"Let Them Eat Cake" was certainly a tasty and fun treat after last week's tense hostage standoff. And what a treat this was, including everything from corpses rising from the dead to a near-miss with House and Cuddy.

It shouldn't be any surprise to you, my faithful readers, that I happen to love House/Cuddy, in all its dysfunctional glory. So thus, it should also be no surprise that I loved "Let Them Eat Cake" as if it were my own child. (In fact, considering her behavior yesterday, it's possible I loved the episode more than I love my own child...)

Yes, it was immature, yes, it was silly, but oh, how I loved the ridiculous behavior of House and Cuddy ("Can someone please read the file?" "Can someone please stop backseat differentialating?"), except for the last scene. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

There were, in fact, four storylines in "Let Them Eat Cake" and I enjoyed all of them. Let's start with the patient of the week, a fitness instructor and former fat person. This was, I thought, the weakest of all of the storylines, but still interesting.

I liked the POTW calling Taub on his thinking of her as a hypocrite. Indeed, Taub calling anyone hypocritical is a bit of a pot, kettle, black situation, isn't it? We just got done with the "oh yeah, I guess I should tell my wife I cheated on her" story. And does anyone but me remember what his specialty was? That's right...he was a plastic surgeon. So I thought his nastiness about the POTW wanting to be pretty was, well, odd.

But once they got past that, I rather enjoyed their debate about whether she should have revealed her gastric bypass surgery, and whether she was helping people to feel better. And I liked when Taub wouldn't let her lapse into self-pity, making her walk to the next test.

However, I didn't like House's reaction to her decision to try medication rather than reversing the surgery. I mean, is it really that unreasonable for a patient to say "Hey, let's try the drugs and see what happens before we resort to cutting me open"? Besides, for a woman who's based her whole career on being thin and in shape, it might take a while to deal with the possibility of having to reverse the gastric bypass.

Then we had Thirteen and her new life as a patient in a drug trial. She and Foreman are an interesting pair in many ways, and that was probably the best part of this story, although I also felt badly for Thirteen the child, watching her mother get sicker and sicker. (By the way, did anyone else notice how House-like it was for Foreman to break into Thirteen's apartment to check up on her? Fascinating...)

The third storyline of "Let Them Eat Cake" was the hilarious team of Taub and Kutner trying to hide the patient from Kutner's online diagnosis site. I adored Taub's first reaction to Kutner using House's name: "You're insane. You have two days to live."

And I'll admit that the writers had me fooled up until the moment House walked into the morgue. But by the time House had said "Slowly and painfully," I knew something was up. At that point, I knew House was playing them, although I still wasn't entirely sure how.

That morgue scene was sheer brilliance. Seriously. Taub and Kutner's jump back and House and the "dead patient" grinning at them were some of the funniest things I've ever seen. And it's just what Taub and Kutner deserved, I must say. (I also loved that Chase and Cameron were in on it.)

Now I can finally return to my favorite part of the episode: The Great Office Battle.

I'll admit that practical jokes aren't usually something I find especially funny, but this, well, this was perfect, because it was so perfectly in character for House and out of character for Cuddy (in some ways). I was reminded just why House loves her so much: In his heart of hearts, he knows she's a perfect match for him because she's smart, she's hot, and damn, she's evil. ("I just had to explain to him that I had his balls and he's not getting them back.")

House and Cuddy were amazingly hot throughout (or maybe that was just me) whether they were glaring at each other over a desk or stalking between the two offices. And I couldn't help laughing at the immature antics, especially Cuddy's "I was mixing up some hydrogen sulfide for good and valid reasons and some it wafted over to your side" because it was so very much like something House might do. It was nice to see him get a taste of his own medicine (so to speak).

Wilson was simply hilarious watching the two of them wreak havoc, acting as a sort of Cassandra of Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital: "Ask her out. It'll cost the hospital a lot less." His futile efforts to convince them to stop their feuding were hysterically funny.

Of course, because of who they are, they couldn't stop. And the scene in the empty office nearly broke my heart. Cuddy put herself out on that limb and we knew House was going to cut it off and still we hoped he wouldn't. And then he did.

In almost any other circumstance, a male character grabbing a woman's breast would have pissed me off, but here, well, House acting like a jerk in order to avoid any emotional commitment isn't exactly news. A small part of me wanted Cuddy to smack him when he grabbed her, but her reaction was actually better, because it showed House exactly how much he'd hurt her and then she walked away with her head held high.

I nearly cried when Cuddy found that House had gotten her desk from medical school put into her new office. Partially because it was an incredibly romantic gesture, and it showed how in some ways House really does understand Cuddy, and partially because I just knew things were going to go wrong. After all, he'd arranged this romantic gesture...and then pissed her off when she tried to kiss him.

And things did go wrong, in the one scene that didn't work for me, when Cuddy saw House with the woman (presumably a prostitute) he'd hired to trick Taub and Kutner. It seemed like the scene was shoehorned in to keep the House/Cuddy storyline from being resolved too quickly, without actually making a lot of sense.

First of all, they weren't even kissing, and for Cuddy to assume anything seems unlike her. Second, if the woman and House had just had sex in the hospital, why were they in House's office with the blinds open and the lights on? If they had sex there, everything would have been dark, and if they had sex someplace else, why did they go to his office?

But that's a small caveat in an episode that had me laughing, covering my eyes, talking back to the screen, and generally having a rollicking good time.