House

[viscousmemories]

I actually almost never watch TV, and I definitely don't watch anything regularly, but I saw an episode of this 'cause it came on after Idol and I've now seen two or three more. I love this show. It's very funny and dramatic, and has a lot of cool information about microbiology. It's like Quincy, MD for the new century.

Is Roland in the House? I'd like to know how the show does with fact over fantasy.

[livius drusus]

You don't watch anything regularly, eh? Odd then, that you would have stumbled on House just 'cause it comes after Idol. :wtf:

But setting that aside for the moment, I've been really impressed with House so far too. I love that Hugh Laurie, who will always be the Prince Regent from Black Adder 3 for me, can be an entirely plausible brilliant American doctor with a bad attitude and a penchant for painkillers. I've also gasped audibly at least once an episode, either because of some really gross diseasey thing or because of something really fucked up House says.

It's really gripping. I'm glad it's getting more of an audience now because of its Idol lead-in.

[viscousmemories]

:chuckle: I totally meant to say I don't watch anything regularly except Idol.

[Dingfod]

House is on my short list of shows I go out of my way to watch.

[Roland98]

I'm here! :) But sorry to say, I've never watched it. I also don't watch much TV--right now LOST and Law and Order:SVU are about all I watch regularly.

[Dingfod]

I said my list is short: Deadwood, House, CSI (Las Vegas), Survivor, NUMB3RS, MadTV, SNL, and the odd episode of The Daily Show. So, House is in good company, IMNSHO.

[livius drusus]

I'm here! :) But sorry to say, I've never watched it. I also don't watch much TV--right now LOST and Law and Order:SVU are about all I watch regularly.
House is on right before SVU, Ro. All you have to do is turn the TV on an hour earlier and point it to Fox. You should totally try and watch at least one episode. :yup:

[viscousmemories]

I'm here! :) But sorry to say, I've never watched it. I also don't watch much TV--right now LOST and Law and Order:SVU are about all I watch regularly.
Ooo... I hope you watch it and become a huge fan, so I can get all the credit.

[Roland98]

I'm here! :) But sorry to say, I've never watched it. I also don't watch much TV--right now LOST and Law and Order:SVU are about all I watch regularly.
House is on right before SVU, Ro. All you have to do is turn the TV on an hour earlier and point it to Fox. You should totally try and watch at least one episode. :yup:

Heh. That would make sense, but the SVUs I usually watch are re-runs on USA or TNT or whatever station shows them. I catch the new ones once in a blue moon or so. (Missed the one where Stephanie March came back--damn it!)

[livius drusus]

That's a damn shame because that episode was great. SVU's been getting better and better.

[Roland98]

Yeah. I'm sure I'll catch it in the re-runs.

[LadyShea]

I like House a lot, but I hope they start getting into some more personalized storylines because the "rare elusive" disease thing might get kinda stale after awhile. They said some incorrect things regarding donor matching on the steroid/pregnant/kidney donation thing, though.

[viscousmemories]

Set the record straight, Lady!

[LadyShea]

Oh didn't think you wanted the real scoop on accounta it's boring, but here goes. House was kinda going on and on to the wife about how unlikely it would be for them to match that even identical twins aren't always a match, etc. And she was all emoting about their soulmateness and just knew they would match yada yada.

The fact is, "matching" isn't that important anymore because they have the anti-rejection drugs down so well. The most important thing is compatible blood types and absense of an inherent negative reaction (sorta like an allergy to the donors tissue due to variances in antibodies from differing disease exposures) which result in immediate rejection.

There are 6 somethings (Antigens maybe? Don't recall), and 6/6 is a perfect "match". They can transplant with 0/6 however and Steve and I only had 1/6.

[viscousmemories]

I already told you this in chat, but cool! Thanks for the info. I prefer for misinformation to be debunked before I let it settle in my brain. Not that I had made any conscious record of that particular tidbit, but now I've learned something that's more likely to stick than the erroneous tidbit. :)

[Crumb]

I checked this out last night. It was interesting and different. I dunno if I like the whole Dr House character that much. He was a very over the top sarcasm guy. I also didn't quite understand his forced work in the clinic, I obviously missed what that was about. I will check it out again if I remember.

[cappuccino]

I like House and watch it almost regularly but I too don't fully understand his sarcasm and constant bantering with Dr. Cubby. Obviously Dr. House doesn't enjoy patient interaction that much but it doesn't seem realistic to me. It seems to me that in real life, a doctor with a personality like Dr. House would have been fired long time ago regardless whether he's a superbrilliant doctor or not. I mean, he goes out of his way to antagonize his boss and deliberately toy with patients'.

[Crumb]

Hopefully as the show goes on they will smooth that over a bit. Most shows seem to evolve a bit until they find there way past these kinds of things. Otherwise this will become a reason for me not to watch the show. I can see it becoming annoying.

Other than that it was interesting though. Reminds me of the little medical vignettes that they have in Scientific American magazines.

[Dingfod]

As a frequent sarcastic smartass, I can identify with Dr. House. My employer has yet to run me off and I spare none of it toward my supervision and management. Coincidentally, continually capable but crusty curmudgeons commonly count as consistently creditable.

[viscousmemories]

Keep in mind that it's a teaching hospital too. I suspect super-brilliant doctors who are willing to accept the lower pay a teaching hospital presumably offers are hard to come by.

[Dingfod]

Crotchety crippled doctors with a craving for cotton-candy and corn dogs at Monster Truck rallies?

[Dingfod]

I'm sorry, every time I see Hugh Laurie I see Bertie Wooster (http://www.geocities.com/hlfaqs/images/wooster-trombone.jpeg) from Jeeves and Wooster (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098833/) (Jeeves, Bertie Wooster's butler was played by Stephen Fry) or as Lord Melchett/George, Prince of Wales, Prince Regent/Gen. Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett/Viscount George Bufton-Tufton/Georgius from the Blackadder series. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/) I can't help it.

