I think Byron wrote about that.

[bironic]

Wow, I sure picked the right two series to watch.

For one thing, both House & Wilson and Alan & Denny have moved in together this week. I should probably be righteously angry at David Shore & Bryan Singer and David E. Kelley for blatantly manipulating their slashphilic audiences, but just can't manage it. That said, time for lots of quotes and commentary from the great House ep, "Sex Kills," alternately titled "Hey look, House's psychosomatic leg pain is magically gone!"

Two patients this week! There's an interesting way around the formula. And Adam Busch (Warren from Buffy--a few weeks after Andrew showed up, also in the clinic) lookin' scruffy, along with Greg Grunberg from Felicity (Oh hush.), who got to knee House in the nads. Boy, they just keep finding new ways to knock him down. In the preview it looks like he and Foreman have a fight with the cane next episode. Oh, and there was House's Evil Laugh of Doom followed by the immediate switch to sarcasm, which would have been funnier if they hadn't played it so often in the previews.

Okay, first, best out-of-context quote, from House to Cameron: "If you really loved me, you'd find me a better corpse."

Second, best surprise quote, from House, regarding his patient's fun combo of symptoms: "A disease that affects his brain, heart and testicles. I think Byron wrote about that."

And the slash -- lots of choice moments tonight, some funny, some poignant.

Wilson: It's not all about sex, House.
House: Since when?

House: Wilson! How long can you go without sex?
Wilson: How long can you go without aggravating people?

Scene: House & Wilson have just finished a game of foosball in House's office at 8 p.m.
House says, "Go home and have sex with your wife" and leaves the room.
Wilson gives a knob a hurt/angry/disappointed spin and purses his lips.

House spends most of the episode trying to get Wilson to confess to having an affair, which he assumes is the only explanation for Wilson buying his wife guilt-gifts and spending so much time with him. Finally Wilson snaps and looks up at him, eyes halfway to furious, frustrated tears and his voice wavering just a bit at the end, asking whether House has ever considered that Wilson might be going through something and needs a friend to talk to. To which House, having just gotten beeped, tosses back something to the effect of, "Then you should have thought twice about this friendship." Aww, Wilson! You got abandoned like Mark on the staircase.

And then at the end, when he shows up on House's doorstep with his suitcase, hair all subtly tousled and his freckles suddenly visible, and admits that it was Julie who was having the affair... House, naturally, lets him in. And in the preview it shows him coming home to Wilson lounging on the couch, having just cooked, apparently badly.

And Chase! Haha, House made fun of his shoes and he was all self-conscious.

Boston Legal's still running. René Auberjonois is adorable. His voice went natural-high when his character was talking to his newly discovered granddaughter, an octave above his normal Paul timbre. It was really cute.

I think Alan is going to buy nude photos of Shirley (Candice Bergen) at a ridiculously high price at auction to save her the embarrassment of having them made public and at the same time get to keep them in his house.

~~~

This morning at work was awful, but between dance class and this, everything's all right. Three cheers for the healing power of good television.

Now if FOX would only show more than one House episode every three weeks, we'd be in business.

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[kabal42.livejournal.com]

:-) I can sign that list too... Hugh Laurie because of Blackadder and Robert Sean Leonard (ohsocute!) because of Dead Poet's Society, which I saw and cried over numerous times as a teen and a few times later as well. The suicide scene gets me each time!