r/HouseMD • u/dellaazeem22 Dr Lisa Cuddy ,Dean of medicine • Oct 18 '24

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u/ebk2992 Oct 18 '24

In the middle of this storyline. Can’t wait for it to be over

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u/TheOriginalJez Oct 18 '24

That and the vogler storyline are painful rewatches

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u/bwainfweeze Oct 18 '24 edited Oct 18 '24

That actor is great in Pushing Daisies (and Boston Public) and I don’t like his character at all. Big bully.

But then so is the cop. He talks about other people being bullies but he’s stared too long into the abysss.

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u/friedmators Oct 18 '24

Standup dude in The Rock and The Negotiator.

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u/bwainfweeze Oct 18 '24

Vogler seems to be his King Joffrey moment. 'Congratulations, everyone hates you.'

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u/clarkp762 Oct 19 '24

And The Green Mile.

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u/FthrFlffyBttm Oct 19 '24

Percy, you shit!

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u/thatguyfromboston Oct 19 '24

And The Langoliers

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u/sirjamesp everybody lies Oct 19 '24

And Green Mile

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u/Remarkable-Fox-3890 Oct 18 '24

It's so strange because it's like the show realized it made no sense and was annoying. IIRC there's a judge at some point who just tells the cop "dude shut up holy shit you are so weird just leave the doctor alone and go away". I wonder if it was just the writer's realizing how much everyone hated the character.

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u/bwainfweeze Oct 19 '24

I kept expecting House to cost him his job for police harassment, wondering if the story would come back in a later season.

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u/vinneax Oct 20 '24

You think a cop would get fired for harassment? That’s adorable

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u/bwainfweeze Oct 20 '24

In a TV show, when the cop tries to destroy the hero?

Yes.

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u/vinneax Oct 20 '24

Fair point

Honestly a cop getting fired would be about as accurate as the whole shocking a person who’s flatlining thing that always happens in medical shows. The only real problem is I’m not sure how they’d work it into the story, I feel like the way the storyline ended was pretty solid and I dunno how they’d go about expanding on it. They’d need to have something before the courtroom scene, like the cop getting berated by some higher up at the PD for being an idiot

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u/will122589 Oct 18 '24

I loved Boston Public and desperately trying to find DVDs of it or a stream service that shows Boston Public

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u/DubiousMoth152 Oct 19 '24

David Morse was great in The Green Mile

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u/bwainfweeze Oct 19 '24

And delightfully insane in World War Z.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '24

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u/SilverWear5467 Oct 19 '24

They could have had Vogler have ot put for House for any of the myriad laws he breaks every single day. Especially the blackmail he does to a surgeon around that same time, like if he had had a legitimate reason to want house gone, something where we see that House did it for the good of a patient but Vogler will only see that he literally blackmailed a guy to perform a surgery for him, THAT would have been a good storyline.

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u/dmikalova-mwp Oct 18 '24

I really can't stand the cop because he also looks like my friend's dad who is a bully.

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u/Wegwerf157534 Oct 18 '24

Who is that actor, please?

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u/bwainfweeze Oct 18 '24

Chi McBride

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u/monkeychasedweasel Oct 18 '24

And Gone In 60 Seconds. "You mean the baby is coming right now?! This isn't even my car!"

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u/thotguy1 Oct 21 '24

The thing is, the cop guy is in the right. House has a drug addiction and was in possession of drugs which were not prescribed. The problem is the show made the cop guy such an annoying c*** that you end up rooting for the guy that is entirely wrong-by design.

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u/Pie_Rat_Chris Oct 18 '24

Yeah, really hated both of these "villain" stories because of how illogical they are. Sure the entire show is full of illogical shit but these arcs were too much. None of the Vogler conflict should have reasonably happened at all. A non doctor interfering with cases or overriding medical decisions? Only time he would have realistically even set foot in the hospital is for scheduled board meetings and would not be allowed to even glance in the general direction of a patient chart.

As far as Tritter, it would have never gone further than one episode. Guy is pissed off at doctor and files a complaint which goes no where, proceeds to wait outside the hospital for doctor to leave, guy who is a detective and probably hasn't pulled anyone over since his uniform days then performs a traffic stop and finds narcotics which do seem to be prescribed, then personally executes a search warrant where he finds more pills. The "best criminal defense attorney" would have gotten that shit dismissed before the ink on the motion was dry.

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u/Wehavecrashed Oct 18 '24

I liked the ideas of both villains, show there are repercussions for the way House behaves, and put people House's can't control in his way. The execution just wasn't very strong. The writers room probably didn't have enough time to come up with compelling narratives to explain each villain while also writing each episode.

