Comments on: House – Episode 16 (Season 2): “Safe”

By: Tommy Turtle

Tommy Turtle — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:46:30 +0000

@ Maddoc and Piotr:

Piotr is correct. It varies by State in the US, but generally, two minors who are close in age are not in violation. The law is primarily aimed at adults (+18 or +21, varies). It’s assumed that two minors close in age are at about the same level of personal judgment, whereas an adult “should know better”, and not use his/her greater knowledge and sophistication on a minor who lacks those.

FWIW, I know of at least one state that *raised* its AOC from 16 to 18 a while back, all while teens (and children) were being increasingly exposed to such concepts in movies, TV, and Internet. (So yes, you can drive at 16, but not have sex with someone who is 20.) Also, at one time, it applied only to males “preying” on young girls. That was changed to include either gender of adult, so we have the legal charges against female teachers sleeping with their male students.

(Where were they when *I* went to high school? ;-( … lol)

By: Sp3lly

Sp3lly — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:28:37 +0000

In this episode the number outside Holmes’s, I mean, House’s apartment building is 221 and the B is on the door. By contrast in Episode 7 (”Hunting”) of this same season, the house number on the outside of the building is 221B. I’m wondering why the change from 221B to 221 other than to tone down the reference to Sherlock Holmes — then again in a later season (so I’m told) we learn that the street name is Baker Street.

In either case, 221B (episode 7) or 221 (this episode), everything else looks the same — and looks quite like the exterior of the Sherlock Holmes museum at “221B” Baker Street in London, including the two “Victorian” style lamps to each side of the door and the arched window above the door. Both buildings are about three floors high. Both differ from the Conan Doyle books in that the books place the actual flat on the “first floor,” that is, on what Americans would call the second floor (i.e., up one flight of stairs).

The interior of both heroes’ homes have shelves crammed with books and a fireplace with long stem candles on it. I’m sure there are other similarities – and of course, differences. I doubt Holmes had a foosball table.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:37:02 +0000

I just thought i would leave a couple of comments on Tick bites.
I have personally had maybe 10+ ticks biting me over the last 15 years. I have always been able to detect the ticks because of the fact that the bites start to irritate after maybe a day. You feel the urge to scratch the area and when you do you can actually feel the small hard tick like a tiny crust. And this is long before it actually becomes full of blood or the body start to grow.

What i reacted in scotts post about the episode, was that he called it the most unlikely of places, from my experience ticks love to crawl down to the crotch area and bite there.
That and the armpits.
Since its there Dr.House finds the tick i just found the comment odd.
But perhaps i missunderstood the actual placement of were the tick bite was suppose to be.

By: Piotr

Piotr — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:25:07 +0000

@ Maddoc.
In the age of consent concept, there is a clause of age difference: in Poland, the AOC is 15, but if you are e.g. 15 years and 3 months old and you have sex with a girl who is 14 years and 10 months old, you will not be prosecuted because of small age difference. Supposedly, it works similarly in the US.

By: Piotr

Piotr — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:22:37 +0000

One thing – am I wrong or did somebody think that ticks are insects? On the close-up of House’s hand, the “tick” has six legs. Ticks are arachnids – ever seen a spider or scorpion with six legs?

By: Maddoc

Maddoc — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:59:20 +0000

Late to the party, but maybe there’s someone still reading on old eps. I have two doubts, not strictly medical. It’s said that the girl needed a heart transplant after a chest trauma following a car accident.
1. At one time Cameron (?) considers reporting on the boyfriend for them having sex, as Melinda is a minor. Is the age of consent in NJ older than the driving age? I’m not American, but aren’t both 16, so if she can drive, she can legally have sex (and the sex was after the accident and transplant).
2. Still about the accident – they say that the trauma was related to the steering column damaging her chest. This would suggest an old car, without a driver’s airbag, even without a collapsible steering column. Surely an overprotective mother wouldn’t let her daughter drive an old unsafe car like that. Steering column to the chest injuries are very unlikely on any recent car thanks to the airbags, collapsible steering column and crumple zones. No way this mom would let her daughter anywhere near a car without those features.

By: Nybbler

Nybbler — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:31:46 +0000

He did toss it in a vial, I think, though it appears it’s just one sitting on a cart in the hallway and not one he should be using. Especially as he doesn’t retrieve the vial. It’s definitely not a deer tick; it’s too big, even engorged. Looked more like a dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis), which is certainly endemic to the region.

By: kimb

kimb — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:04:17 +0000

Several species of ticks found in the Eastern US can be 1/2 inch long when fully engorged with blood. Most folks are used to seeing the hungry flat ticks, not the adults when fully fed.

By: Matt1618

Matt1618 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:58:29 +0000

Now, when I hear “tick” I think “deer tick” which is really small… and I know its more dramatic to see House retrieve a beetle-sized tick… but are ticks that big? I thought it was funny how you could see the tick’s legs moving like it was a toy spider, hehe

By: Descent

Descent — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:46:25 +0000

@whitebat: You should know House by now. The man has no respect for hospital policy, both one of his best and worst character traits. Would have been even more like him if he took it and put it in something Wilson cooked.