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* [[Actor Allusion]]:
** Leslie Hope and Sarah Clarke, who played the female leads in the first season of Fox's other big hit of the early 2000s, ''[[24]]'', each appears as a patient of the week in the first season, and both have fates that mirror those of their ''24'' characters. {{spoiler|Hope, who played [[Killed Off for Real|Teri Bauer]], plays the first patient in the series to die on House's watch, while Clarke, who played [[The Mole|Nina Myers]], pulls a [[Karma Houdini]]}}.
** Sarah Clarke's character {{spoiler|did die}} in a later season of ''24''.
** In one episode, ''[[Blackadder]]'' can be seen on House's list of Tivo'd shows.
*** Not to mention the dual-joke of House showing up to an 80s party in Regency period costume.
*** And occasionally he will imitate a posh English accent, which is ironically LESS of a departure for him as an actor.
** ''House MD'' exists in an [[Alternate Universe]] where [[Dead Poets Society|Neil Perry]] actually ''does'' become a doctor.
** In one episode [[Star Trek: Enterprise|Jolene Blalock]] plays a porn star who mentions that emotions are emotions and sex is mechanical, and there's no reason to overlap the two.
** In another episode, Taub comments that he figured Foreman's house would have a more "Mod Squad" kind of feel.
** Season 7 Episode 17 wasn't the first time Chris Marquette and Amber Tamblyn [[Joan of Arcadia|worked together]]. They have a lot of appropriately intimate scenes between them.
* [[Billing Displacement]]: Despite appearing in barely a quarter of the episodes in Season 7, Olivia Wilde was billed as a main cast member over Amber Tamblyn, who had a far larger role in the season.
* [[The Danza]]: Lisa Edelstein as Lisa Cuddy.
* [[Dawson Casting]]:
** The 15-year old model in "Skin Deep" is played by a then-27 year old actress.
** Cuddy's daughter is usually played by a much older child actress (looking about four or five) but is treated as though she's two. This is pretty jarring as it looks like the child has developmental disabilities.
* [[Defictionalization]] (sort of)/[[Life Imitates Art]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20100616225927/http://www.princetonhcs.org/default.aspx?p=6988 The Princeton University Hospital at Plainsboro], which opened in May 2012 (replacing the already existing [[wikipedia:University Medical Center at Princeton|University Medical Center at Princeton]]) and even looks somewhat like the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital. However, it has nothing to do with Princeton University (which has no medical school); it is instead loosely affiliated with the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the medical unit of Rutgers University (in full: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey).
* [[Development Gag]]: "Dead and Buried" had a toy zebra as an important clue. "Chasing Zebras" was considered as a title for the show, based on the medical saying “If you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.”
* [[Directed by Cast Member]]: "Lockdown", by [[Hugh Laurie]] himself.
* [[Executive Meddling]]: [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/arts/television/30hous.html The reason why Vogler was introduced in Season 1] (see page 2 of the article).
* [[Fake American]]: [[Hugh Laurie]] as Dr. House. His American accent is one of the better examples, though the way he pronounces some words can give it away. Strangely, he keeps the accent even when he's screwed up lines, as can be seen in the outtakes. When executive producer Bryan Singer saw Hugh Laurie's audition tape, he turned to the casting department and said, "See? ''This'' is an American actor!" The casting department had to correct him.
* [[Fake American]]: [[Hugh Laurie]] as Dr. House. His American accent is one of the better examples, though the way he pronounces some words can give it away. Strangely, he keeps the accent even when he's screwed up lines, as can be seen in the outtakes. When executive producer Bryan Singer saw Hugh Laurie's audition tape, he turned to the casting department and said, "See? ''This'' is an American actor!" The casting department had to correct him.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in season one when House calls a doctor in the early hours of the morning. When asked to explain why he is calling at such an early hour he "puts on" an English accent and pretends he was calling from the UK and hadn't considered the time difference. For this scene Hugh Laurie is of course putting on the silly voice he used for oddball sketch comedy in the 80s.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in Season One when House calls a doctor in the early hours of the morning. When asked to explain why he is calling at such an early hour, he "puts on" an English accent and pretends he was calling from the UK and hadn't considered the time difference. For this scene, Hugh Laurie is of course putting on the silly voice he used for oddball sketch comedy in the 80s.
