House was succesful, every member of the original team is now a leader of something (foreman: dean, chase: replaced house, cameron: director of the ER). It was house who lead them to success
He knew that Foreman was too much like him; that in the absence of knowing the truth and having the answers he'd blame himself. So he gave Foreman, and Foreman alone, the truth.
How did he let Foreman in on the stunt? I think you're reading into the scene too much. Foreman complained to House about his wobbly table so this just revealed that the table was caused by House.
@@BenRajan Think of it this way; House never got to hang his badge in, because.. he died. Now sure, someone else could hand it in FOR him once his house was cleaned out, but here it is, beneath the leg of the table in Foreman's OFFICE, of all places. It doesn't get there accidentally, and nobody BUT House is gonna put it there (Or ask someone to put it there).
@@BenRajan David Shorey himself has confirmed that the theory that house placed it there after “his” death to be true. It was houses way of saying don’t worry I’m fine. That’s why he smiled. He knew during the funeral house snuck it it’s well established he knows how to break into the office and placed it there
The years that Wilson and House were friends, Wilson usually gave and never received. When it counted the most, House gave and Wilson received. I love this clip.
House certainly gave, though not in the same way that Wilson did, or perhaps even expected. There's a really tiny scene where we see House and Wilson talk and laugh together after Wilson donates part of his liver to his patient. We don't hear what they're talking about, but there's a genuine warmth to the interaction that hints at it being something absolutely banal and heartwarming, like the kinds of interactions two long time friends have. House wasn't there for Wilson as often as Wilson was for him. What mattered here is that House confronted pain in a way he never did before, or could have imagined doing. There's no drugs, no running, none of that. Just a friend being there unequivocally.
House's gift to Wilson was stability. As Capt. Jack Sparrow once said, “I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly stupid.” Through relationships, divorce, and all other sorts of chaos and Hell, Wilson could ALWAYS count on House. He could ALWAYS know House would be, well, House. And he could always be 100% sure House would give it to him straight, no nonsense, and honest.
One last think Wilson can give... His identity. He's dying anyway, so when he dies House can just bury him, take his identity, and move away. Otherwise House is stuck without an identity with which to live.
@@secretasianman2531 nah he showed more joy when he had that brain problem that made him laugh at inappropriate times lol, the one that killed the police officer
There was a time he told foreman of all his employees there was a reason he hired him. He knew he was smart like him he just needed to bring it out for him. Huge Mentor.
@@besura_tamburaHouse faked his death so he could avoid going back to prison and losing Wilson while inside, the ID left in Foremans office was a message to say "Don't worry, I'm still around", while Wilson gets to spend his last few months alive with his best friend
@@AB-yk2pqhe realized he was alive still because i’m not sure if you noticed but foreman’s at his house . How else would houses hospital card get in there ?? house put it there
Wasn’t a trick. Earlier in the season their is a scene where house and foreman are talking in foreman’s office and foreman is adjusting that exact same wobbly table, foreman put the card there we just didn’t know it was house’s
foreman sets down whatever file - he notices the table off-kilter - follow the song lyrics at that moment "sometimes when ur doing simple things around the house - youll think of me sometimes"
When this show first ended, people were outraged and described it as the worst ending ever to a great show. I'm so happy to see so many folks recognize the beauty in this ending now after so many years because I truly think it's one of the best.
I, for one, thought the ending was perfect for this show. So many shows struggle with wrapping up a series (Seinfeld comes to mind), but I thought given the context of eight years of this show, it was perfect.
I think overall i loved where everyone ended up. They could have gone with a much more depressing ending but I think this is the best high note ending House could have gotten. Chase is perfectly built up to be able to take over House, Foreman's grown immensely after being the dean and no longer having the insecurity of needing to prove he is the best constantly. Taub seems to have quit and likely gone back to his old job - he seems a bit dissatisfied as he enjoyed having his work mean something but he is happy to have family with him and he got everything he wanted out of House. Cameron has a family and kids and is working happily in the ER, she never had huge ambitions all she wanted was to save people - it shows that she never lost that empathy after house and she also got over her issues with her new husband and kid. The others are kind of left more to imagination so there is not much to go off of but both Park and Adams are both at the beginning of their careers and did not have a major conflict imo that needed to be addressed like the others. And in terms of imagination I believe thirteen will meet house again at some point again and he will fulfill his promise. Out of everyone I believe her and House's relationship was the closest to a father/daughter relationship. Finally House gives up everything for Wilson. This has always been a trait of misery for House, he is unable to leave things that ease his pain, bring comfort. This is why it never worked out with Cuddy. But we see that when Wilson gets sick he gets off Vicodin silently for him even if it means more pain. Overall a lot of things were left to imagination in my opinion but I think it was a very satisfying conclusion for everyone. I am not too sure what caused Lisa to leave the show after season 8, something to do with pay. I think the journey to this conclusion with her would have tied everything even better but its still well done
People don’t like being left in the dark. Especially when there won’t be a chance to find out what became of the cliffhanger. This was a great ending to the show. But people still want closure.
Someone once told me how they imagined a House reunion episode. Being each member of the team across the years visiting Thirteen after she's finally at the final stages of her disease, each one sharing a laugh and a memory about House. How he made them suffer, how he made them be better people, and how they all respected him. And when everybody leaves the room, a doctor comes in, leaves. Only finding out she died during the next nurse check. All just to reveal House decided to visit her and keep his promise of putting her down when things were finally getting bad.
Darn that's a lot better than what I thought up: One day a patient gets wheeled in to the hospital via ambulance and Chase goes down to look who it is to find a familiar man who is an asshole only going by the name Wilson. Maybe they can do both somehow
@@EdsterIII calm down, bro. and yes, there are a ton of inaccuracies in the show. first of all, no department ever runs the way house's department runs - they'd be sued for malpractice within the hour. second, practicing physicians don't run lab tests themselves, they're passed down to lab technicians who run the tests and hand them to the doctors.
Its touching how everyone had mixed emotions about House throughout their time working with him but after he was gone, they all reflected and realised they became better people and doctors because of him and couldn't help but smile at the journey. Its a really touching ending. The Foreman scene always makes me tear up cause its a very unique moment. You'd have to know House well enough to get the message, and you'd have to be respected BY House enough for him to give you that hint. And so just watching Foreman chuckle to himself, knowing, its a nice sentiment.
@@themocaw Nah, Wilson was going to ask House when the cancer gets bad to not try and save him. House never would take on cases that would boring to him. So by House saying Cancer is boring, he was telling Wilson he would let him die with dignity and not House trying all these life saving ideas on him ; House was just going to enjoy is last few months with Wilson and not make it about the cancer
Damn, that Warren Zevon song really kicks you in the gut. Even more when you think, that he knew he was dying of cancer himself when writing and singing it.
I'm so satisfied that Dr. Robert Chase got to replace Dr. House as the new department head of diagnostic medicine. It's only fitting especially Chase after all the experience he had in solving cases with House now knows how to think outside the box like House did no matter how far-fetched. Besides, he is the first member of House's gang.
Chase always knew how to think outside the box. Already in the very first episode, he was the one who came with the idea of confirming tapeworm by using x-ray. Not even House thought of that one. In fact, Chase came up with more brilliant ideas and right diagnoses than Foreman ever did.
Chase was always the most loyal to house. Foreman wanted to leave so many times and ended up being the dean. Cameron just gave up on him and moved on to work in an ER and working at a whole different hospital. Chase was fired, ended up being a surgeon, but was always on House’s team. He studied house, he learned from him. Chase was the most qualified out of the 3 amigos.
That part at the end, the final dialogue: *"Cancer's boring."* Damn, it hits. Why? Well, if you've watched House, you can probably tell. This was the basis of the beginning of House's and Wilson's friendship. House found him the least boring, and later on, he discovered his true friend inside Wilson. It is also explained by House himself in the episode where Wilson and House go on a journey to attend House's father's funeral. And at the end, when the then-pissed Wilson throws a bottle again to break the stained antique glass, House gives it a throwback yet again by saying: "Still not boring". And thus, having a throwback to the very beginning of their bond at their last scene together, it was really well written and beautifully portrayed. Kudos.
The Cancer is boring thing was House telling Wilson when the cancer hits hard, he isn't going to try and save Wilson but let Wilson die with dignity, and making it about their friendship at the end and not House trying to save him. House never took cases that he found boring thus the cancer is boring meaning, he wont take up Wilsons case to save him.
@@adammoore9865 I also think the line is meant to be interpreted by Wilson as House saying "don't worry about the cancer, it is what it is and we can't do much about it (hence it's boring), instead let's go do non-boring things together with your remaining time without focusing on the cancer."
This was a beautiful ending. It showed that House was willing to give everything up for Wilson, and that he truly loved him. House loved the chase from diagnostics and the ability to solve puzzles, but he loved Wilson more.
