He hires a classified-ad electrician to remove the device-which fails. The episode finds some comedy in his various attempts to find a way around the bracelet.
Because House is still wearing an ankle bracelet, he can’t go. Meantime, this week’s House-Wilson subplot involves a boxing match they want to see in Atlantic City. The vehicle for House’s sorta-disclosures this week is the Patient, Ben, who presents with a clean tox screen but-the first House-endorsed diagnosis, from Taub-possible endocarditis. House orders an echo to confirm. His mother’s husband, John House, was a distant military man who carted his family around from one Marine post to the next (which partly explains House’s multilingualism). What we know from previous episodes is that House was the product of an affair between his mother and a minister. All parents screw up all kids, he says over and over during the episode.įrustratingly, we don’t hear more than generalities about how he, in particular, was screwed up. But now, during season eight–and how many more seasons could there be?–we see House grappling again with an upbringing that he considers to be a complete failure. writers have always treaded carefully around this subject matter, presumably because they didn’t have an end date for the show and so couldn’t give away the secrets of his personality too soon. “Parents” is the first episode in a while to return us to the complex territory of how a boy named Gregory ended up as the addicted, acerbic, talented anti-hero we know as House. More below, but first a spoiler alert: if you haven’t seen this week’s episode, “Parents,” remove your ankle bracelet and then watch before reading on. Follow week House treats a precocious 16-year-old boy who wants to be a clown, which is fitting because House is nothing if not a clown with advanced skills.