Is House jumping the shark?

Yeah, on one level, last night's episode was business as usual. But the details were exceptionally cartoonish. House flirting with the CIA doc, getting everything wrong, then being redeemed at the end, the CIA jet, the heretofore principled Doctors Without Borders guy going over the border. The whole thing felt like it had gone around the bend.

And then CIA doc wanting to join the team - will there be any slots left for the Scooby Gang? I was never sure whether Foreman took one of the slots. Is there just one left now? I know Kal Pen has one spot and I know 13 has another -- the two least-interesting candidates, unfortunately -- so my math is already off here.

Maybe a little writers' strike-inspired hiatus will do the team good.