Directed by: Greg Yaitanes
Written by: Matthew V Lewis and Liz Friedman
A deaf boy, Seth (Ryan Lane), suffers an ear injury during a wrestling match.
Dr. House is hallucinating Dr. Amber Volakis (Anne Dudek).
Dr. Cameron asks Dr. Wilson to throw a bachelor party for Dr. Chase, but House winds up doing it instead.
The patient goes blind during a flashing lights test.
House brings a boombox playing the song "Fight the Power" into the lab and places it in on the patient's abdomen and then places the patient's hands on the boombox. The patient feels the music's vibrations in his abdomen but not in his hands. This suggests neuropathy.
Talking it over with his team, House imagines Amber sitting down with three bowling pins on her lap.
Dr. Taub explains to the patient, with the mother interpreting in sign language, that by removing a tumor, he might gain hearing. Seth wants to recover but he wants to stay deaf.
Dr. Foreman and Dr. Hadley scout a strip club for Chase's bachelor party. Hadley wants to go to the bachelor party, and it doesn't take her much effort to convince everyone.
The patient's biopsy does not show cancer. House orders a cochlear implant, even though the patient doesn't want it. Chase puts it in.
When he wakes up, Seth demands the implant be removed. However, he does like the sound of his mother saying his name.
House feeds his team alcohol-flavored ice cream.
The patient rips out his cochlear implant, revealing arrhythmia, and contradicting House's earlier assertion to Chase that the implant would not help with diagnosis.
Cops show up to the hospital to arrest Chase because of his immigration status. Cameron quickly figures out this is a ploy to "kidnap" Chase, so he'll attend the bachelor party taking place in Wilson's apartment (without his approval, of course). House drinks alone in the bathtub.
Chase does a body shot off Karamel (one of the bachelor party strippers), but he's allergic to strawberries and passes out. An epi-pen is handy, but they take Chase to the hospital, just to be sure.
It is determined that Seth used to chew tobacco, which leads to the "Eureka!" Moment and diagnosis.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- Keeping the Handicap: Seth wants to stay deaf so he can see his deaf girlfriend at the school for the deaf. She points out he won't see her at all if he doesn't recover.
- Phoning the Phantom: Dr. House puts a Bluetooth set in his ear so he can talk to Amber's ghost and have it look normal.
- Shout-Out to He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983): Dr. House says, "By the power of Greyskull!"
- Walk and Talk after the boombox test.
- You Need a Breath Mint: Cuddy gives House's team breath mints when they come back to the hospital from the bachelor party.
