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I never watch TV shows right when they air. It’s one of the things that happen when I want to watch several that air at the same time. (I love my TiVo.) So when I got to finally watch last night’s House episode, I got to thinking about it in a big way. Then I started to wonder what all of you thought about it.

First of all, it’s interesting that one of the unusual illnesses I talked about recently was discussed as one of the possible diagnoses for the POTW. For a while, they thought he had alien hand syndrome.

We were told that it would be the most shocking House episode ever. Did it live up to that? I’d say that it was a strong second to the episode where Kutner died, but that it did definitely come as a surprise. (If you haven’t watched it yet…you should come back to read the rest of this post after you watch it. This is no surprise you want to be spoiled.)

First of all, I was wondering last week why the love scene between House & Cuddy was so extremely short. Now it seems to make more sense. But now I’m sad that it wasn’t real. Huddy fans, what are your thoughts on this?

I was really enjoying the happiness that House showed when he woke up and found Cuddy’s lipstick by the bathroom sink. And the way he was so happy all day long at the hospital was cute too. But I knew something bad was going to happen next when he announced to the whole hospital about their interlude.

It was a big surprise to me that House saw Kutner in the room…I should have noticed his name in the press release, but I didn’t. But somehow, I think that’s what David Shore wanted…

We now know why they did the “top secret” filming at the closed mental hospital in New Jersey. It had to be for the scene with Wilson dropping off House. Now I wonder what next season will bring us. Will episodes take place with House as a patient…helping to diagnose patients over the phone?
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Episode 5.21: Saviors
Air Date: April 13, 2009

The episode began with protestors chained to each other around heavy coal mining equipment to stand up for a “green” cause. There are a ton of crazed workers trying to get back to work. One of the protesters collapses. A police officer ends the protest to tend to her. When her fellow protestor gets vertigo and falls down, he says he can’t get up.

At the Princeton Plainsboro Hospital Cameron tells Chase that she has to delay their getaway in order to help a patient get to see House. Chase protests, but she says that as soon as she’s sure House will take the case, she’ll be ready to go.

Cameron (Jennifer Morrison, L) brings a case to House (Hugh Laurie, C) and the team (L-R: Omar Epps, Olivia Wilde and Peter Jacobson) in the HOUSE episode “Saviors” airing Monday, April 13 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
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She talks to House and his team, when Thirteen calls the patient a nutcase.

Thirteen: What’s the mystery? The nutcase spends all his free time wreaking havoc at toxic waste dumps.
Cameron: Tox screen’s negative. No neurological or cardiovascular abnormalities.
Foreman: The guy cares about the environment. That makes him a nutcase?
Taub: He’s a single guy in his twenties. He cares about getting his hybrid waxed by girls who care about the environment.
Foreman: See? Not a nutcase.
Taub: He’s probably just faking so he can sue the cops and get a six-figure settlement.
Cameron: If he was faking an illness, why would he consent to being seen by he best diagnostician in the country?
House: Now who’s trying to get her hybrid waxed?

House tells Cameron the tests that need to be run and that it’s her that needs to repay the favor, not the rest of the team, so she should do them. She reluctantly leaves to run tests.
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The episode began at a dinner to celebrate an author’s newest book being published. The author stands to thank the dinner guests and his editor starts trashing him, the book and everyone else. Then he apologizes, starts bleeding from his nose and collapses.

House enters his office to find the team studying the chart of the new patient. Foreman tells him that the patient suffers from Frontal Lobe Disinhibition. Nothing showed up on the MRI so House told them to “go stick a scope up Phinneas’ nose and see what you find.”

Taub and Kutner enter the patient’s room and he confronts them, telling them that they look “excited” about him being so sick. He had been playing cards with his daughter, who has an auditory processing disability. The patient insults Taub’s nose, then his wife’s job and the test begins.

Kutner (Kal Penn, R) treats a patient (guest star Jay Karnes, L) who can’t stop himself from saying everything he’s thinking, no matter who it hurts.
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House and Wilson were walking down the hall of the hospital and House entices him with talk of a monster truck show. Wilson can’t make it, but doesn’t say why. Then he breaks down and tells House that he doesn’t really like monster trucks. House is very shocked at that news. But then he asks Wilson what he’s really hiding. Just then, Kutner joins then to tell House that the patient doesn’t have nasal cancer and that his marriage is in trouble if he keeps saying everything he thinks.

