House, M.D.

You can keep it.

Of course you are right. But goddammit, Hugh Laurie just is really funny.

My only problem with it is that the procedures are filmed with such gleeful disregard for my squeamishness that I miss several minutes of each programme. Every time the spinal tap comes out I have to remind Bloke that if he suspects I have meningitis, he is under strict instructions to just drop a brick on my head and end it. I am not having anyone puncturing my lumbar.

I am an American and had the reverse reaction. That is, I had never seen Hugh Laurie before seeing him on House (which is an excellent show). I saw Blackadder III for the first time this weekend. Mr. Laurie as the Prince Regent ("well, enormous trousers certainly!") is creating a great deal of cognitive dissonance for me.

I will never watch it

silly old hugh laurie

Yeah, true. But I think the problem many Americans might have with our problems with this is that we know that that actually is the way he speaks; it's not a schtick.

I like the fact that Laurie's character is something of a misanthrope and sees no reason to change that. I also like the fact that the reason he is this way is because he cares.

Like cynics, I've always suspected that misanthropes are actually romantics with a realistic worldview.

Oh yeah, and the lass who plays his foil Dr Cuddy is HOTT.

sounds like he's totally biting Dr Cox style in Scrubs.

Had it on in the background a couple of weeks ago and got sucked in.
I'll probably be watching this again...

-- Sororah T Massacre (stevem7...), December 14th, 2005. (later)

Well it is a standard trope in both drama and comedy that the bitter cynical character actually is the one that cares the most.

No, no, it isn't, it really really isn't! I know it's not my place as a Britisher to say this, but his accent isn't perfect. It's decent, but it's wrong. I can't get over it, I just can't.

so this show... the medical stuff is pretty fun but the character stuff can be pretty DIRE.

You know, I do believe you're right.

Clever enough to be on ILM, but still completely obvious to US (cultural) imperialism. Wake up, Bush voter!

blount, C5 do show an awful lot of bought-in US tv programming but I think the main reason they're showing House is because it stars a well known British tv personality! the boy Laurie done gd, yknow!

also: ubiquity of american tv progs on most European tv systems = cultural imperialism! (xpost!)

I cannot parse this.

EXACTLY!!!

also possibly of interest to the ilx dweeb contingent; he makes grime music or some shit too.

You should get over it. Really. He sounds enough like an American that Americans are surprised that he's not American every time.

I've always suspected that misanthropes are actually romantics with a realistic worldview

"Realistic" isn't quite the right reading. He is realistic to a point, except when it comes to people he cares about. Then he's a supreme asshole. It has nothing to do with his being a romantic. He's a realist whether or not he's a romantic, because he's a doctor and has to be. But he's bitter because he's a wounded and broken romantic, which in turn makes him a broken person, which makes him a broken realist. So his whole reality is filtered through this bitter, wounded, and yes, I suppose, realistic personality. But the "realism" is incidental to his emotional makeup.

Great character. I love this show.

"how in the fuck is house showing over there? why do you guys import so much american tv?"

Ha ha Blount you should see Australian TV. It's like, 3 channels with 90% American shows, 1 channel with 90% BBC stuff.

The BBC make most of their own programming so their US imports are few and far between.

Not every time. It's pretty cheesy.

FAN ART

My boif and I love this show because there's so much PWNAGE in it. The show could be called HOUSE PWNS and be more accurate.

I did not look at any of the frightening and gory bits. Probably just as well, judging by the look on Mister Monkey's face while he watched them. The bit with Cameron and the robot was all a little Demon Seed though, no?

hugh laurie is god.

I had the extreme misfortune of watching this ep. with a room full of people who'd been using a vaporizer through the whole thing, and I got to explain how it worked several times. No, house was not trapped in a k-hole. no, it was not like Memento and the ep. did not go backwards. That debate lasted for a long time. "If the ep. went backwards, it wouldn't make any sense. You can't start out an ep. by killing the patient with robosurgery." I also had to convince one guy that the shooter was not played by Phil Collins.

He had Blackadder on his Tivo list a couple of episodes back.

-- milozauckerman (wooderso...), September 13th, 2005 10:06 PM. (miloaukerman).

keep waiting for the day Stephen Fry guests.

Season finale was such a stupid dud. The past two have been really well-crafted, intricate interpersonal stories that departed in an exciting way from the normal format. This one just had a lot of really embarrassing fake accents, retarded and impossible medicine, and then kiss goodbye to half the main characters for no reason. WTF.

Yeah, and House seemed to be OK with it, so there's no I-wonder-what-he'll-do-to-get-them-back anticipation for the next season. Shark jumped?

Stephen Fry becomes medical assistant; supplanted by comical chimpanzee assistant doctor 8 episodes in.

I wonder if they did that because some of the cast members are renegotiating their contracts or leaving for real, or if it's all just another red herring. House is increasingly feeling like one of those shows where entire episodes are built around anything that can seem 'shocking' in a 30-second teaser ad.

I just watched a DVD of some early episodes -- my first viewings of the show -- and I love how all the Britishers think that Laurie's accent is bad while all the Americaners, myself included, had no idea he wasn't born-n-bred in the US.

HOUSE!! Abbott - HOUSE!!

I KNOW I AM FLIPPING OUT HERE. I have been geexing on Hugh Laurie interviews for the past three hours – guy's got the depression, makes me wanna give him a hug even more.

36 minutes to launch.

Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Cameron) is on the cover of Modern Bride er summat this month smiling her not-smile. She's marrying the guy who plays Chase---whole photo spread on the inside of Ralph-Laurened-out Chase looking like he's going to tackle the world in love and glee and there's Jennifer in her strapless gown, looking like an unfriendly cat coming out of anesthesia.

(NB I just saw this mag in the grocery checkout line, I'm not running some House Gallery & Gossip geocities site.)

They broke up! pssst - Sign me up for your site emails. ;-)

WAHT they broke up on the show or IRL? Bcz they are engaged IRL and I would love to see egg on the botoxed face of Modern Bride magazine. I fucking hate bridal magazines.

In Real Life!! It happened a couple weeks ago. I hate them too. The wedding industrial complex is scary.

Episode was alright - next week's looks like a lot more fun though

I'm not running some House Gallery & Gossip geocities site

lol

it was "geocities site" that did it for me

Did anyone else think the bizarre new color to Wilson's personality might play out nicely in the future? He'd been becoming a serious downer for a long time.

Cuddy looks like she's been hitting the gym-totally smoking

Lisa Edelstein has always been way hot (or has a "zesty bod," in the parlance of House).

Agreed-for some reason she looked even hotter last night.

"I don't negotiate with terrorists" *deletes telenovelas*

I don't get the love for this show at all.

so i missed this, is the rest of the cast actually gone and not returning?

I really seriously doubt any of them aren't coming back. In fact I think I've seen some of them make public statements about going back to work on the new season recently. More likely the first handful of episodes this season will be without them just 'mix things up' or whatever.

The full cast is returning, but instead of being on House's team they'll be heading teams of their own (or so says my mom, who read that someplace).

hmmmmm dunno about this new sidekick to-be girl they've set up. on the other hand, "yr eyes are lopsided. and by eyes i mean breasts."

did i read correctly that kumar of 'harold and' fame is gonna be in this now too?? that could also suck. or be cool, i dunno.

Yeah giving his old team their own teams could be alright, but if they're just going to put a new Cameron-type girl on House's team it'll be lame. But this show has already proved itself willing and eager to throw plausibility and character development out the window for an exciting "next week on House" promo. I give it at most 2 more seasons before they do something so ridiculous it gets hard to watch anymore.

I thought the reason to watch this show was the escalating ridiculousness!

Yeah, I'm just saying, there'll probably be a point where it just isn't fun anymore.

Yeah I mean the shark has been in permanent jumpmode since that shit with the cop, the writers realized everybody loves it when house never learns his lesson and boom, fuck an ongoing saga of old man growing up, check this crazy shit out I just saw on discovery health

I don't want House to learn his lesson, I want him to be bloody but unbowed forever. It's wish fulfillment.

Or I should say, I only want him to be accountable to his team who loves him in their own ways, but not to hospital boss guy who makes me thinking about sharp, sharp knives.

Although that guy who played the investigator is kind of hot, he's my type all over and was also Dedaelus in The Long Kiss Goodnight with Geena Davis rowwr.

wow, never had David Morse pegged as the kind of actor that drives the ladies wild.

he was also in disturbia as the milf killer next door

Well, some roles/pics more so than others. But a little hot, sure.

Yeah House is such a good character and HL is such a good actor that it hardly matters if there's anything else going on of interest character- or narrative-wise (and there usually isn't!).