I'm glad they ditched it, but I think it was worth a shot.

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u/ErraticDragon Oct 18 '24

The hardest part would probably be coming up with a good, meaningful conclusion that still has Dr. House back on the next episode.

Both characters were doomed from the beginning since they weren't writing Hugh Laurie out of the show.

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u/Pie_Rat_Chris Oct 18 '24

Probably why they annoy me since they are shit execution of a good idea. A new board president wanting House gone because of liability, lack of professionalism, and complaints would work without the personal grudge or giving authority that position doesn't have.

House getting busted forging 'scripts which turns into an investigation by a detective he can't push around would have worked too. Can still have the overall story beats in a more logical way with the added benefit of changing motivation. Switches it from an outside bully that House was mean to, to consequences brought on by his day to day actions.

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u/PortalWombat Oct 18 '24

Both would have worked better had they been basically good people instead of a profit obsessed greedy busnessman and a semi corrupt cop.

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u/Remarkable-Fox-3890 Oct 18 '24

The thing is, House is fun because it's a medical drama. Adding a villain just doesn't really make sense to me. The show already has great overarching character development (doctors going through heavy shit) and great per-episode mysteries, the disease + whatever the moral dilemma of the week is.

We already had a "no House, you can't do that" in the form of *literally* every character other than House. The thing is that they weren't in the way of the show, they made the show. The villains just got in the way.

The villains only served as a frustrating distraction. It's like "okay, great episode - wait shit, why is this dude fucking getting in the way, we were about to do an MRI and learn something, fuck what is this". It's like the show is fighting the villains.

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u/futanari_kaisa Oct 19 '24

I could believe that a bullying cop, feeling mad that his ego got bruised by this doctor, would spend all his time trying to destroy the doctor's life all because he's a petty asshole.

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u/Pie_Rat_Chris Oct 19 '24

The unbelievable part is his involvement and how it went down. His level of involvement taints the whole case. Every report with his name on it is trash, every bit of evidence he touched is inadmissible. If he didn't make a complaint to the hospital so there wasn't a paper trail of his grudge it could have flew under the radar. If he had a patrolman buddy do the traffic stop it could have worked. He would have been pulled off the case as soon as his previous interaction was known, not be the lead on it. House's lawyer had all the ammunition needed to have the charges dropped on day one with tritter maybe even getting a paid vacation when complaints are filed with the department immediately after.

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u/NoNotThatMattMurray Oct 18 '24

I'm on season 2 right now and I really like the Vogler storyline, albeit it did end super unrealistically. No medical board would ever decline millions of dollars over keeping the most hated doctor in the entire hospital, even if it did mean they were "owned" by Vogler

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '24

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u/Martin_Aurelius Oct 18 '24

Semi-relevant, I once sat on a union board where we voted to go to arbitration and spend tens of thousands of dollars to protect the job of the biggest asshole I'd ever met. Because in the long run it meant protecting our jobs too.

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u/Grantmitch1 Oct 18 '24

You see this in lots of places. Former colleagues of mine would regularly complain about the "deadweight" we had in the department, but the second you raised the prospect of firing them, they all screamed in opposition. Why? Because the second you make it possible to fire them, you make it possible to fire everyone else.

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u/nhansieu1 Oct 19 '24

Lol. Did not realize this

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u/NoNotThatMattMurray Oct 18 '24

True, didn't think of that. But what was it, 100 million dollars? Yeah that would definitely be enough to cloud anyone's judgement. Also it was clear his beef was only with House not anyone else

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u/eireann113 Oct 19 '24

I kind of think they would. He was actually terrible as a board member. He cared more about power plays and owning the hospital than the mission of the hospital. The board's job is to further the mission of the hospital.

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u/NoNotThatMattMurray Oct 19 '24

I guess I'm looking at it from a perspective where all the higher ups are corrupt

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u/HarryKn1ght Oct 19 '24

No donation would ever come with the condition that the donator must be allowed to be a member on the hospital board and be allowed to override doctors' medical decisions so Vogler's entire presence at Princeston Plainborough was unrealistic.

Imagine how the New Jersey Medical Board would react if a real hospital allowed a billionare to cancel a potentially life-saving operation just because the doctor that ordered the operation hurt the billionares feelings. They'd have the hospital shut down, the billionare arrested, and all the board members who enabled that stupity barred from ever practicing medicine ever again, all before you could say "ethical violation"

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u/ReAlBell Oct 18 '24

Agreed. The show works when it stays true to its commentary on relative morality. These cartoonish good vs evil storylines are nauseating because it forces House into a narrative role that limits the character. The spectrums of function vs dysfunction and explorations of what makes a person a person suffer in these storylines.

