# House 11/14: Parents **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 15, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973 "2011-11-15T04:05:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/1 "2011-11-15T04:05:37Z")
The parents of a paralyzed boy complicate the medical decisions. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/2 "2011-11-15T04:29:09Z")
That very last scene? I burst out laughing so loud I startled the cat. The audacity! THIS is why Wilson likes House - the audacity! And the shifty guy working on disabling House’s electronic ankle monitor, and it went off, and he beat feet out of there - OMG, I’m still laughing! ---
**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:** [November 15, 2011, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/3 "2011-11-15T08:46:24Z")
It was great. Foreman played Wilson like a Stradivarius. “You can’t go to the fight. House is your friend and it’s your job to stay with him and watch it on pay-per-view together.” “You know what? You’re right. I can’t go.” Foreman is becoming a lot more like House than he probably cares to admit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/4 "2011-11-15T15:17:51Z")
That was really funny. It was a few hours later that I started to question, how did Foreman and House end up with Wilson’s two tickets? In their scene together Foreman convinces Wilson that he (Wilson) can’t go to the fight. Was there a deleted shot where Foreman says, “So I’ll just take those two tickets from you and dispose of them properly.” If so, I can see why THAT would be cut. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/5 "2011-11-15T18:07:00Z")
Apple juice?! Well…thank goodness! He had me going for a minute there. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/6 "2011-11-15T21:47:55Z")
I’m enjoying the show a lot more this season. House is back to being \*fun \*again after that whole angsty mess that was last season. I didn’t see the last scene coming, though. I suppose I should have. 🙂 I still hope it’s the last season, though. Let them go out on a high note. ---
**Author:** ![Bilbo1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bilbo1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bilbo1967)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/7 "2011-11-15T21:58:31Z")
Err, spoiler warning needed on this thread. I’m in the UK and this isn’t aired till Thursday! ---
**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:** [November 16, 2011, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/8 "2011-11-16T05:52:08Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > That very last scene? I burst out laughing so loud I startled the cat. Yeah, I made both of my cats jump. Poor Wilson, consoling himself with pizza. And wow, Peter Jacobson is looking hotter than ever this season. I’m watching the show as much to see him as Hugh Laurie. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/9 "2011-11-16T14:57:30Z")
> [@randwill](#): > > That was really funny. It was a few hours later that I started to question, how did Foreman and House end up with Wilson’s two tickets? In their scene together Foreman convinces Wilson that he (Wilson) can’t go to the fight. Was there a deleted shot where Foreman says, “So I’ll just take those two tickets from you and dispose of them properly.” If so, I can see why THAT would be cut. In the same scene, just as he says “you’re right”, Wilson hands Foreman the tickets. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Elk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Anne\_Elk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Elk)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/10 "2011-11-16T19:12:10Z")
Did anyone else notice Wilson’s choice of beer in the last scene? AMBUSH LIGHT Perfect choice! I hope it goes the way of DUFF beer, and it actually becomes “for real”. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/11 "2011-11-16T22:13:16Z")
This may not be the right place because I haven’t actually seen this episode yet— still a couple of eps behind on the DVR— but I have to complain somewhere about the baffling, inescapable black hole of SUCK that is Charlyne Yi as Dr. Park. Jesus Christ, who the FUCK thought it was a good idea to put her on this show? Are they trying to ENSURE that the series doesn’t have a prayer after this season? This “actress” was mildly amusing for about ten seconds as the goofy Asian stoner chick in _Knocked Up_, but on this show she is so distractingly terrible in her acting and delivery that I can’t even concentrate on the storyline. Her diction is so appalling that she literally needs subtitles (and I’m pretty sure she was born in the United States!) A line like “if you were me, what would you do” comes slopping out of her mouth as “furmy, w’judoo?” Half the time I don’t even know what she just said, but have no inclination to rewind and try to figure it out. I _cringe_ watching Laurie and the other actors try to get through the scenes with her— it’s almost a complete farce, as though they had someone wearing a donkey suit for no reason while everyone else plays the scene straight and pretends not to notice. She isn’t funny, she isn’t cute, and she sure as hell isn’t believable as a doctor. If the whole thing isn’t some sick prank being played on the audience, the only possible reason I can fathom for making her a regular character is to give loser weaboos (koreaboos?) a quirky Asian chick to fap to. And even if that \*were \*it, couldn’t they have picked someone halfway attractive? She looks like Bobby Lee’s “uh-oh! Hot dog!” character from Mad TV. There. I’m glad I got that out. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/12 "2011-11-16T22:23:09Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > In the same scene, just as he says “you’re right”, Wilson hands Foreman the tickets. Can someone double check this? (I’ve deleted it from my DVR.) I remember Wilson just taking the tickets out and then pondering. So I didn’t figure it out until Wilson turned on the TV and the ringside thing started. (But before they showed them.) Only then did I realize what was about to happen. Didn’t we do the hidden syphilis thing before? And why would it cause the sudden onset of severe symptoms right after the crotch hit? The two new ducklings (duckettes?) continue to disappoint. Yi started off strong in her first appearance but nearly nothing of note since then. Where’s the whiteboard? Two episodes back in the office and no whiteboard either time. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/13 "2011-11-16T22:24:22Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > This may not be the right place because I haven’t actually seen this episode yet— still a couple of eps behind on the DVR— but I have to complain somewhere about the baffling, inescapable black hole of SUCK that is Charlyne Yi as Dr. Park. Jesus Christ, who the FUCK thought it was a good idea to put her on this show? Are they trying to ENSURE that the series doesn’t have a prayer after this season? This “actress” was mildly amusing for about ten seconds as the goofy Asian stoner chick in _Knocked Up_, but on this show she is so distractingly terrible in her acting and delivery that I can’t even concentrate on the storyline. Her diction is so appalling that she literally needs subtitles (and I’m pretty sure she was born in the United States!) A line like “if you were me, what would you do” comes slopping out of her mouth as “furmy, w’judoo?” Half the time I don’t even know what she just said, but have no inclination to rewind and try to figure it out. > > I _cringe_ watching Laurie and the other actors try to get through the scenes with her— it’s almost a complete farce, as though they had someone wearing a donkey suit for no reason while everyone else plays the scene straight and pretends not to notice. She isn’t funny, she isn’t cute, and she sure as hell isn’t believable as a doctor. If the whole thing isn’t some sick prank being played on the audience, the only possible reason I can fathom for making her a regular character is to give loser weaboos (koreaboos?) a quirky Asian chick to fap to. And even if that \*were \*it, couldn’t they have picked someone halfway attractive? She looks like Bobby Lee’s “uh-oh! Hot dog!” character from Mad TV. > > There. I’m glad I got that out. I agree. I lost the love for the whole show last season and even though I’m watching I haven’t gotten it back. I feel like Laurie and/or the writers are mailing it in. Maybe the premise isn’t sustainable (or maybe it’s just me…) but I’m bored silly every week. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/14 "2011-11-16T22:30:12Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > There. I’m glad I got that out. I can’t decide if I like her or not. I tend to go back and forth. Sometimes I like her because I’m getting sick to \*death \*of seeing the interchangeable lineup of skinny brunette “gorgeous” (I put that in quotes because I really don’t think any of them are) chicks (first we had Cameron, then Thirteen, now this prison doctor chick whose name I can’t even remember. And let’s not forget Cuddy). Good _God_, but does somebody on the production staff have a thing for skinny brunette chicks? Charlyne Yi is a breath of fresh air because she isn’t conventionally attractive, and it’s nice to see a female character in a major role on a TV show who isn’t (and isn’t being played strictly for laughs). So she’s got that going for her. On the other hand, she’s got the most annoying voice in the world (okay, Gilbert Gottfried edges her out, but just barely) and her line delivery is terrible. I couldn’t decide for awhile if she was doing it on purpose, but I don’t think she is. I think she’s just that bad. On the third hand (calling Dr. House!) she is kinda funny and she gets the occasional snarky line. That’s fun. So…I wouldn’t mind if she left, if they didn’t replace her with another damned skinny-and-blandly-attractive-in-a-completely-mainstream-way brunette chick. Please, I don’t think I can take any more of them! ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/15 "2011-11-16T22:33:11Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Didn’t we do the hidden syphilis thing before? And why would it cause the sudden onset of severe symptoms right after the crotch hit? That’s one thing I found unbelievable in this episode. Not because I don’t think it would happen, but because I’m afraid it \*would \*happen and the parent would react just as he did. Seriously, if I’d ever punched \*anybody \*in the crotch in front of my parents (or even if I did it out of eyesight and it got back to them), I wouldn’t be writing this now because I’d \*still \*be grounded. Plus I wouldn’t be able to sit down. Really, Dad? “Get your hands off my kid”? I thought the teenager showed remarkable restraint, personally. I’d have been sorely tempted to chuck the little hellion through the nearest plate-glass window and claim temporary insanity. