At least once every show they do one of these while walking down the hall. The coke was cut with milk powder. Maybe the same stuff that House was playing with a minute ago? Could it be that the POW is allergic to milk? Well, my kids both had this milk protein allergy thing when they were babies. They had to drink special pre-digested formula. It was as gross as it sounds. And it cost more than premium gas did last month. No sleepwalking, but they sure stayed up a lot at night. And that's how I tie two plot threads together. They could totally hire me to write this show. My proposal for next week, in case David Shore is reading this: House referees a slapping match between Lucas and Wilson. At least one Houseguest gets fired for five minutes. The POW doesn't have cancer. Done. Call my people, kay?
Cuddy's baby-to-be is getting some steroids for lung development. Cuddy tells baby mama not to feel bad. If she had lived a perfect life, Cuddy wouldn't be getting a baby. Wow, is it all about Cuddy or what? Now someone else's problems are justified, because they might make Cuddy's life better, because she gets to take someone else's bundle of Joy. Baby mama thinks Cuddy has a perfect life, which just proves she's never watched this show. Baby mama then begins to hemorrhage, because we always have uncontrolled bleeding at the halfway point. Don't believe me? Go back and check. Now we have TWO POWs and a baby! Double the pleasure, double the gore.
Cuddy tells House that the baby's lungs are 10 weeks premature. Should she deliver now and risk the baby, or wait and risk the mother? And why is she asking House's opinion, anyway? He's not a neonatologist (and how I know that word is a long story). House says she should deliver now, but it's Opposite Day, and he's messing with her head. He really thinks she should wait. By some twisted House logic (she changed out of her baby-puke sweater), he figured out that Cuddy wants the baby NOWNOWNOW, which means she secretly hopes the baby might die so she can back out. That's cold, even for House.
Next stop on House's abuse tour: Wilson's office. "It's not cancer," Wilson says before House can barely open his mouth. I must say, they're really turning up the snark this week. Wilson says the POW is just an excuse for House to gripe about Cuddy. Wilson thinks House is jealous that Cuddy is moving on to the next stage of life. Wilson's right, of course, which explains why House is acting like a 10-year-old.
Neener neener, gotcha last!
The POW's sleepwalking seems to have stopped. It was the coke. But now he's sweating blood. It wasn't the coke. Soooo, back we go to...
Name That Disease: It's Not Too Late To Blame Cancer Round
Louie brings up leukemia. House orders up a bone marrow biopsy. They've been going to that one a lot lately. Meanwhile, Cuddy takes House's advice and tells the baby mama that she should wait to have the baby. Baby mama says she doesn't want to wait. She wants the baby out and doesn't want to risk her own health. Cuddy pulls out her best Emmy speech and tells the baby mama to hang in there. Waiting it out would break the cycle of loserhood and give the baby a chance at a better life. Baby mama's not listening. We're having a baby tonight!
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Comments (5)
Aww, really? You didn't like the House-Cuddy hook-up at the end? I thought that was the greatest thing to happen all episode, and all season as well.
The episode was very very good in my opinion; cool story with the whole lack-of-pleasure disease, and when the baby-with-premature-lungs came out I started bawling. Fun times all 'round!
You had me giggling uncontrollably with the "sleep-drives, sleep-buys, et.al" schtick, because it reminded me so much of those shows like The Jetsons, where they would take something ordinary and easily found in real life and just add "space" on to it, i.e. "space casserole, space bike". Loverly.
1 of 5 | Posted by alex_w | Posted on November 1, 2008 7:46 PM
This was a better than average episode... and a fine recap.
I liked seeing more of the soft side of Cuddy. (Now, put her back into the totally age-inappropriate clothing!)
2 of 5 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on November 2, 2008 11:18 AM
Just goes to show how far opinions can vary: I hated this episode. In fact, now that I think about it, was it directed or written by a cast member? some newbie? some nephew of a producer?
It sucked all the way around for me.
3 of 5 | Posted by Memememe | Posted on November 2, 2008 11:49 AM
OMG that was great -- my boss was the only one of us who DIDN'T watch it this week, and she forgot to TiVO it, so we all were jumping up and down about the end, and she was like "what? whaaaat?!" - we didn't tell her, made her wait for her to watch it on USA on the weekend. We're mean like that.
Anyway, I thought it was good.
4 of 5 | Posted by killbondnow | Posted on November 3, 2008 1:48 AM
Last time I saw the baby mama was in the movie The Baby-Sitters Club, where she played a kid they baby-sat.
It was weird seeing her all grown up.
5 of 5 | Posted by mermaidtricks | Posted on November 18, 2008 3:58 PM