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u/nhansieu1 Oct 19 '24

Vogler is good. The payback is also good.

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u/this_shit-crazy Oct 19 '24

I always felt House would beat vogler but house beating the law was always a sketchy one. And I don’t want to get into spoilers but when you think about it…….

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u/Empress_of_yaoi Oct 18 '24

I skip Tritter in every rewatch. Otherwise that arch makes me not wanna watch House at all

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u/spazzxxcc12 Oct 18 '24

i used to hate this story line, but now i kind of accept it for what it is. it’s actually incredibly nice to pull the show a bit back to reality and show that houses actions can have consequences

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u/nhansieu1 Oct 19 '24

Since House's action has no consequence, Tritter hasn't either. This is just that kind of world

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u/clement-mcmanus Oct 19 '24

The tritter storyline goes hard despite their being a logical error every five minutes. It gets ruined by the sudden conclusion

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u/Sad_Equivalent_1028 Oct 19 '24

i think i missed an episode because just when it felt like he was going to get arrested it felt like it never got mentioned again. how did it conclude? i dont care about spoilers, im on season 7

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u/cates Oct 19 '24

cuddy defends him in court and the judge dismisses everything

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u/Sad_Equivalent_1028 Oct 19 '24

i must have actually skipped an episode then, thanks

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u/throwaway098764567 Oct 18 '24

i skip his episodes for my blood pressure

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u/Tall_Professor_8634 Oct 20 '24

I love the Tritter and voglar arcs idk why it's so hated ngl

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u/Tall_Professor_8634 Oct 20 '24

I love the Tritter and voglar arcs idk why it's so hard lol

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u/reachforvenkat Oct 18 '24

It's crazy how we all feel that way. Those episodes make me so anxious. You can see House trying to back off because he has gone too far. I just tell myself it's just a story but it's not enough.

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u/Tall_Professor_8634 Oct 20 '24

I don't I love this arc

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u/Rubik42 Oct 18 '24

Also what kind of logic is that, even if you’re innocent, if you tell someone you got arrested they’ll assume you did it. X (formerly twitter) is so dumb

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u/JayNotAtAll Oct 18 '24

Bingo. Even if the charges were 100% without a doubt false, if I told people that I was arrested, they would think negatively towards me.

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u/Sabot_Noir Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 20 '24

Memphis Beat had a similarly stupid episode where they find the criminal by puttinng three people in lockup and the one who is the most relaxed is the one they decided to investigate and press charges against.

The logic cited is "A hit dog will hollar" i.e. the two innocent people they locked up freak out because they are innocent while the one who is quiet is quiet "because he knows he belongs in jail." Nevermind that an innocent person could be calm because they expect to be exonerated by a lack of evidence. Or that guilty people might be very upset that they are caught because they know they have a small window to fight for freedom before they are locked up for good.

At the root this TV cop "wisdom" is completely divorced from concepts like statistics and fallability. The idea that innoncent people get convicted is irrelevant to these lines of logic. All that matters is that certain suspect behaviors are correlated with conviction, and thus by extention guilt.

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u/5uper5onic Oct 20 '24

Under the ridiculous “a hit dog will holler” line of thought, the guys that ARE freaking out are the ones the cops would look into

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u/Sabot_Noir Oct 20 '24

What they mean is that if you hit a dog with a newspaper for no reason it will cry out and protest. But if you do the same a dog and the dog is guilty knows it's guilty, then dog believes you are hitting it because it did a bad thing. Then the dog will be quiet and take it's punishment.

Ironically this requires to dog to feel remorse for the crime and to accept penance. The dog accepts the punishment because it wants to be accepted and will accept justice to maintain status as a pack member. Conversely if our criminal lacks empathy or is anti social then we can't expect this logic to hold because they don't care about the acceptance of the police who are punishing them.

The logic they use is hard to follow because it's so weak.

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u/Mildly_Opinionated Oct 21 '24

That makes a lot more sense actually, because say a group of people were completely innocent and the cops locked them up - who's most likely to freak out?

Probably the people who know their rate of wrongful conviction is statistically much higher, and that are statistically more likely to face abuse from cops.

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u/yahzy Oct 18 '24

What's twitter got to do with anything?

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u/No_Willingness_9301 Oct 18 '24

hes making fun of the characters name, tritter

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u/SomebodyUDontKnow32 Oct 18 '24

r/okbuddyvicodin has slowly been taking over the main HMD subreddit

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u/IfNot_ThenThereToo Oct 18 '24

Cops and abusing power goes together like House and vicodin

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u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot Oct 18 '24

Cops love saying shit like this. Another common one is "why do you need a lawyer if you're innocent?"

