After three seasons of "House", I have to ask: when is somebody going to switch House's Vicadin with Prozac? Wouldn't that be the best episode ever? And it's not like it wouldn't be completely justified.

Seriously, how is it that an episode of "House" goes by and House (Hugh Laurie) is not punched in the face two or three times? The point of season 3 appears to be to set some kind of record for offensive things House can say to people.

The season begins with House recovered from his leg injury, but that quickly dissolves and he's back again limping, trying to avoid prosecution for drug possession from an overzealous cop (David Morse) who House left in a waiting room with a thermometer stuck up his ass. As any regular watcher of House knows, the rest of the episodes involve patients with strange afflictions coming into the hospital and nearly dying before House figures out what's wrong.

This basic plot summary of every House episode raises lots of questions like: when will somebody other than House solve a case? Actually, Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) does solve one mid-season, which seems like it must have been the episode where Hugh Laurie was pregnant and unavailable to act. This single episode appears to set off a light bulb in the head of the producers as they realize that regular viewers have been waiting to see if the other doctors who work with House can actually do anything themselves. Suddenly, everyone is solving cases.

Other questions are also obvious. Why haven't doctors Foreman (Omar Epps), Chase (Jesse Spencer), and Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) quit yet? All House does is abuse them. Then there's House's "friend" Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), who's main function, along with everyone else really, is to take House's abuse. The fact that House hasn't been fired yet for his continual insubordination is hard to believe. No matter how good a doctor he is, nobody would be willing to put up with the constant shit. In real life, he'd either be on the ground trying to pick up his teeth every five minutes or in court trying to head off various lawsuits.

"House" was repetitive in its first season. Now, it's just getting increasingly ridiculous.