Directed by: Deran Sarafian
Written by: Garrett Lerner and Russell Friend
A fitness expert (Samantha Shelton) leads a fat man on a run up the stands at a stadium. He feels good, but she passes out and falls down.
Seeing a picture of the patient, Dr. House notes she has both curves and muscles. "My penis is so confused," he says.
The patient dreams that her clients show up to her hospital room to confront her about the fact that she had a gastric bypass. Her physical fitness brand is a fraud.
Meanwhile, Dr. Hadley feels guilty about getting into Dr. Foreman's Huntington's trial because of "nepotism." Foreman asserts she got the spot because of her illness.
Dr. Cameron consults with Dr. Kutner and Dr. Taub about a woman who keeps singing. The patient dies. House confronts Kutner and Taub in the morgue. Then the patient gets up: she was alive all along, it was prank, and Cameron was in on it.
Cuddy is pleasantly surprised to find her old desk from med school in her office. Her mother had it in storage, but why would she send it, unless House told her? Cuddy goes to thank House, but he's having a romantic moment with the "zombie" patient.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- Continuity Nod to the previous episode: Dr. Cuddy's office is all messed up from the hostage situation, so she uses Dr. House's office while her office is cleaned up and renovated.
- Faking the Dead: Dr. Cameron's patient for Dr. House's prank.
- Fitness Nut: The fitness expert, to the point where she had a secret surgery done to further reduce her weight.
- I Just Want to Be Beautiful: The fitness expert refuses to get her gastric bypass reversed, even though it would've help her manage her final diagnosis, because she resented how fat she was before and didn't want any of her customers to know that she cheated in order to stay slim.Dr. House: Not many people have the guts to admit they rather be pretty than healthy.