[Dingfod]

Typical of power-mad billionaires, playing with people's lives and careers to show he's the boss, Edward Vogel is forcing House to either fire one of his staff of three or the entire department goes. Vogel is one easy-to-hate dirty rotten bastard.

[Beth]

I must be attracted to the wrong types. Simon on Idol is sexy, IMO, and so is House.

Dunno why I've avoided this thread, this is my children's and my favorite show on television. It is getting more interesting now that there is more of a plot and the show is starting to have some internal conflicts.

Not sure if it was mentioned, but Cuddy and House have shagged each other in the past but not sure if it was a relationship or just a fling.

[livius drusus]

They have? They shared cotton candy that time and he's definitely into her, but I didn't realize they had actually done the deed.

[Beth]

It was mentioned that they had once in the past.

[Beth]

Well, the plot gets thicker. I happened to like the show last night, especially when House was honest about the drug he was supposed to be promoting. I guess Dr. Cameron is leaving. Shame, I quite like the sexual tension. Last night when she said goodbye, I told House to grab her and kiss her, I could tell he wanted. Dumb Cameron should have kissed him goodbye at least, if only to entice. Dang, I'm beginning to look at the show as a soap.

I liked how it came up last night that Cameron is an atheist and how she is so good and sweet (like me!:D). Nice to see an atheist shown as bright and nice and non-cynical.

[Dingfod]

As opposed to gruff, grouchy House. I too was thinking, practically out loud (the dogs were the only ones that would've heard me), "Go head, kiss the girl"[/Sebastian the Crab] Dammit, House, what are you thinking? Are you like Spiderman or something and can't allow yourself to have someone to love?

[viscousmemories]

Yeah, if he really let her go I'm gonna quit watching that show. Dumbass.


Okay I won't really quit watching it, but really. What the hell is he thinking?

[HarryLime]

I've only caught a snippet of an episode and it seemed pretty cool, but I just have to say that I don't think I'd let some misanthropic guy with a three day growth of beard near me with chest spreaders. Just a thought.

Will

[godfry n. glad]

I've only seen two episodes, the premier and the one where House admits to being an addict, to painkillers.

I don't know the other character names at all. There's the earnest and clean-cut young attending, the attractive young blonde, the black man and...what else? Then there's the dark-haired administrator goddess...hubba hubba...I wish our administrators around here looked like that. Instead, they're a buncha of harumphing old guys and one stout grayhaired woman.

So, what's the story on his limp and cane? There seems to be a backstory that involves a loved one. Was there an auto accident?

[Beth]

Well, House is gettin' good now. But, thanks to the show, I had to give my kids a PG rated explanation of what a dominatrix was. There was a warning at the beginning of the show... Anyhoo, after struggling how to explain what a dom was and why the guy liked it without getting too graphic, my daughter and I got wrapped up in the whole House/Cameron date. I rather enjoyed it.

House told Cameron that she is interested in him because he is damaged goods and that is what she needs. Cameron does not seem to be daunted at this brutally honest assessment of the blue-eyed grouch. She actually seems to be a little more intrigued and self assured by the end of the show.

Next week: the woman who supposedly made House damaged goods appears.

[Dingfod]

Dammit, I had to miss it for my daughter's band concert. I could only record one program at 8:00 PM. inland wave missed Deadwood the other night, so guess which one I recorded.

[viscousmemories]

The new season premier is tonight. :woohoo:

[Crumb]

Thanks for the heads up. :1thumbup:

[viscousmemories]

You're welcome!

This new Bones show isn't bad either.

[Dingfod]

Bones, Squint, whatever. I'm in love again, Emily Deschanel is even hotter than her sister Zooey. She can elbow me in the sternum any time.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

"House" is awesome..Laurie had better win that Emmy.

[livius drusus]

House was great. I'm not really crazy about Bones. All those beatings Warren's new girlfriend administered were a tad over the top, imo.

Oh, and yeah CC, Hugh better win the Emmy or we'll sick Warren's gf on those bastards.

[viscousmemories]

Yeah Bones wasn't very good. Ass-kicking forensic anthropologist is a bit too far of a stretch for me. House was amazing as usual. Smartest, funniest, most dramatic show on TV hands down. :yup:

[Crumb]

:waiting:

[Dingfod]

I guess my new girlfriend mesmerized me with her eyes or something. I actually don't remember much of anything about the show.

[Crumb]

I enjoyed it. House never fails to satisfy.

Bones has potential, but unless it changes a lot I won't be watching it much.

[Dingfod]

But I will, for reasons that should be obvious.

No, not that. Because it comes on before House.

[livius drusus]

Once American Idol comes back, I get a feeling Bones will be shunted off to some other time slot.

[Crumb]

American Idol? What's that? :ptht:

[Dingfod]

Or cancelled. Fox cancels more shows than it keeps.

[livius drusus]

American Idol? What's that? :ptht:

That's your future, Crumbles. They don't call you Hung for nothing (or for the reason you like to think they do).

[Dingfod]

American Idol? What's that? :ptht:It's that great big wad of cash creating a huge bulge in Rupert Murdoch's pants.

[Crumb]

You two have dirty minds.

[wei yau]

Damnit. Forgot to watch the new episode.

I've heard great things about this show, but never got around to watching it. However, while in Oxford, I caught an episode of the show and decided to start watching it. Leave it to me to have to travel half the world away to discover a show that everyone else already loves.

[livius drusus]

I would just like to state for the record that this show kicks ass.

