House: 7x12 "You Must Remember This" - Discussion and Spoilers

[Trekker4747]

From TV.com:

Masters tries to mend the rift between a patient with perfect memory and her sister, when the patient's grudge threatens her treatment. Meanwhile, House tries to help Wilson get a date but discovers that his friend already has someone, and Foreman offers to help Taub study for an upcoming medical exam.

"Hey, remember last week when the power was out all of the hospital, and you completely pushed the ethical boundaries, even for you, pissed of another doctor and committed numerous felonies, fraud, and even threatened to ruin a young woman's career? Well, never mind all of that." -Wilson to House.


House Medical Reviews

 

[Velocity]

"I bought a cat. Release the Kraken!" Love Wilson and House repartee.

 

[bigdaddy]

How many guys here have cats?

 

[Trekker4747]

House, after showing his theory that men with cats do not get laid, to Masters. "As your people say, quod erat demonstrandum."

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Taub's Mod Squad line cracked me up.

 

[Trekker4747]

"Kevin Spacey is Kaiser Soze." :laugh:

Oh, Bryan Singer.

That was actually a good episode and felt like "House of old" with a strong POTW storyline and just an in-background B-plot dealing with House and his social circle. The Foreman/Taub friendship has been a fun one that's actually been building for a couple of seasons (since they shared being trapped in the records room during a hospital lock-down.)

The POTW storyline was a good one and treated nicely with good DDx scenes and interactions with the Doclings, even Masters wasn't completely annoying and useless. I liked her in this episode.

I'm going to go ahead and rate this one an "Excellent."

 

[Christopher]

Okay, I know House is a jerk, but when he starts mistreating cats, that's crossing a line. And that was a cute kitty.

Taub's Mod Squad line cracked me up.

It was a cute nod to the fact that Omar Epps co-starred in the movie remake of that show, but it didn't feel like a line that made much sense in-universe. Why would Taub associate Foreman with The Mod Squad?

 

[Trekker4747]

Okay, I know House is a jerk, but when he starts mistreating cats, that's crossing a line. And that was a cute kitty.

I think it was less about mistreating cats and preventing Wilson's apparent cycle of getting a cat to cope with a break-up (although he didn't get one when his most recent wife left him or when Amber/CTB died) and becoming secluded.

And, yeah it was a.... "cute" cat... I guess. But it hardly fits in with House's pretty well defined lines of the masculine and the feminine. A white, fluffy, cat hardly fits the mold of "manly."

Just saying' that's how House likely saw it. A different type of cat with short hair and such, maybe, House would've dealt with it better.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Taub's Mod Squad line cracked me up.

It was a cute nod to the fact that Omar Epps co-starred in the movie remake of that show, but it didn't feel like a line that made much sense in-universe. Why would Taub associate Foreman with The Mod Squad?

Umm, maybe The Mod Squad remake exists in-universe, and it starred Omar Epps, and just like his coworkers have made reference to how much Foreman looks like Mike Tomlin, maybe this was Taub's way of saying, "Foreman, dude, you look like Omar Epps."

And, yeah it was a.... "cute" cat... I guess. But it hardly fits in with House's pretty well defined lines of the masculine and the feminine. A white, fluffy, cat hardly fits the mold of "manly."

Honestly, all I could think of was Blofeld.

 

[Captain Shaw]

Was the actress who played the sister Claire Rankin, who played Dr. Kate Heightmeyer in SGA?

 

[Chaos Descending]

Was the actress who played the sister Claire Rankin, who played Dr. Kate Heightmeyer in SGA?

Sure looked like her!.

 

[Captain Dago]

Honestly, all I could think of was Blofeld.

Yeah, me too!
"I don't expect you to talk, Dr. House. I expect you to die!"

 

[David cgc]

So, looked to me in the Xbox scene like Omar Epps had played a video game before in his life, while Peter Jacobson hasn't. Fake videogaming in TV is just... it reminds me of old movies where an actor "driving a car" would just lazily swing the steering wheel back and forth, with absolutely no relation to how the background was moving.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Honestly, all I could think of was Blofeld.

Yeah, me too!
"I don't expect you to talk, Dr. House. I expect you to die!"

Wrong Bond villain. Joke doesn't track.

So, looked to me in the Xbox scene like Omar Epps had played a video game before in his life, while Peter Jacobson hasn't. Fake videogaming in TV is just... it reminds me of old movies where an actor "driving a car" would just lazily swing the steering wheel back and forth, with absolutely no relation to how the background was moving.

This. Kind of a peeve of mine. Not as bad as watching an actor trying to fake playing an instrument, however. That just drives me bonkers.

I hope Taub fails his test anyway. Then they can kick him off the show. He needs to go. Now.

 

[Captain Dago]

Honestly, all I could think of was Blofeld.

Yeah, me too!
"I don't expect you to talk, Dr. House. I expect you to die!"

Wrong Bond villain. Joke doesn't track.

Picky, picky. It's what I thought of during the whole ep and it made me laugh. Just thought others might enjoy it, too.

 

[Saul]

Honestly, all I could think of was Blofeld.

Yeah, me too!
"I don't expect you to talk, Dr. House. I expect you to die!"

Wrong Bond villain. Joke doesn't track.

"Come, come Mr. House, you enjoy playing games just as much as I do".

 

[Christopher]

Honestly, all I could think of was Blofeld.

Yeah, me too!
"I don't expect you to talk, Dr. House. I expect you to die!"

Wrong Bond villain. Joke doesn't track.

Except House himself already made that joke in the last episode that featured a cat. I think someone pointed out to him that he was conflating Bond villains (and apologies if your'e actually quoting that episode, but if so, everyone else seems to have missed it too), but it goes to show that the general public probably would have their Bond-villain cliches sufficiently lumped together in their minds that the joke would work for them.

 

[Arrqh]

So, looked to me in the Xbox scene like Omar Epps had played a video game before in his life, while Peter Jacobson hasn't. Fake videogaming in TV is just... it reminds me of old movies where an actor "driving a car" would just lazily swing the steering wheel back and forth, with absolutely no relation to how the background was moving.

Personally, I was too distraught at seeing footage of that monkey game from last season on the TV to even notice what the actors were doing.

 

[Trekker4747]

So, looked to me in the Xbox scene like Omar Epps had played a video game before in his life, while Peter Jacobson hasn't. Fake videogaming in TV is just... it reminds me of old movies where an actor "driving a car" would just lazily swing the steering wheel back and forth, with absolutely no relation to how the background was moving.

Personally, I was too distraught at seeing footage of that monkey game from last season on the TV to even notice what the actors were doing.

Second time we've seen that game this season too, the last time was House playing it with Cuddy in one of the earlier episodes. I'm guessing that the game, ontop of the apparent pseudo-VR/Kinect release we saw when it was introduced last season also has a standard game release.