Wilson has made a deal with Tritter, and House is pissed.
Looking forward to all the conflicts tonight…
Darn it! I have a holiday dinner tonight but luckily it’s in town and with older ladies. We should be out of there by 8:30!
I want to see Tritter go down somehow. I don’t like to see House compromised and under someone else’s thumb. :mad:
I’m a fan of this show because in the beginning it seemed that House was just coming off as a curmudgeon because he had the attitude of “I’m surrounded by assholes and I’m just trying to be myself”, a la Larry David on “Curb Your Enthusiasm”. But lately he just seems to be plain mean. We’ve seen him be sympathetic in his own way but he seems awfully callous about the fact that everyone around him is being equally totured by this cop simply because they know House. I don’t expect House to be compassionate per se, but come on - even Wilson can only take so much and he’s a huge doormat. I suppose this will all have to come to a head at some point - hopefully tonight.
House has pissed me off this season, too. For being a jerk.
Smart-assedness has its place. House snarking on Cuddy and his charges is funny. But why he felt it was acceptable to have a guy drop his pants and stick a thermometer up his ass (that’s what it was, right?) out of spite is beyond me.
The John Larroquette epi gave us insight on House’s childhood, but what the fuck explains his behavior at this point? Let’s see: he’s inconvenienced every single associate in his life (and if we want to make Wilson a friend, him too - superbly so) and they still stand by him. House is brilliant, but is he that brilliant? That people would allow themselves to be his doormat because he’s really good at doctorin’?
We saw nice House last season when he let Wilson bunk up with him. Now, he’s in full bastard mode. I was galled by how he approached all of the doctors about the Vicodin. No “pleases,” no “I’m begging you, help me out” pleas. Just the lame “gimme my meds” whining. But I’m remembering how this season he was “cured.” Maybe that experience of getting better, but then having the injury slowly re-emerge is making him particularly loopy.
I want to give Wilson a bouquet and sign House’s name to it. I’m not that nice to anybody. Your hijinks gets my money frozen up? You’re dead to me!
That’s a good point. It would add an extra layer of anger to have reverted to his painful state.
How long before Tritter gets deathly sick, and House saves his life?
The answer lies in the nicotine gum. Lupus??
It’s never lupus.
Wow.
Don’t know what to make of this. House continues to be incorrigible. His complaint “I didn’t do anything wrong” is really hollow. Dude, your best friend is getting shopped because you faked his signature on prescriptions! Does the guy have any sort of moral code? Breaking into Cuddy’s desk? Fucking over Wilson and that poor drone pharmacist?
I think we get it - dude is addicted and he’s doing all kind of junkie things. I will agree with Tritter that for such a calculating, rational guy House seems way too content to be an addict.
Wilson is still my boy. Seriously overestimated his ability to turn House to the deal.
Tritter is being set up as some parallel to House. The writers are making an obvious point of him popping nicotine gum constantly. I figure they’ll have this long heart-to-heart when they both realize that they’re prisoners of their respective addictions. Still, House is to blame for thinking that the whole world was in awe of him. Seems that the walk on water act only works with Cuddy, Chase, Cameron, and Foreman.
I wonder if they’ll bring in the various patients he’s treated horribly to testify about his pill popping? The writers are also obvious in showing him pop pills in front of patients and their families all the time. You’d think he’d sneak into his office for a pop.
Too late for that. If the DA is involved, House saving Tritter’s life may only get Tritter off his back. He’s still in deep, deep doo-doo with The Powers That Be Law.
What was that song in the opening?
Well, it sounded like Louis Armstrong. After doing some googling, I think it’s his song “Zat You, Santa Claus?”
I agree that there’s a parallel between House and Tritter. I noticed it in the previous episode, where it shows that Tritter has the same obsession with getting House that House has with figuring out what’s wrong with the patients.
I knew that oxy prescription was gonna bite him in the ass.
Thanks mucho
I’m not so sure about the House-saving-Tritter’s life theory now. They haven’t mentioned the nicotine gum in several episodes.
But he was shown chewing it – quite obviously – when he was in the car with Wilson. It has to be a plot point of some kind. Not necessarily how House gets off (you really can’t have the show if he’s in jail and unlicensed), but it will be used for something.
Oh, I didn’t notice Tritter chewing gum in the car. Was he doing it the two times House was able to observe him in this episode?
I for one will be happy when this story arc is over. I was all for it until it just went high-and-to-the-right. I mean, here’s this cop who was offended. Well I was willing to believe that he would pull over House, and get him arrested. Hell, I was stretching my imagination to believe that a judge would grant Tritter a search warrant for House’s house.
But then…The judge grants Tritter warrants for Pharmacies to get the original scripts, and allows him to bar access to bank accounts of Drs who have never written him suspicious scripts, and take automobiles. Then to top it all off the hospital lets Tritter question its entire staff without layers, gives him and office, and complete access to all of its files (a HIPPA violation) ON HIS OWN TIME?! All of this to bust a physician who has a legitimate pain issue?
Come on. Even I (who bought into the disappearing car in the last Bond) simply can suspend my belief this far.
I’ll just be happy when it goes back to a faulty Lupus diagnosis each episode, all the while House acts like a dick.
Anyway, that aside, I thought it was a really good episode, and would have been even better as a stand-alone. Best line: “How about we go for a spin?”
Yup. In the car he was popping gum just like House pops pills. And since it been remarked on once already, I’m suspecting that it becomes an issue, perhaps in House’s trial. I don’t think House will save him though, because that would be really trite, and if there’s one thing this show isn’t; it’s trite.
That’s the thing about addicts. As a recovering addict myself, I know. We all believe our own lies. We have to disconnect from the fact that what we are doing is wrong or else we can’t keep it up. So we lie to ourselves.
When he was in the other doctor’s office, I was laughing (self-depricatingly, of course) because I’ve done that. When he started getting upset and berating the guy, I was thinking to myself “Duuuuude. You blew it.” All good addicts never get upset at the doctor. It’s a sure way of outing yourself. Of course, because of their policy, he wasn’t getting it anyway.
The whole episode was uncomfortably familiar, although I never cut myself when detoxing. Yikes!
It sucks when you get addicted to something that was prescribed for legitimate pain. You can eventually cross that line without even realizing it. Then you’re at the point where you don’t have the pain anymore and your brain hasn’t realized it yet because it still wants the drugs.