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 One, Episode Nineteen, "Kids" - They Grow Up So Fast

At a swimming and diving meet, one of the judges collapses and is shown to be bleeding from one ear. His lumbar puncture indicated a virulent strain of bacterial meningitis. House arrives at the hospital, which is dealing with the outbreak could have affected 2500 people at the pool. Cuddy insists that House help out. House comes across a 12 year old diver. She has a fever and a rash that she says she’s had for a week. Despite the symptoms, he doesn‘t think she has meningitis. Cuddy agrees to give them an hour to work on the diver. Although her latest tests show her red blood cells are intact, House orders Chase to check her blood. House realizes one cause of the disorder is unlikely, but possible. House goes to tell the patient she's pregnant. The pregnancy is causing her blood to clot and be shredded by the clot - a rare complication. She admits she experimented with intercourse. He tells her they have to terminate the pregnancy and treat her blood for antibodies. 

House interviews candidates for the fellowship but dismisses them all.  House goes back to Cameron and tells her he wants her to come back. She says that's not good enough. She says he has to take her out on a dinner date. House agrees. 


medicomical relief time! The epidemic creates enough chaos so that house gets thrown off center, which makes his scrambling all the more fun—and, yeah, that he is forced to consider the consequences of his actions. Cuddy: “you want those nurses and dr’s we had to let go? You’re the one that cost this hosp. $100 million”—like they had no budget before this? still and all, how big an ego does it take to carry that weight?

Back to the comedical. The dismissal of the interviewees is abs. classic. “you want to be a non-conformist? Get a haircut and a pocket protector like him (Wilson). Like the Asian kids who don’t leave the library for 20 hr stretches. They don’t care what you think.” Then the Jewish superwoman: from Wilson: “THAT’S OUR HITLER!” His “Producers” quote floored me. I laughed. Out loud. Maybe twice. It actually gave me hope that I will last the run.

Oh, and tell me now? Why do you like chase, even though he is the one who ratted out house? Love is blind but Lust isn’t?


I don't exactly lust over Chase. Just sometimes his sheer cuteness gets to me. I've never had fantasies about him. Sort of like House saying about Cameron that she's like a nice part of art (paraphrase).

is he referring to her degas-like quality of waif-i-ness? 

I haven't had direct sexual fantasies about any of the men in that show, although I like it when they take their shirts off. 

 haven't seen that happen yet. when does cameron?

Don't you think you should take a break? Even I did! Although I watched a DVD at a time, which was about 4 episodes at a stretch.