@@jed123e except it is, what is the legacy of the show? Very few people still remember it compared to other shows around the same time like Breaking Bad or even Mad Men
@@Србомбоница86 ok, I might of reached a little bit with Mad Men and I could see why you've never heard of it, but Breaking Bad? It's fucking colossal everywhere and all the people who've seen it would rate it an 11/10 AND there's always someone circlejerking on its majesty, when you talk about good or great shows, it *will* come up to the conversation at some point
When Wilson asks House what they're gonna do when cancer gets really bad and House simply says "Cancer is boring" because he doesn't want Wilson to spend miserably his last months.....True.Fucking.Friend. I cried.
Its also a homage for him figuring out complex diseases without it being cancer. Its also to do with Wilson being an oncologist a fairly boring job to house. And lastly he wants him to have an interesting happy life in the last five month
After few years, after Wilson died, a high profile government person gets sick and nobody can cure him.. Foreman ask the government to look for House in the middle of nowhere (of course nobody believes him at first) and when they found him, he agrees to come back in exchange for clean slate on his record.. And House MD continues....... How I fucking wish....
My wife and I watched this series, the final song we. Both loved it and said mostly in jest we’ll have this as our final song at our funeral, how the world turns 3 years later in 2015 after a short battle with cancer , my life partner passed,I had it played, “ enjoy yourself it’s later than you think “
Nothing, no words, could even come close to expressing the sentiment of losing that one person who you built a world with, who knew ever little part of you, bad included, and you them. Suffice to say, you ain't alone brother, not even close. We survivors of similar tradgedies walk beside you, whether you know it or not. I hope you continue to live on and put love into this world in her name. I am so sorry for your loss friend. Peace be upon you.
I think he left "clues" for his original team that he faked his own death. The most obvious being the hospital badge he left under the table leg in Foreman's office. The red and gray tennis ball on Chase's desk. And the randomly opened group photo on Cameron's laptop.
@@wjzav1971 - I agree. However, if you look closely at it, it looks like House was photoshopped in. It doesn't look like an authentic group shot. The original team looks legit, but House doesn't. That's why I think he left it as a clue for Cameron.
The ultimate sacrifice. The most unselfish thing House has ever done, we all knew that he had a heart and he went through so much the other doctors couldn't see, so the fact he did this was no surprise to us. And for Wilson it confirms everything and shows that he truly cares.
Whilst he put most ppl to misery but he did his best in his own ways to cuddy, chase, foreman, cameron and thirteen even taub he tried to help him. He is a sob but he is good hearted
House didn't need to sacrifice anything. He didn't need to fake his own death. He could have just taken a year off work to take care of (AND RIDE AND HAVE FUN) of Wilson. It's called a sabbatical.
@@NASSAfellow Yeah but in S8 Foreman let him be a doctor again after he got out of jail, under his close supervision, bc Foreman was the head of the department then.
Yeah, watched almost full 1 st season of GoT. Falls asleep several times...Sorry, but GoT most probably is ok/fine for teenagers. You have swords, dragons and tits in one show. House series is my favorite show i ever watched. Second is - The Sopranos. Then non sorted shows - Fringe, Helix (sad, they stopped after 2 seasons)
wilson told him he needs him, he needs to tell house to love him and then house just simply fakes his death to be with him every last minute until the end. greatest frindship and bromance ever.
Chase is sure the deserved next house. Always trusted House, learnt things from playing along House except being miserable. Has secretly fascinating over house's seat and his ball throughout 8 seasons, had many Eureka moments like house did.
Jessica Isgate I just saw the ending on TV so started crying so much and my dad laughed but when I saw that my TV channel is starting with House again from the star I AM a bit happier
there is 8 years of character building showing that house puts his medicine and gift above everyone else, and routinely showed up wilson who was nearly unflinching in his loyalty to him. we always thought of them as friends but it was never clear how much house really cared. this ending is the payoff for 8 seasons that house could value someone above himself, and valued wilson more than we gave him credit for. we see somewhat obvious resolutions to the series characters, but house giving up his gift and entire life to show his loyalty to wilson shows a complete cycle of development that is completely unexpected
I think he'd have done it since episode 1, he just didn't know it 🤷☺️ he never changed, he just grew into himself. You can be an ass and still love things. Human beings are so beautifully nuanced
He never put medicine above anyone else. Medicine was his way of helping people, and House deeply cared about the people around him. What this ending was a payoff to was House accepting pain and loss in a far different way than before. He's not coping with it, day after day after day, but actually overcoming it, not just for himself, but for Wilson especially. The resolution is that, in the end, he didn't run from the source of what will be and is immense pain, but accepted it and even embraced it because everything that isn't the pain he finally understood to be very much worth it and necessary
@@bidmcms3 You can also interpret it as being House's hallucination while high, in the fire. That being said, House absolutely gave up everything for Wilson. He doesn't have medicine anymore, and will likely head back to jail eventually, or have to leave the country, or something the like. Medicine, to House, was his way of coping with his pain, and reconciling himself with helping people - it was his way of doing what was right - and losing it, like we've seen in early season 6, was almost as crippling to him as his leg was. If he's dead, it doesn't change that it is what he would have done, and wishes to do. His living or dying is irrelevant because House, effectively, stops existing in this episode in any way we would recognize. He finally becomes (or commits to becoming even if he cannot) dedicated to someone else's happiness, irrelevant of his own pain or fears, and absolutely desires to make himself someone else's vehicle to that happiness, which is something he didn't really believe he could do. He accepted that, in this moment, for Wilson, he no longer needed to be 'House M.D.' but 'Greg', the friend to Wilson that he always deserved to have. He realized that being right, and saving lives, no longer matter, if he can't make the life that constantly stood by him as good as possible, in whatever way he could, for however long he could. House sacrifices himself, at least metaphorically, and in a way literally, for Wilson.
My epilogue to House: One day Thirteen will be at that point in her illness when she knows she’s getting near the end and is despairing, and House will just appear on her doorstop late one night with a bottle of wine and a syringe and that charming grin...and she’ll smile that beautiful smile of pure relief and stand aside for him to come in...and that night she’ll die happy that she mattered so much to him... And late one evening on a stormy night, Chase will be sitting in a bar alone in a corner, holding a drink, troubled by a case he can’t solve, and the guy next to him at the bar will nudge his elbow as he gets up, and Chase will turn to watch him limp slightly to a corner table, realisation of that familiar limp dawning, and he’ll slowly smile as he gets up with his drink and follows, slapping a note on the bar... And one day, Foreman will be standing in the car park of the hospital, alone in the dark and rain looking for a cab because his car won’t start, and a car will pull up and wind down its window, and out of the shadows a gruff voice will ask him if he needs a lift. Foreman will get in and say thanks, and the driver won’t say anything. As he pulls away, Foreman will look over at his profile, idly, and realise that it looks a bit familiar. Out of the darkness will come that glint of a grin and a look, and Foreman will start to smile... And one afternoon, Taub will be walking through the park after dropping his kids off and he’ll be feeling a bit sad at the thought of an evening alone, and he’ll stop to get a coffee from a van, and as he turns to leave he’ll notice a figure sitting alone on a bench under a big tree in the distance, just sitting...with a cane between his legs...and Taub will pause for a moment with his drink lifted forgotten in his hand...and he’ll start to walk towards the figure without even thinking about it, his face slowly growing a smile of relief. He’ll swallow down a little emotion as he walks over to the bench... And one morning, Cameron will be driving along on her way to pick up her kids, and as she waits at a red light, she’ll glance over at a table outside a cafe and she’ll notice a guy sitting alone at a table. Just as she pulls away out of the corner of her eye she’ll see him stand and pull out a cane...and she’ll look back in her mirror and he’ll just be stood there looking at her, his hand raised. She’ll wonder if it was real...and she’ll look back and he’ll be gone...and she’ll start to smile and shake her head... And Cuddy? Cuddy will always think of him, always regret her decision to abandon him after everything she said she knew and understood about him. No man will ever quite come up to House’s standard and she’ll look for him in every profile, in every limp, in every cane, forever... Her anger over the car thing will die with time, and she’ll know how desperately he loved her and couldn’t cope with the heartbreak of her decision. And one day, when Rachel is just starting High School, she’ll leave the school after dropping her off and go home, a little sad at the end of her daughter’s childhood...and when she stops to pick up some milk in the grocery store the door bell will sound as a guy comes in. He’ll walk down the opposite aisle, and the sound of his walk will make her stop, her hand reaching out for the milk. She’ll listen intently and he’ll come round the end of the aisle and turn to the fridge, and stand next to her and reach for some milk, his leather jacket making a soft rustle, and she’ll look at his hand and stare at its familiarity, at the same scar...and she’ll glance to the side, almost afraid that it’s not him again after all this time...and he’ll glance ruefully at her, with an apologetic little half smile, and she’ll breathe in softly, unmoving in wonder. After a moment, he’ll turn to leave...and Cuddy will at the last moment reach out and put her hand on his sleeve. And House will begin to smile... Whatever else happened, he always had a heart under that gruff exterior. His team were always important to him. He’d appear every now and then for them. A guiding hand. A good man always. ... Someone asked me about the possibility of House killing himself once Wilson had died... Maybe he would, and in a way I’d hope he would do so when the time was right for him - there’s no blame in someone making that choice. But he wouldn’t go without first letting everyone know that he’d had the last laugh on them and fooled everyone. He wasn’t really a b*stard, far from it, he just hid his pain and loneliness behind all that bluster that made him such a complex personality. He needed love as much as anyone, but the pain created this huge barrier between him and love so often that it was easier to push people away than to keep getting hurt... Once Wilson had died, he’d keep going for a while, keeping in touch with his friends in secret, maybe even finding a way to still help people. I like to think that he’d grow a beard and let his hair grow a bit longer to disguise himself, use a fake accent and then he’d take on another name and go and practice medicine somewhere else. He’d find someone to fake the papers for him... Then he’d gradually find a way to deal with the pain, probably pioneer a breakthrough in pain treatment that gave him his life back to enjoy more fully. That’s just the sort of thing he’d do, and maybe that’s what gives him the freedom and confidence to contact everyone again... House freed from the pain would find love at last, and peace of a sort, I think. …. I want to mention about House and Foreman too. Some people think he let Foreman know he was still alive because they were so close. I disagree, gently lol. I always thought Foreman came across as one of those kind of ‘management types’ that House quietly despised. Foreman and House had a long history of taunting each other. Foreman didn’t have much of a sense of humour and House played onto that, but Foreman was also a pretty self-righteous kind of person, and when he was promoted above House and later made chief, he and House had many run-ins where Foreman wanted to do the safe management thing and House needed him to have some humanity, bravery and edge. Foreman was a good doctor but valued protocols and rules too much, House was a brilliant doctor and didn’t give a sh*t about protocols or rules when someone’s life was at stake. They were chalk and cheese in those respects. Foreman never truly got over his irritation that House didn’t respect him as much as he wanted respect, and it was partly why when put in charge of House and then the hospital, he couldn’t help flexing his management muscle and making things difficult for House whenever he could get away with it. House left his pass under the desk edge as a sort of ‘last word’ to his nemesis. He got the last joke in, he had the last say in this charade, and he fixed the final problem - even if that was only Foreman’s desk wobble. He took back control for himself. Foreman realised what House had done of course, he wasn’t an idiot, and of course there was some wry affection there for someone who’d been such a huge part of his life for so long. But I think ‘mutual respect and trust’ is a bit ‘rose tinted’ for their relationship. That chuckle was Foreman realising that House had taken the ultimate control of his own situation - and there was nothing Foreman could do about it… Just my opinion based on watching their interactions through the series…
I love out of all the members of his team, House only let Foreman know he was still alive. He was always the hardest on Foreman and always made his life miserable. But this showed just how much respect House had for Foreman not only as a doctor but as a person.
