House M.D. (TV Series)

Heavy (2005)

Omar Epps: Dr. Eric Foreman

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• Dr. Eric Foreman : 10-year-olds do not have heart attacks. It's got to be a mistake.

  Dr. Gregory House : Right. The simplest explanation is she's a 40-year-old lying about her age. Maybe an actress trying to hang on.

• Dr. Eric Foreman : It's some kind of game. House's own version of "Punk'd."

  Dr. Allison Cameron : It's not House. It's Vogler. We can't let it get to us, we've got to stick together.

  Dr. Robert Chase : Why?

  Dr. Allison Cameron : What are you suggesting, that we start slashing each other's throats?

  Dr. Robert Chase : I'm suggesting it's a zero-sum game. Your loss is my win. That's not conducive to team play.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Which is what House seems to want. I'm with Cameron. May be a bad strategy, but I don't want to give House the satisfaction.

• Dr. Allison Cameron : [after the doctors learn that Jessica has taken weight loss pills]  I can't believe she was that desperate.

  Dr. Gregory House : Yeah, I'm sure that if everyone I knew hated me, I couldn't bear to look at me. I wouldn't go so far as to shoplift.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : I'm not talking about the shoplifting.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : I'm sure she didn't even know they were dangerous. She probably saw them advertised on TV or over the internet.

  Dr. Robert Chase : Right, so I guess it's the media and pharmaceutical companies' fault now? Not the fact that she can't stop shoving food down her throat. No one forced her to get fat.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : No one forced a cancer patient to get cancer.

  Dr. Robert Chase : Give me a break. It's not a disease.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Have you seen the latest research?

  Dr. Robert Chase : Yes, I have. What I haven't seen lately is a kid eating an apple or riding a bike. You Americans can't even compete with the rest of the world in basketball anymore unless, of course, it's the type you play with a remote control on a big screen TV.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Right.

  [gets up and starts to walk off] 

  Dr. Gregory House : [to Foreman]  Wait! Are you going to let him say that? He insulted our basketball teams!

• Dr. Allison Cameron : Everything in society tells us we have to be thin to be successful.

  Dr. Robert Chase : No, society tells you you have to be thin to be attractive. And guess what, that's what attractive means: that society likes looking at you.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : I think we should be telling our kids it's fine as long as they're healthy.

  Dr. Robert Chase : All right. You weigh 90 pounds because it makes you healthier?

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Forget it. He's just cranky because he's the one who's going to get the axe.

• Dr. Eric Foreman : Come on. It takes decades to eat your way into a heart attack.

  Dr. Robert Chase : Doesn't take decades to kill yourself. If I was that fat, I'd be pretty tempted to knock back a bottle of pills.

• Dr. Robert Chase : [about Jessica]  She's not a baby. She's 10!

  Dr. Eric Foreman : And you figure making her feel like crap would do her a world of good?

  Dr. Robert Chase : Yeah, if it gets her off the couch.

• Dr. Eric Foreman : [to House]  If you're gonna fire someone, go ahead and do it, but don't treat us like lab rats, testing how long it takes us to get us at one another's throats.

• Dr. Eric Foreman : [to Vogler about House]  I respect him.

  Edward Vogler : What exactly is it you respect? His attitude toward humanity? He thinks we're all idiots and liars. How 'bout his attitude toward you, plays with you like a cat with a ball of string...

  Dr. Eric Foreman : What do you want?

  Edward Vogler : I want to know if you want to keep your job.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : If he chooses to let me go, I can live with that.

  Edward Vogler : That's not an answer.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : You offering to protect me?

  Edward Vogler : Still not an answer.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : I want my job.

• Dr. Gregory House : Say the first thing that comes to your head.

  Dr. Robert Chase : [about Jessica]  She's fat.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Enough already, okay? We've got it. You hate fat people.