All Things House
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Ten Reasons Why It’s So Disappointing This Season From Yahoo’s TV Blog:
By Angel Cohn
YWe love Hugh Laurie, and we love “House,” but this season has been kind of a mess.
Last season wasn’t without its problems, it took some hits for trying to add in so many wannabe House’s and for killing CTB (or Amber, if you must) but at least they were trying something a little bit out there… and the cases were cool. House trying to save a woman at the North Pole? Cool. Parasites? Always awesome. Overdose caused be something as stupid as tonic water? Brilliant. But aside from Breckin Meyer seeing people like Picassos, there haven’t been any super memorable cases.
So after 100 episodes, we’ve got to wonder, is this procedural getting to be a little too procedural? And for the love of god, will they ever remember whose name is in the title of the show? Here are 10 reasons why we’re disappointed by “House” this season:
1. Too Much Thirteen
Hadley. Thirteen. Whatever. This show is about Dr. Gregory House. Not about this whiny new character who has Huntington’s disease we’re presumably supposed to feel bad for. We just keep hoping she’ll get early onset and have to quit her day job. Or die a sudden death. Either way. Then we could go back to the show we liked about people treating patients, not becoming them.
2. House Seems to Have Given Up
He used to revel in making people miserable, or acting really irritating around them until they caved to his ways. Now it seems like his heart isn’t in it. He was being nice to Foreman last week and advising him not to throw his career away. And he didn’t even retaliate against Cuddy when she started pranking him with the elevators. Who is this guy? Not the House we know and love.
3. Cameron is Rarely On
They finally gave Cameron something to do, and it was a job she was completely unqualified for, but hey, we actually got to see her. But the show giveth and then they taketh away, and now that Cuddy’s back at work, they’ve sent Cameron off again to see ER patients and occasionally tell Foreman it is all going to be OK as long as he doesn’t turn into House. That’s what we call an egregious waste of an original castmember, and it’s not OK, especially in light of this show becoming the Thirteen Complains About Everything Variety Hour.
4. Cuddy is Baby Crazy and Stupid
Cuddy is a smart, educated woman who runs a freakin’ hospital and offers up medical diagnoses on occasion. But they’ve turned her from Miss Independent to a co-dependent pile of mush who can’t do her job right because she’s got baby brain (and she didn’t even give birth to the kid) and is just desperate for House’s approval that she’s pulling stupid pranks to get him to notice her. And one more scene of her doing the “Who’s a cute wittle baby? Who is?” and we’ll scream. She can be a working mother and not be so annoying. How did she not know raising a baby was hard? Ridiculous.
5. Too Much Foreman
Out of our three original House minions, Foreman was our least favorite, and yet, he gets the most screen time. And it is all him being an idiot when he tries to get better jobs because he’s unfulfilled working for one of the best doctors in the country or something. Or it is Foreman trying to do stupid things to impress Thirteen. And the only thing worse than Foreman and Thirteen alone, is the two of them together.
6. Chase Is Never on the Show
This shaggy Australian seemed like a weak link back in the day, but he was a good person to have working for House. He knew when to stand up for himself and when to kiss up. Sort of genius in a way. We get that he is tired of House’s antics, but he still has to do random surgeries for House when needed, so why not just deal with House? After all, he is supposedly this preeminent doctor.
7. Wilson Is Too Mopey
Wilson with Cutthroat B*tch was the Wilson we loved. Dealing with House, but also having his own life. It was kind of awesome, but after they killed off Amber, Wilson has turned all mopey. First he ran away, now he’s back and just kind of sad all the time. Where has funny snarky Wilson who could banter with House gone? Where is the man who could call House out? He’s forlornly washing mugs in his dead girlfriend’s house, that’s where! Come back, original flavor Wilson!
8. They Got Rid of Lucas
Aside from CTB, the only other new recent addition that we truly loved was Lucas. He was everything that Wilson should be. He was funny, loved to flirt with Cuddy, uncovered dirt about House and was actually a friend to him. And it didn’t hurt that he didn’t have a job in the hospital. His outsider perspective was refreshing… which clearly meant he had to go.
9. Too Much Cuddy/House Flirting
She let a hostage-taking gunman into her hospital and then put herself in the line of fire because she was just so in love with the cranky doctor. He spends all his time pulling pranks on her and sending her mixed messages. They would be a terrible couple. So let it go already. Let them just be friends/colleagues, like they used to be.
10. Because After Five Seasons, We’re On to Them
We know this show is a procedural, but they could switch it up once and a while, couldn’t they? Why do the doctors always need to almost kill the patient twice with misdiagnoses before they find out what the actual culprit is. Isn’t House supposed to be excellent at his job? Couldn’t he get one right the first time once and a while? Or even the second time? Let’s break out of the formula once in a while. Please?
What the HELL is goin’ on with ‘House’ this year?
My personal, blog commentary is this:
I agree with the majority of comments, however, I still hate Cameron. We get it she’s the sensitive and caring one; go away. The Aussie guy’s less annoying these days and my lord, Foreman…Thirteen (give her a name already, geesh)…ugh, 2 bad retarded characters I wish they’d kill both off, pronto. Instead, no let’s hook them up together to increase viewer misery…good plan, writers! FOR THE LOVE OF…Why, why, why does every single show on TV always have to have, not just one, but several alternating hook ups of the co-workers??? It’s ridiculous. I’m not saying that people who work together don’t hook up occasionally but c’mon its like they spin a bottle and hook up with the next co-worker….date OUTSIDE the friggin’ hospital already! There’s a whole world of people out there for the cast to date. And Cuddy? She’s annoying now, why the baby? Ugh. Have the writers no new ideas…already??? House himself does seem a bit broken down nowadays too…That Lucas guy, the private eye, he was cool. Hopefully, they cut the fat off this overwise fine program.
