Picspam/Recap: House 7x08 Small Sacrifices - part 2
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KUNO BECKER: Really?
HOUSE: No, I just made that up to see your reaction. Diagnostic test. This is awesome. Thirty-three-year-old carpenter presenting with narcissm, delusions of grandeur, hallucinations.
TAUB: He hasn't had hallucinations.
HOUSE: I'm not talking about him, I'm talking about Him with a capital OMG.
Hey, look at Masters, playing along and doing a ddx on Jesus. Chase looks a wee bit appalled, which is amusing. He's worked for House for how long and this is always the line that gets him? It's consistent, I'll give him that.
Oh, Kuno Becker, smiling. Casting must have been fun. (I mentioned that these recaps are going to be incredibly superficial, right?)
CUDDY: Heard you got the daughter's file. Patient change his mind?
HOUSE: I forged your signature.
CUDDY: Well, thank you for your honesty.
HOUSE: Think of it as a present. See somebody is about to turn the big 4-5 in several months and somebody else wants to make a very big deal of it.
CUDDY: 4-3.
HOUSE: 4-3. Are you sure?
CUDDY: Very.
HOUSE: How can I make such a mistake? In reading your HR file. Oh, no, wait, I didn't. And BOOM goes the dynamite, scores are tied, we are even steven [/stephen :D]
CUDDY: You're right. I did lie--to HR, not to you. When I first applied to the VP admin job, I was twenty-nine years old. I knew I'd be taken more seriously if I were in my early thirties, so I added two years to my age.
HOUSE: You lied to make yourself older? Are you lying about being a woman?
CUDDY: Even if you can trap me, do you think I'll suddenly embrace the value of lying?
HOUSE: My point is that you already have. I just need to prove it.
Can we all just take a moment and admire the dress? 'Cause, damn. Someone's playing dirty.
I love the eye!sex moment at "and somebody else wants to make a very big deal of it." Oh, eye!sex, we haven't forgotten about you. I know it seems that way, with all of the "actual" sex this season, but don't worry. You were there first and we all still love you. You're also as close as we're apparently going to get to H/C sex in the hospital, so you do have that going for you.
Aww, the "Cuddy's a man" jokes aren't going away. That's nice (what am I saying?).
How helpful and very meta of the show to explain all sorts of things in this episode. But how did Cuddy explain away the discrepancy in graduation dates? She was held back? Had a gap year (well, two gap years)? Fucking numbers, how do they work?
HOUSE: Let's put it to the vote. Vest or cummerbund?
MASTERS: Cummerbund.
Ha! Nice sight gag, Show.
You answered fairly quickly there, Masters. I love how she looks around first at the guys and realized that they weren't going to say anything. Was House indicating "vest"? or just lifting both in turn?
There's a version of MS that leads to almost immediate death? Yikes. "That's unless we can get someone to nail themselves to a cross as soon as possible." Heh.
House's strategy now is just to keep Masters out of the loop. She just works for him, so it's easier to pull off than what he's trying to do with Cuddy, so we'll see. I assume how he deals with Masters is a season-long (or however long AT is at PPTH) arc as well that'll of course tie into House's own personal storyline.
Why, yes, I do need to spell out things for myself that are obvious to everyone else, why do you ask?
HOUSE: You look smashing, Ms. Moneypenny.
WILSON: Cummerbund? Very foolish, Mr. Bond.
...
WILSON: I need that file, that chair, and that desk. [♥ I inexplicably get attached to certain lines/deliveries, and this is one of them; I loved RSL's delivery for this]
Ah, so Wilson really did want House to look at the files to confirm what he was seeing. Of course he did. Too afraid to ask directly.
Why did Sam want Wilson to look at the files in the first place? That's what I don't understand; she couldn't correct the records but she just wanted to be prepared for the questions her boss would ask of her? But Wilson said he was okay with not knowing -- not knowing if his girlfriend is intentionally increasing radiation outside protocol. She said she's not, but I'm assuming something necessitated the review.
"She's a sap and she's perfect for you." Oh boy. Now House is showing his Siren tendencies. It might be the tux. And the bow tie. DON'T LISTEN TO HIM, WILSON. That way -- "perfect" -- lies madness.