WTF David Morse? THAT plot was HELL OF insultingly dumb, jesus every week it was "okay now YOU can't write scrips now" "HOUSE JUST APOLOGIZE" "I am going to glare and spin my cane they tried to make me go to rehab and I said no no no."

I have been geexing on Hugh Laurie interviews for the past three hours – guy's got the depression, makes me wanna give him a hug even more.

Do you mean he suffers from depression all the time, or that he is depressed about living in the U.S., away from his family?

Thanks for the heads-up about the show being back, btw. I never would have known otherwise and might have missed it.

the five or six real laughs i got from the premiere were the biggest laughs i've had from TV in 2007.

the actual patient part of the story was really sad though.

I enjoy the show, but they're going to have to win me or I won't keep watching. The overamped drama about simply giving the patient dialysis was just weird. A building falls down and everyone's in prankster oodles-of-time mode instead of crisis management. I don't expect everything to be realistic, but I don't want to be distracted from the plot by the suspension of disbelief. Some funny lines though. I was hoping they'd keep the janitor on as his assistant.

they should just set the whole thing at hogwarts really

lol kal penn

i hope he is on the show forevers

I hope he suggests "get 'em wasted" as a diagnostic for every patient

how many roles can he do where he is stoner who is good at medicine tho??

unless there is a harold and kumar go to mayo clinic storyline i am unaware of, this is basically dream role

it was kind of funny how obvious even in the first scene which applicants would get fired right away and which ones would get a speaking part and stick around for an episode or two. "OK, that's Kumar, he's definitely staying, the camera just lingered on that hot girl for a little too long, she's staying." Kal Penn had even less lines in last night's episode than he did in Superman Returns, though! presumably they'll flesh his character out more next week.

ok this shit is just a lil emo here

jesus

close-up on dog was awesome

hey, it's the OC's favorite lesbian

Holy shit thank you milo, I couldn't figure out who she was. Also, it was emo as hell but I shed one. I'm a big wimp.

the dog almost had me too though

Dark episode. Call me a moron, but why was Foreman fired?

because he's black

because he wasn't supposed to treat that patient???

I watched the show for the first time last night, but with the sound off (it was on at a restaurant). There was no plot to distract from the Hugh Laurie gazing, and it seemed like the hospital drama equivalent of the Batman show--a bit of surrealist theater.

this is really not the kind of show worth jumping into now without at least having seen a few episodes from the first 2 seasons. not that it'd be as confusing as Lost or anything, but they kinda had to ramp up to what's going on now. and last night's episode was pretty stupid, I still don't feel like they adequately explained House's self-electrocution.

The only K.Penn role I have seen where he isn't good at medicine = on Angel

And even that's questionable -- he is using his giant exposed pulsating brain to make Cordelia sick, which is just evil medicine

Wasn't he self-electrocuting because the guy he saw do it described it as better than drugs? And we know House digs drugs. Plus, he wanted to test whether there's an afterworld.

Hopefully the new conniving female doctor is let go soon

I like the conniving one! Better than the boring model-looking one, at least.

Also every time Cameron pops up with that horrible blonde dyejob I'm glad she's barely in the recent episodes.

Blonde Cameron is just part 7,385,489 in my on-going series "Redheads: WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?"

Last night's ep made me cryyyyyy but then again I am sadsack grande. He put his hand on the dog's head and then he died! He loved his dog!

I don't get why they're making black kid Mormo except Mormons being in the news, or it's exotic, or something. He is handsome man tho! Fake-ass Steve Carrell plastic surgeon needs to go. And Ms. Sneakfiend stokes my h8. The end.

I am not interested in any of the newbies other than Unbelievably Old Guy, and that's mostly because I like kind old dudes. But then, I was never that interested in any of the original team, apart from Foreman. But Foreman was only interesting when he was not being incredibly angry which he was incredibly angry all of season 3, so.

Season three was largely just painful to lukewarm, except the episode with that old guy patient who'd done some Tuskeegee shit on babies back in the day.

lisa edelstein was a club kid?!?

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this is really not the kind of show worth jumping into now without at least having seen a few episodes from the first 2 seasons. not that it'd be as confusing as Lost or anything, but they kinda had to ramp up to what's going on now. and last night's episode was pretty stupid, I still don't feel like they adequately explained House's self-electrocution. -Alex in Baltimore

I'm glad they didn't adequately explain House's electrocution. I think he is seriously depressed even though he never admits it. Good use of subtext. Number 13 (model-looking one) got to stay even though the guy died. I think House knew he wouldn't swallow the pills and but didn't care because the guy wanted to die. Number 13 is now prepared to be on his team because she had a patient die. Cameron couldn't handle it.
Cameron got fired because he went against the odds (normal procedure) to save his patient.

I was pretty sure Foreman was fired because he was told not to do something by his boss, and he went ahead and did it anyway, which is what House would have done, and he got fired because you can't have loose cannons like that around, except that Cuddy would totally have let him away with it, so now he should just come back and work for House again.

Yeah, and he's too handsome to go on.

Bahaha Mormon face-punch. And ergotism! Whoa. Ergot.

Okay so House calls Mormo "hypocrite" after saying like he believed in evolution er summat. SO I looked this up in Mormon Doctrine (first ed w/all the crazily crazy racist shit) (important book on "official church views" written in l8 1950s), and Joseph Smith said something like "evolution can't exist because man was created in god's image, will become a god of his own someday, blah blah blah. Also, all beings, such as gorillas and tadpoles will attain their ultimate perfection in the etrnaul sphere." (Uh...) And THEN it's followed by McConkie (author) saying, "Since science and our religion are both ultimate truths, science cannot conflict with religion." (UH...)

"That is the worst 13 impression I've ever heard." Also glad Housey/Wilson now have jan8r chillout bro.

I'm starting to feel really bitter about this show, based on my fading interest in the new episodes, my budding interest in watching Reaper instead, and my girl's insistence on watching House during that timeslot.

I'll miss the fraudulent old-timer.

I think he'll show up again. Bitch fighjt between him and the insufferable plastic surgeon was pretty great, & also the plastic surgeon moppage. Hoho. If they don't get rid of that insufferable conniving whore I will go mad. I don't think I've ever yelled "YOU CONNIVING WHORE!" at the TV so many times as I did last night in one hour.

For three weeks in a row now, I have felt lukewarm about tuning in to House instead of something else, and then have not been able to turn it off.

She got old real quick. On the other hand, I hope the one who killed the dog is a permanent addition to the cast. Hot as hell.

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I think conniving whore (Anne Dudek) is hotter than dog killer (Olivia Wilde), possibly because she's the only member of the new team that isn't insufferably boring.

kumar is being wasted.

She has committed far more insufferable crimes than any of the others (seconded by plastic surgeon douche (I think the 3 eps of Nip/Tuck I saw made me hate plastic surgeons for life)). And she's not really hot at all. Thirteen has a cute cheek scar & crazy impossible eyelids.

xp

Agreed 100%

Are cute cheek scars the new n3rd l0ve indicator, as transitioned in by Tina Fey? Cause I'm okay with that.

Thirteen played Marissa's lesbian lover on The O.C.. She's super hot.

the relationship between House and Wilson is brilliant. They are the most believable best friends I've seen on telly in years. I love it.

Apparently they are GREBT friendsd in "real life" too.

I srsly should get a head check because the first two eps I didn't realize it was HIM! FFS!

I love the show. Not a klassik but still great fun to watch.

I thought last night was pretty good. I'm surprised the Mormon took the pipe. I'm ready for the conniving one to go.

What's Foreman's role?

Foreman's there to keep his name in the title credits? I wish we got more of him. GLAD+++ to never see Cameron much.

Mormon...is...JUDAS!!!!!!!!!

House/magic dude interactions were fun.

I will miss conniving bitch if she's really gone - I doubt it though, she's a solid character. I didn't believe for a second they were getting rid of 13 even if she is boring.

Dude okay House's patient-saving epiphany/metaphor was this NOIZE 45 that he played through an amp as big as himself and played constantly at Wilson after he got a patient to sue Wilson omg.

Don'd kid yoursrelf, House luvs Coldplay, this is the way of the world.

HOUSE IS GONNA MAKE IT
THROUGH THIS YEAR
IF IT KILLS HIM

this was no coldplay

I saw one of the older episodes again and House was diffrent back then. Less witty and more serious. And maybe more caring (but last nights episode proved differently).

Yeah over the years he's gotten a bit wackier and a lot harder to believe in. Not that I'm not still watching or anything.

