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'House' exclusive: The shocking story behind last night's big death
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Posted on 04/07/2009 8:07:06 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL

DEFCON 1 spoiler alert! If you haven't seen last night's House, stop reading now. Everyone else, onward and downward!

Here are the six things you need to know up-front about last night's House:

(Excerpt) Read more at ausiellofiles.ew.com ...


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The reason why Kal Penn left a hit show was because Obama wanted him to check his prostate. Or is it the other way around? This dude definitely is smokin some wacki tabacci to do what he just did. Hope it works out for him.
1 posted on 04/07/2009 8:07:06 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

If you’re going to have a “defcon” spoiler alert — it might be better if you didn’t put the name of the deceased in the headline.

SnakeDoc


2 posted on 04/07/2009 8:08:06 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("The night is darkest just before the dawn -- but ... the dawn is coming." -- Harvey Dent)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

You know, if you are going to post a huge spoiler... check the title first!


3 posted on 04/07/2009 8:08:23 AM PDT by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

I’m sure Kal Penn won’t be hurting leaving the show, he seems to show up in every other movie.


4 posted on 04/07/2009 8:10:55 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

thanks a whole bunch./s off


5 posted on 04/07/2009 8:12:26 AM PDT by Kimberly GG (Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda been HUNTER.)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

Going to work at the White House? I guess he filled out one of those online applications to work for the Obama administration.


6 posted on 04/07/2009 8:12:31 AM PDT by 3catsanadog (I plan to give the new President the same respect and dignity the other side gave Bush.)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

BTW, I don’t buy the WH story, I have a feeling that is a publicity stunt for the new movie, Harold and Kumar Get Baild Out by Obama.


7 posted on 04/07/2009 8:13:12 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

Thanks a lot for the spoiler, jerk.

I hadn’t watched it yet because I was watching the game last night.


8 posted on 04/07/2009 8:13:22 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

So in addition to his character committing suicide, he has just committed career suicide. Yeah, I know he’ll always have Hollywood approval for being a good liberal, but he isn’t “big enough” to make that kind of a move.


9 posted on 04/07/2009 8:15:22 AM PDT by soccermom
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

So in addition to his character committing suicide, he has just committed career suicide. Yeah, I know he’ll always have Hollywood approval for being a good liberal, but he isn’t “big enough” to make that kind of a move.


10 posted on 04/07/2009 8:15:55 AM PDT by soccermom
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To: mnehring

he is going to be working for The President. Some Public Relations liason or something like that.


11 posted on 04/07/2009 8:16:46 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

They’re wrong about thinking the audience will be upset. No one liked his character. He was a jerk. I’m glad he’s no longer on the show.


12 posted on 04/07/2009 8:16:46 AM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: pnh102

LOL!


13 posted on 04/07/2009 8:17:02 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

What I found funny is that people actually thought kal Penn was dead and this is how they wrote him off the show. ha ha ha


14 posted on 04/07/2009 8:17:29 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.)
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To: soccermom

Working in the Obama administration is hardly career suicide in Hollywood. He’ll be around for a while.

Actually, I kinda like Kal Penn. I wish him the best.

SnakeDoc


15 posted on 04/07/2009 8:17:39 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("The night is darkest just before the dawn -- but ... the dawn is coming." -- Harvey Dent)
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To: secret garden

They should have bnever split the original team, the chemistry was perfect.


16 posted on 04/07/2009 8:18:12 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

Agreed. The show started to tank after that move.


17 posted on 04/07/2009 8:18:49 AM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

He’s still going strong on American Idol.


18 posted on 04/07/2009 8:19:21 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: SnakeDoctor

Snort!


19 posted on 04/07/2009 8:19:24 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Constitution Day; MAD-AS-HELL
Thanks a lot for the spoiler, jerk.

Wow, at least Mad as Hell didn't talk about the other spoiler in the show, that House is a hermaphrodite.

20 posted on 04/07/2009 8:20:49 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

Kal Penn...no problem...he wasn’t one of my favorites.....whew! [wipes perspiration]


21 posted on 04/07/2009 8:22:20 AM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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To: Constitution Day

The Cubs game?


22 posted on 04/07/2009 8:26:09 AM PDT by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar
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To: MAD-AS-HELL
I liked the Kutner character very much

I'd bet you will see that his suicide was very much about his infatuation with 13

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23 posted on 04/07/2009 8:29:25 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

It was a good episode last night. Was there anything in previous episodes to show Kutner’s mood?


24 posted on 04/07/2009 8:30:53 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Bow down to me. I am TOTUS.)
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To: mnehring

I didn’t like his character and won’t miss him. I missed the show last night. Damn!


25 posted on 04/07/2009 8:31:15 AM PDT by uncitizen
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To: MAD-AS-HELL
You a a-hole.

FMCDH(BITS)

26 posted on 04/07/2009 8:33:50 AM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: secret garden

You rarely see Chase and cameron anymore. I am hoping they get morw airtime now.


27 posted on 04/07/2009 8:35:58 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

But the really big deal is that House is finally going to boink Cuddy! Wow! Who’da thunk it? She’s been throwing herself at him since the show started. I liked Kal Penn being on the show because he was a distraction to the increasingly obvious plot lines. As far as his stupid politics, what can you expect from an actor? Cuddy doing House will be the shark-jump moment for the show.


