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== Doctor House ==

* The episode "Meaning" is an entire CMOA. House suspects a man who has been a complete vegetable for 8 years due to brain cancer might actually have some underlying condition as the cause. However, after two fruitless tests that nearly kill the patient and prove House's theories wrong, House is accused of satisfying his own desire for a puzzle by Cameron, Cuddy, Wilson ''and'' Foreman. Cuddy refuses House any more tests and asserts that the man will leave with his family the next day. That night, House has an epiphany and rushes to Cuddy's house. He excitedly explains his diagnosis and then the unbelieveable treatment: a single injection of Cortisol will ''completely cure the man''. Cuddy initially refuses to give the man the injection, but the next morning, as he is being wheelchaired out with his family, she injects him saying that it is "against infection". A moment passes and nothing happens. Looking dejected, Cuddy turns and leaves the family as they board an elevator. But before the man is wheeled on he suddenly lifts his head and gasps for breath. He begins to unbuckle himself from the wheelchair and stand up unsteadily as his wife and children scramble to help him up. They lift him to his feet and he and his wife hug, tears streaming from their eyes. The wife looks over to a stunned and crying Cuddy and says "Thank you".

'''Cuddy''': Because he's House? }}

* "Safe": House finds something he thinks is the tick causing his patient's symptoms but turns out to be dandruff. He declares it'll be more dramatic when he really finds it. He's right - he manages to pull it off by trapping himself, Foreman and the patient in an elevator, getting caught pawing about in her vagina and then, when the patient's irate father is about to beat the crap of him, producing the tick with a smug "Told you it'd be more dramatic."

* Season 3's ''Whac-A-Mole'', where having obviously worked out what was wrong with the patient, he challenged the Cottages to run one test each to figure it out while writing something down and sealing it in an envelope, presumably the answer. When they - predictably - all guessed wrong, House's add-on test proved his theory correct, and he handed the team the envelope...

'''{{[[User|Kinitawowi]] Me}}:''' ''jawdrop'' }}

* House's speech against Vogler's "[[New and Improved]]" drug in "Role Model" -- Dr. House bows to no [[Manipulative Bastard]]! If he had made the "heroic" gesture -- just sucked it up and violated his principles for the sake of his team -- who knows how long Cuddy would have allowed Vogler to walk all over her and rule the hospital like an [[Evil Overlord]]?

** Even better is the scene where Vogler confronts House. House offers to let bygones be bygones, all water under the bridge. Vogler responds by demanding House's resignation and a public apology. Classic House reply:

* The scene where the normally aloof, stoic House rages at Vogler in a hallway full of bystanders (including Cuddy) over him canceling a patient's surgery and saying what no one else has had the guts to admit -- that Vogler's only interest in the hospital is money, not saving lives.

* The Season 2 episode "Clueless": A husband and wife have herpes, and both insist they're not cheating. House exposes the liar by telling them it's actually true you can get herpes from a public toilet seat. The wife still believes that's ridiculous, but the husband is relieved... because it's ''not'' true, but the one who's cheating would jump on a way out. A performance worthy of King Solomon.

* "Occam's Razor": House introducing himself to the group of patients in the waiting room. The speech deserves to be quoted in its entirety:

* "Sports Medicine": House diagnoses an entire waiting room of people on his way out of the hospital. In around a minute and a half. By just eyeballing it.

* "Under my Skin": The whole episode is pure Crowning Moment of Awesome Acting from Hugh Laurie. You can feel the Fear when House believes he has shaken off his {{spoiler|hallucination of Amber}} when he realizes in a phone call with Foreman that his diagnosis wasn't rational, just lucky, thus his rational side is still on walkabout. Cue creepy ambient [[BGM]] and {{spoiler|Amber standing on the clubs stage, singing "Enjoy yourself, it's later then you think" in a ghostly voice complete with a [[Slasher Smile]].}} You feel the Pain and Agony and self-loathing {{spoiler|House later undergoes during detox}}. Somebody give Hugh Laurie a medal for this one!

* House spends pretty much the entirety of "The Mistake" being awesome, but he tops it all when he actually stops Chase from ruining his career. "If I thought you screwed up because you were hungover I would've fired you myself." This doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], as it is one of the very few times [[Cynical Mentor|House]] ever shows he does care about [["Well Done, Son" Guy|Chase]].

