Let's just get this out of the way first: I was totally caught off guard by this episode of House. No spoilers were out there. Not even the typical "This week, Someone Dies! Really! We Swear! SO UNEXPECTED!" It's not even sweeps! It took guts to pull that off. Now Kal Penn is dead and America has lost a stellar young talent. What a trage-what's that? Kal Penn isn't dead? Are you sure? I went and visited this page and left a note saying how much I loved him in Guantanamo Bay and everything! You say Kal just traded one House for a bigger House? Fox wouldn't milk a touchy subject like suicide for web traffic, would they? Well, now that you mention it, it does seem a little contrived sudden to kill off a main character, especially after I came out last week and said nobody was ever leaving the show and all. So what the Fox?
But more to come on that. A couple of other things happened this week too. Hey, did you notice Meat Loaf was guest starring? I didn't think you did. He's the big guy dying in the bed there:
Baby don't be sad.
And here's his doting wife, played by the fantastic Colleen Camp:
If the name doesn't ring a bell, turn in your I Love the 80s fan club card, because back then she looked like this:
We'll always have Paris.
All Meat Loaf's friends are coming by to say goodbye one last time and tell him how awesome he was in Fight Club. He tells his wife how much he wished he had taken her to Rio before he died, and she gets all choked up.
In a not-so-good way.
Back at HQ, House wants to know why they are bothering with this woman since her weight is obviously causing her breathing problems. And where's Kumar, anyway? Louie says he's home with a sick dog. The POW wants to go home to tend to her Meat Loaf, who has mysteriously been getting better since she got sick. Louie, trying to save face after last week's Mos Def scandal, gets the idea to roll Meat Loaf in so they can be together.
And 13 is still giving me the creeps lurking in the background.
Speaking of giving me the creeps, House treats a Little Miss Sunshine down in the clinic doing a pretty good drunk impression. He gives her his coffee and tells her to spit out the mouthwash from now on. "Mommy doesn't," she says.
When to spit and when to swallow is something all pageanteers should learn at an early age.
Back upstairs on the Boring Floor, the POW is getting better and Meat Loaf is getting worse again. So where's Kumar? House is antsy to find someone to fire this week. Before he can polish his axe, it turns out the POW is not getting better after all, and Meat Loaf is doing so well he's up out of his bed to check on his wife.
Foreman and 13 go next door to the Apartment Set to check on Kumar.
Or is that the Cuddy's Office Set? The fake brick wall looks familiar.
And then the typical Breaking and Entering scene turns into one from CSI, as 13 finds their pal's cold body lying in a pool of blood, next to his own gun.
As my favorite new recapper would say: asdlk ;kljlkj ;lkjh 'l;;lkdsl;ksddhf
Or, as Kyle Broflovski would say, You Bastards!
Yeah, that happened. Kumar out.
In memory of Kutner, someone has put blue gels over all the lights at Princeton Plainsboro. (To show my respect for the fictionally dead, I will refrain from calling him Kumar for the rest of the recap. FOX would approve.) Now let's take this opportunity to learn how Team Miracle Cure deals with grief, shall we? About like you'd expect. 13, as usual, delivers the PSA: 25% of suicides show no outward signs of depression. House says they just say that to make you feel better for missing the signs. Moral Officer Louie calls Kutner an idiot and wants to get back to the case. Foreman wants to bail on the case because they're in no shape to solve it. "And the next one too, and the one after that?" House asks. Enter Cuddy, to offer grief counseling and vacation time, and console House personally. (No post-loss nooky yet; I predict next week.) House tells Cuddy that Wilson hasn't come to talk to him, probably because he thinks House needs some alone time "so I don't have to keep flicking his wings off my shoulder". Then we get the best exchange of the week.
CUDDY: Sorry for your loss.
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Comments (5)
I was totally partial to Madeline Kahn in Clue but Colleen Camp was definitely the high point of Speed 2 (yeah, I watched it, so what). She plays one of the people on the cruise and gives this cute explanation of how fatty foods are your friends. Well, any friend of hers is a friend of mine.
Great recap! I haven't seen the episode yet and was a little leery.
1 of 5 | Posted by kizarny | Posted on April 10, 2009 5:37 AM
When I saw the CSI Miami comic I immediately made it the background for my computer. David Caruso rocks my world on that show with his utter ridiculousness. My favorite Horatio-ism ever is "Divorce...of the future." If you know what I'm talking about, you appreciate it. haha
PS I am so sad about Kumar! But he has a great new job.
2 of 5 | Posted by amanlew | Posted on April 10, 2009 8:28 AM
Not Kumar!! He was my favorite!!
More power to Colleen Camp for just being herself and not a freaky looking, botoxed to the gills, facelifted weirdo. She was a knockout and she's not afraid to age and look like herself. Love her.
Why did they waste Colleen and Meat Loaf in this episode, where they were peripheral at best? I really wonder about the writers on this show.
3 of 5 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on April 11, 2009 7:19 PM
We all agree that the recap was great, but I'm of the opinion that the episode sucked. The writing was dreadful. And why was the entire hour BLUE? Good grief. The whole thing was bizarre. Add Meat Loaf and the lady, and it was nearly unbearable.
And one more thing. It bugged me that 13 was a pall bearer. Seems to me women don't generally do that, though I'm sure others would disagree with me. But either way, both his Indian upbringing and that of his apparently conservative adoptive parents would have me thinking it wouldn't be done. It was plain weird.
4 of 5 | Posted by Memememe | Posted on April 11, 2009 8:25 PM
My speculation about 13 being a pallbearer (I too thought that was really strange...) was that Taub was possible supposed to do it and she was his stand-in as one of his colleagues.
5 of 5 | Posted by tracy831 | Posted on April 20, 2009 4:01 PM