I hope I got the name of the ep right.

I guess I'm the first to break the ice.

First of all - HILARIOUS inside joke on House's TV - one of the shows he had listed was Blackadder, which Hugh Laurie starred in in real life. I fell over laughing.

Other thoughts-

What was in House's magic "toolkit"? That vial he took out had whatever turned that gold stuff purple. But what else could it have inside, chemical-wise? Is House his own dealer and chemist? That could explain where he gets all the drugs . . . he might make them.

As for letting Wilson stay in the end, obviously food was a factor. Hehehe.

And more Hugh Laurie juggling. Which I love because I juggle. He juggled the giant tennis ball, the magic 8 ball, and I didn't catch what the 3rd thing was. Could these objects be significant?

Ponder away, folks, I'm off to work. <_<

Since FOX has decided to really spread this season out, <_< The first new episode back from a break it seems I always need to watch several times to really get into it so my comments may be off a bit.

The third item was a stapler. I would have to comment that I don't think there was any significance in the items other than that combination made it more difficult. Different sizes and weights are harder to juggle than uniformed item, at least I've found it that way. Plus a stapler in general is harder to juggle because of the shape and it's tendancy to want to turn on it's nose.

Good catch on the Blackadder! I didn't catch all the shows he had listed, now I'll have to look for that tonight.

Loved the opening with House in bed and Wilson in the bathroom! The whole food thing was hilarious. Love the "Violators will be prosecuted" note at the end! And slapping Chase's hand when he tried to steal a pancake! :lol: The look on House's face :lol: :P too funny!

So how'd Wilson become such a good cook? He's been married three times already and I would guess he's no older than his mid thirties. Do good little Jewish boys learn how to cook? I just find that to be a very interesting trait. Did he learn to cook out of self preservation? To impress the ladies? Because of all the crap in prepackaged food and knowing what he knows as an oncologist? Or is it his way of escaping after a long hard day?

And here's me reading way too much into things but I found House's interest in "New Yankee Workshop" intriguing. His comment was funny but he knows darn well they'd never show the guy sawing a limb off accidentally so what's up with that?! Did he woodwork at one time? Just learning a new skill? Has a crush on the guy? :o ;) :lol: It helps put him to sleep?

I love the little reveal about Egypt. Interesting :huh: .I wonder what other things he picked up in what other places now. Plus it just struck me last night that he is a bit of an "Army brat" (I know, his dad was a Marine but you know what I mean.). Sorry, slow on the pickup.

Now this may just be the return from a long break and high anticipation but the whole PotW this time seemed off. House was too adamant in the pursuit of heavy metal poisoning in the face of too many negative tests. I know he's no champion of the difinitiveness of tests but with such overwhelming and resounding negatives I would think his love of facts would have either put him off of that trail or pushed him to test for every single one. Or at least have the wife banned from visiting the guy to see if he improved if he really thought she was poisioning him. It just seemed too extreme even for House.

And the ducklings just seemed off of their normal grabbing for answers. They all seemed to latch onto the first thing that came along and cling it irregardless of anything else. Foreman is a bulldog if he really believes in the diagnosis but even he didn't seem fully convinced of his choice but was fighting just becasue he felt House was wrong.

House final did switch to viral infection but only because he felt the need to do something since nothing else was working, not because he really believed that's what it was. Or at least that's the impression I got.

Loved the mens room scene and how uncomfartable that seemed to make Cameron. That was an awfully long pee! Ah and the "New caffiene delivery system" :lol: :lol:

Cuddy had some great moments this episode. The wife confronting her in the clinic was beautiful! :lol: The scene in the office with the herpes couple was good too. Just that exasperated look she gets. And of course the other scene in the office about searching the wife.

And more motorcycle love this eppy! WooHoo!! Off to work now and a rewatch tonight.

Well as per usual....some of you have already hit some of the best parts, but I'll try to contribute here.


I have to agree the PoTW did seem a little off, but I think they were concentrating on some of the side things. Giving Wilson more time and showing more of the dynamics of their relationship.

