# House MD-season premiere 9/5 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 4, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360 "2006-09-04T03:08:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/21 "2006-09-06T11:14:56Z")
He took it with him. ---
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/22 "2006-09-06T12:43:48Z")
[QUOTE=Anastasaeon] they could shovel steaming piles of bullshit onto us every week and I’d _still_ sit enthralled. [/QUOTE] If last night was a sample of what we’ll be seeing this season, then I think the writers read your mind and are warming up those piles right now. The whole episode was very disjointed. ---
**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/23 "2006-09-06T13:05:13Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] This episode felt very, very wrong. I kept thinking it was another dream like last season’s closer, but then it just… ended. Almost everyone ranged from moderately out of character to me saying, “There’s no fucking way.” Also, I can buy House’s leg not hurting anymore, but that doesn’t make his missing thigh muscles magically grow back. Running for miles and doing skateboard tricks is a bunch of bullshit. [/QUOTE] My thoughts exactly. What was the point of last season’s cliffhanger, if we’re just going to come back and say “And then he got all better, and now he’s training to run a half-marathon!” The implausibility of the vegetable guy being able to stand up after years of having his muscles atrophy still make me wonder if we’re not still in dream sequence territory. Adding scurvy yoga girl to the mix, though, makes me doubt it — that’s going too far. One of the more disappointing episodes I’ve seen, but that’s mainly because I had such high expectations of a better resolution to last season’s cliffhanger. I did love the grape-tossing scene, though. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/24 "2006-09-06T13:13:07Z")
[QUOTE=YWalker] The implausibility of the vegetable guy being able to stand up after years of having his muscles atrophy still make me wonder if we’re not still in dream sequence territory. [/QUOTE] Exactly. I began to think it might be veering into dream territory when Cuddy gave the vegetable guy the shot of cortisol, but then I thought no, surely that won’t magically work and the guy will not instantly recover and thus House would have been proven wrong and the whole episode would make a whole lot more sense. But then vegetable guy stood up. After 8 years in a wheelchair? 😕 The promos tell us “House is back…but not they way you think he is” so maybe he’s still in a coma? I kinda hope so because I wasn’t impressed with the new episode. Not that I’ll stop watching because, hey, it’s _House_. I just hope they give him his cane back because he’s less House-y without it. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/25 "2006-09-06T15:08:47Z")
[QUOTE=Greywolf73] Not that I’ll stop watching because, hey, it’s _House_. I just hope they give him his cane back because he’s less House-y without it. [/QUOTE] Erg, that drives me _nuts_. I _need_ House to be a cripple on Vic. Grumpy, not teddy bear-y. That cane was like another limb, and now that _it’s_ been amputated… What good is an episode of House without him using the cane to hold open the elevator doors for dramatic/comedic pause? Although I do get a big kick out of seeing him run in some scenes, just because he can - ie: _bolting_ from Cameron. Hilarious. I do hope they’re going somewhere _good_ with all of this, since I’m in it for the long haul, anyway. I’ve already bought seasons one and two… ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/26 "2006-09-06T15:38:27Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > Also, I can buy House’s leg not hurting anymore, but that doesn’t make his missing thigh muscles magically grow back. That didn’t bother me anywhere near as much as the guy getting out of the wheelchair. Any real guy would have fallen on his face. Besides which, the person in a wheelchair who really doesn’t have to be in a wheelchair is such an old plot device, that even with all the med-speak I pretty much wanted to barf. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/27 "2006-09-06T15:39:04Z")
[QUOTE=Anastasaeon] Erg, that drives me _nuts_. I _need_ House to be a cripple on Vic. Grumpy, not teddy bear-y. That cane was like another limb, and now that _it’s_ been amputated… [/QUOTE] Don’t worry–the cane will be back (and soon), as will the Vicodin. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/28 "2006-09-06T16:01:21Z")
[QUOTE=kelly5078] That didn’t bother me anywhere near as much as the guy getting out of the wheelchair. Any real guy would have fallen on his face. [/QUOTE] Especially a guy who just had tendon lengthening surgery. Standing would be mighty problematic, not to say painful. Man, if I’d spent 8 years as a vegetable when I could have been cured (at least temporarily) by a single shot, I’d be soooo pissed… Didn’t buy scurvy girl. I sort of believe the bizarre diet (because people are idiots), but I don’t believe that scurvy would present like that. If it was long-standing enough to deform a toe nail (which takes almost a year to grow out), then she’d have obvious signs – bad breath, bleeding gums, and so on – that no doctor could mistake, even if they’ve never seen a case before. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/29 "2006-09-06T18:05:41Z")