I am hoping this season will calm down now that House's reality show has ended.

please stop talking about footballs now so we can watch new house!

with mira sorvino

i have been waiting so long for this

Me too!!! I wish this man would shut up.

oh my GOD is new House on tonight????

yep, it's on now.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck it started 50 minutes ago. How did I not know? (will d/l tomorrow guys, don't worry about me)

not on here yet

"indiscriminate niceness is overrated."

Horse, M.D.

HOOS, M.D.

so, sarah silverman's sister, eh?

so tired of this show

which season are you watching? i think it's ace. downloading the last season.

already saw teh pre-strike part (up to ep nine) btw.

well i have to watch it now the competing networks are trying to beat house with total shit

IT'S NOT SYPHILLIS

http://itsneverlupus.com/lupus.gif

thanking u

okay this show is awesome

I am so glad he kidnapped his favorite soap star.

"Is he Canadian?"

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/House

be sure to expand the gallery

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tonight was pretty ridiculous.

shit, tonight was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Def awesome.

the two aren't mutually exclusive, dudes.

i absolutely <3 House. I wanna get Lupus (not really) and ask him for advice.

I would watch this show 24/7 if it always featured his boss in stripper-Catholic schoolgirl attire.

^ok i guess i will watch this on my dvr

the two aren't mutually exclusive, dudes.

I don't think either of us were responding to your comment!

So is this just the most fanservice-y show on network television now (aside, maybe, from 30 Rock)? Schoolgirl Cutty seemed like a direct response to forum comments or something.

That said, this show just keeps getting more ridiculous and I just keep loving it.

ok this was the best episode since I started watching the show. And not just cause of the Cutty striptease. Obv bite off of Eternal Sunshine to some degree, but who cares.

HOLY FUCKING FUCK THIS EPISODE

Glad they are ending it with insaniac hallucinatory narrative like season finales of 1 & 2.

They could have been talking about how her bilious and saturnine humors are imbalanced while Cuddy was stripping, I wasn't paying attention. And then BAR IN THIGH HOLY OUCH.

How it competes with a man's testicles exploding in Chase's face, I cannot decide (this is a House moment against which I judge many others).

So him and Amber --- secret affair or what?

And if we assume she was in the bar with him before they got on the bus, why didn't she just drive him home? Or were they both wasted??

That was fantastic. So was Fred Durst the actual bartender, or was his entire existence a hallucination?

Ok, why did she bother to sit down on the bus? Her car was at the bar, right?

That was depressing as all hell, great acting all around, but there's something that rings a little false about the way they're working to make House the most miserable character possible.

Part 2 seemed like the result of writers running out a gas during an otherwise productive coke-fueled session.

I dunno... I thought that part 2 was pretty great (and the whole second half of this season has been terrific). I didn't think to look to see if hallucination House was limping.

Wilson may be more miserable than House (even before Amber showed up) - he has House as his best friend.

it wasn't bad, things just seemed forced. the first part was nearly a virtuoso performance by all parts.

I wish Fred Durst's entire existence was a hallucination.

i agree w/GD, second part was a bit of a let down.

I thought the Wilson/Amber relationship was somewhat forced.

okay this show is awesome

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100% OTM.

plz for this season to include more Cameron, Chase and Foreman and less Kal Penn!

Also, am I alone in hating Wilson? I know I was supposed to be sad for him in last season's finale, but I kind of hate him and actually derive joy from his sorrow.

hugh laurie's been booked till 2012 apparently

Wilson has become less and less likable the more episodes I've seen -- esp the season 3 drug stuff and the end of s4.

yeah i need to watch more of this

I can't wait for the new season. <3 House.

hate to break it to you johnny fever, but i think this season is gonna be all about wilson-house "you killed my girlfriend!" conflict...

[quote]hate to break it to you johnny fever, but i think this season is gonna be all about wilson-house "you killed my girlfriend!" conflict...[/quote]

Quoting from the longish EW article this week...

[quote]Because you can't kill a guy's girlfriend without bruising some feelings, the accident establishes this season's central conflict. (Warning: spoilers galore!) Picking up two months later, Wilson returns to the hospital and announces that he's resigning, having decided to put some distance between him and his ex–best pal — though he'll eventually return to help House with a personal crisis. Says Shore, ''We haven't terminated Robert Sean Leonard's contract.''[/quote]

well damn.

oh great real glad i read the latter part of this thread, thanks jerks

Yeah not too stoked that it will obv be House & Wilson sad-out, but when House convinces Wilson to stand on his desk and recite some Robert Frost or something, House will go down as Inspirational Doctor of the Year.

SEASON ENDING SPOILER: Wilson ends up talking to his dad about Shakespeare and kills himself.

Back on tonight, right?

it's tomorrow according to tv.com

Oh right, I thought today was Tuesday. I am bad enough at linear time as it stands, but I have a cold now, so everything's off in Cloudland...

irritatingly i'm going to a meeting in the building they use as the exterior of the hospital tomorrow, meaning i'll be missing house but sort of closer to him than ever (sparkly_heart_house.gif)

the best house ever is when he drills holes into Dave Matthews' brain.

Based on the previews, I'm guessing water intoxication tonight.

Excuse me while I get a can of alphabet soup and eat my words.

(Although in the season preview megamix there were hints of a case that I think will turn out to be water intoxication.)

looks like Fred Durst was a one-shot deal ... i am sure that Miccio is upset.

The season premiere was pretty bad tbh

i feel like i may be in the minority here, but i am excited about the new era of comedy PI sidekick. i enjoyed their repar-tay. also, i think they are handling the House/Wilson thing okay so far, but i hope they don't drag it out all season.

house/wilson breakup is the detectie trotter of this season, i predict.

PI guy wasn't too bad. i'm guessing he'll be widely despised by the heartbroken house/wilson slash chicks.

The second episode was so much better than the first.

Agreed. I still want more Chase and Cameron, though, and less Kal Penn.

I think 13 is my least favorite character. They should off her and bring in more Chase and Camz.

Also, does Kal Penn ever say anything wrong? Episode 2 had him say something "brilliant" like 2 or 3 times.

well duh he's an Indian on a med show.

yeah? xp

oh good, it's oops

I really like the PI guy. So much so that I looked up what it would take to be a PI. Well, I wouldn't like the career very much but I think he's a pretty swell character.

keep fighting the good fight, gabbneb

They switched the time slot those fuckers! Grrrrrrrr.

OMG WHAT ARE THEY DOING??!

i always forget about this show

Every Episode of House Ever

God I fucking love House M.D.

Oh, and, oh right

THEY SMOOCHED

smoochytime

Sometimes I like to remember when that guy's balls exploded in Chase's face.

Sometimes I like to remember that.

Oh and right Wilson threw some pretty good booze through a window at House's father's funeral wherein House stole some of his father's flesh for a DNA sample. That was memorable and it did not even involve anal hemorrhaging.

Dude okay House's patient-saving epiphany/metaphor was this NOIZE 45 that he played through an amp as big as himself and played constantly at Wilson after he got a patient to sue Wilson omg.

THIS, this, this....THIS> THIS was fucking EPIC.

Dude okay House's patient-saving epiphany/metaphor was this NOIZE 45 that he played through an amp as big as himself and played constantly at Wilson after he got a patient to sue Wilson omg.

LOL ... i actually converted a college friend who back then was totally into NOIZE stuff like pussy galore from "house" skeptic to a "house" fan after i showed him that episode.

... even though both he and i were wondering why the 30-something punk rocker/loser with a lifestyle like GG Allin from that episode looked more like someone from Fall Out Boy than, er, GG Allin.

Is it just me or are the last-second medical explanations less and less coherent?

it is not just you.

and i don't care about the foreman/13 relationship at all.

and i'm a little annoyed with the "cuddy is an emotional wreck of a woman who wants/doesn't want/wants a baby" subplot.

Foreman/13 is boring as hell-heck.

imo this show & the tony shaloub joint where hes ocd both represent the endpoint of just-barely-clever enough quirky bullshit that isnt actually smarter or funnier or more intersting than a typical episode of according to jim but tricks herbs in their late 20s into buying dvds and using it as comfort food for some reason

idk what according to jim is, but i'm sure it has the acting and character quality of house

hugh laurie as an internal affairs officer in 'street kings', a+

idk what according to jim is, but i'm sure it has the acting and character quality of house

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don't care, dude

I know she supposedly has huntington's disease and all, but why does 13 have such low self-esteem? I mean I could probably get a date with her and might actually marry her if push came to shove (if she wasn't just a tv character). We could have mnage à trois the way they're supposed to be - and then I could make fun of her and she'd be like, oh lorax i have such low self-esteem, what can I do to make you feel better

lorax otm

and what your demographic analysis is on point once again. do you have a blog where i can get more of your insight?

