House is hurtin’ and back on the Vicodin train tonight. Meanwhile, a young boy comes into the clinic with claims of being abducted and tormented by aliens.
I guess I can excuse that one time only.
See you later…
I’m looking forward to this episode… real curious how they synch up the previews with reality… I also enjoyed the debunking of the faith healer.
Should be good…
Yeah, scene in the commericals with that flying kid had better be a hallucination or something.
Or a very big Helium overdose :dubious:
I would have liked this episode so much more if I hadn’t been able to predict the ultimate solution long before the conclusion (thanks to an episode of another popular show from a couple of years ago that involved the same thing).
Snoooopy! I don’t care, I was just happy I figured it out before House did! Of course my dog thought I was nuts when I started screaming
He’s a chimera!
Ya, I guessed it right away too. That particular concept has been used at least twice before in recent shows (CSI and maybe Bones? I swear I’ve seen it somewhere else)
Brian
Hey, not that it’s related to the storyline or anything, but can anyone help me with any information about the “Gravity” song they used near the end?
I really liked it, but didn’t recognize it or the singer.
I figured it out, too. I’d seen a thing on Discovery Health about that particular issue.
StG
Me three on that, Wile E. I have to chalk up to my love of sensationalistic TLC programs, though.
Yep… called it early on as well… but I absolutely loved the hallucination in the operating room… holy crap!!!
I’m not sure if I buy Wilson’s comment at the end…time will tell… Hate to see the cane come out of the closet though.
I just remembered something!
Wasn’t Hugh Laurie in Blackadder? And wasn’t Blackadder’s catchphrase something about having a “cunning plan”? If so was Cameron’s comment to Cuddy and Wilson about coming up with a cunning plan an homage to that?
How could you make a House episode with Sheryl Lee and have it turn out this bad? I thought it was pretty dreadful.
Did they ever explain how the rod got into the kid’s neck?
Yes, yes, and I do believe so. One time, Blackadder claimed to have a play “so cunning that you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel” or something like that. IIRC, Blackadder had a cunning plan in most episodes. At least one time, Baldric had a cunning plan, too.
It sounds like Ray LaMontagne. I don’t have his second CD yet; perhaps that song is on it…? There really needs to be a House CD as well; they find some pretty good tunes for the end of the episodes.
I thought they said the bit of titanium rod had traveled up into the boy’s neck from another area of his body, where he’d had a pin put in a few years back.
I hadn’t thought of chimerism (sp?), but the absorbed twin material has been making the rounds on TV lately. I should have picked up on quicker.
Looking around on I saw that John Mayer’s Gravity is the song. Do the lyrics fit?
Yes, I’m sure the “cunning plan” remark was a Blackadder nod. Wilson even kind of paused for a moment, as though to allow the Blackadder fans to have a laugh, before the story went on.
Evidently there’s no CSI in the House universe, otherwise it’s sad that a group of super-diagnosticians were unaware of a condition most prime-time viewers could call as soon as the “alien DNA” was discovered.
I did love House’s little “the lab cannot identify the metal” jab - delivered so well, with great reactions from Foreman and Chase.
Also, did anyone notice the title of the ep? “Cane and Able.” 
My girlfriend wondered why I laughed out loud at the “cunning plan” line. Then I said, “I’ve got a plan so cunning you could brush your teeth with it!”
I figured it out too. Kind of a weak episode if a laymen can figure out the medical “mystery” a few minutes into the show.
Was it just me or did Sheryl Lee look a little haggard?
One thing that neither my wife nor I could figure out in our post-show discussion. Maybe one of you has the answer.
At the very beginning of the episode, our young friend hallucinates that he’s being abducted from his bedroom. His parents, of course, find him outside on the ground the next morning. The question is, HOW did he get out there if it was just a hallucination? The only possible answers I can think of are that:
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he walked (ran, more likely) downstairs and out through the front door, which you would almost certainly think the parents would have noticed; or,
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he climbed out through his window. But it seems like they actually made a point of showing that all of his windows were closed when his parents looked for him in the morning.
What am I missing?