Dwarf Mom is one of my favorite tertiary characters from the show. And on a purely superficial note, she's also a knockout: if she had played Dr. Terzi, I would've actually believed House's stupidity.LOL! You're right; and her confidence, good sense and quick humor only added to her appeal.
Speaking of his stupidity, as soon as I saw him so flummoxed in Ugly, I thought of this episode. Even detoxing and self-mutilated, the guy still had his medical mojo. And he diagnostically vapor-locks over Terzi?
MLC is such a contrast to S1's DIYD, with Foreman playing Santa, Cameron shaking her mystery gift, Chase at Christmas Mass, Cuddy on patient duty, and best of all, House and Wilson, laughing and eating their Christmas dinner of take-out food straight from the cartons.
HL's subtlety just reaches out and stops me dead every time. In this episode especially, his quiet intensity is pure, heart-wrenching gold.
I can't even take refuge in that perennial holiday favorite, It's A Wonderful Life. I love that film, but instead of uplifting, I always saw it as sad and terribly tragic . George Bailey will never realize even one of his aspirations, or exercise a tenth of his abilities. He is so responsible and dutiful, he only ends up ensuring that everyone's else's needs are met. A kind of Über-Wilson.
The scene of him buying a suitcase for the world travels he'll never take has the same intensely painful effect on me as seeing House lying in his own vomit.
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