yup foreman was there the longest and even when chase/cameron left, foreman was the first to come back and basically stayed with him throughout the entire show
In the end he gave back to Wilson everything he stole from him along the years. As House himself said in a different episode: “The Universe always makes things even. Or at least it should be that way”. Hats off to the writers of the best tv series ever, with the best script ever for the best character ever. I knew a guy once, he was a lot like House in a way, but things went different that time.
To quote Marcus Cole in Babylon 5: " I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
Not sure I agree. House puts solving the problem first above all, and second he does everything to muck about Wilson to ensure that Wilson is treating House as his own best friend. In many ways this is the most startlingly original and challenging study of selfishness every portrayed - with the many positive side-effects that would not normally be expected. Even House's final sacrifice for Wilson is ambiguous - because House needs Wilson for as long as possible; Wilson knows this, and Wilson accepts House for what he is. Still - you may be right instead... that is the beauty of good writing - it doesn't treat us like 8-year olds and give us easy answers.
Why is everybody so worried about him not be able wo work because he faked his death... it´s house... he probably just one day straight pulls up to the hospital and tells them the whole story and then proceeds to work their again like nothing happend.. its House if anybody would pull that off then him :D
As they said he'll go to jail... after all he faked his death, too many records in his belt, just because he's a great Dr. doesn't mean he can still be above the law for so long. And even if he can solve a complicated case... well... i'll say in you go in jail again. Also Chase took House's place along his team, they are good... it'd need to be seriously complicated to take House in and who knows... Foreman is in that Hospital too, you know.
I mean more likely he's just gonna go find thirteen and hang out with her for a while. I don't think he would actually go back to practicing medicine. Not after everything he's been through.
I always viewed this as Chase, Cameron and Taub were better off thinking he was dead. But Foreman would always feel responsible and it would eat away at him, he needed to know that House was alive. House needed to do that for him.
House let the only 2 people know that he is alive which is the 2 people he saw running at the burning abandoned building: Foreman and Wilson, to respect their care for him
Such a perfect last line from House. He always did find cancer boring and was always mockingly dismissive to Wilson but here it’s understood that of course he will help when the time comes, almost mocking him for even having to ask.
...As a TV show junkie, HOUSE MD has been the one that moved me the most. I have watched every episode multiple times and its by far the only show I recommend when people ask me what to watch. I'm so grateful for the creators of this show, it had profound effect on me.
So only Foreman knows House is still alive. I can't believe Cuddy wasn't shown even for just a few seconds in House's "wake". She and House had quite a history.
I think it’s a nice sentiment. They’ve parted ways and made peace with it. The people shown are the ones who House will miss. He and Cuddy have already accepted that they don’t go together in life.
This show never got boring from the moment it aired to the moment it ended. I was sad to see it end, but oddly happy that they didn't try to milk it for everything it was worth. It got to end on a high note and never became stale and boring.
“Cancer’s boring”, the best line ever for dealing with mortality. Time to do that bucket list stuff! I’d do the same, rather than let them disassemble me part by part and pump me full of chemo drugs.
I went through a cancer battle. It was fairly miserable, but felt it necessary with a child still living at home (for their sake). If it ever comes back, now that our child will be a self-sufficient adult soon, I'll simply drop everything, grab my bucket list, and start checking boxes with him and my wife for as long as I can.
I don’t know when this ended but I liked it, especially Wilson. There was an America’s Got Talent contestant who performs as Nightbirde. When Howie asked what she did for work she said she hadn’t worked for a while because she was dealing with cancer. Simon asked how she was at that time. She had cancer in her liver, and two other places. She sang an original song, “It’s okay.” She said some beautiful quotes. “You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore to decide to be happy.” If I was in Wilson’s shoes I’d be inspired by her.
He told the original 3 he was still alive. He left the ball for Chase, the desktop pic for Cameron, and the hospital ID for Foreman. He just wanted to let his original team know he was ok. Awesome.
Martino Fenzi I want them, so much, to do a reunion episode that makes fun of itself for existing. Dr Condo MD(because he changed his name) marches into Wilson’s office who looks like a zombie but still acts the same and makes a bet about Cuddy who genuinely doesn’t recognize Dr Condo
I watched this show but really didn't understand House's character until I got hurt on the job and lost my career due to an injury and since then have had to live with chronic pain. I still get around and can do most of what I used to, but my career in law enforcement ended, I've had 6 surgeries, have an implant that manages my pain etc. What I noticed is how much pain focuses your thinking. I have been told how much since I was hurt how much more direct I am with people, how much more I have a very simple focus, don't beat around the bush with people and have changed overall. I found that being in pain all the time, it forces you to do things different but you don't put things off because while I may feel good one day, the next I could be on the couch for the day.
Law enforcement or not a job is a job. Pain is pain. I'm sure you were great at your job and I thank you as everyone else. Don't put a title on pain, im glad u understand though.
Remember how House explained that when he was a Kid in Japan he saw a few doctors perplexed 'cause they couldn't figure out what the patient had and then asked a old man who was cleaning the floors(I think, don't remember quite well) and he figured it out and saved the patient? I wish House had ended like that.
Well, in a sense House WAS that man. The point was even when the janitor dressed badly and acted non caring everyone had to listen to him, because he was RIGHT! It's why in many cases House says "But I was right, and that's all that matters". Like when he was working for CIA in that one episode.
The dude mopping the floors was a full blown doctor. However, he was of a low caste in Japan and was treated like shit. However, even with all the BS that dude with the mop faced, all the doctors still came to him because in the end "he was right." That doc saved House's friend that day...
I watched this with my mum when the show died we laughed, cried and hugged!!! Ty House for everything!!! We will keep you in our hearts forever!! Gone but never ever forgotten!!!! We 💛 you House!!!
First time I watched this I took the message in the end quite literally, as to have a full life I should have fun, to have adventures, to travel, to do new things. But as I grow older I see more as finding peace with yourself, accepting our limitations and our pains, pretty much like House did.
Oh dude, watched the last episode yesterday and i was crying when he died, and later on I was really happy because he wasnt dead, and when the episode was over, I cried again because it was the last one. :-(
02:07 That card under Foreman's table was left there by House because House knew he didn't need it anymore. Seeing that card, I think Foreman realized what really happened. From all of them, Foreman was the one that worked the most with House and he was the only one that knew how to interpret those messages.