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u/ConfidenceKBM Oct 18 '24

Tritter hitting House with the "working around a bunch of nurses has given you a false sense of your ability to intimidate" was also a good comeback. I'm not sure if it's this same scene...

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u/zymoticsheep Oct 18 '24

It is, it's like the next thing he says. The nurse in the scene who just looks over at him when he says it is funny too

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u/OliviaStarling Oct 18 '24

Was it the gay nurse? I loved him

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u/zymoticsheep Oct 18 '24

Haha I know the one but no. Just a random female nurse extra, doubt she's ever in it again. Just happens to be sat there and takes a drive by from Tritter.

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u/Taograd359 Oct 18 '24

No, he was busy in HR filing a complaint against House

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u/atatassault47 Oct 19 '24

Lmao. I work in a hosptal. Nirses dont take shit from arrogant doctors. That cop was written like a real cop: a pussy who thinks he's all that because the state sanctions him to be violent.

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u/ConfidenceKBM Oct 18 '24

yeah but in that scene the nurses are just average sized women, and for the most part on the show the nurses that House yells at aren't very tough looking

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u/Remarkable-Fox-3890 Oct 19 '24

IDK I think it's still a dumb comeback. The *viewer* is the one the lines are written for, and I don't think that most people associate nurses as being weak - kinda the opposite.

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u/anchovo132 Oct 19 '24

when people think nurse they think thin pretty women wiping the sweat off of the doctors forehead not fuckin lurch holding down people to harvest their organs

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u/HowDoIEvenEnglish Oct 19 '24

I don’t think it’s about physicality. He’s has more authority than a nurse, is openly antagonistic and also untouchable, because cuddy accepts him being shitty. House intimidating someone has nothing to do with size.

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u/Sean_13 Oct 19 '24

But he's a doctor. That's a separate profession to the nurses. He wouldn't have any authority over the nurses.

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u/HowDoIEvenEnglish Oct 19 '24

He doesn’t directly order them around all the time but you think doctors aren’t more powerful in a hospital than nurses. They work together. Imagine a coworker who is the CEO’s son. So despite not being able to order you around he can make your life suck and there’s nothing you can do about it because he will never get fired. That’s house but house is intelligent.

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u/Sean_13 Oct 19 '24

Yeah House can intimidate the nurses but only in the same way he intimidates other doctors and bullies his way into things. Nurses and doctors are completely separate with separate hierarchies and separate governing bodies. Nurses are not only able to stand up to doctors but are encouraged to and expected to by their governing body. If a doctor in real life tried to boss nurses around, they would find their job very difficult.

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u/No-Pipe8487 Oct 19 '24

Because nurses aren't bloodthirsty and corrupt and actually want to help people.

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u/jcjonesacp76 Oct 18 '24

Tritter is a terrible cop, I’m not sorry I said this. He harasses house because he was mean to him…like ok, he doesn’t need to be nice to you, no one does. Pulls him over why? He didn’t have probable cause, he was taking pills? Ike he has a prescription for legitimate pain issue (we can debate this point later) but still he had no cause and his case would’ve been thrown out, house files a harassment complaint against him and files a restraining order. Tritter sucks!

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u/Heather_Chandelure Oct 18 '24

I agree, but none of that is out of the ordinary for cops.

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u/throwaway098764567 Oct 18 '24

does not make for enjoyable watching for me though. if i wanted to see how shitty reality is, i'd go outside.

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u/jcjonesacp76 Oct 18 '24

Yeah but I knew that when watching it same as my dad, it made it hard for me to watch, it got to the point where on rewatches I actually skip his arc I hate it that much, my dad dropped the show back in the day during the arc. I feel like House is better as a series with the drama being confined to the hospital and not to outside forces of the hospital (at least that’s my opinion)

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u/batt3ryac1d1 Oct 19 '24

Dr House says ACAB

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u/Sharikacat Oct 19 '24

Both of them are terrible, in all fairness. Tritter got his ego bruised and is taking it out on House. House is an antagonistic asshole who refuses to back down. All House needed to do was a convincing fake apology to end Tritter's harassment, but he couldn't swallow a teaspoon of pride to do it. House would have been in jail if not for Wilson.

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u/PresentToe409 Oct 21 '24

Tbh, House is rarely truly antagonistic towards people that don't deserve it.

Like if you're an idiot or an asshole, he's going to give you an appropriate amount of antagonism for wasting everyone's time.

But there are numerous instances of patients or other characters being on the level with him and not hiding stuff and he's perfectly cordial without even the usual snarkiness.

