TV Review: House — "Fetal Position"
Published April 05, 2007
Cuddy: Sometimes .1 is bigger than 9.9.
House: No, it's smaller. Exactly 9.8 smaller. Always is, always will be.
Cuddy: Well not for Emma. And not for her son. Now go away and be happy.
That's too tall an order for House, though.
There were enough Canadian references in this one to make me suspect episode writers Garrett Lerner and Russel Friend were currying favour with the boss, or that David Shore couldn't resist throwing in lines about his hometown of London, Ontario, and the Tiger-Cats, which may or may not be a reference to nearby Hamilton's team, and Vancouver Island, which is nowhere near London, Ontario, but it is Canadian (and the home island of Bones creator and Shore's friend Hart Hanson. Coincidence? Probably.)
We end with House at home, ripping the ticket in half (Hey! But who doesn't like Canadians?) and demonstrating his own brand of fetal position: Vicodin popped, leg propped, TV tuned to images of the exotic destinations he can't quite bring himself to visit. But he's not unaffected by the events of the case, having referred to Emma's fetus as a baby, and now apparently marveling at the memory of the fetus's touch. It's a baby step, but a step toward... something.
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- TV Review: House — "Fetal Position"
- Published: April 05, 2007
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We were having small tornadoes ripping through North Texas and the show was cut out by an an almost hour long emergency weather report, so sadly missed the great baby moment. I knew I could count on you for a great recap. Thanks.
Here's the
real-life photo. The photo was taken in 1999.
Thanks for that - though the article accompanying it is misleading. The surgeon has pointed out that of course the fetus was anesthetized, and the hand did not actually reach out and grab him.
You know at the beginning of this season i was all ready to hear that this show is slowly but surely felling down, crushed by its expectations. I've never been so happy to be so wrong.
Loved the way he kept BSing about all the locations.I never,not for once,believed he was serious when mentioning all the possible spots.The kinda guy he is,if he were serious about actually going to some vaca spot,he would never have mentioned it in front of everybody.
And the fetus shot was too long.It seemed forced to me.Like they were trying to make a point or something.But on the whole,one of the funniest to date and definitely one of the best of the season!
I am the photographer that took the original picture of Samuel reaching from the womb.
Samuel did reach from the womb on his own! Dr. Joseph Bruner will never admit the unborn child he was performing experimental surgery on simply came out from under the anesthesia too soon. But that is exactly what happened. Samuel did not immediately grab the doctor's finger but when Dr. Bruner touched his hand he responded and grabbed the doctor's finger.
Let me remind you of the way the USA Today reporter Robert Davis started his original story. "In a crowded operating room where outsiders have gathered to watch a rare medical event, surgery on a fetus still in his mother's womb, a stool falls with a loud bang, "Hush," said Joseph Bruner, the doctor leading the operation, "you'll wake the baby."
Blessings, Michael Clancy
If anyone gets hurt, it will be Chase. Remember, we're dealing with Cameron 2.0 here, not the delicate Cameron from season one!
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I thought that the little "fetus" hand grabbing House's finger was downright adorable. House's reaction made me think of that line in the Grinch Who Stole Christmas:
In who-ville they say, that the grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day!
But then he made that "Alien" joke, which was pretty funny.
Poor Chase. He is so going to get his heart stomped on.