Cuddy stopping House with her arm and telling him he's not dropping it in her lap. Funny.

Well the old saying is true..."The way to a man's heart is through his stomach."

This is also the last episode the better half gets to watch. She's getting too many ideas on how to get rid of me...NOT good!! :P

Better analysis after I re-watch.

Take care,
lfeflght

Wilson blow-drying his hair! :lol:

I had a little trouble following the medical mystery (I was trying to be all clever and had decided that, given the title of the episode, the wife didn't realize she was poisoning her husband, so the real answer kind of threw me) but like some other people have said I don't think that was really the point of this one anyway. It's great that Wilson got so much screen time. :P Cuddy was pretty funny too--that poor woman is just going to collapse one of these days.

House was a little hyper in this episode--not that it wasn't funny. Freaking out when he thought the maid had moved his stuff around was completely in-character, but he kept raising his voice at the ducklings (his squabble with Cameron in Cuddy's office was kind of sudden) and just seemed really on-edge the whole time. I guess Wilson throwing his living situation into upheaval proabably has something to do with it. :rolleyes:

I wondered that myself...it's weird that we haven't seen it before. My dad said it looked like just a chemistry set (Sherlock Holmes has one too ;) ) but maybe it has some other stuff in it that he picked up when he was traveling around as a kid. I know House probably hates having his stuff touched, and he was on the verge of solving the case and everything, but he seemed really upset when he couldn't find it--maybe there's something more important to him than chemicals in there.

Cameron's line near the end--"ignorance is bliss." Clever fit-in with the episode theme.

The shot at the end with Wilson on the couch--so cute. :)

Can't wait for next week. I almost can't believe we get another new one so soon.

Don't have to worry about that anymore. The show will be new all the way to the season finale in May!

As for the show itself, the House/Wilson interaction was definitely the draw for me. It was so very Odd Couple. :D

I so missed the Blackadder reference. D'oh! :rolleyes:

Hopefully, more to come...

Hmm, odd thought - perhaps Wilson left the food in the fridge, the message on the machine and got into an "innocently sleeping on the couch" pose to try to weaken House's resolve to kick him out?

Bad news + good food + don't want to wake Wilson up = roommate?

hehehe

It seems like something House would pull, manipulation-wise.

This was such gold- so much funny and I love how we get an ep like this after recent more angsty tones – perfect.

Not going to be obvious and make any Wilson/ Egypt/Denial jokes. What the hell he was the thing he was using to dry his hair :o ? Not overly acquainted with hair drying equipment but that looked scary- like monster clippers with a massive comb? Wilson has some fabulously camp moments and that was wonderful. The House/Wilson was 24carrat and the house keeper was awesome.

This may have been to obscure to be intentional but House’s line about the pancakes ‘Wilson made them’ – the accent and expression was spot on for the tone his old man used in Daddy’s Boy about the dinner plans. If it was intentional, and I doubt it, it was superb continuity. Loved ‘If I blow myself up in a restaurant/72 virgins’ line too :) .

Cuddy was on tip top form too ‘He’d give his own mother herpes’ and her face when the Clinic Wife showed up- Lisa Edelstein is so fab. House was extra hyper and I liked the continuity after he blasted the energy drink. The New Yankee Workshop was really funny too- House is such a tool :D . I have seen that show advertised here – I didn’t realise they showed the DIY mishaps too- maybe worth five minutes.

Few people have mentioned the ease with which he was throwing his leg around, kicking his cupboard mess into touch but I thought it worked. The cupboard stuff looked light and he does a kind of hop step after getting off the bike.

Cameron – call me thick- but I didn’t get her line about ‘ignorance is bliss’? I also loved how Cameron is all precious about going into the gents but she’s all about pulling cash out of her pants. She doesn’t approve of cheating but threesomes- bring it on? :ph43r: I’ll move this thought over to the Cameron thread but if anyone can explain where she comes from, I will love you forever.

Better late than never...I always say! LOL! :lol:

As usual, Rt, you have summed it all so well! ;)

I have mixed feelings about Fox stretching out the season. On one hand, we won't have to wait so long for season 3. Hopefully. However, I really hate the long breaks.