** Like most fake-American accents, Laurie uses a "gruff voice" as a cover-up in order to fake an American accent over his British-- ala Bob Hoskins in ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit,'' and John Mahoney on ''Frasier;'' not coincidentally, they're ''all'' playing stereotypical "tough American detectives" who supposedly all speak in gruff Midwestern dialects.
** Like most fake-American accents, Laurie uses a "gruff voice" as a cover-up in order to fake an American accent over his British-- ala Bob Hoskins in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'' and John Mahoney on ''[[Frasier]]'' not coincidentally, they're ''all'' playing stereotypical "tough American detectives" who supposedly all speak in gruff Midwestern dialects.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: When House {{spoiler|steals Wilson's pad, we can see what he writes}}. The prescription is for "Vicodin ES 5/500", which doesn't exist. So, House is either taking regular 5/500 mg Vicodin or 7.5/750 mg Vicodin Extra Strength. Or he's usually prescribed the lower dose, but {{spoiler|intentionally throws the ES on in a futile attempt to confuse the pharmacist.}}
* [[Artistic License Pharmacology]]: Vicodin is prescribed more than 100 million times each year in the US to treat moderate pain (like arthritis) and to treat coughs. Even in long-term users, Vicodin withdrawal is usually characterized by symptoms no worse than lack of appetite, mild nausea, irritability, anxiety, and restlessness. The withdrawal symptoms House usually displays (vomiting, insomnia, sweats and chills, depression, mood swings) are what would typically characterize frequent diacetylmorphine (heroin) abuse. Vicodin is also not known to cause {{spoiler|disassociative disorder (conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity and/or perception)}}.
:: Methadone is an long-acting synthetic opioid agonist that, like any opiate, causes euphoria. It is prescribed to treat pain in opioid-dependent patients as well as addiction in heavy users of high-potency opiates. Because methadone is many, many times more powerful than hydrocodone (it's listed as a greater than 2 to 1 conversion compared to baseline (morphine), whereas hydrocodone has no consensus but is known to be less than 0.33 to 1), methadone is never used to treat even the heaviest Vicoden abuse. That would be like prescribing 99 Bananas to someone addicted to wine... no matter how much wine they drink, taking shots of vodka just isn't going to improve the situation. There are also other opioids which are more effective at managing pain, so if they specifically wanted to curb House's vicodin use (likely, due to the risk acetaminophen poses to the liver) they would step up to oxycontin (0.33 to 1) or ms-contin (1 to 1).
:: Methadone is used to prevent heroin abuse, mainly because there are a limited number of opioid receptors in the brain and methadone fills them up (preventing heroin's effects from being felt), and because it delays the onset of withdrawal symptoms for many hours, thus reducing both the cravings and incentives for abuse in patients who take it correctly. Methadone users continue to experience physical dependence, but after the addiction is under control, the dose can be lowered to reduce dependence.
* Michelle Trachtenberg (best known for playing Dawn Summers on [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]) guest starred in the episode Safe. She's admitted to having a crush on Hugh Laurie and wrote "I love you" on her inner thigh before a scene where he'd seen it. We might be getting to [[Stalker With a Crush]] territory with that.
* Wait...Sir William was the energetic [[Butt Monkey]] host of ''[[Ka Blam]]''?
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey It's That Girl/Guy]]: [[Gossip Girl|Blair Waldorf]] had a crush on House in season three.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey It's That Girl/Guy]]: [[Gossip Girl|Blair Waldorf]] had a crush on House in season three.
