Nomination Discussion This is the place to discuss possible nominations or lobby for your favorites. All nominations have to be from Season 5.
The categories are:<*>Best Patient - there weren't many clinic patients in S5 so this category is for both POTWs and Clinic Patients.
<*>Best Guest Star
<*>Biggest STFU Moment - for any character. Did a character say or do something so outrageous that you just wanted to smack him or her? Here's your chance to do so.
<*>Best HoYay - a line, a scene or even a look
<*>Best HetYay - a line, a scene or even a look
<*>Best line
<*>Funniest line or moment
<*>Biggest WTF moment
<*>Moment requiring biggest suspension of disbelief (medical or otherwise)
<*>Biggest Tear Jerker
<*>Best Use of Music
Poeia- 05-22-2009
Okay, I'll start. I can't decide if House giving the gun back in Last Resort is my biggest WTF moment or my biggest suspension of disbelief (or both.)
But the moment House walks into Wilson's office behind Cuddy is my biggest tear jerker. Possibly my biggest tear jerker ever.
bailey- 05-22-2009
Okay, I'll start. I can't decide if House giving the gun back in Last Resort is my biggest WTF moment or my biggest suspension of disbelief (or both.)
Both.
Can I add Cuddy's stroll into the crack house in search of her baby as another WTF/suspension of disbelief? Or any episode devoted to the perils of 13.
Best use of music was Pete Yorn in "Simple Explanation."
Best patient. I'll go with the uneditable guy in "The Social Contract."
Best Guest Star: Carl Reiner. He did quite a bit with not a whole lot. Either that or Jesse Spencer for the same reasons.
Biggest STFU moment: Sorry, all of 13. "I want to leeeeeeeiiive."
Best HoYay: Cuddy steering bleary-eyed House into Wilson's office.
Poeia- 05-22-2009
Another good suspension of disbelief -- Foreman, who's never done anything for anyone unless it benefited him personally, suddenly deciding to risk his career in order to give Thirteen a drug. And he didn't even know if the drug works. (Big Baby))
Another good guest was the Lime in the Coconut hooker (Let Them Eat Cake.)
extra_cat- 05-22-2009
Best Guest Star: Carl Reiner. He did quite a bit with not a whole lot. Either that or Jesse Spencer for the same reasons.
I'll second the nomination for Jesse Spencer as best guest star. :?
Biggest STFU Moment: Every time 13 opens her mouth and Cameron's, "I have my husband's sperm."
Biggest WTF Moment: Cameron saying she didn't expect her husband to die (rewriting history a bit there?)
HoYay: House calling Cameron "The soon to be 2nd prettiest Dr. Chase."
HetYay: Chase/Cam proposal
deelaundry- 05-23-2009
For best HetYay, I'd go with the Chase/Cameron wedding rather than the proposal. They both looked so gorgeous and happy. Radiant. :D
Best HoYay: "I'm not gay." "Neither am I. You don't want to have sex, that's fine with me." from "Not Cancer"
Second nom for HoYay, also from "Not Cancer": House's quote that goes something like, "What did Wilson mean to me? Sure, he was sunshine on a rainy day, and made me see colors I'd never known..."
Juliabohemian- 05-23-2009
can anyone do this?
If so:
Best Patient - Andie in Autopsy.
Best Guest Star - John Larroquette in Son of a Coma Guy. I’m biased, because I love him.
Biggest STFU Moment:
When Chase was hounding House in Human Error, about Foreman and said “he’s not stupid...he’s not going to forget the last three years and how much he hates you”
OR when House told Cuddy she’d suck as a mother in Finding Judas.
Best HoYay - a line, a scene or even a look
When Wilson tells Foreman that House’s behavior towards Cate is his version of courtship and he says “oh my God. He’s been wooing me for years.”
When House says “do you think we should try counseling first” when Wilson asks if he’s being kicked out.
Best HetYay - a line, a scene or even a look
When House is searching Cuddy’s underwear drawer and tells Chase there are pictures of him in there and he asks if House is kidding and House says “yeah”.
Best line:
Is a toss up between Foreman’s “well I am black, but he was closer” in Paternity, his “let me ring up one of the homies” in Cane and Able.
OR Wilson’s “that’s my name. Don’t wear it out” in Top Secret, in response to House’s “mister I had no friends growing up, so all I did is watch television, which is why I can now make constant pop culture references which no-one understands but me.”
Funniest line or moment
When House said "by the power of greyskull" and then set the dead guy on fire in A House Divided.
When Taub and Kutner's dead patient came to life and they clung to each other for support in Let Them Eat Cake.
Biggest WTF moment.
