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{{Infobox television episode |
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| series = [[House (TV series)|House]] |
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| season = 4 |
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| episode = 10 |
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| airdate = {{Start date|2008|01|29}} |
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| writer = Pamela Davis |
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| director = [[Matt Shakman]] |
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* [[Liana Liberato]] as Jane |
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* [[Jennifer Hall]] as Melanie |
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* [[Anthony Starke]] as Roger |
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* [[Janel Moloney]] as Maggie |
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* [[Martin Grobar]] as God |
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| episode_list = List of House episodes |
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| season_article = House (season 4) |
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| prev = [[Games (House)|Games]] |
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| next = [[Frozen (House)|Frozen]] |
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"'''It's a Wonderful Lie'''" is the tenth [[episode]] of the fourth season of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' and the eightieth episode overall. It aired on January 29, 2008. It is the first episode of the series to feature [[Olivia Wilde]], [[Kal Penn]] and [[Peter Jacobson]] as main cast members. |
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The plot centers around the Christmas season; the episode's title is a play on the Christmas movie classic ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]''. |
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==Plot== |
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House and his team treat a woman, Maggie, who suffers from sudden paralysis of her hands. House probes the patient and her daughter, trying to tease out a lie between them, but both insist that they are always honest with each other. As the team tries to cure the paralysis, Maggie loses her eyesight, and her other organ systems begin to shut down. |
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The team believes Maggie's symptoms might be psychological in origin, but this is proven false when she is discovered to have severe [[calcification]] of her entire skeleton, and the [[lymph nodes]] in her neck begin to swell and occlude her airway. House and the team conclude that her best hope is a [[bone marrow transplant]], but she will not allow Jane to be tested for a match, despite Jane's protests. Eventually, House realizes that Jane was adopted, and Maggie has hidden this from her at the request of her biological mother, who was a drug addict and didn't want Jane to know. |
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The team, without House, spends the rest of Christmas Eve testing for every disease they can. While they are at work, House has a conversation with Wilson that leads to an epiphany. Entering the lab, House proclaims that he is about to perform a Christmas miracle, and orders his team to give Maggie [[risperidone]], an [[anti-psychotic]] medication. At Maggie's bedside, House explains how, during fetal development, a layer of breast tissue progenitor cells develops. House suspects that this process was faulty in Maggie, leaving a deposit of breast tissue somewhere on her body which eventually produced a tumor. Due to the anti-psychotic medication, the tissue has engorged and begun to [[lactic acid|lactate]]; House extracts breast milk from the swelling found on the underside of the patient's right knee, orders her to have surgery and a round of [[chemotherapy]], and declares the case solved. |
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In the clinic, House treats another female patient, Melanie, whom he initially diagnoses with [[strep throat]]. At the same time, he notices that she has had HIV tests every 3 months, and concludes that she is a prostitute. She later returns with [[pustules]] on her neck and chest. House asks if she does [[donkey show]]s, and when she says yes, he gives her a prescription for [[Orf (animal disease)|contagious ecthyma]], a disease she has that can be caught from donkeys. At the end of the episode, House visits a church, which is putting on a [[Nativity play]] during which his clinic patient rides in on a donkey, playing the part of [[Mary (mother of Jesus)|the Virgin Mary]]. |
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==Reception== |
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The episode attracted 22.56 million viewers in the United States, making it the 6th most-watched show of that week.<ref name="Sbowlratings">{{Cite news |url=http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/02/05/broadcast-nielsen-ratings-we-feb-3fox-breaks-records/2559 |title=Broadcast Nielsen Ratings w/e Feb 3: Fox Breaks Records |last=Seidman |first=Robert |date=February 5, 2008 |work=TVbytheNumbers.com |access-date=July 9, 2009}}</ref> |
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"It's a Wonderful Lie" received favorable reviews from critics. Donna Bowman of ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' gave the episode a "B" grade, stating "Although at times the episode was a more shameless [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] commercial than the frequent [[MacBook Air]] ads in the breaks — two purloined laptops and an iPhone that House gushes over — it does present House with an interesting variation on his usual misanthropy."<ref>{{cite web|first=Donna|last=Bowman|url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/its-a-wonderful-lie,12779/|title=It's a Wonderful Lie|work=[[The A.V. Club]]|date=January 29, 2008|access-date=May 3, 2012}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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