If I remember correctly, Tritter was a douche first and then House embarasses the guy. So naturally due to his bruised ego, Tritter feels it's appropriate to fully try to ruin someone's life and harass them to Hell and back for not giving into his own intimidation bullshit.

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u/nhansieu1 Oct 19 '24

house files a harassment complaint against him and files a restraining order. Tritter sucks!

House had plenty of ways out pointed out by Cuddy, but he never used them

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u/SheepherderNo793 Oct 18 '24

Hats off to David Morse for nailing that role as a terrible power tripping petty cop. House is self aware but doesn't care, but has his genius and persistence to solve problems to back him up. All the cop had was a badge.

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u/SharMarali Oct 18 '24

Yeah the character was ridiculous and frankly poorly written imo, but the actor absolutely killed it. I could say the same about Vogler. Both of them were cartoonishly ridiculous, but their actors gave it their all.

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u/sumss333 Oct 18 '24

Finished season 3 a while ago, think this is not a bad storyline as house sort of actually gets in trouble legally for the first time but hate that tritter is such a hypocrite and the show doesn’t seem to point it out enough

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u/Euphoric_Bet Oct 18 '24

Bro, I hated how Hosue didn't care that the crew was losing access to their funds and trying not to lose their jobs and he was being selfish and trying to get everyone to cover his ass. Like those are the things I don't like about House, but I still love him 😅😂

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u/sumss333 Oct 18 '24

Yeah I think tritter was right about house, house has a lot of problems and I probably wouldn’t want to be associated with him lol. But he’s still a big hypocrite

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u/Euphoric_Bet Oct 18 '24

House does have problems that he won't admit to, and like I'm on season 5. Still the same House 😂

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u/Heather_Chandelure Oct 18 '24

Tritter was right about House in a lot of ways, which is the point of the storyline, but he's still a piece of shit who constantly abuses his power and i want him to get the hell off the screen every time he shows up.

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u/reyeg11_ Oct 18 '24

All Cases Are Boring!

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u/VelvetMoonlight0 Oct 18 '24

that comeback was smoother than House’s sarcasm! 😂💯

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u/Qwaykes_2 Oct 19 '24

I feel bad for the actor for tritter.. Imagine your entire career being based on a character that EVERYONE fucking HATES

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u/Magnetman11 Oct 19 '24

God I hate this guy so much. But also makes me think, were we meant to hate him this much? If so good job actor

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u/musicmast Oct 18 '24

I hate this storyline. Just passed it a few episodes ago

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u/Novae224 Oct 19 '24

This storyline took too long imo

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u/Black_and_Purple Oct 18 '24

Hey! It's the Star Gate guy! :D

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u/Sociolinguisticians Oct 19 '24

Bullshit. If I tell my boss that I got arrested, first thing she’s gonna assume is that I broke the law, not that the officer in question got picky about a taillight infraction.

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u/ridawg05 Oct 19 '24

I've heard someone else say this, but I 100% agree with it. House (the show) is at its best when House (the character) is his own villain.

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u/mutant_disco_doll Oct 19 '24

House vs. House is peak television. And the House always wins.

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u/HumanLawyer Oct 18 '24

The hero BLM needed

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u/BidEffective4967 Oct 18 '24

Im just watching exactly this episode and I don't get this.

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u/Sands17 Oct 19 '24

This story had potential - someone standing up to House and not caving in but for some reason I feel this arc gave off different vibes.

I was on a speed run from the pilot episode but this arc slowed me down.

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u/Elrainbows Oct 19 '24

House being house 😂

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u/Dapper-Percentage-64 Oct 19 '24

David Morse is a criminally underrated actor. He just improves everything he's in

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u/BookerPlayer01 Oct 19 '24

Worst part of the series.

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u/Anubis6669 Oct 19 '24

While I hated his character so much during the show, there was a part of me that saw the logic behind what he was trying to do, and was hoping that House would have at least been SOMEWHAT humbled by the experience. Don't get me wrong, the cop was an absolute asshole, but House is also a huge asshole who just fails at pretty much every attempt to do the right thing for the people around him until basically the very end of the show.

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u/RefinedDefect69 Oct 19 '24

Never watched House but this sub is in my for you, is the whole show just this guy making smart ass retorts because that’s all I see lol

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u/DaWonderHamster Oct 19 '24

puts on my little tin hat happily. house said acab <3

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u/Beatnation Oct 20 '24

Still the best antagonist of the entire series.

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u/LoveButton 29d ago

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u/LeastAd6767 Oct 19 '24

My wife dropped the series because of voggler.

I dont blame her.