Are you addicted to House, Md? Do you watch every episode anxiously searching for a look or a remark that Dr. House might give to signify his feelings for Dr. Cameron? Do you rewatch old episodes just to see your favorite scenes of Dr. House and Dr. Cameron together? Did your heart skip a beat when House said "Cameron, I love you," before administering the hiv test. Then this is the group for you... A group for all things House and Cameron...
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The Kiss!!!!!!
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-...Hugh [Laurie] says viewers shouldn't count out Dr. Cameron... "The embers are still smoking, so who knows?" he says. "If someone blows on them, they may ignite."
Inside TV
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[about House and Cameron having sex]
"...I think that's somewhere in the distance. ...Although I think, you know, we'll probably both carry a bit of a torch for each other, but it'll be a hidden torch... Hey, look, I'm, you know, wanting it to happen! It's very different from thinking it will happen. No, want is fine, put me down on the want list. That would be terrific, that would be just fine with me."
Graham Besinger Interview
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Do you want Cameron with Chase or with House? (Sounds like the makings of a great TVGuide.com poll!) I know which way Jennifer Morrison (Cameron) would vote. Although she was a no-show at Fox's press-tour bash last week, an adorably tongue-tied Hugh Laurie delivered — or, rather, attempted to deliver — a message on her behalf. Here's our exchange:
Laurie: I'm going to tread here very carefully because Jennifer is actually still working. She asked me to say… can I say this? Because it's going to get her into such trouble. I'm going to have to let her say it. She will get her opportunity to say it.
Ausiello: C'mon, give me a hint.
Laurie: She is keen to see a… a…. a… development of the relationship we hinted at before. She put it more graphically.
Ausiello: She wants to see House and Cameron have sexual intercourse?
Laurie: Wow! I thought there were whole steps [leading] up to that, but you went right there.
Ask Ausiello, August 02, 2006
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Jennifer Morrison
"Cameron may be the only one who can get to House,"
Entertainment Weekly
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"I think Allison was so drawn to his talent, really respecting him for what he does and the integrity behind it. That was the beginning of it. He's also struggling, and he's a little bit damaged and, of course, women love to get into that. I don't think it was ever an age issue for her."
OK Magazine
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"Cameron was adamant about going on a date with Dr. House because she knows him well enough, and she works intimately with him enough every day, that she knew that it would take forcing him to get him to do it... In terms of Cameron's decided perspective, she's seeing a person behind that that's really needing love and in desire of all these things that he's just not capable of allowing himself. The more walls he tries to put up, the more defenses he tries to put up, the more she sees that there is something that he's hiding, and there is a vulnerability under all that that he's trying to protect."
"Love Triangle" Fox.com video central
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Dr. Cameron was attracted to Dr. House's brilliance last season and has a crush on him. "What I get more than anything [from fans] is you've got to stick it out," said Morrison. "He needs you." Dr. Cameron has more pressing things on her mind. After being splattered by blood from an AIDS patient, she is awaiting her own test results. "I think the next episode that airs is the resolution," said Morrison, who has something in common with the show's fans. She didn't like "the kiss," either. "I got really jealous," said Morrison with a laugh. "Being in touch with Cameron's feelings, it was kind of hard to watch."
BuffaloNews.com
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Equally happy with her tense on-screen relationship in House is Morrison. Finally, she said, she has a role where she's not playing someone's girlfriend, but a woman with complex issues and a story-line with many possible endings. "What is great is just to be able to work with Hugh and have that underlying tension with him," Morrison said. "As an actor that's great because there are so many scenes where we feel like we're just spewing out medical terms and yet there's always that extra little thing going on about the way we relate to each other. "It's always 'Is there really something going on? I can't help but like you, you can't help but like me,' all those little things you deal with in real life if you have a crush on someone - and that's just great. "Cameron hates herself for loving House, but she can't help but find him desirable. The resulting mess makes for so much fun"
TV Guide Australia
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As for the ladies, their characters may continue to hide their feelings for House, but the actresses are fessing up. "Cameron can't help but have feelings for House," Jennifer Morrison told me. "I think they always find themselves in unexpected moments, and we find that even as actors. We will have scenes that were not written to have their sexual chemistry come up, and yet it sort of accidentally does. It's interesting to see how Cameron and House's relationship is so natural for us." Boom chicka bowwow!
