523: Under My Skin

"I could list a bunch of other possible references to Cobain in the recent shows (last week’s patient was a high school wrestler, same as Cobain, and this week House had “MMMBop” ringing his cell, by a group with the same management as Nirvana), but the thing that stands out in my mind is the original death-of-Amber two-parter, which had House encountering her “ghost” or whatever at the end, a great interaction, which then cut to a power chord and a looking-down-at-hospital-bed shot that had to be lifted straight from the last video Cobain released, for “Heart Shaped Box.”
And so now she returns, to pretty much drive House over the edge, and even coax him into almost killing Chase by arranging a severe allergic reaction, making Dr. H. the almost-murderer of another doctor. But Amber isn’t a ghost, she is a manifestation of House’s unconscious, and she seems to be there to prod him to remember something, that being the killing of Kutner.
Load up on drugs and kill your friends (the alternative opening to “…Teen Spirit”).
For those of you who need an anagram, it’s “ne Kurt,” as in, the idea was born with Kurt (in actual French “ne” would have an accent and a second “e”) .
Oh, yes, and Nirvana covered the Who song, apparently just once, December 7, 1991, in Rennes, France.
By the way, has 5 years of the series gone by with no direct or indirect reference to iconic blues musician Son House, by guitar pickin’ Dr. Hizzy? I mean, has he ever said something like “I’m gonna be a Baptist preacher, so I won’t have to work”? Brainy British people are supposed to know about folk music, right?
--Citizen Dick in Sea-town, May 5, 2009, 2:12 AM
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