Let Them Eat Cake

Season 5, Episode 10, Aired
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The team takes on the case of a fitness guru on an all-natural diet who collapsed while filming a video. Meanwhile, Foreman conducts Huntington's Disease drug trials and Thirteen signs on as a subject, Cuddy is forced to move into House's office, and Kutner uses House's name to run an online medical-advice website.moreless
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    9.5
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    By DonStants2, Jul 21, 2009 Report Abuse
    I thought this was a nearly absolutely perfect, right until the end when they runined with Cuddy not meeting with House- a cheap ploy by the writers there! Quite annoying.

    Nevertheless, after the previous episodes disappointment, this was a much need return to form. The patient had a good character and some great development- I loved her scenes with Taub. She was a geuinally interesting patient, and House's diagnosis at the end was also entertaining.

    House and Cuddy, meanwhile, play games on each other as Cuddy waits for her office to be redecorated. Their scenes (right until the end) were filled with sexual tension. House being completely inappropriate was so frustratingly like him, but we saw a change in his character as he gave her a present in the form of a desk- very touching.

    Thirteen, meanwhile, starts the drug trials and we see more of her human side as she remembers her mothers deterioration- it was nice seeing that side of her, although Foreman's position was a little flat.

    Taub and Kutner are hilarious, however- their scenes was very funny, especially as House tricks them both in the end. It was a classic House trick, and it was good to see him team up with Cameron and Chase.

    Overall, a brilliant, witty episode that was marred just slightly by the tease at the end- keep with the wit and interesting patients/character development, not cheap drama tricks.moreless

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  • HE GAVE HER THE DESK!!

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    By doggiebag123, Jun 09, 2009 Report Abuse
    This was a great episodes and one of my favorites overall (not just of the season but the series.) The prank that House played on Taub and Kutner was hystericel, i never expected that. I liked the story about Thirteen (i know the majority dont like her but i do). i thought it showed more about her character, revealed her past and showed us her future. The interaction between House and CUddy was brilliant. i loved the part where he grabbed her boob and then he gave her the desk but in his own special House way, screwed up a good thing in the end. As if that were not enough The Woman Was Cured By CHOCOLATE CAKE! if i had to have a disease that would be the one id pick!! :)moreless

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  • Another good one

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    By vicky24c, Dec 25, 2008 Report Abuse
    In this episode of House, the following happens. The patient in his episodes is a fitness trainer who is shooting a new TV fitness show. We soon learn that the fitness instructor had a gastric band fitted in order to lose weight. Since Cuddy's office has to be re-done, she has decided to use House's office until hers is all sorted out. 13 is taken part in a clinical trial with Foreman, for her Huntington's disease. House and Cuddy come really close to kissing again, but both back out at the last moment, although House does feel her breast instead. The team soon learn that she has a genetic condition in which she needs to go back to the way she was before her surgery. But she refuses to have the gastric band removed, and so they have to try to come up with something else. Cuddy's office is finally finished and when she goes in, she sees that the desk is not the one which she ordered. She soon sees that the one now in her office is the one which she had from medical school. Only one person knew where it was and that she was redoing her office, House. She goes to see him, but sees him with another woman and instead, just walks away.moreless

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    By cavanagh15, Dec 24, 2008 Report Abuse
    How many times are we going to have to sit back and watch the writer's tease us with House and Cuddy? The ending of the episode was uncalled for, with Cuddy walking in on the fake patient. I'm so sick of the storyline they tease us with but never happens. If the show creators want it to never happen, just end it all ready and stop doing the week by week thing. The only problem being is that they have devoloped this relationship since season one, which makes it too perfect not to try and this point. The rest of the episode was okay. Foreman and Thirteen being off on their own means nothing to me. I don't connect with the relationship that they have nor did I ever really care about Thirteen and her issue. Cutner's fake website idea was kind of cool and I thought the trick House pulled was pretty funny. The entire episode was about House and Cuddy and right now its looking like it just won't ever work. I don't know, the show still has its moments where I'm interested but other then that its gone pretty much downhill this year.moreless

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  • Not exactly the best episode of House but still worth it's salt.

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    By SMGslayer97, Dec 13, 2008 Report Abuse
    House and Cuddy are blah for me. I don't want them together, I find them boring and far to predictable. Having said that even if I did like them I wouldn't surprised by House in this episode. Over the years a lot of fans have said House has changed and even grown in his own ways, that he might be capable of sustaining a relationship with someone (though it would have a lot of troubles) but then an episode like this comes along and while it's true that other episodes have shown change in House (he has changed somewhat over the years even though he'd never admit) he is still the self sabotaging jerk he's always been. Just look at Cuddy's reaction. We all know there can be more to him, there is more to him but he's so determined to be miserable he hardly ever let's it out. We've seen it but that other side, the one you just want to kick the cane out from under is still alive and well.

    But the same he ran on Kutner and Tub! Priceless! That was fantastic. When Kutner started using House's name I had a feeling it was only a matter of time before House made him pay and when Taub jumped on the bandwagon I knew this was going to bite them in the butt big time but I never expected the whole sick patient thing to be a giant scam. When she jumped up in the morgue I screamed right along with Taub and Kutner. So brilliant! If House would use his evil powers for stuff like this more then being a jerk maybe he could sustain a relationship with someone.moreless

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    • Original International Air Dates: Latin America: February 12, 2009 on Universal Channel The Netherlands: March 12, 2009 on SBS 6 Denmark: May 23, 2009 on Kanal 4 Germany: September 8, 2009 on RTL Poland: October 1, 2009 on TVP2 Slovakia: October 27, 2009 on STV1 Czech Republic: November 9, 2009 on TV Nova Sweden: December 1, 2009 on TV4 Edit
    • Music: Coconut (Harry Nilsson) Edit

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    • House: (seeing a photo of a fitness trainer) Wow! Muscles and curves. My penis is so confused Edit
    • Emmy: When I got the surgery, I got healthy, and when I got healthy, I got happy. Taub: I'm not sure you're happy, but if you are, being healthy didn't do it, being pretty did. Poop in the bedpan. Edit
    • Dr. Cuddy: Any idea why we are getting half as many requests for you as usual? House: Democrats' health care plan? Edit

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    • House: She sends one of yours to the hospital, send one of hers to the morgue. Referencing the 1987 movie The Untouchables, a remake/update of the 1959 TV series of the same name. Sean Connery plays Jim Malone, a veteran policeman, who helps Eliot Ness bring Al Capone to justice. The line references Malone's advice to Ness about responding to the Mob's escalation with more escalation. Edit
    • House: What else floats? Correct answer is a duck. Referencing the 1975 movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail The line echoes the explanation Sir Bedevere gives for determining how to detect a witch. Since witches float and ducks float, Bedevere detects a witch by weighing her and seeing if she has the same weight as a duck. Edit
    • Taub: But I wouldn't call a meeting of the Lollipop Guild and tell them they can grow if they work real hard at it. Referencing L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and subsequent movie adaptation. The Lollipop Guild of Munchkinland welcomes Dorothy to Oz when she first touches down. Edit

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