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Referencing the version of 07:29, 7 December 2006: Hardly "all" of the characters on House have a connection with Holmes stories; only House and Wilson are convincingly documented as far as I've seen. Tritter's connection with Moriarty, apart from being a "nemesis", is a stretch. For one thing, there is a clear good vs. evil in Holmes vs. Moriarty, whereas both House and Tritter are deeply flawed, and a good argument could be made that Tritter has a better claim on the right than House does. A lot of interesting things could be written about Tritter, his actions, his methods, etc., but I'm removing this section as irrelevent. Please discuss any objections. -- BlueMoonlet 20:45, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
I think the storyline section goes into a great deal of unnecessary detail. Here is my first stab at trimming it.
Tritter first appears in the episode " Fools for Love". His character is a police detective who becomes a patient of the walk-in clinic who suffers from a severe irritation in the area of his groin, which he believes to be caused by a sexually transmitted disease. Although House diagnoses Tritter with dry skin, a common side effect of the nicotine gum that Tritter is chewing, Tritter requests that a sample be tested. House declines on the grounds that he has already met this month's quota for indulging "stubborn idiots". After Tritter causes House to trip, the doctor feigns acquiescence, but insists he has to take Tritter's temperature rectally. After inserting the thermometer, House leaves the room with no intention of returning. Tritter later complains about his treatment to House's boss, Lisa Cuddy ( Lisa Edelstein), but House refuses to apologize even after Tritter says that he would rather "beat the crap out of" House than sue him. Later that night, Tritter pulls House over for a traffic violation and arrests House after finding unprescribed Vicodin pills in his pocket. [1]
In the next episode, " Que Sera Sera", Tritter searches House's apartment and finds a large quantity of Vicodin pills and two apparently forged prescriptions that bore the name of House's friend, James Wilson ( Robert Sean Leonard). [2] During " Son of Coma Guy" and " Whac-A-Mole", Tritter pressures Wilson and members of House's diagnostic team to testify against him, but they all refuse. [3] [4] In " Finding Judas", Cuddy finds Tritter spending his day off looking through the hospital's log for evidence against House. She accuses him of not having a life and "personalizing every slight". Tritter responds that "nobody [at the hospital] is innocent", as everyone allows House to treat patients despite knowing of his Vicodin addiction, and that it takes a police detective to uncover what the doctors are deliberately hiding. At the end of the episode, Wilson visits Tritter and indicates his willingness to testify. [5]
In " Merry Little Christmas", Tritter and Wilson work out a deal to allow House to continue practicing medicine if he pleads guilty and spends two months in rehab. Meanwhile, House uses a dead patient's name to obtain Oxycodone pills as a Vicodin replacement drug, but when House visits Tritter early the next morning to agree to the deal, after going through the pharmacy's log and reading that House signed for a dead man's drugs, Tritter says the deal is off. [6]
In the final days leading up to House's court case, House realizes the severity of the situation and finally apologizes to Tritter. When Tritter refuses to accept the apology, House goes into rehab, putting on a show for Tritter and the judge, but Tritter cites his past experiences with addicts as evidence House has not changed. The judge tells Tritter that she does not believe House to be the drug addict that Tritter tried to show him to be, and orders Tritter to move on. Just before the bailiff escorts House out of the courtroom, Tritter tells him, "Good luck. I hope I'm wrong about you." [7]
Thoughts? Karanacs ( talk) 16:32, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Reads better to me. Also, you mention in the first paragraph that Tritter says he would rather beat the crap out of House that sue him, before House refuses to apologize, but it is actually stated afterwards. No further comments; nice job.-- Music 26/ 11 16:27, 30 January 2009 (UTC)In " Merry Little Christmas", Tritter and Wilson work out a deal to allow House to continue practicing medicine if he pleads guilty and spends two months in rehab. Meanwhile, House uses a dead patient's name to obtain Oxycodone pills as a Vicodin replacement drug. When he visits Tritter early the next morning to agree to the deal, Tritter says the deal is off, after going through the pharmacy's log and reading that House signed for a dead man's drugs. [6]
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This reads like a pastiche of an encyclopedia article, cruft dressed up in leaden prose; everything seems to pass FA these days if only there are enough inline citations, no matter what they cite. -- Janneman ( talk) 02:13, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Agreed, in my opinion this is pretty terrible. ( 76.189.146.206 ( talk) 03:15, 15 June 2009 (UTC))
Not even the main character of the show's page is a Featured Article yet! How does this pass the editors? PokeHomsar ( talk) 03:58, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Personally I thought this was a horribly poorly written story arc but whatevs I guess somebody liked it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.202.150.152 ( talk) 04:20, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
oooh, a thermometer stuck in his rectum? not only is this great writing for a television show, but great writing for Wikipedia. (sarcasm, of course) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.27.37.76 ( talk) 06:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
I liked the arc. Ended a bit too weakly, but it's great to see House articles of high quality. RichsLaw ( talk) 09:39, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
This article is a very small article. It is just a few paragraphs long. If I were to have rated it I would have given it a B class at tops. Also {{ reqphoto}} can be considered a maintenance template. Irunongames • play 10:03, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
He's a character from House! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex Klotz ( talk • contribs) 12:42, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
How could this have possibly become a featured article with all the duplication? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.121.221.174 ( talk) 10:45, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
This is probably the most useless and poorly written article on wikipedia. 125.236.179.52 ( talk) 01:27, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
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Why are we using {{ use dmy dates}}? It's an American character in an US television series. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 15:24, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
With no responses, I've instead applied {{ use mdy dates}} (as is also used at this page's parent articles). — Fourthords | =Λ= | 15:14, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
This is a character that appears in six out of a total 177 episodes of House, and he already has a (in my opinion, adequate) section in the dedicated article for House characters. I see no reason for this article to exist. Leaflemon ( talk) 03:35, 15 July 2023 (UTC)