'House': Working It Out

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There was some great evil fun banter between Cuddy and House, and even Taub, tonight — examples of the kind of writing that makes me love the characters for their wit and the writers for their skills at the keyboard.

When his team asked what Cuddy was doing in his office, House quipped, "other than throwing off the feng shui with her ass that faces all eight sides of the bagua." I laughed here even though I had no idea what a bagua was at the time.

Taub was also similarly on word fire this episode as he dealt with the gastric bypass patient whose hypocrisy disgusted our petite philandering plastic surgeon, who apparently forgot his own shady past. Taub, bedpan in hand, needed a stool specimen from his charge and told her to "put some of what you're full of in here." Taub considered his patient a cheat since she posed as a fitness guru who advocated healthy weight loss through diet and exercise, while she simply shed pounds by shrinking her stomach surgically. The formerly large patient challenged Taub's aggressive judgment of her chunk loss regimen saying, "if surgery could somehow make you taller, would you do it?" He sniped, "Sure, but I wouldn't call a meeting of the Lollipop Guild and tell them they could grow if they wanna."

Nice one L'il Taub!

I did also very much enjoy the Kutner subplot which ultimately made fun of Web diagnosticians. The notion that he could commit a huge fraud with zero repercussions is another example of how this show ignores the "do no harm" bit of the Hippocratic Oath. I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, but seriously, wouldn't Kutner be in jail or have his medical license revoked or get kicked out of House's stable? I admit to grinning at the idea that every doc would blackmail Kutner rather than turn him in. Still mad about the "lime in the coconut" song thing though, even if I did like the way Quentin Tarantino used this Harry Nilson novelty tune (called "Coconut") at the end of Reservoir Dogs.

What do you think of House and Cuddy's latest dance? What did House mean when he talked about making sacrifices for a relationship? And could Foreman be anymore stiff with that hug he gave Thirteen? Anyone worried that Foreteen won't exactly be a hot hookup?