House T minus 4, "No More Mr. Nice Guy"

[bironic]

- Heh. Writers' strike ends, and they start by showing a nurses' strike.
- The wife looks like that woman who played Teer on SGA and Gwen on Brimstone. Pretty. Or a cross between her and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
- Niceness is a symptom. Sigh. Four years and a hiatus, and we're still retreading the same ground.
- Oh, it's a David Shore episode. That explains it.
- Wilson: hotter than ever, y/y? Man, I wish our reception were better. There're stripes all over his new haircut and blue shirt. ETA: Yep, hot hot hot on the digital recording.
- House/Wilson/Amber continues to be awesome. Amber hasn't broken, though House has bent. And Wilson has just said "love" twice. I want them all to live dysfunctionally ever after.
- Lubricant to superglue pranks, confirmed by House. Quick, where are the explanatory fics?
- That creationism joke ("What are we, 21st century America?") was much less clever than I'd expect of House.
- Thirteen "does it both ways" jokes are not yet old. Maybe because she hasn't yet gotten pissed off at him for it?
- New setting! Bowling alley. Go, show. Finally we see House bowl! With Chase, who's happy as an Australian clam to have been invited! And it's a lengthy scene that doesn't get interrupted! And it's something House isn't brilliant at! And Chase proves that he does have some distance when it comes to Cameron.
- So House can again walk on the leg without the cane. Is that improvement from ... that S1/S2 episode where he tried to take a step in his apartment and fell, or are the writers unable to decide what his capabilities are?
- Wilson eating potato chips watching the dogs sniff each other. Awesome.
- "You're 15 minutes late." And then a young guy he hadn't expected. Anyone else go straight to today's Filling In?
- Speaking of dogs. Amber made sure to rub her scent all over Wilson before dropping him off in House's care. And then Wilson tried to clean up. But Amber made sure House knew anyway.
- Awwwww. Wilson loves having two people love him. A year ago he was on antidepressants and despaired at the world, and now ... smiles.
- Note: Wilson stutters when drunk as well as when on speed.
- Sooo, House spoke to the exes about Wilson's ... "it."
- Everyone together now: Ha, ha, subtext meta joke.
- House has syphilis. Uh huh. And brain cancer, and autism, and...
- Though if he does, we can add that to the hooker argument from up above.
- And we could say it was foreshadowing before that Chase was with him, because it reminded me of the brain cancer episode when Chase tried to bond with him.
- Oh, oh! It is that actress! Note to self, her name is Chad Morgan. ETA: Oh, yeah, on a clear recording she's much more recognizable.
- No, Cameron, you're a moron. You're ALL MORONS. House is not an ass because he has syphilis, if he even has syphilis and isn't stringing you all along, again. For one thing, you think he's had it for that many years?
- Cameron's chaos theory: Mozart playing catch.
- So... he does? *squints* No. Can't be.
- Wilson/Amber kisses will always be vindictive, won't they? Since they're always in front of house. Hee, that last one, where they parted around House? Probably as close as we'll get to a threesome on screen.
- House does not have syphilis. No way. What is the trick? My brain keeps going in the slash direction where he wants Amber to think she might have syphilis because he gave it to Wilson, but obviously that is not it. Unless she thinks it's possible... That would be suitably slashy-without-being-onscreen-gay... but too blatant, anyway.
- "I don't sleep with everyone who's better than Hitler." Quote of the episode?
- Yep, not syphilis. One day everyone will learn. That will probably be the day he does have some kind of illness.
- Next note to self: Wilson keeps his bowling shoes at work. And has proved again that he loves his pranks, even though people think he's the nice guy. And is smiling quite a lot these days.
- Ooh. Pretty top, Cuddy.
- That evaluation was pretty close to a declaration of love on House's part, wasn't it?
- Can it be? House learning to tolerate someone?
- More episodes should end on Wilson smiling. Passive!manipulative!for-a-good-cause!Wilson smiling. Yes.

Overall (with 30 seconds of reflection): Nothing new in the House Is An Ass department (surprise), but a nicely packed hour nevertheless with much lovable Wilson, effective Cuddy, intuitive Kutner, Foreman still struggling to find his place in the department, and chances for everyone on the cast to have some screen time for a change.

Comments

[recrudescence.livejournal.com]

I loled at the strike meta. And YES! Wilson + haircut + indulgently letting everyone else rearrange their lives around him = WIN!

...I wonder if House really replace his lube with superglue. Which means he knows where Wilson keeps his lube. Which...yeah, anyway.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I wonder if he did it to Wilson or to someone else and Wilson just knew about it. Or participated in it, because he is a pushover and secretly delights in mischief.

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

House never said he had done it; he said it was the sort of thing he might ordinarily have done, if he weren't being reasonable.

And it is the sort of thing House might do, as Wilson so readily attested.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

True, true. On second listen it did sound as likely to be hypothetical as memory.

*sends you get-well-soon vibes*

[nicocoer.livejournal.com]

I want to watch this so bad. D:

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Aw. When will you be able to?

[nicocoer.livejournal.com]

Next time I go to Erie, as the ex boyfriend has a subscription for the downloads on his compy. Or when it goes up on the fox website and everyone is out of the office at work? *is bad*

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

For most of the time, I was convinced the blood was Wilson's. But, no, not the case. Which, phew, but also an opportunity lost.