Okay. What they think Sam's doing and House's response of "morally, she didn't [do anything wrong]" got me thinking about Antigone, and god's laws versus the laws of "men" . . . and I'm realizing that that's why they have this issue in this episode. The thing with Sam's cases; it always seemed a little odd, a little out of place, a little out of nowhere. It still does, a bit (this version of Sam doesn't exactly jive with "hypercompetitive, go-karting" Sam), but now it makes more sense (to me, anyway). It ties in with the POTW (and Antigone's themes of the arrogance of humans to assume what god would/would not want us to do) and it ties in with the lying theme of House's personal storyline. It's a clinic patient! But, you know, not as amusing.
Sean Connery impression # 2 (all seasons :D)
HOUSE: I hate rehearsal dinners almost as much as I hate weddings. The reason anyone gets married is that homoerectus females needed protection from predators while breast-feeding. The only reason these two are getting married is to throw an obnoxious gala so the rest of us feel unworthy. Now we know that in two years the lawyers are going to be fighting over the Bentleys.
CUDDY: That'll make a lovely toast.
HOUSE: She's got looks, he's got money. One of them is bound to run out.
CUDDY: I give it nineteen months.
HOUSE: That's very specific.
CUDDY: No-fault divorce in New Jersey requires couples to live at least eighteen months apart. Actually I'm only giving them a few weeks.
HOUSE: I thought I was supposed to be the dark one.
CUDDY: Not today.
HOUSE: [answers phone] Yeah. [to Cuddy] You're going to have to go stag. My patient is refusing treatment.
CUDDY: And you care?
HOUSE: No, but it's an excuse you can't argue with.
Domesticity!!!
He zips her dress without asking. He's carrying her purse. He's carrying her purse at work, in front of people, without complaint. Awww. It's nice; he lived with Stacy for five years and some things stuck. It's cute. He's not wearing jeans (following dressy casual!). And his tie matches her dress. And he's wearing a tie.
Who would ever invite House to a rehearsal dinner? Besides Wilson. Oh, well, that's three right there. Got it.
What's the magazine he's reading? I love the fun titles that Show comes up with. Sewing & Notions, something about fishing, something about (election) polls (I find the titles amusing but apparently it doesn't mean I can remember the actual names :(
If you're worrying about actual predators, I wouldn't really call that "marriage;" it's not like they had to get blood tests or register with the nonexistent government. And, as I understand it, marriage was just a way to secure the transition of money/property/status through the generations. Different "predators," really :))
If there is more than one Bentley, why fight? Just split them (and just don't get an odd number of cars). Oof. The problems of the rich. I'm also assuming there's a prenup.
So pretty, Cuddy, but pissed. No need to lean over the desk that way, but it got him to briefly pause in his diatribe, so that's something. I absolutely love her coat (just in case anyone thought this recap wasn't staying in the land of the superficial. It's a nice land, I like it here).
And hello, blink and you'd miss it introduction to New Jersey family law. How charmingly specific, Cuddy, thanks.
I also love the walk-and-talk, so nicely choreographed. She reaches for her coat as he reaches for his cane, etc. Really well done. I tend to love their walk 'n' talks and this was no exception.
(and in the next scene with the POTW: "Sticking by your convictions and damning the consequences." And House calls those people "idiots," particularly when "applied indiscriminately to all circumstances." But House, we really shouldn't ignore your stupidity in all of this.
I did appreciate the Inherit the Wind joke, though.)
TAUB: Sounds like you love him.
RACHEL: I am not having an affair. He lives in Oregon. I've never met him. I probably never will.
TAUB: You are having an affair, an emotional one.
RACHEL: Are you equating what I'm doing with what you did?
TAUB: I've done terrible things to you and I deserve all of this and more but you can't pretend that what you're doing isn't hurtful.
"Baby there's a shark in the water..." ::dancing::
SHOW. IS. MEAN. MEAN, I say. See the tiny Cuddy/Wilson(/Sam) scene that we missed (top row, middle; they're all at the table)? Plus there was that picture released with House showing up at the table, (probably) asking Cuddy to dance. Hmph. Mean.
On the other hand, I think HL & LE gave the TV Guide interview when they were on location here for this episode . . . I think (too lazy to check :)), so that's definitely a fun thought for this episode. "Land mine!"
So that's the Chairman of the Board. :D I pay attention.
I can't believe they actually invited the whole hospital.
