Writer:	Sara Hess
Director:	Lesli Linka Glatter
Star:	Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Lisa Cuddy),  Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson),  Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman),  Hugh Laurie (Dr. Gregory House)
Recurring Role:	Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse),  Kal Penn (Kutner),  Edi Gathegi (Cole),  Olivia Wilde (Thirteen),  Peter Jacobson (Taub),  Anne Dudek (Amber)
Guest Star:	Steve Valentine (Flynn),  Noelle Drake (Ilana),  Mandy McMillian (Nurse #1),  Joe Ochman (Surgeon),  Adria Johnson (Nurse #2)

Injoke: House's comment, "I finally have a case of lupus" refers to the running in-joke on the show about how lupus is always suggested but no one had ever had it before this. (edit) International airdate:
Australia - 21/11/2007
Brazil - 10/01/2008
Netherlands - 03/04/2008
Italy - 06/04/2008 on Canale 5
UK - 08/05/2008 on five
Bulgaria: May 8, 2008 on NTV
Denmark: May 24, 2008 on SBS Net (edit) The end of the episode featured an In Memoriam to Barbara Issak, who died July 21, 2007, of ovarian cancer and was a supervising sound editor on the show. (edit) Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer are credited but don't appear. (edit) Guest star Steve Valentine who plays a magician in this episode is in fact a magician on the side of his acting career in real life. (edit)

Taub: Ahem. (holds up a pair of black panties) Eau de Cuddy.
Cole: No way, how did you get them?
Taub: Only one way.
House: These are not Cuddy's panties.
Taub: You don't think that I...
House: No. Also, she's wearing a red bra today. (everyone looks at him) Like I'm the only one who noticed. Means the downstairs will match. (edit) Thirteen: You spend your whole life.. looking for answers. Because you think the next answer would change something, maybe make you a little less miserable. And you know that when you run out questions you don't just run out of answers... you run out of hope. (slight pause) You glad you know that? (edit) Taub: (uncovers rabbit cage) Aha! Tularemia.
Kutner: (not looking) Nah, you'd have to have rabbits.
Taub: True. Maybe a tick jumped from a rabbit and landed on one of these white fluffy alligators. (edit) (House wakes up strapped to a chair)
House: Patient dead yet?
Thirteen: No.
House: That's a little much for a first date.
Thirteen: Obviously, you've never dated me. (edit) Amber: Pseudomonas would present as an armpit rash. Take off your shirt.
House: You first. (edit)

While House is running a fever we can see him drink a cup of tea, yet in season 3 episode "Resignation" House tells Honey he hates tea. (edit) A factual mistake in the episode is the belief that you develop antibodies to your own blood type. However it's the opposite in healthy individuals. You develop antibodies to the blood type you don't have. For example, a person with type AB blood will not have anti-A nor anti-B antibodies; a person with type B blood will have anti-A antibodies but not anti-B antibodies; etc. In the patients' case: he has type A blood, so he has anti-B antibodies. The lupus is causing him to make additional antibodies: anti-A. As a result he's got both anti-A and anti-B, which would make his blood type being tested as O. (edit) Blood-typing is routinely performed using rapid kits which actually determine the "type" of the blood. These cards have four spots which are usually labeled "anti-A," "anti-B," "anti-RhD," and "control."

The labels are actually labels for the reagents which are added to spots, and does not detect the presence of anti-A or anti-B antibodies. This misconception led to the wrong idea that blood-typing is achieved by measuring antibodies to the blood type. (edit) The director cheats a bit with Flynn's "through the glass" trick. There's no card on the outside of the glass when he throws the cards, which there has to be for the trick to work. (edit)

House: When I asked you to come see Mamma Mia...
Referencing the 1999 musical based on the music of the rock group Abba, and telling the story of a girl trying to determine which of three men is her father. (edit) Dr. Wilson: Your mutinous team is starting to worry about life on Pitcairn Island.
Referencing the former British colony, best known as the final settlement of the Bounty mutineers, as told in numerous books and movie versions of Mutiny on the Bounty. (edit)