{"id":487988,"date":"2022-08-26T19:30:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/revisiting-the-house-bus-crash-that-shocked-viewers\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T19:30:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:30:37","slug":"revisiting-the-house-bus-crash-that-shocked-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/revisiting-the-house-bus-crash-that-shocked-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"#Revisiting The &#8220;House&#8221; Bus Crash That Shocked Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af4956dad3c9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af4956dad3c9\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/revisiting-the-house-bus-crash-that-shocked-viewers\/#%E2%80%9CRevisiting_The_%E2%80%9CHouse%E2%80%9D_Bus_Crash_That_Shocked_Viewers%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Revisiting The &#8220;House&#8221; Bus Crash That Shocked Viewers&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CRevisiting_The_%E2%80%9CHouse%E2%80%9D_Bus_Crash_That_Shocked_Viewers%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Revisiting The &#8220;House&#8221; Bus Crash That Shocked Viewers&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;The penultimate episode of House\u2019s fourth season sees the death wish-chasing doctor unravel the shocking mystery of his own head injury.&lt;\/span&gt;\n&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;div id=\"\"&gt;\n\n\n\n                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/house-bus-crash-episode.jpeg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"House Bus Crash Episode\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/house-bus-crash-episode.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/house-bus-crash-episode-768x480.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;Fox Network&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Valerie Ettenhofer\u00a0\u00b7 Published on August 26th, 2022 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    &lt;em&gt;This essay is part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>\u00a0&lt;strong&gt;Episodes&lt;\/strong&gt;, a monthly column in which TV Critic\u00a0Valerie Ettenhofer digs into the singular chapters of television that make the medium great. This time she\u2019s looking at the unforgettable bus crash in the House, M.D. episode \u201cHouse\u2019s Head.\u201d&lt;\/em&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<hr\/>\n<p>When it comes to medical procedurals, nothing on network television delivers fast-paced thrills quite like <strong><em>House, M.D.<\/em><\/strong> This isn\u2019t to say that <em>House<\/em> was always better than the other medical shows that dominated network television in the aughts. Rather, it was simply more intense than most of its contemporaries by design. The eight-season Fox series started with a basic question: what if a Sherlock Holmes type solved medical mysteries rather than crimes? From there, it snowballed into a quick, clever, and often surprisingly edgy series that saw misanthropic, Vicodin-fueled Dr. House (Hugh Laurie) frequently bringing patients to the brink of death and back again in order to figure out what ailed them.<\/p>\n<p>By season three, <em>House<\/em> had hit its stride, and instead of leaning into what it was already doing well, the series\u2019 writers decided to tinker with its formula. The fourth season shook up the show\u2019s supporting cast, introducing a number of potential hirees including doctors Thirteen (Olivia Wilde), Kutner (Kal Penn), Taub (Peter Jacobson), and Amber (Anne Dudek). Then it c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed off the experimental season with a shocking spectacle of a finale, a two-parter that left one of its newbies dead and audiences blindsided. Talk to most fans of <em>House<\/em> about the show\u2019s high point, and you\u2019ll likely get the same answer: the bus crash episode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse\u2019s Head\u201d begins with Dr. House drunk in a s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> club. This is normal enough, except that he doesn\u2019t know how he got there. \u201cSay five words,\u201d he demands of the woman giving him a lap dance, and when she does, he can\u2019t remember them. The clues pile up quickly: he has no keys, but he gave the woman money. He\u2019s bleeding from the head, too. It\u2019s only after the dazed doctor stumbles outside that he sees what\u2019s happened: an overturned bus sits in a heap on the road, billowing smoke and surrounded by emergency vehicles. Thus begins the coolest, most creatively explored mystery of the series.<\/p>\n<p>Back at Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, House is convinced he has a life to save. Despite his obvious head injury, he remembers that he saw someone exhibit a dangerous symptom before the crash. He sends his underlings to figure out where he went, but this is the same guy who\u2019s constantly giving people treatments that could kill them based on a hunch: he\u2019s not patient enough to wait around for someone else to recover his memories. So House does hypnotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>After falsely diagnosing the bus crash victims with meningitis to ensure they\u2019d stick around the hospital for questioning, House sits down with Dr. Chase (Jesse Spencer) to access his prefrontal cortex through medical hypnosis. The series has always had an unrealistic streak, but in \u201cHouse\u2019s Head,\u201d it leans into its more over-the-top elements than the show ever had before, with marvelous results.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, Chase transports House into his murky memories from the night before. First, he\u2019s in an empty bus with a strange, ghostly light pattern constantly shifting overhead. Then, he\u2019s in a bar, but his brain fills in the gaps he can\u2019t remember: he\u2019s drinking Beer brand beer, and the people playing pool have eerie featureless faces.<\/p>\n<p>Episode director Greg Yaitanes won an Emmy for this hour, and it\u2019s easy to see why: even with over a decade of retrospect, there\u2019s a boundariless yet structured visual imagination to House\u2019s memory retrieval scenes that\u2019s extremely entertaining. House picks up a few wrong answers from the bar scene and also tries to ignore that his best friend Wilson\u2019s (Robert Sean Leonard) girlfriend Amber appears like an intrusive thought. But when hypnosis doesn\u2019t give House the answer he\u2019s looking for, he\u2019s onto the next option: shoving his face into a pile of passengers\u2019 clothes in an attempt to activate a smell-triggered memory.