Louise and his wife are having dinner in a depressing-looking house. I would so not put the two of them together. He makes up a story about having stumbled across her secret bank account. Surprise! She's buying him an $83,000 car. Oops.
This beer pairs well with foot.
Back in the fishbowl that passes for a hospital room, Breck is off the drugs and flirting with 13. He pulls her into the bed with him and gets another shot to the nose for his trouble. Dude, you didn't see her scoping your girlfriend? She's scheduled to play for the other team this week.
Louise proudly tells House that he confronted his wife, and that the money is for a gift. I understand why he's bragging. It takes mad skillz to get one's foot that far into one's mouth. House, not impressed, continues to push Louise's buttons.
House arrives home to find Lucas going through his closet. He's looking for the dirt he promised Cuddy. They're plotting something. Ah, House is actually using Lucas to get dirt on Cuddy. He says it's to get leverage at work, but Lucas says they're both interested in Cuddy and "we'll see who gets there first". He's not that bad a detective if he picked up on the House / Cuddy vibe. No one else on the show has. His stock goes up a couple of points. May the creepiest loser win.
Louise has a heart-to-heart with Breck about keeping secrets from one's significant other. Louise tries to talk Breck out of coming clean to his girlfriend. But the really important thing in this scene is that 13's last name gets mentioned. It's Hadley. I know I've heard it before, but it's so forgettable. Pop quiz: how many Houseguest first names can you name? I mean without IMDB. The only one I know for sure is Cameron's: it's Allison. And I'm pretty sure Foreman's is Eric, because I thought it was funny that two major Fox characters had exactly the same name.
Brothers from different mothers.
Brothers from different mothers.
While we're quibbling about names, House and Louise quibble some more about Louise's marriage, and Breck gets zapped with paddles. Huh, House almost never resorts to a paddling. Not gory enough, I guess. They notice that Breck's hair is changing color. Was that product placement I just did?
Name That Disease, round 6 (I think... I lost count): I like to call this one the Inappropriate Analogy Round. This week's analogy involves Pete Best, ex-Beatles drummer. It has something to do with Breck's heart rate. I'm not sure I follow, but I don't see a lightbulb face, so we can safely skip it.
Cuddy and Lucas are on a date. Sort of. He shows her a college photo of House... as a cheerleader! For this, I have no words. In exchange, Cuddy lets him ask her three personal questions. What a fantastic date idea. Lucas says that she should have been shocked by the photo, but she wasn't, so she believes it's a fake. Which means that she's smart enough for him, but she also knows House is playing her, so he's busted. Got all that? If not, go watch the scene in The Princess Bride where Westley matches wits with Vizzini. Same idea, much funnier. Lucas starts to walk out, but pulls a Columbo and stays because she played along with the game -- she must be interested in him.
Inconceivable!
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Comments (6)
Good recap. I also thought it was the best episode this season, although am totally not buying Cuddy's Stockholm Syndrome (sort of). Women usually aren't turned on by stalkers. A MAN totally wrote in that storyline.
Sadly, there was no Wilson-House this time... *sigh*. Oh, and I lol'd at the Eric Forman thing. It was always strange to me as well.
1 of 6 | Posted by alex_w | Posted on October 4, 2008 1:26 PM
Very good recap. I agree with alex_w.
I don't agree about the car - seems like it is MADE for a short, middle aged, tired looking bald guy with a mid life crisis.
Any young, handsome hunk you see driving one is probably either a car salesmen, a valet, or dating a rich cougar.
2 of 6 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on October 4, 2008 4:42 PM
I agree, this was the best episode of the season so far. Lucas is a really good character and I'm really starting to like the role he plays. He and House have good chemistry...
I think the writers are digging into the characters of the new doctors (Talb, 13, and Kumar). Its about damn time too! Its weird to give them so much time on the show and we (the viewers) don't know anything about them....
excellent recap :)
3 of 6 | Posted by KrispyDixie | Posted on October 5, 2008 3:47 AM
This might have been the best episode of the season so far, but we all know this season has absolutely sucked. It's been shockingly bad, and I didn't think it could get worse than last season.
If I'm reading between the lines right, I think Taub's secret is that he is sleeping around on his wife.
I think Chase's first name is Robert. Speaking of Cameron & Chase, how pissed must they be about being nearly totally replaced on this show, while Foreman still gets a bunch of screen time every week?
I appreciate your use of Princess Bride references. They were spot on. You know, too, I had to look up Breckin Meyer. He looked familiar and I didn't know why. It took going allllll the way back the 90's before I got it. He played Travis in Clueless (the movie).
4 of 6 | Posted by Memememe | Posted on October 5, 2008 8:47 AM
@alex_w: I also think Cuddy's interest in a guy that's going through her personal things stretches the limits of disbelief. They better be coming up with some really screwball backstory for her to explain all that.
@fire@will: I see Louie driving a Buick. I don't see him as the midlife-crisis sort, but we don't really know him well enough to see him as anything. But maybe he's about to surprise us.
@Memememe: Every conversation can be improved by a Princess Bride reference. Never go in against a Sicilian WHEN DEATH IS ON THE LINE!
(Also, Clueless was a great movie.)
5 of 6 | Posted by copyhacker | Posted on October 5, 2008 8:12 PM
re: what taub did?
am i mistaken or didn't he leave his last job because he cheated on his wife? i thought we found this out during the whole contest thing.
anyways, i enjoyed this ep. lucas is annoying but i love his and house's scenes together. him and cuddy i'm not really feeling. if more lucas means less 13 then i'm all for it.
6 of 6 | Posted by MsMonis | Posted on October 6, 2008 3:16 PM