"I could probably get a date with her and might actually marry her if push came to shove (if she wasn't just a tv character)"

Her one-off flings are with girls, sorry.

she is willing to settle with Foreman

She is willing to settle with an esteemed doctor, yes.

There may be good doctors on that show, but nobody is esteemed.

now u sound like 13

13 looks like an alien. would smash.

you used 'smash' in an intentionally ambiguous way

sadistic bastard

someone finally made a youtube video out of the pussy galore song that House played for Wilson about a year ago:

This week's episode was the worst in the history of the show. Every character was acting like a more contented, friendlier, hyper-sensitive version of their usual selves. And I didn't care about that patient at all. The way the episode handled his relationship with his wife (which decayed in maybe ten minutes of showtime) was right out of a daytime soap opera. Everything about this episode was awful.

The previous two episodes were so great that I got my hopes up for a strong finish to the season after so many ups and downs.

Mos Def is on House. Mos Def!

So did Kal Penn get fired or something?

would it be too much to wish that either John Cho or Neil Patrick Harris be the triggerman (if indeed Kutner was killed instead of offing himself)?

Kutner was my favorite Duckling ... if one of them had to go, i wish it would've been Thirteen.

i mean, Kutner WAS what others thought Foreman was -- i.e., a kinder and gentler version of House!

I totally predicted Kutner's death to my wife last week after the "Next Week on House" bit. "Kutner wasn't in it anywhere, and there's Taub crying...they're killing his character."

why did they make an obituary and memorial video?
http://www.fox.com/kutner/

I'm sure kal penn will get a new role on tv or whatever if they haven't offered one already.

hard to feel sad for a tv character. he was my favorite of the new crew if you don't count 13 being hot.

"Did you figure that out by taking off your sunglasses to the strains of a Who song?"

^^^^^

i didn't even see this i just wanted to big up that

hard to feel sad for a tv character. he was my favorite of the new crew if you don't count 13 being hot.

OTM -- hotness aside, 13 is the LEAST interesting or likable of any of the show's characters. which is why i'm not feeling this season as much as others, since it's been so much about 13 (and her affair with Foreman, the other boring character). but Foreman IS interesting, in that his dullness IS what makes him interesting.

a long way of saying that (story-wise) they picked the wrong character to kill off. this doesn't include back-stage stuff (which no-one knows about right now).

What television/movie star is leaving his show to work in the Obama administration?
Part I: Kal Penn

I understand it was your decision to leave House. True?
KAL PENN: Yes. I was incredibly honored a couple of months ago to get the opportunity to go work in the White House. I got to know the President and some of the staff during the campaign and had expressed interest in working there, so I'm going to be the associate director in the White House office of public liaison. They do outreach with the American public and with different organizations. They're basically the front door of the White House. They take out all of the red tape that falls between the general public and the White House. It's similar to what I was doing on the campaign.

Apparently.

shit, i figured it was just harold and kumar III.

wtf

http://images.nymag.com/daily/intel/20090403_kalandobama_250x375.jpg

His absence will make this season suck even more, but good for him.

http://www.fox.com/kutner/#

for what it's worth, some commentators on CNN Political Ticker are sniffing about an actor like Kal Penn taking a White House job. many (though not all) being conservatives forgetting about the pre-political careers of certain of their icons ...

OK so this Kutner guy is a CHARACTER on the show? Theres freaking Facebook obituary groups, I thought the ACTOR had died. Geez.

i'm a little surprised by the Kutner love, too (and i LIKED the character). he had some memorable scenes (usually involving defibrillators), but he never got anywhere near as much time as any of the other new House crew -- not even as much time as Big Love before he got kicked out. i guess some of it has to do with the unexpectedness of his suicide (which is kinda the point of the episode), maybe some of it is residual harold and kumar love.

He was sort of a utiliarian player on the show, and those are the ones who usually turn out to be the most loved when they leave. Apples and oranges, yeah, but it's kind of like when Radar O'Reilly left MASH. He was seldom the focus of any episode, but the show was never again the same without him.

I thought the whole thing abt House trying to convince himself it was a murder and not a suicide was...House ridding himself of kindled suicidal thoughts by persuading himself Kutner wouldn't really do that. Suicides show up a lot more in people who know other who did it. It was projection on my part.

OTOH when House said that to Kutner's parents I wanted to fucking kill him.

I'm glad they ended it w/a NAMI shoutout. I know Hugh Laurie (who has clinical depression) and the "House crew" in general have done fundraisers for NAMI...I guess two, which is really good of them. So I wondered if this was another thing they were doing for NAMI.

Also even better that they left the suicide hotline # for reasons I just mentioned.

http://www2.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Fox+House+100th+Episode+Party+NAMI+Charity+0yN6RNH-v4tl.jpg

<3ing u guys

(in all the fuss, though, we've overlooked that Meatloaf was basically acting out "i'd do anything for love (but i won't do that)" in this episode.)

ok the guys who think the internet furor over this has to do with great, great love for kal penn and his wonderful noted character "dr. kutner" or whatever really don't understand the fucking internet, at all.

Oddly enough after watching this episode, last night I saw a car with the license plate 'KALPENN' no joke.

i think it's awesome that he left to go work as a cultural advocate, but as an arts administrator, i hope he has the brains/skillset to do more than just be 'i am a famous person you like so like culture!' to minority communities, because, imo, that office should be about energizing people to contribute to worthy cultural organizations, not just appreciate them (though that's a step).

he taught a class at UPenn last year didn't he?

(in all the fuss, though, we've overlooked that Meatloaf was basically acting out "i'd do anything for love (but i won't do that)" in this episode.)

haha also that his character's name on the episode was "Eddie" (same as "Rocky Horror Picture Show")

And his wife was played by Colleen Camp (a.k.a. Yvette from "Clue").

hahahaha yes.

I'd been making 'Do the Right Thing' jokes all day yesterday so naturally my husband agreed that the radio should have been thrown through the glass door.

It's switching from Five to Sky1 in the UK for the new series.

JoSmokeMy nigga @House jus hit @Cutty!!!
about 19 hours ago from txt

JoSmokeMy nigga @House jus hit @Cutty!!!
about 19 hours ago from txt

apparently not ... wow, what a fucked-up way to end this season.

i know... i think i'm still confused. we missed the suicide ep, and i feel like we missed a lot.

It's great that we got an ending that is real interesting. + Chase and Cameron's wedding wasn't super dramatic - just the way I would have wanted it.

if only i had read http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/tv_show_house_to_film_at_greys.html">this article in my state's "official" newspaper ... though i had an inkling that something wasn't right, that the "house finally bones cuddy" was a little TOO neat after all of the clues from the mos def episode onwards that house wasn't quite right in the head anymore (or as "right" as he was up till then).

i didn't like it, it was a poor imitation of the season 2 finale. was Wilson's terrible advice to House also an illusion? were the handheld cameras supposed to be a hint?

so it was all a dream/hallucination/coma fantasy? i'm so confused. i should've paid attention.

He's been hallucinating for a few episodes of all his coworkers who died under his wake...the end made me cry. Partially bcz this is my biggest fear, but man, what a heartbreaker.

I cried too Abs.

The forked fake/real backstory juxtaposition...my jaw was open the whole time. And then when he saw Kutner...I hope Hugh Laurie makes this into another NAMI publicity thing. I like that the crew focuses on mental health advocacy.

Looking forward to next season House driving clinic staff nuts and solving mysteries by phone (probably not phone since they won't let him have it so carrier pigeon)

pretty good stuff, but this is a poor Grey's Anatomy imitation imo

oh them's fightin words they are..

Looking forward to next season House driving clinic staff nuts

Surely the first six or so episodes next season will be House driving mental hospital staff nuts by recognizing physical problems manifesting themselves as psych symptoms in his fellow patients.

"What are you doing!"
"Giving this guy an aspirin."
"...I'll be darned, that cured him."

lol A++++

I can't get into House, but really I don't think I've ever liked any show set in a hospital. :-\ Wait except Darkplace.

this is a poor Grey's Anatomy imitation imo

THIS is the dumbest thing I've ever seen written in seven years of reading ILX.

I don't know about dumbest but it's just plain rong.

THIS is the dumbest thing I've ever seen written in seven years of reading ILX.

yeah i guess you missed the part where one doctor show featured a character hallucinating about a former character on the show as lead-in to a major plot theme involving the first character's serious health problem, and then House did the same thing

blah blah blah House is darker and therefore smarter than Grey's, pls

Ex-cast member hallucination has been done a zillion times. It's not like Grey's has a patent.

