A heckled birthday clown is hit and goes numb
Teen clown Benny bombs at a kids' party, trades insults with a young heckler, takes a hit, and suddenly can't move his arm or leg.
S8E6 · Parents
20 moments · 27 min of essential viewing in a 44-minute episode.
Moments, in order
House psychoanalyzes the team's parents
Taub admits Rachel's boyfriend Phil wants to move his daughter to Portland, and House diagnoses each fellow's parents to argue all parenting fails.
Ben wants to be a circus clown like his late father
Told he's improving, Ben announces he wants to clown professionally like his biological father; his mother pushes him to aim higher.
A clinic patient demands insulin House won't give
A man insists he has Type 2 diabetes; House dismantles every symptom, declares himself the test, and the test is negative.
Wilson's ringside tickets to the fight House can't attend
Wilson wants House's blessing to see the Santos-Rubio fight in Atlantic City; House, under house arrest, declares he is going.
Taub brings a baby to the differential
House learns Taub's babies are named Sophie and Sophia and that he forgot his night with Ruby's baby, then tells him the baby doesn't need him.
Foreman sees through House's fake conference invite
House is offered a premium speaking slot in Atlantic City and bargains for perks, until Foreman reveals House posed as the original speaker.
The diabetes patient's urine trick
The clinic patient produces a sugary urine sample and cites family history; House debunks both and spots apple juice as the fake.
Ben's mother admits his father is alive
Pressed for the father's medical history, the mother confesses he never had melanoma, never died, and lives nearby as Mitchell Gordon.
Chase shares his past; Adams invents a crime family
Chase tells Adams how his mother's drinking sent him into medicine; she answers with an absurd story of her parents' criminal empire.
House cracks his ankle monitor mid-differential
While the team argues over Ben's liver and absent father, House tries to defeat his tracking anklet so he can reach the boxing match.
Taub invites Ruby and the baby to stay over
Exhausted, Ruby vents about her life; Taub offers his guest room and another night with the baby, and enjoys it.
House needles Taub about Phil, then gets an idea
House pokes at Taub's change of heart over parental rights and argues for sacrificing a role in one daughter's life, until a word sparks Burkitt's.
Foreman tells Wilson why House can't go to the fight
Wilson argues House earned one boxing match; Foreman says his job is to be the jerk and Wilson's is to stay and complain about him with House.
Phil apologizes to Taub in person
Phil apologizes for the confrontation over Portland; Taub suspects good cop/good cop and learns the baby is now called Sophie.
The diabetic diet that was making him sick
House finds the clinic patient's anti-diabetes meals are loaded with bok choy, which has been suppressing his thyroid all along.
House diagnoses the father from his walk
When Ben's father arrives, House reads his gait as late-stage syphilis and the reason he was cut off; the mother explains what she found.
Taub's choice: tell Ben the truth or not
The team argues over telling a virgin he has syphilis; House leaves it to Taub as a dad, and later explains why following the brain is harder.
Adams admits she ran away from good parents
Adams confesses she ran off as a teen because her parents were too normal; House concludes they screwed her up by not screwing her up.
Taub tells Rachel and Phil they cannot move
Taub drives out to Rachel and Phil and tells them he can't let his daughter move away.
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