House (TV series)/Nightmare Fuel: Difference between revisions

* ''House'' throws in some more-or-less [[Real Life]] [[Squick|Squickfest]] whenever possible. A particularly memorable episode features {{spoiler|a man whose body organs swell up and sometimes explode, including his tongue, testicles and an eyeball. It all turns out to be an hallucination on Dr. House's part.}}

** Perhaps the worst moment comes at the end, when {{spoiler|House takes control of the robot surgeon and slices the man open from stomach to chest with the intent of killing him so the hallucination will end}}. This takes just long enough to make you wonder {{spoiler|if maybe he was wrong about everything being a hallucination, and he might have just actually killed a man.}} Alternately, of course, {{spoiler|House might have been putting the man out of his misery. In a very, very '''VERY'''' loose sense of the word.}}

* "Black Hole". The visions the patient has of falling into a black hole. [[Primal Fear|* shivers* ]]

** Greatly reduced horror in the next scene when the following exchange takes place:

'''Taub''': ''I certainly hope so''. }}

* One episode has a father leaving his wife and new baby to go to work even though he is sick. At the door he decides he is too sick to go so returns upstairs, where he finds his wife having some sort of seizure in the tub. That's scary enough. Then he turns and sees his newborn baby in the bottom of the tub. To any parent that is more horrifying than drowning yourself.

* {{spoiler|Wilson's chemo in The C Word. The sweating, shaking, vomiting, hallucinations, him almost going insane...}}

 

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