I wonder if this weakening of Chase was done in order to make a Park-Chase relationship conceivable. I recall that she did ask him out at the end of one episode and that nothing was ever heard again on that. I have noted that Park has been pretty much out of the picture in recent episodes, so it would be a way of…

At one point, they actually darken the lighting as soon as the questioning begins. I believe that the questioning is a distant descendant of the Flashdance jury, except that they actually had a panel. IRL, you would never have a single person making such a decision.

There is a principle in cinema that if you have to say explicitly, it's because what is actually going indicates the contrary (e.g., "that car is going fast", because it is actually only going 30mph due to production limitations). Thus, in this episode, every House assistant doctor was explicitly described as being…

Is it so obvious that it doesn't need a comment? The gun is introduced as a lead-up to the season finale in which someone important gets shot. As you have pointed out, that still means that by Season 9, episode 3, everything will be back to normal…

Ironic point #1: The paranoid patient who made a safe room for self-defense can't even protect his home from break-in by two girly doctors. OK, I get it, it's now House Canon that patients' homes will be broken into, but this was all started when Foreman's juvenile record was revealed and low rent locks were involved.…