| rdfs:comment | - Meaning (Müh•Nø•Ûng) V.: When someone is mean to you, or is otherwise engaged in mean behavior of the mean type. Example: In Scrabble, Johnny was meaning when he put down "Zoology" for 580 points. God dammit, I hate you Scrabble! WHY??! WWWHHYYY!! FUCK YOU SCRABBLE!!!
- Meaning is the premiere episode of the 3rd season of House which first aired on September 5, 2006. A pain free House returns to work and to rigorous exercise. Without argument, he accepts two seemingly routine cases. He quickly solves one, but his team and Cuddy worry that he’s obsessing so hard about finding a cure for the second that he might actually kill the patient. This episode was nominated for an American Society of Cinematographers award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Episodic TV Series.
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| abstract | - Meaning is the premiere episode of the 3rd season of House which first aired on September 5, 2006. A pain free House returns to work and to rigorous exercise. Without argument, he accepts two seemingly routine cases. He quickly solves one, but his team and Cuddy worry that he’s obsessing so hard about finding a cure for the second that he might actually kill the patient. If the overarching plot of the entire series is wondering if House will ever be redeemed, Meaning gives us a glimpse of what might have happened if House had later succeeded in repairing his damaged leg. By this time, it is clear that House's underlying personality (his distrust of other people and his brusque way of dealing with both superiors and subordinates) pre-date his infarction by decades. However, House continues to blame his unhappiness (which also pre-dates his injury) on his leg pain. However, at the end of Season 2, in the midst of hallucinations, House devises a treatment plan and even in his delirious state manages to communicate it. Not only has his leg pain disappeared, he has once again embraced the physical lifestyle he had to abandon. The exercise has improved his mood to the point where work is something to be embraced, not avoided. He chooses an interesting pair of cases. The first is a true medical mystery—a woman who his paralyzed but shows no sign of trauma. However, the choice of the second is just a mystery to his close colleagues—a cancer survivor who clearly has no medical mystery attached to him that House takes on just so he can help another human being. The mystery case is soon solved, and House shows empathy towards the cancer survivor, performing tendon surgery to relieve his pain to the great relief and gratitude of the man's wife. However, House soon realizes that despite his connection to the cancer survivor's family, he has derived no satisfaction from the case. Despite Wilson's assurances that House can't expect this to happen overnight, House creates a new medical mystery out of the cancer survivor, convincing his team, Wilson and Cuddy that his sober judgment can no longer be trusted. House's inability to make "progress" with the cancer survivor soon starts to manifest itself as physical pain in his leg. As the "treatment" for the cancer survivor puts the patient's life at risk over and over again, House appears to be caught in a downward spiral until he comes up with another "Hail Mary" at the last minute. He becomes convinced he can cure the man without putting him at further risk. However, this is where Cuddy decides to draw the line—not at the dangerous tests, but at the relatively safe diagnostic trial. House resigns himself to not getting his way, but it turns out Cuddy trusts House's judgment more than she lets on. She decides to treat the patient herself and, to everyone's surprise, proves House right. However, Wilson becomes convinced that if House finds out he was right, there will be no stopping him in future. He convinces Cuddy to keep it quiet. Meanwhile, House's leg pain increases and his desperation for Vicodin grows until he steals one of Wilson's prescription pads. The events in the episode are key to several themes and plots in the series. This is not the first instance, nor will it be the last, where House's instincts in taking on a seemingly routine case wind up with him hitting a home run. A short list of the beneficiaries of House's magic are Lucy Palmeiro, Olive Kaplan and Father Daniel Bresson to name just a few. The episode also lays the foundation for events later in Season 3—the fight over keeping his blood stained carpet and the eventual development of the Tritter story arc. However, by the end of the episode, it's clear that the optimism is over and that House will one again be House. Overall, the episode confirms that House is "almost always eventually right". This episode was nominated for an American Society of Cinematographers award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Episodic TV Series.
- Meaning (Müh•Nø•Ûng) V.: When someone is mean to you, or is otherwise engaged in mean behavior of the mean type. Example: In Scrabble, Johnny was meaning when he put down "Zoology" for 580 points. God dammit, I hate you Scrabble! WHY??! WWWHHYYY!! FUCK YOU SCRABBLE!!!
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