# "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:** 11\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/121 "2012-05-23T19:12:30Z")
Dammit, it was [Louis Prima](http://youtu.be/nrxiDogzUjc)! šŸ™‚ Quasi ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/122 "2012-05-23T19:30:23Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Wouldnā€™t that support the argument? No, I donā€™t think so. He was a miserable ass before the pain. Heā€™d be a miserable ass without it. And the pain is very real and intense. Witness him a couple of weeks ago lashing out at Taub, ā€œIā€™M IN PAIN!ā€ Very seldom does he take it out on anyone like that, though. Itā€™s just something he internalizes and deals with by popping Vicodin. It doesnā€™t cause him to pull irresponsible pranks, make sexist comments, or call everybody he deals with idiots. The pain is not his fault, according to him. He puts the blame on Stacy, who authorized a different treatment for his leg while he was in the coma and she had his medical power of attorney. If he had a more sociable personality, heā€™d still be in pain intense enough for him to need the Vicodin all day long. I could sympathize with him. I had back pain a few years ago that was so intense I could barely walk and wanted to die. I have a rather pleasant personality and doubt I could have withstood it as stoically as House deals with his. If you could put his personality on anything, it was probably due to his upbringing with a military father who treated him like the lowest Marine recruit and a mother who was too passive to interfere. ---
**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 23, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/123 "2012-05-23T19:56:37Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I have a rather pleasant personality Cite? šŸ˜› ---
**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 23, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/124 "2012-05-23T20:13:26Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > No, I donā€™t think so. He was a miserable ass before the pain. Heā€™d be a miserable ass without it. And the pain is very real and intense. Witness him a couple of weeks ago lashing out at Taub, ā€œIā€™M IN PAIN!ā€ Very seldom does he take it out on anyone like that, though. Itā€™s just something he internalizes and deals with by popping Vicodin. It doesnā€™t cause him to pull irresponsible pranks, make sexist comments, or call everybody he deals with idiots. The pain is not his fault, according to him. He puts the blame on Stacy, who authorized a different treatment for his leg while he was in the coma and she had his medical power of attorney. If he had a more sociable personality, heā€™d still be in pain intense enough for him to need the Vicodin all day long. > > I could sympathize with him. I had back pain a few years ago that was so intense I could barely walk and wanted to die. I have a rather pleasant personality and doubt I could have withstood it as stoically as House deals with his. > > If you could put his personality on anything, it was probably due to his upbringing with a military father who treated him like the lowest Marine recruit and a mother who was too passive to interfere. Step Father. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/125 "2012-05-23T21:42:19Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Step Father. For all practical purposes, he was the father figure. I know House suspected early on he wasnā€™t his real father, but there was no other influential adult male in his day-to-day life. ---
**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 24, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/126 "2012-05-24T15:21:18Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > For all practical purposes, he was the father figure. I know House suspected early on he wasnā€™t his real father, but there was no other influential adult male in his day-to-day life. Agreed, but the primary premise ā€œEverybody liesā€ comes directly from this situation with his parents. Didnā€™t mean to be needlessly pedantic, I just think that particular distinction is carbon-level basic to House. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/127 "2012-05-24T17:07:58Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Itā€™s been said that heā€™s misrable (and acts the way he does) because of the constant pain that heā€™s in, but could it be argued that (on some cosmic level) his pain is actual his payment for all the mean things he does. Maybe if he was a better person in life, some of the pain heā€™s in would be alleviated? Symbolism and all that. Sure, but doesnā€™t he also get ā€œpaidā€ for all the lives he saved . . . and the excellent training he provided for his staff, who would then go on and save more lives? ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/128 "2012-05-25T18:12:44Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Some great quotes from this episode: > ā€¦ > House: ā€œPascalā€™s wager is facile.ā€ I found Houseā€™s conversation with his ex-wife the most interesting. House stuck with his atheism to the end. Also I smiled when Hugh Laurie pronounced ā€œfacileā€ the British way _fas-ahyl_ instead of the American _ **fas** -il_. Despite some plot points that were a stretch, I thought the episode was an excellent finale to the series. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/129 "2012-05-25T18:57:23Z")
Iā€™ve been to a couple of cast parties, one being ā€œCamelot The Musicalā€ which **Dondra** got us invitations to (She free-lanced for Creative Loafing Atlantaā€™s entertainment section at the time and I got to meet my favorite ā€œArthurā€ Richard Harris. Sorry, but Iā€™m very proud of my wife and never miss a chance to brag on her:)), and IMO, this one -House- was a little long in the tooth. I would have preferred a 2 hour ā€œHouseā€ instead, but thatā€™s just me. Oh yeah, that year the Braves made the play-offs and because **D** went to school with Ted Turnerā€™s executive secretary (Barbara), I was able to get a real Braves jersey to give to Mr. Harris and got to shake his hand and speak with him a little. The next night (we saw the play twice), Mr. Harris took his last bow with the jersey on which thrilled us both no end. I guess itā€™d be ā€œbad formā€ to contact the estate and ask for the jersey back, huh?;):D;):D. J/K, folks! It was, after all just some red and white cloth. I actually got to meet one of my favorite actors and had a short conversation with him about T.H. Whiteā€™s The Once and Future King, which was way better. I know this sounds like Iā€™m bragging. I donā€™t mean for it to, itā€™s just that this was one of the highlights of my life and it was all made possible by my sweet wife, who is also my hero and Iā€™m her biggest fan. BTW, this all took place during our first marriage. Who would have known back then, that you and I would at some point in the future have a connection through The Straight Dope, that youā€™d come to our rescue, and that weā€™d be the bestest of friends?\* Again, sorry for the detour, but these days being able to remember something like that makes me want to remember _every_ detail I can and write it down, so that I can now edit, copy and paste it into my memoirs. Thanks very much and we love yā€™all! šŸ™‚ Bill and **Dondra Craig** \*P.S: Is that serendipity or synchronicity? I can never remember which is which. ---
**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 25, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/130 "2012-05-25T18:59:38Z")
Serendipity is a Cusak movie, Synchronicity is a Police album. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598/131 "2012-05-25T19:02:31Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > Based on the look House gave POTW, I assumed House shot up with him. POTW was describing the effects of heroin and House looked like a dog watching someone eat a steak. He had this hopeful, desiring look on his face, as if he couldnā€™t imaging a life without pain. He finds himself a junkie who believes he has nothing left to lose, so the junkie hooks him up and as far as we know, volunteered for the job. In fact, Iā€™d guessed he did volunteer for the job because heā€™d offered to take the fall for House. House definitely shot up with POTW: one of his first sentences in the show, which didnā€™t make sense until later, was telling Suicide-Delusion that he WAS just a ā€˜delusion born of his smack-addled brainā€™. Or something close; the ā€˜smack-addledā€™ part is dead on, though. Maybe the patient dying was just a happy accident that House took advantage of, but Iā€™m still going with the idea that House switched all the records later, somehow, because thatā€™s easier for me to swallow than House planning someoneā€™s death in order to take advantage of it, especially since it was made quite clear that yeah, House WAS giving up and saying fuck it and ready to just DIAF. Doubt he planned the DIAF thing either, but his resolution to change seemed pretty clear-cut, and it wasnā€™t until then that he got his ass up and moving. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-dies-house-final-series-episode-may-21st/622598.md?page=6)