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Kal Penn’s character Dr. Kutner on House is dead

7 April 2009 9 Comments

Posted by Randy

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The character Kal Penn plays on the T.V. show House, Dr. Lawrence Kutner, died and Fox even made a tribute to his character on the Fox website. The site includes memorial video, obituary, and an option for fans to leave their own thoughts about Kutner’s death.
Here’s a link to the Fox tribute to the character: http://www.fox.com/kutner/

An excerpt from Kutner’s Obituary:

Mercer County Courier
April 7, 2009
Dr. Lawrence Kutner died on Thursday, April 2nd from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 33 years old.
“Dr. Kutner was a hard working, young doctor with a kind, unassuming, gentle manner. He will be missed by all of us”, said Dr. Lisa Cuddy, Dean of Medicine at Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, where Dr. Kutner worked.

I love the show! House is addicting but this stunt came out of the blue for me. A shot to the head! A suicide! Never saw it coming. Neither did House, nor did anyone else.

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  • Aseret

    I am sorry to hear Lawrence Kutner will not be part of House any longer. I really liked this character and thought he needed more storylines. It seems like all concerned gave this a lot of thought and the “puzzle” of this character's death is a great storyline for Dr. House since he lives to solve puzzles, it's perfect (and typical of real life suicides) that no one saw this coming and that there is no real explanation (I actually don't like it when stories like this are tied up too neatly, in real life things do not happen that way). The writers interviews suggest that this storyline will profoundly affect the other characters too, which is as it should be. I am intrigued to see how this progresses, even though I will miss Kutner.

    Still, with all that said, I am happy for Kal Penn. He has taken advantage of a wonderful opportunity, and made a brave choice to leave a successful show and lucrative career (for now). I wish him well in his new endeavours.

  • http://www.friendster.com/djdoubleb Dj_Double_B

    I'm so hating the writers of House aight now.. then again… I find the huge twist a lil brilliant

  • http://www.friendster.com/djdoubleb Dj_Double_B

    Fr: Wikipedia under 'Kal Penn'

    “In early 2009, Penn was offered the position of Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison in the Obama administration, which he accepted. This necessitated his character Lawrence Kutner being written out of the TV series House by way of Kutner's suicide.”

    source:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal_Penn

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  • roger

    What a sucker to leave house to work for obama. Thats sadder than if he really had died.

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