House, M.D.

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.