Bad, bad things (and some good ones)

[rj_anderson]

Okay, so I have learned my lesson about using fresh pineapple rings on my cooked ham, because if you leave the rings on overnight to let the juices soak in and then warm the whole thing up again, the ham tastes like it's been partially pre-digested.

EWWWWWW.

In other news, I cannot get this week's House out of my head. I mean, I could have

Comments

[rj_anderson]

I'm about 90% sure that the "pole" in Amber's leg was House's broken-off cane, which we conspicuously saw fly out of his hand earlier when the bus was smashing around. All the bus fixtures -- poles and seat frames -- seemed to be bent but intact, so that's the only thing it could have been.

The reason I call House/Amber hijinks is that

a) House initially remembered seeing Amber in the bar, standing against the wall and looking amused and slighly seductive;

b) he got so drunk the bartender had to take his keys, at an odd hour in the afternoon, which is unlike House and suggests he was trying to drown either his guilt or his reservations;

c) the entire episode was laden with sexual metaphors and references, including that direct conversation with Wilson in the MRI unit where he reasons out that House is "not objectifying" Amber and in fact has feelings for her;

d) the mystery woman (who represents Amber) looks like a former lover (Stacy) and she caresses House's hand seductively when he's hallucinating her in his apartment

[durayan]

I don't buy the House/Amber thing. I think Amber's recent calling out of Wilson on trying to accomodate her--"don't you do that to me" evidenced a strong desire on her part for their relationship to work out. It's important to her. While I could buy House trying to have an affair with Amber, I don't think she'd do that to Wilson.

My theory is that she's pregnant. Admittedly, I don't have a huge amount of support for this (she tells the bed salesman a couple of episodes ago she is--it would be a reason for House to both go and drown his sorrows and to sip celebratory champagne, and it would likely be the sort of thing that House would notice clues for before anyone else--including Wilson--picked up on it.

And the pole in Amber's leg? I went back and looked. It's metal. So, not that it's not horribly Freudian and all, it's just not as blatantly so.