Episode Info
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Episode number: 5x11 Production Number: HOU-511 Airdate: Tuesday December 09th, 2008 Alternate Airdates:
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Argentina
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Co-Guest Stars
Main Cast
Recap
Natalie and several other older students are off-stage waiting to go on at their school’s Christmas pageant. One of them, Sarah, says they need to make a statement and prods another girl, Natalie Soellner, into insulting a teacher in the middle of their song. They go out and sing and Natalie starts to hallucinating. She blurts out the teacher’s name but the other students don’t leaving her embarrassed. She starts vomiting and collapses to the stage...Read the full recap
Music
| Artist | Song Title | Played When |
| Bobby Helms | Jingle Bell Rock | as House and Wilson talk in the cafeteria |
| A Fine Frenzy | Whisper | as Cuddy gives Natalie her baby |
| Gavin Degraw | Chestnuts Roasting | as Foreman and Hadley kiss |
| Isaac Watts | Joy to the World | at the Christmas pageant |
| Mel Torme & Bob Wells | A Christmas Song | at the Christmas pageant |
Episode Quotes
Dr. House: Why have Foreman’s breasts suddenly started to droop?
Dr. Hadley: Large breast are a classic symptom of you letting Foreman take vacation days so he can finish his F.D.A. reports before the end of the year.
Dr. Hadley: Large breast are a classic symptom of you letting Foreman take vacation days so he can finish his F.D.A. reports before the end of the year.
Dr. Cuddy: I’m bringing in a case. You may have noticed me doing that before.
Dr. House: I’ve noticed you doing that a lot recently. it’s almost as if you have a sexual interest in someone. Like, say… Taub.
Dr. Cuddy: Well, Taub might think I like him if I stayed, which is why I’m gonna do this. (leaves)
Dr. Taub: Somehow, I don’t think that was really about me.
Dr. House: I’ve noticed you doing that a lot recently. it’s almost as if you have a sexual interest in someone. Like, say… Taub.
Dr. Cuddy: Well, Taub might think I like him if I stayed, which is why I’m gonna do this. (leaves)
Dr. Taub: Somehow, I don’t think that was really about me.
Dr. House: You talked to Wilson.
Dr. Taub: He has very girly handwriting, by the way.
Dr. Taub: He has very girly handwriting, by the way.
Dr. Wilson: Of all the ways to mess with people, why give yourself an imaginary present?
Dr. House: Have you checked the prices for firemen-strippers recently?
Dr. Wilson: Yes.
Dr. House: Have you checked the prices for firemen-strippers recently?
Dr. Wilson: Yes.
Dr. House: If I wanted gifts, I would just look deep into my patients’ eyes and act like you. “Oh, I’m so sorry you’re dying, Mrs. Moron. Of course I’ll sleep with you. What I lack in skill, I can make up for in…”
Dr. Wilson: You’d just wind up insulting her. Perhaps calling her “Mrs. Moron.”
Dr. Wilson: You’d just wind up insulting her. Perhaps calling her “Mrs. Moron.”
Dr. Taub: You don’t have clinic duty today.
Dr. House: Who says it’s a duty?
Dr. House: Who says it’s a duty?
Dr. House: It’s Beccaria’s sign. That’ll be gone by your third trimester.
Whitney: Oh, I’m not in school.
Dr. House: Neither is your fetus.
Whitney: Oh, I’m not in school.
Dr. House: Neither is your fetus.
Whitney: Aren’t there other ways I could get pregnant, like… sitting on a toilet seat?
Dr. House: Absolutely--there would need to be a guy sitting between you and the toilet seat, but yes, absolutely.
Dr. House: Absolutely--there would need to be a guy sitting between you and the toilet seat, but yes, absolutely.
Whitney: We do other stuff in bed. Couldn’t some of his sperm have made it up there somehow?
Dr. House: More likely, it came from the guy whose penis made it up there somehow, but… sure, anything’s possible.
Dr. House: More likely, it came from the guy whose penis made it up there somehow, but… sure, anything’s possible.
Anna: Jerk.
