House was a great episode this week, if you consider great to mean disappointing. This job interview thing is just getting more and more drawn out. And it's not even like most of the characters are likable. But you can't even figure that out since rather than taking one character (or two or three) and developing them, they're trying to minimally develop like 6 characters. If this thing doesn't wrap up soon, I'll write a letter to the writers. Do they deliver mail to picket lines? So join me to find out what happened this week. My recap should only make you marginally more disappointed than the actual episode.
Even he has to shake himself awake.
We start out in black and white, and some guy is on the phone. A little girl in the background screams, and we see what she's screaming at. Some guy has elephantitis? A Tumor? Some mole on his face. Except, instead of a mole, it's more like his face is a mole on this giant growth. He tells the camera in 36 hours he's scheduled for surgery, and he'll fit in after. Cut to Chase telling the camera he's doing a facial bipartition. As he's being prepped, the heart starts racing. Chase yells to get the camera out of there as they defibrillate. Chase yells again...and credits.
Would I sound greedy if I asked for a nose job, too?
Cuddy explains the situation to House, who just stares at the camera, not listening to what she's saying. Chase says that the reconstructive surgery is on hold until they can find out what's wrong with this kid. Cuddy and House then have a discussion about House hating the cameras and causing brain farts for his staff, while they cause Cuddy to wear open-tipped bras. Cuddy gives House the ultimatum that he either allows the cameras or he can't diagnose the kid. I'm not really sure, is that punishment?
In the classroom, sexy lady doctor is getting questioned by the other doctors, and cut throat, as usual, bitches. Foreman's gone, so House wants to take them to his office. House loses the camera in a testing room. Cut throat wants to know why sexy lady doctor got hired. Annoying already. Someone asks if the kid is light-headed, and House says he's certainly not. What caused the bighead? Heart defect comes from sexy lady doctor. Cut throat asks again. Fuck you. Seriously. Shut up. I know it's harder to hate scripted characters, because they're written to be that way, but it's not going to stop me. Sexy lady doctor wants a firm offer, not this interview bullshit. I'll give her a firm offer. No, House will.
Is she an idiot? House rethinks hiring her, to Wilson. He can't fire her, because he just hired her, And she left the CIA for his job. Guilt from House? Is that even possible? Oh, well, she's attractive, so that's probably why.
Has bighead done drugs? Kal is doing a lot of backtracking after saying stupid things in front of the camera. He looks like an idiot. Remember conjoined fetus nurse from South Park? Bighead kind of looks like that, except the fetus isn't a fetus, and it's on his forehead instead of on the side of his face.
Cuddy gets interviewed about House. I'm confused about what kind of documentary this is. About House, the kid? Why follow House so much? Talking to Cuddy? Seems pointless. House wants to stop the kid's heart to seeif the problem is drug-related.
Creepy is going to do the procedure, and then he has a heart to heart with bighead. He's not going to get this job ultimately. Are the writers just seeing which doctors test best with the crowd? Why are some of these people still around? Bighead says he did a lot of coke, and then LSD or acid. He's lying obviously. And he starts coughing blood, but it looks chunky. Awesome.
We find out that the documentary is for theatrical release, which I didn't mention earlier. Kal's dressed up, poser. Cut throat's wearing lipstick. It's being shown in black and white sweetie, tough shit with the lipstick. Sexy lady doctor suggests something, House says good, and Foreman says it's way wrong. Creepy has been wrong a lot in the past, why is he still here? Creepy is talking to black doctor as they're pissing, complaining about House. But creepy won't stick up for himself on camera only to lose. Probably a good thing that the cameras didn't follow them into the bathroom.
Is it true what they say about Jewish guys?
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Comments (5)
Thanks for the recap... I mind wiped the whole episode when I realized hot CIA doctor was gone already!
Wanted to b-slap Dr. McStinkface when she kept asking why CIA doctor was hired. Just shut up and crawl out another window, lady!
But, in reliving this nightmare through your recap, I have gotten new hope. Maybe the hot CIA lady will somehow become a recurring character. She must really like House, or she wouldn't hate him so much, right? Everyone (at least every straight male over 11 plus anyone that watches Tila Tequila) should agree with me and maybe the writers will get the hint.
House seems to keep people for their flaws and fire other for their positive characteristics (CIA doctor had a FINE set of characteristics, too.)
1 of 5 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on November 18, 2007 9:21 AM
Great recap but I actually thought this was a pretty good episode. I liked seeing House discover that he's just like every other guy, letting the region south of the border think for him instead of his brain. Yeah, the interview process is getting a bit tired, especially the Bitch character who isn't being played with any subtlety by that actress whatsoever. I read somewhere that they are going to make final choices for the new outhouses in the next 2 episodes, so maybe this will be over soon.
2 of 5 | Posted by greeneyes | Posted on November 19, 2007 12:47 PM
Thanks for the re-cap. Does anyone else recognize that the same thing happened on Scrubs a couple weeks ago? The guy was ultimately treated after realizing the target was under his hair....
3 of 5 | Posted by nick7894 | Posted on November 20, 2007 6:44 AM
Thanks for the re-cap. Does anyone else recognize that the same thing happened on Scrubs a couple weeks ago? The guy was ultimately treated after realizing the target was under his hair....
4 of 5 | Posted by nick7894 | Posted on November 20, 2007 6:52 AM
Ugh. Thanks for the info greeneyes. I did a little spoiler research and I discovered who is suspected to be kept on House's staff (not that any more episodes will air this season after we find out, stupid corporations shorting the writers). One of the supposed hires leaves me very disappointed.
5 of 5 | Posted by Treadingonme | Posted on November 20, 2007 8:33 AM