House - it's a long road back
Okay, this is the House show we know and love. Well, except for the part about House quitting his job and taking up various hobbies. But other than that... We did get to see all the old gang and see how the intervening months treated them. Chase was still funny. Wilson was still kinda lame. Foreman was still overestimating his capacity for genius. Thirteen was still the smartest one on the team. Taub was still all about the self-preservation. You get the idea. It was pretty standard really. Except that House and Wilson were doing a standard buddy comedy. If House hadn't broken out the Mandarin I would have been worried about the writers' sense of what made this show great. But he did. And we're pretty sure House will be as good as ever next week. We have a few more observations, of course, but you'll have to take our poll and then read them after the jump.
Things we noticed (in no particular order):
Thing #1 - The patient rooms in the hospital just get bigger and bigger every season. We could hold a dance party in the patient-of-the-week's room this week. It's bigger than the room House shared with a roommate last week.
Thing #2 - Cuddy's hair doesn't suck anymore! Last season it was really starting to look bad. This time she's starting to look pretty again, yay!
Thing #3 - So apparently the kissing of Cuddy last season wasn't entirely in House's mind. Just the sex. That's an interesting factoid. We wonder how long they can drag this out.
Thing #4 - Is Thirteen anorexic? We always thought she was skinny, but this was the first week we saw her acting so negative about food. Your boyfriend brings you a doughnut instead of flowers and you look at it like it's a dead worm? Please. And when House asked her to taste his elegant, thoughtful cooking and she looks like he's asked her to do something next to impossible. Is this an intentional part of her character? Or just an unconscious reflex from living in that unhealthy LA thin culture?
Thing #5 - It's good to know what the writers really think of those of us here on teh intarwebs. We're all idiots apparently. Though we admit we liked the spam-personified who showed up in the patient's room offering a cure.
Lines we loved.......
Cuddy - House was a genius.
Foreman - House was an egotistical, pill-popping, law-suit magnet..... and a genius.
Patient (to Foreman) - do you just block everybody? or do you really have only three friends?
Wilson - You said [the cooking] was keeping your mind off the pain.
House - That's before I discovered the Biggest Loser marathon on cable. I like to pretend they can see me eating.
Foreman - I brought you a doughnut. The florist was closed.
Thirteen - I'll get a vase and put it in water.
Foreman - You are possessed by the biblical demon "Legion."
Thirteen - Nope, no jumping off a cliff in a herd of pigs.
Foreman - Otherwise, it did fit.
Wilson - We know you're back on Vicodin.
House - No. All you know is that I'm a genius who got a dog to pee in your toilet. You don't know how I did it - or more interestingly - where I peed.
Thing #1 - The patient rooms in the hospital just get bigger and bigger every season. We could hold a dance party in the patient-of-the-week's room this week. It's bigger than the room House shared with a roommate last week.
Thing #2 - Cuddy's hair doesn't suck anymore! Last season it was really starting to look bad. This time she's starting to look pretty again, yay!
Thing #3 - So apparently the kissing of Cuddy last season wasn't entirely in House's mind. Just the sex. That's an interesting factoid. We wonder how long they can drag this out.
Thing #4 - Is Thirteen anorexic? We always thought she was skinny, but this was the first week we saw her acting so negative about food. Your boyfriend brings you a doughnut instead of flowers and you look at it like it's a dead worm? Please. And when House asked her to taste his elegant, thoughtful cooking and she looks like he's asked her to do something next to impossible. Is this an intentional part of her character? Or just an unconscious reflex from living in that unhealthy LA thin culture?
Thing #5 - It's good to know what the writers really think of those of us here on teh intarwebs. We're all idiots apparently. Though we admit we liked the spam-personified who showed up in the patient's room offering a cure.
Lines we loved.......
Cuddy - House was a genius.
Foreman - House was an egotistical, pill-popping, law-suit magnet..... and a genius.
Patient (to Foreman) - do you just block everybody? or do you really have only three friends?
Wilson - You said [the cooking] was keeping your mind off the pain.
House - That's before I discovered the Biggest Loser marathon on cable. I like to pretend they can see me eating.
Foreman - I brought you a doughnut. The florist was closed.
Thirteen - I'll get a vase and put it in water.
Foreman - You are possessed by the biblical demon "Legion."
Thirteen - Nope, no jumping off a cliff in a herd of pigs.
Foreman - Otherwise, it did fit.
Wilson - We know you're back on Vicodin.
House - No. All you know is that I'm a genius who got a dog to pee in your toilet. You don't know how I did it - or more interestingly - where I peed.