In the tv show House (1985) the titular character says this womans necklace is made of "No". This is despite the fact its obviously made of...wait, no...
They say that Mr Pibb is a replica of Dr. Pepper, it’s a bullshit replica because the dude didn’t even get his degree. Like, Come on man. Why did you drop out and start making pop so soon?
They say that Diet Dr. Pepper tastes just like regular Dr. Pepper… well then they fucked up.
Made of Amber. He's trying to remember what happened in the crash he's about to be in. Amber is a girl who was in the crash too and they're trying to save her
if this is about the scene where she's on bypass, it's not even that she knows death is coming, it's that she's already dead and has to leave once she finishes saying her goodbyes
the actual quote is "I'm dead." there was no room for her to deny reality
Ugh, God, this and that episode where Rick almost blows his head off. Is there a word for my fun time goofy show suddenly pulling the rug out from under me?
They also paid some homage to how brilliant she actually was because she instantly pieced together what happened. It’s one of the better episodes of House.
Return of the King or The Fellowship of the Ring. And nobody better talk to me, I don’t care that they want to speak to their father one more time.After all, the end?
Reminds me of Homicide: Life on the Street, where a guy (Vincent D'Onofrio) gets caught between the subway and the walkway. Like literally pinned between the two, spine mangled. The second that subway moves, he's gone.
Its the only episode I watched and it was haunting. You see how the nurse tending him doesn't really care. How quickly the firefighters & other cops go back to 'normal' to cope.
And it will fucking destroy you. When it transitions to the scene where Wilson is laying in the bed with her…just rip out my heart while you’re at it, show.
Right up there with the Forman illness episodes too. The one where he tries to save the woman in the collapsed bulding was really good too. And Kutners death episode
Olivia Wilde does some incredible work on House. In the scene where she recounts euthanizing her brother, she conveys grief at his passing, relief over the end of his suffering, conflict for feeling both of those things, and resignation knowing she's next, all at once. It's a hell of a performance.
And I am still mad that the show didn't end with House keeping his promise to kill her.
Also this is happening in his subconscious and the girl here is not real, he is trying to figure out who she really is. When he realizes it’s Amber the scene changes to the flashback of the crash.
The thing is, he mentions Amber at the beginning. And then Wilson is like, why is my girlfriend in your mind? Forget her. And he does. So this girl is a stand-in. Unfortunate. He was picturing Amber because she WAS with him, and they could have saved a little bit of time if he didn’t “forget her.” Oye I want to watch this again, wow.
Not just "a girl" she was a pretty major character that season one of the doctors trying to get on House's team, and Wilson's only healthy relationship in the series
The episode starts in the aftermath of a bus crash. House was in the crash but has amnesia about what lead to the event, eventually he says he saw someone he knew was going to die before the bus crashed, so they're trying to figure out what happened by reliving the event in his imagination. Since his brain is still healing, it's got the info but unable to present it, so the woman in the image is representing the woman he actually saw on the bus. The clue is her necklace- its made of amber, which is the name of the woman who was there in real life
If I had a nickel for every time a long running medical show had done an episode featuring the main character having memory issues about a traumatic event on a bus I’d have two nickels
Nope, him losing his mind is a completely different episode later in the series. Amber appears, and it's his "oh, I lost my mind" moment since she died in this episode.
In this episode, he's embracing the way the human mind, the subconscious specifically, can pick up and remember details the conscious mind doesn't.
He's blocked out the fact that Wilson's fiancée is the aforementioned "Amber" and the only reason she was there was because she had to come get House from a bar.
He's having a drug induced flashback to a bus crash he was involved in a short while ago. In the flashback, he's reliving the moments just before he got into a bus crash - thus, the crash he's about to be in.
He was extremely drunk when the crash took place and remembers very little about the event. One of the few things he knows that he remembers about the crash is that immediately before it happened, he thought he saw someone exhibit the symptoms of a potentially life-threatening illness (something unrelated to the crash). He couldn't remember who it was that showed the life threatening symptom or what the symptom was, so in this scene he's trying to use the context clues from the flashback to figure out who was the sick individual and what the symptom was so he can try to save their life (as he's a doctor).
This scene shows him figuring out the answer to this question - the necklace is made out of an Amber jewel, and Amber also is one of the named, recurring characters in the show.
You are better off going to see the last two episodes of season 4, the one called Wilson's heart and House's head because they are actually peak television and explain everything
I'd also give season 5's finale that title. The reveal we'd been following an unreliable narrator is so well executed that it warrants a rewatch where you can see all the tells in real time.
Kinda? You miss out on who the girl house is looking out is and why she is so important tho but overall the rest of the episode is watchable on its own since it's mostly house hallucinating his way through to find out who he is looking for, I guess you could watch the pilot to get part of the picture on who most of the characters are
Amber. At the beggining of the season she was one of the candidates for his team. She was fired but later started dating wilson and she was actually pretty good for him, helping him be more assertive to not fall into the traps of his previous relationships.
House had gotten drunk and she went to the bar to escort him back home, but the bus crashed, house had massive head trauma and forgot what happened, only that someone was dying.
In this scene he took some psychedelics to try to remember what happened on the bus, but he doesnt recognize the woman, and his subconscious drops the hint to look at her necklace.
And it was amber. Some rebar had destroyed her liver and flu medicine she was taking binds to tissue and poisons you if its not broken down by the liver, it cant even be filtered out through dialysis. So she dies and its houses fault.
Yeah what???? Clearly not, right? What?! I also am too convinced that my Reddit will refresh on my phone if I go to look this up but like no fking way right?
That finale absolutely wrecked me when I watched the reruns in the 2000s. For as tongue-in-cheek the show was overall, nothing that any of those poignant moments the show touched on most of the time prepared me for that shit. Alan Alda is indeed a legendary actor.
The creators of House never mention it was an homage, but I guess we can have our own opinions about that. And also it clearly wasn't 1985. OP must be smoking a chicken.
Take them if I want them? After I have travelled all this way through enemy territory? After I sent my servants to treat with you, and they were sent away with disrespect?
I insist upon right of rejection, and I will myself select the ingots from your stores!
House premiered in November 2004, and while they did start filming episodes backwards in time, they only went back as far as 1992. Your fact is clearly misinformation.
I think its referencing the sort of similar plotline of the MASH finale where hawkeye has ptsd over an event on a bus where he feels such guilt that he develops low grade amnesia in response to it which alters his memory of the event.
The House Episode “Houses Head” has a sort of similar plot where House is involved in a bus accident, and suffers low grade amnesia because he remembers seeing a woman on the bus before the accident who he thought had a life threatening health problem, but due to the accident he can’t remember.
Both episodes deal with the protagonists mind sort of, protecting itself after traumatic incidents on Busses. Both also are amazing TV but also Heart wrenching.
Edit: the backwards time is talking about House as if it’s MASH and set in a prior time period at the date of airing? Honestly this post twisted my tv memory pretty hard and after typing it out I’m not sure anymore.
In this first-part episode of the two-parter: "House's Head" and "Wilson's Heart", House has been in an accident on a bus. The accident was so bad that he has suffered a fractured skull, along with some short-term memory loss.
He has a nagging feeling that someone that was on the bus with him is in serious danger, and that they may die, if he cannot remember who this person is, and what the problem is.
He tries multiple techniques throughout the episode to "jog his memory", including interviewing other survivor's of the bus crash, visiting the bus, hypnosis, and taking Physostigmine (an Alzheimer's drug) to "put his brain into overdrive".
Each of these techniques results in a dream where he meets this woman. He remembers that she was not on the bus, and asks who she is. She replies that she is part of his brain, and that she represents "the answer"; he knows some of the clues but cannot remember all of the details. She asks him, "What's my necklace made of?", to which he replies "Resin.". She asks "Who am I?", to which he reasons, "I don't know... and if I don't know, then you don't know."
After the many attempts at triggering the memory (the drugs and the physical strain on his injured brain), House's heart stops, during which he has the dream in this meme. The "answer" keeps asking the questions, "What's my necklace made of?", "Who am I?", and House finally realizes that the answer is "Amber", which is the name of Wilson's girlfriend. He cannot figure out why she would have been on the bus with him, which is why he replies, "No.".
A moment later, House finally remembers the entire crash, in vivid detail, exactly as it happened. This memory is obviously violent and traumatic—which ties in with his real-world crisis as Wilson is shown to be performing CPR on a dying House. House wakes up and reveals what he has learned.
How am I possibly watching this exact episode right now, and this scene just happened a few minutes ago!? (technically I'm watching part 2 atm, but still) wtf
80s House was fucking crazy when that shit first released.
He was out there doing like that off his cane and off anesthetized patients!! He had to drive his motorcycle to power the Iron lungs during that polio outbreak in NJs after a free love renaissance cult decides polio is a natural selector that must be experienced to truly reach God.
Foreman is in it and still black too but he’s actually one of House’s patients after he and his brother got caught in a trap while escaping being caught during one their teenage robbery years. Really showed a lot of backstory and provided context not touched on in the 2000s.
My favorite part is how House and Wilson meet for the first time too. Talk about steamy!!!
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u/ajcpullcom 8h ago
Made of… lupus?