E! Online, Watch with Kristin
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I talked to Jennifer Morrison on the Emmy carpet yesterday, and she told me she and Hugh are totally fighting for a little somethin-somethin' to happen between them on the show, so we'll see.
Watch With Kristin - Chat Transcripts
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But while we're discussing Hameron, remember how Hugh Laurie awkwardly attempted to relay a message on Jennifer Morrison's behalf at press tour last month (Ask Ausiello 8/2)? Well, at the Emmys Sunday, she delivered said message herself: She wants them together, and STAT! "Of course," she beamed. "It's good to mix it up a little, have some extra TV drama." She added that fans "seem to have their couple that they root for. There are some people who want Cameron and House, there are some people who want House and Cuddy, and there are some people who want House and Wilson. There are all these different camps."
Ask Ausiello, August 30, 2006
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David Shore
"As for Dr. Cameron, it would be disingenuous to ignore that [attraction]. She has feelings for him, she can't just turn that off. And he has feelings for her too, in a much more subtle way. It'll probably always be there."
Chicago Tribune
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"Cameron likes House. And House likes Cameron, but it's not quite the same. And I'm not even sure House knows how he feels, and Cameron's quite aware of how she feels... and um, I think Cameron's a lot ballsier than she sometimes seems, and she's gonna push that agenda."
Fox.com video central
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"We made such a big deal of Stacy's return, I think it would be false to have House immediately rebound back to [Cameron]," says exec producer David Shore. "We want to really explore these characters, but we don't want the show to be completely defined by that, with House just going from one woman to another. It would just become a bit too soap opera-ish. But it's clearly there. There are certain little shots that she's going to get from the other doctors about her feelings towards House."
Ask Ausiello, January 2006
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DVD Commentary: No Reason (David Shore & Katie Jacobs)
The hallway scene
Shore: Larry Kaplow co-wrote the story with me and a lot of the medical stuff comes from him. The whole trash theme that happens throughout this was his idea and works very nicely.
(Cameron: Everything that lives eats...)
Jacobs: There's always going to be some sexual tension, chemistry between the two of them.
Shore: And that just works nicely, doesn't it?
Jacobs: Yep.
Shore: Every time he touches her or she touches him, there seems to be somethin' going on which is really cool. And I love the fact that she makes this discussion of trash kind of hot.
Jacobs: There is an attraction between the two of them.
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The robot foreplay scene.
Shore: Our prop people did a great job.
Jacobs: So... he's going to... seduce her with the robot.
Shore: (speaking over Katie: I really wanted this nice...) Yeah. Exactly. What this is is closest House is going to come to making love to Cameron... this season.
Shore: When we shot this scene, actually... You obviously need to get a shot of Hugh doing this stuff and a shot of Jennifer reacting to it. And the shots on her face were extremely sexy... her reactions to all this. And then in order to get corresponding reactions from Hugh, we had Jennifer read the actions to it... and, I swear, he was blushing by the end, several members of our camera crew were blushing by the end of it.
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And Shore assured me that a House/Cameron romance is not out of the question, despite the crabby doc's continued flirtation with recurring guest-star Sela Ward. Their romance has merely been postponed.
TV Guide Online "Ask Ausiello"
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It is Dr. Allison Cameron's painful, yet kind of pleasurable, duty to play Jane Eyre to House's Edward Rochester.
"In an episode last season, Cameron haltingly told house: "People dismiss me, because I'm a woman, because I'm pretty, because I'm not aggressive. My opinions shouldn't be rejected just because people don't like me." It was a disarming moment. And House fell for it, clumsily reassuring her that "people" do like her. Camerone pounced. "Do you? I have to know," she asked. Cameron was in love with her boss! Why didn't you see it coming? In the pause that followed, House, the authority figure, leaned on his cane, blue eyes blazing. Cameron faced him with bright hopefulness. The sexual tension was exquisite. "No," he finally replied."
Joyce Millman, The New York Times
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Question: "Can I persuade you to be a House/Cameron shipper?"
Kristin Veitch: "No persuasion necessary after the season premiere -- there is a very telling moment in the House/Cam relationship! At least one of them definitely still has interest..."