I would love to see an old man House season. Just one season of like 10 or 12 episodes. Starts off with being there for Wilson when he dies, then repairing everything he had with Cuddy and Stacy, apologizing to Dominika, lurking in the shadows to help his old team and then finally fulfilling his promise to Thirteen in Season 7 where he will help her be relieved of Huntington's
Been 10 years guys, how time flies, I remember having a burst of inspiration to live life but it only lasted a while and in a blink of an eye, a decade has passed
I love this scene and ive just realised the last song 'enjoy yourself' is the same song amber sung to house in the bar when he was hallucinating her Such a good show!
a mi viejo le agarro un acv hace unos dias y lo dejo con muerte cerebral, ya no hay nada que se pueda hacer., es cuestion de tiempo para que muera. Y estos dias pensando en lo que le paso a mi viejo me paso mucho por la cabeza esta frase del capitulo final de dr.house "Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, is later than you think...don't be a fool" porque tiene 55 años, podria haber vivido 10 o 20 años mas posiblemente si no le hubiese ocurrido esto. Aunque mi viejo en ese sentido no tuvo problema, disfruto la vida como quiso hasta practicamente el ultimo dia.
My favorite 2 things from this ending: House lets Foreman know he's still alive because he trusts him. Foreman smiling in relief knowing that House is still alive.
I love that they brought “Enjoy Yourself” back in a positive context, after using it for what is hands down the most unnerving moment in the show (in my opinion, anyways). Thanks for sharing this, it was a great reminder of how such an amazing, iconic series ended.
Fun fact for those that never put it together. House and Wilson are based on Holmes and Watson. Holmes fakes his death in a lot of his iterations. Including the RDJ films. House also lived at a place with almost the same or the same address as Holmes. House and Holmes find most things boring and both have some kind of ailment that has affected them for life (physically/psychologically)
I agree. Greatest md show ever. I've watched the full series probably 6 or 7 times. Still makes me laugh and still make me cry and still shocks me with his comments. An amazing show and as sad as i was it ended they did it brilliantly and it finally proves that House can be selfless for his best friend.
pps22001 Yes, yes, and yes. A thousand times yes. When i watched that ending i thought about that song the entire time. I specially think that it would been awesome with the classic "But If You Try Sometimes, You Just Might Find And Get What You Need"
Nice idea, however i think the studio execs didnt want to pay out for the (likely expensive)rights to use that song, since the dwindling audience figures, but i can imagine it working nicely with the scene
Amazing! I know about a Dr. Herber from South Africa who was like Dr. House, moved to London and diagnosed many children where other docs couldn't find a thing. Unfortunatelly he died also far too early - many more children needed him too! Life sucks sometimes.
"If I leave you it doesn't mean that I love you any less, Keep me in your heart for a while." The song is so beautiful and so fitting. House was a jerk, an asshole but deep down he always cared about his team and they all became better doctors than they were before him. House M.D. We will keep you in our hearts forever.
So many complained about this ending but i LOVE it. Wilson has very limited time left so he is ensuring his best and only true friend will enjoy those months. In the past, Wilson gave and House recieved. It was a very one way relationship. But when it really counted, and wilson was most in need, House gave and wilson recieved. This is a beautiful ending.
House was succesful, every member of the original team is now a leader of something (foreman: dean, chase: replaced house, cameron: director of the ER). It was house who lead them to success
What happened to Dr. Cuddihy House girlfriend?
@@mrmajic6969 dont worry bout it
@@mrmajic6969 She replaced him shortly after abandoning him.
...or, because the the writers wrote it like that.
Raghu Seetharaman WHATS succnigga
The fact that he let Foreman in on his stunt is proof of the mutual respect and trust they developed over the years.
He knew that Foreman was too much like him; that in the absence of knowing the truth and having the answers he'd blame himself. So he gave Foreman, and Foreman alone, the truth.
How did he let Foreman in on the stunt? I think you're reading into the scene too much. Foreman complained to House about his wobbly table so this just revealed that the table was caused by House.
@@BenRajan Think of it this way; House never got to hang his badge in, because.. he died. Now sure, someone else could hand it in FOR him once his house was cleaned out, but here it is, beneath the leg of the table in Foreman's OFFICE, of all places. It doesn't get there accidentally, and nobody BUT House is gonna put it there (Or ask someone to put it there).
@@BenRajan David Shorey himself has confirmed that the theory that house placed it there after “his” death to be true. It was houses way of saying don’t worry I’m fine. That’s why he smiled. He knew during the funeral house snuck it it’s well established he knows how to break into the office and placed it there
@@BenRajan foremans wobbley table was fixed after houses death, the fact houses ID was the thing fixing it could only mean House put it there.
The years that Wilson and House were friends, Wilson usually gave and never received. When it counted the most, House gave and Wilson received. I love this clip.
House certainly gave, though not in the same way that Wilson did, or perhaps even expected. There's a really tiny scene where we see House and Wilson talk and laugh together after Wilson donates part of his liver to his patient. We don't hear what they're talking about, but there's a genuine warmth to the interaction that hints at it being something absolutely banal and heartwarming, like the kinds of interactions two long time friends have. House wasn't there for Wilson as often as Wilson was for him. What mattered here is that House confronted pain in a way he never did before, or could have imagined doing. There's no drugs, no running, none of that. Just a friend being there unequivocally.
House's gift to Wilson was stability.
As Capt. Jack Sparrow once said, “I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly stupid.”
Through relationships, divorce, and all other sorts of chaos and Hell, Wilson could ALWAYS count on House. He could ALWAYS know House would be, well, House. And he could always be 100% sure House would give it to him straight, no nonsense, and honest.
One last think Wilson can give... His identity. He's dying anyway, so when he dies House can just bury him, take his identity, and move away. Otherwise House is stuck without an identity with which to live.
@@megaangelic 💀💀💀
@@trianglemoebiusThat's a really good take. House is pretty reliable in what you expect his behavior to be:)
Such a cool move, telling Foreman he’s still alive without telling him. Pure genius.
and foreman responding by showing the most joy he ever showed during the entire series.
@@secretasianman2531 nah he showed more joy when he had that brain problem that made him laugh at inappropriate times lol, the one that killed the police officer
There was a time he told foreman of all his employees there was a reason he hired him. He knew he was smart like him he just needed to bring it out for him. Huge Mentor.
Can u explain plss
@@itsty-ler why only after his death? I cannot get it.
the look of happiness/relief on foremans face as he realizes he's been tricked again, is one of my favorite shots in the entire series
I saw the series a long time ago. would you please mind explaining how he's been tricked?
@@besura_tamburaCause he realises that House is actually alive and well.
@@besura_tamburaHouse faked his death so he could avoid going back to prison and losing Wilson while inside, the ID left in Foremans office was a message to say "Don't worry, I'm still around", while Wilson gets to spend his last few months alive with his best friend
@@AB-yk2pqhe realized he was alive still because i’m not sure if you noticed but foreman’s at his house . How else would houses hospital card get in there ?? house put it there
@@drakegotcakelolit's his house? foremans house? really? maybe i forgot, but that room looks just like the office in the hospital
That moment when foreman realizes that house trolled him one last time is so lol.
He is actually happy
Wasn’t a trick. Earlier in the season their is a scene where house and foreman are talking in foreman’s office and foreman is adjusting that exact same wobbly table, foreman put the card there we just didn’t know it was house’s
Sim2Go wow thanks for that. That’s makes the ending a little sweeter.
foreman sets down whatever file - he notices the table off-kilter - follow the song lyrics at that moment "sometimes when ur doing simple things around the house - youll think of me sometimes"
forget that, look at wilson's face, how happy he was that his friend did that for him
I hope House manages to be happy again after Wilson dies. He really was the main person in his life.
House after Wilson died lived far away in isolation trying to find himself or he shot himself and went away with Wilson
House probably killed himself after Wilson gone.
the only thing that would keep House from ending his life would be his promise to thirteen
After Wilson floats away, House cries himself silly until rescued by Helen Hunt.
@@billyboblillybob344 how did u know and who is Helen Hunt
Soulmates arent always your boyfriend or girlfriend
no
yes I agree
That’s right.
My soul mate has always been my cousin. No one knows me the way he does. He's the greatest friend I could ever ask for. ❤
Damn straight
When this show first ended, people were outraged and described it as the worst ending ever to a great show. I'm so happy to see so many folks recognize the beauty in this ending now after so many years because I truly think it's one of the best.
It was rushed though due to budget cuts.
no, its bad ending
I, for one, thought the ending was perfect for this show. So many shows struggle with wrapping up a series (Seinfeld comes to mind), but I thought given the context of eight years of this show, it was perfect.
I think overall i loved where everyone ended up.
They could have gone with a much more depressing ending but I think this is the best high note ending House could have gotten.
Chase is perfectly built up to be able to take over House, Foreman's grown immensely after being the dean and no longer having the insecurity of needing to prove he is the best constantly. Taub seems to have quit and likely gone back to his old job - he seems a bit dissatisfied as he enjoyed having his work mean something but he is happy to have family with him and he got everything he wanted out of House. Cameron has a family and kids and is working happily in the ER, she never had huge ambitions all she wanted was to save people - it shows that she never lost that empathy after house and she also got over her issues with her new husband and kid.
The others are kind of left more to imagination so there is not much to go off of but both Park and Adams are both at the beginning of their careers and did not have a major conflict imo that needed to be addressed like the others. And in terms of imagination I believe thirteen will meet house again at some point again and he will fulfill his promise. Out of everyone I believe her and House's relationship was the closest to a father/daughter relationship.
Finally House gives up everything for Wilson. This has always been a trait of misery for House, he is unable to leave things that ease his pain, bring comfort. This is why it never worked out with Cuddy. But we see that when Wilson gets sick he gets off Vicodin silently for him even if it means more pain.
Overall a lot of things were left to imagination in my opinion but I think it was a very satisfying conclusion for everyone. I am not too sure what caused Lisa to leave the show after season 8, something to do with pay. I think the journey to this conclusion with her would have tied everything even better but its still well done
People don’t like being left in the dark. Especially when there won’t be a chance to find out what became of the cliffhanger. This was a great ending to the show. But people still want closure.
Someone once told me how they imagined a House reunion episode.
Being each member of the team across the years visiting Thirteen after she's finally at the final stages of her disease, each one sharing a laugh and a memory about House. How he made them suffer, how he made them be better people, and how they all respected him.
And when everybody leaves the room, a doctor comes in, leaves. Only finding out she died during the next nurse check.
All just to reveal House decided to visit her and keep his promise of putting her down when things were finally getting bad.
That would be awesome!
Fantastic idea....pitch it!!
This is a SENSATIONAL IDEA!
Reminds me of the ending to Million Dollar Baby.
Darn that's a lot better than what I thought up:
One day a patient gets wheeled in to the hospital via ambulance and Chase goes down to look who it is to find a familiar man who is an asshole only going by the name Wilson.
Maybe they can do both somehow
I like to think that he kept tabs on 13 and when her disease worsens he’ll reach out and keep his promise
Knowing him, probably. He cares about his staff and friends whether he admits it or not
I had always hoped that they would do a 'reunion' event to cover this and have the team (with Wilson in flashbacks) gathered for 13's final days.
What did ne promise to 13?
@@Sir_J4ck that he'd kill her if she wanted that. like euthanasia.
@@Sir_J4ck She made him promise to help her die when it was her turn, when her disease got too bad
I miss this show, great witting, and great acting.
TheSwimlforever yeah, too bad you can’t “Witt”.
ooof those season finales always got me theyre so fucking good the first time you see them
It was a good show I admit that but all the medical exams and procedures were medically inaccurate
@@atreussonofhippodamia9182 Are you a doctor?
@@EdsterIII calm down, bro. and yes, there are a ton of inaccuracies in the show. first of all, no department ever runs the way house's department runs - they'd be sued for malpractice within the hour. second, practicing physicians don't run lab tests themselves, they're passed down to lab technicians who run the tests and hand them to the doctors.
Robert Chase MD.
Cris Meza Season 9
...Thunder Downunder
I always liked Chase. "But I like it here".
new show: Chase MD
No offense but It would totally suck ! , chase can't be replacement for House ,House is irreplaceable
Its touching how everyone had mixed emotions about House throughout their time working with him but after he was gone, they all reflected and realised they became better people and doctors because of him and couldn't help but smile at the journey. Its a really touching ending.
The Foreman scene always makes me tear up cause its a very unique moment. You'd have to know House well enough to get the message, and you'd have to be respected BY House enough for him to give you that hint. And so just watching Foreman chuckle to himself, knowing, its a nice sentiment.
I’m just so glad we didn’t have to see wilson die
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The most badass words ever uttered, "Cancer's Boring!"
EDIT: 4K LIKES!? I gotta call my mom. I'm famous!
Michael D then they found cancers
@@alicelu5691 huh?
I interpreted that as, "Can't die of cancer if you party yourself to death first."
@@themocaw Nah, Wilson was going to ask House when the cancer gets bad to not try and save him. House never would take on cases that would boring to him. So by House saying Cancer is boring, he was telling Wilson he would let him die with dignity and not House trying all these life saving ideas on him ; House was just going to enjoy is last few months with Wilson and not make it about the cancer
@@ivang3830 welcome
Damn, that Warren Zevon song really kicks you in the gut. Even more when you think, that he knew he was dying of cancer himself when writing and singing it.
For real? Damn, that adds some serious weight to it! Nice info thanks!
probably not that many ppl know that - it certainly made it that much more gutwrenching for me
Zevon was told he had cancer he said he wanted to tour until he died.....
Now everybody's going to cry even harder... How poetic, thank you for that.
Soon great artists on the CD including Bruce Springsteen.
I'm so satisfied that Dr. Robert Chase got to replace Dr. House as the new department head of diagnostic medicine. It's only fitting especially Chase after all the experience he had in solving cases with House now knows how to think outside the box like House did no matter how far-fetched. Besides, he is the first member of House's gang.
Chase always knew how to think outside the box. Already in the very first episode, he was the one who came with the idea of confirming tapeworm by using x-ray. Not even House thought of that one. In fact, Chase came up with more brilliant ideas and right diagnoses than Foreman ever did.
he always was the prodigal son ( prodigy )
he is the longest serving fellowship doctor under House so he deserved it
Chase also REALLY wanted an own department
Chase was always the most loyal to house. Foreman wanted to leave so many times and ended up being the dean. Cameron just gave up on him and moved on to work in an ER and working at a whole different hospital. Chase was fired, ended up being a surgeon, but was always on House’s team. He studied house, he learned from him. Chase was the most qualified out of the 3 amigos.
That part at the end, the final dialogue: *"Cancer's boring."*
Damn, it hits. Why? Well, if you've watched House, you can probably tell. This was the basis of the beginning of House's and Wilson's friendship. House found him the least boring, and later on, he discovered his true friend inside Wilson. It is also explained by House himself in the episode where Wilson and House go on a journey to attend House's father's funeral. And at the end, when the then-pissed Wilson throws a bottle again to break the stained antique glass, House gives it a throwback yet again by saying: "Still not boring". And thus, having a throwback to the very beginning of their bond at their last scene together, it was really well written and beautifully portrayed. Kudos.
The Cancer is boring thing was House telling Wilson when the cancer hits hard, he isn't going to try and save Wilson but let Wilson die with dignity, and making it about their friendship at the end and not House trying to save him. House never took cases that he found boring thus the cancer is boring meaning, he wont take up Wilsons case to save him.
He also said cancer is boring in the first episode.
@@adammoore9865 Yes!!
@@adammoore9865 I also think the line is meant to be interpreted by Wilson as House saying "don't worry about the cancer, it is what it is and we can't do much about it (hence it's boring), instead let's go do non-boring things together with your remaining time without focusing on the cancer."
This was a beautiful ending. It showed that House was willing to give everything up for Wilson, and that he truly loved him. House loved the chase from diagnostics and the ability to solve puzzles, but he loved Wilson more.
House is so underrated this show is full of emotions.
It's not underrated, everyone loves House
@@jed123e except it is, what is the legacy of the show? Very few people still remember it compared to other shows around the same time like Breaking Bad or even Mad Men
@@Србомбоница86 ok, I might of reached a little bit with Mad Men and I could see why you've never heard of it, but Breaking Bad? It's fucking colossal everywhere and all the people who've seen it would rate it an 11/10 AND there's always someone circlejerking on its majesty, when you talk about good or great shows, it *will* come up to the conversation at some point
@@Србомбоница86 X-Files? Now that's classic right there, do you know if the 2017 season was any good?
It's one of the most critically acclaimed shows in television history.
When Wilson asks House what they're gonna do when cancer gets really bad and House simply says "Cancer is boring" because he doesn't want Wilson to spend miserably his last months.....True.Fucking.Friend. I cried.
your right..he wants him to be happy and enjoy the time he has left..he knows House will take care of him when it gets bad
I cried so hard
Its also a homage for him figuring out complex diseases without it being cancer. Its also to do with Wilson being an oncologist a fairly boring job to house. And lastly he wants him to have an interesting happy life in the last five month
After few years, after Wilson died, a high profile government person gets sick and nobody can cure him.. Foreman ask the government to look for House in the middle of nowhere (of course nobody believes him at first) and when they found him, he agrees to come back in exchange for clean slate on his record.. And House MD continues....... How I fucking wish....
ej gomosio
That right there is a movie waiting to be made!
ej gomosio that should be season 9 if they ever consider making house again
please please please..
What a brilliant idea....you should write it and send it in...well done
Idk...
House MD is not the same without Wilson.
I mean... it's Wilson!
My wife and I watched this series, the final song we. Both loved it and said mostly in jest we’ll have this as our final song at our funeral, how the world turns 3 years later in 2015 after a short battle with cancer , my life partner passed,I had it played, “ enjoy yourself it’s later than you think “
❤
A beautiful scene and song, hope you’re doing as okay as you can my friend
Big hug from Poland.
Hope you and your wife will meet again my man, rest in peace.
Nothing, no words, could even come close to expressing the sentiment of losing that one person who you built a world with, who knew ever little part of you, bad included, and you them. Suffice to say, you ain't alone brother, not even close. We survivors of similar tradgedies walk beside you, whether you know it or not. I hope you continue to live on and put love into this world in her name. I am so sorry for your loss friend. Peace be upon you.
Honestly this scene shows that you don't have to have a significant other to be happy. And that a good friendship can also bring you joy
*_So_* close…! This scene and your observation illustrate how having a best friend for a significant other is the way it's supposed to be.
erm actually they are dating and in love
@@sabbath6244um, no, actually they're practically married. And deeply in love.
@@penjamin1479my bad
You don't always have to draw a definite line between the two.
I think he left "clues" for his original team that he faked his own death. The most obvious being the hospital badge he left under the table leg in Foreman's office. The red and gray tennis ball on Chase's desk. And the randomly opened group photo on Cameron's laptop.
Damn that makes sense
The cameron one she could have opened, but you're right, it makes sense
That group photo puzzles me.
House is not the kind a guy who would stand besides his colleagues to pose for a photo.
@@wjzav1971 - I agree. However, if you look closely at it, it looks like House was photoshopped in. It doesn't look like an authentic group shot. The original team looks legit, but House doesn't. That's why I think he left it as a clue for Cameron.
@@wjzav1971 That photo was taken at th Christmas gathering at the hospital in one of the earlier seasons.
The ultimate sacrifice. The most unselfish thing House has ever done, we all knew that he had a heart and he went through so much the other doctors couldn't see, so the fact he did this was no surprise to us. And for Wilson it confirms everything and shows that he truly cares.
Whilst he put most ppl to misery but he did his best in his own ways to cuddy, chase, foreman, cameron and thirteen even taub he tried to help him.
He is a sob but he is good hearted
House didn't need to sacrifice anything. He didn't need to fake his own death. He could have just taken a year off work to take care of (AND RIDE AND HAVE FUN) of Wilson. It's called a sabbatical.
@@CheerfullyCynical829 did you miss the bit where he had a prison sentence?
@@NASSAfellow Yeah but in S8 Foreman let him be a doctor again after he got out of jail, under his close supervision, bc Foreman was the head of the department then.
@@CheerfullyCynical829 he wasn't free though, working was a condition of his suspended sentence.
Still better ending than Game of Thrones.
:D
Are you implying that this is a bad ending, but there are worse ending out there. I'm sorry, but this ending is a masterpiece.
Since season 5 it was really obvious that GoT sucked. You people shouldn't have been surprised.
Yeah, watched almost full 1 st season of GoT. Falls asleep several times...Sorry, but GoT most probably is ok/fine for teenagers. You have swords, dragons and tits in one show. House series is my favorite show i ever watched. Second is - The Sopranos. Then non sorted shows - Fringe, Helix (sad, they stopped after 2 seasons)
The shit I dropped last night had a better ending than game of thrones.
wilson told him he needs him, he needs to tell house to love him and then house just simply fakes his death to be with him every last minute until the end. greatest frindship and bromance ever.
Chase is sure the deserved next house.
Always trusted House, learnt things from playing along House except being miserable. Has secretly fascinating over house's seat and his ball throughout 8 seasons, had many Eureka moments like house did.
i think house left the ball there. chase just didn't get it the way foreman did.
@@secretasianman2531 no it wasn't as nuanced as the foreman's scene. So it probably doesn't mean anything
I cried for a day after watching the last episode.
It's good to know that I wasn't the only one!
Jessica Isgate x2
you are not the only one.
Girl, same..
Jessica Isgate I just saw the ending on TV so started crying so much and my dad laughed but when I saw that my TV channel is starting with House again from the star I AM a bit happier
there is 8 years of character building showing that house puts his medicine and gift above everyone else, and routinely showed up wilson who was nearly unflinching in his loyalty to him. we always thought of them as friends but it was never clear how much house really cared. this ending is the payoff for 8 seasons that house could value someone above himself, and valued wilson more than we gave him credit for. we see somewhat obvious resolutions to the series characters, but house giving up his gift and entire life to show his loyalty to wilson shows a complete cycle of development that is completely unexpected
I think he'd have done it since episode 1, he just didn't know it 🤷☺️ he never changed, he just grew into himself. You can be an ass and still love things. Human beings are so beautifully nuanced
How did he give up everything for Wilson? He got himself in trouble and headed back to jail, then died in a fire in a crack house
House died. The end was a hallucination or imagined by Wilson
He never put medicine above anyone else. Medicine was his way of helping people, and House deeply cared about the people around him. What this ending was a payoff to was House accepting pain and loss in a far different way than before. He's not coping with it, day after day after day, but actually overcoming it, not just for himself, but for Wilson especially. The resolution is that, in the end, he didn't run from the source of what will be and is immense pain, but accepted it and even embraced it because everything that isn't the pain he finally understood to be very much worth it and necessary
@@bidmcms3 You can also interpret it as being House's hallucination while high, in the fire. That being said, House absolutely gave up everything for Wilson. He doesn't have medicine anymore, and will likely head back to jail eventually, or have to leave the country, or something the like. Medicine, to House, was his way of coping with his pain, and reconciling himself with helping people - it was his way of doing what was right - and losing it, like we've seen in early season 6, was almost as crippling to him as his leg was. If he's dead, it doesn't change that it is what he would have done, and wishes to do. His living or dying is irrelevant because House, effectively, stops existing in this episode in any way we would recognize. He finally becomes (or commits to becoming even if he cannot) dedicated to someone else's happiness, irrelevant of his own pain or fears, and absolutely desires to make himself someone else's vehicle to that happiness, which is something he didn't really believe he could do. He accepted that, in this moment, for Wilson, he no longer needed to be 'House M.D.' but 'Greg', the friend to Wilson that he always deserved to have. He realized that being right, and saving lives, no longer matter, if he can't make the life that constantly stood by him as good as possible, in whatever way he could, for however long he could. House sacrifices himself, at least metaphorically, and in a way literally, for Wilson.
My epilogue to House:
One day Thirteen will be at that point in her illness when she knows she’s getting near the end and is despairing, and House will just appear on her doorstop late one night with a bottle of wine and a syringe and that charming grin...and she’ll smile that beautiful smile of pure relief and stand aside for him to come in...and that night she’ll die happy that she mattered so much to him...
And late one evening on a stormy night, Chase will be sitting in a bar alone in a corner, holding a drink, troubled by a case he can’t solve, and the guy next to him at the bar will nudge his elbow as he gets up, and Chase will turn to watch him limp slightly to a corner table, realisation of that familiar limp dawning, and he’ll slowly smile as he gets up with his drink and follows, slapping a note on the bar...
And one day, Foreman will be standing in the car park of the hospital, alone in the dark and rain looking for a cab because his car won’t start, and a car will pull up and wind down its window, and out of the shadows a gruff voice will ask him if he needs a lift. Foreman will get in and say thanks, and the driver won’t say anything. As he pulls away, Foreman will look over at his profile, idly, and realise that it looks a bit familiar. Out of the darkness will come that glint of a grin and a look, and Foreman will start to smile...
And one afternoon, Taub will be walking through the park after dropping his kids off and he’ll be feeling a bit sad at the thought of an evening alone, and he’ll stop to get a coffee from a van, and as he turns to leave he’ll notice a figure sitting alone on a bench under a big tree in the distance, just sitting...with a cane between his legs...and Taub will pause for a moment with his drink lifted forgotten in his hand...and he’ll start to walk towards the figure without even thinking about it, his face slowly growing a smile of relief. He’ll swallow down a little emotion as he walks over to the bench...
And one morning, Cameron will be driving along on her way to pick up her kids, and as she waits at a red light, she’ll glance over at a table outside a cafe and she’ll notice a guy sitting alone at a table. Just as she pulls away out of the corner of her eye she’ll see him stand and pull out a cane...and she’ll look back in her mirror and he’ll just be stood there looking at her, his hand raised. She’ll wonder if it was real...and she’ll look back and he’ll be gone...and she’ll start to smile and shake her head...
And Cuddy? Cuddy will always think of him, always regret her decision to abandon him after everything she said she knew and understood about him. No man will ever quite come up to House’s standard and she’ll look for him in every profile, in every limp, in every cane, forever... Her anger over the car thing will die with time, and she’ll know how desperately he loved her and couldn’t cope with the heartbreak of her decision. And one day, when Rachel is just starting High School, she’ll leave the school after dropping her off and go home, a little sad at the end of her daughter’s childhood...and when she stops to pick up some milk in the grocery store the door bell will sound as a guy comes in. He’ll walk down the opposite aisle, and the sound of his walk will make her stop, her hand reaching out for the milk. She’ll listen intently and he’ll come round the end of the aisle and turn to the fridge, and stand next to her and reach for some milk, his leather jacket making a soft rustle, and she’ll look at his hand and stare at its familiarity, at the same scar...and she’ll glance to the side, almost afraid that it’s not him again after all this time...and he’ll glance ruefully at her, with an apologetic little half smile, and she’ll breathe in softly, unmoving in wonder. After a moment, he’ll turn to leave...and Cuddy will at the last moment reach out and put her hand on his sleeve. And House will begin to smile...
Whatever else happened, he always had a heart under that gruff exterior. His team were always important to him. He’d appear every now and then for them. A guiding hand. A good man always.
...
Someone asked me about the possibility of House killing himself once Wilson had died... Maybe he would, and in a way I’d hope he would do so when the time was right for him - there’s no blame in someone making that choice. But he wouldn’t go without first letting everyone know that he’d had the last laugh on them and fooled everyone. He wasn’t really a b*stard, far from it, he just hid his pain and loneliness behind all that bluster that made him such a complex personality. He needed love as much as anyone, but the pain created this huge barrier between him and love so often that it was easier to push people away than to keep getting hurt...
Once Wilson had died, he’d keep going for a while, keeping in touch with his friends in secret, maybe even finding a way to still help people. I like to think that he’d grow a beard and let his hair grow a bit longer to disguise himself, use a fake accent and then he’d take on another name and go and practice medicine somewhere else. He’d find someone to fake the papers for him... Then he’d gradually find a way to deal with the pain, probably pioneer a breakthrough in pain treatment that gave him his life back to enjoy more fully. That’s just the sort of thing he’d do, and maybe that’s what gives him the freedom and confidence to contact everyone again...
House freed from the pain would find love at last, and peace of a sort, I think.
….
I want to mention about House and Foreman too. Some people think he let Foreman know he was still alive because they were so close. I disagree, gently lol. I always thought Foreman came across as one of those kind of ‘management types’ that House quietly despised. Foreman and House had a long history of taunting each other. Foreman didn’t have much of a sense of humour and House played onto that, but Foreman was also a pretty self-righteous kind of person, and when he was promoted above House and later made chief, he and House had many run-ins where Foreman wanted to do the safe management thing and House needed him to have some humanity, bravery and edge. Foreman was a good doctor but valued protocols and rules too much, House was a brilliant doctor and didn’t give a sh*t about protocols or rules when someone’s life was at stake. They were chalk and cheese in those respects. Foreman never truly got over his irritation that House didn’t respect him as much as he wanted respect, and it was partly why when put in charge of House and then the hospital, he couldn’t help flexing his management muscle and making things difficult for House whenever he could get away with it.
House left his pass under the desk edge as a sort of ‘last word’ to his nemesis. He got the last joke in, he had the last say in this charade, and he fixed the final problem - even if that was only Foreman’s desk wobble. He took back control for himself. Foreman realised what House had done of course, he wasn’t an idiot, and of course there was some wry affection there for someone who’d been such a huge part of his life for so long. But I think ‘mutual respect and trust’ is a bit ‘rose tinted’ for their relationship. That chuckle was Foreman realising that House had taken the ultimate control of his own situation - and there was nothing Foreman could do about it…
Just my opinion based on watching their interactions through the series…
Beautiful
Beautiful indeed.
This is the most beautiful thing ive read today
Have you ever done any professional writing? I have work for you, inbox me.
You should help write a new series. How do you not have thousands of likes this is so perfect
I love out of all the members of his team, House only let Foreman know he was still alive. He was always the hardest on Foreman and always made his life miserable. But this showed just how much respect House had for Foreman not only as a doctor but as a person.
yup foreman was there the longest and even when chase/cameron left, foreman was the first to come back and basically stayed with him throughout the entire show
Loved this show. Foreman and Chase deserved their promotions.
In the end he gave back to Wilson everything he stole from him along the years. As House himself said in a different episode: “The Universe always makes things even. Or at least it should be that way”. Hats off to the writers of the best tv series ever, with the best script ever for the best character ever. I knew a guy once, he was a lot like House in a way, but things went different that time.
To quote Marcus Cole in Babylon 5: " I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
What happened with the guy you knew?
What happened to the guy
R.I.P. Dr. James Wilson
Another loss for the Dead Poet Society
coming back here in 2019, how i miss the greatest show of all time
Helen Ivanic or a movie maybe
Foreman is just one of my favourite characters ever- he has a smile that could light a room, he’s amazingly smart and he’s badass
Legend has it that House and Wilson are still riding to this day.
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House is never selfish. He puts his patients first above all. And then there’s Wilson who he never left until his dying days.
Not sure I agree. House puts solving the problem first above all, and second he does everything to muck about Wilson to ensure that Wilson is treating House as his own best friend. In many ways this is the most startlingly original and challenging study of selfishness every portrayed - with the many positive side-effects that would not normally be expected. Even House's final sacrifice for Wilson is ambiguous - because House needs Wilson for as long as possible; Wilson knows this, and Wilson accepts House for what he is. Still - you may be right instead... that is the beauty of good writing - it doesn't treat us like 8-year olds and give us easy answers.
House was PLENTY selfish. whatchootalkinboutwillis
Why is everybody so worried about him not be able wo work because he faked his death... it´s house... he probably just one day straight pulls up to the hospital and tells them the whole story and then proceeds to work their again like nothing happend.. its House if anybody would pull that off then him :D
As they said he'll go to jail... after all he faked his death, too many records in his belt, just because he's a great Dr. doesn't mean he can still be above the law for so long. And even if he can solve a complicated case... well... i'll say in you go in jail again. Also Chase took House's place along his team, they are good... it'd need to be seriously complicated to take House in and who knows... Foreman is in that Hospital too, you know.
He is going to kill himself after Wilson teehee
MC J.b how do you know
he'll probably become like the janitor he looked up to. maybe even at the same hospital
I mean more likely he's just gonna go find thirteen and hang out with her for a while. I don't think he would actually go back to practicing medicine. Not after everything he's been through.
Cameron's wallpaper :''''')
Sorry to be an ass, even a year after you said this, but that is clearly not a wallpaper it's just a picture opened up.
Eoin Cronin was a joke lighten up dingleberry....
@@rokuthedog yeah your right i just correct people too much
@Speedy Racer 4 ;)
@@rokuthedog first time I've seen someone use dingleberry unironically and correctly
house is like Nanny Mcphee:
“When you need me, but do not want me then I must stay.
But when you want me but no longer need me, I have to go”
That is perfect for house
@@bethclemenson6774 thanks
I always viewed this as Chase, Cameron and Taub were better off thinking he was dead. But Foreman would always feel responsible and it would eat away at him, he needed to know that House was alive. House needed to do that for him.
House let the only 2 people know that he is alive which is the 2 people he saw running at the burning abandoned building: Foreman and Wilson, to respect their care for him
Everybody lies...
And everybody dies.
@@theonefrancis696 Some, just need a little help
Not everybody. House lives.
@@vaevictoribus4396 House has lupus
The fact that Warren Zevon made this song while he was terminally ill made this moment even sweeter.. God bless WZ.
He only wanted to see his beloved Cubs win the Series. . . And he never got to see them win.
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I can only imagine that in Wilson’s final days House did everything to take care of him make his passing peaceful
House is my favorite character in a television series, of all time.
Thanks for the upload! 💙
Such a perfect last line from House. He always did find cancer boring and was always mockingly dismissive to Wilson but here it’s understood that of course he will help when the time comes, almost mocking him for even having to ask.
...As a TV show junkie, HOUSE MD has been the one that moved me the most. I have watched every episode multiple times and its by far the only show I recommend when people ask me what to watch. I'm so grateful for the creators of this show, it had profound effect on me.
Thank you to the writers, actors and actresses and everyone who contributed to all these years of amazing, and flawless episodes!!!
So only Foreman knows House is still alive. I can't believe Cuddy wasn't shown even for just a few seconds in House's "wake". She and House had quite a history.
The show runners wanted to, but the actress didn't.
I think it’s a nice sentiment. They’ve parted ways and made peace with it. The people shown are the ones who House will miss. He and Cuddy have already accepted that they don’t go together in life.
She wasn't invited back.
@@wjzav1971 do you know why ?
@@ilyeselgares1925 No, not really.
But I don't think there was Drama or anything. She just wasn't interested in returning for a small scene.
This show never got boring from the moment it aired to the moment it ended. I was sad to see it end, but oddly happy that they didn't try to milk it for everything it was worth. It got to end on a high note and never became stale and boring.
Better than a decade ago and I sill, very much, miss the show.
“Cancer’s boring”, the best line ever for dealing with mortality. Time to do that bucket list stuff!
I’d do the same, rather than let them disassemble me part by part and pump me full of chemo drugs.
Facts
I went through a cancer battle. It was fairly miserable, but felt it necessary with a child still living at home (for their sake). If it ever comes back, now that our child will be a self-sufficient adult soon, I'll simply drop everything, grab my bucket list, and start checking boxes with him and my wife for as long as I can.
I don’t know when this ended but I liked it, especially Wilson. There was an America’s Got Talent contestant who performs as Nightbirde. When Howie asked what she did for work she said she hadn’t worked for a while because she was dealing with cancer. Simon asked how she was at that time. She had cancer in her liver, and two other places. She sang an original song, “It’s okay.” She said some beautiful quotes. “You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore to decide to be happy.” If I was in Wilson’s shoes I’d be inspired by her.
House/Wilson is best on screen couple. Change my mind.
Alan Shore/Denny Crane (Boston Legal). The conversations those two had while sipping bourbon and smoking cigars was the best dialogue on TV....period!
