Playing Piano Like a Prodigy or Living a Normal Life? | House M.D. | MD TV

Follow up on the piano duet scene- the last song was one House wrote in college but couldn’t come up with an ending for. Patrick heard it once and was able to compose his own melodic answer, and I think House was legitimately stunned in the moment.

House’s face when the patient improvs the ending to his song, it’s one of pure awe, no pretense just witnessing “creation”, i can’t remember another time he was truly in awe like this

This piano scene was always strangely human to me, for House that is. Usually whenever we saw him play the piano it was in the privacy of his own home, and in the dark at that. And even then it was usually reserved for the more somber or emotionally difficult episodes, but here we see House legitimately connect with a human being through music. Truly beautiful stuff

House being able to play the piano always made me so happy.. like it’s such a graceful side of him that you rarely get to see

It’s honestly really neat seeing Kurtwood Smith play a gentle and loving father in contrast to his hard-ass demeanor as Red Forman.

"So does the monkey!" is such a great come back line I love it. But it doesn't top that emotional pain when the father tries to ask his son to make a decision about his own life, only to realize that House is right. Specifically I mean when his son repeats the question instead of answering it, which is something he does when he does not know what to say, and the father realizes that his son's mental state is at a level where he can't even answer a question about whether or not he's happy.

What cool is that most people dont realize that is Dave Matthews and was really playing the piano on the simpler stuff. Him and Hugh are freinds and Dave wrote several songs for the show. The first time i watched this episode i didnt even notice it was him until i happened to catch a youtube feed of his band.

This show doesn’t get enough credit. So well acted and written. This shows has helped me and is still helping me through crushingly tough times. Thank you.

It was a hard decision for the dad considering Patrick would lose his gift and wouldn't be the same, but the dad still made the right decision by letting his son grow.

Dave Matthews didn't get anywhere near the credit he deserved for this. He was amazing.

Hugh Laurie is a great piano player in his own right and has toured with his own band and has a couple of very successful jazz albums to his name.

One of the best episodes of the entire series. People often forget the role of music in media, imagine if they didn't play the piano when patrick was in the FMRI fake playing on his leg, it wouldn't have ANYWHERE near the impact it did. Damn I miss this show so much.

To me, the scene where as asks - Are you happy? and he answers it by repeating it and the dad knows what this means, is just as powerful as that scene with will smith in fresh prince: How come he don't want me, man? - everytime i see both of these scenes, it just, melts my heart. The reason why this hits hard is because of an earlier scene "Its a coping mechanism, he knows he's supposed to say something so he, repeats what he just heard" - ergo, its not that hes unhappy, he just doesn't know how to answer it so he repeats what he just heard, but what this does mean is that hes not happy, just neutral, he exists .... like a monkey in a circus .... This is why the dad cried, he knew the moment his kid repeated what he said that, House was right.

Pianist here - for everyone asking, the piano playing is pretty much spot on accurate. The piece from the first scene was Beethovens Waldstein sonata, and later in the MRI scene its the third movement of the same sonata

Such a good episode! The way house tackles the medical and the moral side of things is great writing. and Dave's performance is so convincing.

For anyone wondering, the first song house plays that the son copies is called “I don’t like Mondays” by the Boomtown Rats. It’s about one of the first school shootings in america and is really good.

One of my favorite episodes of House. Dave Matthews did a GREAT job.

I LOVE this episode, it always gives tears in my eyes, not only because I’m a musician myself, but also the end result A pity they left the part out that House said that the last music part was an unfinished piece from himself and the other finished it for him. It made clear that the person had more power in his brain and in the end, the patient was more self aware. Logical that it scores a 9.0 at IMDB ❤❤❤

4:14 This bloody BUGGED me in the closed captions. On the DVD it says [PATRICK PLAYS OFF KEY]. It's absolutely not off-key. It's perfect.

Glad red finally found a son that he could be proud of