Oh, Chase. I wouldn't think there were enough hours in the day.
Bwahahahahahaha! Oh, Taub and your awkward dancing (making the latter scene all the more impressive). But, oh, dear. Rachel? You didn't talk to Taub about how you felt after your mother died? What the hell are you two doing?
HOUSE: Someone (? I can't hear) looks lovely tonight.
CUDDY: Thank you.
HOUSE: I meant me. Someone else looks simply stunning.
CUDDY:
HOUSE: That was you. And the blonde at the bar.
CUDDY: Just to be clear, this whole little act isn't going to work. I need an apology, not flattery.
HOUSE: It's not an act, it's the wedding.
CUDDY: You hate weddings.
HOUSE: I thought I did but then I realized I've never been to one.
CUDDY: Never?
HOUSE: Turns out they're kind of fun.
♥
Heh. Oh, Cuddy, you and your ridiculously brightly colored and shiny gowns that you wear for weddings. Not complaining, of course, but it is amusing.
You two. ::squishes:: How are you both just so adorable. I can't stand it.
And we got another dancing scene!!! Definitely makes up for the last one. No big reveals, no one walks away, leaving the other alone on the dance floor.
They barely touch and it's sexy (of course it's helped along by the fact that House is in a tux, sans tie and unbuttoned). And the dancing isn't awkward at all, even though I'm assuming it was filmed without music (and didn't even know what the music would be). Why so enjoyable, you two?
An abrupt cut, though, so I wonder what came next.
But they're just so -- gah. Amazing. It's stuff like this I thought we'd never, ever get. They're enjoying each other, enjoying each other's company, even though they're still in a fight, technically. I like it.
TAUB: Just like you asked me to stop my behavior, I'm asking you to stop this. No?
RACHEL: I'm not going to lie to you.
TAUB: Is this revenge?
RACHEL: I don't know. But I do know that it's something I need right now.
And we have walkaway #1. Thanks for playing, Taub. Plus, you didn't stop when she asked. You were going to take it one day at a time, remember? Rachel doesn't get the same opportunity?
I absolutely adore the blocking in this scene. It's close and shot from below and it's like they're dancing. Dancing much more smoothly together than when they were on the actual dance floor.
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KUNO BECKER: Really?
HOUSE: No, I just made that up to see your reaction. Diagnostic test. This is awesome. Thirty-three-year-old carpenter presenting with narcissm, delusions of grandeur, hallucinations.
TAUB: He hasn't had hallucinations.
HOUSE: I'm not talking about him, I'm talking about Him with a capital OMG.
Hey, look at Masters, playing along and doing a ddx on Jesus. Chase looks a wee bit appalled, which is amusing. He's worked for House for how long and this is always the line that gets him? It's consistent, I'll give him that.
Oh, Kuno Becker, smiling. Casting must have been fun. (I mentioned that these recaps are going to be incredibly superficial, right?)
CUDDY: Heard you got the daughter's file. Patient change his mind?
HOUSE: I forged your signature.
CUDDY: Well, thank you for your honesty.
HOUSE: Think of it as a present. See somebody is about to turn the big 4-5 in several months and somebody else wants to make a very big deal of it.
CUDDY: 4-3.
HOUSE: 4-3. Are you sure?
CUDDY: Very.
HOUSE: How can I make such a mistake? In reading your HR file. Oh, no, wait, I didn't. And BOOM goes the dynamite, scores are tied, we are even steven [/stephen :D]
CUDDY: You're right. I did lie--to HR, not to you. When I first applied to the VP admin job, I was twenty-nine years old. I knew I'd be taken more seriously if I were in my early thirties, so I added two years to my age.
HOUSE: You lied to make yourself older? Are you lying about being a woman?
CUDDY: Even if you can trap me, do you think I'll suddenly embrace the value of lying?
HOUSE: My point is that you already have. I just need to prove it.
Can we all just take a moment and admire the dress? 'Cause, damn. Someone's playing dirty.
I love the eye!sex moment at "and somebody else wants to make a very big deal of it." Oh, eye!sex, we haven't forgotten about you. I know it seems that way, with all of the "actual" sex this season, but don't worry. You were there first and we all still love you. You're also as close as we're apparently going to get to H/C sex in the hospital, so you do have that going for you.
Aww, the "Cuddy's a man" jokes aren't going away. That's nice (what am I saying?).
