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iheartsparklingwater · 5 days ago

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reading this blog about all the languages house speaks, i found this fun quote --

I once asked a couple of the show’s writer/executive producers (Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner) how House seems to know so much Yiddish. They laughed (at me or with me—I’m not sure which) and reminded me about how many of the House writers are Jewish! “Is it any wonder?” they asked.

full disclosure, i found it by googling "house" and "yiddish," because i had to look up the spelling of bashert for a fanfic and once started making a list of all the time house does use yiddish - i've always found it very funny how the non-jew speaks so damn much of it (and cuddy and wilson and taub, aside from a mazel tov or two, never so).

but that got me thinking about how weirdly jewish coded house is??

house always aligns himself with suffering and those who suffer; he is the most sympathetic to those who are in pain. there are also times he is accused of liking misery/suffering for the sake of it, the sort of very specific complaint i've grown up hearing: you know the joke about the old jewish man who complains about being thirsty until he is given water? he begins instead of complain about the thirst in his past. house always views himself as an outsider and an underdog: true, he is also disabled (and one does not cancel out the other), but it's a very familiar social stance. he does not pity himself (most of the time) or give up, but he also is continually positioned by himself and others as an outsider, as someone removed from "normal" society, an observer to the typical social norms. this is not necessarily judaism but it is typically, right? house is an exile.

but further: the idea that house believes there's a reason for everything, that there is a cause for everything. he loathes a mystery, he loathes a "sometimes the universe is random." everything has a cause and every cause must be found. in a way, house's dislike of faith is incredibly jewish: one learns and worships through understanding, through study and learning. to assume something is true or trust the word of others is... fine, but true faith comes with understanding. house himself makes this point in don't ever change. but it's also the cornerstone of his practice. in judaism, you cannot have faith without questioning and learning and understanding; it is a cornerstone and requirement of the religion.

like i want to repeat and belabor this point. house's emphasis on learning and questioning and studying everything, on taking nothing as faith. his open dislike for cameron and chase's early habits of faith/belief in him; his open preference for those who argue and stand up for their beliefs to asskissers. house believing that all knowledge is important (that line in three stories: no, you're not expected to know how much venom a snake produces! ... unless now you need to know.) house is a genius, sure. but he studies. he researches. he is not bbc sherlock, who magically knows everything: he studies. he learns. he throws a book at foreman and beams with pride when foreman takes the time to read it. he reads religious texts for fun. he practices hindi to read an article by his nemesis. house's focus is not on natural brilliance but of a willingness to do the work.

in a strange way, house's sense of justice above all reminds me of jewishness. not that justice is a uniquely jewish experience, or that house's sense of justice has much to do with legality, lol. but he does have deeply held beliefs that life should be fair, that bullies and the powerful are corruptive, that there shouldn't be pain. it is precisely his dislike of the law and rules coupled with this scene of justice that leads him to, say, lie to transplant committees to do what is "right" over following the law. at the same time, house's open cynicism about justice and the world is... well... you know it when you see it.

house being targeted by the powerful (a billionaire and a cop), singled out for his outspokenness. and his assholeishness, absolutely. i'm not trying to make house out to be a hero.

for real, tho. he speaks so much yiddish. he makes fun of cuddy in one episode for picking donor 613 as a potential sperm donor (that's how many commandments there are). they handwave that house studies religious texts for fun (again: this is so...), but there is literally no reason he should speak this much yiddish. i've seen people say he picked it up from wilson but wilson doesn't do it lol. i know it's just the writers being silly but come onnnn.

again none of these are like Universally Jewish traits and in canon house is... what... an atheist lapsed methodist or whatever? i know it's not on purpose i'm not out here fighting any wars about this but. i don't know. i can't be the only one who sees him and goes yeah he fits, right? i mean, to paraphrase the quote at the start: is it any wonder?

#fascinating!!!!!!!

