Beyond Rivalry

I've watched most of season 5 via Hulu on my laptop. "Lucky Thirteen" (5x05) -- genius show. "Joy" -- again the realisation that House says what most people are really thinking but automatically censor because it's cruel and would cause conflict to say aloud (particularly, in this episode, about Cuddy becoming a mom; what he says is truly cringe-worthy -- and yet it's part of what was in my thoughts, too).

 

A few bits:

 

Wilson to House: "I'm leaving."
House: "What? Are you going to take another two months. Boy, you're really milking this bereavement thing, aren't you? [Pause] I mean good for you. Take all the time you need."

(Dying Changes Everything, 5x01)

 

House to Cuddy: "You have to stop Wilson from committing career malpractice."
Cuddy: "Talk to him."
House: "I already talked to him. Twice."
Cuddy: "Mocking him and insulting him --- let's see --- yes, technically those are categories of conversation.... Talk to him. Deal with his grief. Talk to him about what he's going through."
House: "That's a brilliant idea. I'll take him out for a beer. That'll make up for the fact that Amber's in a pine box and that there's randomness and chaos in the universe."

(Dying Changes Everything, 5x01)

 

Cuddy: Why do you think Wilson's leaving?
House: How many times do I have to use the word "idiot"?

(Dying Changes Everything, 5x01)

 

Cameron to Wilson: "You think you're making a rational choice. You think the worst is over. And then six months later you look back and you realize you didn't know what you were doing."
Wilson: "Are you saying the pain doesn't go away?"
Cameron: "It gets easier. Not in two months. Not in two years. But no. It never really goes away."
Wilson: Being here -- this building -- I was just in the lounge. I kept staring at Amber's locker."
Cameron: "I saw a guy wearing a scarf this morning. The color reminded me of his eyes. We lived 500 miles from here."
Wilson: "I have to do something."
Cameron: "Then do it. But don't think it's the right choice. Because there isn't one."

(Dying Changes Everything, 5x01)

 

 

Lucas (House's' PI, speaking about Wilson): "You want to find out he's pining. You want to find out if there is something about him that will tell you he's going to come back. Or something you can use to make him come back."
House: "Is there?"
Lucas: "No. No, there's nothing. Sorry."

(Not Cancer, 5x02)

 

 

Lucas (PI) to Cuddy as she walks away: "Hey, I like the shoes by the way."
Cuddy (tentatively): "Thank you."
House to Lucas, "You don't like her shoes, you like her legs."
Lucas: "It sounds less creepy if you say shoes."
House: "Less creepy, more gay."
Lucas: "That's my firm's motto."

(Adverse Events, 5x03)

 

 

Wilson: That's how we met: I was in jail.
Sheriff Costello: This guy was a total stranger to you and you bailed him out?
House: It was a boring convention. I had to have somebody to drink with.

[after Wilson breaks a stained glass window by throwing a bottle]
House: Still not boring.

(Birthmarks, 5x04)

 

House to Wilson [after pressing down the accelerator while Wilson's driving and being pulled over by a cop]: You "lost track of your speed"? I think that was Hitler's excuse. Lost track of the Jews. No one held him responsible.

(Birthmarks, 5x04)

 

House: [giving his father's eulogy] There's a lot of people here today. Including some from the Corps. And I noticed that every one of them, is either my father's rank, or higher. And that doesn't surprise me. Because if the test of a man is how he treats those he has power over... it was a test my father failed. This man you're eager to pay homage to, he was incapable of admitting any point of view but his own. He punished failure, he did not accept anything less than... He loved doing what he did, he saw his work as some kind of sacred calling, more important than any personal relationship. Maybe if he'd been a better father, I'd be a better son. But I am what I am because of him, for better or for worse.

(Birthmarks, 5x04)

 

 

 

Foreman to House: "There are ways of getting to know people without committing felonies."
House: "People interest me, conversations don't."
Foreman: "'Cause conversations go both ways."

(Lucky Thirteen, 5x05)

 

Wilson: House, you are a drug addict. You go to prostitutes. You can't be judgmental.
House: And yet...

(Lucky Thirteen, 5x05)

 

 

Cuddy: Why do you have to negate everything?
House: I don't know.

(Joy, 5x06)

 

 

House to Cuddy: There's a reason that we've evolved the feeling of awkwardness -- it tells us not to talk about things.

(The Itch, 5x07)

 

 

Cuddy: House, you OK? ... Your hand --

House: That's weird. I usually don't get the stigmata until Easter.

(The Itch, 5x07)

 

 

House: You want to change your life -- do something. Don't believe your own rationalisations.

(The Itch, 5x07)

 

 

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