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House
Nov 3, 2005 13:42:14 GMT -5
Post by shmeep on Nov 3, 2005 13:42:14 GMT -5
I'm so glad baseball is over and House is back on! Televisionwithoutpity's recaplet (the mini-recap they post to tide us over until they write the real recap) for this week's episode cracked me up: House's latest patient is the anti-House, a handsome, young, clean-shaven, completely mobile doctor whose apparently selfless devotion to/obsession with curing tuberculosis in Africa lands him in PPTH with tuberculosis-like symptoms himself. AntiHouse is convinced he's got the TB, but House suspects that there's something wrong with AntiHouse's heart (major symptom: he likes Cameron), and starts fitting him for a pacemaker. But then Cameron decides it's cool for a guy with a heart condition to take the stairs and AntiHouse almost dies, which ends up revealing that he doesn't need a pacemaker after all because he does, in fact, have TB. AntiHouse refuses to take the TB drugs because he knows Cameron finds dying guys irresistibly attractive and also to make a point to America that people in Africa are needlessly dying from TB every day. His press conference is interrupted by his cardiac arrest, and House is able to prove what he thought was wrong with the AntiHouse all along -- he has TB AND something else. Unfortunately, they can't figure out what that something else is until they treat the TB and get rid of its symptoms. So AntiHouse takes his TB pills and they figure out that he has a tumor on his pancreas. The tumor is removed, AntiHouse is given a clean bill of health, and Cameron is no longer interested in him. So AntiHouse packs his things and goes back to Africa to give his own TB drugs to his third-world patients while House goes home to give his painkillers to himself and no one else. All this, and a bitchy woman with a lump in her breast and a soft spot for cripples! www.televisionwithoutpity.com/story.cgi?show=151&story=8452
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House
Nov 3, 2005 18:19:29 GMT -5
Post by doobrah on Nov 3, 2005 18:19:29 GMT -5
Ha, ha, ha -- that's it in a nutshell..... BUT:
If you don't watch, you miss the great gestures House makes throughout the episode that just cracked me up! And when he stepped on the chick's shoe to make Cuddy think he was apologizing -- how great was that?
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House
Nov 3, 2005 18:32:48 GMT -5
Post by maggiethecat on Nov 3, 2005 18:32:48 GMT -5
Ha, ha, ha -- that's it in a nutshell..... BUT: If you don't watch, you miss the great gestures House makes throughout the episode that just cracked me up! And when he stepped on the chick's shoe to make Cuddy think he was apologizing -- how great was that? Absolutely! This was a terrific episode, back to the House (okay, Doobrah, I know you'd say Hoose!) we all know and love from last season, the cranky pants with the best vocabulary in the building. Did we want a touchy-feely angst-ridden House? Nope. Then again, that may be exactly what we get with Mum and Dad showing up next week . . .
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House
Nov 3, 2005 19:11:27 GMT -5
Post by housemouse on Nov 3, 2005 19:11:27 GMT -5
Ha, ha, ha -- that's it in a nutshell..... BUT: If you don't watch, you miss the great gestures House makes throughout the episode that just cracked me up! And when he stepped on the chick's shoe to make Cuddy think he was apologizing -- how great was that? Absolutely! This was a terrific episode, back to the House (okay, Doobrah, I know you'd say Hoose!) we all know and love from last season, the cranky pants with the best vocabulary in the building. Did we want a touchy-feely angst-ridden House? Nope. Then again, that may be exactly what we get with Mum and Dad showing up next week . . . I am a little concerned about how next week's episode is going to pan out. Mom and Dad? Ugh! Somehow I never pictured the character with parents, I kind of pictured him as just spawning from somewhere. I hate to say this, but is anyone else thinking he is being a little too House-like? He seemed to have a smart remark for everything anyone had to say. Don't get me wrong, I love the show and Hugh Laurie, but...
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House
Nov 3, 2005 20:13:29 GMT -5
Post by maggiethecat on Nov 3, 2005 20:13:29 GMT -5
I am a little concerned about how next week's episode is going to pan out. Mom and Dad? Ugh! Somehow I never pictured the character with parents, I kind of pictured him as just spawning from somewhere. Karma for you, for making me laugh out loud. Spawned indeed. How about he sprang fully grown from the head of Zeus?
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House
Nov 10, 2005 8:55:59 GMT -5
Post by housemouse on Nov 10, 2005 8:55:59 GMT -5
I was less disappointed in this week's episode than I thought I would be. His parents were not the freaks I expected, that actually impressed me. I like what they are doing with Robert Sean Leonard's character. That exchange around the car about House's loans, really cracked me up.
Does anyone wonder if House and Cameron might try their relationship again?
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House
Nov 10, 2005 9:43:20 GMT -5
Post by shmeep on Nov 10, 2005 9:43:20 GMT -5
I was less disappointed in this week's episode than I thought I would be. His parents were not the freaks I expected, that actually impressed me. I like what they are doing with Robert Sean Leonard's character. That exchange around the car about House's loans, really cracked me up. Does anyone wonder if House and Cameron might try their relationship again? That was the best thing about the way House's parents were portrayed. They're perfectly nice and normal but there's some weird kind of tension between House and his father. That rang true to me, proving that House is House and his parents didn't create a monster when they raised him. I loved how Dr. Foreman's little "only a mother can do that much damage" line was untrue. His mother was a saint and watching House with her was touching. And House and Cameron? Unlikely. I've heard there's someone else in the plan for her...