Watch With Kristin
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New York Times
March 26, 2006
Character
She Has a Thing for Older Doctors. Especially Jerks.
By JOYCE MILLMAN
HOUSE" might have been conceived as a medical show, but it quickly evolved into a delicious Gothic romance, topped by a swirl of chick-lit froth. The acerbic, quirkily handsome doc (Hugh Laurie) with a bad leg is the sort of haunted Byronic figure who stirs in women the urge to nurture and redeem. To quote Dr. House, in an example of the show's self-referential sarcasm: "I'm not sad, I'm complicated. Chicks dig that."
It is Dr. Allison Cameron's painful, yet kind of pleasurable, duty to play Jane Eyre to House's Edward Rochester. The only woman on House's staff, Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) is 20-something, brilliant and lovely in a shy-mouse way. While in college, Cameron married a man dying of cancer; she is still atoning for her failure to save him. She wears man-tailored vests over girlish puff-sleeved blouses, like body armor over fragile feelings.
Unlike the misanthropic House, Cameron believes in the goodness of humanity. She is empathetic to a fault, the champion of the weak and helpless. She can be humorless and judgmental. She's a bit of a drip. But even if she's hardly a strong female role model, Cameron is appealingly flawed and awkward. She's Bridget Jones with a brain. She tries hard, yet falls short.
In an episode last season, Cameron haltingly told House: "People dismiss me, because I'm a woman, because I'm pretty, because I'm not aggressive. My opinions shouldn't be rejected just because people don't like me." It was a disarming moment. And House fell for it, clumsily reassuring her that "people" do like her. Cameron pounced. "Do you? I have to know," she asked. Cameron was in love with her boss! Why didn't we see it coming? In the pause that followed, House, the older authority figure, leaned on his cane, blue eyes blazing. Cameron faced him with bright hopefulness. The sexual tension was exquisite. "No," he finally replied.
Cameron pursued House anyway, with a tenacity that veered close to sexual harassment. Near the end of last season, she quit her job because he wouldn't admit that he loved her, then agreed to return if he'd go on a date with her. On their date (the pivotal episode "Love Hurts"), Cameron wore her heart on her sleeve, confident that emotional honesty could penetrate House's defenses. She prodded him to express his feelings about her. Bad idea.
House: "You live under the delusion that you can fix everything that isn't perfect. That's why you married a man who was dying of cancer. You don't love, you need. And now that your husband is dead, you're looking for another charity case."
"I'm twice your age," he continued. "I'm not great looking, I'm not charming, I'm not even nice. What I am is what you need. I'm damaged."
House's words cut to the core of Cameron's motivation and personality. They also acknowledged the hold his walking-wounded allure has over the show's female fans. It still isn't clear whether House is really uninterested in Cameron, or if he rejected her to protect her from his cynicism. But the ambiguity only enhances his mystique.
This season, Cameron has pulled back from House. Trying to shed her goody-goody image, she took crystal meth, became a wild-haired minx and had a one-night stand with a fellow resident, Robert Chase. As any reader of chick lit (or Gothic romances) can see, Cameron is now at the point of the story where the heroine is determined to get over the unattainable object of her longing. And just as she does. ...
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Posted 3/27/2006 9:34 PM
"Laurie's polite with a bite"
By Marco R. della Cava, USA TODAY exerpt...
"We were all at a party after the first season ended, and all of a sudden Hugh shows up," says Jennifer Morrison, who plays Dr. Allison Cameron, a colleague who has had a crush on House. "He hops off his bike in this tight T-shirt, clean-shaven, with this gorgeous accent, and I'm thinking, 'Wow, I forgot that was underneath there.' "
Morrison is sure she understands House's appeal: "He's broken, as are all of us in some way, and yet at the end of the day, all he wants to do is save people."
As a woman, she says the character packs a few extra shots to the libido, namely, "the fact that his talent is attractive, and his uncompromising nature is sexy."
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Pinky and the Brain, MD.
"I want love"
Mad TV House spoof:
The infamous "I Love You"
"How to be dead"
"X Y"
"Scars"
"Because of You"
"The Noose"
"Be your Love"
falling hearts