why can’t it be october/october? || 31 days of my favourite house/cuddy scenes || october 31st
CUDDY: I don’t get the whole May/December thing.
HOUSE: Give me a break, it’s May/October at worst.
CUDDY: Well why can’t it be October/October?
HOUSE: May is when things start to get hot.
CUDDY: [laughs] If that guy wasn’t trying so hard to keep up with a women half his age he wouldn’t have almost killed both his kids.
HOUSE: Guy gets a little something-something [Cuddy laughs again], couple of kids have to die, circle of life.
CUDDY: So many people, so much energy and drama just trying to find someone who’s almost never the right person anyway. It just… shouldn’t be so hard.
HOUSE: … I got tickets to a play.
3.19 — “Act Your Age”
why can’t it be october/october? || 31 days of my favourite house/cuddy scenes || october 30th
[House pops a pill.]
CUDDY: [shocked] Is that Vicodin?!
HOUSE: Breath mint. Thought you were gonna kiss me.
CUDDY: What happened to rehab?
HOUSE: I got out.
CUDDY: It was a scam?
HOUSE: Enough foreplay. You gonna kiss me or not?
CUDDY: You are going back to the clinic. Or jail.
HOUSE: [amused] You perjured yourself to keep me out of jail. How’re you -?
CUDDY: I only did that because I thought you were getting clean.
HOUSE: So it’s do clinic duty or go to jail.
CUDDY: Yes.
HOUSE: Then it’ll be finish your paperwork or go to jail. Help with fundraising or go to jail. Do your job or go to jail. I think I’d rather go to jail.
CUDDY: You owe me.3.12 — “One Day One Room”
why can’t it be october/october? || 31 days of my favourite house/cuddy scenes || october 29th
Cuddy: You want to kiss me, don’t you?
House: I always want to kiss you.5.23 — “Under My Skin”
why can’t it be october/october? || 31 days of my favourite house/cuddy scenes || october 27th
House: You should’ve been fired.
Cuddy: I’m taking back the TV.
House: I saved his life!
Cuddy: That wasn’t the deal.
House: The contract clearly states no takesy backsies.
Cuddy: [firmly] Good night, House.
House: What are you wearing?
Cuddy: [softer, with a smile] Good night, House.
House: Good night, Cuddy.4.14 — “Living The Dream”
why can’t it be october/october? || 31 days of my favourite house/cuddy scenes || october 26th
House: You’re 40 years old-
Cuddy: 38!
House: The administrator of a hospital-
Cuddy: Dean of Medicine.
House: People don’t get personal with you. Except for me, and you dismiss me as a jerk who’s jerking you around. But that guy can only tell the truth and he prefers your body to that of a smoking young hottie.
Cuddy: So… that was your way of saying I look good today?
House: You didn’t get the slightest kick out of that?
Cuddy: [gets into the elevator] Don’t be ridiculous, House.
[House shrugs and leaves and she breaks into a large smile]5.17 — “The Social Contract”
why can’t it be october/october? || 31 days of my favourite house/cuddy scenes || october 25th
[House is laying his head on Cuddy’s chest, trying to listen to her heartbeat]
CUDDY: I said we should’ve turned back. You should have listened to me. Now we’re eight miles over the Arctic-
HOUSE: [looks up] I’m trying to listen to you now, so shut up! [listens to her chest again] Heart’s fine. Breasts are firm. [Cuddy smiles]
—-
[House leans in and starts to smell Cuddy’s hair, then her neck.]
CUDDY: You’re creeping me out.
HOUSE: Gonna get me a lab. [smelling her chest] Pseudomonas smell yeasty. Staph smells musky. [now smelling her stomach] Some liver diseases smell of ammonia. [smells ~lower~]
CUDDY: House, I’m not in heat.
HOUSE: Citrusy on the nose, with a blush of toasted coconut.
—-
HOUSE: Still feel like puking?
CUDDY: No.
[House leans across her and raises her chair’s backrest, until she’s only inches away from him and we all die because it was almost a kiss.]3.18 — “Air
pornborne”
why can’t it be october/october? || 31 days of my favourite house/cuddy scenes || october 24th
CUDDY: Why do you need to negate everything?
HOUSE: I don’t know.5.06 — “Joy”
why can’t it be october/october? || 31 days of my favourite house/cuddy scenes || october 23rd
HOUSE: The horror.
CUDDY: Well, it’s nice of them to send us an early copy.
HOUSE: Not so much sent… as stolen.
DARNELL: (ONSCREEN) In the end, it was Dr. Gregory House who served as not only a doctor, but a rock for Kenny and his father.
HOUSE: (ONSCREEN) …You’re putting your trust in somebody who does think the surgery’s important.
DARNELL: (ONSCREEN) House, one of those rare doctors who wears his heart on his sleeve…
[Cuddy laughs and House gets up quickly]
HOUSE: God! [he shuts the tv off] I was saying that was a STUPID thing to do!
CUDDY: [pretends to wipe away fake tears] It’s difficult not to be moved.
HOUSE: Oh, stop it! Suddenly, I don’t feel I can trust Michael Moore movies. [he begins to leave Cuddy’s office]
CUDDY: Where you going? Kittens to get out of trees? Deaf kids to read to?
HOUSE: I owe it to the world to make sure this EVIL never sees the light of day.
[he leaves and Cuddy turns the video back on]
DARNELL: (ONSCREEN) Is there anything else?
KENNY: [looks at the camera, head wrapped in bandages, his deformity is gone.] Thank you, Dr. House.
[Cuddy breaks into a large smile]4.07 — “Ugly”
why can’t it be october/october? || 31 days of my favourite house/cuddy scenes || october 21st
Cuddy: Part of the protocol for in vitro fertilization is twice-daily injections of menotropins. I can’t do it myself.
House: Turn around.
Cuddy: No clever comments about bending over?
House: Not unless you want me to.
—-
House: I don’t care if you marry this guy, date this guy, go through his garbage, but you should know genes matter. Who you are matters. Find somebody you trust.
Cuddy: Someone like you?
House: Someone you like.
—-
Cuddy: Thank you for the injections.
House: You’re welcome. You came all the way up here just to tell me that?
Cuddy: No.2.23 — “Who’s Your Daddy?”
why can’t it be october/october? || 31 days of my favourite house/cuddy scenes || october 20th
CUDDY: You idiot! Your heart stopped!
4.15 — “House’s Head”
