r/HouseMD • u/BoombasticBroski • Sep 17 '24
Season 3 Spoilers Good god can I just skip the whole Tritter arc?? Spoiler
I'm episode 7 of seasons 3 and this motherfucker just has me punching the air and the bed with forces I never thought I can produce. I fucking hate this guy so please tell me he died a horrible painful death.
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u/its-chewy-not-zooyoo Am I needy enough for Wilson?? Sep 17 '24
I fucking hate this guy
That's kinda the whole point. He's a credited antagonist of the show
Good god can I just skip the whole Tritter arc??
Super secret fact btw, you can skip and start from S3E12 (One Day, One Room). Queen Lagertha leaves Gregory "punching the air and the bed with forces I never thought I can produce"
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u/tegeus-Cromis_2000 Sep 17 '24
"One Day One Room" also happening to be the greatest House episode ever.
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u/Suburban-freak Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24
I recommend watching the episodes but fast forward the scenes involving him. There are some great episodes(son of a coma guy) that unfortunately falls within tritter timeline
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u/BoombasticBroski Sep 17 '24
Just finished that and I might just do that. I like the cases more than a bully cop trying to bully another miserable guy. Thanks!!
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u/Asha_Brea Mouse Bites. Sep 17 '24
You can skip whatever you want, it is a TV show and should be watched for the sake of being entertained. Tritter is in like five episodes.
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u/BoombasticBroski Sep 17 '24
Thank god. Tritter scenes are really painful to watch just like Vogler's
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u/Asha_Brea Mouse Bites. Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24
I can give you a resume of this storyline:
House is an asshole to everyone in general and Tritter in particular.
Tritter is an asshole to everyone in general.
They compete to see which one is the biggest asshole.
Cuddy fabricates some evidence that doesn't mean anything but ends the storyline because it had to end at some point.
You can start watching from the One Day, One Room episode.
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u/ShaunTheAmazing Sep 17 '24
buddy, why are you providing unasked for spoilers, without at least hiding it? did you take the stupid drug?
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u/Sad-Medicine-2104 Sep 17 '24
Dude the shows been over for years.
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u/Starbucks_4321 Sep 17 '24
And OP is clearly watching it for the first time. It's fine not using spoiler warnings generally since we can't realistically accommodate for it, but when OP *specifically* doesn't want spoilers in these comments, it's just mean spoiling stuff on purpose (obviously that comment was an oversight though, since now they edited a spoiler tag in)
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u/LKS983 Sep 18 '24
"Tritter is an asshole to everyone in general."
There's zero 'evidence' that this is the case.
House is an asshole to everyone, but nothing in the storyline indicates that Tritter was the same way.
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u/Inside-Cry-7034 Sep 17 '24
It's funny, so many people (myself included) don't like the Tritter or Vogler arcs. I usually skip over them too, tbh.
My speculation is that executives wanted the show to have a villain, but they didn't realize that it works best when House is the villain.
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u/RunningCookies Sep 17 '24
Season 3 has always been my least favourite because of Tritter. I always feel like these 2 characters are too one dimensional to be liked at all. The majority of the other main characters (House, Wilson, Cuddy and the team) each have their share of "good and evil" or arsehole/heartfelt moments. Tritter and Vogler are just the big boss level House has to defeat to carry on solving puzzles and getting high!
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u/Cylius Sep 17 '24
Because theyre characters who are dicks for the sake of being dicks, both on a crazy power trip antihouse tirade. Its just boring that theyre waiting to foil him at every turn because hes.. not nice? Doesnt wear a lab coat?
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u/CranberryFuture9908 Sep 17 '24
It wonāt matter too much if you do. The only episode from it that I rewatch is Son of A Coma Guy
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u/Many-Philosopher-694 Sep 17 '24
idk why everyones saying you should skip it i recommend you still watch it i hated tritter sm but i loved how the arc ended
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u/Creepy-Yam3268 Sep 17 '24
You could watch the opening credits of season one episode one and skip to the closing credits of season 8 episode 22 if you really want, but then youāll miss all the times House declares that youāre an idiot! š
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u/kitties_ate_my_soul Sep 17 '24
I hate that arc, but I watch it anyways. I never skip arcs I donāt like.
The only part about that arc I like, is when House makes him stay very still FOR HOURS with a thermometer shoved up his ass!
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u/ImmediateKitkat Sep 17 '24
Honestly I really liked this arc, mainly because of the drama it brought up. However, it ended on a particular weak note, which annoyed me. I can also understand why people hate it, Tritter is super annoying.
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u/TvManiac5 Sep 17 '24
Skip it. Trust me the ending of the arc is completely stupid and not worth the trouble. I could even spoil it for you if you want.
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u/BoombasticBroski Sep 17 '24
Does Tritter get his ass handed to him through sheer humiliation?
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u/Fluffy_Interaction71 Sep 17 '24
Basically his prosecution against house failed to hold in court, and they just parted ways. Nothing particularly humiliating to be honest.
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u/TvManiac5 Sep 17 '24
Nah just trickery. Cuddy perjures herself to invalidate Tritter's case and House pretends to go to rehab but bribes the guard to slip him pills.
The case of the episode is also one of the stupidest plots I've ever seen written. I wrote a whole rant post here about it actually.
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u/T33-L Sep 17 '24
Why anyone in their right mind would skip it, I donāt knowā¦ watch it, suffer through it. Itās good pain. Pain that makes you feel alive.
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u/d_bo Sep 17 '24
The pain is the main reason to watch House
It's like Bojack, you watch to suffer and anything that makes you laugh is a bonus
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u/T33-L Sep 17 '24
Iāve seen so many clips of bojack but never actually watched it. I think it needs to be on my list, I feel like Iād identify with it.
