Ignorance Is Bliss – House

It’s thanksgiving on House and everyone is thankful for pretty much nothing. The whole team is almost back. Chase, Foreman, 13 and Taub are all working on the case this week.

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The medical story this week is about an exceptionally brilliant man who hates being brilliant. Such a hardship, right? The first diagnosis is TTP. The test comes up positive so they remove his spleen. Way too easy. So, of course, more issues pop up. Chase and Taub search his house and find a hidden bottle of vodka. They think he’s an alchy, but is really a different drug addict. He is addicted to cough syrup. Long term cough syrup abuse apparently lowers your IQ. See, he met his wife when he was in the hospital on narcotics after attempting to commit suicide by jumping into a dumpster. Because his wife’s IQ is closer to a gibbon’s than his, he doesn’t love her unless he’s dumb. Because of this, he decides he is going to keep robotripping to make himself nice and dumb because he thinks thinking is unpleasant and he’d rather be happy than smart. The doctor’s initial diagnosis of TTP was indeed correct, so why didn’t the initial spleenectomy work? Because when he jumped into the dumpster his spleen split into many pieces and the doctors only removed one. Remove them all and he’s free to go on living not up to his potential.

Cameron has moved to Chicago, so everyone is trying to get Chase some psychiatric help. Chase says there is no chance that he and Cameron will ever reconcile. Too sad to be true. Chase takes out his anger on House by using his face as a punching bag.

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House decides that he is going to break up Cuddy and Lucas. He is doing everything he can to prove to Cuddy that he has changed. It’s really very sweet. He is volunteering clinic hours, being nice to his patients – or paying them to act like he was nice to them. He goes to extreme measures to get invited to thanksgiving dinner at Cuddy’s sisters house. Eventually, Cuddy invites him, but gives him the wrong address. I don’t know whose house she led him to, but she told the house sitter to give him a turkey sandwich. I don’t think there is any possible way I could have been more mad at Cuddy. Seriously, she couldn’t be a meaner person and this was the saddest thing in the world.

After this debocale, House breaks into Lucas’ house and gets drunk. He confesses his love for Cuddy and says that Lucas and her aren’t right together. Cuddy shows up at House’s the next day to tell him that Lucas broke up with her because he didn’t realize how much there was between them and he didn’t want to be in the middle of it. Well, Cuddy is full of big fat lies this week and this was another big fat lie. They didn’t break up and House catches on to this, of course.

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Taub’s wife is pissed that he took back his job with House again. She’s mad because he’s back to doing “grunt work” and dips out on his wife every two seconds. Taub lies to her and pretends to be a badass and says that he punched House. That seems to make her magically happy.

Next week on House, Wilson treats a dying friend and Lucas and Cuddy move in together. How about, Lucas and Cuddy break up?

Known Unknowns – House

Tell me lies, tell me not-so-sweet little lies.

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The medical part of the plot this week was about a teenage credit card kid girl, Jordan, who was brought in because her body was swelling up like a balloon. She’s bleeding from every part of her body, her kidneys, her heart, her brain. Because she’s bleeding in her brain it causes her to lie about everything and not know it. The team gives her lying serum in hopes of figuring out where she really was, but she continues to lie. There are a series of illusive stories about what she did that night, but really, her and her friend were stalking some comic book dude copying his every move and she got sick from some oysters she ate because comic book dude ate them too.

Cameron takes out her frustration with Chase‘s lies on the case and all the lies it contained. For the majority of the episode, Cameron is convinced that Chase is having an affair even though she follows him and he goes where he says he’s going. At the end, Chase tells Cameron about killing Dibala.

While all of this is going on at the hospital, Wilson, Cuddy and House are away at a conference. House pretty much only goes because Cuddy goes and he is finally ready to make a move. Kind of. “She’s not a floozy in a bar, she’s a floozy I work for.”

House dresses up as George Washington or some old president looking man for an 80′s party. Cuddy and him dance and House admits that he has had a thing for Cuddy since medical school and Cuddy runs out. Pretty romantic stuff.

Cuddy tells Wilson that she can’t be with House because she doesn’t think he’s dependable enough. To try to change her mind, House offers to babysit Cuddy‘s kid only to walk in and find Detective Lucas, a former patient, in Cuddy‘s room because apparently they’ve been secretly dating. This makes me so mad I can hardly stand it.

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House giving Wilson's Speech (photo courtesy of Daemon's Tv)

House drugs Wilson with grape soda so that Wilson won’t give a speech admitting that he helped a dying, suffering, man overdose on morphine. House posing as Dr. something-or-another pretends it is his speech. At the end of the speech, house apologizes to Wilson in house’s own way and saves Wilson‘s butt. House is becoming such a little sweetheart.

Next week on House: House is back in charge with a porn star case and House tries to get his old team back. All I can say is this better be a joke. It is so much better when it’s Cameron, Foreman and Chase.

Week 2 of House

This week was week two of the new season of house. I loved the premiere, even   with the absence of most of the series regulars. I wouldn’t desire the whole season to be like that, but I thought it was a very good season premiere. The second week was a little more disappointing. I thought that House using cooking as therapy was comedic. My problem was with Foreman running the Diagnostic Medicine Department. And then Foreman fires 13 to prevent future relationship problems? I’m sorry, but I think if my boyfriend unjustly fired me, that’d be a problem. House needs to take back his job pronto. I am, however, very excited for this Monday’s episode where it’s the old team back together again.

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