I absolutely loved the 'married couple' thing House and Wilson had going. Especially the food play. "Don't you ever eat anything else but canned soup and peanut butter?" "Don't you ever eat anything that doesn't look as if it's been rolled onto your plate by a dung beetle?" Ahhh! Loved it!

We all knew Wilson's ol' lady wasn't going to go for his adulterous behavior for long. She finally jammed him up on it. Not like he really gives a flying flip.

I also really enjoyed the scene between House and Lady the maid. The absolute horror of a single man coming home and finding his house clean! Especially when something needs to be found among all the neatness! :D

I loved the men's room scene. (I know you did too Rtlemurs!) Cameron did not want anything to do with going in there! I think House juse enjoys making her feel uncomfortable in a school-boy sort of way. I like the relationship between them a lot more now then I did when Cameron was chasing him. Not to mention the fact that this episode gave her a new prospect.

The Balck Adder ref. was very cool. Hugh Laurie has really gained a lot of respect.

My husband, who really doesn't like HOUSE, auctually watched it with me, and enjoyed it. I was very pleased.
He figured out the plot and laughed right along with me. I hope he will watch it again with me next week.

Cheers! PIllpopdoc

They all give in eventually! Didn't you know, UPN sold off the borg. FOX bought a few and put them in their programing department. They'll soon change the tag line for House to "Resistance is futile". :blink: :lol: ;)

Dad just had to watch the new King Kong last night ( oh yeah, like he had to twist my arm to get me to watch it with him! :lol: ) so Ididn't get to rewatch. Maybe tonight.

Jaxgirl --

That makes me happy! The straight through run, not the season finale :blink: :lol: And it's about darn time too!! ;) :lol: I'd have been happy with reruns! pretty easy to please eh? B)

Benj -- I'll have to check out that "Wilson made them" comment. Very intersting catch. I wonder now if it was intentional, although we'll probably never know.

PPD -- Ah yes, the dung beetle comment! My parents even laughed at that! :D

:ph43r: (It's the closest smilie I could get to a Peeping Tom. Do we have a perv smilie?)

Yep! I feel a new avatar or banner coming on! :blink:

I hadn't thought of that, hmmm. But he's not dying anymore so her fascination has probably gone.

Resistence is useless- kiss me, I love it! :D

Watched again (suprise) - House giving Mr Myagi from Karate Kid a mention is majestic. The Al Green song was pretty perfect although that whole scene with sleeping Wilson and scheming House made me think of 'Baby It's Cold Outside' <_< Love how they bookended it with House snoozing at the start and Wilson at the end. My dad is a New Yankee Workshop nut and just the ref made me shudder - that show should be called Lunatics With Laithes.

Anyone figured out how the title 'Clueless' fits in? I know it was a fairly clueless case but there is usually more than one read?

It wasn't as tightly woven together as usual, but the tie-ins with the title that I found were

1. (obviously) That the symptoms weren't making any sense with the tests,

2. The clinic patient & spouse clueless about the infidelity till House clued them in,

3. Wilson all asleep and oblivious as House "decides his fate" at the end, :)

4. The husband completely unaware that his wife's killing him,

5. That thing with Cameron and the bet--seemed to be implying that she genuinely thought the patient and his wife were happy together (and by extension she seemed to be saying that "true love works" or something along those lines) and of course we find out in the end that Wife's trying to kill Husband. It puts her in kind of a "clueless" or naive light. That shouting match between her and House in which he yelled at her to "grow up," her conceding defeat at the end but telling House that "ignorance is bliss" (which puts another spin on the title--the people who were "clueless" in this episode were happier--better off?--being clueless).

There are probably others that I missed. I'll have to watch it again. :P Like I needed an excuse.

*slaps forehead* Duh. I totally forgot he'd done that. That would explain it. <_<

I haven't read the whole thread yet, but was it just me, or were the audio track and visual track a little off? as in the didn't really match. Like if you watch House's or another character's lips that they didn't really match what they were saying? Like the whole episode had been dubbed.

