# Welcome back, Dr. House: 4/28 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250 "2008-04-28T18:05:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![lilflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@lilflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilflower)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/41 "2008-04-30T01:11:02Z")
I hate CTB and I hate her with Wilson. In fact, I’ve named this whole little triangle WAH since that is how they make me feel when they are together. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/42 "2008-04-30T01:59:37Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] I thought House was on Tuesdays. 😕 Has the schedule changed? \ [/QUOTE] Yes, for the next three weeks, then I think that’s all the shows they have planned for the rest of the season. Thanks to House, I have a new line to use on Jehovah’s Witnesses. “Have you heard the good news?” “Miley Cyrus is playing a third night at the Spectrum?” ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/43 "2008-04-30T02:27:39Z")
Did anyone see the preview? Who is the actor who’s going to be on next week’s ep? I recognize him but I cannot think of his name or where I know him from, and it’s bugging me. ETA: Forget it… I remembered. It’s Jason Lewis, the guy who played Kim Cattrall’s character’s young hot boyfriend Jerry in Sex and the City. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/44 "2008-04-30T05:48:37Z")
I don’t see why the wife was so worried. They fell in love and were married _before_ he went to the Peace Core, right? I mean…that’s why he was arguing with the doctors about the syphilis. He was gone all that time (probably the occasional visit home, but still gone for months at a time at least) but was confidant she didn’t cheat on him. So if he was married to her before (or at least seeing her,) AND was nice enough before to join the Peace Corps, then he is STILL a nice person at heart, just not _too_ nice. And for those wondering why niceness was a symptom, it’s because the parasite just causes brain damage (swelling, I think tehy said,) which in turn causes personality changes. In his case, it increased part of his existing personality. It could just have easily made him a jerk, or to lose his sense of humor, etc… ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/45 "2008-04-30T12:27:56Z")
I don’t know, if a UPS guys rams a dolly into my shins and my husband’s response is to give him a hug, I might be a bit irked at his “niceness.” Didn’t she admit she’d had some affairs, because his niceness was so irritating? Remind me again…CB was one of his minions, who wouldn’t put up with his crap? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/46 "2008-04-30T13:13:25Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] He was gone all that time (probably the occasional visit home, but still gone for months at a time at least) but was confidant she didn’t cheat on him. [/QUOTE] It’s rare for a Peace Corps volunteer to go home during their stint. They have to pay both ways (on a meager salary\*), and most would rather spend their free time visiting in the area they’ve been assigned. \*While in country, a volunteer gets paid the going local rate for the job they are doing. ---
**Author:** ![lilflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@lilflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilflower)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/47 "2008-04-30T16:03:35Z")
I didn’t think he was a Peace Corps volunteer - I thought they said Habitat for Humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/48 "2008-04-30T16:21:47Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] I don’t know, if a UPS guys rams a dolly into my shins and my husband’s response is to give him a hug, I might be a bit irked at his “niceness.” [/QUOTE] This reminds me of a question I had. Is that “we have a legal right to hold you up for 15 seconds” factual? I’ve never been in a union so am not familiar with what goes on during strikes. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/49 "2008-04-30T16:46:46Z")
[QUOTE=lilflower] I didn’t think he was a Peace Corps volunteer - I thought they said Habitat for Humanity. [/QUOTE] I heard the patient say Peace Corps. I think later someone else commented on him building homes for the less fortunate but I’m pretty sure the actual patient said Peace Corps because that’s what set my brain to thinking it was some exotic disease. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/50 "2008-04-30T16:50:33Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] This reminds me of a question I had. Is that “we have a legal right to hold you up for 15 seconds” factual? I’ve never been in a union so am not familiar with what goes on during strikes. [/QUOTE] And isn’t UPS unionized? You’d think he’d be sympathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/51 "2008-04-30T18:03:52Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] And isn’t UPS unionized? You’d think he’d be sympathetic. [/QUOTE] You’d think so…but I just wrote it off as “he’s a douchebag”. When he rammed her shin, my first thought was “UPS guy with an anally inserted dolly cart…not much of a mystery for House to solve there…” ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/52 "2008-05-01T13:21:50Z")
What a lame episode. Where is the House who didn’t mind spending christmas alone, and who didn’t even want Wilson in his poker game? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/53 "2008-05-01T16:30:37Z")
Oh, come on, I haven’t been watching \*House \* all that long and even I know that one. 😉 House is typical Dog in the Manger. When Wilson is free, House could care less. When Wilson’s distracted by a ball-busting bitch, House gets mopey. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/54 "2008-05-01T18:37:09Z")
I disagree. First, House does normally enjoy Wilson’s company, so he is not really equivalent to hay. Second, he is going about it in a rather un-Housy manner. Why would he Agree to voluntary hospital duty punishments, for instance. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/55 "2008-05-01T19:24:24Z")
[QUOTE=Missy2U] Then again, I’m pretty adverse to change anyway, so I’m sure it’s just me. I just don’t like it much anymore. [/QUOTE] _Averse._ Me, too. My favorite line of the episode was House saying “That should have been _my_ epiphany.” ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/56 "2008-05-01T19:55:21Z")
[QUOTE=mr. jp] I disagree. First, House does normally enjoy Wilson’s company, so he is not really equivalent to hay. [/QUOTE] No, he wants Wilson around when \*he \* wants him around. I haven’t seen all the episodes, but was there ever a time when Wilson needed him and House dropped everything to rush to his side? I don’t think letting him move in when his wife kicked him out counts…House was totally passive-aggressive toward him, stealing his food, not doing the dishes, expecting Wilson to cook, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250/57 "2008-05-02T15:13:48Z")
Still waiting for Fox to post this episode on their website. :mad: I wondered if that was SD’s **Hugh Jass** that complained about the same thing in their comments section. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-dr-house-4-28/447250.md?page=2)