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iheartsparklingwater · 5 days ago

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House MD season 1 set tour

they're all so silly lol. also THE EDITING!!!

season 1 showbiz tonight set tour with cast (2004)

#house md #hatecrimes md #malpractice md #house behind the scenes #house md found media #hugh laurie #lisa edelstein #jennifer morrison #omar epps #jesse spencer #it took me two days to work out how to post this file type lol #season 1

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iheartsparklingwater · 6 days ago

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If House MD was set in the 2020s:

- House vapes

- B-plot in an episode where Chase gets caught making doctor thirst traps and everyone makes fun of him, he’s tryna make money off of tiktok since his dad cut him off but his most successful post only gets 36 likes. House plays the videos at full volume whenever Chase tries to give input on a case, then it’s never mentioned again

- Covid Work from home episode where they have to diagnose the patient virtually. House doesn’t get out of bed the whole episode.

- Cameron’s hair is always in some type of slick back

- Camerons on booktok

- Foreman is a facebook marketplace and ebay warrior

- House stalks Foreman on ebay and always outbids him at the last second on his burner account

- Wilsons on Bumble

- C-Plot in an episode where Wilson is angry at House and is ignoring him so House makes a bumble account for himself, steals Wilson’s phone and sets his preference on Bumble to men and women, finds himself and matches with him and then sets his phone back down and goes back to his own office. Wilson checks his phone after work to see a message from House saying “Knew you couldn’t resist this 😏” End credits roll and it is never mentioned again.

- Cameron gets into social justice discourse on twitter

- Cuddy runs the hospitals social media pages

- House watches Love Island

- A photo of Cuddy goes viral with the #officesirencore and she has no idea what it means

- Foreman, Chase, and Cameron have a separate work groupchat without House and he gets really mad when he finds out but he pretends it doesn’t bother him.

- House is working in the Clinic and steals a kids fidgit toy

- They get a new case where their patient is a daily vlogger on youtube and the episode is from the perspective of his youtube videos

- Chase plays in a men’s pickleball league with Wilson, house gets jealous because he can’t play

- House and Foreman make a bet with each other to see who can last the longest without technology. House thinks he has this in the bag but he realizes he’s going to lose his Farmville streak.

- Cameron has an extremely organized pinterest

#pickleballllllll

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iheartsparklingwater · 6 days ago

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POISON

There’s a quirk I’ve noticed about how House was written, which is to say: it appears to have largely been written in 6-7 episode “chunks.” This makes perfect sense, honestly: most seasons are 24 episodes long and if you write 6 episodes at a time, that gives lead time to film one batch while another is airing. The other result of this is that most plots and arcs last exactly six episodes: Vogler, Tritter, Dibala… even Wilson’s cancer first pops up six episodes from the series finale. Of course this isn’t a criticism, just something fun: the first six scripts of House were all written at the same time, too.

Which means that we’re now beginning the second batch of House episodes. Unlike the first batch, which were absolutely revised and tweaked between writing and casting and filming, this batch was created with the actors and aired episodes in mind. So let’s take a step back this episode, and take a slightly more Doyalist approach, shall we?

(Also because, let’s face it. Poison is a fun episode, but not the deepest in the world. I do like these occasional S1 hyper focused on the case episode — Maternity is an all-timer — but there’s not too many deep character moments to discuss this time.)

The episode starts — and ends — on Foreman and House, and if there’s a greater theme to this episode it is absolutely them. We’ve gone a couple episodes now without lingering on their dynamic, but Poison really, really doubles down on it: this is the first time that Foreman is explicitly compared to House, and not only that, but told he is just like him.

This is such an important part of the show, frankly. Half of Foreman’s character arc is in direct reaction (and sometimes defiance of) this fact, to the point it almost seems strange this is the first time we’re hearing about it, but it’s true. House has already shown interest in mentoring Foreman (an interest he, rip, does not extend towards Cameron and Chase), but now we are told it goes deeper: House is interested in Foreman because Foreman is like him. Foreman is House. House, maybe, is Foreman.

(But also: boy is that little musical sting in the final scene goofy. They’re wearing the same shoes, do doo dah dee daaaaah.)

