Have U Heard??

 Is ignorance bliss?  This week’s patient on House,  James Sidas (Esteban Powell) believes it is.  The brilliant physicist and author blamed his profound intelligence for his depression.  He starts taking cough syrup with a vodka chaser, to dumb himself down. 

This Thanksgiving episode, House is determined to get himself invited to Cuddy’s sister’s house for Thanksgiving dinner to get an opportunity to breakup Cuddy and Lucas.  Cuddy finally extends an invitation with a cruel twist, the address was for a house three hours away and it wasn’t  her sister’s house.  Later that evening Lucas finds a drunk House in his home.  House in a drunken confession tells Luca that he really loves Cuddy.  It was an act to split them up.  Cuddy lies to House telling him they broke up so he would leave them alone.  It doesn’t work, Cuddy and Luca seem to be growing closer.<

Meanwhile, House’s team is trying to find a diagnosis for this complex patient.  They start with a spleenectomy to treat for TTP.  Which doesn’t work and is followed by a series of other hunches and tests.

Then House has an epiphany, the super-genius is abusing DXM, cough syrup, and avoiding brain damage by taking a shot of alcohol with it. Cough syrup is a “dumb drug,” Which is used to shave off a few IQ points, “I turned it down a little” so he could overlook his wife’s dumbness. Being smart made him miserable.  House detoxes him, makes him smart again.  Becoming condescending to his wife is a side effect of smart (he says she is as smart as a gibbon compared to him “sex would be bestiality”), the other effect is his legs go numb. House flies off the handle over the lack of answers to explain it. He lays into every one on his team , but he forgets his filter when he gets to Chase: “Gimme something or I’ll get your ex-smarter half on the phone and ask her.”   Chase was not pleased with the comment, aburptly punching House in the face and knocking him on his ass.  Chase later apologizes and explains he just wants people to stop asking him if he is OK.

With no help from his team, House pays a visit to the patient and learns he broke three ribs in a suicide attempt 12 years earlier.  House has an idea which proves to be correct.  The ribs tore the spleen which in turn grew into multiple spleens.  So the original diagnosis was correct he just needs multiple Spleenectomies.  In the end the patient prefers to be happy over smart and continues with the cough syrup.

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