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/16 "2011-11-16T22:46:59Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > If the whole thing isn’t some sick prank being played on the audience, the only possible reason I can fathom for making her a regular character is to give loser weaboos (koreaboos?) a quirky Asian chick to fap to. I hope it’s a sick prank. Her character is almost as bad as the yellow face stuff on other shows/movies. Can it really be that hard to have an Asian-American character on TV that doesn’t play up some kind of stereotype? It absolutely has to be an ultra-motivated, overachiever character with hyper involved tiger parents? Or some other painfully unfunny immigrant stereotypes? It can’t be a fairly normal person who happened to grow up with Asian parents but has some other, un-related dysfunction? I just watched the latest Harold and Kumar movie, and it’s still striking that it’s still one of the few examples where Asian characters are portrayed as normal people who happen to look a little different. Even during Kal Penn’s stint on House, he didn’t have to deal with that crap. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/17 "2011-11-16T22:54:04Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > This may not be the right place because I haven’t actually seen this episode yet— still a couple of eps behind on the DVR— but I have to complain somewhere about the baffling, inescapable black hole of SUCK that is Charlyne Yi as Dr. Park. Jesus Christ, who the FUCK thought it was a good idea to put her on this show? Are they trying to ENSURE that the series doesn’t have a prayer after this season? This “actress” was mildly amusing for about ten seconds as the goofy Asian stoner chick in _Knocked Up_, but on this show she is so distractingly terrible in her acting and delivery that I can’t even concentrate on the storyline. Her diction is so appalling that she literally needs subtitles (and I’m pretty sure she was born in the United States!) A line like “if you were me, what would you do” comes slopping out of her mouth as “furmy, w’judoo?” Half the time I don’t even know what she just said, but have no inclination to rewind and try to figure it out. > > I _cringe_ watching Laurie and the other actors try to get through the scenes with her— it’s almost a complete farce, as though they had someone wearing a donkey suit for no reason while everyone else plays the scene straight and pretends not to notice. She isn’t funny, she isn’t cute, and she sure as hell isn’t believable as a doctor. If the whole thing isn’t some sick prank being played on the audience, the only possible reason I can fathom for making her a regular character is to give loser weaboos (koreaboos?) a quirky Asian chick to fap to. And even if that \*were \*it, couldn’t they have picked someone halfway attractive? She looks like Bobby Lee’s “uh-oh! Hot dog!” character from Mad TV. > > There. I’m glad I got that out. +1. I still love the show, but I hate that chick. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/18 "2011-11-17T14:55:54Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Yeah, I made both of my cats jump. Poor Wilson, consoling himself with pizza. > > And wow, Peter Jacobson is looking hotter than ever this season. I’m watching the show as much to see him as Hugh Laurie. Well, I’m enjoying his baby-drama, and he’s looking a tad less like the Dooley mug in the Utica Club Schultz-and-Dooley set [http://thecollectors-corner.com/store/images/id1443.jpg](http://thecollectors-corner.com/store/images/id1443.jpg) but he’ll never strike any woman as being ‘hot’ unless he exposes his big, thick wallet to them. Boy, Chase has certainly uglified himself this season, he hardly resembles the beautiful emo-blonde in the earlier seasons. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Righteous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Dr.Righteous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Righteous)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/19 "2011-11-17T15:15:58Z")
Question: I don’t have kids so I don’t know if this is now the norm, but since when do parents hang around their kids friends birthday parties? I remember getting dropped off and picked up, but here there was a crowd of parents along with the kids. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-11-14-parents/602973/20 "2011-11-17T15:42:45Z")
> [@Dr.Righteous](#): > > Question: I don’t have kids so I don’t know if this is now the norm, but since when do parents hang around their kids friends birthday parties? I remember getting dropped off and picked up, but here there was a crowd of parents along with the kids. It depends on the age of the children, the size of the party and on the hosts’s intentions. I came to drop my six-year-old off at a party last Saturday, but there was beer, and all of the parents seemed to be hanging around, so I assumed they wanted us to stay and socialize.