Big [House] in the big house. [SPOILER rules in OP]

Invisible

Was there a baseball game or something?

Invisible

Commercials are saying House is next, so an hour later than usual. Unless the local news decides they want to interrupt it, it should be on tonight.

HappylilElf

Asharad wrote:

I hate it how on television shows the person who runs the hospital is always a doctor. I know it is silly to get hung up on that detail, but it is such a glaring error- as hospital administrators/CEO are almost never physicians- and I think it misses an opportunity for real conflict.

I liked House in prison, wish they would run with it for a few more episodes.

They kinda touched on this in one of the early seasons with the drug company owner dude.

chamberlain

It was on after terra nova (in the central time zone anyway).

Spoilers ahoy.

Spoiler:

Episode was bleh. We have a new little girl doogie hauser because the last one left. On the plus side the make up punch between House and Wilson was everything I hoped it would be.

DanHibiki

Charlyne Yi can't act.

Houn

Calling it now:

Spoiler:

This entire season is a dream, House is in mental breakdown.

TTODewback

Calling it further..

Spoiler:

big dude didn't save him and he actually got shank'd. He lives out an entire imaginary season while bleeding to death on the prison floor.

electricitylikesme

Houn wrote:

Calling it now:

Spoiler:

This entire season is a dream, House is in mental breakdown.

It'd be a great (in a "fuck you but not" kind of way) to end the whole show really.

Everything has been the hallucinations of House in a mental institution after some major traumatic fuck up on his part, and thus neatly explaining away all the crazy wrong medicine.

MushroomStick

jdarksun wrote:

So Fox preempted House. My DVR got the first ten minutes of it.

Is there any way to watch that episode legally online, or am I going to have to DVR the next one and wait until Hulu puts up last night's?

If you have Hulu plus, it's up on there now.

chamberlain

electricitylikesme wrote:

Houn wrote:

Calling it now:

Spoiler:

This entire season is a dream, House is in mental breakdown.

It'd be a great (in a "fuck you but not" kind of way) to end the whole show really.

Everything has been the hallucinations of House in a mental institution after some major traumatic fuck up on his part, and thus neatly explaining away all the crazy wrong medicine.

Spoiler:

You mean like the lung magically changing color back and forth?

Invisible

Turns out House is the autistic kid with the snowglobe all grown up.

Professor Snugglesworth

I didn't get any goddamn House last night; they played Terra Nova (which I've officially given up on) instead, and then the news.

I was checking here to see if Fox was going to play it at some bullshit time that I would miss. I might have to scour the Interwebs for this one.

Asharad

CaptainPeacock wrote:

Depends on the institution. CEO of my hospital is an MD.

Is it a teaching hospital?

I've worked in or visited (in a work capacity) about 75 hospitals and have never encountered a physician CEO, but I've never been involved at a teaching hospital.

Invisible

Charlanne Yi is on Conan tonight. She said she was discovered by the producers from her previous appearance on his show. She said did they not listen to me say "I'm awful actor." And her whole interviews is basically I'm a terrible actress, they had to get me an acting coach and I'm terrible at table reads.

On the other hand she's really charming. So there's that.

RhalloTonny

I really tend to not mind her, if only because I know far too many people in academia/science that actually act like that in real life.

ElJeffe

I saw her in a mockumentary with Michael Cera where she played herself. It was pretty much the same as her House character.

I don't mind her so much, but yeah, she is really a terrible actor.

Stormwatcher

I liked her.
and the last half of last season.
And the new pretty doctor is so pretty. She's the main girl in Cloverfield, yeah.

Invisible

So Hugh Laurie did an interview with Conan last week and very strongly hinted this might be the final season. Maybe one more.

chamberlain

I'd be okay with this. I have a feeling that this season is going to be a series of very special episodes in which old characters show up for a day or two and House says goodbye.

Spoiler:

Cuddy to make an appearance in the final episode, followed shortly by House blowing his goddamned brained out.

deowolf

Then Kutner takes him to White Castle?