However, just saying anything about House is a poor imitation of Grey's (the show that defines poor tv) is MAD.

lol dumbass

Sara Ramirez is a better actor than Hugh Laurie

no

Ex-cast member hallucination has been done a zillion times. It's not like Grey's has a patent.

Has everyone forgot Tommy Westphall already?

my wife is totally hooked on house so i've gotten somewhat drawn into it. i've never been able to get completely past the sort of core ridiculousness, but i've always liked hugh laurie. and mostly i'm sort of fascinated by all the crazy bizarre diseases and disorders and allergies and whatever else they dig out of whatever book of very rare and weird maladies they're consulting. i never knew there were so many different things that could make you bleed out your eyes.

there's always that key moment in the episode where house or one of his team is like, "she'll be all right now," and some family member says, "then why is she bleeding out her nose/armpit/toenails/etc?"

oh shit that reminds me: in the last episode, the old guy who said he was squawking, and house told him that it's acid reflux splashing on his voice box? well, this is super embarrassing, but i 'squawk' a lot - sometimes it's just a little peep, like a hiccup almost, but other times it is fuckin LOUD, like a parrot being strangled and amplified. i've had it probably for it least 5 or 6 yrs, don't really remember when it started. now i'm wondering if this is the cause!

i wonder how many doctors get people coming in saying, "i think i have what that guy had on house..."

exactly, which is why i'd never ask... i'd feel like a spazz

i don't watch grey's anatomy so i have no idea if the comparison is apt. in fact, house is probably the only doctor show that i can stand (precisely b/c it is NOT a typical doctor show). and i, for one, like house precisely for its core ridiculousness.

i can, however, agree that this season's closer is a bit too imitative of (and not as good as) the season 2 closer ("no reason"), which i just re-watched. i mean, there was no out-of-control robosurgeon or exploding ballsac this season.

There's a service for medical offices that indexes current diseases/conditions referenced in pop culture, both to inform doctors what people have recently heard about and give a heads-up about what the day's hypochondriacs are going to think they have. There was a NPR bit on them a few weeks ago. It helps debunk things when people think they're part of a pandemic.

House season 3 was my least favorite because of the whole Detective Tritter story arc. One amusing bonus later on, though, is the actor who played Tritter is in nearly goddamn every shitty thing ever made. The Langoliers is extra 'aw shit' when the wooden,arbitrary pilot character is also bitter detective Tritter.

David Morse is typically a likeable actor, but I quit watching House for part of the 3rd season because I hated that storyline so much.

http://videodetective.com/photos/253/010639_6.jpg

Guy on right: Hey your ex-wife just died, we'll get a sub for your flight so you can take a red-eye to Boston for her funeral, conveniently allowing the remaining survivors of a freak plane time travel accident to have a pilot.

David Morse: Uh...

http://www.davidmorse.org/photo/langoliers/images/PDVD_038.jpg

Tritter astonishes ragtag '90s bunch by being literate.

I never watched The Langoliers, but beret girl looks familiar and yellow t-shirt guy... is that Daniel from Stargate SG-1?

He's:

Christopher Collet (pronounced /koʊˈleɪ/; born March 13, 1968) is an American actor who is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Jake Livingston in the 1984 movie Firstborn, and for his lead role in the 1986 film The Manhattan Project.

The man Dean Stockwell lurking in the background too.

i love david morse, even though he usually plays characters i hate.

i <3 House, but that has been my least fave storyline too. it's a funny old world.

Bronson Pinchot was emmy-worthy in that mini-series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBjYs7aFG4E

"woah, nosehold"

i didn't mind the tritter story-arc! some of the better episodes came from that time (like the guy that came out of a coma and they took to AC to off himself).

That's not Dean Stockwell in the back there. It's Dean Stockwell's hologram.

http://www.amphichon.com/g2/d/610-2/contact1.jpg

"You know Ellie, they really should have sent a poet"

well, i guess we had to know that house wasn't going to spend the ENTIRE season in the nut house ... after this strong of a season opening, i REALLY REALLY hope we don't go back to season 5's FOURTEEN, MD. shitfest.

ABBOTT, WHERE ARE YOU MY FELLOW HOUSE FANATIC?

This episode was awful. Two hours and it still felt like they didn't have enough time to cram in all the crap they wanted. (Did we really need that wretched "mute cured by music box" plot line? Or the thing about the psychiatrist maybe cheating on his wife?) The only good thing to come out of this premiere was my discovery of that carnival ride House took Superhero Guy on. I gotta find one of those.

I thought they were going to go the whole two hours without curing anyone of anything! But I thought, barring the last of the preceding season, that this was some of the best House episodes I've seen in a long time. I hope it does go back to the whole "sarcastic doc pulls non-sequitur diagnosis out his ass" as the premises dictates, but the character development worked for me.

Brother texted me in the middle of this "THEY'RE PLAYING NEW ORDER"

Apparently he has trouble with his knee(s) cause of the fake limping. Might need to quit the shot. :-((((

tonight's episodes were kinda crap. very made for TV movie-ish "DELUSIONAL GUY JUMPS OFF OF LEDGE/CRAZY MANIC RAPPING HISPANIC/HOUSE IS CYNICAL/HOUSE WORKS THE PROGRAM/HOUSE FALLS IN LOVE/HOUSE LOSES LOVE/CATATONIC GIRL REACHED THANKS TO MAGICAL DELUSIONAL GUY," lots of cliche-feeling stuff. that doesn't fit with the cliches i like and expect from this show.

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" has a lot to answer for, tbh.

Opening bit with Radiohead was amazing, and I don't even really like Radiohead.

everything in the world must be cliche to some people. was it cliche that house didn't solve a medical mystery? was it cliche that the theme of this episode was in fact not at all the same as One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. was it cliche that House actually fucked someone up instead of saving them? was it cliche that none of the regular cast was on this episode besides House (and briefly Wilson). was it cliche that House is becoming less of an asshole and more social (or more human) and that he is learning to forgive and forget? well maybe you could see the last one I mentioned coming but it's still a good developing plot line.

great episode. I love seeing "booger" from revenge of the nerds pop up everywhere. dude is semi-famous these days
and the sex scene rocked - franka potente is hawt

just call me capt'n-kick-an-aspie if you want. i think it's warranted

Will no one comment on House rapping and urinal singing?

I liked the episode except for the sex scene -- I had been fully involved in the story until suddenly it was "wow, those two actors do not look comfortable making out."

x-post to lorax

The cliches weren't about the characters acting as normal, the cliches were all about mental illness stereotypes and "finding yourself"-type stuff. Listing out all the things that were not cliches due to breaking the series mold or not fitting with the Cuckoo's Nest shit kind of overlooks the main part of it.

Crusty misanthrope learns to love and be loved, and in doing so accepts his own shortcomings. Throw in a bunch of feel-good scenes where he unexpectedly relates to the patients like the awkward rapping.

eh, entertaining though

I remember taking a drama class and every type of conflict was mentioned. Every type of possible drama. (some number like 47 types??)
Repetition is inevitable. It's all about whether you enjoyed it or not. We are trained to rate how much we like something by comparing it to similar things. I just want to remind the world to take something for what it is and not for what it is similar to.

you're projecting, mang

yeah, kinda. no offense back there. I wasn't re-reading what Hawkwindz wrote. would have notice more of exactly what you were mentioning mh

"awkward rapping."
give the man a break--he's rapping in a foreign language practically!

I kind of dug the German piano playing chick.

Some friends watched Run Lola Run a loooot during college so I was enthused about Franka Potente showing up.

She played a mental hospital worker in The Princess and the Warrior. The sex scene in that movie was disturbing on so many levels

the princess and the warrior is one of my favorite movies.

i didn't think the sex scene in house was so bad - it's supposed to be awkward, duh. the stereotypes were a bit much. i just feel like we have a relapse coming on in future eps - i hope so bc i want more andre braugher.

the stereotypes were a bit much.

Yeah, how come there's never TWO PEOPLE with the same condition when a tv show explores that setting. There's always neatly one representative of each kind of ailment.

That aside, I thought it was a great premiere episode. Happy ending and all.

I know the sex scene was supposed to be awkward btw.. that's why I said it was disturbing

oh gawd, nvm you were talking about the one on House. Got it confused with The Princess and the Warrior.

re: The ethical dilemma tonight; not much of an ethical dilemma.

i'm glad that i am not the only one who sees the similarities b/w gregory house & dexter morgan ... also, yay more cameron & chase and double yay thirteen being kicked to the sidelines.

I think I hate Foreman.

In what fucking way is making your girlfriend lose her job (by firing her) a way to save a relationship?

