I've Been "Housed"

I continued my new nightly ritual of watching "House, M.D." until I fall asleep, except this time around I got to watch the final episode of season 1. I excitedly keyed up the finale and watched eagerly to see how they're going to wrap things up and leave the viewer hanging for season 2. But, instead, fate decided to torture me for a good ten minutes...

At the 19 minute marker in the final episode, the video froze like Rafael Palmeiro during a random drug test. Thinking my DVD player just crapped the bed, I restarted the episode and fast-forwarded to the same scene... Frozen.

Beleaguered, I moved it on over to my computer's DVD player and... Frozen.

At this point I was weeping like Rafael after testing positive for steroids (well, almost weeping). Guess it's a bad DVD. What kind of sick, twisted trick is this? I successfully watch an entire series only to have the grand finale freeze halfway through? I feel like that guy in "Platoon," kneeling on the ground with my arms raised skyward, while Vietcong pour from the flaming jungle behind me.

Looks like I'll be heading over to FYE tomorrow afternoon for an exchange. If they don't give it to me, I'm going to give the manager a colonoscopy with the entire boxed set of "The Bob Newhart Show."