The resemblance goes farther than the joke about their shoes, of course. Foreman is the one bringing a case to House this time around, and some prodding reveals it is for no other reason than Foreman finds the mystery interesting. It seems innocuous, but this is the first time House has received a case on these merits: Wilson, at least so far, is bringing cases because he’s (so far) portrayed as a sensible and helpful guy; Cameron brought the kid in Paternity because they reached out and she is a sensible and helpful gal. But I don’t need to belabor this point too much, since Cameron makes it more explicit later on:

CAMERON: Deflecting a personal question with a joke. Gee, who do I know that does that? FOREMAN: Yeah, I’m just like him. Except for the angry, bitter, pompous, cripple part. CAMERON: Maybe we should all pitch in and get you a nice cane. You’ve already got the matching gym shoes.

Foreman’s list of House’s traits is fun, because — aside from disabled — they do tidily describe him as well. And even then: Foreman might not have a limp, but we have already seen, as with House, he is absolutely judged at first glance, by his appearance. I’m not sure how I feel about the show equating race to disability in all honesty. House-the-showis correct that both Foreman and House are judged intensely on their appearance, and treated in specific negative ways as a result, but the comparison only goes so far. Foreman is often the target of racist jokes by House; House meanwhile has very legitimate grievances over being treated like ‘a cripple’ and felt sorry for, but struggles just as much with having his pain and disability treated seriously.

Foreman, too, has had to fight to be taken seriously: to be treated as the highly skilled doctor he is instead of an overreaching Black man (fandom is not immune to this; just look at reddit). But… it’s sort of a case of apples and oranges, you know? I don’t think the show is wrong to equate House and Foreman in this way, but I do think it’s simplistic. Still, we’ll see it come up more than once, and the suggestion that House sees himself in Foreman cannot be removed from this context. There is a reason besides ego and personality that House relates to Foreman: he always identifies with ‘underdogs.’

The comparison is later drawn again (admittedly weakly) by Margo, the patient’s mother. Foreman tries to defend House’s earlier badgering in a notably lukewarm manner, only for Margo to call him “just as condensing and superior” as House, and in the final scene of the episode House himself alludes to the similarity. He tries to suss out if Foreman actually cares about the patient or was only in it for the Houseian mystery; Foreman does not really say either way, but the message is clear. And it is one House himself will bring up repeatedly and with some delight: House enjoys the idea of Foreman being just like him and we will very much continue to explore this theme.

Chase is given a bit more to do this episode: once again he is flexing his intensivist skills (and is even said to be the attending — this is technically his patient, not House’s or Foreman’s), but we also see a bit more personality as a whole. He is outraged to be pulled off the case by the mother’s fiat, although interestingly he seems less worried about his job performance as the fact that it was for personal reasons: “She complained? About me?”

We’ve had allusions to Chase as the team’s “face” before: he talked the parents in Paternity out of their anger, and was casually tasked by House to talk Augustine out of discharging herself; he is often the team’s point person for talking with patients. Here is a hint it’s intentional; he does not like the idea of his charm not working.

Chase is later game to team up with House for a spot of malpractice, pretending to be the CDC in order to trick the patient’s mother into allowing treatment. This is the first time we see Chase’s sneakier side in action, and he seems to enjoy the hell out of it. We don’t know if Chase is just pleased to pull one over on the woman who got him in trouble, or if he’s in it for the love of the game, but Chase’s scheming will become something of a theme, to put it mildly.

It’s also clearly the first episode written after casting, the writers take a moment to have Chase clarify for the audience that he’s Australian — I wonder how many viewers were confused about that point? — and later throw in a second joke about his accent. The latter is especially funny, since Jesse Spencer is on record that the main reason Chase is Australian is because he was utterly unable to pull off an American accent: seeing Chase just as confidently mangle his own attempt at an American accent is very silly. Love a meta joke.

Cameron is the odd man out of the team, with a bit less to do overall. This doesn’t mean the episode gives her nothing, or doesn’t take a moment to reestablish who she is: while searching Matt’s house with Foreman, they more or less repeat their conversation from the Pilot: debating House while opening drawers. Cameron defends House, and the Pilot conversation is further repeated, this time with Cameron asking Foreman about drug use instead of his criminal record.

