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House on Fox

Normally on Fox’s House (Monday, 8:00 p.m. ET), the offensive content is limited to sexist or inappropriate comments that the House character directs at female co-workers and patients.  Occasionally, the show’s producers up the ante - usually during Sweeps Week, when ratings are closely monitored to determine the amounts networks can charge advertisers for commercials.  Such was the case on the April 27^th episode of House, which featured racy scenes with a class of people that the misanthrope House actually does like: strippers.   For gratuitous sexual content House has been named Worst TV Show of the Week.   

In a rare display of altruism, House volunteers to organize Dr. Chase’s bachelor party.  He dispatches members of his diagnostic team – Dr. Foreman and Dr. Hadley (“Thirteen”), who happen to be dating – to conduct the important task of stripper reconnaissance.  The couple visits a strip club to peruse the goods.  Hadley, who is a bi-sexual woman, rather enjoys this assignment.  As a scantily-clad stripper crawls on the stage, Hadley asks Foreman for a dollar.  She stuffs the bill into the stripper’s panties.  A different stripper then takes the stage and immediately inverts herself at the top of the stripper pole and slowly slides down to the floor.  After Foreman and Hadley deliver snapshots of the prospective strippers to House, he informs her that only boys are allowed at the bachelor party.  She counters by saying, “If I get drunk enough, there’s a chance I might make out with one of the strippers or become one.”  House immediately invites her to the party.

Meanwhile, Wilson insists that he will not attend the bachelor party for fear that he will embarrass himself like he did the last time House hosted a night of debauchery.  House finds a crafty way to make sure Wilson attends: he throws the party in Wilson’s apartment – without Wilson’s knowledge.  Wilson comes home to discover a stripper sliding down a pole installed in his foyer, a full bar assembled in his living room, drunken revelers packed into the place, and a bevy of buxom half-nude women sauntering around the room.  It doesn’t take much to convince Wilson to join the festivities.  He recognizes Caramel, a stripper for whom he had a particular fondness when he first met her at his own bachelor party several years ago.  She pulls him away to have a drink.  As it turns out, she is the drink.  Wilson is shown licking salt off of her abdomen. He rises to her cleavage where a shot of tequila rests in her bra strap.  Using only his mouth, he downs the shot and sucks a wedge of lime from Caramel’s lips.  Hadley is next in line to do a “body shot.”  As Hadley is in the foreground with her mouth buried in the stripper’s cleavage, Wilson and Foreman watch attentively in the background.  “You’re okay with this?” Wilson asks. 

Foreman replies, “I paid fifty bucks for this.”

Later, Foreman goads Chase into doing just one more shot.  He ushers Chase to the bar, where Caramel is lying down on the counter top.  A shot is poured into her navel and Chase licks it up.  Unfortunately, Caramel’s strawberry body paint sends him into anaphylactic shock and nearly kills him. 

This year’s May Sweeps started on April 23^rd and continue through May 20^th, and viewers can expect more crass attempts at driving up television ratings through gratuitous sex and violence.  For blatantly pumping their show with racy content - during Family Hour, no less – simply to boost ratings, House has been named Worst TV Show of the Week.