* The final part of the "game" to hire new fellows, and the superb [[Batman Gambit]] House used to get the team he wanted. Not only realizing that Cuddy was trying to pull a gambit on him when he asked who she would hire, (she told him the two she didn't want him hiring thinking he would never do what she said she wanted), he then does exactly what she said, giving him a team of all men, and since it was exactly what Cuddy ''said'' she wanted him to do she couldn't very well make to big a fuss, so instead allows him to hire a third fellow so he'd have a female on the team, which gave House the team he wanted from the start. Then as she's walking away she stops, and you see her realizing that she just became an [[Unwitting Pawn]].

'''House:''' How long have you known me? The game's never over. }}

* The Season Six Finale. House begins to realize that everything around him is beginning to fall apart. The woman he loves is engaged to another man, his friend is throwing him out of his home and the patient he worked so hard to save dies of a freak surgical complication. He goes home, rips the mirror off his bathroom wall and starts to down his last Vicodin stash in what is most likely a suicide attempt. And then, [[Love Redeems|there]] [[Love Will Lead You Back|she]] [[Big Damn Heroes|is]]. They talk, she helps him stand up. He goes to kiss her;

'''Cuddy:''' I think we're good, then. }}

Cue kiss of awesomeness and close with a final shot of [[Intertwined Fingers]].

* "I'm not on antidepressants, I'm on ''SPEEEEEEEEEEED'''."

* "Saviors". Wilson gets House to eat healthy by changing his own diet, and he's [[Batman Gambit|been playing on House's guilt over Amber]]:

'''House''': You [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulative bitch]]. Did you just invoke the name of your dead girlfriend to play me?<br />

'''Wilson''': Yes.<br />

'''House''': You're my hero. }}

* "Transplant". House is out of jail and once again working at PPTH, Wilson is still holding a grudge for his behavior in the previous season and insists all episode that their friendship is over for good. House at one point suggests that Wilson hit him in order to let go of his anger so they can move on. At the end of the episode House is standing in his old office after getting it back. Wilson walks in and, without a word, punches House in the face and knocks him flat on his ass:

'''Wilson''': Screw that. I want a steak. I'll meet you at your place at eight. }}

 

== Doctor Cameron ==

* Confronting [[The Aggressive Drug Dealer|the patient who offered her crystal meth]] to deal with the fear of being exposed to HIV. Now she's ticked off at the [[Deal with the Devil|devil]] who convinced her that [[Evil Feels Good]] with lies about how happy the drugs and sex make him.

'''Cameron''': You haven't had a single visitor except for your dad. Drugs are great, HIV freed you, your dad hates you, you're so happy... Everything's a lie. You blame yourself for your mom's death. You're not trying to have fun, you're trying to self-destruct. You wanna kill yourself? Fine, but stop recruiting! }}

** And ''that'', kids, is why [[Drugs Are Bad]]!

* Cameron's spiel about sex to Chase, completely flustering him.

** What really sells that speech for this troper is the way she immediately cheerfully greets Foreman as he walks in, leaving Chase reeling.

 

* When Cuddy wants revenge on House because she has to work at the hospital instead of being with her daughter, she is getting really nasty, including: Fake "Out of Order" at elevators so House has to take the stairs, stealing his cane and placing ''tripwires'' for him.

** Another similar episode results in this:

'''Cuddy''': No... I'm replacing his Vicodin stack with laxatives. }}

* Even though it was only a hallucination, the scene in 'House's Head' when she's doing a striptease and trying to jog House's memory at the same time.

** Actually, any time House gets assaulted ether counts as, or is a prelude to a CMOA.

* House and Wilson thinking the other is depressed and proving it by ''drugging'' each other in "Resignation". Exemplified by the awesome line:

* Not to mention the opening bit from "Birthmarks" (5x04): {{spoiler|Cuddy and Wilson tag-teaming and drugging House to get him to go to his father's funeral. Cuddy's pretty awesome, but this troper's got to give it to Wilson - buying secondhand mats and having a spare bottle in his car knowing House would threaten to pee on the floor unless Wilson let him out.}}

** {{spoiler|Wilson throws...I don't even remember what it was. At the end of that episode he smashed a very nice window with something that was very expensive and fragile looking. House's comment? "Still not boring." The actors nailed the expressions and tones needed to play it all so well that nothing else matters.}}

* The awesome bit in 'The Greater Good' where Foreman and Thirteen begin to argue diagnoses.

'''Foreman''' (with a 'why me' expression on his face): House. Drop it. We're seeing each other. Anything else is not relevant. }}

* The graveyard scene. That is just pure awesome. I mean, House sends them to ''dig up a fucking grave'', for God's sake. The dialogue goes something like this:

* End scene.* }}

* The whole S6 finale is a CMOA for: