But otherwise, I liked the episode.

Enjoyable episode, sorta
The "obligatory help out the bad guy because his child is in danger" motif (forgive the lack of hyphens) is a well-worn plot twist in cop operas, and because the room for the episode was too tight to actually show the drug dealer in action decapitating heads, etc., etc., there's a "show, don't…

Self-awareness about diagnostic dialogue?
They need to put a limit on the number of wacky situations where the doctors spout off theories about the POTW. Yes, I know this dialogue is purely for expository reasons, but tonight, the cumulative effect tonight was a bit much.

So I miss an episode, and then…
…I tune in the opening with Olivia rasping out like a Katherine Hepburn impression and assuming the personality of somebody else that I didn't get the memo on.

I can see how the jump could be viewed as a bait and switch from one avenue for House to a different one, but this ending is only setting up something else. If this were the end of a movie and the plot line resolved like that, then yeah, it would be a cop out. But the celebratory mood by House is clearly not the end…

The snap gum gag
Two of last night's shows do the same joke, where someone offers a stick of gum, but when it's pulled out, a trap snaps over the finger.

I predict many typographical errors…
…in this comment section as the night progresses. Just sayin'

A sampling
I suppose as a child, I picked up on some songs from the radio ma and dad played (this would be late 70s country and soft rock):

If not the marrying, and if not the burying, then what?
I don't know the network status of this show, but this whole House-Cuddy relationship seems to be something that series do once the show has reached the home stretch of their run. If the show is really going to try to press the reset button and give us…

Did you see it?
Did you see it???

Speaking of septic, I did not need to see a conference with Taub and Foreman sitting on the shitter. Eiew.

What annoyed me…
…was all of the sudden mood swings, especially by the wife of the POTW. Like the commerial break-to-commercial break pacing of the show, it seemed like the direction of the acting was wildly inconsistent, dictated solely to garner an immediate reaction rather than develop a coherent story line.

I expected the promo people not to insult the intelligence of its audience by manipulating footage to use the preceding Peter-and-Ourlivia reveal as a stepping stone for a promo telling us that they really met 26 years earlier, with no explanation.

Boo, Fox promo department.
This episode was much deeper than what they showed us in the previews. Not everything worked, but it filled in a lot of backstory and continued the symmetry and contrast between each Walter and (in this episode) his wife.

I know of Union Carbide, but I am creeping up on my 40th birthday. Union Carbide was back when I was a middle-school student back in 1984 or 1985.

Eh, I recognized him. He sells the song out good. It's campy fun (though I have yet to try the said product). Showbiz types have to make a living, and it could be a lot worse. No harm no foul.

This troubling rant may be the pinnacle of an escalating feud since Sheen was shamed into rehab away from his house of whores. (And to be fair, Lorre took a very public shot at sheen on one of his vanity cards that appears at the end of 5/2 men every episode.)

I don't know about the freakout scene, but I YouTubed that title, too, and this trailer is purified Blaxploitation gold.

I can respect KISS's marketing model, though growing up on metal in the 80s (not the 70s), the nostalgia of KISS at this time doesn't fare well. I remember MTV videos where the band, post-makeup, was wearing bright peacock glowing outfits (see the "Tears Are Falling" video from 1985 for reference).

Yeah, Hybrid, whatever.
Product placement, whatever. I'm not going to hate on products placed to TV shows. I mock what I don't understand.