Have to agree with House giving the gun back to the guy in Last Resort. Because in real life, he would have faced criminal charges.
Second would be sticking the thermometer in Tritter in Fools For Love. I shook my head at the time, because I knew that nothing good could come of it.
Moment requiring biggest suspension of disbelief (medical or otherwise)
House being able to ride a scooter in You Don't Want To Know.
House being able to run to the patient's room in Forever.
House being able to walk, despite missing thigh muscle, just because the pain had gone away -both in The Softer Side and Meaning.
In One Day One Room, that the psychiatrist was stupid enough to leave a patient alone long enough to swallow an entire bottle of pills. If she had just "turned her head" then the patient would still be alert and upright and not yet suffering any ill effects.
Biggest Tear Jerker:
The scene in 97 Seconds where House tries to decide about sticking the knife in the light socket.
The scene in Babies & Bathwater where Chase is trying to save the mother and the baby that was just delivered via c-section (while ridiculously large for 29 weeks gestation) is alone on the exam table and starts crying.
Pretty much all of the Head/Heart episodes. But the scene that did me in was when they showed, from Amber’s POV, everyone saying goodbye. And for some reason, the ending when Taub jumps into bed with his wife just kills me every time.
Best Use of Music
House playing Baba O’Riley when Vogler walks in -think it was Control.
The Montage in Informed Consent, where Ezra is laying in his bed, shivering -song was my Mazzy Star. Can’t remember the title. I think it's called "Today"
Poeia- 05-23-2009
can anyone do this?
Yes, any forum member can participate however most of your suggestions are from the first 4 seasons. We voted on those a year ago. This years' Whinies, other than the best episode ever, is limited to Season 5.
As you can see from the instructions thread, you can nominate up to 3 things in each category by PMing them to Evil Nurse Brenda. (This thread is for discussing ideas for what you'd like to see nominated.
Shortly after the June 11 deadline for sending your nominations to Brenda, a poll will be available for each category.
Juliabohemian- 05-23-2009
I take it the instructions are in a different thread.
Will the poll be in its own thread?
Housewhore4- 05-23-2009
Oooh, tough choices here. Many "WTF Moments" and "Suspension of Disbelief" incidences to chose from. Hmm...
Biggest "WTF Moment" would probably have to be Cuddy stealing the baby, I just cannot for the life of me think of a rational explanation for her actions. Far fetched is an understatement.
"Suspension of Disbelief", pretty much everything that involved Thirteen, her Huntington's and the Drug Trial. From Foreman treating her, to him breaking the "double blind", to her getting a tumor and it magically disappearing within the episode, and to now being completely normal and symptom free. Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful after more than a half of a season of Thirteen M.D. they decided to drop her storyline and stick her in the background, but come on, that's it? Suddenly you're perfectly fine?
Best HoYay: "Stop it Dr. Wilson! it's not funny anymore." (Here Kitty)
Best HetYay: Even though the sexual tension was all in House's Head and Cuddy was indeed hostile, the interaction between House and Cuddy throughout all of Both Sides Now was the best of the season
Best Use of Music: I'd have to say Unfaithful, Cuddy's Serenade is just too beautiful to be denied
Biggest STFU Moment: Cameron and the sperm, I'm sorry, but just springing that on Chase out of the blue and in such an awkward fashion, cringe worthy.
Sorry for doing these out of order :P
Poeia- 05-23-2009
I take it the instructions are in a different thread.
Will the poll be in its own thread?
The instructions are at the top of the Whinies section of the forum in a post called: The Second Annual Whinies - Rules and Stuff.
Just as each of the 5 seasons currently has a poll for the best episode of that season, once the nominations are all in, each of the categories will have it's own poll. Additionally there will be a run-off between the 2 top scoring episodes from each season.
ETA: HW4, you can discuss stuff in any order you want. And, once people start sending their nominations in, we'll have spreadsheets to keep it all organized.
Namaste- 05-24-2009
For Best Use of Music ... two nominations (both featuring HL, hmmm) "Cuddy's Seranade" at the end of "Unfaithful" and the piano/harmonica/montage/Amber appearance at the end of "Saviors."
Best patient: Mos Def in "Locked In."
WTF moment: House giving the gun back in "Desperate Measures" and the end of "Both Sides Now" when we learn how far House's delusions ha gone. (And in this case, WTF is definitely in the good way.)
Best Guest Star: Carl Reiner or Anne Dudek. (depending on whether Amber qualifies as "guest.")
Funniest line or moment: all of the fake patient fakeout with the hooker in "Let Them Eat Cake," from "Lime in the Coconuts" to bringing her back to life and the reactions of Taub and Kutner.