This episode was a little sitcommy… not to the point where I didn’t enjoy watching it, but it was pushing it. It might be one of the only House episodes in which the case was more interesting than the side drama.
And yeah, watching Skutner get owned was pretty funny.
I strongly recommend you head to your local video store and rent the DVDs. The individual episodes are perfectly watchable, but each season has its own arc that plays out across the episodes. It’s well worth dropping some bucks on the rentals and watching an episode or two per night to see how everything falls together.
dang, I didn’t realize how many episodes of house there are. Having to catch up would suck so much! Also, man I’ve wasted a lot of time watching house.
the end was just too predictable. things like this never work out. too many people want them together now that they have been playing at it, but the truth is it would be bad for the show. where do you write it from there? only place i can see it going without completely ignoring any sembelence of reality they have already established for these two characters is breaking up and eventually becoming friends again…anything else would be horrible…
or what if House and Cuddy get together but Stacy comes back into the picture and then she and cuddy get into a cat fight over house. dat shiz would be jumping… sharking jumping that is.
In an ideal world, the writers would develop the House/Cuddy pairing until it was time for them to ride off together into the sunset. But given that House was the most-watched fictional TV show of the 2007-08 season, I doubt that’s what’s going on here.
Best case scenario: the House/Cuddy pairing dies on the launch pad and their antagonism reemerges stronger than ever as a result.
I fucking hated that guy. Hopefully his was only a partial season arc, like Tritter (I hated him too).
I know it’s important to have the occasional villain on the show, but it derailed the story for way too long. You know it’s bad when you start to crave the more formula-driven elements of the show that normally attract the most gripes.