‘House’: His Most Ridiculous Patients Ever
By Mindy Monez - TWoP | Monday, March 30, 2009, 4:17 PM
“House” gets away with a lot of things besides trying to kill patients for fun and practicing medicine whilst high as a kite. That is, of course, largely what makes the show so much fun to watch, but that doesn’t mean the most ridiculous of the patient-of-the-week plots don’t need to be made fun of. Read on for alien abductions, sexy spore brains and evil chess prodigies!
- An Earthquake Makes a Hot Teen Want to Hook Up With House
For a couple of episodes in Season 3, House was the target of an overly affectionate teenage earthquake survivor, who went wild and topless during a clinic exam, and then stalked him, demanding some hot House lovin’. Fortunately for her, House eventually noticed she had a couple of cloudy eyeballs and diagnosed her as having an inhibition-lowering spore in her brain, which she inhaled when that earthquake shook it up. Why she was only interested in House, and none of the other men is a ridiculous mystery.
- Now I’ll Never Be a Teen Model (With Hidden Male Genitalia and Surprise Testicular Cancer)!
Meet Alex, a gorgeous, 15-year-old supermodel on top of the world, who has a little bit of a heroin problem and a penchant for having sex with her dad. Which happens when you are chromosomally a man, but your body’s immune to testosterone for some reason so you just became a hot girl, instead. It makes you sleep with your dad, is what it does. It turns out Alex’s androgynous name is serendipitous, as she has some secret testicles somewhere in that supermodel body of hers, and they have the cancer. So they remove them, and Alex is cured of the cancer as well as the incestuous sex drive.
- If You Think You Were Abducted By Aliens, You May Just Have Someone Else’s DNA in Your Brain
Sure, in vitro fertilization sounds great — until one of the zygotes absorbs part of one of the other ones, and your child ends up with some of the absorbed zygote’s DNA in him, and that extra DNA takes on an intense fear of alien abductions somehow. That was the case with Season 3’s Clancy, a young boy complaining of frequent alien abductions with the bloody rear end to prove it. House of course figures out that these are hallucinations strong enough to bring on those symptoms, but that’s okay, because that’s just the absorbed zygote’s problem — all they have to do is pluck out all the extra DNA real quick!
- You’re Married to Your Sister! What a Small World!
The medical particulars in this case aren’t really all that important. What’s important is that a very-much-in-love, interracial newlywed couple came in for one thing, but then both crazy kids started exhibiting the same malady, and it’s all a mystery until House overhears that the white kid’s dad was a notorious racist, and magically realizes they both have the same congenital disorder — because obviously the white kid’s racist dad was only pretending to be racist this whole time, because he had an affair with the black girl’s mother, which means they are siblings. House is so smart he can see through the mundane and jump to the most ludicrous conclusion possible, which, of course, is usually the correct one.
- Bishop to Queen’s Rook, Jerk
When an insult-slinging kid becomes enraged at a chess tournament and starts a nerd rumble, the PPTH crew assumes his insufferable disposition is a symptom of whatever it is that’s causing his other symptoms: headaches and organ failure. Now, say what you want about House, but he knows from jerks, and is thus able to realize that the kid’s horribleness is not a symptom. No, to House a symptom is how he holds his chess pieces, which is the way people with iron deficiencies hold chess pieces — duh, everyone knows that — and House diagnoses him and sends the boy on his way to happily torture his mother for the rest of his cruel days.
- Nail Brain? That is Some Creative Child Abuse, Even for This Show!
A young Chinese-American woman discovers that back when she was born in China, she was a breach of China’s one-child law, so her parents shoved some nails in her skull, naturally, and then dropped her off at an orphanage, discouraged by their failed attempts to kill her. Somehow these nails in her brain were never a problem for her, until she tried to pick up a magnetic Buddha, like, 20 years later, and the nails moved slightly and started hacking her brain to bits. What? You can live drama-free with a bunch of nails in your brain? And she’d never been exposed to anything magnetic before? Not even fridge magnets?
- A Magician Swallows a Handcuff Key and Forgets About It, and Actually Has Lupus
Yes, we know, it’s never lupus. Except that this time it was! This is a show in which having lupus is far more ridiculous than swallowing a handcuff key and forgetting about it before you get into an MRI and it rips your body apart. But the really bad news is that the magician’s blood type also disguised itself as another blood type, which led to him receiving the wrong kind in a transfusion. Which then made him bleed out of every orifice, even after the key damage from the MRI of doom was fixed.
- House Decides His Favorite Soap Star Has a Brain Tumor and Kidnaps Him, Obviously
House once thought his favorite soap star was delivering his lines in a cancer-having way, so he kidnapped him, dragged him back to PPTH and stabbed him with a sedative so he could run an MRI on him. But who could really be mad at someone who kidnapped them to cure their brain cancer? Um, someone who doesn’t have brain cancer, that’s who. Turns out the soap star was just allergic to the fake gin and tonics they fed him during shoots, and Cuddy got fined $200,000 because House is a crazed fan.