Foreman's turning into a joke. I have no idea why Chase tried to save the guy's life, also no idea why the dicatator wasnt arrested while in the hospital. All in all, the guy deserved a painful death, and he got it.

also no idea why the dicatator wasnt arrested while in the hospital.

the same reason why no-one arrests castro or any other foreign despot when they set foot in america?!?

this was the first time in a long time i didn't mind Foreman (plus he's ALWAYS been a douchebag) ... but maybe i'm just too relieved that there wasn't as much Thirteen and more Cameron/Chase than has been usual for the past few seasons.

i mean, Foreman is this show's Janice Soprano -- he's unlikeable and does/says cringeworthy things, that's his CHARACTER.

OK, the show has just jumped the shark and there's no turning back. Chase killed an African dictator? WTF??

James Earl Jones was friggin awesome though.

And part of Chase's rationale was to be cool with his wife. Can you imagine arguing about that before sex, whether you should have let him die?

reading this thread is making me hate Foreman but I'll probably just go back to thinking he is your everyday boring guy

oh yeah, Chase is awesome now. I pretty much forgot that I liked him since he has been gone for so long. Now that I think about it, there was a time when Foreman was a jerk who pretty much said he couldn't care less about any of the other co-workers outside of work (Chase and Cameron). I never had a problem with 13 but she acts like the type of girl who never laughs at anything. I think half the actors on the show are boring but it's somewhat excusable because it makes the hospital somewhat more realistic and you have to expect a drama to have serious characters like that.

Last week's episode (when he took House's job and fired 13) was probably #1 on the all-time list of "Foreman acts like a douche" episodes. I guess I love to hate the guy, although his relationship with 13 isn't interesting at all.

Cameron is gone (aside, her first name was Allison?)

House: Poor Jennifer Morrison has publicly confirmed that her time as Dr. Allison Cameron on House is done. Jen's admission came in an interview on The Bonnie Hunt Show that's scheduled to air Wednesday. Bonnie asked, "You're done with House?" and Jen replied: "I am as far as I know, yes."

so she's gonna leave chase for killing james earl jones?

sandlot rip

preview of next week's episode had chase & cameron both leaving the hospital

aside from the james earl jones killing shit, i have kind of enjoyed having the old gang back together.

Oh snap, it's a House, M.D. holiday marathon on USA. Yesssss.

I'm still not cool with Cameron being gone. ;_;

Yeah I really didn't like that whole storyline and didn't think it was very believable that she would leave Chase over that or in that way. That said, she made me cry when she said goodbye to both him and House. Damn her!

so far, this is the worst season yet

4 > 1 > 2 > 5 > 3 > 6

http://7.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku9my8FvLF1qzfxk8o1_400.jpg

i am beginning to like this show

season 4, huh?

the episode from the perspective of wilson was insane - how his apt was just totally filthy and jacked up all of a sudden, and that insane scene with the old hispanic man shouting nonsense in spanish while house accused him of being a tennis player...?

i am beginning to like this show

Am wondering if this is for the same reasons that I have taken more of an interest in this show, since they are no longer talking in fancy medical gibberish so much as in stuff you learned like a week before you saw the episode sometimes.

Or, you know, all of the sassmouthy remarks, those are also fun.

The doctor who does medical reviews of House episodes had the most awesomely corny illustrations for the Wilson episode.

/i am beginning to like this show/

Am wondering if this is for the same reasons that I have taken more of an interest in this show, since they are no longer talking in fancy medical gibberish so much as in stuff you learned like a week before you saw the episode sometimes.

Or, you know, all of the sassmouthy remarks, those are also fun.
--C-L

no that is pretty much exactly it, it's fun to follow along now! esp the neuro stuff

Does anyone else get the impression last night's episode launched a lot of House/Wilson slash?

More like inspired by a lot of House/Wilson slash, I'd say.

They played Maggot Brain at the end. Very nice.

That actually made me laugh out loud, which I suspect wasn't the intended effect.
I do watch the show for laughs though, so it was fine by me.

Following it up with a show tune from Chorus Line was definitely done for laughs, so I think your reaction was dead-on!

this was the best episode of this season so far. and by best i mean funniest.

i didn't cringe once!

My godsister is on tonight so I will be watching for the first time ever... what can I expect?

if you've seen that new sherlock holmes movie, it's like that but less fisticuffs.

Is she playing the psycho patient?

patient ill ---> House indifference ----> wrong diagnosis makes things worse ----> B-plot/character exploration leads to Wilson saying something ----> House figures it out around the :48 minute mark.

yep, she went off the deepend.

Expect her to withhold the truth several times, prolonging the delivery of inaccurate diagnoses.

Also when House figures it out he'll stop talking in the middle of a sentence and just walk away from Wilson/Cuddy/whoever.

... leading to him being forgiven whatever transgressions he's being lambasted for, just on account of his brilliance.

Also when House figures it out he'll stop talking in the middle of a sentence and just walk away from Wilson/Cuddy/whoever.

^ always my favorite part of the episode.

I thought that was the best episode so far, psycho patient

love spanish-zinging house <3

shasty, yr godsister reminds me of tricia helfer!

I was hoping would put a pillow over the head of that pshyco, just like they did to James Earl Jones.

Also, 13 is so smoking hot.

^^ LOL I finally watched this last night, and I said to my wife, "Well, 13 could always just ask Chase to kill her."

http://engrishfunny.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/engrish-funny-house-complete.jpg

I actually took a break from "House" during the horrible Chase/murder story. I finally decided to catch up this week and watched all the episodes I missed since then. The show really picked up again after Cameron left, and in particular all the episodes that aired since New Years have been amazing.

So... was that the extent of Cameron's return? DUD.

so, should i start watching again?!? i gave up during the Chase-murders-Mugabe story arc.

Has been excellent in the time since that, but tonight was a real step backwards (shame too, since the episode was directed by Hugh Laurie).

I liked this one more than usual.

This was terrible, and I will stop watching this show if it continues in this direction.

they should stop mentioning chase's murder of james earl jones. what a dumb idea.

This is probably only interesting to photo/video nerds, but WOW

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/canon-5d-mark-ii-used-to-shoot-entire-house-season-finale-direc/

Canon 5D Mark II used to shoot entire House season finale, director says it's 'the future'
By Vladislav Savov posted Apr 13th 2010 8:02AM

May 17, folks. That's the date when the grumpy doctor you wish you were and the snazzy camera you wish you owned will join forces on American network television. The final episode in this season's run of House has been shot exclusively using Canon's 5D Mark II, and the show's director Greg Yaitanes has been taking questions about the experience on Twitter. PetaPixel have helpfully collated the Q&A session into a coherent pseudo-interview, which you'll be able to find at the source below. The major takeaway is that the crew liked the experience and didn't have to do an overwhelming amount of work to adapt to the different shooting method. Guess after SNL and its own movie, the 5D Mark II just had to go and do a guest appearance on its favorite TV show.

http://www.petapixel.com/2010/04/09/house-season-finale-filmed-entirely-with-canon-5d-mark-ii/

Taub is an asshole (but tbf he and his wife should've had this conversation before getting married).

Our DVR cut out early tonight, did Taub pull away from the girl or did he keep kissing her?

He didn't pull away, they left together in her car.

Ah, thanks.

He nailed her, at least thats what was implied.

Also, if that patient was 35 yo, then Im 17.

This show continues to suck this year. So disappointing.

SPOILER FREE POST

Lots of good things about this finale, up to the very very end when they bring back the least convincing, most nonsensical element of the show. I have never bought that connection, and probably never will.

Really? I thought the finale was terrible straight through, and the ending was totally unbelievable and insane.

SPOILER-ESQUE

It's like they're decided to just start writing for the shippers + fanfic'ers.

Yeah, best episode of the season until it suddenly wasn't.
xpost

Ok cool, I'm glad I'm not alone here.

Yeah, best episode of the season until it suddenly wasn't.

My wife liked the ending, but I don't think she appreciated my audible groan.

My wife and I both groaned at the ending. PLZ LET IT BE VICODIN.

I was really pleased with the ending (along with my family); it seems like an ending more fit for a series finale than an season finale though

It's not that nonsensical yall. We already knew they love each other. Things on this episode gave reason for her to love him more

this guy's methods may be unconventional but you can't argue with the results

We already knew they love each other.

We know that because we've been told that, but it's the most unconvincing pairing on tv.

In the early seasons I inferred that Cuddy was treating House as a baby substitute. Guess the writers weren't thinking that.

The only episodes I greatly liked this season were the Wilson episode and the Cuddy episode.

