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House Season 2 Episode 14

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AIRED: 3/7/06

House takes the case of a man who experienced a seizure but wasn't aware it happened. When the man suffers a heart attack and needs a heart transplant, the team races to diagnose a dead woman's illness so they can harvest her heart to save their living patient.moreless

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An interesting twist...

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By DonStants2, Jun 05, 2009

One of the most important things with formulaic dramas is keeping it fresh, and the writers manage to do this with most episodes. This one was fantastic in the way the patient was diagnosed quite quickly, but then House had to find a heart for him.

I thought the dead womans husband, played by Heroe's Greg Grunberg, was absolutely fantastic, and gave a great scope to the episode. House's determination (or obsession, depending on the semantic you want to use) was clear in his determination to cure his patient- one whom he seemed to quite like, judgeing by their brief scenes together.

The one liners were once again spot on in this episode. It is always amusing to watch House at work, but a lot of it depends on Hugh Lauries timing, as well as the great timing of the rest of the cast, in particular Robert Sean Leonard. The scenes between House and Wilson were yet again brilliant, and with the added twist of Wilson's marriage falling apart.

The clinic scene was fanatastic again, although he was pretty screwed up!

Overall, the Season keeps on delivery cracking episode after cracking episode. I must be getting repetetive...Oh dear! =)moreless
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Wilson's marriage falls apart.

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By Canogaparkcindy, Sep 05, 2008

Well this was painful to watch in 2 way like in many other episodes, first of all, at the beginning it seems as though Wilson is cheating on his wife which is always a downer, then it turns out his wife cheated on him which totally bites & then he goes to House's house at the end to move in, I really felt for him. Then the whole case in which there is 2 patients in one, the guy from Heroes is in it! Anyways after everything seems to be impossible to figure out, it turns out the husband was the unfaithful one, that was a big shocker, Cameron's face was hilarious, how could he do that to his dead wife, a good decent episode.moreless
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We're going to cure death? MUUUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA......No!

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By Anton_Legend, Jun 14, 2007

What a brilliant episode, the idea of house curing a dead person was genius. I really like how he said things like: give her 4 times the normal dosage. then when Cameron got all wussy, he said "what, are you afraid of, well kill her?". Its brilliant the way that House's callousness throws other peoples failures in their faces.

It was a brilliant example of smugnness, and this episode was rammed full of house-isms. The only bad thing about this episode was heart attack-guys wife. They made her out to be an evil cheater at the beginning, but all of a sudden at the end she was good and everyone was happy to see her. Apart from that, this episode was marvelous.moreless
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Different twists in this one make it even better

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By Slayergirlkal, Mar 24, 2007

This was such a brilliant episode because it was different. Unlike usual where the entire episode is spent making mistakes in attempt to get the diagnosis, this one they get it almost immediately. And really who would have thought that cheese was Henry's problem?

I loved the relationship between Wilson and House in this one too. I loved House accusing Wilson of having an affair while his marriage was continuing its downhill slope.

I really enjoyed the fact that everything connected with sex. Everyone was ashamed of sex and House made that fact so clear and funny.

I liked how House sent Cameron looking for a fresh heart for Henry and then when they found one House totally manipulated the guy who had just lost his wife. I loved when they were doing the differential on Laura, and Cameron asked if they were gonna cure death. That was such an awesome scene.

Clinic guy was just incredibly weird and I think he had some screws loose in his head.

Great episode I loved it.moreless
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By cavanagh15, Feb 21, 2007

The cases in these episodes seem to be getting stranger and stranger as time goes on. In this episode the old man needs a new heart and the only way House can get one is from an overweight woman who just happened to have died in the Operating Room that day. House has started to slowly start going back to the clinic, but he gets a guy that has an obbsession over cows because he has a thing for his mom. Theres a point where the show just gets down right wierd and I think this was one of those episodes. I thought this episode was comical, but not the best Ive seen from this series. the daughter of the old man was...oh my god...so amazingly hot I cannont even begin to describe. She made the episode worth watchingmoreless
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Hugh Laurie	Dr. Gregory House
Jennifer Morrison	Dr. Allison Cameron
Jesse Spencer	Dr. Robert Chase
Lisa Edelstein	Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Omar Epps	Dr. Eric Foreman
Robert Sean Leonard	Dr. James Wilson

