House and company are still arguing about what killed the boxer as they head back to see POW. Kumar wants to know if they can quit breaking into patients' houses now that they have a detective to do it for them. House says they'll have to cut into the brain to know for sure, but it's risky. So they can do it to the old guy, not the teacher. He's got one foot in the grave already, so who cares about him? Oh yeah, he has a wife. So she'll have to sign a consent. POW begs the wife to do it, saying she has a young child. She's lying, though, and the wife knows it. Drat. Usually the patient is the most likable character in the show, but this one's stock just tanked. On the bright side, though, we can laugh at the goofy colored electrodes stuck to her head.
Rainbow Not-So-Brite.
While two women are fighting, the old man croaks. What's Plan B? House says to save the brain.
After the break, the Houseguests run the dead man's brain through something that looks like a deli slicer. It's clean (the brain, not the slicer). The Houseguests propose that maybe the organ donor just had a lot of things wrong with him. House scoffs. He's back to cancer now, because cancer is the only disease that affects everything. Really? What about oh, every other case you've had over the last 5 seasons? Foreman says that cancer is just an excuse to go talk to Wilson. Yep, you heard it here 2 pages ago.
You want that on white or wheat?
Kumar spouts more technobabble about a perforated intestine. I think he's the Scotty of House: The Next Generation. I'm waiting for him to say something about dilithium crystals or a warp core containment breach. And I just got way too nerdy for TVgasm. Now I'll probably have to go do a couple of Gossip Girl recaps as penance.
Whatever Kumar/Scotty said, it involves a colonoscopy for the second week in a row. The old guy is dead, and they already did one on a young woman last week, so they pick... a four-year-old girl. I had to watch the scene 3 times to figure out that she's the donor's illegitimate daughter, and they basically blackmail the girl's mother into bringing her in for the test. House: Turning major ethics violations into minor plot holes since 2003.
Speaking of doing horrible things to children, House is sitting in an ice cream truck with the private eye, who is on stakeout for another case. He's peeping through the truck window with a telephoto lens. There are three types of people who hire a detective, says the detective: those who want to be right, those who want to be wrong, and those who are investigating the wrong people. If that was meant to be profound, it went over my head. House is the third type -- he really wants to be investigating Wilson instead of his patients. Hey. I called that, too. This episode is more transparent than any of the PI's stupid disguises. House gets paged right as he's about to get vulnerable, and bikes back to the hospital as the PI shoos away some kids.
31 flavors of creepy
The kid's colon isn't perforated, so the Houseguests are still stumped. (Hold on a second while I setup a hotkey for "the Houseguests are still stumped".) Kumar/Scotty says that maybe the colon defect doesn't show up until right before death, so they really need to check the dead man's colon -- but they have to pressurize it first, so any leaks will show up. Raise your barf bag if you think this is going to end well.
I'm not too clear on the details of Kumar's experiment, but it involves Foreman wrestling a corpse while Kumar does unspeakable things to its rear end. They think they see something, so Kumar turns up the pressure, and bang: Foreman gets spewed with dead man's poo. Yep, House has just gone where only South Park has gone before.
Howdy ho!
After the break: the Houseguests are still stumped. (Told you that would come in handy.) House tells them to quit bringing up the same old theories. Then he brings up the same old theory, telling them to start some cancer treatment.
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Comments (3)
It is difficult for a show of this complexity to maintain it's cutting edge. We just expect so much.
I kind of liked the PI - partly because I'm pretty sick of Wilson, and hoping they'll replace him with the quirky PI. And there is time for the PI character to evolve.
I would like to see more Cuddy... and more about her. It is like watching the old Incredible Hulk show, where there was this fixed formula that the writers wrote each episode around. And it is all about House so it is hard to feel very connected to any other character.
Thanks!
1 of 3 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on September 26, 2008 9:44 AM
I thought you were being unnecessarily kind about the quality of this episode... IMO, it absolutely REEKED.
The only good part was when the patient's bandages get removed and we get that shot of Hugh Laurie's gorgeous orb-like eyes.
Oh, and also the Wilson-House exchange was kind of good.
The PI character might grow on you.
Anyways, due to the disappointment of this week's episode, your recap kind of made up for it. I was laughing the whole way through.
And P.S. what's wrong with writing Gossip Girl recaps?
2 of 3 | Posted by alex_w | Posted on September 26, 2008 5:11 PM
Malignant cancerous stem cells? whuut?
This show is tanking so fast. What on earth happened?
I did some digging. See, if any of us cared enough we would have seen this from last May (TV Squad):
~ FOX is toying with the idea of a House spin off. But you may want to make sure you are properly seated before reading this: the spin-off would not focus on doctors but private investigators!
In his latest "Ask Ausiello" column, TV Guide columnist Michael Ausiello reveals that FOX and NBC Universal are developing a spin-off for the medical hit series House. Next season, a male private investigator will be introduced on House and stick around for a few episodes. If fans respond well to the character, he may get his own series. No more details are given about this "House: P.I." spin-off.~
*vomit*
3 of 3 | Posted by Memememe | Posted on September 27, 2008 10:26 AM