I disagree. Hot in a skinny kind of way. But way better as a burnette than a blonde.


I agree. Nearly a "Jump the Shark" moment.

I think that was easily one of the best episodes of the series.

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yea I don't think I could dispute that off the top of my head. It probably easily (ok I just copied your word AND I'm putting two somewhat contradictory (kinda like these two but more acute) words back to back) is in the top 10.


it certainly was a grand change of pace in style and substance.


unfortunately the lack of a preview for next week means we ain't getting some of that back to back action which we all love (everyone: that's just you that loves it (me2: oh please))

I hardcore dug this episode.

The House/Wilson dynamic is INFINITELY more interesting and fun to watch than the House/Cuddy dynamic, and even the House/Team dynamic in my opinion. I love them as roomies, I love the way they influence each other (House making Wilson tougher, Wilson making House softer), and the two actors are perfect in their portrayals and chemistry. Love it.

The minor patient stuff was boring this week since it was a facilitator for the personal stuff. The big fat mariarchi patient thing confused me so I just ignored it (lactic acid? tennis? what?). The Wilson stuff was good enough to lift this episode wayyyyy above the rest of this season's standard.

I'm guessing you won't like the episode on Feb 8 entitled Cuddy then - not joking it's coming - the same episode about cuddy's normal day

I thought that part of the episode was fantastic. The whole point was that you get to see the world from Wilson's eyes...he walks into the middle of ridiculous cases that House is working on. That stuff made sense to House's team, and would make sense to the audience during a normal episode, but because of the style of this episode all we got was random flashes (like when they randomly flew by doing CPR on the patient). I loved getting bits and pieces of House's case, thought it was hilarious.

I didn't think about it the way you did but you're spot-on. I guess I reacted in the exact way Wilson does (ignoring the chaos). I suppose if I want to flatter myself I can say that I understood it on an instinctual level. Yeah, I'm going with that.

I'll buy it.

What's exciting is that if and when you watch the episode again I bet you'll really enjoy those parts, and you might even think of little old me while you're doing it.

I liked the cop story line, just hated how it played out. I also liked the black ceo way back, but again hated how that played out. Methinks they need to hire a writer who knows how to finish off a storyline,

OK, I wasn't going to say anything when the patient sat their talking during her MRI scan, or when functional MRI results came up in real time on the monitor. All of that is excusable since it serves the show. But then they show colored blobs in the goddamned temporal lobe and start talking about how her lateral frontal cortex/broca's area is activating! Who the hell is consulting for this show, and why isn't it me?!?

Someone who's seen a lot of amyloidosis and sarcoidosis.

I think the show has been very good this season, aside from the unrealistic MRI scans.

and this here is the exact reason I can't really watch sports movies. It bothers me too much to watch obviously nonathletic people pretending to be at the top of the sport. Thank goodness I'm pretty dumb and the MRI stuff doesn't bother me.

I thought the ep where House and Wilson were both trying to tap that and eventually pretending to be gay was one of the funniest they've ever done, for my money at least.

but not lupus


(that may be an inside joke, on one of the Season on DVD's, they make fun of themselves for it never being lupus, then show a clip package of about 27 eps of them ruling out lupus. Funny, but not nearly as funny as Cuddy and Cameron doing a scene in Valley Girl voices and cursing like sailors. Two or three of the seasons have that on the extras.)

Agree

I thoroughly enjoyed tonight's episode.

So did I. It was refreshing to get away from the usual disease of the week.

Cleavagey

The doctors brawling in the hallway felt like a real jump-the-shark moment.

I am 76.4% positive that the jump the shark moment was when Foreman temporarily blinded 13 by screwing with her Huntington's disease trial.

I liked it, though not nearly as much as the Wilson episode.





Obviously you're both wrong, and if there's been a shark moment it was the totally unexplained suicide of Kumar. I still don't think that the shark has been jumped though...this season is better than the past few.

That was actually permissible because it rectified a previous JTS move (adding a whole bunch of new cast members to "spice things up").

There are many, many ways that they could have done something much, much more interesting with his character than "mysteriously decided to off himself".

They could have had him quit being a Dr. to go and run a political campaign.

LMAO @ Wilson this week!

This rant deserves a follow-up after last night's episode.

When House first mentioned that they were going to be doing 'cognitive pattern analysis' I knew I was going to be in for a ride, as this is specifically what I have been working on for the last year or so.

His team argued that they were 50 years away from being able to do this (probably quite accurate), so then they did it anyway. That's like saying "hey, we are a good 50 years from having a working time machine, but let's just pop in and say hi to Napolean anyways!"

I was more outraged at the ridiculousness of it at the time, but thinking back now I suppose its not that big of a stretch. The fact is we can do quite well in reading what images are going on in people's minds if we have a limited set to choose from. For instance, I can train my algorithm to tell the difference between cars, cows, and scissors, and then I can tell with very high accuracy which one you are thinking of. But I can't just recreate any random visual scene in real time of you having sex with your boyfriend's father.

