NGL, I’m a fan of this show. I’m hoping that this retro television review of House MD gets legs and people enjoy my reviews. I’m going to start with Friday posts and if people enjoy them, I will post twice a week. If it’s really liked, I’ll do Supernatural as well.

What a difference a director makes! Peter O’Fallon only did four episodes of House M.D., but it’s WAY better than the pilot. The verbal pacing is much quicker and House is much more self-assured and caustic. In the pilot, House was almost mopey and boring; now, he’s much more interesting.

This episode features a patient who is a high school lacrosse player with night terrors and Cameron is the doctor who convinces House to take a patient by accepting the parents request by forging House’s signature because Everybody Lies!!! House takes the case because he is trying to understand why Cameron wanted him to take the case and he sees that the teenager has a spasm, while he was awake. The fact that everybody lies is both honest in life and in the show- people really like to chose themselves and lying can work.

As they are trying to decide the first course of action, the teen’s night terrors occur again and it involves his toes and very large clippers; it was gross and awesome. The team is debating what the cause is that is killing the teen.

Then, the clinic hours feature a hot hippie mom anti-vaxxer who gives House a chance to be sanctimonious about vaccines and get a clue about the case for the later act. We learn from the clinic scene that a mother’s immune system protects the baby for the first six months of life, BUT not after that. In this episode, the teen was adopted, but they kept this from House- naughty naughty! DUN DUN DUN!

Why is this critical? First, House has a bet that the boy is not the biological son of the father. Correct, he was adopted and House get paid. Second, the adoptive teen’s biological mom was like the hippie mom in the clinic and didn’t vaccinate herself, exposing the teen to measles as a baby, which caused this whole mess. They have to confirm the diagnosis by going into his eyeball that is almost certainly an homage to Argento (Eyeball scene below).

The eyeball poke proves that it was a mutated measles virus that can be treated by drilling into his brain. I’m no doctor, but this was cool. If I had a different dad, who knows what I would’ve been?

I love this show for it’s directing, writing, and acting, but I also love this show because it is a form of narcissism – I am also a MENSA type and I also don’t drink. Yep, and like House, I just couldn’t be enough of a joiner to get into AA; so, I went the pharmacy route and found an anti-depressant that worked for me and I celebrated my 8 years of sobriety on June 2026.

We will go on this journey of House curing patient’s and Case’s journey of sobriety together. To that end, I will occasionally share some adventures, including one that involved me getting chased by an unjustifiably jealous/murderous husband in Barcelona.

These filmmakers need to be arrested for iPhone abuse. I was doing so well this Horrorthon. There are so many excellent shorts. I’m not yet done, but wow…this one is HOT GARBAGE!

I know in my bones that these guys do not have the rights to have the song “Sunflower” from crappy Spiderman – there is no way on earth! I guess you should watch this trash before they get a YouTube strike. I won’t dime them out, BUT I COULD or any of my loyal readers could. It’s just a quick little email….Just Sayin, Bruh.

A Gen-Z guy is listening to “Sunflower”; so, I really don’t like our chances if we have to duke it out with China. We’re doomed! Anyway, there are doppelgangers about and you can kind of hear some warnings about doppelganger activity in his apartment on the radio- sort of because they are making the most of their piracy of “Sunflower” by playing it very loudly. I am mentioning “Sunflower” a lot because it is the best thing about the film because they did not make it! However, I am pretty sure the protagonist dies at the end and I did not care.

In other news, I was dumped when I wrote this (10/18/26). Fun fact, when you date and then break up and have an interim liaison with a 3rd party lady during the breakup period and then get back together with your on and off girlfriend- she believes that you belonged to her the entire time. If she finds out that you went on a date, when you were totally broken up, it’s still cheating and you are terrible. The only way you cannot cheat is to die; maybe, a doppelganger from this terrible film could help you out? I would be down with that – Nah, I didn’t cheat; it was my evil twin.

If doppelgangers stopped with all the murdering, this could be very lucrative for them. Doppelgangers could be stand-ins! I love it!

My Short Film script

The Doppelganger –

Doppelganger: Hey, Steve.
Steve prime: Hey “Bro” (Aggressive air quotes and finger gun usage)
Doppelganger: Stop that.
Steve prime: *Steve is a little sad now* Minimum of four hours, $300 upfront?
Doppelganger: Yes… *Sigh* just like the last… eight… times.
Steve prime: Well about that, how bout a discount?
Doppelganger: You mean like a sandwich punchcard?
Steve prime: YEAH!
Doppelganger: Yeah (Steve prime looks excited) NO!
Steve prime: Bu….
Doppelganger raises his hand, silencing Steve prime- Say another word and I will try on all of your underwear and aggressively use your toothbrush….everywhere.
Steve prime: Like grout?
Doppelganger: Head to toe “Bro” (Doppelganger points all over his body and then mocks Steve prime with air quotes and finger guns, while rolling his eyes)
Steve prime hands the $300 to Doppelganger, looks sad, and leaves.
Doppelganger: Yeech, humans are so gross! Ok, where’s that guy’s toothbrush?

Thank you for making this a great Horrorthon! I had a lot of fun. I hope that you liked my posts or loved to hate them.

Happy Halloween!