The kid wakes up, and for once, you see the holes where they screwed into his skull to keep his head still for the surgery. All of a sudden he can hear all these annoying little noises, which would be freaky, except I think I heard somewhere that those implants don't just work like that, you have to train your brain to hear them right. But what do I know. Anyhoozle, it's time for the parent/teacher conference. Mom complains to Cuddy that she wants the implant back out. Sort of. Amber wants to know why she's just sitting there. She must not be all that mad. "I'm mad," she says. Very convincing, no? She leaves and House says "he's opting in to a handicap" and "he's an insult to all the other gimps out there." Doctor Sees Self In Patient. Bingo! Cuddy is sympathetic, but she's putting Foreman in charge of the case.
Back in Name That Disease Land, Foreman isn't doing any better at figuring out this week's puzzle and Amber is distracting House by eating candy and crossing and uncrossing her legs. (What does it say about House that his subconscious likes to wear miniskirts?) House is more interested in why Wilson isn't interested in the Implant Fiasco, and goes to ask him. Wilson's just glad House did something nice for another human being, in his own twisted way. Meanwhile, the POW and his mom are having an argument about whether he should keep the implant, He hears her say his name and gets all verklempt, wetting his bed in the process.
Not a dry seat in the house.
House misses this display because he's busy sampling ice cream for the party. Spiked ice cream, no less. What a cool idea! Louie brings up sarcoidosis, which is met with derision because it's never sarcoidosis. Amber remembers a similar case from med school and everyone else in the room goes all black and white while House is thinking. I must say I'm enjoying seeing House's brain at work. Why couldn't they have done this sooner? Chase comes in to tell House that Cameron won't be thrilled about the party, and oooh I know, House should kidnap him! What an original idea! She'll never see through that! Meanwhile, Amber remembers that Wilson's stripper's name was Karamel. With a K. What are the chances she still goes by that name 9 years later? Less interestingly, the POW's girlfriend is oohing and aahing over her boyfriend's implant. (Something doesn't sound quite right about that last sentence.) She asks 13 where the bathroom is in deaf-speak. I'm sure there's a more... sensitive name for it, but sensitive isn't exactly my middle name, so moving on. The POW seems a little worried and asks 13 if he sounds like that too. 13 hems and haws.
House chugs energy drinks so the Houseguests won't bore him to sleep complaining that they can't find a heart problem. He says they need to do a stress test, which Foreman doesn't think is the safest thing right after surgery. House and Amber figure out a sneaky plan to do the test anyway, but the POW has taken care of the stress himself by tearing out his cochlear implant. He sounds like a sheep being mauled by Chewbacca, but more importantly, there's House's proof of heart trouble. So now the poor kid is having problems everywhere. "What goes everywhere?" asks Louie, who seems to be suffering from short-term memory loss, since he can't remember that they ask this question every freaking week. Have they ever had a patient who didn't have problems everywhere? Blood, lungs, Amber waving a lighter over her head. One of these things is not like the other. While the Houseguests test for the boring stuff, House and Amber go down to the morgue to have fun with alcohol and fire. House catches a dead guy on fire, while Amber is busy figuring out that all the POW's symptoms have been triggered by some sort of heat. Soooooo now it's MS. Sure it is. Now House has to forge the dead guy's cause of death so it includes burns. LOL.
"Setting patients on fire" wants its own Bingo square.
Meanwhilz, the 1.0 Houseguests are heading out for the night (and the MS treatment is working) when Chase gets "arrested" by "the police", who threaten him with deportation. If only. Cameron is wise to the plan, of course.
AT THE BIG PAR-TAY
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Comments (2)
I went ahead and checked Wikipedia for Exploding Head Syndrome... OMFG, it's REAL:
Exploding head syndrome is a condition that causes the sufferer to occasionally experience a tremendously loud noise as originating from within his or her own head, usually described as the sound of an explosion, roar, waves crashing against rocks, loud voices or screams or a ringing noise."
Body butter is like lotion, but it's thicker... almost, the consistency of butter (hence the name). It makes your skin all creamy and soft. Occasionally, it tastes like it smells (apples, strawberries, etc).
1 of 2 | Posted by crmsnkatt | Posted on May 4, 2009 10:08 AM
hey, did anyone else notice the weird lighting in this ep? everywhere that house went, the shot seemed to be a bit overexposed. then when he would leave the room and we'd get another shot of the room, it was fine. maybe it has something to do with the blurry vision he experienced at the end of the mos def episode?
house with the ghetto blaster grooving to fight the power has to be THE best moment of this show...EVER!
2 of 2 | Posted by mones | Posted on May 4, 2009 3:32 PM