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@@SBphd YES!!
Hannibal x Will
Jeannie and Tony Nelson❤️🧞♀️
Just rewatched all 8 seasons, start to finish. God I love this show!
He told the original 3 he was still alive. He left the ball for Chase, the desktop pic for Cameron, and the hospital ID for Foreman. He just wanted to let his original team know he was ok. Awesome.
It's November 2019. Hard to believe so much time has passed since this last episode.
I didn’t even realize that the show ended 7 years ago
Littlecutestephanie Stephanie ohh, that’s why the effects are so bad
This just it even sadder
Nooo
NOOOOO!!!
it is an exellent ending, but l still need more House MD anyway !
Martino Fenzi I want them, so much, to do a reunion episode that makes fun of itself for existing.
Dr Condo MD(because he changed his name) marches into Wilson’s office who looks like a zombie but still acts the same and makes a bet about Cuddy who genuinely doesn’t recognize Dr Condo
What a perfect ending to my favorite TV drama. Genuinely couldn't imagine a more perfect end
I watched this show but really didn't understand House's character until I got hurt on the job and lost my career due to an injury and since then have had to live with chronic pain. I still get around and can do most of what I used to, but my career in law enforcement ended, I've had 6 surgeries, have an implant that manages my pain etc. What I noticed is how much pain focuses your thinking. I have been told how much since I was hurt how much more direct I am with people, how much more I have a very simple focus, don't beat around the bush with people and have changed overall. I found that being in pain all the time, it forces you to do things different but you don't put things off because while I may feel good one day, the next I could be on the couch for the day.
Law enforcement or not a job is a job. Pain is pain. I'm sure you were great at your job and I thank you as everyone else. Don't put a title on pain, im glad u understand though.
You just don’t have the patience to deal with stuff when in pain . Empathy is something that has to be learned.
Remember how House explained that when he was a Kid in Japan he saw a few doctors perplexed 'cause they couldn't figure out what the patient had and then asked a old man who was cleaning the floors(I think, don't remember quite well) and he figured it out and saved the patient? I wish House had ended like that.
I think that was in Japan not China.
Yeah, i watched years ago, so it's understandable that i got it wrong.
Well, in a sense House WAS that man. The point was even when the janitor dressed badly and acted non caring everyone had to listen to him, because he was RIGHT! It's why in many cases House says "But I was right, and that's all that matters". Like when he was working for CIA in that one episode.
The dude mopping the floors was a full blown doctor. However, he was of a low caste in Japan and was treated like shit. However, even with all the BS that dude with the mop faced, all the doctors still came to him because in the end "he was right." That doc saved House's friend that day...
Would be interesting for Hugh Laurie to cameo in the good doctor as a janitor.
I watched this with my mum when the show died we laughed, cried and hugged!!! Ty House for everything!!! We will keep you in our hearts forever!! Gone but never ever forgotten!!!! We 💛 you House!!!
thats beautiful what a nice memory to have with your mom
1:27 was the part i felt sad ❤️
First time I watched this I took the message in the end quite literally, as to have a full life I should have fun, to have adventures, to travel, to do new things. But as I grow older I see more as finding peace with yourself, accepting our limitations and our pains, pretty much like House did.
Plot twist:
They BOTH endure a motorcycle accident, and end up.. at their hospital 😅
Chase and co walk in to house's room
house:"ooh it's a miracle, guess god is real after all"
Search up the end of Easy Rider
and House has "amnesia"
Oh dude, watched the last episode yesterday and i was crying when he died, and later on I was really happy because he wasnt dead, and when the episode was over, I cried again because it was the last one. :-(
Stencil Man I just watched it today and I started crying when Wilson found out he wasn't dead
me too... yesterday I watched the last episode and I'm crying right now
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THAT WAS ME WHEN I WATCHED IT
I hate that it didn’t show Cuddy. She was such a big part of House’s life. Even though he drove into her house lol
02:07 That card under Foreman's table was left there by House because House knew he didn't need it anymore. Seeing that card, I think Foreman realized what really happened. From all of them, Foreman was the one that worked the most with House and he was the only one that knew how to interpret those messages.
I would love to see an old man House season. Just one season of like 10 or 12 episodes. Starts off with being there for Wilson when he dies, then repairing everything he had with Cuddy and Stacy, apologizing to Dominika, lurking in the shadows to help his old team and then finally fulfilling his promise to Thirteen in Season 7 where he will help her be relieved of Huntington's
2:36 I just have realised that he is doing pee. I ve never noticed before. That's the reason they stopped.
Only house could end this with a laugh.
I will always love this show.
Wilson was House's best and truest friend, but Foreman was his favorite person.
Been 10 years guys, how time flies, I remember having a burst of inspiration to live life but it only lasted a while and in a blink of an eye, a decade has passed
I love this scene and ive just realised the last song 'enjoy yourself' is the same song amber sung to house in the bar when he was hallucinating her
Such a good show!
Loved the show loved the ending loved the fact that Foreman was intelligent enough to know right away that house was still alive.
Has it really been 8 years since House MD??
It seemed like 2 years ago.
9 have gone by now 😑, still miss this show
It really is amazing it seems more like 3-4.
No, it's been 12
"Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, is later than you think...don't be a fool"...precisa la canción, ❤ Dr. House 😊.
a mi viejo le agarro un acv hace unos dias y lo dejo con muerte cerebral, ya no hay nada que se pueda hacer., es cuestion de tiempo para que muera.
Y estos dias pensando en lo que le paso a mi viejo me paso mucho por la cabeza esta frase del capitulo final de dr.house "Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, is later than you think...don't be a fool" porque tiene 55 años, podria haber vivido 10 o 20 años mas posiblemente si no le hubiese ocurrido esto.
Aunque mi viejo en ese sentido no tuvo problema, disfruto la vida como quiso hasta practicamente el ultimo dia.
It's
My favorite 2 things from this ending:
House lets Foreman know he's still alive because he trusts him.
Foreman smiling in relief knowing that House is still alive.
I love that they brought “Enjoy Yourself” back in a positive context, after using it for what is hands down the most unnerving moment in the show (in my opinion, anyways). Thanks for sharing this, it was a great reminder of how such an amazing, iconic series ended.
Fun fact for those that never put it together. House and Wilson are based on Holmes and Watson. Holmes fakes his death in a lot of his iterations. Including the RDJ films.
House also lived at a place with almost the same or the same address as Holmes.
House and Holmes find most things boring and both have some kind of ailment that has affected them for life (physically/psychologically)
This is a brilliant read. Also, Holmes and House both required drugs to function.
Great show. Sadly missed. Always good to see clips which show how human house was but also brilliant. Fantastic acting especially from Hugh Laurie
I agree. Greatest md show ever. I've watched the full series probably 6 or 7 times. Still makes me laugh and still make me cry and still shocks me with his comments. An amazing show and as sad as i was it ended they did it brilliantly and it finally proves that House can be selfless for his best friend.
They should have ended it with The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
I love The Stones, but this beautiful Warren Zevon song fits perfectlly in the end.
I meant for when House and Wilson ride off, they should have used YCAGWYW
pps22001 Yes, yes, and yes. A thousand times yes. When i watched that ending i thought about that song the entire time. I specially think that it would been awesome with the classic "But If You Try Sometimes, You Just Might Find And Get What You Need"
Nice idea, however i think the studio execs didnt want to pay out for the (likely expensive)rights to use that song, since the dwindling audience figures, but i can imagine it working nicely with the scene
But the end shows them getting exactly what they want.
Amazing! I know about a Dr. Herber from South Africa who was like Dr. House, moved to London and diagnosed many children where other docs couldn't find a thing. Unfortunatelly he died also far too early - many more children needed him too! Life sucks sometimes.
The fact he was pissing off a bridge is metaphorically his life moto use things that are specific for other reasons
"If I leave you it doesn't mean that I love you any less,
Keep me in your heart for a while."
The song is so beautiful and so fitting. House was a jerk, an asshole but deep down he always cared about his team and they all became better doctors than they were before him.
House M.D. We will keep you in our hearts forever.
Actually, House was truly noble, in a way only he could be.
"This is the final 5 minutes..."
*4 minutes left after the message goes away*
Robbed I tell you, robbed
Where I live, Thursday night T.V was House followed by Boston Legal. Man I miss great programs like that ☹
That song at the end when house and Wilson were riding was the one Amber was singing when he was hallucinating.
I like how they tied it together.
10 years…damn. That’s such a long time. One of my favorite shows while I was in high school.
Just watched it all for the 1st time during lockdown, brilliant absolutely brilliant
So many complained about this ending but i LOVE it. Wilson has very limited time left so he is ensuring his best and only true friend will enjoy those months. In the past, Wilson gave and House recieved. It was a very one way relationship. But when it really counted, and wilson was most in need, House gave and wilson recieved. This is a beautiful ending.
Low-key pissed Cameron got married and had a kid and we weren't even told. Could have been great drama with Chase
Watching it again in 2022 ...... feeling the same pain ....As i watched it probably 8 years ago ....
love this show growing up, never got to see the end. Thanks for the closure.