4x08 You Don't Want to Know - House M.D. Episode Guide

House M.D.

- Episode 04x08

Episode: 04x08
Title: You Don't Want to Know
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: HOU-408
First Aired: Nov. 20, 2007

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House M.D. - 04x08 You Don't Want to Know

Summary: House treats a magician who had a heart attack during an illusion. House doesn't like magicians and figures the guy screwed up, but the tests prove otherwise. Meanwhile, the fellows participate in House's newest game: the winner gets immunity and the chance to pick two other fellows, and House will fire one of them.

Who appeared in this episode?

Dr. Jeffrey 'Big Love' Cole	played by Edi Gathegi
Thirteen	played by Olivia Wilde (II)
Flynn	played by Steve Valentine
Ilana	played by Noelle Drake
Surgeon	played by Joe Ochman
Nurse #1	played by Mandy McMillian
Nurse #2	played by Adria Johnson
Nurse	played by Bobbin Bergstrom

Episode Quotes

Season 4 / Episode 8: - You Don't Want to Know

Thirteen: What the hell is this?
Dr. Gregory House: Looks like an envelope with the results for the genetic test for Huntington's inside.
Thirteen: Did you look?
Dr. Gregory House: Thought it would be fun to find out together.
Thirteen: I don't want to know.
Dr. Gregory House: No, you're afraid to know
Thirteen: I might die. So could you. You could get hit by a bus tomorrow, the only difference is you don't have to know about it today, so why should I?
Dr. Gregory House: I don't have to know the lottery numbers, but if someone offered them to me I'd take them.
Thirteen: You spend your whole life looking for answers, because you think the next answer will change something, maybe make you a little less miserable. And you know that when you run out of questions you don't just run out of answers, you run out of hope. You glad you know that?

Season 4 / Episode 8: - You Don't Want to Know

Dr. Gregory House: Would've been more impressive if he predicted he wasn't gonna die. 'Course, that takes longer.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

FACT: When the patient is put in the MRI machine he suffers extreme discomfort as soon as the machine is switched on, due to the key in his gut. In reality, MRI machines are always magnetic, even when inactive and he would have been injured before the scan started.
FACT: Setting off one sprinkler head does not trigger the entire system. Each head has an element that melts to apply water to just the areas that are on fire.
FACT: Foreman explains that the patient had antibodies for blood type A and type B and that the blood banks test for antibodies and that this is why they wrongly deduced the patients' blood type. In fact the blood banks test for both antigens and antibodies, eliminating the possibility for this error. On top of that, a patient with antibodies for both blood types would be shown as having type O.

TRIVIA

After the show, a message appears dedicating the episode to the memory of Barbara Issak.
SPOILER: A running joke of the series is that Lupus is almost always suggested as one of the possible causes of the patient's symptoms, although it is never the culprit (House even remarks that "It's never Lupus"). The reason for this may be that the disease has a wide variety of symptoms and can disguise other medical conditions. The joke is ended in "You Don't Want to Know", when House comments that he finally has a case of Lupus.