Her moment to shine comes towards the end of the episode, when she is able to get through to Margo where the guys have all failed. Margo at first assumes that Cameron is here to woo her with vulnerability and sincerity, only for Cameron to turn around and take a very House-ish line: Margo’s doubts do not matter; all that matters is that she do as she is told.

While this might seem out of character on the one hand — we do tend to think of Cameron as more soft and sweet and uncertain than cool and steely — it is really entirely consistent, and consistent with her occasional prickliness thus far in the series at that. In the Pilot, Cameron was equally outraged that House hired her for her looks and not her intelligence: she does not like to be dismissed or judged by her appearances. This is, of course, something she has in common with House — and Foreman, for that matter. And just like them, Cameron has never been meek or remotely passive.

Wilson, at long last, has a personality! Where he has spent the first six episodes of the show seeming largely dismissive of House and oddly critical of House’s motives and actions (at least compared to how we expect Wilson to behave), he kicks off Poison with aplomb, with public humiliation via poetry.

It’s not exactly a long scene, and I’m not going to pretend it’s deep or anything but a moment of levity — but it is different. Compare Wilson just last episode, whose tone was less teasing than mocking when asking House why he was interested in the case. Suddenly he is teasing, and enjoying himself. I don’t know if it’s a change in direction or what, but Wilson for the first time feels like himself, a change further reenforced with the scene later in House’s office: Wilson is sarcastic and wry, rather than cool and dismissive. It’s a very welcome change.

There also isn’t really much to say about Cuddy: she is perhaps a bit more curt than she’s been in the last few episodes, drawing a line and declaring House can’t skirt parental consent this time around. What’s interesting is, again, that House does obey her when she draws a hard line: sure, he tries to skirt the rules and convince-slash-trick the mother into consent, but he doesn’t give treatment anyway. I feel as though fandom doesn’t always give House’s respect for Cuddy’s authority, well, respect: he might skirt, but he never outright disobeys.

I’d like to pause here and take a moment to talk about the patient’s mother, Margo. While she is treated as difficult and unlikeable, antagonizing each of the team in turn and being kind of Karen-ish (although I’m pretty sure this episode predates the term by years), it’s actually a bit strange how reasonable she is. Sure, she’s difficult and overbearing — but her demand that the team don’t treat her son without a diagnosis, and her refusal to cooperate when House, Chase, and Foreman all try to talk over her and harangue her into giving in… isn’t exactly unreasonable. House is notorious, even this early in the series, for dangerous treatments and treating on a guess instead of a diagnosis.

Margo is presented as more antagonistic than any character we’ve seen thus far in the show, all for the sin of disagreeing with House. I don’t want to make too much of this, but it does feel to an extent like a harbinger for what is to come: where in other episodes (and to be fair, many episodes yet to come), the team will often object if House goes too far on a limb, this episode has them united and unquestioning behind the shield of House’s protagonism, and the patient is the one wrong for not believing this hype. Interesting. And something we will see come back later this very season.

But Margo is also a counterpoint to the very thesis of the show so far, and in a way that has to be intentional: while she is unpleasant, she is honest. Time and time again, House and the team assume she is lying, that she is hiding something, that she, perhaps, doesn’t really know her son. Instead, Margo is correct at every turn. Her son fertilized his garden with orange peel and doesn’t do drugs: even her insistence that the diagnosis is wrong is, well, right. It is the team’s firm belief that everybody lies that causes conflict and causes her to turn on them. Justice for Margo!

And this brings us to House.

Foreman, early in the episode, is the first character to say aloud what has so far gone unstated: House is addicted to pain killers. Sure, we’ve seen House pop pills, but no one has ever remarked on how frequently or accused him of taking more than he needs. While later the question of House’s addiction becomes a large theme and debate (is an addiction an addiction if you need the drugs?), it is interesting that this is the first thing we are “told” about House in this episode, the subject of conversation concerning him.

We’ll touch on this point again in a couple episodes with Detox, but: while Cameron doesn’t believe House is an addict, Chase is completely apathetic to the topic, and Wilson and Cuddy in the latter episode seem somewhat torn on the question — Foreman is the only one who correctly pegs House’s dependence on Vicodin for what it is. Sure, he needs them. But he is an addict.

House takes something of a backseat in the first part of the episode: the team leads the differentials, the patient is Chase’s and then Foreman’s, and while House is certainly involved, he doesn’t seem overly invested. It isn’t until Cuddy insists on not treating Matt against his mother’s wishes (crazy!) that House steps in directly, attempting to bully Margo into consent. While we have seen House dismissive, sarcastic, and annoyed before, I do think his tenor in this episode is somewhat new: he is smug in a way I’m not sure we’ve seen before. While House has always delighted in telling people they are wrong, he hasn’t really delighted in his own cruelty or resorted to mocking. Now he is, and now he will going forward, and I think this also starts his slow, inexorable slide towards the sort of clownish figure he becomes by S7.

Which makes me sound fairly down on House: it isn’t a bad thing, and his amusement from his own cruelty is a pretty consistent trait-cum-flaw going forward. But it’s new, and this is an episode full of subtle shifts in character.

That isn’t to say House doesn’t also have his customary Soft Moment this episode: his interactions with Old Syphilis Lady, Georgia, are honestly quite endearing, not least because House clearly has no idea how to respond to her. He is clearly distressed when she first announces she will be refusing treatment, and gamely flirts with her when explaining she is brain damaged: House does love a weirdo, and you get the impression he’s charmed.

There isn’t honestly too much else I can add, however. While I do think Poison is a fun episode, it isn’t a terribly deep one. But it is still a very interesting episode, as every character has been noticeably tweaked and some very important threads have now been introduced. We have met our cast, and Poison serves as a fun re-introduction to them, tweaking and adjusting them to match how they will remain going forward. Wilson is Wilson, Foreman is House, and Chase can’t fake an American accent — what more do you need?

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

I just want to shout out the incredible early 2000s flip-phone texting in the cold open. Pour one out for those girls, those old phones where you had to press the number button a bunch of times to get a letter must be so hard to subtly cheat with.

Foreman mentions that he went to Columbia as his undergrad, further cementing that he really is the best educated of the team — at least according to universities. We never find out where Cameron went to school, and it takes until S7 before we find out Chase studied at least for a while at the University of Sydney medical school.

Chase suggests the first patient was huffing copy machine toner to get high, a deep enough cut Foreman and Cameron are confused. This starts a trend of Chase always assuming teenagers are on drugs, something Foreman even calls him out for later. There’s an interesting discussion to be had over whether Chase suspects this because he has history with drugs, although the late reveal of his sister (an addict as a teenager) is probably the tidier — if retconned — answer.

The second patient’s first name is given as Chi, which is later Park’s given name too. Which of the writers has a friend named Chi, you think?

I’m not sure I buy that Chase has never heard of fake vintage jeans before, lmao. I get that it’s a bit of plot exposition and he’s not exactly the world’s coolest guy but… really?

#chunk 2 here we goooooo!#such good analysis as always

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iheartsparklingwater · 7 days ago

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I've been following your account for a while, and I love your Huddy posts so much! I love the way you talk about them and the way you analyze the scenes. I would also love to know: what's your favorite Huddy moment from each season, and why?

ohhhh my god you don't even KNOW

thankyou so much btw :) i appreciate these types of messages a lot, y'all r so sweet so nice mwah

now onto the meat of this ask...

JOAN CUDDYTISM'S MOST TREASURED HUDDY SCENES

(of each season. in order.)

warning: this is long as Fuck.

season 1

they don't really have a lot of scenes that Stand Out in season 1. they're all kinda just. them being quippy to each other. which is fun! i like s1 huddy a lot. they're fun. but not much for substance.

honorable mentions: the birthday card in The Socratic Method, cuddy telling house to wear his light blue shirt on his date with cameron (if only for season 7 callback reasons). honestly, every one of their little snarky back and forths deserves an honorable mention, but i love the small, more real scenes like these.

