House preaches a differential from the hospital chapel pulpit
Playing preacher, House waves off M.S. and stroke and settles on microtumors; Foreman plans to remove the eye if needed.
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165 moments.
House is sure Wilson is dating the new peds nurse
Mid-differential House eyes Wendy, mocks Wilson's love life and refuses to believe his denial while the team pitches salmonella.
The treadmill bet: House's stress test fells the husband instead
House bets Foreman on an exercise-triggered allergy test; Tracy runs, Jeremy rages, and it's Jeremy who collapses.
House rifles the nurse's locker for proof about Wilson
In the nurses' locker room House reads Wendy's belongings like clues, raising his bet with Foreman over a blue shoe and a jazz brochure.
Condoms in the jacket: House calls the husband a cheater
The team finds condoms at the couple's apartment; House says twenty-year-olds are idiots and orders gonorrhea swabs.
Green eyes: House realizes the couple are half-siblings
An empty surgery sends the team back to the start; the runaway story and matching eyes lead House to hereditary angioedema and one father.
Hungover House crashes the differential with fat jokes
The team wonders where House is; he arrives nursing a rowing-team hangover, orders pickwickian treatment and runs out of nicknames.
Cuddy fumes over the broken MRI; Cameron takes the blame
Cuddy blames House for another wrecked scanner until Cameron owns it with a legal argument; House then hands out tests and tells Chase to sit.
Chase confesses he drugged George to stop the discharge
The team argues about the new symptoms until Chase admits giving phenytoin; House pivots to parasites from imported salad.
The $400 butt plug elevator differential
House walks out on the team and they chase him to the elevator, arguing MS against diabetes as he brushes them off.
House reads the son's seizures in the father's EEG
The team suggests infection, tumor, trauma; House bets on genetics because the comatose father's brain waves match his son's.
Wilson asks House why he stole his pad, of all pads
While Wilson cooks a hoagie in the hotel, he works out that House pushes chosen friendships to see when they break.
House already knows the diagnosis and makes it a game
After a parking ticket from Tritter, House waves off the team's theories, writes something down and gives them one test each before lunch.
A new differential, then House presses Chase for a refill
The team pitches causes for the clotting disorder; House sends Chase for vomit and asks him for a prescription, which Chase refuses.
Three infections at once: the game is rigged
House's team returns syphilis, then Eikenella, then botulism; one illness keeps turning into several.
House sweats Jack in a sauna; Jack says he laughed at the news
Seizures lead House to stored drugs; in the sauna Jack admits he was high the night his parents died and calls comforting afterlife talk crap.
Tumors everywhere, Foreman calls House pathetic, House says fungus
Scans show the brain riddled with masses; Foreman attacks House's cynicism about Jack's sacrifice and House bets they are fungal abscesses.
House crashes the differential with a vanishing gallstone
Pulling pills from a Lupus textbook, House reads a dilated bile duct as a gallstone that already passed and orders an ultrasound.
Frozen bank accounts derail the rash differential
As Tritter freezes the team's accounts, they argue infection vs allergy and House's plan is to do nothing about the cop.
Sulking team, Rocky Mountain spotted fever
The team suspects one of them talked to Tritter while House steers to Rocky Mountain spotted fever and brushes off Chase.
House pushes to amputate: 'sunshine and puppies'
With necrotizing fasciitis suspected, the team balks at cutting off a child's arm and leg; House mocks them and goes ahead.
Foreman says Wilson ratted; Cameron earns a gold star
The team tells House to take the deal; he shrugs it off and makes them see why a negative TB test means nothing in a weak immune system.
House reads a 60-watt liver, and Cuddy pulls him off the case
House spots a dim liver on an overexposed scan; Cuddy suspends him and cuts off his Vicodin until he takes the deal.
'House, you've tanned': Cuddy sees through Chase's theory
Chase pushes House's pancreas theory; Cuddy guesses its source and accuses him of feeding House pills.
Blue vision means Viagra: House diagnoses male menopause
House reads the patient's blue vision as a Viagra side effect and builds a male-menopause theory around burns to the genitals.
Broken heart syndrome: love is killing Derek
House diagnoses broken heart syndrome triggered by Amy's engagement; the team finds every treatment makes it worse.
A full differential for a cockroach in the ear
The team builds tumor and psych theories while House sits on the answer, a bug in the ear, and orders tests to dodge Cuddy.
House fumes about J. Whitner while the team calls it a plumbing leak
House is more interested in who stole his parking space than a 16-year-old's bloody effusion, then sends the team to search the kid's mattress.
House gets stuck in a door and tells the team to think like plumbers
After a humiliating struggle with a doorway in his wheelchair, House shoots down DIC and leukemia and pictures something punching holes in pipes.
It's Wegener's, so House wants a smart bomb: experimental FT28
Treatment caused a bladder hemorrhage; House insists the diagnosis is right, rejects methotrexate as carpet bombing and pushes immune modulation.