Turd Ferguson

Good episode. I love the fact that he had "Blackadder" on his Tivo. Now all we need is a Stephen Frye cameo.

B.A.

It's the same color coming out as it was going in.

This episode was classic. And the scene between Cameron, House and the money was almost as good as House deciding to let Wilson stay at his place.

NORML54601

This is one of the funniest eps yet. Loved the exchange between House & the maid about the wood box.

Rod Thorn

Can anyone fill me in on how it ends. Got a call in the most untimely manner. Go ahead and spoil away. Everything up to the exchange between House and the maid about the wood box.

Count Dooku

Without getting into the detail that you will find in a Television Without Pity recap, House realized that the wife was poisoning her husband with a heavy metal (just as he suspected all along) --the metal being gold.

How? She has arthritis. And in Mexico (remember the trip to Cabo?) she got a prescription arthritis medication that has gold in it. Of course, House was completely familiar with this.

How'd he prove it? When House was child, he lived in Egypt, and learned about a substance that when mixed gold would turn purple. He had a bottle of that in his hidden treasure box.

He confronted the wife with the liquid on his hands, and rubbed hers, and her fingers turned purple.

Why'd she do it? House theorizes that she preferred murdering her husband to the prospect of admitting that their perfect marriage wasn't.

In the end:
The police came and took her away.
Cameron learned that having an incredibly happy marriage that mixes S/M role-playing and threesomes is, in fact, impossible. (And pays off the $100 bet with a role of bills that she has tucked in her thong.)
And House finds a way to keep playing Felix and Oscar with Wilson, without having to admit to Wilson that he wants him to stay.

twikoff

but only because he makes great waffles

Patman

I thought House was just looking for his gold wedding band, and he needed that to rub on the wife's fingers to produce the purple coloration from her sprinkling whatever it was she was sprinkling on her husband's breakfast meal every morning (which is why he didn't want her to wash her hands).

RichC2

I thought he was looking for the chemical that reacts with gold.

There were certainly some logic loopholes in the episode (unless it all took place on the same day, thus preventing the wife from using the restroom or showering for a day or two), but it was a great deal of fun.

mdc3000

Great ep...loved the House/Wilson stuff and the Cameron Money shot had me drooling all over myself. House was looking for the chemical in the chest, and I got the impression that it was only about a day and half that went by...maybe she has to REALLY scrub to get the residue off her hands. Macadamia nut pancakes sound delicious....

MATT

Rod Thorn

Thanks.

twikoff

house had mentioned that the dude should have been getting better, but was getting worse.. so the chick had to have been continueing to poison him the entire time he was in the hospital.

Patman

I watched the ending a little past my bedtime, so I probably got the vial of potion mixed up with what I thought was his wedding ring. Sorry for the confusion.

"You blow dry your hair???"

rfduncan

Correct. She could have even been putting it on her lips when she kissed him or continued to put it in his hospital food. However, the fact that he continued to worsen even prior to the initial medication indicated that she was trying to follow through on her plan. Also she was rather easily swayed to try the lupus and antiviral medications in lieu of the pursuit for the heavy metal poisoning since there were up to 90 for which they need to test the husband. She would probably have gotten rid of him long before they were able to find the proverbial "needle in the haystack".

RichC2

While that's what I was thinking originally, I got detoured into thinking he was getting worse because they just hadn't found the right cure. But then, the entire scene with House confronting her to "find what she was poisoning her husband with" kind of deterred me back to my original assumption. So I just wasn't quite sure.

Alas, it's nit picking, I love this show.

garmonbozia

lol, i missed that. that's funny.

Tazwolff

With all of the "House is wrong" House is an idiot" BS and in the end BAM House is right going on like in this episode why hasn't House demanded that they quit or be fired for being wrong? House should have fired Cameron and made Cuddy quit for protecting the wife. If not that, he should just rub their noses in it.

namja

I love House. I'm actually glad that AI interrupted House for several weeks, since now we'll get new eps week after week without any reruns.

paradicelost

It was Silver Dollar Pancakes, come on get it right
though i may have missed the waffle part.

House kinda reminds me the old Scooby Doo. On Scooby Doo every episode had them going agaisnt what they thought were ghosts. And every case it turned out to be a guy in a mask. You think they would just figure out it at the begining, "Hey its only a guy in a mask".
In "House", in every episode House figures out what is causing the illness, but no one believes him, but he always ends up being right. You would think they that Cuddy and the rest of the gang, would just say "Well House is right every other damn time this has happened, we might as well take his word for it."
Back to the subject at hand, great episode, loved the Cameron/money part.

MrX

I liked it a lot and it was good to have this back.

The comic potential of Wilson and him as roommates is huge.

Jay G.

She could've had it on her still. Remember, they didn't search all of her.

Jadzia

Hmm, I must have been in a bad mood or something when I watched this episode, because I found it very boring. So boring that I mentally checked out of the episode and barely remember many of the "great moments" you are all referencing. It must have been me, because I seem to be the only person who thought this was unremarkable episode.

I usually love House, but this case was just boring to me. Seemed more like a CSI-mystery than a House ailment of the week. The whole motive and everything just seemed rather weak and tacked on.

BDB

I just watched this ep, got caught up with other stuff. I loved the herpes husband and wife. Telling the husband that he got it from the toilet seat and he was all like yes that must be it.