One Day, One Room
- Episode aired Jan 30, 2007
- TV-14
- 44m
Stuck with clinic duty, House almost wishes he had the boring patients back after he encounters a young woman with an STD and the need to talk.Stuck with clinic duty, House almost wishes he had the boring patients back after he encounters a young woman with an STD and the need to talk.Stuck with clinic duty, House almost wishes he had the boring patients back after he encounters a young woman with an STD and the need to talk.
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- TriviaAs House pays off patients to leave the clinic, he catches an older man with a nice hat who has coughed up blood on his handkerchief. It is monogrammed. D.S. - David Shore wrote the episode.
- GoofsIn the scene where Eve and House are in the park, a brief shot shows the IV line in Eve's hand, which is inserted the wrong way round. It is pointing towards her arm, meaning the needle was inserted towards her fingers, but it should be the reverse.
- Quotes
Dr. Gregory House: They're out there. Doctors, lawyers, postal workers. Some of them doing great. Some of them doing lousy. Are you going to base your whole life on who you got stuck in a room with?
Eve: I'm going to base this moment on who I'm stuck in a room with. It's what life is. It's a series of rooms and who we get stuck in those rooms with adds up to what our lives are.
- ConnectionsReferences Touch of Evil (1958)
- SoundtracksGrey Room
Performed by Damien Rice
People are too busy generalizing the characters to notice that this episode really highlights more on philosophy and how it relates to human perspective. More-so than the usual House episodes focusing on atheism every now and then. There is a character with a counter- argument. Are there moments where the episode highlights the base characters of Chase, Cameron and Foreman? Sure. But it does that for a reason. There is a reason it's obvious like that. Ask why? What is the context this time? Why are they doing that?
What people seem to miss is the puzzle in this one. Of course there is no physical puzzle for House to solve. But there is a puzzle still there. So he has to learn how to do that.
There is also a great use of contrast in this episode, with humor, in difference to the obviously dark main topic.
There's tons of episodes of House curing someone's rare ambiguous affliction. But this episode is one of a kind.
Less is more, in this episode. But if you're actually paying attention, there is a ton of detail, depth, philosophy, and a great examination of the human condition.
It's a shame all these negative reviews put a damper on this episode. They really have no clue. They are entitled to their opinion, but it's obvious they missed the point of this episode, and it skewed their opinion. Sorry, but it's true...
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