How helpful and very meta of the show to explain all sorts of things in this episode. But how did Cuddy explain away the discrepancy in graduation dates? She was held back? Had a gap year (well, two gap years)? Fucking numbers, how do they work?
HOUSE: Let's put it to the vote. Vest or cummerbund?
MASTERS: Cummerbund.
Ha! Nice sight gag, Show.
You answered fairly quickly there, Masters. I love how she looks around first at the guys and realized that they weren't going to say anything. Was House indicating "vest"? or just lifting both in turn?
There's a version of MS that leads to almost immediate death? Yikes. "That's unless we can get someone to nail themselves to a cross as soon as possible." Heh.
House's strategy now is just to keep Masters out of the loop. She just works for him, so it's easier to pull off than what he's trying to do with Cuddy, so we'll see. I assume how he deals with Masters is a season-long (or however long AT is at PPTH) arc as well that'll of course tie into House's own personal storyline.
Why, yes, I do need to spell out things for myself that are obvious to everyone else, why do you ask?
HOUSE: You look smashing, Ms. Moneypenny.
WILSON: Cummerbund? Very foolish, Mr. Bond.
...
WILSON: I need that file, that chair, and that desk. [♥ I inexplicably get attached to certain lines/deliveries, and this is one of them; I loved RSL's delivery for this]
Ah, so Wilson really did want House to look at the files to confirm what he was seeing. Of course he did. Too afraid to ask directly.
Why did Sam want Wilson to look at the files in the first place? That's what I don't understand; she couldn't correct the records but she just wanted to be prepared for the questions her boss would ask of her? But Wilson said he was okay with not knowing -- not knowing if his girlfriend is intentionally increasing radiation outside protocol. She said she's not, but I'm assuming something necessitated the review.
"She's a sap and she's perfect for you." Oh boy. Now House is showing his Siren tendencies. It might be the tux. And the bow tie. DON'T LISTEN TO HIM, WILSON. That way -- "perfect" -- lies madness.
Okay. What they think Sam's doing and House's response of "morally, she didn't [do anything wrong]" got me thinking about Antigone, and god's laws versus the laws of "men" . . . and I'm realizing that that's why they have this issue in this episode. The thing with Sam's cases; it always seemed a little odd, a little out of place, a little out of nowhere. It still does, a bit (this version of Sam doesn't exactly jive with "hypercompetitive, go-karting" Sam), but now it makes more sense (to me, anyway). It ties in with the POTW (and Antigone's themes of the arrogance of humans to assume what god would/would not want us to do) and it ties in with the lying theme of House's personal storyline. It's a clinic patient! But, you know, not as amusing.
Sean Connery impression # 2 (all seasons :D)
HOUSE: I hate rehearsal dinners almost as much as I hate weddings. The reason anyone gets married is that homoerectus females needed protection from predators while breast-feeding. The only reason these two are getting married is to throw an obnoxious gala so the rest of us feel unworthy. Now we know that in two years the lawyers are going to be fighting over the Bentleys.
CUDDY: That'll make a lovely toast.
HOUSE: She's got looks, he's got money. One of them is bound to run out.
CUDDY: I give it nineteen months.
HOUSE: That's very specific.
CUDDY: No-fault divorce in New Jersey requires couples to live at least eighteen months apart. Actually I'm only giving them a few weeks.
HOUSE: I thought I was supposed to be the dark one.
CUDDY: Not today.
HOUSE: [answers phone] Yeah. [to Cuddy] You're going to have to go stag. My patient is refusing treatment.
CUDDY: And you care?
HOUSE: No, but it's an excuse you can't argue with.
Domesticity!!!
He zips her dress without asking. He's carrying her purse. He's carrying her purse at work, in front of people, without complaint. Awww. It's nice; he lived with Stacy for five years and some things stuck. It's cute. He's not wearing jeans (following dressy casual!). And his tie matches her dress. And he's wearing a tie.
Who would ever invite House to a rehearsal dinner? Besides Wilson. Oh, well, that's three right there. Got it.