I don’t mind the no-cane-House. According to the people who knew him before, he was still an ass before, just an ass without the limp. I do mind a kinder-gentler-House, but he wasn’t really. He did a slightly better job with the patient’s family. But I could just almost attribute that to thinking it was the best way to get to this particular patient (he’s done very nearly touching moments with other patients before - if that’s the only way he thinks he can play with their treatment plans). And it wasn’t that much better, just that Kathleen Quinlan’s character was incredibly gracious and could take damn near anything. Let’s see how he acts toward clinic patients…that’s where the nasty streak really shows up. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/30 "2006-09-06T18:28:50Z")
[QUOTE=amarinth] Let’s see how he acts toward clinic patients…that’s where the nasty streak really shows up. [/QUOTE] You’ve got a point there… Come on, Fiery House! We all _know_ the patient’s pancreas is going to blow up because her brain is on fire, so let’s get it _going_, old boy! How many times have I posted in this thread since last night? Ceeeeee-_ripes_, how am I going to make it until Tuesday? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/31 "2006-09-06T19:05:21Z")
[QUOTE=vivalostwages] This Tuesday, Gregory House, MD, [/QUOTE] :eek: You know it never occured to me he had a first name. Incidently, I was at the Princeton hospital just yesterday, and I didn’t see him anywhere :dubious: . ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/32 "2006-09-06T20:15:45Z")
[QUOTE=Cliffy] who knows if GG is going to be as good this year [/QUOTE] I keep trying to be a better person…I guarantee it will be a better year. 😛 > [@betenoir](#): > > Incidently, I was at the Princeton hospital just yesterday, and I didn’t see him anywhere . You needed to look for him in the [Frist campus center.](http://www.princeton.edu/~oktour/virtualtour/Images/Small/FristBack.jpg)😉 aka princeton/plainsboro medical whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/33 "2006-09-07T01:05:00Z")
[QUOTE=betenoir] Incidently, I was at the Princeton hospital just yesterday, and I didn’t see him anywhere :dubious: . [/QUOTE] Yeah, but was the UPS truck out front? ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/34 "2006-09-07T02:12:38Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] You needed to look for him in the [Frist campus center.](http://www.princeton.edu/~oktour/virtualtour/Images/Small/FristBack.jpg)😉 aka princeton/plainsboro medical whatever. [/QUOTE] Hmm…is that where the exteriors are filmed? Because it was hard to tell but it didn’t look like downtown Princeton. As opposed to Princeton/Plainbororo mediacal whatever which just doesn’t exist. I thought it was intended to be in the hospital in Princeton…I believe there was even a reference to Witherspoon Street. Altough I’m willing to look anywhere for Hugh Laurie, he’s like, you know, totally way hot. And if i could just find him walking around Princeton… ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/35 "2006-09-07T03:36:40Z")
It would be really screwed up if the Series Finale replicates the Saint Elsewhere Autism Ex Machina Ending… ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/36 "2006-09-07T04:04:57Z")
[QUOTE=Indyellen] Just a reminder for people - the show is airing at **8:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Central** , not 9:00 PM / 8:00 PM as it has the previous two years. [/QUOTE] Sure, now you tell me. Where is the weeping smilie? Even though I was going to be home, I set up my tape, just in case. Then at 9:00, I plopped myself down in front of the T.V. to get my first new House fix in months, and saw…Standoff! Anyway, I hope **Indyellen** ’s warning saved others from my horrible, depressing fate: waiting until they re-run the season opener next February. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/37 "2006-09-07T15:59:38Z")
**SpoilerVirgin** - I can send it to you on DVD if you want. Your machine has to be able to read DVD +R discs. StG ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/38 "2006-09-07T16:24:50Z")
[QUOTE=betenoir] Hmm…is that where the exteriors are filmed? Because it was hard to tell but it didn’t look like downtown Princeton. [/QUOTE] Yep, the Frist Center. I wasn’t sure what fountain he was splashing around in; I thought it would be the one [outside the Woody Woo school](http://www.princeton.edu/~oktour/virtualtour/Images/Expansions/RobertsonExp.jpg) but that one is rectangular and not a small round one like he was in. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/39 "2006-09-08T03:29:15Z")
[QUOTE=StGermain] **SpoilerVirgin** - I can send it to you on DVD if you want. Your machine has to be able to read DVD +R discs. [/quote] Wow, that’s a generous offer. Now that I’ve read up on the episode online, I think I’m prepared to wait to see it (and ultimately I’ll be purchasing the season on DVD anyway). I was just annoyed that I was so prepped to watch it, and they moved the time. Even the little sticker on the 2nd season DVDs I just received yesterday said to watch the season premier at 9:00 on Sept. 5. Thanks anyway, though. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360/40 "2006-09-08T04:57:21Z")
And for anyone else who missed the show, it will apparently be airing on USA Network on Friday, September 15 at 11:00 p.m. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-md-season-premiere-9-5/371360.md?page=3)