House Recap: 12-13-05
Believe me, you don’t want to know.
This week’s theme is Changing Places.
It begins when House sees a women convulsing at the horse track. (Hey, it’s Miranda from Sex and The City, with her natural hair color! Cool!)
In one of the best—and worst—House moments ever, our favorite doc keeps his eyes glued to the race while others step in to help out Miranda. (“Is anyone here a doctor?”) Ha! It’s truly classic.
When Miranda is admitted to the hospital, House continues his torture by continually poking her with a huge needle in the wrong places. After the ninth try, Cameron steps in. Wow, Cameron has actually done something with her hair! And look at her outfit! She’s finally shed the middle-aged/bar fly/Swiss Miss hybrid of her usual style and actually looks quite lovely.
Chase on the other hand…ug, where’s his usual sense of fashion? It’s like he and Cameron have Changed Places. He’s wearing a truly hideous concoction of black pants, a brown shirt, and a blue striped tie. Eek! Get thee to She Knows Best, stat! Thank goodness he has very little screen time in this episode.
We move on to Foreman, who’s in a suit, because he now has House’s job, and House is reduced to grunt work. Foreman not only sports the suit, he’s also taken on House’s cocky attitude! They sure have Changed Places.
They run some tests on Miranda, and Cameron informs her that they found a tumor and Miranda will die a horrible death. Then they find out the tumor isn’t cancerous. And poses no threat. Cameron probably should’ve checked on that first.
Cameron and House CSI Miranda’s apartment in search of what’s making her have seizures. (Really now, are doctors allowed to snoop around like this?) They find nothing.
Okay, clinic hours, always the best and most hysterical part of the show. Today, a young woman presents with pelvic pain. She tells House that her boyfriend doesn’t like to wear “rubbers.” So she’s “on the jelly.” She offers to show House the container of jelly, and imagine his surprise when it is not contraceptive jelly, but strawberry jam! Yes, the kind you put on toast.
Now, this is a bit far-fetched to me…how would an adult really mix those up? Wouldn’t someone who knows the meaning of ‘neurological’ know the difference? But it did at least prompt a hilarious comment from Arieanna: “I have that same brand in my fridge. And I am so never eating it again!”
I hear you, Arieanna!
Back at the hospital, House is convinced that Miranda is truly sick. Cameron is convinced she’s faking, a very un-Cameron like attitude. It’s a very House-like attitude, actually. Hey! It’s like she and House have Changed Places!
In another House-like move, Cameron entraps Miranda into taking some pills that turn her pee orange, to prove that Miranda is faking and taking unnecessary medicine to make her appear sick.
House insists that Miranda is truly sick, and even appeals to the team’s emotions in order to change their minds. Whoa, is House getting more human? Let’s hope not!
Finally, convinced that Miranda has aplastic anemia, House conspires with her and gives her an injection that may kill her, but will at least make her have a seizure and be admitted to the hospital again. The nerve!
Well, the plan backfires when House gets the de rigueur Mysterious Final Clue That Appears Completely By Chance At The Last Minute And Solves The Entire Case In Three Seconds: he’s lounging in Miranda’s empty hospital bed (why?) and catches a whiff of grapes. Which means Miranda is sick, but with something else!
He confesses to the team and surprisingly is not reprimanded in any way. I mean, what he did was pretty bad, right?
So, is Miranda sick? Or is she faking? In a twist, it turns out she’s doing both! And then she uses the knowledge she picked up from House to fake anemia and be admitted to another hospital! Oh, the humanity!
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