[Crumb]

:cheerful: I can't wait to watch it tonight. :doctor:

[lisarea]

Elvis Costello's cover of Beautiful at the very end there? Apparently, he recorded that specifically for the show.

[cappuccino]

Dammit, I missed House yesterday though I saw the start of the new season.

Ugh, my memory for showtimes is simply terrible.

[viscousmemories]

Elvis Costello's cover of Beautiful at the very end there? Apparently, he recorded that specifically for the show.
Wow, that's cool. I wish I could remember it now.

[lisarea]

Wow, that's cool. I wish I could remember it now.

Man, you people and your Elvis Costello ignoring skills.

House is listening to it on his headphones at the end, when he's looking at that motorcycle.

Remember? The show started with the little girl singing along to the original Christina Aguilera version?

[viscousmemories]

I don't even remember the girl singing, and I watched the show from beginning to end. :(

[viscousmemories]

Actually when I thought on it some more I remembered her singing as she was trying on the wig and stuff, but I still don't remember recognizing the song. I guess I don't listen to the radio enough.

[Crumb]

I do remember him listening to it when looking at the motorcycle. Cool song. :)

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Jesus Christ, last night's ep was spectacular.

Why did he try to talk her down from it?

[maddog]

Why did he try to talk her down from it?
My take on it was to see if she would get emotional about the prospect of dying, or emotional about her mom; if she remained "brave" with a more or less flat affect, then that would have strengthened his diagnosis of blood clot in the emotional center of the brain. I think. She did react emotionally, but the clot was there anyway. I couldn't figure out, though, why she had hallucinations, or what the particular hallucination had to do with anything.
#554

[Crumb]

House is back tonight! :ffboogie:

Also you can enter to win season 1 on dvd: http://www.fox.com/bones/sweeps/#

[viscousmemories]

:qex:
:burns:

Thanks for the heads up. That channel has been infested with baseball so long I'd nearly forgotten about House.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

LOL, good eppy. ^^

[livius drusus]

Okay I'm getting a little disturbed by the direction the character of House is taking.

I mean, in the first season he was an asshole, sure, but the trolling group therapy thing and, then, reading Stacey's therapy notes....

I dunno. It seems so much worse, so much more malicious and narcissistic. I know, I know... It's just a show, but it's a show I watch in large part because House rules. Tonight's House did not rule.

[Dingfod]

I'm going to have to agree with you there, livius, it's taken a dark turn.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

I missed tonight's. What happened? :(

[Dingfod]

Sorry, I can't fill in more details, I'm at work and wasn't able to follow it as closely as I would've liked. I just know House was acting a bit paranoid and weird,... more so than usual.

[livius drusus]

I missed tonight's. What happened? :(
Did you read what I put in the spoiler box, CC? The two things I mentioned were what disturbed me most.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Yeah, and I'm wanting context ma'am.

[viscousmemories]

There's a synopsis here (http://www.fox.com/house/episodes/206.htm).

[Dingfod]

Sheesh, what did the rat expect?

What an episode, drugs, sex, disease, rodents...

[viscousmemories]

That show rocks.

[Dragar]

Damn you guys; the first season ended over here (and what a wonderful way to end it!) a couple of weeks back. They started re-runs immediately, but I'm going be waiting months for Season 2. :sigh:

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Great episode, but I hate the direction he's taking. :(

[Dingfod]

I used to like Dr. House, but now I'm scratching my head and wonder why they've made him into an anti-hero.

[Carnivale Ed]

Why must this thread be here? I'm going to have to put it on ignore so I don't ruin the second series for myself. If only I had the will power ...

[livius drusus]

Not just an anti-hero, but a pathetic little weasel too.

I mean, what exactly is so bad about his parents? You'd think he was Christina Crawford they way he went off, then they turn out to be cream puffs, even F. Lee Emery, for chrissakes!

Then the way he tried to blame Stacy ("You know I had an angle...") for his little interpretive shrink notes dance just scrapes the bottom of the chickenshit barrel.

[livius drusus]

Finally a new episode! Looks intriguing too. :yup:

[Dingfod]

Damn job. Once again, it gets in the way of a good hump.

[Bella]

:roflmao:

I was thinking the same thing...

[livius drusus]

Honestly, I can't believe he took that call. He kept his phone off for hours when he was investigating the mystery of the cross pendant, but he won't blow them off when he's a foot away from getting blown himself?

[Bella]

Honestly, I can't believe he took that call. He kept his phone off for hours when he was investigating the mystery of the cross pendant, but he won't blow them off when he's a foot away from getting blown himself?I was literally screaming at the TV "just shut that goddamn thing off and get fucking naked, for chrissakes!" I think the girlfriend thought I'd lost it.

[Dingfod]

I was thinking the opposite. I was thinking "They can't have sex now, that would ruin the show's chemistry." It always does.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Bree: Contact me for nakie House pics. *shifty-eyed*

[Bella]

Bree: Contact me for nakie House pics. *shifty-eyed*How ever did I miss your shifty eyes? PM me, baby :) - if you've got good shit, then I'll send over the Fry/Laurie orgy on DVD.

I just bought Season I on DVD. Dammit - next Tuesday is a long way away.

[Dragar]

Season 2 is showing over on this side of the pond! Got treated to the first episode last Thursday, and the second episode will be on this Thursday.

It's all I watch, and I look foward to it all week. I've not been so excited about a TV show since Buffy and Angel. Oh, and the time I watched every Babylon 5 episode, four episodes a day, in sequence.

[Bella]

Tuesday's heeeeere!!!!!.

Oh, and Cynical Chick wasn't kidding about the nakie House pics, either. Unfortunately, I was lying about the DVD :(.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

'Sokay, someone had to see. :D

[Ensign Steve]

If I remember, I am going to watch it tonight. The preview looks good and Robert Sean Leonard is a hottie patottie.