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House
Nov 10, 2005 10:28:16 GMT -5
Post by doobrah on Nov 10, 2005 10:28:16 GMT -5
They seemed to be rounding out the characters a bit. I, too, love the interaction with Robert Sean Leonard (what is his character called?), and thought it was a nice touch when House softened up a bit to Cameron when she didn't crash dinner with the folks. But Sela Ward is coming back next week as the ex-wife, so a good change for some hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth! Angsty House? Sure...
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House
Nov 23, 2005 2:01:11 GMT -5
Post by mlm828 on Nov 23, 2005 2:01:11 GMT -5
A couple of observations from tonight's episode.
At the beginning of the episode, when House and Wilson are outside House's house, the number on the house is "221B." Does he live on Baker Street?
Later in the episode, House is bouncing a ball against the wall in his office. Remind you of anyone?
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House
Nov 23, 2005 8:08:47 GMT -5
Post by doobrah on Nov 23, 2005 8:08:47 GMT -5
A couple of observations from tonight's episode. At the beginning of the episode, when House and Wilson are outside House's house, the number on the house is "221B." Does he live on Baker Street? Later in the episode, House is bouncing a ball against the wall in his office. Remind you of anyone? LOL -- I saw the "221B" and thought it was just a nod to House's investigative/diagnostic skills a la Sherlock Holmes. Made sense to me. And I just broke out laughing with him bouncing the ball against the wall. And Cameron -- she's a sweet little schoolgirl until she takes the crystal meth, hooks up with the cute doc, and then turns into a female version of House when telling the patient off. Whoa! All they needed in the episode was the kitchen sink!
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House
Nov 23, 2005 8:41:43 GMT -5
Post by shmeep on Nov 23, 2005 8:41:43 GMT -5
All they needed in the episode was the kitchen sink! And it was there. Remember House's manipulative dish washing as he tried to convince Stacy he'd changed? I loved the moment when Mark entered the room and caught House there with Stacy and House said, "This isn't what it looks like. It looks like we were washing dishes together but we were actually having sex." But he really is playing mind games with that couple. Barging into Mark's group therapy sessions and then stealing the notes from Stacy's sessions. That's low even for House. I'm glad Wilson is always around to look appalled by House's behavior. I'm loving Cameron's character development this season. Last year we got to see her soft spot for people who are dying (the husband she met and married after his terminal diagnosis) or who she perceives to be vulnerable (House). This has continued into this season, but last night things seemed to come to a head for her as the patient pointed out the joys of not living for anyone else. She tried it (and his drugs) and then was brought back to reality as she realized what a lonely and miserable person he was, despite his boasting. I thought the way she chastized him was appropriate and not at all House-like. She was blunt and hurtful, but after the way he had affected her behavior the day before, she had a right. I got chills when she told him that he had a right to do what he wanted but not to go recruiting. I'd like to see her with Chase. He needs more stories because he looks like Wesley from The Princess Bride.
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House
Nov 23, 2005 10:46:34 GMT -5
Post by maggiethecat on Nov 23, 2005 10:46:34 GMT -5
I, too, loved last night's episode -- very satisfying on many levels and I think they owed us one that good. And how perfect was it that at the end of the show, House was left with a pet RAT? Heh. Actually, I really liked the rat. Also giggled at the 221B address. As for bouncing the ball against the wall, I didn't connect it with a certain tramatized NYPD detective for the simple reason that I've seen this from time to time -- starting with Steve McQueen and the baseball in The Great Escape. Anyone remember that? Oh, never mind. Gotta go finish my Thanksgiving shopping (I thought I was finished. Sigh.), and the grocery store is gonna be like the Fall of Atlanta. "Whip those carts through the aisles! Grab that sack of meal! The Yankees is cumin', the Yankees is cumin'!" HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
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House
Nov 23, 2005 14:16:44 GMT -5
Post by mlm828 on Nov 23, 2005 14:16:44 GMT -5
I have to add one comment about Hugh Laurie. I saw him on Leno recently, and he was speaking in his normal manner, that is, with a British accent. It reminded me how flawlessly he does an American accent when playing Dr. House. Quite impressive.
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House
Nov 23, 2005 17:51:19 GMT -5
Post by hoosier on Nov 23, 2005 17:51:19 GMT -5
Oh man! I fell asleep the last 10 minutes or so of the show and missed it! The last I remember was Carmeron grabbing Chase as he came through the door and I knew she was "less inhibited" than ususal but didn't know she was high on some drug from the guy! Dang!!! Happy Turkey Day everyone!!!
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House
Nov 30, 2005 12:13:12 GMT -5
Post by shmeep on Nov 30, 2005 12:13:12 GMT -5
Last night was a slight departure from the normal formula of the show (not that House has a formula but...okay. It kinda does, but I like it!).
The storytelling had the same kind of feel as the "Three Stories" episode last season--the one when House was teaching a class and ended up telling his own story. I love it when the show gets creative like that and I especially like that it was Chase and not House who was in trouble--although, according to Cuddy, House is the cause of 40% of all the lawsuits at the hospital. Heh. So...Chase gets a one-week suspension and House, who really didn't do anything wrong (other than bribing and then blackmailing a transplant surgeon) has to be supervised by Foreman for the next month. Hmm. Interesting.
Hands down, my favorite line of the night was the last line of the episode, delivered by Wilson, who wasn't in most of the episode. Just as House finds out that Foreman will be his boss for the next month, Wilson says, "Guess I’m his best friend now."
But this one had a lot of great moments.
When Wilson tries to imitate Chase's Austrailian accent (and does it badly), House responds with, "Chase loves me. And isn’t Turkish."
And when Stacy asks House what he's hiding, he says, "I’m gay. Oh, that’s not what you meant. Though it does explain a lot. No girlfriend. Always with Wilson..."
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