Act Your Age (House)

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"Act Your Age"
Episode no. HOU-319
Airdate April 17, 2007
Writer(s) Sara Hess
Director(s) Daniel Sackheim
Guest star(s) Erich Anderson as Deran; Bailee Madison as Lucy; Slade Pearce as Jasper; Carla Gallo as Janie; Joel David Moore as Eddie

House Season 3
September 2006 - May 2007
  1. Meaning
  2. Cane and Able
  3. Informed Consent
  4. Lines in the Sand
  5. Fools for Love
  6. Que Sera Sera
  7. Son of Coma Guy
  8. Whac-A-Mole
  9. Finding Judas
  10. Merry Little Christmas
  11. Words and Deeds
  12. One Day, One Room
  13. Needle in a Haystack
  14. Insensitive
  15. Half-Wit
  16. Top Secret
  17. Fetal Position
  18. Airborne
  19. Act Your Age
  20. House Training
  21. Family
  22. Resignation
  23. The Jerk
  24. Human Error
All House episodes

"Act Your Age" is the nineteenth episode of the third season of House and the sixty-fifth episode overall.

[edit] Plot

The episode starts with a boy whose nose is bleeding very hard from getting into a fight. While his father and teacher discuss his aggressive behavior, his six-year-old sister has a heart attack. Over the course of the episode she develops more symptoms that are usually only exhibited by elderly people. Exploring the patient's house, they find a bloody T-shirt stuffed into a heating vent. Suspecting child abuse at first, the team runs tests and finds that the girl has been menstruating at the age of six. Shallow cuts around the genital area found in a previous exam were attributed to her trying to remove pubic hair with her father's razor. House and his team are baffled, but the breakthrough comes when the brother, who is eight, goes into a rage when Chase acts affectionate towards Cameron on whom the boy had a crush. It turns out that both children have been affected by their father's sexual-enhancement cream, which he's been using to "keep up" with his much younger girlfriend, and are going through puberty early.

[edit] Cultural references

The television show that House is watching is TNA iMPACT!, a weekly Spike series featuring the Total Nonstop Action professional wrestling promotion. The match shown on the screen was Christian Cage vs. Abyss in a Six Sides of Steel Match.

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