<\/p>\n<p>The series typically operates at a pretty brisk clip, but as House pops an inadvisable amount of pills and grows increasingly desperate to get to the bottom of his missing memory, the episode begins to truck along at a breakneck pace. In his mind, the bus driver tells House he could have a brain bleed, while in reality, Wilson accuses him of having feelings for Amber. Fast forward to 2 am: House\u2019s ear is bleeding, and he\u2019s been diagnosed with a skull fracture, yet he\u2019s forcing Thirteen to put him into a sensory deprivation tank to wring out some more memories from the steel trap of his broken brain. It\u2019s madness or genius, but either way, it\u2019s wildly fun to watch.<\/p>\n<p><em>House<\/em> may not hold tons of cultural cachet these days, but in retrospect, it\u2019s obvious that the mad doctor\u2019s methods inspired plenty of stubborn TV intellectuals who have come after him. The beloved BBC series <em>Sherlock<\/em> co-opted some of this episode\u2019s visual creativity from the start, showing the detective\u2019s mind palace as a physical presence just as House literalized his clues here. Meanwhile, <em>The Knick<\/em>\u2019s death wish-chasing John Thackery (Clive Owen) is as grandiose and dangerous as House and just as willing to risk killing himself for the sake of solving a medical problem that bugs him.<\/p>\n<p>As \u201cHouse\u2019s Head\u201d wears on, it\u2019s clear that death is the direction the doctor\u2019s headed in. In the tank, he envisions his boss, Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), stripping while the pair work through the unsolvable problem again: which passenger could be his unidentified patient, and what\u2019s wrong with them? She eventually quits dancing (\u201cYou\u2019d rather be diagnosing\u201d), and when he comes to in the tank, it\u2019s just long enough to spout a confident and incorrect Parkinson\u2019s diagnosis before throwing up and passing out. Classic House! He also can\u2019t stop seeing a mysterious woman (Ivana Mili\u010devi\u0107) who seems to want to tell him something.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the relentless, adrenaline-fueled logic puzzle comes to a shocking halt. After throwing out and quickly disproving several other theories (including one that required Thirteen to stab someone in the heart with a needle), House brings his coworkers onto a bus to reenact the night before in an identical space. There, they realize it\u2019s not actually Vicodin he\u2019d been popping all day, but an Altzheimers drug that, as Wilson puts it, speeds up the brain but also overpowers the heart.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson\u2019s by House\u2019s side when he collapses on the ground, slipping into unconsciousness as he finally sees the truth: it was his friend\u2019s girlfriend, Amber, who was on the bus with him when it crashed. He realizes only after the mysterious woman who\u2019d been appearing in his hallucinations asks him (while holding her amber gemstone), \u201cWhat\u2019s my necklace made of?\u201d The reveal hits like a jolt. Moreso, it hits like an actual hit, as a brilliantly framed shot shows a changeover from Mili\u010devi\u0107 to Dudek just as a garbage truck slams into the point of the bus directly behind Amber\u2019s seat. The impact sends her hair flying in every direction as headlights frame her in an almost angelic way.<\/p>\n<p>After seeing the night replayed in surreal tidbits throughout the episode, to finally see it unfold in real-time, with blood and broken glass and the grotesque screech of impact and aftermath, is genuinely harrowing. The fun and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s are over now: this is what House\u2019s brain was hiding from him all along. The scene goes on and on, and it\u2019s brutal. When the dust settles, Amber\u2019s missing a chunk of her forehead and has a pole through her leg. The pair reach out for one another, like an adrenaline-shaking play on The Creation of Adam, but they\u2019re pulled apart by paramedics before they can touch.<\/p>\n<p>The episode ends on a cliffhanger, with House recovering from what turned out to be a cardiac arrest just in time to tell Wilson that his girlfriend is dying. The show would go on to deliver a beautifully acted, emotional conclusion the next week, with \u201cWilson\u2019s Heart.\u201d It would also go on to deliver plenty of great episodes \u2013 and some bad ones \u2013 across its next four seasons. Yet \u201cHouse\u2019s Head\u201d stands at the precipice of both the show\u2019s own history and TV history as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/blogs\/show-tracker\/story\/2008-05-13\/house-what-goes-on-inside-that-good-doctors-head\">the LA Times<\/a>, the episode was originally planned as a post-Super Bowl release, which explains its near-endless intensity and impressive showmanship. It was rescheduled due to the 2008 writers\u2019 strike, which stands as a major dividing line in television history. On one side, linear TV like <em>House<\/em> dominated the medium, and on the other, the brave new world of streaming \u2013 or what WGA negotiating parties called \u201cnew media\u201d \u2013 loomed. Another sign of the times? Hugh Laurie earned an Emmy nomination for \u201cHouse\u2019s Head\u201d but lost to an actor delivering a performance on what would come to be known as prestige cable: <em>Breaking Bad<\/em> star Bryan Cranston. <em>House<\/em> was, it seems, part of the end of an era of bold, must-see network TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse\u2019s Head\u201d may be event television that already feels a little bit lost to the sands of time, but the creative, relentless, shocking prime-time mystery is a wild ride that\u2019s well worth revisiting.<\/p>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: Episodes\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/val_2019.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Valerie Ettenhofer is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer, TV-lover, and mac and cheese enthusiast. 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