House does a brief stint in rehab, then sees a patient with an STD. Of course, a lot more stuff will happen than that! Good to see this show again after its hiatus.
bump. The break is over, House fans. He’s back!
I didn’t like the opening. I could practically hear the director say, “OK, lead patient for this episode, jump up and start running around and screaming … NOW!”
Now this is an interesting twist on the formula.
I don’t like Michele Williatranchenburg’s oh-so-talky person who would never exist in real life.
What was Cuddy’s deal at the beginning? She pays House 10 bucks for each patient he diagnoses without touching … and what else?
Oh but come on, wasn’t it great when you find out why he’s jumping up and down? I thought he was going to have some freaky thing like giant worms in his skull.
Nope, just a roach.
“I owe you 10 bucks”
And for every patient House must touch, Cuddy gets 10.
Soon House gets a gorgeous patient, and after seeing her, tells Cuddy he owes her ten!
Loved all the different advice he got about what he should tell the patient. Very surprised Cameron didn’t advise to tell the truth.
“Didn’t you ever watch Dawson’s Creek?” “Don’t you watch afternoon specials?”
Loved the exchange with the uberhygiene guy. Athlete’s foot in his nose. Fantastic!!
Gah!! I hated this episode and mainly because of her… why couldn’t she just SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP!?? All that psycho-babble bullshit wasn’t in the least bit believable and I’d rather have focused on anything but that. But, as a dedicated Chase disciple, I adored the “Just keep her asleep then.” line. Og knows that’s what I would have done. After giving HER the paralytic instead of the cockroach guy.
Oh, and did anyone buy that House’s father really did all that stuff to him? I personally was holding out hope for the “gotcha!” and our return to his affiliation with lying to help others. That’s our boy!
And again, I hated that chick’s character, but I gotta say that she was attractive in a blond-Marisa Tomei sorta way. Great hair. Not enough of everyone else and Cuddy’s jacket was too freakin’ small. See the things I notice when the story line doesn’t reel me in?
Who knows? House certainly has no problem with lying to other people to manipulate them, but on the other hand, his father is extremely strict and they have a bad relationship.
I can only hope then. 
A fairly good episode. The high points for me were the lack of the Tritter (hip hip hurray!) and the exchange with the grooming freak.
My shirt isn’t pressed and I haven’t combed my hair this week, but you have athlete’s foot in your nose. I’m ready to be judged.*
Priceless. I also loved how the episode started out letting you think you knew exactly where it was going and who the primary patient would be and then jerked away. Nice twist.
*I know that I probably mutilated the line, but I was too busy laughing to log it into memory word for word.
I thought it was pretty good. Good thing I didn’t recognize Michelle T., or I might have said otherwise!
Yeah, it went off in some directions I wasn’t expecting.
I don’t recall House popping his pills. Isn’t he still hooked on Vicodin?
Wilson: “Are we role playing? Am I you? I don’t want to be you.”
Unfortunately the whole cockroach in the ear thing shudder freaked me out so much I started playing on the computer shudder and didn’t pay much attention to the rest of the episode. shudder
[sub]Cockroach in the ear! shudder[/sub]
Well he did once when Cutty found him outside, but nowhere near the ammount he was doing pre-rehab
Oh my god. Worst. Episode. Ever. Pure, absolute torture. Psychobabble bullshit the likes of which House would never in a million years put up with. No disease or illness to actually cure, therefore very limited interaction between the team. Everyone seemed so isolated. I was not only bored to freaking tears, I was tensed up and annoyed, dying for this shit to be over. God, that was horrible.
I thought this episode was… ok. Mostly because of what the writers were trying to do, not how they actually did it.
I appreciated the effort to stray from the formula. I didn’t like what actually happened, though. The rape-chick was annoying and dumb, the dying guy was boring and pointless. The comedy I liked, as usual, but the medical storylines detracted from my enjoyment of it.
I also appreciated the effort to show a compassionate House, to show him growing as a person… but the way in which they did so was completely unbelievable. I just cannot swallow that it’s in his character to sit there and listen to some dumb chick babble (or try to force him to) just because she got raped. He didn’t even yell at her once! Now… if they’d tried to convince me he did it to get out of clinic duty… that I might’ve believed.
The rape victim was played by Katheryn Winnick.
Why is the talkative psychobabble rape patient more unbelievable than other “House” storylines?