Comments on: House – Episode 8 (Season 4): “You Don’t Want to Know”

By: House M.D. – 4×08 – You Don’t Want To Know — Serialmente

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:17:40 +0000

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By: tarik dinc

tarik dinc — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:02:39 +0000

I check the writers for seasons 4-5 they are new guys and they are terrible in medicine Everybody knows blood types Rh + or Rh- .

By: Claire

Claire — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:24:40 +0000

anyone else wonder how they could see bleeding in the thigh on a chest MRI?

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:47:50 +0000

To the people who called foul on the MRI scan yanking the key around…

You’re absolutely right. Most clinical MRI equipment uses superconducting magnets. I worked with NMR equipment in grad school and re-energizing and re-calibrating after a quench required most of a day and payment of about ten grand to the manufacturer to send a tech out to do it. It’s possible for the magnet to be “turned off” but it’s quite rare and it’s NEVER done casually.

The problem would have started as soon as he went into the field, not when they actually started the scans. The writers have made this same mistake in a couple of other episodes as well.

By: Whitebat

Whitebat — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:50:55 +0000

About the magic… if Flynn is doing the Chinese Water Torture cell and his only assistant doesn’t know if he’s supposed to have a nose/mouth bleed, he’s seriously incompetent. It seems like NPD (No Permanent Damage, and S&M principle that applies to magic) would be what’s kept him from getting killed already doing this kind of stuff.

There is a lot of argument among magicians between Flynn’s POV (telling will destroy the magic, audiences believe magic is “real”) and House’s POV (it’s even cooler if you know). House reveals/exposes how he can tell interesting stuff about Flynn. I wonder if angry magicians will beseige them about House revealing how he cut the IV line (probably not).

By: Claire

Claire — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:29:27 +0000

Thanks for your reviews Scott – I am watching House on DVD and always read your reviews straight after. I just wanted to say a big :-( to Universal for putting the photographs of the winning candidates on the DVD. The mystery of this season was completely lost!
I actually have enjoyed season 4 more than season 3, although not as much as 1-2.
Finally this episode made me cry – my mother has Huntington’s but we didn’t find out till two years ago when my sisters and I were in our 30s and 40s. I’ve been tested but don’t have the gene; one of my sister’s has been tested – and does have the gene; and the other takes number 13’s view. It is indeed a lottery but no winning ticket. Even if you don’t have it, you have to watch people you love suffer and think, ‘why is this happening to them, not me?’. We don’t know at present if grandchildren have been affected and potentially there are 6 of them at risk. I just pray that one day, a cure is found.

By: Guizmo

Guizmo — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:12:58 +0000

You could also do a “magical review” on this one. ^^
The magic tricks are really good but also impossible without material and/or preparation.
Even the “fire-wallet” trick requires a special wallet to have an effect like this.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:24:32 +0000

> but he forgot about it and the strong magnetic field in the MRI pulled it through his intestines. House fires Kutner.

House does NOT fire Kutner. He says “Now you disappear” referring to both “magical” theme of the episode and the fact that they only entered the surgery room so that House could show Kutner the key “trick”. He doesn’t mean that Kutner is fired.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:58:14 +0000

I don’t really think lupus explains the initial symptoms during his water trick…

The medicine in this episode was just awful. However, psychic nosebleed magicians rule.

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:51:39 +0000

i LOVED the detail of house having AB blood, the universal “taker,” and wilson having O(-?), the universal “giver” blood. what an excellent and apt detail :)