Kal Penn is playing a young doctor who has a very cool procedure but doesn't know necessarily how to get there. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that this is how Chase gets sucked back into PPTH. He's been the "creative one" in the past and I'm betting will likely get the call to help figure out how to get from a to b.

Nice idea, Melly - I like that a lot (plus Kal Penn & JS - ooh, the pretty together! yes, I'm shallow like that)

http://www.tvweek.com/news/2007/08/house_sopranos_emmys_500pound.php FYI, new nterview with Katie Jacobs - includes comments on the Survivor game - plays out over 9 epidodes, Cuddy supplies the 40 resumes - & new sets.

9 episodes? Yikes. I don't remember, are there any breaks in between those 9 episodes, or does it just run for 9 consecutive weeks? Just...woah. That's a long time. Over 2 months, at least...Heh. Also, I like new sets. As long as they're not refurbishing the old sets (which, going by the promo pictures, they're not). Continuity is good. But I suppose they need a place that can hold 40 people at a time without getting too crowded. Still, 9 episodes?

If the "Survivor" game is going to be an arc (9 eps is an arc, right?), maybe that means that there won't be a villain/ex-gf arc (Volger, Stacy, Tritter) for S4. House is everyone's favorite villain anyways.

Have you seen promo pics I haven't? I only know about those couple from the season premiere 'Alone' and I couldn't really see much of the sets...Though I did scrutinise Wilson's office. Nine eps is a lot, but I think Tritter was 7 and Stacy longer but not consecutive. I know 'Words and Deeds' was the last Tritter ep and that was ep 312, and I'm pretty sure it was in 305 that the whole mess began.

Tritter showed up at the clinic in Fools for love, 305. Words and Deeds was 311. So 7 eppies. Seems much longer :shock: And KS analysis of House's character triggers my anxiety.

Eep! Sorry, guess I saw a 'the' where there wasn't one. I hope I didn't come across as rude or anything. I just figured most people here would know about things like new pics etc faster than I would, so it was possible I might have missed something and I asked. I do actually like the idea of new sets, as long as it's somewhat realistic. It's a big hospital, a teaching hospital, but would it have the empty offices needed for 40 people? In fact, now that I think about it, where is the money coming from? Sure, a lot of them will be fired pretty soon, but they still have to be paid...How's House getting this by Cuddy? And I can't believe that they'd all be willing to compete in House's Survivor game.

The money is coming from the donor who liked Cuddy's cleavage (the ep with the laser pen) :lol: And more offices, no problem, those monkey types will add another floor, or convert the mysterious underground garage or something ;D (hey, we have appearing & disappearing balconies!)

No sweatsville, Idaho piep, simple misread. Like I said, I'm dying to see new sets too. I guess the money for new sets/the Great Fellow Flood is coming from that stash Cuddy says she started when she hired House, for legal expenses. Even with the Tritter fiasco, he only went to court once. Although really, she should probably use any extra money to raise the salary of the Voldemorts staffing the Rehab clinic. Edited to say I like Saara's idea better. ;)

I thought you were talking about my 'judging by the promo pictures, they're not redecorating the old offices' comment, pieploe. I just meant that you can see Wilson's office is the same and you can see parts of House office in the background of a couple of the promo pics :D

And KS analysis of House's character triggers my anxiety. Care to expand on that? I'm curious. It's as if this whole paragraph - The success of "House" is due in large part to the title character. "He's not warm and fuzzy at all. I think it's his irreverence, his sense of humor, and then I think it's also that head writer David Shore is very careful to let you see parts of the character that are vulnerable and wounded," Ms. Jacobs said. "And Hugh Laurie is so talented that, even though he can be saying mean and curmudgeonly things, we see behind his eyes to a wounded soul in there. So he's not as simple as just being nasty and curmudgeonly. He's funny, he's entertaining, he is sexy ... and physically, Hugh has a great sort of masculinity to him, so it's not that he's simple to get. I think the most important thing is the split between his sense of humor and the wounded, everybody-wants-to-repair-House kind of sentiment." - is made for HAM fics. Gary Stu, anyone?

Kal Penn is playing a young doctor who has a very cool procedure but doesn't know necessarily how to get there. He would react very differently to House's ideas. He thinks everything is cool and big. I'm going to go out on a limb and admit I'm not even sure what the hell this is supposed to mean. A very cool procedure but doesn't know how to get there???? Procedure? Do they maybe mean he can intuitively arrive at the right answer (diagnosis) but can't defend it? Then why can't they say so? "A very cool procedure" sounds like doing something fancy with a laser scalpel. And a procedure is an it, not a there. Differently? Different from whom? Or what? Is there a typical way everyone else always reacts to House's ideas? "Everything is cool and big"...because he has been practicing medicine in tropical Lilliput???? Where everything is hot and little? WTF????? Or do I just no longer speak English? What? You said I could whine here!