'House' recap: Don't You Forget About Me

By Zap2it Partner

January 24, 2012 11:20 AM ET

A sweet guy named Andres has Alzheimer's. But before his wife can get him into the risky experimental drug program, he starts vomiting blood. So House's team does its usual round of blind guesswork and treatments that nearly kill him before they discover that he was taking aspirin that his wife was using to feed the plants.

The main interpersonal dynamic is provided by Foreman, who's taking Taub's place on the team. Taub is off with a sick daughter or something, and frankly, I didn't miss him. He just mopes around and that's not nearly as much fun as House sparring with Foreman, who's trying to be the boss while simultaneously help out as House's temporary underling. House has been hiding index cards around the place that are supposed to show his ability to predict the future, but it's all just a complex ploy to get rid of that ankle bracelet that's never really restricted his movements all that much anyway.

And in the side plot, Wilson has a woman with a bladder infection who cheerfully tells him that she and her husband are asexual. House takes that as a challenge and goads Wilson into betting a hundred dollars on his ability to find a medical reason for it. It turns out that the husband has a pituitary tumor repressing his libido and the wife has probably been sneaking out to have the occasional sex. This vaguely ties into the main plot, where Mrs. Andres has a boyfriend.

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