his hospital colleagues, while inserting humor in a new way in this show I’ve grown to love for its wise-guy quotes.
Mos Def’s Lee, the locked-in patient, gives us a new perspective on House’s and Cuddy’s relationship. We know there’s something there and we know they are often over-the-top nasty to each other even through their flirtation. What we don’t get to see as often is the tenderness they have for one another. Lee remarks that he’s the patient, but Cuddy’s more worried about House’s boo-boo than she is about him.
Taub dies on House – ya think?
OK, maybe that’s not even remotely true, but after watching this week’s episode of House, I have some theories as to why there’s a good chance that what we’ll be seeing is the suicide of Dr. Taub. Heck, even TV Guide agrees with me, so I can’t be completely all wet, right?
Taub’s been less than enthusiastic about his life this season — and that’s putting it mildly. His marriage pretty much sucks (he cheated); he wants kids, she doesn’t. His finances are in the crapper. We knew he rather liked plastic surgery but gave all that up for the wife, and now we know that his new job with House pretty much scares him … to death?
House – Cameron says yes to House
(Season 5, Episode 13 – “Big Baby”)
Tonight’s episode was almost typical House, but something was just a bit off throughout every storyline. It was as if a writer who never worked on House before wrote this episode solo, because although it was still pretty good, it just didn’t click.
For instance, House is usually so quotable that I am pausing my DVR every few minutes to type in the good quotes. Just last week, I did an entire post full of the House quotes alone. This week, I still laughed out loud, but there just weren’t as many stand-alone quotes as there usually are.
Quotation Marks – Dwight Schrute, Edie Britt, and Dr. House
(Week of Dec. 13, 2008)
“I may be a ho, but I’m not a crack ho.” – Cops
“Falalalala-lala-ka-ching.” – Dwight, on his his plan to buy all the unicorn dolls from local stores and sell them to desperate parents at a huge profit, The Office
Desperate Housewives:
“You are my rock Lynette.” – Tom
“Tom, your rock is trying to get fingerprints off a weapon, do you mind?” – Lynette
“Two of my friends involved in a nasty catfight? I live for that stuff!” – Edie
I just realized I miss House’s P.I.
One of the best things about the beginning of House, season five, was that cool private investigator that House hired to do his dirty work. I’ve been loving the last few episodes of House, so I didn’t realize that I missed him until it suddenly dawned on me out of the blue: Michael Weston, where’d you go?
More accurately, Lucas Douglas, played by Michael Weston (not to be confused with Jeffrey Donovan’s character on Burn Notice, Michael Westen; follow along …) – where are you? You are missed! From the moment we met the P.I., posing as a toaster oven repairman in the doctor’s lounge in episode two, “Not Cancer,” he had a fun and unique personality.
House’s practical joke took the cake this week
I wrote earlier this week about how refreshing it was that House’s new team was finally getting some personality. A good part of this is due to Kutner’s foray into Internet medical advice; you know, his website giving second opinions as the famous Dr. House. As commenter Derek mentioned, Kutner is book smart but people dumb, which, although it makes us bang our heads against the wall watching him sometimes, surely worked in our favor this week, since he underestimated House.
Seriously, how could Kutner not even entertain the thought that House might find out about the website? We all know that House does have a personality, and that his retribution would be good. I wasn’t banking on how good, though.
Cuddy’s and House’s foreplay never climaxes
Cuddy and House go back and forth with the cat-and-mouse games over her moving into his office this week, and the whole thing is so sexually charged that it comes off rather like foreplay. I felt a bit like a voyeur watching them (as did the whole team, I think!), but it was some good fun, House-style.
How about some of the quotes that resulted from their tete-a-tete?
- “Other than throwing off the Feng Shui with her ass that faces all eight sides of the bagua at once … ?” — House, to Kutner who asks what Cuddy is doing in his office
- “Have you seen my balls? The giant one and the red one.” — House, trying to get Cuddy off the phone and out of his office.
“I just had to explain to him that I have his balls and I’m not giving them back.” — Cuddy, to person on the other line of the phone. - House, on groping Cuddy instead of kissing her: “It seemed like the logical next step.”
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