Clueless (House)
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| House episode | |
| "Clueless" | |
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| Episode no. | HOU-215 |
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| Airdate | March 28, 2006 |
| Writer(s) | Thomas L. Moran |
| Director(s) | Deran Serafian |
| Guest star(s) | Samantha Mathis as Maria, Eddie Mills as Bob, Peter Birkenhead as Vincent, and Stephanie Erb as Charlotte |
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Clueless is the fifteenth episode of the second season of House, which premiered on the FOX network on March 28, 2006.
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[edit] Plot
The episode's cold opening begins with a woman looking in the mirror after showering when she is violently grabbed and carried to the bedroom by a man. Later on in the scene we realize that this man is not a rapist, but rather the woman's husband, who was engaging in role-play with her. But then he starts having breathing difficulty, and soon can't breathe at all.
Meanwhile, Wilson has been staying over with House due to problems at home. The episode starts with House and Wilson agreeing that the latter will move out the next day.
House leads the team in a differential diagnosis over the man's breathing difficulty. He also questions the motives for their marriage. During discussion with the rest of the team, House has excess caffeine, which leads to House juggling at inopportune times and then forcing all of them (including Cameron) to conference in the men's room while he pees.
House is convinced that the symptoms are typical of heavy metal poisoning but none of the tests confirm that diagnosis. The more interesting finding is that while at the hospital, instead of the patient's condition remaining stable or getting better, he experiences multiple respiratory attacks.
Although Foreman pushes a lupus diagnosis and treatments, House decides the wife must be poisoning her husband, as any heavy metal that could enter his system by other means has been tested for. He tries to convince Cameron to search her, but ends up doing it himself. The wife lets House search everywhere but a body cavity search.
The case concludes with the team finding out that the wife was killing her husband with gold sodium thiomalate, and Cameron pays him the $100 she bet him that their marriage was happy.
At the end, House erases a message from a realtor to Wilson after realizing that he enjoys the "food" Wilson has been making while staying with House.
[edit] Trivia
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- At approximately 14:00 - 14:01, you can see the subscriptions House has on his DVR. Among them are Spongebob Squarepants, The O.C., New Yankee Workshop, and most importantly, Blackadder, a show Hugh Laurie previously starred in.
[edit] Errors by characters (possibly deliberate)
At one point when discussing the patient's symptoms, House remarks about ants: "Army ants could devour, dissolve, eat a cow in a matter of hours. Australian bull ants, on the other hand, are nasty little bastards, but more of a nuisance than a threat." Dr. Chase, who is from Australia, nods his agreement to this assessment.
Bull ants, in fact, carry a powerful sting that often trigers allergic anaphylactic shock in humans. Generally they are considered a greater threat to human safety, as a sting from a single ant can trigger lethal anaphylaxis, while an entire colony of army ants is necessary to kill an animal as large as a human. Further, the patient's first symptom, shown in the cold open, was in fact anaphylactic shock.
[edit] External links
- FOX.com-House official site
- House Episode Guide at epguides.com
- House M.D. Guide
- Clueless at the Internet Movie Database
- Medical Reviews of House: Clueless
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