This was a pretty good week for House in terms of dealing with the 6 candidates for his team. However, they didn't really deal with the 6 candidates for his team much, and it wasn't nearly as much as in the past. This drawn out process is really starting to lose focus, and I really don't have much hope for this ending anytime soon. Also, as you'll see, there was a great opportunity to move it along this week. So did they do it?
This week opens with two dudes talking about robbing their grandma if they don't have the balls to rob strangers. And they're too lazy to do actual work. They see a guy come out of some store, and he's walking in an alley by himself. They follow him, tell him to stop, but he just keeps walking. He then talks a little shit, calls one of them a little bitch, and he says he left his money on their sister's nightstand. Does he mean the little bitch one, or do they actually have a sister? I need answers to these questions. The tougher kid pulls out a knife, and the guy just starts coughing. They finally get his wallet, I think, and he's still coughing. The little bitch calls 911 and tells them where to find this sick guy, and he just keeps on coughing. Nothing else happens. So that's this week's medical mystery: a dry throat.
A mugger with manners. Good for you, FOX.
In the classroom, House asks what would cause a man's lungs to fail. There are a couple suggestions, and then Cuddy walks in with Foreman in tow. House is angry, and he wants Foreman gone. Cuddy says that since House's extended interview/reality competition lost a patient, he's lost veto power. Cut throat questions, before the Foreman introduction is complete, if this means there's one less spot open on House's team. That's House's decision. He sends his goons to run some tests, and then he and Foreman talk. House will make Foreman miserable until he quits. The joke is on House though: Foreman is already miserable! Sucker.
Cut throat bitches again about getting or not getting the job. This happens every week and I'm seriously sick of it. Sick guy on the treadmill is feeling a weird symptoms he shouldn't be feeling, so they stop the test. This is reported first to Chase, who is running a pool on who will be fired first. With the failed test, cut throat pulls into the lead.
Booooooo!!
Foreman is working with the team through symptoms, and House walks in and sits down. Commence Operation 'More Clever Than Make Foreman Miserable.' While House ridicules him, the patient crashes. so Foreman comes clean. He's unemployable because he's damaged House-goods, and he can't quit because he needs the job.
While the cronies try to test and/or revive sick guy, House decides to sympathize with Foreman, and it's not worth making him more miserable than he is. So he'll make Cuddy miserable. Regarding the patient, he's faking, copying neighbors' symptoms. Wrong. He's wearing a white coat like a doctor. He's got mirror syndrome. Let's hurry this along...
They wander into Wilson's operating room. Martin (sick guy) is in scrubs, and House wants to know what's going on from Martin. Wilson and House talk about the Foreman business. While those two get into a tiff, Martin joins in on Wilson's side. He's throwing out names he's probably never heard (I think Cuddy was there somewhere). Wilson likes Martin. He's the man. House looks away for a second, and Martin picks up a scalpel and goes to make an incision. House stops his hand, takes off his glove, and his blood has turned to sludge. They cut him, but he doesn't bleed. Or, at least he doesn't bleed much.
Shoulda used Palmolive.
Mirror syndrome patients have an agenda. Martin must have a tiny, hard to find infection. While House asks for possible tests, he's wandered into the cafeteria and he announces the mayo was bad, everyone should go to the clinic and ask for Dr. Cuddy. Foreman catches them and says they're fine, but House instills enough doubt that they all leave. House wants Martin away from the bitchy nurses. He tells black doctor to go so he'll be singing Osmond songs by the end of the day, and cute woman volunteers to go with him.
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Comments (3)
What's worse than watching one of your favorite shows jumping the shark in real time? Having the shark-jumping spread out over a period of months.
What the hell are the writers of this show thinking, anyway?
1 of 3 | Posted by memememe | Posted on November 4, 2007 12:30 PM
Excellent recap.
memememe - it isn't all about youyouyouyou. (I couldn't help myself - sorry!)
I think the creative people behind this show are brilliant. The flaws seem minor in comparison.
I'm just hoping they will apply their talents to screenplays or novels (or more revealing chickwear on House - I don't ask for much) during the writer's strike.
2 of 3 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on November 5, 2007 9:46 AM
pixielated:
I think this show jumped the shark when they brought in Botox Betty as House's love interest. Talk about no chemistry at all!
The first season was great, but they haven't sustained it. If you watch the first season episodes you will see the difference.
Why do they always have the doctors doing things they aren't qualified to do--like surgery--or things that nurses or other staff would do--like giving pills/shots, taking temps, drawing blood, etc.?
I remember years ago they did this on "Trapper John, MD" and I thought it was dumb then. Is it some brilliant satirical comment on the state of health care in America? That there are only a handful of doctors that have to do everything in the entire hospital?
Now they seem to be making up diseases. "Mirror Syndrome" is something that pregnant women get, and has nothing to do with mirroring other people's thoughts. And since when did Cuddy take birth control pills? She WANTED to get pregnant and COULDN'T. Did the writers go on strike early?
I used to like this show because it was funny. Now, it seems like dull, serious Wilson is writing the scripts. I used to laugh out loud when I watched House. Now it takes itself too seriously.
(Oh, I don't watch this show regularly anymore. I just read the recaps because they are funny.)
3 of 3 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on November 5, 2007 12:36 PM