RhalloTonny

chamberlain wrote:

I'd be okay with this. I have a feeling that this season is going to be a series of very special episodes in which old characters show up for a day or two and House says goodbye.

Spoiler:

Cuddy to make an appearance in the final episode, followed shortly by House blowing his goddamned brained out.

It may be morbid, but that's the ending I'm hoping for.

ElJeffe

At this point I think that's the only ending that would be both logical and an actual ending.

Kipling217

Next week is Chase and Taubs big return episode......

Oh, joy. Lets focus on the two guys who where not the least bit interesting back when this show was any good and have only gotten worse since.

In fact lets focus on them for the whole hour.

Fuck, this season could have been about House building a new team of people that didn't activly hate him. House is such a jerk that PPTH should be littered with ex-team members that hate his guts. Not recycling the same two boring faces over and over again.

Edit. My idea still leaves room for chamberlain's ending. House is a borderline psycho. As shown by this weeks episode where Wilson had to in effect bribe him 200 dollars so that he wouldn't get someone inocently fired for 100 dollars.

chamberlain

Oh come on, we will get to see which of his harem that Taub has decided to stay with.

Kipling217

chamberlain wrote:

Oh come on, we will get to see which of his harem that Taub has decided to stay with.

Shrewish snooty wife or non-entity nurse? Either way we lose.

And we can only hope they leave after this episode.

Schrodinger

I'm only a few minutes in, but I love the intro.

"Why do you want to go back?"

"Because I love being about to do crazy shit while saving lives."

chamberlain

I know that the end made no sense, and once the afterglow of Wilson's simple 'No.' wears off I will have to think about the actual logistics of it, but

Spoiler:

the automatic garage door between their two offices? Hilarious.

Also, glad to see they took the high road with Taub.

Captain Tragedy

David Shore is meeting with execs to determine an end date so the writers can prep for an actual end if necessary.

Invisible

So I just realized where I've seen this season's premise before. The Dean (of Medicine) has placed House on double secret probation.

And I think the ending just cemented the fact that House never left the mental hospital. That or it's all hallucinations as House overdoses on his bathroom floor.

Bedigunz

How did it end?

Invisible

He installed a giant, mechanical wall that he can remotely open that connects the diagnostic office and Wilson's office.

Hive

Have they always had adjacent offices? I'd imagined Wilson was on another floor or something.

MushroomStick

Maybe its not just the wall that gets lifted up?

syndalis

MushroomStick wrote:

Maybe its not just the wall that gets lifted up?

hahaha, he put an entire room on hydraulics? Best use of "fuck you" money ever.

Invisible

Hive wrote:

Have they always had adjacent offices? I'd imagined Wilson was on another floor or something.

I did too. I think they've shown Wilson in the Oncology wing, which maybe is the same wing as House. It seems little odd for the orthopedics team to also be located there, too.

I like the idea of him shifting entire rooms better.

iguanacus

They've had adjacent offices since the start. They share the balcony.

Decoy

Well, I knew Wilson was down the hall (there's plenty of times they've gotten to each others office from the outside walkway), but it always looked like there was a larger space between their offices.

Oh well. I still laughed my ass off.

chamberlain

Why does Wilson put up with House?

This is serious question. It's almost like he is addicted to the abuse.

Invisible

It's my fault really. He wouldn't have to hit me if I just gave him the vicodin. He loves me.

Lars

Pretty much. I think they addressed it in the episode where House's dad died and Wilson had to drive him to the funeral.

Spoiler:

Apparently they met when House bailed him out of prison after Wilson broke a window at some medical convention. House did it because Wilson was the only interesting person there. By the end of the episode, Wilson admits that having House around makes his life much more interesting as well. Wilson then decided that sometimes you don't get to decide who your friends are and got his job back at the hospital (this was when he had quit because Amber died).

Though Wilson is at his best when he's dishing abuse towards House as well (ie. Sawing his cane, or proposing to him in order to prevent him from scoring with the woman they were both interested in, etc).