Nope, I hadn't noticed that but I did notice the scene after House proved the wife was posioning the husband. She walks a little ways away. The closeups of her were clear but the closeups of House looked like some really bad post production fix. Like it was supposed to be a wider two shot and for whatever reason it didn't work so they cropped it and pulled in on just House.

It was all grainy and funky. Very out of place and uncharacteristic for the high standards they have. I'm thinking it might have been one of those days where Hugh had to be somewhere and they finished shooting and found there was a problem but didn't have the time to reshoot so they just did the best they could in post.

But hey, sh*t happens to the best of us so I'm not complaining! ;) :lol:

Yea I noticed that too. I was just wondering if I had lost my mind. That's why asked

I believe that in that shot House's face is all murky and distorted because that's his reflection in the mirror- he's looking at the wife through her reflection, not actually at her.

I completely loved the idea of House and his little 'wooden box'. I'd say he's had it for a while- as for the value, a lot of those little chemistry-type things are hard (or fiddly) to get your hands on, and House has probably hung onto what looks like a pretty deluxe chem set for a while. In my experience they aren't the sort of thing you just throw out. Whatever was in there was obviously important to him.
An interesting thought is that that wooden box could be his 'mummy-finding kit'. It's old enough, it sounded like there wasn't just little glass bottles in there, and the cleaner asked him if he was going to fix something, suggesting that there were perhaps tools in there.

As for the Stannous Chloride: that's the real deal. Tin (II) Chloride is made by adding metallic tin (Sn) to Hydrochloric acid. It's usually solid at room temp (extra water is evaporated off the acidic solution to produce the crystals), so what House was using would have been a solution in water, I think. The principle is right - basically if you put gold and Stannous Chloride together you'll get a purple colour somewhere along the line, although the gold might have to be suspended and the SnCl2 has to be liquid (and the liquid has a limited shelf life, as well as being corrosive and unstable in air through decomposition).

Sorry to go on so, (and I may be wrong), but basically the cool chemistry stuff is right. Right enough for TV, anyway. *Is way too obsessive and pedantic*

Sorry to split hairs, but did anyone else catch this in House's closet? (That was a classic scene too, and I loved both the way he kicked stuff in, and the little shout of dismay he made when he discovered that the cleaning lady had cleaned up his stuff... I know his pain ;), which isn't necessarily a good thing... )



Is it just me, or is that black thing a lacrosse stick? It could be something else (isn't the webbing a bit closer?), and it isn't visible for that long, this image being the best angle... but if it is a lacrosse stick- How cool is that?

I absolutely love the level of detail in House's apartment, and the fact that he has cool stuff and books absolutely everywhere- the sets are fantastic.

Armchair Elvis, now I have to go back and watch that again, I didn;t get the impresion that it was a reflection. If I recall correctly he was standing in front of her holding her hand. She pulled away or moved and he pinned (blocked her escape, whatever) her against the stall door. I could be totally off as I often am in memory.

I also loved the wooden box! Very cool and sooo House. I hope thay have more little peeks into the box as well as other unique, strange items that he has collected through the years. I can relate to that side of him so easily!

The chemstry thing is interesting too. I 'm not big on researching the details, medical or otherwise. As long as it's not a glaring error (like the lask of urine for a day in 'Humpty Dumpty' ) I am happy to go with what they throw at me. But it is cool that they use these strange things to good effect. That they don't just make up weird stuff just to be weird but that it is actually a feasible thing.

And on the Lacrosse stick in the closet, I don't know. :unsure: It may be but here's not enough there to tell. Again, I'll have to rewatch and since my TV died I'm stuck with viewing on my tiny computer screen. Better freeze frame but small.

It almost looks like it could be one of those space saver hanger thingies, or a tie rack. Remember, Wilson is living with him at this point and I can so see House not sharing his closet space. Making Wilson hang his stuff in the hall closet with the junk. After all he's sleeping on the couch in the living room it's only logical that that would be his closet!

Good catch though. Anyone with better eyes of something got any ideas?