Dr. Cuddy: Uh, what was that all about?
Dr. House: Jamaican chicken recipes.
Dr. Cuddy: Uh, what was that all about?
Dr. House: Jamaican chicken recipes.
Dr. House: Parthenogenesis. A baby without a daddy. In humans, it's only ever been theorized, but it was never proved. Until now. (holds up the DNA printouts) Mommy. Baby. Your daughter has only maternal DNA.. I personally checked this five times. In seven months, you will have… a virgin birth. Merry Christmas.
Dr. Cuddy: You faked a scientific miracle just to win a bet with Wilson?
Dr. House: Mmm, more an argument. I realize it would have been simpler to just fake the paternity test, but hey--Christmas spirit and all that.
Dr. Cuddy: I think you’re confusing nice and evil again.
Dr. House: Mmm, more an argument. I realize it would have been simpler to just fake the paternity test, but hey--Christmas spirit and all that.
Dr. Cuddy: I think you’re confusing nice and evil again.
Episode References
Taub and Kutner make reference to last season's Christmas episode, "It's a Wonderful Lie," where House pitted the associates against each other by giving himself Secret Santa presents.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | David Shore |
| • Executive Producer | Bryan Singer | Katie Jacobs | David Shore | Paul Attanasio | Garrett Lerner | Russel Friend | Thomas L. Moran |
| • Co-Executive Producer | Leonard Dick | Eli Attie | Lawrence Kaplow (1) | Doris Egan | Deran Sarafian | Gerrit Van Der Meer | Peter Blake (2) |
| • Supervising Producer | Liz Friedman |
| • Producer | David Hoselton | David Foster | Marcy G. Kaplan |
| • Co-Producer | Sara Hess | Allen Marshall Palmer |
| • Associate Producer | Lindsey Jaffin | Julie Hrebec |
| • Production Designer | Jeremy Cassells |
| • Casting | Stephanie Laffin | Amy Lippens |
| • Unit Production Manager | Gerrit Van Der Meer |
| • First Assistant Director | Kevin Williams (2) |
| • Second Assistant Director | Janet K. Vanetten |
| • Music | Jason Derlatka | Jon Ehrlich |
| • Music Editor | Michael Baber |
| • Music Supervisor | Gary Calamar | Lynn Grossman |
| • Costume Designer | Cathy Crandall |
| • Make-up | Toby Lamm |
| • Key Grip | Shawn Whelan |
| • Camera Operator | Rob Carlson (3) | Anthony Gaudioz |
| • Set Decorator | Natalie Pope |
| • Location Manager | Nancy Haecker |
| • Transportation Coordinator | Steve De Leon |
| • Property Master | Tyler Patton | Pete Flynn (2) |
| • Construction Coordinator | Stephen Howard |
| • Production Sound Mixer | Von Varga |
| • Script Supervisor | Ira Hurvitz |
| • Production Coordinator | Elisabeth James Rhee |
| • Script Coordinator | Dustin Paddock |
| • Assistant Editor | Amy Fleming |
| • Supervising Sound Editor | Brad North |
| • Re-Recording Mixer | Richard Weingart | Gerry Lentz |
| • Leadman | Gary Isbell |
| • Art Director | Lynn Christopher |
| • Assistant Production Coordinator | Meg A. Schave |
| • Post Production Coordinator | Marisa Lederman |
| • Executive Story Editor | Pamela Davis (1) |
| • Costume Supervisor | Amy Dodson |
| • Special Makeup Effects Artist | Dalia Dokter |
| • Main Title Theme | Massive Attack |
| • Visual Effects Supervisor | Elan Soltes |
| • Production Accountant | Jane Williams (2) |
| • Chief Lighting Technician | Jim Dillinger |
| • Department Head Hair | Janis Clark (1) |
| • Casting Associate | Janelle Scuderi |
| • Medical Technical Advisor | John Sotos | Lisa Sanders | Harley Liker |
| • Department Head Make-up | Robin Luce |
| • Assistant To The Executive Producer | Robyn Marrow | Simran Baidwan | Tommy Paul | James S. Conway |
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