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Line 1: {{Use American English\|date=January 2025}} ~~{{DISPLAYTITLE:Office Politics (''House'')}}~~ {{Use mdy dates\|date=January 2025}} {{All plot\|date=April 2011}} {{Infobox television episode \| series = [[House (TV series)\|House]]▼ ~~\|title = Office Politics~~ \| image = ▲ \|series = [[House (TV series)\|House]] \| caption = ▼ ~~\|image =~~ \| season = 7▼ ▲ \|caption = \| episode = 6▼ ▲ \|season = 7 \| director = [[Sanford Bookstaver]]▼ ▲ \|episode = 6 \| writer = [[Seth Hoffman]]▼ ▲ \|director = [[Sanford Bookstaver]] \| teleplay = ▼ ▲ \|writer = [[Seth Hoffman]] \| story = ▼ ▲ \|teleplay = \| music = ▼ ▲ \|story = \| photographer = ▼ ~~\|producer =~~ \| editor = ▼ ▲ \|music = \| production = ▼ ▲ \|photographer = \| airdate = {{Start date\|2010\|11\|8}}▼ ▲ \|editor = \| length = ▼ ▲ \|production = \| guests = * [[Jack Coleman (actor)\|Jack Coleman]] as Joe Dugan▼ ▲ \|airdate = {{Start date\|2010\|11\|8}} ▲ \|length = ▲ \|guests = * [[Jack Coleman (actor)\|Jack Coleman]] as Joe Dugan * [[Tracy Vilar]] as [[List of House characters#Nurse Regina\|Nurse Regina]] * [[Pat Finn (actor)\|Pat Finn]] as Senator Hal Anderson \| prev = [[Unplanned Parenthood (House)\|Unplanned Parenthood]] \| next = [[A Pox on Our House]] \| episode_list = List of House episodes \| season_article = House (season 7) }} "'''Office Politics'''" is the sixth episode of the [[House (season 7)\|seventh season]] of the American medical drama ''[[House (TV series)\|House]]''. It aired on [[Fox Broadcasting Company\|Fox]] on November 8, 2010. It is also the first episode to feature [[Amber Tamblyn]] as [[Martha Masters (House)\|Martha Masters]], as a replacement of [[Thirteen (House)\|Thirteen]] ([[Olivia Wilde]]). ==Plot== A New Jersey senator's Hal Andersons campaign manager Joe Dugan (played by [[Jack Coleman (actor)\|Jack Coleman]]) falls ill with liver failure and temporary paralysis.<ref>{{cite news\|last1=Jeffery\|first1=Morgan\|title=Recap - 'House': 'Office Politics'\|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/house/news/a285943/recap-house-office-politics/\|~~accessdate~~access-date=October 17, 2016\|work=Digital Spy\|date=November 9, 2010}}</ref> Meanwhile, Cuddy pressures House to add a female doctor to his team but eventually tells him that she has chosen for him: a third-year med student named [[Martha Masters (House)\|Martha Masters]], who is a genius. Taub appears to have a problem with Masters, which Foreman and Chase try to figure out. Throughout the episode, House keeps firing and rehiring Masters, rehiring her whenever he needs her for an idea, and firing her again as soon as he's done talking to her. Line 36: Masters suggests a [[neuroendocrine tumor]], and the team also considers [[Disseminated intravascular coagulation\|DIC]]. The team give Joe an MRI to look for a tumor, but don't find one. Taub runs Joe's blood, which also comes back normal. Looking at the senator on TV delivering a speech, House suspects the senator has Hepatitis C, and thinks that he's had sex with Joe, and thinks Joe has Hepatitis C as well. He gives Joe [[interferon]], but Joe doesn't get better. Masters notes that a German research study has shown that 15% of people with Hepatitis C who have been injected with Hepatitis A got better. When Cuddy says trying this exposes the hospital to liability, Masters tells her that she's being a coward. Foreman and Chase eventually find out that Taub dislikes ~~her~~Masters because he interviewed her for [[Johns Hopkins Medical School\|Hopkins Med School]] for an hour and she didn't remember him, even though she remembered the 20th decimal place of [[Euler's number]]. At the end of the episode, Taub learns the truth about Masters. She did remember him but felt awkward reminding him, and he mumbles "Is this Grandma's tea cosy?", Aa reference to an earlier conversation Masters had with House (involving if one would lie to their grandma about a tea cozy being a good gift). House takes the senator's blood and runs it under Joe's name to get Cuddy to approve on his decision, despite Wilson's warnings that lying to her would be wrong now that they are involved. House also hires Masters in the end, saying she had him when she called Cuddy a coward. The show ends with Cuddy going to the nurses station to check up on House and discovering his lie. She is very visibly upset. Line 42: ==Reception== ===Critical response {{anchor\|Critics}} === Zack Handlen of ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' graded "Office Politics" a B+. He praised Amber Tamblyn's portrayal of the new Masters character. Handlen writes, "A lot of the credit here goes to Tamblyn, who plays Martha as a collection of tics and insecurities but with a strong, immutable center. This is a character type that appears regularly on other shows (and I'm sure we've seen variations on House before in patient form), but this is the first time we have a major female role who isn't a sexy lady who uses her sexiness to sex up the place~~. Sex~~. Tamblyn is adorable in her way, but she's also young, vulnerable, and distinctive, and there's something vital in her confrontations with House."<ref name="avclub">{{cite news\|last1=Handlen\|first1=Zack\|title=House: "Office Politics"\|url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/office-politics,47305/\|~~accessdate~~archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101112001941/http://www.avclub.com/articles/office-politics,47305/\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=November 12, 2010\|access-date=October 17, 2016\|work=The A.V. Club\|date=November 8, 2010}}</ref> ===Ratings=== This episode was watched by 9.63 million U.S. viewers.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/11/09/monday-finals-dancing-castle-mike-lauer-gwb-interview-90210-up/71452 \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716021730/http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/11/09/monday-finals-dancing-castle-mike-lauer-gwb-interview-90210-up/71452 \|~~dead-~~url-status=~~yes~~dead \|archive-date=July 16, 2012 \|title=Monday Finals: ''Dancing'', ''Castle'', ''Mike & Molly'', ''Rules'', ''Men'' Adjusted Down; ''Lauer GWB'' Interview, ''90210'' Up \|work=TV by the Numbers \|last=Gorman \|first=Bill \|date=November 9, 2010 \|~~accessdate~~access-date=November 10, 2010 }}</ref> 2.37 million Canadians watched this episode, ranking seventh for the week.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://bbm.ca/_documents/top_30_tv_programs_english/2010/nat11082010.pdf \|title=Archived copy \|~~accessdate~~access-date=2010-12-07 \|~~deadurl~~url-status=~~yes~~dead \|~~archiveurl~~archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706165626/http://www.bbm.ca/_documents/top_30_tv_programs_english/2010/nat11082010.pdf \|~~archivedate~~archive-date=2011-07-06 ~~\|df=~~ }}</ref> ==References== Line 54: * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110409055914/http://www.fox.com/house/recaps/season-7/episode-06.htm "Office Politics"] at [[Fox.com]] * {{IMDb episode\|1708695\|Office Politics}} * {{tv.com episode\|house/office-politics-1361591\|Office Politics}} {{House (TV series)}} [[Category:House (season 7) episodes]] [[Category:2010 American television episodes]]