# House 5/23 - Many open spoilers!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 23, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969 "2006-05-23T22:36:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/1 "2006-05-23T22:36:07Z")
Season finale spoilers:
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A disgruntled former patient comes back and shoots our dear doctor, and at some point, it appears that House punches Wilson in the face. Or someone does. Could be one of those promo tricks.
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### Author:  [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/2 "2006-05-24T01:12:46Z")
did he just reduced the morphine of the guy who shot him?
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### Author:  [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/3 "2006-05-24T01:16:23Z")
Is this the guy who was diagnosed with herpes a few episodes back?
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/4 "2006-05-24T01:19:07Z")
Whoa! Do not get House mad. And whoa! What the hell was that?! And could somebody clarify the spoiler rules in House threads for me, please?
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/5 "2006-05-24T01:58:34Z")
This is beyond weird.
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/6 "2006-05-24T02:00:24Z")
I had a feeling early on that it was leading up to this.
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### Author:  [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/7 "2006-05-24T02:00:40Z")
Well, now that was very “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. I thought it was very good. I confess though, that I did not look at the t.v. screen during the many gory bits. I’m getting squeamish in my advancing years.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/8 "2006-05-24T02:02:24Z")
I’m always annoyed by “reset button” episodes. I would have liked it to be more a “half and half” type thing, where yes, there is a guy in the hospital who has these weird medical problems, or maybe several people that House amalgamatd into one patient, and House was in the ICU hallucinating/dreaming most of the time while other doctors and so forth talked about these patients.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/9 "2006-05-24T02:02:59Z")
> [@PastAllReason](#):
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> Well, now that was very “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. I thought it was very good. I confess though, that I did not look at the t.v. screen during the many gory bits. I’m getting squeamish in my advancing years.
I wasn’t watching either. Then my daughter screamed and I turned to the TV and saw. . . I dunno what I saw _exactly_ but it wasn’t pleasant.
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### Author:  [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/10 "2006-05-24T02:06:52Z")
Dammit House, I’m trying to _eat_ here! I don’t need to see puffer nads while eating my pizza
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/11 "2006-05-24T02:11:25Z")
Aaaaaaaugh! This was the first time I’ve ever seen it. Is it always that oogie? I mean, jeez, I live on a steady diet of horror movies and I haven’t been that grossed out in a loooooooong time.
Was the story about the dead wife shown in previous episodes? Also, what exactly did the doctor do him in addition to removing the bullets? The combo of not knowing the backstory and missing a few minutes here and there has me a little confused. I’ll be watching the reruns his summer for sure.
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### Author:  [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/12 "2006-05-24T02:17:55Z")
The eyeball scene was one of the better special effects I’ve seen in a long time.
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### Author:  [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/13 "2006-05-24T02:19:04Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#):
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> Aaaaaaaugh! This was the first time I’ve ever seen it. Is it always that oogie? I mean, jeez, I live on a steady diet of horror movies and I haven’t been that grossed out in a loooooooong time.
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> Was the story about the dead wife shown in previous episodes? Also, what exactly did the doctor do him in addition to removing the bullets? The combo of not knowing the backstory and missing a few minutes here and there has me a little confused. I’ll be watching the reruns his summer for sure.
Exploding testicle = the most revulsion I’ve felt despite watching many, many surgeries on the surgery channels.
When you say the doctor, I think you meant the surgeon who treated House. Anyway, what he did was put House into a coma, to “reset” the brain (as the lady said). This supposedly cured his chronic pain. Apparently this was done through ketamine, so at the end House asked for ketamine, most likely in the hopes that he would have his chronic pain cured. Remember that everyone who said anything to him in the episode was in his mind, so basically he was facing up to his flaws and I guess he’s hoping to overcome them now.
Of course, this is only my second episode so I’ll bow out now.
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/14 "2006-05-24T02:21:30Z")
Did that eyeball really pop out? I had my eyes closed. Wes Craven’s got nothing on these House guys.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/15 "2006-05-24T02:24:43Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#):
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> Did that eyeball really pop out? I had my eyes closed. Wes Craven’s got nothing on these House guys.
Oh yes, popped out and hanging on the side of his face.
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### Author:  [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/16 "2006-05-24T02:28:50Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#):
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> Did that eyeball really pop out? I had my eyes closed. Wes Craven’s got nothing on these House guys.
Ooooooooh, yeah, it did. Eee-yew. I just saw _Saw_ the other day (don’t bother, BTW), and this episode was way gorier.
I found it interesting how House came up with the remedy for his own condition through his hallucinations. Cutty represents the person who most cares about his well-being, and fittingly is also his antagonist. I think they’re getting together next season. The guy who shot him respresents his worst fears and self-loathing (“you’re getting stupider…”). And clearly he has the hots for Cameron.
Neat episode.
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/17 "2006-05-24T02:49:56Z")
> [@bouv](#):
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> Oh yes, popped out and hanging on the side of his face.
:eek: :eek: :eek: GET OUT! I am so glad that I, like \*\*AuntiePam \*\*, closed my own normal sized eyes 'cause that would have pushed me over the edge. Mercifully, I also missed the exploding testicle part. Good God, tell me they didn’t actually show that too.
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/18 "2006-05-24T02:51:55Z")
I will forgive them for the “dream episode” because they managed to make me believe that House really truly actually
killed the hallucinatory POTW!
I was yelling at the TV asking why they didn’t try harder to stop him.
I wonder if there was a point to me making that spoiler, or if the rest of the message gives everything away…
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### Author:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/19 "2006-05-24T03:07:16Z")
probably the best finale of the season!!!
CSI “gore” used to be good… this episode took gore to a whole new level… and that probably ain’t a good thing.
I called the swerve early on, but that’s ok… I don’t see it as a reset, but more so of a “life before your eyes” thing… I just hate tht we have to wait, what, 6 months?, for season 3.
I also like that we may not actually know why the guy shot him, or anything to do with tounge guy… but man what a horror story he’ll become!
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-5-23-many-open-spoilers/357969/20 "2006-05-24T03:53:15Z")
Oh yeah, the eye. _shudder_ I was both impressed by the effect and horrified but I quickly turned away so thankfully I missed the complete poppage.
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