Plot

House finds himself at odds with his team when he becomes convinced that an actor on his favorite soap, "Prescription Passion," has a serious medical condition.

The night opened on a TV show about an agonizing doctor, but it wasn't the one you were expecting. It was House's favorite soap opera and its star was about to get a real surprise. House kidnapped him and told him he was going to save his life. House was convinced the guy (yes, that was Jason Lewis, a.k.a. Smith Jerrod from "Sex and the City") had a brain tumor. When those tests turned out negative, House injected the soap star with a sedative to keep him in the hospital for an MRI that also came up negative.

House was ready to let the guy go, hoping he wouldnt' sue him and the hospital, but when the patient lost feeling in his foot, everything changed.

Meanwhile, Cuddy was stressed about a surprise visit from a hospital accreditation inspector and told Cameron and Foreman to keep an eye on House to make sure he didn't mess anything up.

Wilson limped around with a bad back and said it was Amber's mattress that was causing the problem. When he told House that he and Amber were going to shop for a new one, House predicted things would get weird and Amber would get her way. When they shopped Amber preferred the firm mattress and Wilson wanted a pillow top. In the end, Amber told him to get the one he wanted and he called House to rejoice in the fact that House was wrong about Amber.

Cuddy's ploy to get Cameron back in House's circle to take notes on his work was brilliant as Cameron started making suggestions for how to treat the patient. House told Cameron that if she wanted her old job back, he'd fire Thirteen.

As the team tried to figure out what was wrong with the patient, House thought it might be his thyroid and Foreman agreed with him. Foreman said the team should nuke the guy's thyroid and House was happy. Before the nuking, though, Foreman had the team run an iodine test, per hospital protocol, that showed his thyroid was fine but revealed that the patient's kidneys were failing. House got angry and told Foreman and Taub that since they were so eager to adhere to procedure, they should measure all the ceiling heights around the hospital to make sure nothing was stacked within 18 inches of them, because that's what hospital rules mandate.

House confronted Cameron about the fact that she missed being involved with his cases, and she admitted she did miss the job. She missed the puzzles and the work, but, she told him, "I don't miss you."

Wilson's bed situation got a little weird when Amber got upset with him for picking the firm mattress, which was the one she wanted. She told him she wanted him to pick the one he wanted so that he would be happy. She said he always let his ex-wives have their way, but ended up resenting them in the end and she didn't want the same to happen with her.

Wilson took House back to the mattress store and finally expressed interest in a waterbed, which he knew was stupid. House agreed, but told him to "live the dream" anyway. Wilson got the waterbed home, but ended up sleeping on the living room floor because he couldn't stand the life aquatic. House decided that his patient must have a floral allergy and wanted to fill the guy up with 100 milligrams of a steroid that would cure it. Cuddy became nervous, worried that the guy would die from an overdose unless House was right. She told him that their jobs were riding on his next move, but he did it anyway. House was wrong about the floral allergy, but his treatment saved the guy anyway.

The inspector fined the hospital $200,000, but neither Cuddy or House was fired. It wasn't until later that House realized the guy was allergic to quinine, based on some more careful viewing of the soap opera. Even House is sometimes more lucky than good.