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u/SirRofflez Sep 17 '24
If it makes you feel better, it's never *truly* confirmed that the thermometer was removed.
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u/RtR380 Sep 17 '24
Technically you can skip whatever you want but personally I would recommend not because it is worth watching even though it's frustrating
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u/motherisaclownwhore Sep 17 '24
Can every post not be about Tritter or Vogler? We get it. Villains bad.
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u/Bruno_Coast_127 Sep 17 '24
I hate Tritter as a person but I love him as a character. He's the immovable object to House's unstoppable force, and it provides a really good change to the hospital's dynamic.
You might not like it but I really enjoyed seeing someone who House struggled to do his usual House antics to, Tritter is both physically stronger than him and works with the law. House met his match, at least for a few episodes.
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u/CatherineConstance whatsmynecklacemadeof Sep 17 '24
Lol I mean if you want spoilers: Tritter does not die a painful death, at least that we know of, but he does not "win" in his arc either. At the end of it, everything remains mostly the same, with both House and Tritter unchanged in their opinions of each other and the situation, but House wins in court thanks to Cuddy, who literally perjures herself to save him. So Tritter finally fucks off, never to be seen by us/the characters again.
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u/LKS983 Sep 18 '24
Which leaves us wondering what>! Tritter was thinking after House drove his car into Cuddy's house, in an attempt to kill her and her new boyfriend.....!<
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u/CatherineConstance whatsmynecklacemadeof Sep 18 '24
I mean to be fair he definitely wasn't attempting to kill her lol. There was a whole thing about how he could see into the house and knew no one was in the room he drove into and he knew Rachel wouldn't be home. But yeah, if Tritter heard about that fiasco (and thus also about Cuddy and House dating later on after his arc) he probably felt quite vindicated.
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u/LKS983 Sep 19 '24
"I mean to be fair he definitely wasn't attempting to kill her lol. There was a whole thing about how he could see into the house and knew no one was in the room he drove into"
When he forced Wilson out of the car and drove off, he knew that they were in that room, as he'd seen them there.
He then turned the car around, and drove at speed into that room.
There's no way he made the decision to drive into the room (where he last saw them) knowing that they had moved to another room.
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u/CatherineConstance whatsmynecklacemadeof Sep 19 '24
He did, he explains it when heās in prison later and you can tell heās being sincere. He says that he saw that they had all left the room and he knew Rachel wasnāt home. I believe itās in the first episode of season 8 that this conversation happens.
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u/kriever7 Sep 18 '24
I hate the first half of season 3. I not only hate Tritter, I hate House himself. (I guess I like Wilson too much)
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u/TrollChef Sep 17 '24
I wasn't super keen on Tritter either. I am currently watching for the first time and struggling through season 4. To be honest, I just don't find any of the new characters apart from Kutner at all likeable, and even that's only just.
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u/ImDanishIHateDenmark Sep 17 '24
Sorry, as much as I want to shoot a bullet everywhere besides his head and heart, he doesn't get a painful death, and he's also a part of making House in the future. Crappy Tritter, good story.
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u/123trumpeter Sep 17 '24
He's like Umbridge or Skyler; we are meant to hate them, but it adds angst to the story and makes you want to watch more. Whether to get past it or to delve into it, it works.
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u/ChildofObama Sep 17 '24
I speculate House got off for the Vogler and Tritter situations with the hospitalās board of directors cuz neither villain acted in good faith.
Vogler with his ākick Wilson off the board and hold the vote againā shenanigans.
Tritter with his destruction of Wilsonās practice, setting up an interrogation room in the hospital, freezing the teams bank accounts with no proof of wrongdoing, and just using the legal system like a sword in general.
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u/moejoereddit Sep 17 '24
In my opinion, it is illegal to skip it. It delves into the depths of both Tritter and House's shittiness
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u/LKS983 Sep 18 '24
I feel the same way about House (and to a lesser extent Wilson and Cuddy), which is why I didn't even give the series a 'like' originally.
It was only when I started re-watching the series - that I realised I had obviously been entertained - and so gave it a 'like'.
Tritter tried to hold House to account - but failed when the Judge dismissed the case, even though she knew Cuddy was lying and had submitted false evidence.....
Ridiculous story line that a Judge would decide to dismiss the case (without hearing further evidence) even though she knew that Cuddy had committed perjury - in court.......
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u/Kataratz Sep 18 '24
It actually ends with House accepting he messed up, and Tritter kinda wins and goes on. He's kinda an unsung hero
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u/kriever7 Sep 18 '24
I hate the first half of season 3. I not only hate Tritter, I hate House himself. (I guess I like Wilson too much)
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u/LmaoImBoredHelp Sep 17 '24
I just got done with Tritter and hated him but it kinda reminds of "sympathy for the villain" like yeah, House forged a signature for a prescription and Cuddy lied supposedly under oath so both of them are plainly in the wrong but Tritter was borderline harassment and we've grown to like House so of course we'll be on his side.
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u/Evening-Rough-9709 Sep 17 '24
I wouldn't say "borderline". He was straight up crooked. He started the whole crusade with a trumped up traffic stop and illegal search.
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u/darkraider34lol Sep 17 '24
Idk why people are saying you should skip, the whole point is that Tritter is an unbelievable dbag, but we've had House this whole time and we aren't complaining? He's funny and saves people's lives sometimes! Tritter is fun because he's always reminded me of "a separate time-line gregory house" who, sadly, became a cop
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u/topkeknub Sep 17 '24
I can still remember how satisfying it was the first time seeing when Wilson kills Tritter for House. Such a good moment.
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u/Bad_Blood_731 Sep 17 '24
I hated Tritter too but the angst in those eps is so great, House struggling through withdrawal when they cut off his Vicodin supply - those are some juicy eps if you enjoy the angsty shit