On tonight’s ep., an autistic boy screams a lot for no apparent reason–until, I’m sure, somebody with a limp and an attitude discovers there is a reason after all.
See you all later…
Or perhaps just as aptly, On tonight’s ep, an autistic boy screams a lot **due ** to somebody with a limp and an attitude attempting to discover what brought him in to the hospital in the first place. 
The reason? He’s got the song “Achy Breaky Heart” stuck in his head.
Great!! Now you’ve got me screaming!!!
So long as it’s a hot Hugh Laurie with a limp, I’m in.
Or he’s got ants in his pants.
Oh wait, that was done already, only with a tick.
I want to have sex with Dr House and raise that little boy.
(did I say that out loud? Hope nobody heard me)
Don’t worry, Beaucarnea. It’s just spores.
(And I challenge the most bitter, angry, jaded cynic out there not to be touched when that little boy made eye contact with House. Go on. I dare you…)
So…autism is kind of like taking a whole bunch of mushrooms? Interesting.
Standard episode for me at best, light on drama and more focused on the medical aspects, but overall a rather lukewarm. The beastiality zing at Foreman was pretty decent, as was the song over the credits (I love Ben Harper).
Little Miss Jailbait is apparently the world’s most powerful diagnostic tool. Dr. House appears to be incapable of staring at part of her body without winding up curing someone.
I really didn’t need to know that it was possible to have worms swimming in your eyeballs.
No, because this isn’t a veterinary hospital.
There’s always one ‘zing!’ that catches me unawares and just cracks me the hell up.
Hmm. Somebody with a limp and an attitude. It could’ve been Kerry Weaver wandering in from ER.
But yay! It was hot House. We lucked out.
Anybody have a clue what the bit about the carpet meant?
This season, they’re losing me. The episodes seem surreal. Last week’s medical mystery was basically sci-fi mumbo-jumbo (“Overheat the dilithium crystals and see if the transponder can re-accelerate the ion beam.”) This week, his obsession with the carpet, childish behavior, disruptiveness… made no sense at all.
I think Cuddy was right on target when she saw signs of Asperger’s syndrome in House. The carpet issue was just the sort of thing that Aspies are known for. A resistance to change (particularly when that change is dictated by some sort of authority figure) is a very Aspergerish sort of behavior.
I thought that was just House being stubborn and spiteful, but the diagnosis is intriguing.
Some hilarious moments: the chapel and preaching scene, the Casablanca “damn…damn…damn!” scene, “go up his rear and get a smear,” his interplay and insults with Cuddy, “You have pretty hair,” and…Would someone clue me in on the “ATTICA!” reference? I should know it, but I don’t.
It’s referencing a scene from Dog Day Afternoon which is, in turn, referencing the Attica prison riots.
Oh, House does not have Asperger’s. Wilson brought it up as a way for Cuddy to give in (so House would stop using Wilson’s office) to House without looking weak.
Some people are just antisocial jerks (and that’s why we love House! :D). You don’t need to diagnose them with some syndrome.
I am disappointed with myself that I didn’t suspect a zoonotic parasite. At least I remembered the name Baylisascaris without having to look it up thanks to my former zoonotic paranoia* I developed when I started working with animals.
I did suspect coccidiomycoides but I had the wrong patient for that - I missed whether or not they said they ruled out a fungal infection on the kid.
*I’m still paranoid, I just try not to read about it too much or it makes me even more paranoid.
“DON’T STOP OUR LOVE!!”
I loved him in this episode. And I thought maybe the boy would like it in the scanner, with only white noise and fewer stimuli.
I had no idea spores would affect your brain and inhibition level!