I’ve been a fan of the television show “House” pretty much since it began. I’ve enjoyed the way Hugh Laurie plays the acerbic Dr. House. He’s extremely intelligent, extremely rude and is in a position of some authority - consequently, he’s a personality type that doesn’t seem to ever get boring.

The season begins with Dr. House taking a classroom full of doctors applying for the opportunity to work with him. True to form, Dr. House puts running bibs with numbers on them and refers to these applicants by their numbers instead of by their names. In one of the first scenes he assigns a bunch of them to wash his car, including a young doctor character named Dr. Jeffrey Cole or “#18.” The character is played by Edi Gathegi.

As the last episode unfolded, Dr. House notices that #18 has a class ring from Brigham Young University and asks him directly if he is a Mormon. He is. The patient they are working with is having some serious health problems and there is a realization that they need to stress the patient’s liver to see how it is functioning. To achieve this, Dr. House naturally decides that the patient and his doctors should drink tequila and of course he feels that the Mormon doctor will have to participate. In a short conversation Dr. House does manage to persuade this Mormon doctor that this approach to things might save the patient’s life - and thus the Mormon agrees to drink along with them. As they are downing shots, Dr. House then says “so tell me about the magic underwear.”

All of this is very consistent with what Dr. House is all about, so it didn’t actually bother me all that much. It’s offensive, but that’s the point. If you’ve watched the show enough, you’ll know what I mean.

If I can find a YouTube clip with the primary scene of interest, I’ll post it. So far no luck.

I did, however, find a partial clip of Edi Gathegi talking about his new role.