Season Finale Spoilers

Well he is halfway a baby/intriguing project for Cuddy but he is also an amazing genius and a jerk (and some girls go for jerks. Is there a few types of girls that like jerks that yall can stereotype for me and is Cuddy one of them? Serious question). So there's plenty of reasons for her to like House + him acting more caring this season. Then there was the things on this finale like the meaningful gift, close husband/wife like fighting , and then House giving in to Cuddy seemed like a pivitol moment (along with his speech about his cursed leg).
I'm sure there's other dynamics to their relationship that I haven't touched upon as well.

Anyways I think the logical reason why Cuddy was at House's appartment was because she was worried about him (she knew he was bleeding + she may have seen or heard about him freaking out in front of Foreman when he was leaving the hospital) and ofcourse the mechanical breakup with spy dude must have put her in a vulnerable state as well - leading her to go visit someone she cared about under rouse that she is mostly there because she is worried about him. Needless to say they had another moment, kissed and that's all folks... until next season when we will probably have lots of episodes in which House is tested to see if he has what it takes to not be a complete loner.

I never watched the first couple seasons so I have no idea how he got along with his ex-wife... I think he has an ex-wife

Were they ever married? I'm not sure (I didn't start watching until S2, but I've since seen all the reruns). Either way, she was already gone at the beginning of the show and only turned up later on a couple times when the story called for it.

Yes, Wikipedia confirms House and Sela Ward were never a married couple, just a couple.

Mmmm... Sela Ward.

i haven't seen the finale yet (which with the exception of season 3 is always worth watching for this show) and i have been slowly been getting caught up, but damn i've damn near had it w/ this show. last year the Foreteen-athon annoyed me, but this year just bores the fuck outta me (which is something that this show NEVER used to do).

I really disliked the first few eps from the new season. Basically I've (also) had it with this show. Meh.

speaking about season finales, last night i rewatched last year's ("both sides now") ... boy oh boy, that really IS a great one. and it hits very close to home right now.

is this a prelude to them getting rid of Thirteen once and for all? we should be so lucky.

Could be good, but I like Thirteen alright anyway. I'm still bummed about Cameron being gone. Having Chase and Cameron divorce didn't mean she had to leave, but I suppose that's something her character would absolutely do.

I love Olivia Wilde, I hope she doesn't go away for good.

I don't normally watch this show but I caught it the other night and was pretty confused by the medical mystery part of it.

Adult film actor goes into the hospital with the usual bizarre symptons
They try everything
Eventually find out he has parasites
Treat parasites
He gets worse
Find out that the parasites are keeping him healthy
Reintroduce parasites
End

They never figured out what was originaly wrong with him?! OR DID THEY

Was it ever explained?

http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4019

There was a couple of House marathons on cable when I was recovering from surgery a month back, and I ended up getting into this show. I take back all of the mean things I ever said about this show and/or Hugh Laurie's accent.

I was honestly really, really surprised that my mom hadn't caught the various Sherlock Holmes references before, as I discovered the past weekend when I was home.

You should get her to watch the new Sherlock series when it comes on PBS, it's very good.

I was mentioning that very thing to her as well, she was intrigued.

uh.

i hope this is just a terrible opening episode and the rest of the season is better cause this is the worst house episode i've ever seen

so not worth hulu'ing this thing next week?!?

i'm still watching + obv ymmv, but it's pretty frighteningly bad

I was wondering when this started again, and now I know.

spoilers please

patient was ok for the 5 minutes he's there. the rest is house and cuddy: they have sex, take the day off work, lounge around, have more sex, then have a cry together. then 13 leaves after everyone is a jerk to her.

wonder which genius decided to turn this show into grey's anatomy

I finally caught up on this show. I have no idea why Mordy was so enraged at the first episode of the season. It was kind of slow paced but imo it was not horribly embarrassing or even bad. Defs not on the level of that episode with the machine that could read people's minds, which is my current standard for a "wtf House M.D." episode.

The episode where the boy gave up part of his lung to his sister made me cry, cry, cry. I am such a sap, guys!

I didn't cry, but I thought that was a really good one too.

Also, Progressive Flo was the mom!

you guys are nuts

Yes, that episode proved my hypothesis that Progressive Flo was not as sex-appealy without the Wholesome Amy Winehouse Jr. hair & makeup kit.

miss 13's forehead :(

The episode where the boy gave up part of his lung to his sister made me cry, cry, cry. I am such a sap, guys!

― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt)

I shed a single tear. Proof that the show still gots it.

The boy reminded me of a friend with cerebral palsy whom is limited to a wheel chair.
Sometimes I feel like my calling in life is helping people with disabilities.

Sometimes I feel like my calling in life is helping mocking people with disabilities.

what

IDK I mean I have cried at TV commercials, I'm not saying that's a mark of quality. But I have cried at so many episodes of House, it's just ridic.

xpp DG what do you mean mocking people with disabilities?

I actually think this has gotten better, but I found the debut really cheesy and the sentiment felt really false. When she kissed his leg is was full-on uncomfortable melodrama

it*

I missed this week's ep.--was it any good?

i'd say par for the season

it was a joke :(

Lot of good House and Wilson action. Problem is that I absolutely buy their relationship, but don't buy House and Cuddy at all.

So we've had Progressive Flo and now the State Farm guy, could the Allstate deep-voiced guy be next?

Lot of good House and Wilson action. Problem is that I absolutely buy their relationship, but don't buy House and Cuddy at all.

― ailsa, Tuesday, October 12, 2010 5:52 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

this wz inevitable, but I think millions of fans would've felt jipped if they couldn't have seen House's and Cuddy's epic fail for themselves.

was Libby/Sam ever properly introduced or did she just show up this season?

dr. girlfriend was introduced last season and fought with house for wilson's affections until there was some detente i forget the reason why though.

Wilson ended up kicking House out of his, er, residence iirc...not over any warfare, most of which I think Wilson wz unaware of, but just bcz Wilson wanted to take it to "the next level" or whatever...

I haven't watched too muchof this new season, but I think Sam is my favortire character right now...

I just hate that every episode they are checking someones house for toxins. house should check cuddys box for toxins.

I just wish they were a little more consistent with House's "everyone lies" bit. I mean, the last episode the girl was flat out lying about the battered women's group she never went to. House never even questioned that or her other lies. Of course, maybe thats the point, he questions the truth-tellers but has a blind spot for sociopaths/liars?

I don't know that she was sociopathic so much as flat out crazy.

Yeah, my second sentence was kind of second guessing myself in relation to the showat large. I just remember watching that episode and immediately wondering why House was taking her statements at face value, considering the previous ep's reiteration of the "EVERYONE LIES".

sometimes they do some work to coordinate e.g. mistakes in how the team handles the case with whatever personal-professional-life plot is running alongside it. sometimes they don't.

This increased emphasis on Chase being RROWR HOTT LADYKILLER is really cracking me up.

they would do well to keep throwing in reminders of his speed-date-a-cretin experiment.

^that was my favorite episode last year

is Stephen Fry booked to appear on the show anytime soon as House's fatter, smarter brother Mycroft House?

I feel like they dress Cuddy really well, but every other woman on this show gets these clothes you would never really see anyone wear, like last episode's new girl with the leggy Paula Poundstone look.

Cameron was wearing vests all the time, too, which always rang false in 2004.

amber tamblyn (the new girl) is more impressive if you saw her in her old weird-cop-show 'the unusuals'. she's, like, acting!

compare to: jennifer morrison moving from 'house' to 'how i met your mother'.

this episode of house is told from the pov of paralyzed mos def

rerun. odd choice since his enunciation isn't the greatest.

most emotionally false feeling episode of house ever

aw. except for the scenes with rachel + house which were adorable

did you feel let down by your own comment there?

OK Rachel + House SO FUCKING CUTE

That kid is ridic adorable.

ok, but the other two relationships in the episode (patient of the week and other patient of the week, and chase and chick we've never seen before in the show) felt totally bogus on every level

tbg I'm sick and was half sleeping through the whole thing. I mainly just tuned in when the cute kid was on screen.

wonder which genius decided to turn this show into grey's anatomy

― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, October 11, 2010 10:46 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark

i've only now caught up on the first four or so episodes -- and the ep where boy gave sister part of his lung was touching ... but otherwise this is my feeling about this season so far. does it get better. b/c i'm really close to giving up.

newp!

I don't think its that awful yet. They've certainly reached a plateau irt the House/Cuddy relationship and I think they're going to paint themselves into a corner very soon, if they haven't already. I really liked this week's episode, particularly with how they handled Amber Tamblyn's character (until the very end, which I thought was a bit of a cop out). It was kind of interesting to see someone not bullied down by House by the end of the episode (again, until that stupid last scene).

