HouseHere Kitty
Original Air Date: Mar 16, 2009
Patricia Morris Buckley — Associate Staff Writer
pmb@thetwocentscorp.com
I’m frightened because my cat is looking at me in a very strange way. Normally, that wouldn’t scare me, but last night I learned all about The Cat of Death (AKA Death Kitty), a feline version of a fatality Geiger counter.
I think I’m safe. For now.
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I’m frightened because my cat is looking at me in a very strange way. Normally, that wouldn’t scare me, but last night I learned all about The Cat of Death (AKA Death Kitty), a feline version of a fatality Geiger counter.
ReplyDeleteI think I’m safe. For now.
This episode has one of the funniest openers ever. House is in an exam room trying to avoid patients (nothing new about that), building a racetrack of medical supplies in the room. The last item to be placed is a plastic shark at the end. And, indeed, House’s Matchbox car “jumps the shark.” Clever.
But as usual, Cuddy finds where he’s hiding and brings in a patient. It’s a Morgan West, a nurse from an old age home who complains of a winter-long cold. Then she has a seizure and pees green blood (just in time for St. Patrick’s Day!). Of course, House is intrigued.
Throughout the episode, House is torturing Taub, who arrives late and believes that the girl is faking. He’s right, but it’s not in House’s nature to admit that. Finally, Morgan is tossed out only to come back with the nursing home cat as evidence that there really is something wrong with her. Seems the kitty sleeps on the bed of someone who is going to kick the bucket soon and he just took his nap on her mattress.
While House is not convinced, she has a bronchospasm, which can’t be faked (there’s some medical jargon to explain why, but I don’t speak doctor). While the team goes crazy trying to cure Morgan, House seems far more interested in proving the cat is a fluke.
First he tries to get the cat to select someone in a room full of coma patients. Then the patient the cat picks does die. Eventually, in that “ah-ha!” moment he always has, he does come up with a scientific reason for the cat’s behavior, but no one wants to hear it — even the superstitious Kutner (who has to endure ladders, spilling salt and an open umbrella from House).
Taub’s story gets a little more interesting and there’s a reason that he’s in such a grumpy mood. Seems he lost quite a bit of his equity in the stock market. So when someone comes along claiming to be an old school friend with a medical equipment company, Taub starts dreaming of living in the big time again and quits. Luckily, he finds out he’s being scammed before handing over any investment money and, donuts in hand, he returns to his job.
And Kutner gets his revenge when House complains that Kutner got the cat to pee on his chair. Only it wasn’t the cat…
What do you think? Could the cat really tell that someone will die? Should every hospital have one? And what about that preview that made it look as though we’ll see a little more lip action between House and Cuddy?
If a cat ever walks up to me in a hospital, I'm running the other direction. I don't care if I'm holding a tuna sandwich & that's all it wants - I'm not taking the chance.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I fell asleep halfway through the episode! (I was rocking a baby & the room was dark, it was bound to happen!) Hubs loved it & filled me in on it afterward. Taub has got to accept that he screwed his life up & MOVE ON. Yes he's poor now. So is the rest of the world. But he screwed another partner's daughter?! I thought it was just a nurse, Darn!
The thing with Kutner was just wrong. I don't care what your boss did to you ~ you are a DOCTOR for crying out loud. You Do! Not! pee on the furniture!
I didn't see the preview ~ but it's about time they get back to that story line!!
Death cat was hilarious - House hiding it in bags and drawers all over the hospital and trying to terrorise Wilson's precious cancer kids.
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