The House Season finale, well knowing his mental breaks as of late, one day of detoxing and Cuddy going with him after the Bastard comment??? I knew his subconcious was working at the end of last weeks episode. But I enjoyed this episode, yet still, I have to say it: What A Rip-off.
Tonight's patient (Ashton Holmes) is first seen in a restaurant annoying another customer. As the pissed-off customer is pressing him to the ground, we can see the patient bleeding from his eye.
We then cut to a scene where House wakes up, walks up to the bathroom and looks very un-House-like (when House is happy, he's grinning: this was different). He examines the lipstick stains on his face, smiles again and begins touching Cuddy's lipstick.
At the hospital, team begins the brainstorming for possible causes on the patient, whose other hand does things the rest of his body doesn't want it to do. House and Cuddy briefly talk, then House goes to seek Wilson's guidance.
Something unexpected was the fact that, with a hint from Thirteen, Taub goes to talk to Chase about his wedding. Are those two even on a greeting-basis? The patient's bit too understanding girlfriend brings him stuff, and his hand slaps her. As House and the team brainstorm, he plays with Cuddy's lipstick. Wilson gives him advice to actually give "this" (House and Cuddy-love munchkins) a real chance. The patient is sat on a machine and they examine how his two hemispheres work.
Meanwhile, Chase and Cameron have some problems, but they work it out in the end, and they get married. Cameron looked hot in her dress, but then what else would you say to James T. Kirks mom, mazel tov.
The best clip about the patient was when his girlfriend discovers that the problem may be with his deodorant, and the evil left hand caresses her cheek.
Everything crumbled to bits when House realizes that there was never any lipstick, it was a bottle of Vicodin, the House/Cuddy connection I like to call Huddy never happened, he simply hallucinated everything. This was maybe a needed plot twist, but it's a rip-off in the sense that first we expected something to happen between them, but actually, it was "all just a dream". Based on the promo, I expected more "shock"-factor since we already knew he was hallucinating, the fact that they came back was to be expected. This does, however raise questions on what season 6 is going to be like, unless they go for a "three months in rehab cured me all up"-solution.
Speaking of Penny, there was one glaring thing about this otherwise enjoyable episode -- she was practically non-existent! Granted, she played a big role in the over-arching storyline if not the episodic one, but nonetheless, her absence was definitely noticeable.
While she had some nice scenes with Leonard, she barely interacted at all with Sheldon, outside of when she hilariously knocked back at him when he came to her door. Surely they could have taken out some of the crossbow talk in order to get her in there a little more. Or, perhaps, as Sheldon theorized, in order to miss someone, they do have to, in fact, be gone.
Going to the North Pole is a weird construct to get the guys out of town for the summer/show hiatus. I can only assume this means that big changes are going to happen with Penny, and Leonard will once again be left behind. After all, she's not going to have Leonard's little puppy dog face to hold her back from dating, and he certainly isn't going to be meeting any women where he is.
Here's what I don't get about the whole Penny/Leonard thing. I get why he's playing it close to the vest and doesn't want to just profess his feelings for her: she's completely out of his league. Of course, that's changed from when they first met, but I'm sure it's still holding him back on some level. So what's Penny's deal?
She's obviously going to miss him, but couldn't come out and tell him that she doesn't want him to go. Is she intimidated by his intelligence? That was an issue earlier in the season, but I thought she had mostly gotten over it. She knows that if she takes a chance on him, he's not going to hurt her -- Leonard couldn't hurt a fly. She can't be too afraid of ruining the friendship; after all, it's already survived one attempt at a relationship, why not another?
So I don't understand what exactly is pulling these two apart. They're both single, they care for each other, and they totally live across the hall -- bonus points for convenience! I'm completely stumped. What's your take on the Penny/Leonard relationship, and what do you think is going to happen when the guys get back from the North Pole next season?
Some of my favorite lines from this week:
Sheldon: "It must be an emergency; everyone at the university knows that I eat my breakfast at 8 and move my bowels at 8:20."
Leonard: "Yes, how did we live before Twitter?"
Wolowitz: "Just imagine ... if he says yes, we'll have an entire summer without Sheldon."
Raj: "We could play outside."
Wolowitz: "We could sit on the left side of the couch."
Leonard: "I could use the bathroom at 8:20!"
Raj: "Our dreams are very small, aren't they?"
"But if we were part of the team that confirmed string theory, we could drink for free in any bar in any college town with a university that has a strong science program!" - Raj
"I'm a Hindu. My religion teaches that if we suffer in this life, we are rewarded in the next. Three months at the North Pole with Sheldon and I'm reborn as a well-hung billionaire with wings." - Raj