[livius drusus]

I hated him so much in Dead Poets, but I've warmed up to him on House. Remember that "I've been lying to you in increasing amounts, starting with the time I told you you looked good with stubble" line? He totally redeemed himself in my eyes with that one.

[Ensign Steve]

I hated him so much in Dead Poets, but I've warmed up to him on House.
Fuck Dead Poets. Remember Swing Kids? :lecher:

Remember that "I've been lying to you in increasing amounts, starting with the time I told you you looked good with stubble" line? He totally redeemed himself in my eyes with that one.
Um, no. I've never seen the show before. :blush:

[livius drusus]

Reminder: House will be on in 2 minutes.

[viscousmemories]

Reminder: House started 10 minutes ago.

[Crumb]

Reminder: Not for some of us. :glare:

[viscousmemories]

This just in: House is 2/3 over.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

"Cocaine with a PG rating."

:laughdie:

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! HOUSE, YOU IDIOT!!![

[Ensign Steve]

I didn't watch it. :sigh:

I was doing homework and I had some invaluable help and I didn't want to waste sixty precious minutes of invaluable help with this class that I am so going to fail and will have to pay back the Air Force if I do.

[livius drusus]

Homework?! You blew off TV for homework? I'm very disappointed in you, young lady. Now stay up past your bedtime, eat dessert for dinner and think about what you've done.

[viscousmemories]

There will always be re-runs, Ensign. Preparing to fail your class takes priority. :)

[viscousmemories]

STOP FOLLOWING ME AROUND LIVIUS!!!

[Ensign Steve]

Homework?! You blew off TV for homework? I'm very disappointed in you, young lady. Now stay up past your bedtime, eat dessert for dinner and think about what you've done.

I'm so ashamed.
:hide:

[livius drusus]

You should be. :corner:

[Bella]

Cynical Chick, I'm so glad that (it appears) you screamed at your TV, too. Because once again, I sure as hell did.

I was over at my girlfriend's house eating dinner and I kept looking at the clock and thinking "shit, House is on in five minutes...shit, House is on in three minutes" and finally her mom looks at me and says "you know, you can just take your plate into the living room." Ha ha. So I'm in there snarfing down my chicken and fettucine and freaking out all over the place and they're just laughing at me.

So, is this the end of Stacy? I read in TV Guide that Sela Ward is taking time off to do a movie or summat like that, hence why her character is packing. Do you think we'll see any more of her, or do you think she'll be back at some point?

Anyone else squirm when House gave Mark the mental middle finger and started humping up those stairs, despite the obvious pain it was causing him? And when he flashed a second mental middle finger and left the guy in the stairwell? It would have been out of character for House to help him, but man, oh man.

House and Wilson should exchange more meaningful looks per episode.

[viscousmemories]

I'm not gonna use spoiler tags for a TV series. :hmph:

I didn't think he was giving Mark the mental middle finger at all. He knew Mark wasn't ready to hear the truth and it would violate his principles to pretend to be all supportive and helpful to his face while helping pull his marriage apart behind his back - so he did the only thing he could do: hightailed it out of there.

[livius drusus]

Sela Ward annoys me. For one thing, the Botox has totally ruined her expressiveness. For another, Stacey was an annoying character. I'm glad to see her head on out the door. House can do way better.

[Dingfod]

I liked how he shocked Allison into a mouth swab with "I love you." I think there's still a possibility there, even though she later called him a jerk.

[livius drusus]

That was genius, although I really, really hope they don't get together. Cameron bugs me too. I'd much rather House and Cuddy get it on. Maybe then they'd get the poor woman a decent stylist.

[viscousmemories]

I don't know. I think she's way too young and idealistic for him to ever take her seriously.

[Dingfod]

I'd much rather House and Cuddy get it on. Maybe then they'd get the poor woman a decent stylist.No kidding, what is that thing on her head, a horsehair wig?

[livius drusus]

I know! It's bizarre. Her clothes are often weird too. It's like they're trying to uglify her or something.

[Bella]

Someone once told me they thought that Cuddy and House might have had a thing - like it was hinted at in season one, but nothing overt was said. Thoughts?

Did you think Wilson's diagnosis of House on the roof was accurate?

House's love note to Stacy cracked my shit up.

[Dingfod]

Did you think Wilson's diagnosis of House on the roof was accurate?To some degree, I think it was. Besides, having House change into Mr. Happypants would ruin the show.

[Bella]

Did you think Wilson's diagnosis of House on the roof was accurate?To some degree, I think it was. Besides, having House change into Mr. Happypants would ruin the show.Oh yes, and then there's that.

I actually "awww"-ed during the scene with the young girl. Turns out there's a reason she's so familiar - she's Dakota Fanning's little sister (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1102577/).

[livius drusus]

Someone once told me they thought that Cuddy and House might have had a thing - like it was hinted at in season one, but nothing overt was said. Thoughts?

He and out said they had a one night stand, but it could have been "a joke". I think they had a little somethin' somethin' going on at some point.

[livius drusus]

Damn. That's some cold, cold shit.

[username]

What are the writers doing with this show? At first House was just cranky and wonderfully sarcastic, now he appears to be totally dysfunctional.

Tonite's episode has him forging his supervisor's signature, harboring resentment for 20 years leading to revenge, taking LSD while a patient's life hangs in the balance, waking a burn victim to excrutiating pain in order to ask a question and then trying to do it again against the parent's wishes and lastly being rude to a prostitute who kind of looks like Stacy.

Am I the only one who thinks the writers need to take a chill pill? If they keep having to up the ante pretty soon they will have House giving abortions against the mother's will and eating the fetus while she watches.

[livius drusus]

:lol: It's funny 'cause it's true.