Wilson: You always led me to believe you were one of a kind.
Kutner: Luckily, jerkiness is temporary for this guy.
House: No, it’s not. We may be able to fix his impulse to say his thoughts out loud, but he’s always going to be the guy who thinks them.
Wilson: But he’s also going to be the guy who doesn’t say them. If he spent his whole life constructing this nice-guy persona, isn’t that as much who he really is as anything else?
House: You would argue that. You’re all persona.
Kutner: I agree with Wilson, this guy’s Harry Potter. The sorting hat was going to put Harry in Slitherin, based on his nature. He refused, so he ended up in Gryffindore through choice.
House: There’s damage, somewhere in his brain. Go find it.

Kutner (Kal Penn, L) consults House (Hugh Laurie, R) and Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard, C) when the team treats a patient who can’t stop himself from saying everything he’s thinking - no matter who it hurts.
[Photo: ©2009 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Adam Taylor/FOX]

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There has been so much interesting information that we’ve gotten to get us excited about the two-part House season finale that now, after it’s aired, it might be fun to go back and look at everything. It could help us to appreciate what an amazing job they did on the episodes. Here’s a rieview of the spoilers, photos, video clips and interviews surrounding the episodes:

• Video clip of Hugh Laurie on the Tonight Show promoting the finale
• House - House’s Head - Spoiler Photos
• House 4.15 - House’s Head - 4 Spoiler Videos
• House 4.15 - House’s Head - B-Roll
• House 4.15 - House’s Head - Trailer
• House 4.15 - House’s Head - Stunt Coordinator Interview
• House 4.15 - House’s Head - Director Interview
• House Episode 4.16 - Wilson’s Heart - Spoiler Photos
• Michael Ausiello from TV Guide gives spoilers about Thirteen’s name (Dr. Hadley) being revealed in the House’s Head
• Interview With Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Cuddy) - Part One, Part Two
• Video clips of Hugh Laurie on Craig Ferguson Show promoting the finale
• Video Clip of Hugh Laurie on the Ellen Show to promote the finale
• Discussion Points for “Wilson’s Heart”

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Tonight we got to see the dramatic season finale of House. They found Amber as one of the “Jane Does” at the other trauma center and decided to lower her body temperature to give them time to diagnose her.

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After a lot of second guesses, Wilson asked House to submit to a dangerous procedure to stimulate his brain into letting him remember. He did remember that he had gotten drunk at a bar and the bartender took his keys, so he called to see if Wilson could come get him and instead, Amber did. She drank a couple of drinks and they got on the bus.

It turned out that she was coming down with the flu and was taking something dangerous to counteract it. In the bus crash, she was injured so that she couldn’t get the toxic stuff out of her body and they knew they couldn’t save her.

Wilson went in and curled up next to her in bed and after kissing her, he turned off the life support machines so that would be her last thought before dying. (Very tragically romantic!)

Here are a few discussion points for you so we can get a dialog started. Leave a comment with your thoughts about the episode!

• We found out that Kutner’s parents were killed in their convenience store when it was robbed.
• What do you think of the fact that House was able to see the rash in his dream?
• Were you surprised at Thirteen’s anxiety about treating Amber?
• Were you surprised that Wilson asked House to risk his own life to save Amber’s?
• What are your thoughts about the fact that Amber died?
• How do you think this will affect Wilson? Will he somehow blame House for Amber’s death?
• Wasn’t the Amber’s death scene just the saddest thing? Even if I didn’t like her character, it’s still sad to me.
• Wasn’t the scene when House woke up cool…especially how Cuddy was there and so concerned?
• It was interesting how each character handled the death and House coming out of the coma, wasn’t it?

