Living the Dream (House)

House (Hugh Laurie) is convinced that one of the actors on his favorite soap opera "Prescription: Passion" (guest star Jason Lewis) has a serious medical condition after observing his symptoms on television.

The team gives him antibiotics for a possible infection, but when this has no effect House has an epiphany and administers steroids for a floral allergy.

Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) tries to keep up appearances when an inspector makes an unexpected visit to Princeton-Plainsboro.

[2] Sarah Collins of North by Northwestern felt the episode proved that House is a "whack job.

Club, rated the episode A− and said, " The POW and his SUS were fairly typical this week, but the evidence-gathering had some new wrinkles, and the show ventured a little outside the themes it's been exhausting lately.