[Bella]

Heh. I thought she looked like Stacy, too. Glad to know it wasn't just me.

This show is like a train wreck - I just can't look away, though I know it's only gonna get worse from here on out.

I can't wait until next week.

[Waluigi]

They seem to imply that his recreational drug habit will be coming to a climax soon. I didn't really get the storyline about the guy from med school. It just made him come across as petty.

Still, I really enjoy the show, and I plan to keep watching.

[Beth]

I guess we to see House hit rock bottom. Then will he realize that he needs the pure love of Cameron?

[livius drusus]

Oh lawds, I hope not. Besides, her purity is totally blown, what with the cranked out slut episode.

:cheer: Cuddy! Cuddy! :cheer:

[Dingfod]

I didn't really get the storyline about the guy from med school. It just made him come across as petty.House was right though, the shit didn't prevent migraines and the so-called study that said it did was seriously flawed, partially evidenced by going to India to publish. House invited him to speak there just to expose him as a cheater. That's what I got out of it anyway.

[Beth]

Yeah, but that is when she faced the possibility of being infected with HIV. She quickly redeamed herself. But,... I think he and Cuddy have more sexual tension.

[Dingfod]

Oh lawds, I hope not. Besides, her purity is totally blown, what with the cranked out slut episode.At least she chose to slut out with a good-looking fellow doctor instead a bum off the street. Didn't affect her in my eyes.

[livius drusus]

Well, sure, but your standards of purity aren't the FCC's, if ya know what I mean.

[Dingfod]

God I hope not. I mean I wasn't even offended by Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction; disgusted, yes, offended, no.

[Bella]

House's debunkment (is that a word?) of the migraine-dude was helpful to others, true - but it mostly evened the score between them. I wonder if House would've cared if there hadn't been an opportunity for personal gain in there somewheres.

Fuck Cameron and Cuddy - let's see some Wilson/House action.

[Ensign Steve]

Fuck! I missed it again. I worked late, then I went to bed early. This is why I don't watch TV.

The only reason I don't have tivo is that I am a college student and I would like to actually graduate one day. :)

[Beth]

House's debunkment (is that a word?) of the migraine-dude was helpful to others, true - but it mostly evened the score between them. I wonder if House would've cared if there hadn't been an opportunity for personal gain in there somewheres.

Fuck Cameron and Cuddy - let's see some Wilson/House action.I did not get to see the whole story line because I came in halfway during the show. How exactly did he debunk the migrane-guy? I know House took some LSD(to knock out the migrane, I need some) and antidepressants (to counter the LSD) to knock out a migrane that he caused. Or at least, I think he caused it.

[Dingfod]

After House took the migraine preventative medication being pimped by his former classmate, he took nitroglycerin, which has a side-effect of migraine headaches, and got a bad migraine. But, he only did it to himself after inducing the same in a coma patient, proving that the med did not prevent migraines.

[Bella]

God, what's going to happen when that coma patient wakes up? Or dies? House won't have a place to go eat Cheetos anymore.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

omg..thigh

[Bella]

My significant-other has requested I not watch tonight's episode until her midterms are over and we can watch together. The VCR is whirring seductively and I'm turning my attention FIRMLY to the BBC/Grenada Sherlock Holmes series starring Jeremy Brett, just to try and stop thinking about what might be going on over on FOX.

[username]

My significant-other has requested I not watch tonight's episode until her midterms are over and we can watch together. The VCR is whirring seductively and I'm turning my attention FIRMLY to the BBC/Grenada Sherlock Holmes series starring Jeremy Brett, just to try and stop thinking about what might be going on over on FOX.

Well then you better stop viewing this thread or you are going to end up getting all the goods.

I will refrain from posting anything at this time out of respect for you, but if someone else posts all bets are off :D

Anyway, it wasn't all that earth shattering. The case itself was... I dunno, I keep getting this feeling the writers are really going for broke with the scripts. Kind of a sexual/gender type case. Interesting, but it felt contrived to me. Of course it is contrived, but it shouldn't feel that way while watching it. As far as House goes, it just developed the drug issue further. Hopefully that was vague enough to not spoil anything for you.

I hope he hits rock bottom soon so we can start on a fresh issue.

[livius drusus]

I thought it was one of the best episodes they've done. Nice twists at various points, and all kinds of rather neat visual commentaries, like when she collapses on the runway in the teaser and all the photopgrahers crowd around her eerily posed, catatonic body, snapping away.

[maddog]

Okay, these are stupid questions: What's wrong with his leg? Why does it seem to hurt more now?
#682

[livius drusus]

There was a great episode last year where we saw the whole leg thing go down. I don't remember what the problem was exactly, but they ended up having to slice out a chunk of thigh muscle to save his life.

It hurts more now because he dumped Stacy and his psychological distress is manifesting as physical distress. That's Wilson and Cuddy's theory anyway.

[Waluigi]

House had an infection, and if they didn't operate on his leg to remove the infection, he would have died. However, as you know, performing the operation has crippled him.

I believe Stacy made the call to operate on him, and he hasn't fully forgiven her for that yet. They were also married once, and he hasn't coped with the divorce yet, either. He knows how much it hurts to lose Stacy, and he didn't want to burden Stacy's current husband with that pain, so he let her go.

I'm not 100% sure that it was Stacy's call to operate, but I know it wasn't House's. The rest of it is about right.

[livius drusus]

It was definitely Stacy's call, and Cuddy was the surgeon.

[Bella]

They were also married once, and he hasn't coped with the divorce yet, either.

actually, they were never married. they were living in delicious sin.

[Waluigi]

I stand corrected. I'm a recent House addict, so I don't have all the details on the story, yet.

