# House season premiere 9/21 \[OPEN SPOILERS\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-9-21-open-spoilers/510979 "2009-09-21T19:32:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-9-21-open-spoilers/510979/101 "2009-09-24T17:38:31Z")
> [@Polerius](#): > > [IMDB says](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1277177/) he was born in 1976, making him 25 in 2001, which is reasonable [tangent] Ha! On Tuesday, TNT aired an old [episode](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0629178/) of Law & Order, and that actor was in it. I said to my husband, “I think that’s the same actor that played Freedom Master,” but forgot to go look it up. I was right! [/tangent] And even if he was young, well, sometimes people get married young. I got married about a month after 9/11, when I was 23. And I know lots of people who got married during or right after college. So it’s not unreasonable. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-9-21-open-spoilers/510979/102 "2009-09-24T20:31:32Z")
He was also the sweet Alaskan guy on Anne Heche’s “Men In Trees”. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-9-21-open-spoilers/510979/103 "2009-09-25T18:14:54Z")
Finally got to see this. I blame all the Hulu people who assured me I could catch it there and safely tivo other things instead. I loved this episode. Definitely my favorite. I’ll be very disappointed if this doesn’t result in some Emmys down the line. I’m so glad they played it straight for the most part. If House had been hallucinating someone or if it turned out that he had been tricking the hospital still somehow in the end it would have ruined it for me. It was very different than the usual House formula though, and it also endangers the status quo with the threat of character growth. So the proof is in the pudding. How things go next week will be very interesting to see. After an episode like this, if things go back, I’m not sure if I could keep watching the show… ---
**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:** [September 26, 2009, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-9-21-open-spoilers/510979/104 "2009-09-26T14:31:03Z")
So-so episode by “House” standards. But still better than almost anything else on TV. - The urine test stuff was all part of a setup by the staff. There were going to show that they could outsmart House. So of course they knowingly didn’t check the stall. They were giving him enough rope to hang himself and it worked. - 88 posts in before someone says “Booger?” I am ashamed of you guys. He also appeared in 2 episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy” as Alex’s first kill. But not on “ER” or “Scrubs”. (There’s a lot of re-use of actors as patients among those shows.) - An interesting note about the final shot. House was wearing a faded smiley face tshirt. - Aside from a few kisses and such (many of them fantasy), House has rarely been shown getting down with a lady. I think the only other time was with Stacy. - The coming attractions show that it’s not going to be business as usual. House is unlicensed, can’t treat patients, breaks the rules to treat the PotW, etc. In other words, business as usual. - If you don’t hate 13, the character and the actress, then you’re not paying attention. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-9-21-open-spoilers/510979/105 "2009-09-26T16:01:54Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > - 88 posts in before someone says “Booger?” I am ashamed of you guys. He also appeared in 2 episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy” as Alex’s first kill. He played Herbert Viola (jr detective, paramour of the lovely Ms. DiPesto, and mortal enemy of McGillicutty) on “Moonlighting.” ---
**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:** [September 26, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-9-21-open-spoilers/510979/106 "2009-09-26T17:00:12Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > He played Herbert Viola (jr detective, paramour of the lovely Ms. DiPesto, and mortal enemy of McGillicutty) on “Moonlighting.” He’s got an IMDB resume a mile long. I was just noting his membership in the medical show club. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-9-21-open-spoilers/510979/107 "2009-09-26T17:09:00Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > - The coming attractions show that it’s not going to be business as usual. House is unlicensed, can’t treat patients, breaks the rules to treat the PotW, etc. In other words, business as usual. I thought the whole point of House ‘graduating’ was that the psych guy gave him his license papers.Or is he just waiting for the paperwork to get processed? ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-9-21-open-spoilers/510979/108 "2009-09-26T18:03:50Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > I thought the whole point of House ‘graduating’ was that the psych guy gave him his license papers.Or is he just waiting for the paperwork to get processed? My sense was that he could not hope to get re-licensed _without_ the recommendation of the psychiatrist, but there is probably a “character & fitness board” somewhere that can still decide to take or leave him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-season-premiere-9-21-open-spoilers/510979.md?page=5)