Comments on: House — Episode 10 (Season 5): “Let Them Eat Cake”

By: balok

balok — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:31:25 +0000

I’m another one of those people who lives in a country that gets _House_ a year or so behind the rest of the world. To be honest, I liked the _Blackadder_ reference better in the episode where *Cameron* says that she has a cunning plan. Especially since in the _Blackadder_, it was always Baldrick, not _Blackadder_ or one of Hugh Laurie’s characters, who came up with the supposedly cunning plans.

By: Elyse

Elyse — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:48:59 +0000

I must be missing something…if a patient doesn’t have a pulse, how can she have any rhythm?

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:41:26 +0000

Re-watching the episode, I just noticed another oblique reference I didn’t see mentioned above: Just before the “What else floats in water?” reference House says: “I ‘m doing my famous Socrates impression – think I really nailed the accent”…

By: Skooma

Skooma — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:15:32 +0000

The attack of the fat people hallucinations was more funny than anything else. Although Left 4 Dead players might be a bit unnerved as they resemble Boomers when they swarmed her, and Louis and Zoey were elsewhere in the hospital for the Huntington’s dealy.

Also, if you’re not a moderator than why do you care if someone posts in a language that isn’t English? Just move on to the next post.

By: WatchingUsleep

WatchingUsleep — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:04:45 +0000

Just finished watching this episode in Aus (yep, we’re a bit behind here)

The sleep study was atrociously done. Yes she was wearing a CPAP mask – looked like a full face Respronics to me. Instead she should of had a nasal cannula and/or a thermistor. She was never diagnosed with sleep apnoea so there was no reason for her to be wearing the mask. Even if she was, she didn’t look like a mouth breather so a nasal mask would of been more appropriate to reduce the chance of leakage from the mask.

Also when Kutner and Taub notice that her EEG is flatlining there would be a lot more than just her EEG, there’s respiratory effort x2, ECG, EOG, EMG, airflow, SaO2, and generally leg movements too. It would of taken her a lot longer than the short time the guys were talking for her to remove all the sensors involved in a sleep study.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:04:06 +0000

I thought I’d just mention, that Lori Petty is most famous for her role in the film Tank Girl. In case there are people who don’t recognize her name.

By: Non Edible Nacho

Non Edible Nacho — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:25:11 +0000

Shouldn’t have Kutner got the Monty Python reference? He does seem like the kind of guy who’s a fan of them.

By: Enterhase

Enterhase — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:55:39 +0000

As Scott said, it’s a trackback. Besides, how ****** difficult is to use Google Translate or a similar service? Those tools are made so that people who wouldn’t understand each other otherwise have a chance to communicate.

By: Mia

Mia — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:02:17 +0000

To EngineeringDr, who said:

“I was confused about Emmy’s sleep test. It looked like they had her hooked up to the positive-pressure mask that they use to correct obstructive sleep apnea, which doesn’t make sense if they were trying to observe apnea during her normal sleep. Or was the mask an oxygen senor or something similar? I had a sleep study done a few years ago, and while there were a ton of wires and sensors glued all over my head, there was no mask to speak of. Any thoughts?”

I also had a sleep study done years ago (and it turns out I do have sleep apnea). They did a few hours with me hooked up to assorted sensors, then when they’d decided that it looked like I did have sleep apnea, I got a few hours with positive airway pressure. No doubt sleep labs vary, and I’m pretty sure the techniques vary over time too. But anyway, I agree that it did look like a positive-pressure mask; maybe they had given her a few hours with just the sensors, but we didn’t get to see that?

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:17:52 +0000

For the record, I have no problems with non-English speakers; it is the “world-wide” web, after all. What the people concerned about the Italian have failed to recognize is that it is a trackback from an Italian website, so it’s only logical that it’s going to be in Italian.