I'm not surprised House is bad at bowling (and Chase was so happy to get a special night out, just him and Daddy), but I am surprised House can bowl at all with HALF HIS RIGHT THIGH MUSCLE missing. If ever anyone complains that one of things I have House do is imposssible because of the leg, I'll say, "Bowling!" and that'll be that.


In the past few weeks, I had had a scene in my mind where Wilson is watching House & Amber fight, and he remarks to someone else, "I can't decide if I'm a princess or a bone."

"What?"

Wilson gestures to House and Amber. "They're either two knights jousting for the hand of the fair princess, or two dogs fighting over a bone."

House snaps out a comment and Amber growls, and Wilson sighs, "Bone."

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Oh, cute! And perfect!

Did they say whose blood it was? If not, you can still run with that first idea.

If ever anyone complains that one of things I have House do is imposssible because of the leg, I'll say, "Bowling!" and that'll be that.

Or, "Season Three premiere!" Though I guess that one had the ketamine as a qualifying factor. BUT STILL.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

gena_girl wrote a fic a couple of years back that had House bowling with highly unusual form. She was pretty close to the mark!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Did he have a hop after? That was kind of cool.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

I'd have to go find the story to refresh my memory about a hop. It was a very good story.

I always have to restrain myself from yelling out a kind of fic-writer scorecard during episodes when stuff people wrote about turns up on screen. Tonight was "gena called it on the bowling" and I had to stuff a fist in my mouth to keep from saying, "That guy so does not have William's syndrome."

[jdr1184.livejournal.com]

That's the one. It has been driving me nuts trying to remember who wrote that fic. Thanks!

[purridot.livejournal.com]

LOL, my mind totally went to "Filling In" too :D

[bironic.livejournal.com]

It should've been Rodney behind that door!

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I wish! I'm still crossing my fingers for a Wilson/character-played-by-Joe-Flanigan arc!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

*combusts from the hot*

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

HALF HIS RIGHT THIGH MUSCLE missing
If I had been watching with someone, I would have yelled at them for probably five minutes straight about that. I know they had bowling jokes back in the first season, but I don't care: there's stretching the truth, and then there's outright fantasy. Grah.

[purridot.livejournal.com]

*hugs you and jumps up and down*

That was fun. Although I still don't get whose blood it was and Cameron is still pathetic. But Wilson was absolutely yummers. As was Chase :D

Er, not coherent, sorry -- had to pull an all-nighter to finish up the LAST schoolwork of the semester!!!!! *crosses fingers*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yes! I forgot to mention how lovely Chase looked while bowling! Seriously, who looks good while bowling?

I guess ... House raided the labs for a ... labeled sample of syphilis-tainted blood?

*joins you in the silly dance of House-and-end-of-semester joy*

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

I did wonder why it never occurred to them that it might not be House's blood. I mean, the ducklings were involved when House faked his brain cancer, so....why did no one even have a moment of doubt?

[bironic.livejournal.com]

...Because Foreman has the same short-term memory problem as the writing team?

Okay, that was mean. But I have no idea otherwise.

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the episode, except for being beaten over the head with the "niceness is a symptom" idea. Wilson looked great, and the Amber/House/Wilson scenes positively sizzled.

For once, they actually made effective use of the entire cast in one episode. Yay! (Note to Cameron: that shade of lipstick makes you look like a ghoul.)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

except for being beaten over the head with the "niceness is a symptom" idea.

WHAT? I'M SORRY, I COULDN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE MORAL.

I'm really proud of the show tonight for the way everyone got some attention. If only they could do that every week, and then, say, add the new fellows to the opening credits?

[spoopy.livejournal.com]

hahaha yeahhh. the lack of new fellows to the main credits is either laziness on the part of the producers, or a hint that the new fellows aren't here to stay.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I got it in the beginning of the season when they were making a big deal of not wanting viewers to know which fellows would make the cut. But afterwards? What gives? I suspect your second guess.

Still, House is the only show I've ever watched that hasn't altered its opening sequence at all in four seasons. *shakes head*

[spoopy.livejournal.com]

Oh god, you have no idea how much that final scene with House and Cuddy made me do the flail hands. Hahaha. ♥♥&hearts x infinity

The medicine was a bit of a jumbled mess this week. When the bit about House having syphilis happened, it was so random and unexpected that I was completely confused about what was happening. Even after it was revealed that it was a hoax, I was still confused. I guess because I didn't get why the fellows would test his blood without wondering why his blood was there to be tested in the first place (if it was even his blood, which it turned out it wasn't). His very serious, very subdued "oh fuck" look was very convincing, however. It's a wonder House never got into acting because he's mighty good at it. Although! House and Wilson having a giggle together about the syphilis thing was very much worth all the confusion. *g*

superficial comments on superficial comments :3

[bell]

Wilson/Amber kisses will always be vindictive

And kind of chaste, too, or is that just my imagination? :<

That creationism joke ("What are we, 21st century America?") was much less clever than I'd expect of House.

I kept wondering if I wasn't missing something, the joke fell so flat. XD;

Sooo, House spoke to the exes about Wilson's ... "it."

Why, House seems almost obessed with Wilson's sex life. I wonder what could possibly be the reason why? *coughs*