# "Everybody Dies"--House final series episode May 21st **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598 "2012-05-21T13:26:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/81 "2012-05-22T17:44:35Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > He probably did some of it earlier, but getting into Foreman’s office to fix the table with his ID would be easy. He’s got keys - put on a set of janitor’s overalls, grab a broom and trash can, and no one is going to look at him very closely (although the limp would be a bit of a problem). Or just send Wilson in to do it. But I don’t think we’re really supposed to over analyze it. Just understand that it happened and Foreman figured out what it meant. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/82 "2012-05-22T17:51:19Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > Bolding mine. > > But he wasn’t dying anyway. House misdiagnosed him with ALS and told him he was going to die. He then said he wasn’t “symmetrical” and told him he was going to be just fine, that he just had a tree growing in his neck. > > I’m going with the homicide by way of assisted suicide. House cooked with the addict not only to ease his own pain, but to supervise his death. Actually, he didn’t have a tree growing in his neck. He had a small branch in his lung. This caused an immune reaction, which manifested in his neck. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/83 "2012-05-22T18:03:13Z")
I’m not sure I buy all of these theories that House planned it all ahead of time. That would mean that he planned a murder just to get a few more months with Wilson. I don’t think the writers intended that dark of an ending. It seemed obvious to me that the intent of the writers was that they went to the building to shoot heroin, House passed out, the patient died, somehow the building caught fire, and House miraculously escaped. House then took advantage of the circumstances and somehow switched the dental records. The alternate theory is that House planned to kill they guy (presumably through an intentional overdose) set the building on fire, then leave. So he od’ed the guy, set the ground floor on fire and then what, climbed to the second floor and passed out? That doesn’t make much sense to me. If it was a plan wouldn’t you throw a match, or a piece of burning wood, or whatever, in from outside and then leave? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/84 "2012-05-22T18:17:07Z")
I beleive his original plan was to kill himself, it was only at the last minute that he changed his mind and when the explosion happened (and he possibly saw Wilson and Foreman standing there) he realized he could fake his death. I’m guessing it was after that that he swapped the dental records. And who knows, maybe the dead guy had a pano scan at the hospital from the orbital fracture. I dunno, I don’t think it’s worth over thinking. I was happy seeing them ride into the sunset. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/85 "2012-05-22T18:24:06Z")
“Cancer is boring.” ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/86 "2012-05-22T18:28:36Z")
[QUOTE=House] People don’t change! [/QUOTE] This to me made the finale. Because, he finally said, “I can change.” Got up, walked to the front of the building, sees Wilson, the building collapses and I scream. I can’t buy that House made it from the front door to the back - with his bum leg and suffering from smoke inhalation - in between the time we see him at the window until the building explodes. So I suspend my disbelief and it works. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/87 "2012-05-22T18:53:51Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > He probably did some of it earlier, but getting into Foreman’s office to fix the table with his ID would be easy. He’s got keys - put on a set of janitor’s overalls, grab a broom and trash can, and no one is going to look at him very closely (although the limp would be a bit of a problem). House has shown a repeated ability to get large/expensive hospital equipment in and out of that place all the time. He probably went through the skylight and delicately landed in the “dental record room” with the required files clenched between his teeth. Same with Foreman’s table. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/88 "2012-05-22T18:59:28Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > “Cancer is boring.” My favourite reply went something like this. House _looking at the patient_: “You’re asymmetrical.” Patient: “Wha?” House: “Head…blah blah blah…you have a lump in your neck.” Patient _feeling his neck lump_: “WTF is It?!?” House _reaching for the scanner_: “I’m not THAT good of a doctor.” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/89 "2012-05-22T19:01:53Z")
Doesn’t have to be physical film dental xrays. Could be digital and he hacked in. Then all he has to do is dress like a Hasidic Jew so no one will notice him (Mel Brooks theory in High Anxiety at the airport fits here) and walk right in to Forman’s office to place his ID badge under the table leg. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/90 "2012-05-22T19:05:31Z")
I like your hacking theory. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/91 "2012-05-22T19:17:09Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I like your hacking theory. I like you. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/92 "2012-05-22T19:19:46Z")
Umm… okay ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/93 "2012-05-22T19:24:20Z")
Couldn’t Wilson have placed the badge? ETA: Y’all get a room. . . ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/94 "2012-05-22T19:47:22Z")
Ok…now I’m thinking more along the lines that House WAS intending to commit suicide with the guy, though maybe it just makes more sense to me than actually helping kill a guy. (Granted, the guy was going to accidentally overdose himself eventually ANYway, but still…) House had the little discussion with the patient about how the patient was a better person knowing he was dying than when he was alive and healthy. The whole episode seems to be House struggling with himself, maybe wanting to change but really, truly unable to. And THAT’S depressing to anyone. He may have gone with the patient with the intention of just overdosing himself; hell, even if his intention HAD been to off the guy, maybe House’s conscious really \*did \*get to him a little, and he realized that he was so incapable of change that he’d rather just…die. Or at least get close enough to kick in a REAL change, not just an attempt at one. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/95 "2012-05-22T19:55:14Z")
Don’t mind me. I’m just playing House. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/96 "2012-05-22T19:57:22Z")
In the 1st hour, it was nice to hear the Hugh Laurie voice I had grown accustomed to from years of BBC shows before House. Tho I did want him to go all foppish prince at least once. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/97 "2012-05-22T20:05:10Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Years ago, but I don’t remember it that well. Robin Williams, right? (Just caught this) House said that line early in the ep. Wilson (actually, R.S.L.) was in that movie. He died. Wanting to LIVE! The character played Puck in AMSND (play within the movie). In a House ep, we learn that Wilson played Puck in a college era porno. The tie ins had me going, I’ll tell you what. Didn’t someone ask Masters once about seeing god? If you wooshed me, well done, sir. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/98 "2012-05-22T20:24:26Z")
I wasn’t wooshing anyone. I don’t recall much about the movie. I saw it maybe one time. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/99 "2012-05-22T20:59:08Z")
I’m sorry to have started the ball rolling on the many incongruities in the finale. I’m happy that we got one instead of the show just going off the air with loose ends. I just think that it was poorly constructed and unfolded in a confusing manner. From the beginning, the series was full of things that couldn’t happen in real life, like the numerous unreported home breakins and the patient never dying while the team went through the medical encyclopedia from A to Z. The patient of the week usually lived but almost none of them had an functioning liver by the time they left the hospital. I simply thought that for a show that everyone would be talking about, they could have done better, and that a two hour finale would have been more cohesive and allow for some plot points to be explained better. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/100 "2012-05-22T21:15:47Z")
> [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](#): > > I’m sorry to have started the ball rolling on the many incongruities in the finale. That’s what we do here. No need to apologize. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598.md?page=6)