I think it’s more of an ongoing story point. You could tell Chase was bothered by the whole thing.
Trouble brewing.
FWIW, Wilson had suggested that he do that during one of their discussions about her.
Anyone notice that the plastic surgeon’s partner asked House “What don’t you like about yourself?” That is the same line that they greet patients with on FX’s Nip/Tuck.
Kudos to the kid acting under all that latex, and he and Dad (where was Mom?) had a good dynamic.
Michael Michelle has two facial expressions, and trying to see her act when CIA hottie was fired was downright painful. And House admitting a mistake…?! Classic, and a great way to bring in Wilson, my hero. Not that his Wiccan story wasn’t terrific too.
We had a clue that the docco crew, despite the oh-so-artsy B&W shakeycam, was actually making a pretty shallow Afterschool Special type of thing early on when the blonde lady asked Chase to say out loud that Kevin’d be ready for his junior prom; so the ending with Fuzzy!House was not unexpected but executed superbly.
Yes, Plastic Surgeon guy was a balder, shorter, slightly less square-jawed Michael Scott to the point where it was quite distracting.
This reads like a bit of revisionist history to me. House does this all the time! He did it about 15 times during this episode alone in response to the Inter-Cranial Pressure diagnosis. 90% of brilliance is demonstrated by his ability to sarcastically dismiss apparently valid diagnoses based on the thinnest of explanations aside from his own faith that he’s right. It’s the entire basis of his character. Half of Wilson and Cuddy’s concern is that there’s a lot of luck involved in those diagnoses and that they are waiting for the other shoe to drop. I’ll grant that it stretches credibility on occasion, but that’s the whole premise of the show so to say that this particular case in this particular episode was jarring to you seems a little peculiar.
Again, this is a incredibly common theme. He’s constantly barging into exam rooms and ORs. I think there’s been previous examples where he’s walked in on pelvic exams. Totally fits in his character and it fits in the way that the staff would respond, i.e. that they wouldn’t. The documentary crew was conducting an interview while a guy was getting a rectal exam for Pete’s sake. It’s one of the conceits of the show.
Seems like if you are a fan of the show, you would have already suspended disbelief in both these two cliches.
It seemed to me that the kid’s wandering eye switched sides after the surgery Am I imagining that?
I pretty much have to pretend that the medical aspect of the show is entirely incidental to the narrative. It’s a modern day Sherlock Holmes, and could just as easily be taking place in a warehouse, or a factory, or mega-company.
Just like anyone with any understanding of law enforcement lets go of reality when watching 24 and any Washington insider scoffs at the drama of The West Wing.
I’m consistently amazed at how medical shows tend to take so much heat for the slightest inconsistency or flawed doctor-speak. What makes these settings so different from any other fictional program?
I don’t have too much problem with this. I remember watching a documentary about trying to write a diagnostics program, sort of a “if-this-then-this” logic tree. It showed a programmer interviewing a brilliant diagnostician and asking him something like, “So how did you know from these results that the diagnosis was such-and-such,” and the doctor didn’t know. Apparently, it was the intuition built up from dealing with thousands and thousands of cases that worked its way into the doctor’s subconscious. Something just clicked. I suspending my disbelief with House by thinking the same thing is going on, prodded by discussions with his minions.
There was a scene at the beginning as they got off a train where Dad was talking to Mom on a cell phone and asking about the other kids in the family.
Well, this medical fact is one I knew- so it jumped out at me!
I think the plastic surgeon totally looks like Steve Carell too. I kept thinking “this network is trying to line up their own Carell, because he’s so ‘hot’”
Strangely, I actually heard it this way. Had to piece the joke together retroactively, and by then it wasn’t all that funny. Too bad for me.
This was, to me, the best and worst episode of the season. The camera crew schtick was almost unbearably annoying, and I was so relieved that they dropped it for the most part during the second half of the episode.
However, the interaction between House and the Dr. Taub was very entertaining, and I agree with Wilson seems to just get better and better.
Get rid of the ducklings. They are completely unnecessary and distracting to boot. Cameron just has no idea what to do with her hair. The bangs, then dying it blonde…just awful.
That is all.
Oh, right…I meant to add that Cameron and Chase are completely useless. I’m still on the fence about Foreman. But for them to suggest that we should care that Cameron is still pining for House…give me a break. Let it go; let them go.
As to the “Fuzzy House” clip from the “documentary” at the end:
-
The documentary producer was the usual idiot and wanted to make House look fuzzy because that’s what these kind of people do.
-
The documentary producer was ticked off royally at House and decided as payback to characterize House as fuzzy because they knew it would make him very, very angry.
While 1 is more likely, 2 would be more fun. No reasonably intelligent person could of course believe that House was inspired by “Patch Adams”. But that doesn’t necessarily include the documentary producers.
And why was Foreman in this episode?
To serve as the voice of reason when Dr. House’s mind was clouded by horniness.
Or, because the actor is under contract and they have no earthly idea what to do with him.
But he went to Wilson for real confirmation and discussion about his “little brain doing the thinking for the big brain” issue.