House Call

House has hit the ground running this season, breaking the formula. (He's got a bunch of candidates running to replace his old team.) But he said something interesting last episode--that he doesn't have to go to Detroit to know it smells.

First, unless he's speaking metaphorically, Detroit doesn't smell. In fact, with people and businesses leaving en masse, it's returning to a state of nature. (New Jersey, on the other hand, does smell.)

Second, we know that Greg House attended the University of Michigan. It makes me wonder if he ever went to Detroit to find out if it smells or not. It's possible to live in Ann Arbor and not see Detroit, but was he really that close and never took a road trip? Not even to Windsor?