Hey House peeps! We're back from winter break with a new episode of House! My fingers (not to mention my ears) are still sore from recapping last week's American Idol. Maybe House has a cure for me. Anyway, this recap should have come out at least a day sooner, but I totally missed that House moved to Mondays. We've waited long enough--let's get to it, and I promise I'll try really hard not to get House and Simon mixed up.
A guy is writing a letter. He signs it "I'm sorry", takes off his wedding ring and drops it on the letter. He grabs his car keys and an armful of clothes out of the closet. So he's running out on his wife and kid, right? WRONG. Wife and kid come home unexpectedly to retrieve the kid's forgotten hockey stick. Dad's sitting in his classic Camaro, pumping his lungs full of fumes. In a span of about three seconds, Supermom dials 911 and gives Dad CPR. He wakes up and says sorry, but he couldn't take the pain anymore.
Death Cab For Daddy
House is sitting in his bathtub massaging his gimpy leg and chilling after a good performance on Leno last week. (Did you guys catch Band From TV? If not, you can watch here unless it gets some lawyer's nose all out of joint. It'll freak you out to watch Hugh Laurie having fun.) So, next morning, he's off to work where he gives Cuddy a hard time about coming in late because she has a baby now. The baby's name is Rachel. Does that have some symbolic meaning or am I just all hung up on Lost this week?
[Recappin' it Old Testament style: Rachel was the girl that Jacob worked seven years to marry, but her dad (who was also Jacob's uncle, ewww) stuck him with her older sister Leah instead. Jacob had to work seven more years before Pops caved and gave him Rachel too. Now I don't watch Big Love or anything, but I'm guessing being married to sisters is even worse than being married to two women who aren't related. Anyway, if you can make a connection to House somehow, please enlighten us all and then get over to the Lost forums. They'll need your giant brain.]
Cuddy says she has a DYFS (social services, I guess) visit coming up, so she's spending extra time at home eating stress ice cream getting ready for the inspection. House counters that he has an WHORE visit coming up, and you don't see him skipping work. Last I remember, he just brought the WHORE to his office, so that doesn't really count, does it? Cuddy would also be waiting for a budget report from House, but Cameron did it for him in exchange for a favor. No, not that kind of favor, she did that already back in season 1 or 2. She has a patient she wants House to look at. It's none other than Fumidad, of course. He has chronic pain, so I'm pretty sure House would have taken the case anyway. During Name That Disease, Cameron says something snippy to 13 and Foreman sticks up for her. 13 smirks. Take that, skank!
My man can beat up your man!
House gives out the week's assignments. Louie interviews the POW and family to find out if the pain is real, or all in his head. Foreteen is going to do the unlawful entry this week. No, not some kinky dress-up game--just the usual breaking into the POW's house. As Louie asks a bunch of "are you really in pain or just nuts" questions of the POW and his wife, Foreman and 13 mess around in the POW's garage. He notes that she's been avoiding him since the Christmas Smooch. Sorry Eric, but all TV relationships work this way. Just be glad she's not using you to hook up with the hot wino chick next door, who just broke up with the troubled inner-city kid who wears wifebeaters and lives in your pool house and oh, wrong show. I get my bisexual romantic subplots featuring Olivia Wilde mixed up so easily. Man, I miss The OC. Foreman thought she was over the whole whats-the-point-cuz-I'm-DYIN phase. Not sure where that falls on the whole denial-anger-acceptance scale, but anyway. "I'm not giving up on life, I'm giving up on you," she says, which is way harsher than what she means, which is that she's moved on to the don't-get-close-to-me-cuz-I'm-DYIN phase. They find a whole flock of frozen quail in the freezer, which could be causing his pain--somehow or other. I'm just going to skip it because we all know it's not the problem.
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Comments (3)
Explorers with River Phoenix! What'd I win?
Loved the recap too! So glad House is back.
1 of 3 | Posted by chooch850 | Posted on January 24, 2009 6:53 AM
You won a free snicker, of course. I'll even throw in another one if you want!
2 of 3 | Posted by copyhacker | Posted on January 26, 2009 6:51 AM
Way late, but just some thoughts about naming the baby Rachel. Cuddy is the Jacob in the story, I think, because in the episode about that stupid crackhead mom who STOLE HER BABY (yes, I'm still mad about that) she worked really hard and did everything that she was supposed to do, but she didn't get what was promised to her, like Jacob. But then, she like put herself out there again with the teenage mom who died, and finally got what was coming to her. So the baby she has now is effectively her "Rachel". Like..her just reward.
Or they just named the baby Rachel cuz they like the name. Who knows with these writers anyway?
Love the recaps, thanks! :D
3 of 3 | Posted by Aquaria2291 | Posted on February 3, 2009 3:28 PM