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The show began with a man at the South Pole fixing a generator out in the Antarctic cold, when a blade from a broken windmill flew into his leg and severed the femoral artery. He called for help and a woman rushed out to help him in to a tunnel, hurriedly cut open his pants leg, squirted glue to seal the artery and wrapped the thigh in duct tape. Then, when she was trying to help him up, she collapsed and started to throw up. She said she needed help, but he asked her, “Who am I supposed t get?”

Cuddy walked into a patient’s room to find House, standing on a chair, trying to tune the patient’s TV.

Cuddy: Why do I even give you an office? New case. Psych Department asked for you personally.
House: The patient’s a crazy person?
Cuddy: You’re a crazy person. The patient’s a psychiatrist.
House: Something wrong with killing a guy’s cable.
Cuddy: (looks at the unconscious patient) He seems fine with it. Your patient is an adjunct faculty member but currently… (House bangs on the side of the TV) The budget committee voted to charge for cable in the patient rooms.
House: (rolls eyes) Slippery slope! Today, we withhold porn, tomorrow it’s clean bandages.
Cuddy: Talk to Carlson, he runs the budget committee…After you look at this. (hands him the file.)
House: After you talk to Carlson, maybe I’ll…
Cuddy: The patient is trapped at the South Pole.

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The show began with a mother coaching her daughter while she climbed the face of a rock climbing wall. At the point where the mother was holding the rope to keep her daughter from falling, her hands stopped working and the daughter fell to the ground, breaking her arm.

In the hospital, the new team, surrounded by holiday decorations, began to discuss the puzzling case. Then House came in and started to tear down the decorations.

House: Dr. Kutner, who told you that it would be a good idea to put up superficial representations of the season, celebrating a mythical figure? (Grabs the stuffed Santa as he said it.)
Kutner: It wasn’t me.
House: He lied. Homey knows better (Foreman nods), Himey doesn’t care (Taub) and Huntington’s would have done a better job (Thirteen.)
Thirteen: I don’t have Huntington’s.
House: That you know of.
Foreman: Why would you…?
House: Because I almost got sued when I called you “Honey Buns”

Welcome back, my favorite grump! Ahh! House is back!!
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We finally got to see who the final team will be.

The show began with a washed-up punk rocker coughing up blood and collapsing just before going on stage.

In the doctors’ lounge, Cuddy walked in to find House eating popcorn and watching soaps on TV. She pressed him to make a decision about which three to hire.

Cuddy: I want two names by Friday.
House: I’ll arrange for a person with a mysterious illness to come in on Thursday.
Cuddy: Yes. You need more tests. It’s been two months. Who knows how they’ll react to freak weather patterns?
House: They all did fine in the wind tunnel.
Cuddy: Two names by Friday or the pay overruns come out of your salary and I move your parking space to the “E” lot.

House went to see Cameron in the ER to see if she had any good prospective patients for him. She introduced him to the punk rocker.

House: Wrap him up. I’ll take him to go.

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The show began with a wheelchair-bound man with his support dog crossing a street, when he seemed to pass out. The dog tried to wake him, but couldn’t. Drivers all rushed to see about him.

Next, we saw the new herd of doclings sitting unattended in the lecture room at 4:00 pm and wondering where House was.

The manipulative woman (Anne Dudek’s character) said that he had promised to be there at 3:00 and she was going home. On her way out, the Mormon doctor (Edi Gathegi’s character) told the others not to follow her because she had “Pied Pipered” nine people right out of a job the week before. Just then, House walked in.

House handed his cane to the woman who had been on her way out asking her if she “would mind holding my metaphor for a minute.” Then he tossed folders to the docs and started to brief them on the new patient.

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First off, I need to apologize for not doing a recap of the show this week, but I live in the Midwest where there were tornado warnings all evening and between the local station breaking in to show us the radar and the power blinking on and off, causing the TiVo to have to re-boot (takes at least 5 minutes each time) I was unable to watch the show until later and then it was online.

But I’ll be back with the recaps starting with the next episode, so be sure to stop by and share your thoughts too!

In the mean time, now that we’ve been introduced to the new docs, I thought you’d enjoy this poll from Eonline.com:

So, what do you think of the new docs? Which do you think has the best chance of staying around? Do we agree with the poll above? Let’s see, by trying the same one here:

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