but i think my actual fav huddy moment from this season is in 1x03 Occam's Razor, when cuddy says:

"It's not gonna work. You know why? Because this is fun. You think of something to make me miserable, I think of something to make you miserable. It's a game, and I'm gonna win because I got a head start: You are already miserable."

it works to be an excellent cuddy moment (i love this quote) but also a great starting point for how their dynamic is characterized. it's very... surface level; this is a jab. but it definitely is a great one to come back to even just a season down the road, because in comparison, we get to see how their relationship has developed!

is it romantic or even flirty? not really. but i like it.

season 2

honorable mentions: cuddy's heart-eyes in Humpty Dumpty, like all of the little moments in All In, house's whole deal in Forever but especially the end scene!!!

everyone knows it, everyone loves it: my favourite scene is the injection scene in Who's Your Daddy? i am a big fan of this episode's whole deal! i love the trust that cuddy has in house here, i love how much it shows their growth in their personal relationship—it's very distinctly different from where they were in season 1. and also: THIS SCENE IS HOT AS FUCK!!!!!!!!!! i'd say probably the most erotic scene these two have together. and they literally have sex in s7.

season 3

GOD season 3. it's so hard to choose. also this season is quite full of huddy scenes, but they're mostly angst. for angst i'd say Finding Judas because obviously. or cuddy yelling at house in Words and Deeds because i like when she yells at people.

honorable mentions: cuddy perjuring herself for house in Words and Deeds<3, house's "i thought you were gonna kiss me" in One Day One Room, whatever the fuck was going on in Fetal Position, whatever the fuck was going on in Airborne, house asking cuddy out in Act Your Age (also the scene where he thinks she and wilson had sex and his face DROPS).

i'm picking two for this one, because neither should be an honorable mention:

"Do you like me, House?"

from Insensitive! this shouldn't be a surprise. i love this episode a lot and it does some great work for huddy as a couple. it's kinda our first Real Episode delving into a possible romance between these two. i love both of the date-crashing scenes but specifically when cuddy asks house if he likes her. it's like... Woah.... and his reaction!!! his deflection with his words but his emotions on his face. very much the epitome of She Only Gives Him As Much As She Wants Him To Get, which is one of my favourite parts of their dynamic at this point in time.

"Stop staring at my ass when you think I'm not looking, showing up at restaurants where I happen to be on a date, and fantasising about me in the shower. That ship sailed long ago House. Get over it."

from Top Secret! one of my favourite huddy scenes everrrr. we get a little clarity on the ever-elusive Huddy One Night Stand, house's jealousy, and once again cuddy only giving house as much as she wants him to get. it's also a very early (if not the first) episode that has the theme of Everything Coming Back to Cuddy, which gets tackled more and more in seasons 5 and 6 and is one of my favourite huddy episode themes. i Love both of their reactions to each other here. cuddy turning back and laughing at house, house unabashedly smiling... I CANT STAND THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can you tell that i like season 3?

season 4

if you haven't, i would like to advise you to read my Season 4 Huddy Examined post where i go way too in depth on their scenes in season 4.

honorable mentions: the House-Cuddy Alpha Contest in Mirror, Mirror, the end of Ugly, the Thong Escapades of You Don't Want To Know, the phonecall in Living The Dream, the striptease in House's Head.

i'm once again going to do two moments for this season:

"What you want, you run away from. What you need, you don't have a clue."

from No More Mr. Nice Guy! i go way more into this in the above post if you'd like to know a more in-depth reasoning for this, but it's a mix of a great cuddy characterization moment and a great house-knows-cuddy moment. once again, this is a scene that is less just Great for Shipping Purposes and moreso a moment that really defines their dynamic at this point in time, so it's important to me because of that!

there's not a quote for this one since it's sans-dialogue, but the moment at the end of Wilson's Heart where cuddy is curled up on the chair next to house's hospital bed, holding his hand. yeah. that's probably top 3 huddy moment to me. as i said in the above post, that was the moment that made me get really invested in huddy! i think it is such a beautiful, emotional moment that breaks free of all of the expectations these two have for each other, all of the walls (as demonstrated in the other scene i mentioned) they've built, and just lets them be two people that care about each other with no further agenda. i really love it. it's very dear to me.

