5.23 - Under My Skin
House and the team take on the case of a ballerina (guest star Jamie Tisdale) whose lungs collapse in the middle of a performance. When the treatment causes her skin to fall off, the dancer faces not only the prospect of never dancing again but also of dying an agonizing death. The team must use their imaginations to carefully choreograph ways to test and treat her delicate body without killing her. Meanwhile, House continues to suffer from what he thinks is insomnia, and he is willing to go to desperate measures to cure it.

Intense episode. HL & AD were brilliant again.

WOW! That was awesome! I still can not believe Hugh Laurie does not have an EMMY! Everyone and every thing was awesome.

I thought the detox scenes in MLC were intense, but wow. If this doesn't get HL the Emmy not sure what could. A lot to process in this episode.

Wilson was just love! tonight If i were a Huddy fan tho i'd be pissed, the Huddy promo was longer than that!

1. I'm shaking. I'm actually shaking because of this show. 2. They made me cry. 3. There is no number 3. 4. House/Cuddy yay (and back story!). 5. The way House clings to those closest to him is fascinating. When I calm down, I'd like to explore that. If i were a Huddy fan tho i'd be pissed, the Huddy promo was longer than that! How can anyone be pissed when there's back story?! (Although I may demand nudity in a flashback next week)

Wheeeee, what a ride! HL is a genius. Detox scenes were amazing. (Am confused at time though, did he detox in just one night? I thought the process was longer? IDK, I don't really care...too good to worry about it.) AD was great. LE was great. Lots of Chase. Loved Wilson (as always). Good, good stuff. I want next Monday to be here in a heartbeat because for once, I'm completely unspoiled as to what the big bru ha ha is at the end of this season! I can't even begin to imagine, nor do I really want to. At the same time, I don't want Monday to be over...long summer ahead. So, he was sober when he said he wanted to always kiss Cuddy. :) And backstory, yay. Always love backstory. House is tough on the exterior, but boy, he's a wreck on the inside. So what now, no Vicodin. How will he manage the pain? Will it be better than he expected, like Cuddy said?

Wow. This was seriously intense. I need like, more time and like three more viewings to process it. :shock:

I went in surprisingly positive, was feeling good about this episode, even kind of okay with the House and Cuddy stuff...but in the end the House/Cuddy fell apart again. The insta!detox was yet another contrivance to get them together. Ugh. And I hate Cuddy's backstory. I'm really hoping this all makes more sense next week... Where'd Wilson go at the end? Not even a call? Oh well. I liked the the House and Wilson scenes, the Chase and Cameron scenes (and Cameron's sperm non sequitur), Foreman's lines, and Cuddy's hair looked good for the first time in months.

True 'dat, a lot to process. Hugh Laurie being an acting god is something that is continually proven and he keeps pushing the envelope further. They obviously, for story telling purposes, contracted the detox timing here, but I also highly suspect that there's a whole other shoe waiting to drop next week. Love the fact that Chase picks his battles and sticks with them -- that once he's decided on the course he's pretty patient about things and has a certainty about his life and his decisions. (Wish they'd deal with the continuity with Cameron's PDH -- AND GIVE THE GUY A NAME ALREADY -- since she says she didn't expect him to die, and Foreman says she married a dying man. Guess that means he was determined to be terminal sometime between meeting and marriage?) Also on the continuity, we've got 20 year timeline back to when House and Cuddy first met.

Wow. That was one hell of an intense and gripping episode. I was rooted to my chair throughout. Didn't even get up during the commercial breaks.

I'm so glad Wilson was there for him, and came willingly right away when he needed him every time he called. I wish it was Wilson who had been staying with him, but I understand why they needed Cuddy to be there. (But think of the hotness if the 2 of them had been there!) So he detoxed that fast? I'm a little confused by that. You'd think he would be in a lot more apparent pain after that.....

This was freaking amazing. I don't think there's ever been an episode more intense than this. I sure haven't reacted this emotionally to the show in a long time. Cripes, it blew my mind.

Really good episode. Amazing how a season that started so badly (all Thirteen, all the time) ended up so great. I manage to watch virtually everything on House but I closed my eyes for the tracheotomy. Insulin needs to be injected in fatty tissue, not a bicep the size of a small tree. I loved how fast Wilson moved when House told him "2 minutes." Everybody Lies Cameron: It lasted six months. Thyroid cancer metastasized to his brain. There was nothing they could do. I was 21, and… I watched my husband die. House: I'm sorry. But that’s not the whole story. It’s a symptom, not your illness. Thyroid cancer would have been diagnosed at least a year before his death. You knew he was dying when you married him. Must have been when you first met him. So, if they saved his sperm when he was diagnosed, as Cameron said, it was 6 months before they married. ("I didn't plan on my husband dying, but he did." = HA!) Cuddy saying she hasn't lied to him in 20 years: Do things like curing Richard in Meaning and giving House a saline injection in Skin Deep not count?