Season One, Episode 20, "Love Hurts"

Plot: When House snaps at a patient in the clinic, the patient appears to suffer a stroke as a result of the confrontation. To avoid legal trouble, he agrees to take the patient’s case. However, when none of the easy answers are right and the patient soon gets worse, House has to push past the patient’s lies to find the right diagnosis. 

 Annette the dominatrix takes matters into her own hands

hmm… so this is what you were raving about. When it gets personal and ugly, when you have to squirm in yr seat to get through a scene, that means you have crossed over from watching these abstract entities going about their bogus activities for your detached amusement and have begun to care about the internal mechanisms of human emotions. And, up to the standards of willie the shakes, you get a triple set of jollies: the guy who likes doms, the old couple and Viagra, and house and Cameron—the tragic and comic, and slapstick. (oh, and the revelation that chase doesn’t chase long—he catches everything but STDs)--to fill out the 360 degrees.
major block here is this: cameron knows enough to understand the ways of seduction, so why doesn’t she play it better? I mean, goody-two-shoes, yes, but every male only wants her to shine up that patent leather so they can look up her skirt. All she needs do is point those toes inward and say: “but I want you to…” and we are quivering masses of goo! virgin bride aside, even slightly-corrupted innocence is waaay hotter than victoria’s secret. ASK ANYBODY!!!!—FIRST ORDERS ARE ALWAYS: you DO make small talk! GEEZ LOUISE! Or howsabout Dear Abby? PUH-LEEEZE! Her sorority pals? TEASE! Her Facebook friends? SQUEEZE! Or ANY response to Wilson’s plea to GO E-Z? HUH? GET A CLUE! Even I know that if you want a big fish you don’t try to yank it out of the water—that’s why they call it “playing”!!! Secondly: when house lays it out, she just lets him. At work she offers counterarguments but here? I could think of a half dozen weak points to his presentation without breaking a colon, or a semicolon even. WHERE ARE HER DIAGNOSTIC ABILITIES NOW???

Yes, she's hot, but she doesn't have a clue. Cameron not only likes lame, she is lame. Later in the seasons she's reprimanded by a patient for never letting  herself go, which leads to some pretty awesome consequences.  There's nothing in her character to suggest she knows much about the art of seduction.  In my opinion. this is exactly why she lets House clobber her emotionally.  Doesn't Wilson say something like, "Young innocent girl melts the crusty older man's heart"?  

yes. in another of his comic turns. hey, on all those chat rooms or b-boards or whatever you do in fandom, does the subject of Chekov come up much?

I think on any other show that would have been what happened.  But as you can see, House is more onto her motives (she wants damaged men--witness Poor Dead Husband) than she's ready to admit. 

still, she will often differ with him on a diagnosis. if she's got that much confidence in her opinion, she should be able to offer an alternate analysis of the symptoms house presents over the appetizers.

Season 1, Episode 14: "Control"

 Plot: A young, high powered CEO of a cosmetic company starts to suffer intense pain. House quickly diagnoses the problem, but realizes revealing the truth about it will mean the patient’s certain death. Instead, he risks his own career to hide the truth and get her the treatment she needs. During all this, Princeton-Plainsboro takes on a rich new chairman of the board who has just offered a $100,000,000 donation. He immediately sees House as dead weight and decides to infiltrate House’s team to get ammunition against him.


another comedical! this is more like it! w/big bizness metaphor! re: Cameron’s method of getting agreement from the other two. house: "did you just read 'the one-minute manager" on soft-position bargaining? it isn't going to work." now house has a libido? OK, help me out on this one: Vicodin? it doesn't suppress the sex drive? (like i would know?) so this is the "vogler" arc? biggie smalls as billionaire. well, the name is...

A BIT O' MALE TRIVIA: in comics, in titles like The Justice League of America and The Avengers and The Defenders and The X-Men (basically any team) every couple years will come out with a Fall or New Year's issue entitled: The Old Order Changeth, or something equally pseudo-latin pretentious. see, they figure the suits have gotten stale and need some new spandex and soap opera to jazz it up. also, a new mission or quest or adventure-to-save-the-world/universe/dimension/reality AND A NEW VILLAIN!

arch-enemies are so groovy, it was about time sherlock house met a match. and this one IS good--that is BAAAD: soft-spoken menace like a thug in an elevator holding a razor to yr ear while he coos in yr ear.

...the name is perfect: germanic and tyrannical too! i mean, is house going to call him "Mein Herr"?

as for the rest? I’m going to check on the polite dissent for the whole thing about the use of emetics (if that is what epicac is) ruining yr heart. if so, i am surprised it hasn't been mentioned in ads aiming at teenage girls who are trying to be waifs. but the whole thing about the hosp. being given up to clinical trials? don't they all do that? seems like no big deal, but i guess it can become one. (like the plotline of ford's "the fugitive" remake.)

PS: ...or even better "MEIN FUHRER!" like Dr. Strangelove!

Given up to clinical trials?  I'm not sure what you mean.  It's a teaching hospital, so I'm guessing they would have clinical trials.  In Season 5 a clinical trial figures prominently, although not for House.

I almost never go to Polite Dissent, because I know half the medicine is twisted around for story purposes.  (Like the doctors doing everything themselves.  At a wedding in the ladies' room, I met a nurse whose job is preparing the slides for doctors...the actual job takes two days, and that's before they see the slides.  But having that in there would be like watching paint dry.  That's why it's "show biz."