What's the magazine he's reading? I love the fun titles that Show comes up with. Sewing & Notions, something about fishing, something about (election) polls (I find the titles amusing but apparently it doesn't mean I can remember the actual names :(
If you're worrying about actual predators, I wouldn't really call that "marriage;" it's not like they had to get blood tests or register with the nonexistent government. And, as I understand it, marriage was just a way to secure the transition of money/property/status through the generations. Different "predators," really :))
If there is more than one Bentley, why fight? Just split them (and just don't get an odd number of cars). Oof. The problems of the rich. I'm also assuming there's a prenup.
So pretty, Cuddy, but pissed. No need to lean over the desk that way, but it got him to briefly pause in his diatribe, so that's something. I absolutely love her coat (just in case anyone thought this recap wasn't staying in the land of the superficial. It's a nice land, I like it here).
And hello, blink and you'd miss it introduction to New Jersey family law. How charmingly specific, Cuddy, thanks.
I also love the walk-and-talk, so nicely choreographed. She reaches for her coat as he reaches for his cane, etc. Really well done. I tend to love their walk 'n' talks and this was no exception.
(and in the next scene with the POTW: "Sticking by your convictions and damning the consequences." And House calls those people "idiots," particularly when "applied indiscriminately to all circumstances." But House, we really shouldn't ignore your stupidity in all of this.
I did appreciate the Inherit the Wind joke, though.)
TAUB: Sounds like you love him.
RACHEL: I am not having an affair. He lives in Oregon. I've never met him. I probably never will.
TAUB: You are having an affair, an emotional one.
RACHEL: Are you equating what I'm doing with what you did?
TAUB: I've done terrible things to you and I deserve all of this and more but you can't pretend that what you're doing isn't hurtful.
"Baby there's a shark in the water..." ::dancing::
SHOW. IS. MEAN. MEAN, I say. See the tiny Cuddy/Wilson(/Sam) scene that we missed (top row, middle; they're all at the table)? Plus there was that picture released with House showing up at the table, (probably) asking Cuddy to dance. Hmph. Mean.
On the other hand, I think HL & LE gave the TV Guide interview when they were on location here for this episode . . . I think (too lazy to check :)), so that's definitely a fun thought for this episode. "Land mine!"
So that's the Chairman of the Board. :D I pay attention.
I can't believe they actually invited the whole hospital.
Oh, Chase. I wouldn't think there were enough hours in the day.
Bwahahahahahaha! Oh, Taub and your awkward dancing (making the latter scene all the more impressive). But, oh, dear. Rachel? You didn't talk to Taub about how you felt after your mother died? What the hell are you two doing?
HOUSE: Someone (? I can't hear) looks lovely tonight.
CUDDY: Thank you.
HOUSE: I meant me. Someone else looks simply stunning.
CUDDY:
HOUSE: That was you. And the blonde at the bar.
CUDDY: Just to be clear, this whole little act isn't going to work. I need an apology, not flattery.
HOUSE: It's not an act, it's the wedding.
CUDDY: You hate weddings.
HOUSE: I thought I did but then I realized I've never been to one.
CUDDY: Never?
HOUSE: Turns out they're kind of fun.
♥
Heh. Oh, Cuddy, you and your ridiculously brightly colored and shiny gowns that you wear for weddings. Not complaining, of course, but it is amusing.
You two. ::squishes:: How are you both just so adorable. I can't stand it.
And we got another dancing scene!!! Definitely makes up for the last one. No big reveals, no one walks away, leaving the other alone on the dance floor.
They barely touch and it's sexy (of course it's helped along by the fact that House is in a tux, sans tie and unbuttoned). And the dancing isn't awkward at all, even though I'm assuming it was filmed without music (and didn't even know what the music would be). Why so enjoyable, you two?
An abrupt cut, though, so I wonder what came next.
But they're just so -- gah. Amazing. It's stuff like this I thought we'd never, ever get. They're enjoying each other, enjoying each other's company, even though they're still in a fight, technically. I like it.
TAUB: Just like you asked me to stop my behavior, I'm asking you to stop this. No?
RACHEL: I'm not going to lie to you.
TAUB: Is this revenge?
RACHEL: I don't know. But I do know that it's something I need right now.
And we have walkaway #1. Thanks for playing, Taub. Plus, you didn't stop when she asked. You were going to take it one day at a time, remember? Rachel doesn't get the same opportunity?
I absolutely adore the blocking in this scene. It's close and shot from below and it's like they're dancing. Dancing much more smoothly together than when they were on the actual dance floor.
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