[Dingfod]

In regards to House's leg, I thought the story went like this: Surgeons wanted to amputate to save House's life, Stacy signed the papers to allow them to amputate even though House had made it clear that he didn't want amputation even if it meant death. Somehow that was conveyed by House in a moment of clarity during his delirium, so they didn't amputate. House survived but with the gimpy leg. Her signing his leg to the dumpster led to their breakup. That's what I remember, but maybe I'm wrong.

[Julie]

omg..thigh

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that went woohoo! When he dropped his pants.

As for the mirgane episode last week. i was Meh on it. I'm a chronic migrane survivor. There are much better ways to cure a migrane then LSD.

Pot works a hell of a lot better and is faster.

[Bella]

OK, I'm clearly not a woman of my word: I gave in last night and watched my taped episode from Monday night. EEE! Thank you to everyone for not spoiling it for me. The whole "she's a man, baby!" bit had me rolling on the floor, clutching my sides - when House made the "I could call you a homo" comment, I should have died. I still want Wilson and House to make out, or something; I loved it when House hit him in the leg with his cane and said "Aww, you miss Stacy too?"

That being said, username was right: it felt a little contrived. It seems like the eps are either A) House/Drug focussed, with the medical cases being sidelined, or B) exactly the opposite. From the teaser for next week, it looks like the new ep will fall into category B. Yay.

Anyone musically-inclined know what classical piece of music was being played (and from the looks of it, Hugh was actually playing) at the end of the episode? It's obviously baroque, so I was guessing Bach, but I'm really bad at this game.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

I loved it, too, but what was the vocal piece at the end? Mom & I loved it.

[maddog]

I loved it, too, but what was the vocal piece at the end? Mom & I loved it.I think the vocal was also at the beginning.
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[Bella]

It was "Desire" by Ryan Adams. If you'd like it, I can post a link for you. Incidentally, the piano piece was from Bach's French Suite No. 5, in G Major - it was the Allemande :) .

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Yay! Thanks, sweetie! :)

[viscousmemories]

I've been avoiding this thread because I had recorded, but not watched, the migraine episode. Now that I've watched it I can participate here again, but unfortunately I don't have anything to say.

[Bella]

*bump*

So...tonight. Lessee:
House gets kneed in the crotch
Wilson moves in with House
We find out that we have to wait 3 MORE WEEKS for a new ep!

[viscousmemories]

Ack! I missed the part about three weeks. Those bastards!

[erimir]

I didn't quite get what was going on with the cow guy.

Explanation anybody?

[viscousmemories]

He was aroused by his gorgeous young (step?) mom prancing around the house in a bikini and giving him spontaneous massages, so he wanted meds to chemically castrate himself to prevent him walking around with a boner all the time. He made up the cow fixation because he was initially afraid to confess the real reason he wanted the drugs.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

I missed it. :(

What's the deal with Wilson moving in with House? I think they'll kill each other.

[viscousmemories]

Wilson found out his wife was having an affair, so he's supposedly just staying with House for a few days.

Oh and bonus trivia: The guy with the cow fixation was Warren from BVTS.

[Bella]

... and then in the teaser for the 28 March ep, we see Wilson on House's couch eating, and House says "what's that terrible smell?" and Wilson starts explaining how he stuffed his pepper with cheese :)

Ah, the odd couple :sigh:.

[Crumb]

Wait...the cow guy was Dingfod?

[Dingfod]

Wha....?

[erimir]

He should've just tapped that MILF :P

lol

Mmm... narsty.

[Bella]

I'm surprised that temporary chemical castration wouldn't, er, damage the goods in some way, even when one stopped taking the medication.

[Dingfod]

House renewed for a third season. (http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060310-020253-4934r) Yes!!!!

[Crumb]

:woohoo:

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Pickle games?

Ah, how I love House.

[Julie]

Whats up with the niceness? Said thank you to the maid. Is going to make it so his friend stays...It was making my teeth ache with all that sweetness!

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Vagina..flashlight.. :laughdie:

[Bella]

Michelle T from BUFFY next week! YAY!

[viscousmemories]

Whats up with the niceness? Said thank you to the maid. Is going to make it so his friend stays...It was making my teeth ache with all that sweetness!
Sure, the maid thing was out of control. But he clearly only made it so whatsisface stayed so he'd keep hooking him up with good food.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Sure, the maid thing was out of control. But he clearly only made it so whatsisface stayed so he'd keep hoo

Wilson? :glare:

I suck at their names, too.

[viscousmemories]

Oh yeah! Wilson. :tiptoe:

[Chris Porter]

Has no one recognized Laury is acting the textbook Narcissistic Personality Disorder (http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/dsm-iv.html) ? Is this really attractive to so many people, or do you find his appearance attractive? I watch occasionally, but having dealt with NPDs myself, at this point I have trouble working up sympathy for the character.

[Bella]

He's a beautiful man..and that's all I have got to say on the subject :).

[Chris Porter]

Er, I can appreciate that. The personality is too much a turn off to get me going, however.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

He's beautiful, and I really appreciate his snarkiness.

[livius drusus]

I prefered his character last season. This season he's disgusted me more than a little.

[Bella]

Best ep yet, this.

[Dingfod]

A freakin' tick?

[livius drusus]

Honestly, is a vaginal wall a good environment for a tick? It seems like it really wouldn't be.

[Dingfod]

I had a tick on my taint once during a visit to Oklahoma from Utah. I managed to remove said tick via my McGuyver knife's tweezers using the motel room mirror and a small magnifying mirror. I guess I could've gone to an emergency room, but, as usual, I just told myself "Git-R-Dun!" and got 'er done.

[livius drusus]

Dear sweet Jesu. :faint:

[Dingfod]

Next act: sewing up a cut arm like Rambo.

[Beth]

Well, I think this episode will up the sale of DEET products, duncha think?

