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(S03E13) After last week's episode gave us a lot more great stuff with regard to the cast of House, even with some medical stuff going on, we're treated to some old-fashioned Dr. House attitude combined with a new character and a somewhat intriguing case. When checking out the previews for this week, we were treated to seeing House in a wheelchair, which opened up some curiosity in my head, as you never know if something else happened to him, if he was hit by a car, or if he was just faking. As it turns out, he just wanted his handicapped space back, now that new researcher Dr. Whitner has been given his original space, sending the good doctor 46 yards out into the parking lot.
So, the only reason he's playing wheelchair tag with the new researcher is that he bet Cuddy that he could stay in the wheelchair for a week. And lost. Well, sort of.
Aside from the fact that House does everything in his power to make light of what it's like being in a wheelchair, from trying to get Foreman to help him into his car (which I didn't even realize he had, and it's good, considering it snowed), not being able to check out a kid who is pretending to have a sore throat in the clinic, and feigning difficulty at a nurse's station with trying to reach over the countertop, he's somehow taken seriously by his team throughout, a team that barely made a peep about it. In some ways, that's so House, because it's almost as if they just nod and move on, ignoring what he does and paying attention to what he says.
This week, I've got to say, I was very much intrigued by the case at hand. Outside of the fact that a young boy keeps having various bleeding issues, breathing problems, and horrible pains throughout his system that leave the doctors completely clueless, for the most part, his parents are Romani, or gypsies, and aren't trusting the establishment of the hospital or its doctors. So, they don't want to let them treat the kid, and get made fun of in the process, with House poking fun at the fact that they're trying to cure their son by moving furniture around in the room instead of just letting doctors do their jobs. How this all ended up was great, as the clue was in front of us the whole time. Of course, we don't get to the end of it all until House has to go and make a derogatory statement to his parents, mentioning that he won't let Cuddy "gyp" him out of getting his parking space to delay them walking into the room. Should have seen that coming, I guess.
As for parking spaces, House wins his way closer to the hospital's doors in the end, after hitting Cuddy where it hurts, and knowing it. I'm wondering if this will cause some more of a stir with the new research doc, who seemed to appreciate Cuddy's breasts as much as House does. Or at least, that's what she said. Is it too cliche, even for Doctor House, if he has made googly eyes with a woman with a height issue, and then goes after a woman in a wheelchair who is a co-worker?
If there's one thing that I got out of this show, it was the one line that Stevie, the patient, says to Foreman when the doc offers him an opportunity to take an internship at the hospital, about being alone. Specifically, about how Chase, Cameron and Foreman all have no rings on their fingers. Whether or not that really struck Foreman where it hurts or not probably won't be apparent right away, but it's a good item of foreshadowing on our cast members. And showing Foreman eating dinner alone while reading didn't hurt, either.
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