"Let's Play Tic Tac Toe" | House M.D.

That kid really just said "y'all are single, I don't want to be like you"

Love how the dad just removed his toothpick right after the correct diagnosis

Chewing toothpicks is seriously dangerous. One of my Dad's friends used to do it all the time. Inhaled one by mistake once and tore up his trachea pretty bad, bled into his lungs and it lodged pretty deep. He lived, but he was very badly hurt and it was touch and go.

That’s a sad ending. Kid would’ve been great for that intern position, but his family is holding him back.

For anyone wondering, House is in a wheel chair this episode because his parking spot was given to another doctor who was actually forced to be in a wheel chair. Thus, House makes a bet with Cuddy that if he can spend about a week in a wheel chair, he gets his spot back. He does lose as he gets up to save the patients life but does use guilt and manipulation on Cuddy to still get it back in the end.

Surely the hospital security could remove the parents after they started tampering with the hospital environment since that compromises safety?

I don't think his parents would accept the girl as their daughter-in-law, if that's what their son had in mind.

His parents cursed him. He was never in control of his life.

More respect to Foreman. He laid it all out for the kid.

I once had stepped on a toothpick in my living room rug while I was barefoot. The toothpick broke off in half and it wasn’t visible on an X-ray in the ER since it was wood. I had pain walking 3 days after the incident and my ER visit. My podiatrist felt the toothpick in my foot and scheduled me for emergency surgery. I still have a scar on my foot to this day. Toothpicks can kill you.

Bless whoever is keeping this channel alive, 12 years after the show has ended.

Ya know...I keep watching these, and as someone with an undiagnosed chronic health problem...its almost comforting to see these people finally get an answer to whatever they may have in a given episode...though it does make me sad more doctors like House don't exist at the same time.

Ugh this one hurt my heart so bad. He was such an intelligent young man, who would’ve gone very far in his medical career! Such a shame he wasn’t allowed to pursue that. I get it though. My paternal grandmother was Romani, it was a hard life for her. Very different culture & upbringing. Filled with disappointments.

The way his parents are? That's the reason I left home at 16 years old.

In many culture, on varying degrees, giving you control of your life is giving you the traditional education and good reputation that will make you have the support of the group, enjoy your extended family and marry a same-minded girl. You can differ, and choose another life, but then you will be on your own, and as somebody shameful, you won't get the whole affection of your family. That's true for gypsies, that's also true for rich New England dynasties. When 20 I was in love with a gypsy girl on the loose. She explained me all the rules she did not want to comply. She was a real free mind, smart and beautiful, but suffered too much from being a stranger to her own family, but for her mother and sister who stood by her.

Anyone in a family like this, take my advice, fucking leave. They do not actually care about you, they only care about the CONTROL they have over you. None of it is parental love, its is only the sick power they get over you. Take this from someone whos left and and improved my life drastically.

Left out the best line of the episode, perhaps series, when House distracts the parents by saying he didn't want to get "gypped" lol

Patient was so smart. Breaks my heart he gave up internship.

thanks for constantly uploading House clips.. you are the best!

My mother was just like that. I never felt like my life was my own life, i was more like a puppet that mirrored her ideal image of the perfect son she had in mind. I was a middle child, but i was the only one my mother "accepted" because i was everything she wanted me to be, quiet, obedient, useful. I gave up on all my dreams and became an empty shell ready to be whatever she wanted me to be, counselor, carpenter, coworker. Never again.