OK, I'm all business this week, kids. Straight to the prologue we go, to a classroom where children are making crafts out of pipe cleaners. At first it looks like a preschool class, but here's a boy who's about 20. OK, maybe not quite, but definitely too old to be making things out of pipe cleaners. Oh, it's that kind of class. He's a creepy Damien kind of cute. He asks embarrassing questions about love and marriage and each answer the teacher gives him is mushier than the last. He spills his glitter all over the girl next to him, she wets her pants and then the nice teacher coughs up blood on the girl and collapses. Who don't know that bleeding out of facial orifices means major trouble on TV? She should really be glad it wasn't her nose.
Because then she'd either have superpowers or be time-skipping on Craphole Island.
Cameron catches House stealing a bagel from the cafeteria and gives him the teacher's case. House wants to know why Cameron is handing out cases. "Babysitting you," she says. Cuddy picked Cameron because she's supposed to be immune to House after working under him for so long. So to speak. House says she'll put out eventually. "That's why I took the job," she says, all ironically flirty. I guess Chase might not have enough baggage for her--but I'm betting she's just taking House for a ride. So to speak.
The Houseguests find out that Daddy is taking orders from Cameron. Foreman thinks "she's going to mark her territory... she'll probably overcompensate and destroy you." I can't say the words "Cameron" and "destroy" in the same sentence without laughing. So this is Powerpuff Cameron we're talking about, not High School Musical Cameron, right? They let Powerpuff out to play every once in awhile and it's always kind of weird. Like where did this chick come from? Anywho, Foreman thinks the problem is in the POW's blood. Makes sense to me since she did cough up blood and all. 13 disagrees. House thinks they're disagreeing because they slept together. "How about you just judge our ideas on their own merit?" asks 13. House: "Oh, you don't want me to do that."
Three snaps in a Z formation!
Kumar and 13 jab a giant needle into Miss Frizzle, who doesn't even flinch. "I just went to my happy place," she says, which I'm guessing is somewhere on Sesame Street. "We cannot let House anywhere near this woman," observes 13.
OK, class, if you aren't in YOUR happy place yet, raise your hands if you know where this is going. I haven't come up with a snappy label for it yet, but this is one of those episodes where a POW has an extreme personality trait that makes House examine his extreme personality traits, and then it turns out that the weird personality was a symptom of whatever disease they had. (Except symptoms are never caused by weird diseases on this show. It's always chicken pox or lead poisoning.)
Cuddy and Wilson are in the baby's nursery oohing and aahing. Did they renovate a spare room in the hospital? Is there an express bus between the hospital and Cuddy's house? It's had more visitors than the ER lately. Wilson wants to know what the baby's like, and Cuddy doesn't understand the question. "What's she like? She eats and sleeps and cries and poops." She's upset because she hasn't bonded with the baby yet. Oh. Come. On. Bonding happens, people. Dirty secret: babies kinda have to grow on you. Women think that babies are all hearts and butterflies and then it's a big letdown when they get pooped on. Men expect to get pooped on and then they're pleasantly surprised when something positive happens. Be more like us dudes, why don'tcha?
Zen Master Wilson had a profound impact on my outlook last week.
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Comments (2)
How did Foreman know the real drug from the placebo when it's a double blind trial? Did he open it up and smell it? *sigh*
Also, why did the teacher start having symptoms from this condition at this point after having it since infancy?
I know, it's House, it doesn't have to make sense. So many shows are this way now. Can you say "lazy writers"?
1 of 2 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on January 30, 2009 9:06 PM
I just had a bad thought.
Foreman probably knows that Janice is taking the real drug.
He also probably knows Janice's number. What if he switched her's and 13's bags?
I hope he didn't. He better not have.
I don't like Foreman or 13 anyway, but I like Janice. :(
2 of 2 | Posted by Aquaria2291 | Posted on February 3, 2009 5:43 PM