season 5

OKAY. i am still in the process of rewatching season 5 so these are subject to change!!!! don't take me at my word.

honorable mentions: cuddy yelling at house in Dying Changes Everything<3, the injection scene in Birthmarks (for s2 callback reasons), the "You want a relationship?" moment in Last Resort, cuddy watching house holding rachel in whatever episode that was in (i told you my memory is shot), "If she turns around, she's into him, too" [Cuddy turns aroung] from Locked In, like the entirety of Under My Skin.

so it's the kiss in Joy. but that's super obvious. because it's The Kiss. i don't have to tell you that i like the kiss in Joy because hello.

but The Itch? An episode basically entirely about huddy relationship drama? where all three different plotlines in the episode work to either come back to or parallel huddy? where the episode's namesake is an extremely heavy-handed metaphor for how house's attraction to cuddy is unavoidable? where house is clearly yearning like a mad man? where we get more of cuddy's thoughts on why a relationship with house wouldn't work? WHERE WE GET THE FUCKING MONTAGE OF HOUSE WALKING UP TO CUDDY'S HOUSE WHILE "I'M IN LOVE WITH A GIRL" BY BIG STAR PLAYS IN THE BACKGROUND? sign me the FUCK up. i've gone on and on about The Itch and i will continue to. my real answer is the entirety of The Itch.

season 6

another season where my memory is completely shot. it's been almost ten months since i last watched any part of season 6, so these are definitely subject to change.

honorable mentions: god, like, the entire season. there's so much huddy in this one. maybe i don't remember it all in specifics but i do know there's, like, a lot. this is an excuse because i don't remember a lot of specifics.

[Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper starts playing]

KNOWN UNKNOWNS. my roman empire. i have been annoying my friends with Known Unknowns-posting for almost ten months now. this episode has everything. the 80s dance. real answers to what happened way back in michigan. huddy angst. it's so great. i come back to it a lot.

"I love you. I wish I didn't but I can't help it."

from Help Me! i know this scene is a bit controvesial? because it poses cuddy as a saviour (and other, far worse takes that i don't even want to give a voice) blah blah blah IDGAF, honestly. i will defend this scene with my whole heart. i think this confession is so very vulnerable and emotional and heartbreakingly romantic. there are so many thematic callbacks here (especially to Joy) and so many Cuddy Romance Routines that it notably breaks out of. as well as the stark differences between what happens In Real here vs what happened in house's hallucination at the end of season 5... i'm literally about to cry just thinking about it all (i'm also listening to Luna by The Smashing Pumpkins as i write this, which is adding to the sappiness). i'm sorry. i'm a sappy sappy romantic about my beloved fictional couple. they are so so dear to me. you can pry this scene from my cold dead hands. i'm going to get very annoying when i get here on my rewatch, trust.

season 7

oh, season 7, you mess. but at least we got some great huddy moments out of it. unfortunately, this, too, is another season i don't remember very well, so i don't have much to list here even though i know there was great stuff here.

honorable mentions: Thunder Roadtrip in the arms of the angels what we could have had... i still count you beautiful, that one episode where they went to a wedding..., forgive me for being a pervert but every huddy sex and post-sex scene, the very beginning scene of bombshells and nothing after that, cuddy being the only person to answer house's call in the penultimate episode.

for now, my answer is the entirety of Now What? it's like. the huddy episode. it's all huddy. oops! all huddy. and i think it's pretty good! it's basically the calm before the storm lol i think this is the happiest we ever see either of these two. cuddy wearing the blue shirt, the sword, ilobeyou, all of the stupid sappy quotes, huddy sex... it's awesome.

okay. that was a Long Ass Post. thank you for this question. i love huddy. i love talking about them. i'd apologize for making this So Very Long but y'all should know by know i am a Yapper, so NO APOLOGIES!!!!!!! i'll definitely come back to this once i've finished my rewatch with updated s5/6/7 thoughts :)

#ugh i love them #and i love your reading of them

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