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"I have a position open on my penis"

"They have a secret camera aimed at Cutty's vagina.. not like they are going to see any entry there.."

The cell phone lighting up with "backstabbing bitch" and showing the one girl on the team.

Fun episode. The one guy was TOTAL psycho with the diagnosis, and I found it very shocking that would occur. Talk about flushing your medical license away.

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Yes, I like the unstable cast--it puts the focus squarely on Dr. House.

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Patrick nailed it, thanks for the cell phone correction

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Well Amber is a cutthroat bitch, isn't she?

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If House only has an opening for three on his team and he now has Foreman and the CIA doctor (if she joins) that means there is only room for one of the interviewees. Or does the fact that Foreman works for Cuddy mean there are two others to be hired?

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Yes, I think he has room for 3 on his staff. But the CIA woman basically got the job, subverting the interview process because he directly offered her a position, so I don't think he can throw her in the "contest" to get a job, since he encouraged her to leave hers for this.

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It seemed at the end though that he hadn't been entirely serious when he made the offer, but that he had no choice since she had already quit.

Anyway, I thought this was a great episode after the relatively subpar one last week.

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I thought this weeks episode was great. I'm amazed by the creativity of the writing for this show. This week was 2 episodes in one. House continues to get more outrageous.

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They almost made him seem human (almost!). "Now I can't trust Michael Moore."

Glad he got rid of the CIA doctor. "You're fired! Do you want to go out for dinner? I really mean it."

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I just hate that they're going to have to get rid of most of the new staff because I'm really enjoying most of them. (The Mormon doctor is the exception, mostly because they have done so little with him, especially lately.) The B*tch is just too much fun, the Cheating Plastic Surgeon is probably best doctor of the group, and 13 is too hot to lose. Cameron as a blond is starting to grow on me. I wonder if her out-takes from the film are going to come back to haunt her. (One advantage of keeping Cameron a blonde is that they could also keep 13 and nobody would mix the two up in the long shots. I'm just saying...)

Regards,

Joe

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I think House slipped. He told 13 that he wants his team healthy. That means he'd either decided to keep her or was seriously considering it. If he knew he was going to fire her, he wouldn't have bothered checking on her.

Joe

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Or he's going to fire her and then ask her out for dinner!

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Worked so well the first time!

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Or, he actually cares about her. A first for House?

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House is a lot less "uncaring" than he'd like people to believe. He obviously has strong feelings of affection for Wilson and even Cuddy. And I never believed any of his denials about having feelings for Cameron. And let's not forget Stacey!

Regards,

Joe

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Ooooh.. you just brought up some good points there.. (thinks about other thread)

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Very true. I guess I meant to type "concerned." Unlike all of the other sick, or potentiall sick people, perhaps House is more concerned about the patient rather than the affliction and "the chase" (that is, the chase for the diagnosis).

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I don't think it necessarily means he's decided to keep her. Only that he wanted healthy staff moving forward. However, that doesn't mean that Josh is incorrect. Like House, she plays things extraordinarily close to the vest (or at least did until Tuesday's episode). Huntington's disease is right up there with Alzheimer's disease among the scariest diagnoses you can possibly get. He had to go to the heart of what defined her life in order to crack her shell. And her argument for not knowing was a well-reasoned one that jived well with House's own needs. If there's anything House respects, it's undefeatable logic.

The only thing that ticked me off about Big Love going is that it continued a line of eliminations that matched perfectly with the spoilers I posted earlier that the showrunners promised weren't true.

All that being said, this was probably the first episode of the season that captured the emotional heft of the earlier seasons. We're starting to get to a small enough number now that the remaining few have gotten enough screentime to resonate.

It was nice seeing cranky old surgeon back after being basically supplanted by Chase through the earlier episodes of the season.

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Completely unrelated pet peeve. I realize most people never see the expression in print and are relying on how things sound, but it is "jibed", not "jived".

Main Entry: ⁴jibe Pronunciation Guide
Variant(s): also gibe \"\
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -ed/-ing/-s
Etymology: origin unknown
: to be in accord jibes pretty well with other accounts> jibe with democratic ideals -- E.N.Palmer>
synonym see AGREE

"jibe." Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002. http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com ( 22 Nov. 2007).

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"Jibe" is of course the meaning I was going for, but the Oxford English Dictionary informs me that since the jazz slang "jive" entered the English lexicon, it has had a parallel meaning:

jive, v.
slang (orig. U.S.).

1. b. intr. To make sense; to fit in. U.S. Cf. jibe v.

1943 Amer. Speech XVIII. 153/2 Doesn't jive, doesn't make sense. 1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. i. 308 His analyst says he's in love with her for all the neurotic reasons in the book. It don't jive, man. 1973 To our Returned Prisoners of War (Office of U.S. Secretary of Defense) 7 Jive, verb meaning fit in, go with, to make sense.

So while it once it may have been a mistake (and obviously still is to anyone with a classical understanding of written English) decades of mistaken usage have since given "jive" a sort of casual legitimacy in the American lexicon.

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But Americans are notoriously sloppy users of English. I had no idea that the "jive/jibe" thing went back that far. That does make a difference. (Language does evolve - or degenerate - after all.) Amusing that the OED has this while one of the better American dictionaries doesn't. Unfortunately my compact OED is in storage while my home office is being redone and last I checked an on-line subscription was pricey.

Regards,

Joe

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"It ain't cool being no jive turkey so close to Thanksgiving."

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n/m, I finished the ep. Olivia is staying. So now that she's on the team do you think a name will be forthcoming or will we have to keep calling her 13?

That short dude with the perpetual sour puss bores the hell out of me, though.

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Looks like those stories were right, although I'm kind of bummed. Taub just really hasn't grown on me, and we never really got an Amber story like most of the others got. I was hoping she'd stick around, just because it might be interesting to see what she's like when she's not in a competition, or whether she'd still feel like she had to compete with Kundler, 13, and Foreman.

I'm also curious what they're going to do with Chase and Cameron, now that the competition isn't the story any more and there's more room to use them. I liked the tiny bit of bitterness from Chase when talking about "the new us".