Is it really possible to see that much clear image the brain creates, with that recognition program? (if so, everybody on this board who has been watcing House over and over, may easily create the same clearest image of a tall man with a cane. :D) I enjoyed the episode, especially the scene of Wilson and House, with the organ at the end, and of House contemplating the diagnosis. I love Taub, but oh, you're tricky. :wink: So far, I'm not spoiled, but I'm already worried if the season ends with a big surprise, a cliff hunger, that'd torment me for the whole summer. I may be OK if it ends with this kind of light episode instead.

Okay, I'll admit straight away that I haven't read all the comments yet, but I just have to say this while it's still so fresh in my mind. To me, that long, sweet gaze from Wilson after House's boyish, adorable, gleeful smile and truly heartfelt "I like what this says about you, Wilson," was an emotional recognition of the fact that, coming from House, that was a genuine profession of love. I'm not even getting into HoYay/slashy territory here (though I easily could, given the chance...!). I just honestly think that House may as well have said, "I love you" -- and Wilson knows it. More importantly, I think House essentially said, "I love you -- and I know that you love me, too." Ah! It was a wonderful moment. Further, I have SO missed seeing House play piano -- and organ will do. I also confess a deep love for "A Whiter Shade of Pale." I wonder if a file will emerge of House's organ intro + the song? I listen to the "Cuddy Serenade" often. In less wonderful moments, I actually cried, "Oh, noooo" aloud when House saw Taub with the blonde. Don't do it, Taub! House and I have actually gotten our hopes up about you. Please don't let us down. (That said, PJ is so very good. I really, really enjoyed his final conversation with House tonight.)

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Greg's direction was great and Lawrence's script was great. I just wish the show in general would use a different storyline for Taub. Maybe it's because I've been single for so long that philandering is a boring subject for me. I like the character House because he is single and about my age. As a female viewer he is hot. :) If House was married, the show wouldn't be near as interesting. Back to Taub, of course I realize that it was because of his affair at his plastic surgery job that he left and he ended being hired by House. I wonder did House hire him mainly because of Taub's philandering problem? In the last scene with Taub last night, when the nurse grabbed his arm, did that tell House that Taub was cheating again? Thanks for letting me whine. LOL :wink:

Love Taub, but that ring he gave his wife was too much, then the moments with the blonde nurse kind of chilled me. As House has been getting better at trusting people and being a little happier, he sees that Taub just lied right to his face, hasn't changed a bit Well, we don't know for sure that Taub lied to him. We just saw him chatting with a nurse and she was the one who put her hand on his arm. Because Taub is a known cheater, he will always be suspect. To look at House's reaction another way, he may be thinking that he himself can never truly change because even if he does, no one will ever believe him capable of it. And therefore, why bother. No one will ever trust him - completely, they'll always be waiting for the other shoe to drop. Once a cheater, always a cheater. Once a selfish manipulative pill popper, always a selfish manipulative pill popper. Do you get what I mean?

Very fun episode. Loved Wilson (RSL is geniusly hilarious). The patient was very interesting, I thought, however I had an inkling it was the dad from early on...when they walked off the elevator at the start, and then I knew it was him with that reading her mind technology thing. It was still fun, though. I found the end a bit creepy. The organ was a nice touch. Wilson needs to find what makes HIM happy. And House needs to appreciate Wilson more. I know that's not House, but still. And for the record...I miss not seeing Chipper's response! Hope she's having fun on her break.

On rewatch saw the dad's face clearly but very briefly on the mind reader screeen (technical term!) so the clue was there. Also the boy's dad is a really familiar face, but I can't place where I've seen him before. So just that was a little clue. "Her face at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale..." That song so fits with the visuals and her blissed out look while hallucinating.