And I certainly can't do it with a few random EEG leads hanging from the ceiling.

I am convinced more than ever that I should be consulting for this show.


All that aside, I was happy with the ending with House at his new Wilson-provided organ.

I shouted "COME ON WHY" when I saw she was back

quite a good episode. I enjoyed all the pairings. They spent the correct amount of time with each of them. There wasn't really much more we could've seen from any of them. Any less and we would've missed out on something.

I hated it.

Over the top contrived. "Oh, I just happen to have some pills, wanna get high?"

The House & Patient segment was weak. Chase and Cameron even weaker. Thirteen and Wilson was "cute" and anchored the episode as a bunch of segments of Truth & Dare. If you didn't know that Chase and Cameron were going to sign the Divorce Agreement AND sleep together before leaving that room... well, I thought it was obvious and predictable.

I was planning on bumping this thread to rant about what I felt was a poor episode. I felt that the acting was stiff and then I noticed who directed this episode.

They're doctors, it's not so unbelievable that one would happen to have some pills. They're human beings, it's not so unbelievable that they'd want to get a little high while stuck in a lockdown.

I do think they could have made the scenes with the two of them much, much funnier. I mean...calling each other "dude" and chasing each other around the room...yeah, they missed out on what could have been some really fun interactions.



Maybe it was predictable, but it's not like every storyline of every episode has to have twists and turns. I think the confrontation had to happen sooner or later...the way their relationship ended just didn't make any sense. At least they closed that chapter.

I do agree that the scenes with House and The Guy from The River Wild were pretty weak. I still really like the show for the most part, but I'm so sick of patients who, after knowing House for all of 30 seconds, can cut to the core of why he says and does anything and everything.

You mean the president of Marshall University?

I thought the episode was just OK. I understand why they want to mix it up, but I really prefer the diagnostic mystery episodes. Or if they aren't about that, and they are just about House's character, that's ok too. I'm just not so interested in watching Cuddy solve a crime or the romance/friendship plots between the supporting actors.

LAST nite was ok, but those pills I assume was vicodin, which do not affect you like that,

If you take enough it sure does.

FYP


Wasn't the greatest episode of all time but it was different. I was entertained at times.

How many is enough. Honestly curious about this.

yea I mean people kill them for doing the same old thing over and over and this season they break out a bit from that and people still kill them. brain pictures.

It's not how many, it's how much. Meds, as I'm sure you know, can come in different dosages...I think that vicodin is typically 500mg, but most of that is the paracetamol (acetominophen (tylenol)) with only a small percentage being hydrocodone (the opiate that gives the fun effects). Two vicodin, 1000mg, is on the high end of a regular dose, so I'm guessing that four of them at once would really fuck up (in a good way) the average person without any serious side effects, but that's a complete guess.

I took 6 within 3 hours of each other the other night because of my ankle. Vicodin doesnt do anything for me usually but I needed the pain to be gone, so that combined with two 800mg IBU didn't really do anything.

Pretty sure I am immune to vicodin. My wife then got pissed I took her vicodin.

Lortabs FTW....the blue ones of course, 1000mg and a few drinks = good times

Bwahahahahhahahahahahhaha @ House's dinner date!

house it the only show that manages to jump the shark every third episode and still be worth watching.

I hate taub

... wow.

I have a feeling they're going to kill off Taub. Just seems like they're setting up his character for something.

****, I forgot to DVR the episode. Anyone know where I can find it online without waiting 8 days for it to show up on Fox?

And can you do me a favor and us spoiler warnings until either someone posts a link or I give up?

Watched the episode. I'm not sure what this "wow" was all about...I thought there was going to be something awesomely shocking in the episode.

You TOTALLY let me down here.

When I saw "wow" I also thought "Dang, sorry I missed the episode" so I found a Synopsis of it and then thought "Is that it?" It didn't sound that wowrrific.

I really, really liked the directing. I'd heard they shot the finale with a DSLR, maybe a bit of that in this episode as well. One of my all-time favorite episodes.


you... read a synopsis? what?

this is madness

I liked the episode...the finale should be interesting.

You know who evolved into an awesome character over the years? Chase. I feel like he was incredibly boring at first and then when they tried to make him more 3 dimensional it came off as too artificial, but all of a sudden (after the dictator-killing and wife-losing crap was over) he seems to make most scenes he's involved in...better.

I have to admit I accidentally opened this thread before I saw the episode and thought someone had died or House snapped and bashed Andre Braugher's head

it was a good episode though (the guy who writes the conversation posts likes the episode where there's imaginary interruptions in imaginary situations?)


I also later almost responded to a Strategy hockey post with "... wow." because well yea