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Old 10 December 2008, 04:22 AM
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Tonight's House episode included House using the "Son of a Gun" Legend (civil war soldier get shot in the balls, the projectile -- complete with his sperm -- goes on to strike a woman in the abdomen and 9 months later she gives birth to his child) when a pregnant "virgin" asks if there is any other way she could have become pregnant.
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Old 14 December 2008, 09:22 PM
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I saw this and just about died laughing. I love House.
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I saw that, and figured House knows it's fiction. He just likes lying to patients.
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I thought it was fricking hilarious. He even pretends she was the first human ever to have parthenogenesis to keep her from getting in trouble for cheating. All just to show Wilson up. Brilliant!
Rivkah Chaya, he definitely knew it was fiction, but he probably enjoys lying, but it was part of his plan to be "nice and kind" to show Wilson up.
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I saw that, and figured House knows it's fiction. He just likes lying to patients.
I love House. I was sure he knew he was repeating a UL from his delivery of the story.

I almost ran down to the computer to post a sighting, but DD2 woke up crying and I got distracted.

I had a very brief scare when the parthenogenesis thing came up. I thought (again, briefly) they were going to go with a glurgy story line and have it be real and have some kind of cheesy feel-good Hallmark crap about the virgin birth because of Christmas. It wouldn't have fit the show or his character, and would have irritated me no end. Not because of religious concerns; I am a Christian and believe in one virgin birth, but that doesn't mean I want them to mess up the show.
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There was a comment House made to the pregnant chick that was something along the lines of "Of course you can get pregnant sitting on a toilet seat... if there's a guy sitting between you and it" had me & DH laughing so hard we were in tears. We had to pause the show so we didn't miss the rest.
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I saw this one on a "House" rerun this afternoon:

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