This was an interesting experience for me. For once, I was watching with someone else, a self-described "geek feminist" who watched the show occasionally a few years ago but who lost interest. Sci-fi is more her thing. She LOVED the cold open, the various special effects, the diagnosis, etc. It reminded me of how less soaked-in-everything-House people react to the show. She was also jolted by the Taub ending, as was I. Although I can't say I was surprised. I adore Taub (that sexting bit was really funny, even more so when they showed Tiny Taub trying to get his phone back from House). I also like that different members of the team are gettting different amounts of screentime per show, so that if I complain, "Not enough Taub," two shows later, he's the C-story. Or "not enough Foreman" he's the B-story.@ I worry that Chase and Thirteen will ship (insert loud vomiting sounds here) but they have a good, easy friendship vibe. I know that was last episode, but I just thought I'd throw that in there. I was interested in the patient story, more because we are now seeing House in serious diagnostic mode and in his casual way of outing the father. (I took the pat on the shoulder as rubbing it in, too.) Wilson furniture shopping...we were both laughing our asses off, House fanatic and relative House newbie. I loved seeing RSL have a comic scene to himself. And the H/W ending was amazing...I rewatched it this morning. I've decided to hold off on commenting until I can watch it again sans commercials. Of course, being me, I see it as leading to something epically awful. I mean, these guys are as close to being in love, if not more, than anybody else on the show, which usually means bad things happen. @everyone knows I am alone in my Foreman like.

It was definitely one of those moments that pull you up short and make you realize you've been happily coasting on thinner and thinner ice. Oooh, well put, Boff. That's exactly it.

I don't know that this is an episode that I would look forward to watching all the way through multiple times -- it seemed kind of up and down to me, and I too was distracted by vague similarities to past eps. Having said that, I always appreciate the finer points after reading opinions from other viewers, and I can see now that Taub's efforts at change mirror House's situation in a relevant way. Such an important factor in overcoming any addiction, or even bad habit, is avoiding contact with people, situations, etc. that provide temptation. PPTH surrounds both men with easy access. I agree that the "thin ice" analogy seems apt. As to the highpoints of the night: Wilson in the furniture store; brief, yet totally on-target Cuddy; and Whiter Shade of Pale -- just so perfect! Oh yeah, yet once again, I am struck by the beautiful blueness of the blue-eyed cast members' blues.

I liked this episode, especially for the wistfulness of all the storylines: in each the apparent emotional connection was proven hollow by revelation of a darker dissonant underside. The patient seemed content with her boyfriend but in fact was supressing her literally unhealthy encounter with his father. Taub seemed to be making an effort to renew his relationship with his wife, but will he be able follow through with fidelity? I was particularly struck by this theme as it was carried out in the haunting final House/Wilson scene. Throughout the episode, House used his standard pranks to push Wilson to express his inner life and learn something about himself. House was genuinely delighted with the organ and eagerly picked out a melancholy refrain. Sadly, what Wilson learned was that he had to rely on a professional decorator rather than his own taste, idiosyncratic desires, or personal history to furnish his apartment and the only thing he could purchase on his own was a gift for his friend. We have now seen Wilson live in three places: the hotel he occupied all those months after his separation from his third wife, Amber's apartment, and now the loft. But without the infusion of his own personal flavor, the loft too has taken on the anonymous feeling of an upscale hotel room. This is such a dramatic contrast with House's richly detailed and evocative apartment which bursts with the accumulated evidence of its owner's personality, intimate history, and style. I was touched by RSL's masterful delivery of Wilson's wistful and conflicted glance at House which conveyed the layers of ambiguous and unsettled emotions that roil Wilson with this discovery. Without House, without a wife, who is Wilson? Can he take steps, as House seemed to be urging him, to define a personal identity of his own independent of a wife or friend? Wilson is unmoored and his unsatisfactory efforts to furnish his new apartment reflect that drifting state.

Blacktop, I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed your lovely analysis of this episode, and Wilson. I totally agree with everything you said and you put exactly what I was feeling so beautifully in words.

And I'd like to echo wintertide. Thank you, blacktop, for a wonderful and insightful analysis!

Me three - so beautifully put!