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Adam Busch	Tony	Guest Star
Yvette Nicole Brown	Stambler	Guest Star
Stephen DeCordova	Second Chief Surgeon	Guest Star
Ron Perkins	Dr. Simpson	Recurring Role
Bobbin Bergstrom	ER Doctor	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (1)
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- House's apartment seems to have moved since the first season. This season the end scene in this episodes shows Wilson standing in the hall outside House's door. In "Hunting," it is confirmed that House has an apartment that connects to an interior hallway in a green and white building. This conflicts with the first season. In "Role Model", when Cameron comes to House's door we can see a tree behind her -- so his front door no longer opens to the street. In "Love Hurts," we see that House lives on the first floor of a brownstone which means that they've switched the building he lives in but his apartment is exactly the same.
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QUOTES (26)
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- Tony: Leather shoes, hamburgers. How could anybody do that to a cow?
  House: Make love, not belts?
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- Tony: I want to get Depo Provera.
  House: Actually, at your age, as long as you're careful, the risk of you getting pregnant is pretty limited.
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- House: This girl's father will die by next week without her heart.
  Dr. Cuddy: House, don't you think that's a bit manipulative?
  House: No!
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- (while he's coughing up blood)
  Ronald: Is this a seizure?
  House: Shut up.
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- Amy: If you do Mom again you have to wear a condom.
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- House: A way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
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- Ronald: I had sex with her mother.
  House: I think she knows you've done it by now.
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- Dr. Wilson: Some people bottle up their feelings, have them come out as physical pain. Healthy human beings express feelings such as affection by giving gifts.
  House: Gifts express guilt. The more expensive the expression, the deeper the guilt. That's a $12 box so that means you haven't slept with her yet, or she wasn't that good.
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- House: A disease that attacks his brain, heart, and testicles. I think Byron wrote about that.
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- House: (about a comatose woman) She's a fridge with a power out. You start poking around inside, the vegetable goes bad. No offense.
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- Dr. Cuddy: He's 66 years old.
  House: He told me he was 65. Liar. I'm outta here.
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- Dr. Foreman: His right testicle is almost twice as big as his left.
  House: Cool!
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- House: When guys have brain/crotch problems, it's usually the result of using one too much and the other too little.
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- Dr. Cameron: I thought we were wearing the wrong shoes for cancer.
  House: We're wearing the wrong shoes for testicular cancer. They're perfect for lymphoma. Except Chase's – they're just goofy.
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- House: Norwegian chocolate. Frankly, you buy that stuff the terrorists win.
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- Dr. Wilson: It's not all about sex, House.
  House: Really? When did that change?
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- House: Wilson! How long can you go without sex?
  Dr. Wilson: How long can you go without annoying people?
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- Henry: I assume you've been in love?
  House: Is that the one that makes your pants feel funny?
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- House: Cheese is the devil's plaything.
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- House: Key to a long life – exotic women, boring cheese.
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- House: If you really cared about me you'd find me a better corpse.
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- Dr. Cuddy: Don't you think that's a little manipulative?
  House: No, it's hugely manipulative.
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- Dr. Cameron: We're going to cure death?
  House: (laughs maniacally) I doubt it.
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- Ronald: I assume House is a great doctor?
  Dr. Chase: Why would you assume that?
  Ronald: Because if you're that big a jerk you're either great or unemployed.
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- House: So I have to wonder what could be more humiliating then someone calling your girlfriend a cow and not being metaphorical?
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- Dr. Cameron: She's positive for gonorrhea.
  House: I think that's the first time those words have been uttered in joy.
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- This episode's guest star, Greg Grunberg, is the drummer of a band called Band from TV. Hugh Laurie is also in this band, and he plays on the keyboard, as well as Jesse Spencer who plays the violin.
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- International Air Dates:
  The Netherlands: April 12, 2007 on SBS 6
  Czech Republic: June 25, 2007 on TV Nova
  Belgium: September 13, 2007 on KanaalTwee
  Bulgaria: May 31, 2007 on NTV
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- House is listening to "Honky Tonk Woman" by Taj Mahal when Dr. Wilson arrives at the end
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- House: Unless Elsie has a pegleg.
  While conversing with the bovine loving patient House refers to Borden's corporate mascot Elsie the Cow.
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- House: I think Byron wrote about that.
  Referring to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22, 1788–April 19, 1824) who was an Anglo-Scottish poet and leading figure in Romanticism. Among his best-known works are the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. The latter remained incomplete on his death.
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- House: Make love, not belts.
  Alludes to "Make love, not war," an anti-war slogan made popular through the Flower Power peace movement during the '60s and '70s against US participation in the Viet Nam War.
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