Occam's Razor

After the pilot, this is the second episode of House directed by executive producer Bryan Singer, and it's easy to see why he chose to call the shots on this one: like the series premiere, Occam's Razor serves as a perfect introduction to the twisted world of Gregory House.

The diagnostics case of the week is that of a 16-year old boy (Kevin Zegers) whose unusually low blood pressure doesn't respond to IV fluids. While the team tries to figure out what's wrong with the boy, House also has to deal with clinic duties: patients include a woman whose leg hurts after running six miles ("Who knows? Could be anything.") and a boy who has used his MP3 player in a strange way.

Aside from the thrill of the medical/mystery blend (the solution is, as always, original and intriguing), this episode stands out because of its wonderful sense of humor: Chase, Foreman and Cameron casually chatting about sex after the patient's girlfriend suggests she might have, uh, done him to death, Wilson and House discussing the latter's "appealing" smugness (absolutely right) and, of course, the protagonist convincing several clinic patients they ought to wait for another doctor thanks to a wonderful monologue that begins with the apparently harmless "You can call me Greg.". In other words, 40 minutes of great television.

After a decent pilot and strong second episode, we get boy's internal organs falling apart after some heavy petting with his girlfriend.

The diagnosis goes back and forth, while House obsesses with the crux of mislabeled cough medicine. This is where Occam's Razor comes into play, instead of chasing every possible other infection or cause, House finds the simplest solution to be the cough medicine/lying patient. Nested in his own logos that everyone is lying all the time.

Overall decent episode in a very decent season 1.

House Quote: "You've got a hundred other idiot doctors in this building who go warm and fuzzy every time they pull a toy car out of a nose, you don't need me here."

This is one of those cases where the doctors are busting their butts to try to solve a serious condition, but the sick kid doesn't level with them. Take out a simple element from this and you throw away all the possibilities for a cure. House is absolutely rude in this one. That's who he is but there are people who are hurt. Of course, it's skill versus emotion and he is in constant pain. I wonder if he can take so many pills like that over eight seasons. He eats them like mixed nuts.

The case here is as simple as a cough that is not treated correctly and the dominoes start to fall like crazy. Much of this show involves the investigation. It's all about the patient and damn the torpedoes. Very good episode.

loved the way the mystery goes, the way it was presented, the cinematic experience, all the characters,involvement in last 15 minutes was really exciting,after all House is House, !!Occam's razor said that simplest explanation is the always true then the complex.yet this one is the rarest case.