House, M.D.

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."