What in the heck is with this trend lately that all TV shows have to start out with funny and/or abrasive characters and said abrasive character has to devolve, soften up and fall in love? It happened with Chuck, it happened with House M.D., It happened with Psych and I believe it happened with Scrubs.

I think some of these writers need to go back and watch those terrible episodes of Night Court where Phil the Bum dies and realize that softening up a character that originally had an acrid-type personality isn't a great idea. I still have nightmares about Kind Dan.

Considering what he did to Amber Tamblyn's character (can't even be bothered to remember her name), House is still quite clearly an irredeemable asshole. He just happens to be an asshole in love.

he roofied candace bergen, too!
clearly it's cutty that's going over to the dark side, not the other way around.

come to think of it, that would probably be the best possible outcome.

it's only fair, her and wilson did get a drug-free house, after all.

house and cutty boning just grosses me out for some reason, its like when mulder and scully started porking... there's no coming back from that

the T2-ing of house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRw1fc4dcq0

I'd say that the show picks up after the first 4 or so episodes from this season. The last episode was great... I won't spoil it.

The end with Amber Tamblyn (I'm assuming that she is the Joan of Arcadia girl) wasn't a botherable cop out (seeing as how she didn't cop out the rest of the episode) but a necessary cop out for setting up the next episode. But yeah, House sure looked like the biggest asshole for not even trying to say anything comforting at the very end. Not that I mind House being an asshole. And House + Cutty has been fine with me because it hasn't been cheesey.

Haven't seen this week's yet but I just need to say that I really dislike Tamblyn.

And I agree with Eisbaer, the ep where the boy gave his sister part of his lung was very touching and the best of the early episodes

I thought this week's episode was terrible.

I don't know, I'm kind of tempted to say that if you found this week's episode "terrible" then I'm not sure if watching House, M.D. is the right choice for you. Although it was a little more pushed to the edges than a typical episode, I think it pretty much contained every single piece of what this show is all about - medical mystery, House being a dick, outraged team, dripping sarcasm, oddly touching romantic lives of the team, etc etc

The magic marker whiteboard DDX routine didn't get much play that episode, as opposed to the previous episode where they used Taub's face.
Also the 'epiphany' moment lacked a certain majesty.

True. I guess I don't think this was like the "ultimate" episode or anything, but a fairly standard structure to it. It didn't feel as gimmicky as I thought it was going to be based on previews.

I wish HOUSE took spec scripts, then I could pitch an episode where House goes head-to-head against a diagnostic computer program like WATSON on jeopardy.
House's honor is at stake, but in order for House to stay true to his principles, he'd have to defer to the computer's diagnoses because on every rational level, the computer should have the edge on House. Meanwhile, WATSON makes a move on Cutty...

^this seems like a credible storyline for next season.

I don't know, I'm kind of tempted to say that if you found this week's episode "terrible" then I'm not sure if watching House, M.D. is the right choice for you.

lol wat? i've been watching since the first season. if you meant to say that if i found this week's episode terrible than you're not sure if I should still be watching -- then i'd agree with you. but any kind of original charm of appeal this show had has been totally sucked out by this point. tho i didn't find this ep as horrific as the original hooking up episode (kissing swollen leg ew), i thought it completely failed to generate any drama or stakes at all. i was expecting a real "DID HOUSE GO TOO FAR?" ep, but maybe they just can't make those anymore. it reminded me of a dozen other House episodes I've seen except in this one Cuddy was enabling House instead of fighting with him. that's not enough dynamics change to do anything for me. afaic, this show's peak was the two-part foreman dying episode and it's never quite matched those stakes since (and i really had hoped the small pox ep this season might match it, but no dice). the biggest problem imo actually is that House himself seems less and less interested in the case week by week. it feels so totally incidental. whoever compared this season to grey's anatomy is otm, except grey's anatomy was always fun and silly when it did all that relationship bullshit. this is just dreary.

See, I think we have a fundamental disagreement on what is good about the show, or at least when it gets invested in any kind of "stakes". I thought that Foreman dying arc was sort of silly and couldn't really get into it.

i would like to think the writers/directors/producers have made some deliberate decisions about how to try to navigate things since house got back from rehab and is 'trying to be mature', since the show as a whole seems more dreary / 'realistic' (even in the score and the lighting and camerawork) and along with house's drugs they've taken away an awful lot of his extra-case hijinx and b-plot comedy and all the activities that go along with being in pain (he's never in pain any more either!) and being an addict like sitting around, watching tv, playing records, and such. but that all makes it seem kind of directionless aside from the occasional highlight. maybe the sub-season arcs since rehab just haven't been played that well either—house moving in with wilson, wilson's ex-wife, house's courtship of cuddy, the shit with the team. and the team is boring as anything now.

i wonder what the right sort of arc/ending for house would be if you compared it to the ending to 'the shield'. what the fuck are you supposed to do with 'misanthrope gradually becomes less toxic to friends and co-workers'?

I just hope that when it ends, it does something interesting for network TV and it isn't like a final episode wedding between him and Cuddy with everyone in attendance and smiling.

yeah if I never see another subplot involving Taub and his soon-to-be ex-wife, I would be thrilled, but of course I imagine they have to tie that up with the two of them finally re-discovering each other (or maybe not...)

this has some of the best acting of any current network show y/n?

I really liked the episodes that dealt with House losing his mind because you could tell it was the one thing that really scared him more than anything. I don't really mind House now but you have to wonder where it's all going. The problem is that he's not as unhinged or psycho as he used to be so it's hard for the show to be "shocking" without stretching. And they never explained why Kutner killed himself, either (other than "the actor quit").

House has always been about the zingers though, so even now I find a lot to like about the show.

House has always been about the zingers though, so even now I find a lot to like about the show.

This is so key. 95% of the reason I continute to tune in, especially with 13 gone.

somebody liked 13?

(I mean I thought she was hot liked her too, but I thought there was unanimous groaning about her)

Oh, I'm 100% talking about looking at her. But I think her character got better as she went along, until right before she "left".

I do miss Kutner; he was the only person who thought House was actually funny and not just a giant dick. House couldn't really "get" to him because he didn't have an ego. I mean House says some really funny things and nobody ever laughs anymore. Foreman and Chase have been working with him for 7 years...you'd think they would have lightened up by now.

replace taub with andy richter?

Yeah, Kutner was great. I really want them to bring back that gorgeous girl that was messing w/ Chase via his Facebook page.

that was a real winner of a storyline :/

that was such a lame plotline that I was praying would lead back to Cameron...

lol xp

The storyline was pretty awful, but it brought some lols. I could care less about the storyline, I just thought that girl was v v v pretty and I'd rather look at her than Amber Tamblyn. And yeah, I initially thought it was going to be Cameron as well.

Ehh having a doctor that wasn't drop dead gorgeous and unlikely to appear in any "romantic" subplots was a nice change of pace

^I'm not sure what this is referring to, but since I haven't watched the last ep, I don't want any spoilers & therefore am removing bookmark from thread...

I don't know, its just hard going from Cameron (who I think was very underrated re her prettiness) to 13 set me up to always appreciate having eye candy on this show. Cuddy doesn't really do it for me. There's plenty of male eye candy though.

I was referring to Masters, I mean she is cute but definitely not hot the way Cameron and 13 were and since she's young and kind of a nerd I can't see them writing anything romantic for her.

I do miss Cameron for the same reason you do, she definitely was a 10/10 for me, but so is Cuddy, her body is ridiculous

either taub or wilson could end up with narcky howser as they are now both unattached.

what gets me is how Taub gets all these chicks.

well he's a doctor

I've wondered that myself. Given his little speech during the most recent episode, I think he is just really good at selling himself, "I fixed cleft palletes in Africa, I volunteer all the time".

i thought it completely failed to generate any drama or stakes at all. -mordy

all the best drama in that episode involved either Taub or Cutty/Cutty's Mom. maybe you were too focused on house. the bathroom scene with Taub was hella dramatic

otm

u guys are crazy if you think Taub's story lines generated anything at all. I can't even remember what was going on with him - just that his ex's brother punched him for something or other and his wife was like, "i won't let him do that anymore." snooze hallmark film of the week.

well it's back on sky tonight so i have all this disappointment to look forward to

wonder which genius decided to turn this show into grey's anatomy

― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, October 11, 2010 10:46 AM (3 months ago)

stand by this

funes the memorious

"remember me?"

"bartender, champagne for everyone!"

house taking it to the next-house-level: OMG what if we make House act all inappropriately around children for a whole episode????

this episode is definitely a shark-jumping moment

eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww