David Shore's House is an investigative situational comedic hospital drama. That was a mouthful, but my point is that House crams almost every TV show genre into one hour, every Tuesday night at 9 pm.

I almost feel bad not really enjoying House; the show's executive producer is one of my favorite Hollywood directors, Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, X-Men, Superman) and it has won numerous awards. However I couldn’t help but feel like it tried to pack too much punch.

This week’s episode began with a young, attractive woman arriving at the home of an older woman. The audience can tell the young woman is selling something, but we are not clued in to what yet. We are quickly filled in that the young woman is a prostitute as she surprises the older woman, which causes the old woman to pass out.

An ambulance is called, and the prostitute rides with the old woman to the hospital where we are sent on a wild goose chase to find out what really is wrong with the woman, because (cue dramatic voice over…) all is not as it seems.

Now we are introduced to plot line number two –- Dr. House is boarding a plane with a colleague. Within the first seconds of the scene we establish the familiar smart-ass persona of House with quick, witty dialogue with his coworker.

This plot line deals with an unidentifiable illness on the plane that House and his colleague end up having to solve. The execution of this story also manages to mirror the formula they use for the old woman story: fishy situation, heightened curiosity due to uncertainty, then eventual resolve.

As I said before, House plays with run-of-the-mill TV show scenarios, blending them together into one interesting show. Generally we’d see the old woman and the prostitute mystery on a show like ER, the smart ass “know it all doctor” on a show like Scrubs, and we’d round it out with the mystery of the illness on the plane on a show like CSI. This is precisely what makes House unique, and what makes it distracting and predictable.