28 posted on 04/07/2009 8:36:22 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: 2nd Bn, 11th Mar

No, the NCAA men’s basketball championship.


29 posted on 04/07/2009 8:37:51 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

the new surgeon-general


30 posted on 04/07/2009 8:38:13 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: SnakeDoctor

Yeah, I acknowledged that he will be a darling in Hollywood. I just don’t think he is memorable enough with the audience to come back to Hollywood once the Obama thing wears out.


31 posted on 04/07/2009 8:39:34 AM PDT by soccermom
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

I had it on with the sound off, does anyone remember when Colleen Camp was smokin’ hot? The movie Clue, Seduction with Morgan Fairchild? Did she go on the Meatloaf diet?


32 posted on 04/07/2009 8:41:14 AM PDT by isom35
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To: soccermom

He’s more memorable as Kumar (from the stoner White Castle movie) than as Kutner. My guess is that this won’t have a detrmental effect on his career at all.

SnakeDoc


33 posted on 04/07/2009 8:43:02 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("The night is darkest just before the dawn -- but ... the dawn is coming." -- Harvey Dent)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

“They should have bnever split the original team, the chemistry was perfect.”

That was a true jumping of the shark event for House.


34 posted on 04/07/2009 8:43:05 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

Especially Cameron, that little hottie. OH YEAH!


35 posted on 04/07/2009 8:49:09 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: Constitution Day
No, the NCAA men’s basketball championship.

Oh, that was last night? :)

36 posted on 04/07/2009 8:49:43 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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Please, did anyone get a screengrab of the original title? I wanted to ‘FAIL’ it...


37 posted on 04/07/2009 8:52:04 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs (Militant fecundity personified.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Was there anything in previous episodes to show Kutner’s mood?

Absolutely not! But that was the whole point.

At the very end House was going thru Kutner's photos and all of them showed a happy Kutner, except for the LAST picture.

It was a profound eureka moment for House when he actually saw the sadness and pain on Kutner's face.

sw

38 posted on 04/07/2009 8:55:39 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

I was totally confused with the show last nite. Couldn’t understand why he would off himself. I tried to go on the “memorial site” but couldn’t find it. My B/f said he probably died and that’s why they did it that way as you never saw his body last nite.


39 posted on 04/07/2009 8:56:49 AM PDT by MarineMom613 (Remember 9/11 ~ www.the912project.com)
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To: SnakeDoctor
He’s more memorable as Kumar (from the stoner White Castle movie) than as Kutner

I thought the best comment at the source site was something like:

White Castle - House - White House...how's that for foreshadowing?
40 posted on 04/07/2009 8:59:50 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

Kumar and Obama Go to White Castle.


41 posted on 04/07/2009 9:00:38 AM PDT by chemicalman (Government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. (R.R.))
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To: SnakeDoctor

Every time I saw Kal Penn on ‘House’ all I could see was the terrorist character he played on ‘24’.


42 posted on 04/07/2009 9:01:38 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Travis T. OJustice

How did I know you were going to say that.


43 posted on 04/07/2009 9:06:21 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
I went back and reviewed the previous episode and sure enough he solved the case by noticing a rash on 13's wrist

Taub told him he wasn't his friend because they didn't hang out after work

It's a shame ........ I found him a very engaging character

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44 posted on 04/07/2009 9:13:24 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

Because it’s true, and I always tell the truth. :)


45 posted on 04/07/2009 9:19:01 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Unfortunately. Man, do I HATE Carolina.


46 posted on 04/07/2009 9:22:56 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Constitution Day

I was riding atop the company standing in the tourney pool, but dropped out of the money to 5th. Not bad for a short, fat white kid from the country who hates b-ball.

Were you cheering for Mich last night? I was busy doing homework. UGH.


47 posted on 04/07/2009 9:32:01 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

That’s pretty good!

I wasn’t exactly cheering for Mich. State last night, but I sure wasn’t pulling for the Tar Holes. Some friends and I grilled chicken wings and London broil and watched it on their big screen.


48 posted on 04/07/2009 9:42:36 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

I liked the Kutner character and was annoyed that they killed him off. However, the Kal Penn as a real person seems to do a lot of other things besides act. Yeah, it looks like he’ll do some public relations liason thing working with charities and stuff at the White House. Whatever. He’s also done some adjunct teaching at a college in PA (film, theatre stuff) and is studying for some kind of grad certificate. He’s got interests in different areas, which isn’t a bad thing, given that acting is can be an unstable career.

As for the romance with Chase and Cameron, I’d like to see that go somewhere!


49 posted on 04/07/2009 9:53:41 AM PDT by midnightcat
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

Well, I thought the Kutner character was getting short sticked in character development and consistency. Sad that he’s an Obama fan, that’s not healthy, mental sanity wise.

I also think Wilson gets short-sticked a lot — he has to fill in scripting holes in a mechanical way too often, when the are careful with him he is an interesting character.


50 posted on 04/07/2009 10:04:02 AM PDT by bvw
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