House was drunk one night, called Wilson to pick him up at midnight, but Wilson wasn’t home so he got Wilson’s girlfriend, Amber. Amber (who didn’t much like House) volunteered to pick him up anyway (he didn’t ask her to), and ended up, through a bizarre chain of events involving a bus crash and her flu meds, dying. Wilson, even though in his heart he knows it wasn’t House’s fault, still blames him for it and has used this opportunity to try to break free of House’s rather self-centered friendship. Nobody thinks it will work, though. Those two were made for each other.
Just chiming in to say that the way they threw that PI guy in there reminded me very much of the way the shrink guy (Sweets) was thrown in on Bones… it’s exactly as ridiculous to have a PI following a doctor around as a shrink following a forensic anthropologist around. Also, as with Sweets, I don’t think I’ll mind, because I like the character enough to ignore the stupidity of his existence.
I didn’t watch any of these shows listed as “spin-off” examples upthread. In these examples did they introduce a character with the expectation from the start that they were only going to be in a few eps of the original series, and an understanding that their appearance in the original series would be used to springboard a second series starring the new character?
I read where Laurie is pulling $400,000 per episode this season. (Supposedly his starting salary was “in the mid-five figures.”) He also gets a producing credit this year.
After last week’s breakup, House is turning into the ex-boyfriend who just won’t go away. I call restraining order for next week!
I liked the PI guy (whose name I didn’t catch, either); it’ll be interesting to see how House gets Cuddy to pay for his retainer (she already balked at the $2300 coffee machine repair bill).
And yes, 13 can go away any time now. Get a real actress who isn’t just a faint, vague presence around a supernova like Hugh Laurie.
Who was performing “You Might Die Trying”? It didn’t sound quite like Dave Matthews, but then his vocals change a lot. I looked all over the credits, didn’t see a mention.
Like I said: “Assignment: Earth” in Star Trek. They introduced Gary Seven as a potential spinoff. One of the final lines was Kirk saying he’d have “many . . . interesting adventures.”
I’m not an MD, but I actually thought of stem cells. However, I don’t quite get the resolution of the medical mystery. Why didn’t the original transplanted organs fail? Since they were the source of the cells, I’d think they’d start failing before anything else did. (And since, as noted, corneal transplants are bloodless, I’m not quite clear on how cancer stem cells got from the cornea into the patient’s visual cortex.)
Dealing with human feces is never pleasant, but being splattered with human shit from an exploding old man corpse must be a milestone in the disgusting, even for a doctor.
What kind of surgeon is Chase? Shouldn’t a neurosurgical specialist have been doing that procedure?
Although I AM a card carrying Organ Donor, I would think being decapitated in an industrial accident, with the normal accompanying massive blood loss though the open neck and fast organ death due to lack of oxygen and whatnot, well, I kinda figure that would put me way at the bottom of the list of people left with donatable organs.
Maybe he was a medical tech in an organ transplant O.R. when he lost his noggin.
Plus . . . it’s good to fulfill your dreams and all, but you’d think the guy who had the major organ transplant would have maybe rethought his career as a boxer. When I saw that scene, I thought, “Oh, don’t go there. Surely it’s going to be the referee who . . . no. They put organ transplant guy back in the ring.”