Hahaaah!

House enjoys tormenting Jewish people, making Holocaust jokes and such.  In one episode he upbraids Wilson for using a lame excuse for speeding:

"You lost control of your speed?  That's like Hitler saying, I lost track of the Jews!"

More "Control"

Yeah, he has a libido, he goes to hookers. Unless it's the Flying Nun, I don't think you can have an asexual lead character. Oh, and aliens. Unless they kill their victims after they have sex.

aha. more2B, huh? and only the mantis people of wolfrilla kill after mating. Then, low-tar cigarettes.

Season One, Episode 7: "Fidelity" (The First H/W Convo)

Description:

31-year-old Elyce Snow (Myndy Crist) sleeps eighteen hours a day, and is impossible to get along with the other six hours. House (Hugh Laurie) thinks it might be depression, but it isn't, nor is it rabbit fever (his second choice). Finally, House diagnoses African Sleeping Sickness--and since neither Elyce nor her husband Ed (Dominic Purcell) has ever been to Africa, the only other possibility is that one of them has been unfaithful. But neither husband nor wife will fess up...not even if their silence results in her quick demise!

finally he gets called a misanthrope! been waiting for a Moliere reference too, but maybe that's coming later? the xmas ep, though, did not have a scrooge ref which i thought might have come up. but then we find House doesn't hate xmas as much as one might think. having him play the piano of "have yourself a merry little xmas" was perfectly in keeping, then, with what you told me. only mel torme could offer us alienated urbans a token to the lonely-but-sweet innocence it is possible to discover when you use memories of childhood as this occasion's spiritual center, to realize that the happy family was, of course, a lie.

fave line: "check for poison apples too. when there's this much sleeping i'd check for a wicked stepmother." 

OK. the title tells us that it is going to be about intra-familial relations exclusivity. right. which then opens the door for a bit of discussion about the outside thang going on. but it is confined to the case, primarily, far as i remember. now we begin to see a house/wilson relationship at all with his 1st consult--and not just on the gal with the implants. so you're going to tell me that homosexual males would enjoy the prospect of a gaze at enormous knockers? personally, i can't think of any in my acquaintance who would. and the fact that wilson is married doesn't help. 

BUT, MAYBE the subtext of the kidding around wilson gets for wearing a new tie and taking a nurse to lunch? i don't get a jealous vibe here. the idea that comes to me is if these guys were on some kind of down-low, the banter would be much more two-sided rather than house being the pitcher and wilson the catcher. i'm not saying "oh mary" or such, but like the African American bi-cultural thang of the down-low: sex as recreation, not anything emotional. 

(at least, that's according to the Village Voice description of the phenomena...)

Um...ever heard of bisexual? Although I don't know if the characters are in fact bisexual, it's a fun fantasy to entertain. My personal opinion is that House is omni sexual and Wilson is a closeted bi. I mean, three failed marriages? But then, is that information not revealed yet? Not that it's a big reveal, by you can see that Wilson prefers hanging with House than hanging with his wife(s). Although I kinda think Wilson would fuck mud in the absence of a suitable orifice. 

Quite a few of my therapist friend's male clients (who are mainly minorities) do the down low, but insist they're straight. You should know that last season they did an episode on House and Wilson called "The Down Low."

And the jealousy thing comes much more into play in later seasons. I keep trying not to give away too much, mingled with utter disbelief that you're doing this.

One hideous side-effect of being a House/Wilson fan (or Hilsons as the portmanteau name freaks would have it) is all of these home-made videos on YouTube about their doomed or not doomed love are made with THE EXACT SAME CLIPS SO THEY BURN INTO YOUR MIND FOREVER! I'd point one or two out, but then again, same problem as above. 

House/Wilson vids--say what?

 Go to Youtube. Type in "House Wilson" or "Hilson" but maybe you don't want to because there are two many reveals from later seasons. Also clips edited to suggest sexual passion when in fact they're not. The shot where Wilson is standing in the doorway is one used over and over and over again.



 Video by clovermedia

Hey, it's all looking for tiny clues for us obsessed House/Wilson fans. It was only in Season 2 that they found what "popped" (in the writers' terms) for the relationship. I glanced at the televisionwithoutpity.com recap to try to remember more about the ep, and the recapper wrote, regarding the woman she calls Boobs: 

Wilson isn't as impressed with the preschool teacher's set as House was. I guess he's not a Tits 'N Ass man. He always struck me as more of a Beard 'N Limp guy anyway. 

seems like this view is pervasive.  

Your backstory is waaay ahead of me. 

so far, we've learned that the black guy had a sealed juvie record, chase was a seminary student, the cute F asst had a fairytale marriage end in a snap, and wilson had a brother who went schizo/homeless.

OK. bisexual. right. they are both bisexual? that's a stretch, but then again so are anal cavities, in these situations. how do you know house isn't A-sexual? i suppose that's in the "more will be revealed" portion? 

Not that it's a big reveal, by you can see that Wilson prefers hanging with House than hanging with his wife(s). Although I kinda think Wilson would fuck mud in the absence of a suitable orifice. 

no. i tried it. or rather, sand. unfortunate decision.