House Season 6 Episode 8: Ignorance is Bliss

On House, this week’s Patient of the Week, a bona fide genius and M.I.T. grad who dumbed himself down to be able to live happily with his dullard of a wife, was boring.  Once his illness was revealed to be the result of using cough syrup with a vodka chaser to numb himself to his mundane, yet “happy” life and deplete his brain cells to close the 91 I.Q. point gap between himself and his wife.  Having attempted suicide several years ago by jumping, the Cough Syrup Savant broke his ribs and the ribs punctured his spleen, severing it into sixteen easy pieces, all of which needed to be removed instead of just the one that Chase had assumed was the problem.

Way more interesting than the episode’s side plot was House’s machinations to break up Cuddy and Lucas.  Learning that she’ll be having Thanksgiving dinner at her sister Julia’s, House goes to great lengths to find out where Julia lives and tells Wilson he’s crashing dinner.  After driving 3 hours, House makes it to Julia’s house, but she’s in Hawaii.  Cuddy anticipated what House would do and instead, bought herself roughly 6 hours to have a holiday dinner with Lucas, her daughter, and the rest of her family at her place, free of any House interruptions.