This was a good return to form for House. All the characters got face time and some good lines, House was funny, and there was even a bit of sexy sex. My favorite! Plus, more recognizable guests stars, including this chick who has been around, and looked the same, forever. This lady has found the fountain of youth. She was in Indian Summer, for gawd’s sake. She will eternally play the power mom, as she’s doing here in her perfect upper middle class world, where she flits from being the perfect mom to the perfect businesswoman to the perfect wife. The one catch seems to be that she’s having trouble getting pregnant again, but that’s not slowing her down, no sirree! She’s off to save the day at the work site! No reason why this won’t go smoothly!
Unfortunately, she starts having muscle spasms in her arms, but true to type, she ignores them and gets in her car. Which she promptly crashes, because she no longer has muscle control. Oh well. On to the hospital, where Wilson is agog at House’s freshly ironed shirt and wonders if something’s up with Stacy. “I don’t kiss and tell,” says House. Except, of course, when you say you don’t kiss and tell. Then you have, in fact, kissed and told.
Wilson is somewhat overly involved in the issue. He wants to know if Stacy’s leaving Mark, if House and Stacy talked things through, etc. House is happy to dismiss all these boring, serious questions in favor of being rude to Cameron about the new patient, and also about her HIV test. Well, he’s insensitive about it, but obviously he cares since he remembered.
They discuss the patient….well, the Outhouses discuss the patient while House complains about the lack of animal crackers. Foreman is sick of trying to control House, and has basically decided not to try to engage him any more. Put a fork in him, he’s done!
The patient is on fertility treatments, so the Outhouses try to think of links between that and the muscle spasms. House decides she must be pregnant. Of course. In the hospital room, Margo’s still flailing about as husband and daughter look on. There’s something unnerving about that daughter…wait a second…could it be…(rewinding, rewinding) it’s a mini-er Fanning! Hello Elle Fanning, younger sister of child star phenom Dakota Fanning. Welcome.
Scene break, and Wilson is barging into Stacy’s office yelling about what exactly the hell is going on. I guess the reason he’s so interested is that he’s been dealing with the fallout of House and Stacy’s breakup for the last five years, and isn’t really looking forward to a replay. Stacy tries to say that it was just a kiss, but then admits she doesn’t know what she wants. Oh god, here comes the Harpsichord of Longing. I have a feeling it’s going to play a central role in this episode.
Back in Margo’s room, she coming to after being put under and having an MRI. The fact that she had an MRI means she’s not pregnant, but it also showed that she doesn’t have a neurological problem. Next the doctors are going to test her for Huntington’s, but also give her drugs to counteract the fertility treatments, since that could still be the cause of her problems. Cameron hands Margo the drugs, which a muscle spasm causes her to immediately fling…that word also makes me think of monkeys flinging poo. Anyway.
Margo gets really pissed off, and then takes it out on her daughter, Stella, telling Ted to take her home. Poor baby Fanning! The irritability is a sign of Huntington’s, so House recommends treating her for it immediately. Which makes the Outhouses nervous, of course. But before a consensus is reached, they’re all called to Margo’s room, where she’s throwing around her IV stand and screaming about needing her daughter. Look, you can’t have it both ways, lady.
They subdue her with Ativan or whatever it is, and the test for Huntington’s comes back negative, which surprises them all since she has all the symptoms. They look for other possibilities, and Cameron says that her family, friends, coworkers, fellow PTA members, and volunteer group are all healthy. How the hell do they know all that? This is the most preposterous line of the whole show. House takes all of her activities under advisement, and figures she must be on cocaine. Whoo! Fun mommy!
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Comments (9)
Except for the dawn backdrop, great episode. Also, nice how House was counting down the seconds until his reign of terror started again.
1 of 9 | Posted by ooda
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Posted on February 9, 2006 10:31 PM
gregory house is my hero. well, except for the whole sleeping with a married woman thing.
and i lurv the harpsichord of longing. it was the first song we played at my wedding.
2 of 9 | Posted by copygodd
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Posted on February 9, 2006 10:39 PM
I didn't get the significance of the Hopkin's comment either. It probably has something to do with where House and the Outhouses went to med school, but since I don't know where that is, the joke escapes me.
This is one of the few episodes where the patient's story line actually engaged me. Women who do not want to have children are common but rarely shown on tv. Bravo to the writers for illustrating this dilemma in the story line, even if the character did go to extreme measures to prevent conception and to hide the fact from her husband.
3 of 9 | Posted by Aries
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Posted on February 10, 2006 10:51 AM
Best part of the episode: When House is trying to avoid Mark on the stairs, he says "You can't outrun me." Bwahahahahahaha...mocking a man in a wheel chair's inability to run. Oh House.
4 of 9 | Posted by norrinator
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Posted on February 10, 2006 12:25 PM
God help any guy who gets in Stacy's pants. Seems they lose mobile function...
5 of 9 | Posted by HicksPub
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Posted on February 10, 2006 12:44 PM
i found the hoohoo comment to be confusing too especially since (i think) house went to university of michigan and foreman to hopkins. perhaps he just meant hopkins people wouldnt say hoohoo? i almost got off my ass to look up whether that was the little fanning midshow, thanks for saving me a google search. and good call on the cheesy background, my boyfriend and i immediately started laughing.
6 of 9 | Posted by ldini79
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Posted on February 10, 2006 8:49 PM
I was so glad House told Stacy to stay with Mark. Frankly, I could do without Stacy. And you just know if House had actually accepted her again she'd be running back to Mark when she got sick of House yet again. *sigh* As fun as it might be to see other people in difficult relationships, that would get tedious.
7 of 9 | Posted by Nodacchi
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Posted on February 11, 2006 8:38 PM
My favorite part of the episode was when House told Cameron that he loves her, just so he could swab her mouth. Hilariously cruel! The weird purple sunset was also pretty funny.
I was actually a little annoyed with Wilson confronting House at the end of the episode. I think characters, probably Cameron and Wilson, say that House wants to be hated and miserable, so I don't think that it needed to be stated as the reason why House turned away Stacy. I think that House just views most people, at least his patients, as problems to solve instead of people. Whatever House's reasons are, I don't think the show needs a love triangle.
8 of 9 | Posted by Elder Young
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Posted on February 12, 2006 11:48 AM
I'm agreeing 100% with Nodacchi. It's like the medical cases -- House may mess up along the way, but he gets it right at the end. Now Stacy and her boring whiny melodramatic dithering can stop taking up valuable snark and plot time.
Please tell me I wasn't the only one thinking "Cripple Fight!!!" at the stair scene.
I hope that woman tells her hubby that it'd be too dangerous to have another kid now even though Foreman wouldn't. I'd hope he would have the decency to think of that. When you've already got a Fanning in the house, who needs more? (other, of course, than stepdad needs to prove his nads work, and All Wimmens Luv Poppin Out Lotsa Kidz)
Loved Cuddy's impression of Stacy. Literally LOL.
(Aww, copygodd, how cute you are.)
9 of 9 | Posted by lurkertype
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Posted on February 13, 2006 11:46 PM