[Beth]

Next act: sewing up a cut arm like Rambo.I sewed up an inch and a quarter gash on my leg myself once with a curved quilting needle. We were about to go on vacation and I couldn't be bothered with the ER.

[Dingfod]

I love DEET. I have a bottle of 100% DEET. If you get any on your lips, they go numb. Imagine what that would do on your private parts.

[Dingfod]

Next act: sewing up a cut arm like Rambo.I sewed up an inch and a quarter gash on my leg myself once with a curved quilting needle. We were about to go on vacation and I couldn't be bothered with the ER.Actually, I didn't sew up a gash on my arm that I received at the prairie dog exhibit at Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City as I chased my two-year old daughter back in the exit, I used butterfly bandages that we had been given to patch up her forehead after she jumped headfirst off the sofa onto the coffee table. Then, over the next month or so, proceeded to repeatedly pick the scab until I now have an impressive 3" long scar across my upper arm just above the elbow.

[Beth]

I love DEET. I have a bottle of 100% DEET. If you get any on your lips, they go numb. Imagine what that would do on your private parts.I'm sure it is better than getting bengay on private parts. Don't ask how that ditty happened.

[viscousmemories]

Do ticks really get as big as the one in the show, though? I have a hard time believing Hugh Laurie could squeeze a real tick between his thumb and index finger and still see its legs wiggling out on each side. I suspect they made it huge so we could see it.

[Dingfod]

http://entomology.unl.edu/images/ticks/engorged_ticks.jpg

[Beth]

Do ticks really get as big as the one in the show, though? I have a hard time believing Hugh Laurie could squeeze a real tick between his thumb and index finger and still see its legs wiggling out on each side. I suspect they made it huge so we could see it.I've pulled a bigger one that that off of my dog. Thing is, when they get that big, their heads are usually dug in under the skin and it is hard to keep the head from coming off. I think that they showed the blood because he would have had to go under the skin to get that damnable thing. -Unless I missed something about her being on her period.

[livius drusus]

My dad used still-hot matches to get ticks off our dog in the summer. He'd strike one, blow out the flame, and then touch the tick with the burnt head. The tick would then immediately pull itself out and I'd step up for stomping duty.

You can't just pull on them because if the head stays in it's infection city, as I recall, so how did House do it?

[Beth]

My dad used still-hot matches to get ticks off our dog in the summer. He'd strike one, blow out the flame, and then touch the tick with the burnt head. The tick would then immediately pull itself out and I'd step up for stomping duty.

You can't just pull on them because if the head stays in it's infection city, as I recall, so how did House do it?The hot match head method can cause the tick to regurgitate toxins. You are supposed to grasp the tick by the head with either a gloved hand or tweezers and twist, not pull. The slight twisting method causes the tick to let go. If the head does get stuck, you have to dig around under the skin, pulling out the head. Then you must scrape the skin and tissue surrounding it.

[Bella]

Damn you for posting that disgusting photograph. When they showed that ECU of House holding the tick, I almost puked. I hate parasites almost as much as I hate spiders - and please, please don't post any pictures of either, without hiding them under a cut...for my sake!

I have to say, thinking of Wilson peeing himself (I didn't think that warm water trick worked) and then sawing House's cane halfway through had me rolling on the floor.

[Dingfod]

You can just pull them off, but you have to do it gently and persistently. It takes a little while, but the tick will let go most of the time. I do remember pulling one off the back of my daughter's head that didn't let go, but my tugging pulled of the piece of skin it was clinging to. Better a little bleeding than a squarshed tick.

[Dingfod]

Damn you for posting that disgusting photograph.Don't click the spoiler tag unless you want to be more disgusted.

http://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/+2004/hill-tickgenome2.jpg

[erimir]

That spider looks fruity. Like... literally.

[Bella]

Yeck. Spiders. Now I know I don't want to click.

[Dingfod]

That's no spider, it's a tick.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

I hate you, Dingfod. :glare:

How awkward was it when the elevator doors opened? :giggle2:

[Bella]

I love how he ducked his head back down between her legs, under that sheet. Like that made things so much better, ha!

[livius drusus]

Foreman is cold, man.

[Beth]

Foreman is cold, man.
Yup

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Yeah :(

I lost count of how many times I shouted "Oh, SNAP!" tonight.

[viscousmemories]

I love this show.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Amen.

...Next week, though.. ???

[viscousmemories]

What's happening next week?

[Beth]

I know. I try to change plans to accomodate my House addiction. I need one of those little TV's to be a bad mommy and watch it at my son's Tues. night games.

[Dingfod]

I would've gotten rid of the plague flea bitten varmint too.

[Beth]

I am soooo glad I bought some more Frontline Plus. A person out west (L.A, I think) has or was treated for bubonic plague that she got from fleas, apparantly.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

What's happening next week?
God speaks to a guy and it shakes House's world. :rolleyes:

[Beth]

I want your av, CynicalChick!

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Heehee, use it elsewhere if you'd like, just credit Emication on livejournal (www.emication.livejournal.com). She made it.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

What is it with all the Wilson/House sexual tension?

[viscousmemories]

It's one-sided, believe me, and I feel House's pain. It's hard having universal appeal.

[erimir]

What do you all think of this week's faith healer episode?

The question is... which side will win? Faith? Or science?

Or will Fox pick the easy way out and make it a draw?

[livius drusus]

I had no idea Wilson was

porking the cancer chick.

[Beth]

Look at that boy, I was him when I was most ill (mind, not stds) and when I was fighting deconversion.:(

[godfry n. glad]

What's happening next week?
God speaks to a guy and it shakes House's world. :rolleyes:

What? Did House overhear the conversation?

[erimir]

Hmmmm...

