House M.D. (TV Series)

Family Practice (2011)

Candice Bergen: Arlene Cuddy

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• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I asked you before why you were tough on me.

  Arlene : I wasn't.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You were and I know why. You see something in me that you didn't see in Julia and you didn't see in you: a type of ambition, a type of brains. That's why you rode me. You made me yearbook editor, summa undergrad, A.O.A. in med school. The only time I ever see light in your eyes is when you hear me talking about my job. The reason you keep coming to see me in the clinic is because you trust me. You trust my medical judgment. So here it is. If you transfer to Princeton General, you'll be treated well and you'll die. If you stay here with House, you'll be treated badly, but you'll live. I don't care if I have to slash the tires of every ambulance in this bay, Mom. I am not letting you leave my hospital.

• Arlene : [to Cuddy]  If you're going to dress like an Italian hooker, at least let it be this year's Italian hooker.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Which other symptoms, mom?

  Arlene : No her fault. This Dean of Medicine stuff, very impressive at parties, but she's forgotten how to be a real doctor. It's all in my file.

  Dr. Gregory House : There are 15 years of clinic visits in this file.

  Arlene : I don't want to be a bother, but isn't that what you do for a living?

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [to Arlene]  Where'd Julia go?

  Arlene : She's got a family.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I've got a family.

  Arlene : Three kids and a husband. That's a family.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You are always tougher on me than Julia. Why is that?

  Arlene : I'm not.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I was thinking about when you made me run for yearbook editor. I didn't want to. I didn't have a social life my whole senior year. You let Julia do whatever she wanted.

  Arlene : We're debating 12th grade now?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Like anything's changed.

  Arlene : What do you want, Lisa? Do you want to hear I love you both the same? Of course I do.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Okay.

  Arlene : But times like this, when we argue, it reminds me... I have more in common with her. She's nicer to me. I love you both, but I like her more than you.

• Arlene : If you're so great, how come you're not running your department anymore?

  Dr. Gregory House : What are you talking about, Mom?

  Arlene : That's what he told me.

  Dr. Gregory House : Two days ago? I said that I didn't have a department to run? I was being sarcastic.

  Arlene : No, you weren't.

  Dr. Gregory House : Right, because people who are talking can't tell if they're being sarcastic.

  Arlene : That doesn't make any sense.

  Dr. Gregory House : Of course they can. But you weren't... I love A-Rod. He's so modest and I highly respect the paintings he has of himself as a centaur. Question. Do I like A-Rod?

  Arlene : Yes. Whoever he is.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : She can't recognize sarcasm?

  Dr. Gregory House : Deficit in the right parahippocampal gyrus, which means CNS involvement before the fever. I was wrong about the endocarditis.

• Arlene : [to House]  You printed a fake label just to prove I'm a hypochondriac?

  Dr. Gregory House : Did it work?

  Arlene : It got you fired, you schmuck.

• Dr. Marty Kaufman : [to House]  I'm skipping the credentials committee. I'm going straight to the state board and reporting you for... what you've done is so off the spectrum, I don't know there's a specific name for it.

  Dr. Gregory House : [to Masters]  I think he's talking to you.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Marty, calm down.

  Dr. Marty Kaufman : [to Cuddy]  And you. What you did is worse. He's an insane lunatic. You're the Dean of Medicine!

  Arlene : I want you off my case.

  Dr. Marty Kaufman : That's exactly right.

  Arlene : Don't get excited. You're fired too.

  Dr. Marty Kaufman : What?

  Arlene : I'll never get away from House or my daughter if I stay here. Transfer me to Princeton General.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Mom, you're very ill and you're very angry. You really think now is the right time to make a decision like this?

  Arlene : You lied to me and betrayed me. Do you think I really care what you consider a good idea anymore?

• Arlene : My heart's doing that weird thing again.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Beating? That's normal for humans.