No More Mr. Nice Guy (House episode)
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| House episode | |
| "No More Mr. Nice Guy" | |
| Episode no. | HOU-413 |
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| Airdate | April 28, 2008 |
| Writer(s) | David Hoselton & David Shore |
| Director(s) | Deran Sarafian |
| Guest star(s) | Paul Rae Chad Morgan |
| All House episodes | |
"No More Mr. Nice Guy" is the thirteenth episode of the fourth season of House, the first filmed after the resolution of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, and the eighty-third episode overall.
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[edit] Plot
The local nurses union for the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital is on strike. Jeff, the husband of one of the nurses, Deb, collapses while walking the picket line. At the emergency room, House finds Jeff's extreme niceness and inability to get angry a major symptom of an underlying condition. After various tests, the team suspects his niceness is a personality change, resulting from syphilis. When Kutner questions the couple if either of them had an affair, which could lead to syphilis, Deb denies it, stating that it is just the way her husband behaves, and it is impossible for her to not love him.
At the same time, House is annoyed he isn't getting enough time with Wilson, and attempts to negotiate with Amber the conditions they can have Wilson's company. They are at a standstill, thus House seeks Cuddy's resolution, however, she will only lay out the conditions if House does his team's performance reviews, knowing that he hates doing paperwork. House relents and Cuddy sets the rules, although House summarily has Foreman do the team reviews, instead.
To further interest the case, House manipulates the team, Cameron, and Chase, by swapping his own blood sample, leading them to believe he too has syphilis, perhaps the cause for his misanthropic, curmudgeon personality and lack of niceness. He then pretends to get nicer as he pretends to take the penicillin they prescribe him, and everyone falls for House's trick (which he has admitted to Wilson). Meanwhile, Foreman believes he isn't getting the respect he deserves from Kutner, Taub and Thirteen, when he tries to do their performance reviews, which he believes is due to House always humiliating him. House states if he doesn't humiliate and taunt Foreman, he wouldn't be strong and able enough to handle the rest of the team.
After House violates one of the conditions Cuddy sets, Amber informs the team of House's ruse of faking syphilis. This discovery leads Kutner to suspect that Jeff's actual, positive syphilis result might really be the result of a parasite called Chagas' disease which he contracted while working in the jungles of Costa Rica years ago. The diagnosis is confirmed: the parasite embedded itself in his brain during Jeff's stay in the country, thus causing the shift in his personality, giving him the inability to be angry. At the end of the episode the only evident change is the patient says he now does not like ketchup, although he does wonder aloud to his wife, "I wonder what else I don't like?" This causes a look of anxiety on his wife's face.
With the case solved, House hands in the reviews to Cuddy, who discovers they are all the same. As punishment for this, alongside breaking the rules she set between him and Amber, she has the two of them cleaning up bedridden patients together, with a smiling Wilson overlooking their labor.
[edit] Reception
Mara Greengrass of Firefox News's favorite aspect of "No More Mr. Nice Guy" was that Kutner was allowed to have the epiphany instead of House.[1] Jay Black of TV Squad noted that the first image in the episode after the two-and-a-half month writer's strike-induced break was a picket line.[2] A Buzzsugar reviewer was pleased that Cameron, Chase, and Foreman were in the episode as well as the new team.[3]
[edit] Trivia
- When the team interrupts House when he is watching T.V. to tell him that they know he has Syphilis, the program he is watching is the Soap Opera "Prescription Passion" whose star Evan Greer not only is featured in the clip but is the Patient featured in the next episode.
[edit] References
- ^ Greengrass, Mara (05/5/2008). Review--House: "No More Mr. Nice Guy". Firefox News. Retrieved on 2008-05-02.
- ^ Creer, Jen (Apr 29th 2008). House: No More Mr. Nice Guy. TV Squad. Retrieved on 2008-05-02.
- ^ House Rundown: Episode 13, "No More Mr. Nice Guy". Buzzsugar.com (04/29/2008). Retrieved on 2008-05-02.
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