I'm gonna count this as a win for science, but only just barely. I'm surprised that that's the way it ends. Props to Fox for not "humbling" the atheist. After all, if that was a miracle, it was a pretty fuckin weak one.

[viscousmemories]

I thought it was handled very well. I was getting scared during the middle...

Why just barely, though? In the end everything had a scientific explanation.

[erimir]

Well... they still gave lip service to the possibility that something miraculous had occurred.

In the eyes of religious people, science didn't win, or at least just barely won.

In my eyes, it was pretty obvious tho.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

It wasn't as "YAY GOD!" as I'd feared. Still plenty of snark, too.

[viscousmemories]

Well... they still gave lip service to the possibility that something miraculous had occurred.
Yeah but only in the sense of it being a highly improbable chain of purely natural events. There was a scientific explanation for everything up to and including the voice of God the kid was hearing, and he even stopped hearing it after the treatment. I don't know how anyone could interpret that as anything but science clearly winning.

[erimir]

It's kinda funny how different the programming on FOX is from FOXNews, isn't it?

After all, this kind of stuff, along with Family Guy, is the kind of stuff that must rile Hannity and O'Reilly, isn't it?

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Oh ZING!

[Bella]

I AM NOW THREE EPISODES BEHIND!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!?!

tomorrow night, it will be four. wtf? since when have i let life get between me and my favourite blue-eyed snark?

[Crumb]

I new there was something I liked about Tuesdays. :cheerful:

BTW happy :M: CC!

[SharonDee]

I'm recording it for a friend who had to be out of town ... Do all of its episodes open like that? Violent weirdness?

[Dingfod]

Aaaarrrggghh!!! To be continued...

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

I new there was something I liked about Tuesdays. :cheerful:

BTW happy :M: CC!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, M!

Man, Foreman is a DICK.

[viscousmemories]

Do all of its episodes open like that? Violent weirdness?
It's not always violent, but it's always some weird, cool, terrifying trauma.

[Julie]

Man that was a good episode.

"You want to give Forman a brain biopsy?"
"Really who dosn't?"

[Beth]

I REALLY like that episode. I wonder if they've made Foreman such an ass lately so we won't be upset if he's killed off.

[Sun]

Wow I can't wait for tonight's conclusion.

[viscousmemories]

"You want to give Forman a brain biopsy?"
"Really who dosn't?"
Yeah that was a classic line. :laugh:

House is far and away the smartest, funniest show on television. I dread the coming end of the season.

[SharonDee]

Wow I can't wait for tonight's conclusion.What? :ohno: It's on tonight, too? Crap, now I have to retrieve the tape and record another episode. She didn't tell me about this ...

[Julie]

Oh thank dog its on tonight! I don't know if I would have made it thru the week!

Yeah house two days in a row!!!

[Julie]

Damn it I just realised its on at 8 and not at 9...And Americas next top Model is on at 8 too.

Oh how I wished I had a DVR!

[Dingfod]

I guess now we won't have to ask "What is wrong with Foreman?"

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Cam, you are weak.

[erimir]

What happened? I missed it.

[Julie]

so did I and my sister was suposed to record it for me and forgot.

[LadyShea]

dammit...on at 7 so missed it. Need a synopsis please!

[Dingfod]

Okay, here was what I saw...

Foreman's illness was progressing much faster than the police officer's. He went blind. At first they tried a bunch of different meds for all kinds of things, antivirals, antibiotics, antifungals, and antiparasitics. He regained his sight, but he was losing his pancreas so they stopped the meds. Then they thought the more rapid disease progression was due to legionella or the increased white blood cell count so House tossed a vial of legionella into the room with Foreman. He contracted Legionaire's Disease, regained his sight, but had crackling in his lungs.

House wanted to do an autopsy on the cop, but Scully had turned it over to the CDC and was following public health protocol, unwaiveringly at that, despite House's attempts at manipulating others to manipulate her. So, House took his rat to the cop's apartment, exposed it to everything he could find, then watched it via the internet. When the rat didn't get ill, they started looking for diseases that affected humans but not rats. That went nowhere.

Foreman, in a great deal of pain, apologized to Cameron for all the things he had done and asked her to be his medical proxy. She agreed, but didn't accept his apology, saying that if he still felt that way when he got better she might accept it. They put Foreman in an induced coma. Just before she put him under she told him she accepts his apology.

Cameron decided to proceed with a brain biopsy with an unknown effect despite House trying to buy at least an hour. House went back to the cop's apartment, found the marijuana plants were being watered by a rooftop cystern that was contaminated by pigeon poop, and infested with a parasite, confirmed both by a microscope and by Cameron's biopsy.

They treated Foreman for the parasite. He was getting better. House was doing a check of Foreman's reflexes, asking him to wiggle his left toes. Foreman said he did, but he didn't. Then House asked Foreman to lift his right arm. He lifted his left. He's screwed up, bad. The episode ended. Previews of next week's show had Foreman telling House "I've changed.", then House telling Foreman "I want the old Foreman back."Where it goes from here, I don't know. Sometimes I just love Sweeps Month.

[viscousmemories]

Cam, you are weak.
I don't think so. In my opinion she was strong when it really mattered. She would've felt guilty for the rest of her life if she hadn't given an inch right before he died.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

That's true, but I just wish the girl would grow a spine or something. I like her, but she's so easy, you know?

[viscousmemories]

Honestly I thought that up until last night, but when she initially refused to accept his apology I damn near applauded. I thought that was a remarkably strong stand for her and I thought she was exactly right.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

You should see what the people here (www.community.livejournal.com/house_md) think of her..not very nice.

[viscousmemories]

I can't believe I've only just found this, but the author of the Polite Dissent (http://www.politedissent.com/house_pd.html) blog critically examines the medical content of every episode of House. Good reading!