** And amusingly enough, Blair was once asked by Chuck if "[[Actor Allusion|Bertie Wooster is satisfying your needs]]."
** And amusingly enough, Blair was once asked by Chuck if "[[Actor Allusion|Bertie Wooster is satisfying your needs]]."
** My, my, what's the call girl from the first episode of ''[[The West Wing]]'' doing as Dean of Medicine of a hospital?
** My, my, what's the call girl from the first episode of ''[[The West Wing]]'' doing as Dean of Medicine of a hospital?
** [[Sex and The City|Smith Jarred]] stars in House's favorite soap.
** [[Sex and the City|Smith Jarred]] stars in House's favorite soap.
** [[The Hurt Locker|Staff Sergeant James]] plays an ailing punk rocker in season four.
** [[The Hurt Locker|Staff Sergeant James]] plays an ailing punk rocker in Season Four.
** [[Pushing Daisies|Emerson Cod]] is House's chairman arch-nemesis in season one.
** [[Pushing Daisies|Emerson Cod]] is House's chairman arch-nemesis in Season One.
** [[Lost|Libby]] is Wilson's (first) ex-wife. Juliet and Richard have also stopped by.
** [[Lost|Libby]] is Wilson's (first) ex-wife. Juliet and Richard have also stopped by.
** [[ER|Dr. Cleo Finch]] was hired and then fired by House.
** [[ER|Dr. Cleo Finch]] was hired and then fired by House.
** [[In the Heights|Usnavi]] was House's roommate and friend at the mental hospital.
** [[In the Heights|Usnavi]] was House's roommate and friend at the mental hospital.
** [[Harriet the Spy]] had a tick...[[Body Horror|down there.]]
** [[Harriet the Spy]] had a tick... [[Body Horror|down there.]]
** [[Meta Casting|Dave Matthews is a musical prodigy]] and his father is [[That 70s Show|Red Forman]].
** [[Meta Casting|Dave Matthews is a musical prodigy]] and his father is [[That '70s Show|Red Forman]].
** [[That Thing You Do|The Bass Player]] is a shifty drug dealer in season six.
** [[That Thing You Do|The Bass Player]] is a shifty drug dealer in Season Six.
** [[Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle|Harold]] stops by in season one, sadly way before Kumar shows up in season four.
** [[Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle|Harold]] stops by in season one, sadly way before Kumar shows up in season four.
** [[Office Space|Peter Gibbons]] is a doctor who may have gotten TB in Africa.
** [[Office Space|Peter Gibbons]] is a doctor who may have gotten TB in Africa.
** [[Sex and The City|Miranda Hobbes]] has Munchausen's in season two.
** [[Sex and the City|Miranda Hobbes]] has Munchausen's in Season Two.
** [[Cabaret|The Master of Ceremonies]] is {{spoiler|euthanized by Cameron}} in season three.
** [[Cabaret|The Master of Ceremonies]] is {{spoiler|euthanized by Cameron}} in Season Three.
** [[Romy and Micheles High School Reunion|Romy]] is a doctor stuck in the South Pole in season four.
** [[Romy and Michele's High School Reunion|Romy]] is a doctor stuck in the South Pole in Season Four.
** [[Run Lola Run (Film)|Lola]] sleeps with House at the mental hospital.
** [[Run Lola Run|Lola]] sleeps with House at the mental hospital.
** [[That 70s Show|Donna Pinciotti]] appears as a patient who writes about everything on her blog.
** [[That '70s Show|Donna Pinciotti]] appears as a patient who writes about everything on her blog.
** [[R Lee Ermey|Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]] is House's dad!
** [[R. Lee Ermey|Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]] is House's dad!
*** Actually it {{spoiler|might be}} Mr Brown/Uncle Monty/Il Duce/Dain Iroonfoot, A.K.A. Billy Connolly. House's mom sure had an "interesting" taste in men..
*** Actually it {{spoiler|might be}} Mr Brown/Uncle Monty/Il Duce/Dain Iroonfoot, A.K.A. Billy Connolly. House's mom sure had an "interesting" taste in men..
** [[Prison Break|Lincoln Burrows]] shows up in season one as a man whose wife is suspected of having African sleeping sickness.
** [[Prison Break|Lincoln Burrows]] shows up in season one as a man whose wife is suspected of having African sleeping sickness.
** [[Power Rangers Time Force|Jen Scotts]] is a patient of the week.
** [[Power Rangers Time Force|Jen Scotts]] is a patient of the week.
** [[The Mentalist|Teresa Lisbon]] is House's very first patient.
** [[The Mentalist|Teresa Lisbon]] is House's very first patient.
** [[Heroes|Noah Bennet]] is House's patient in [[S 7 E 06]].
** [[Heroes|Noah Bennet]] is House's patient in Season 7 Episode 6.
*** In a much earlier episode, Matt Parkman knees House in the groin.
*** In a much earlier episode, Matt Parkman knees House in the groin.
** [[Glee|Emma Pillsbury]], ironically enough, had the Black Plague.
** [[Glee|Emma Pillsbury]], ironically enough, had the Black Plague.
** [[Neighbours|Billy Kennedy]] killed {{spoiler|[[James Earl Jones|Darth Vader.]]}}
** [[Neighbours|Billy Kennedy]] killed {{spoiler|[[James Earl Jones|Darth Vader]]}}.
** House and Wilson compete for the affections of their new neighbor, [[NCIS (TV)|Special Agent Kate Todd]].
** House and Wilson compete for the affections of their new neighbor, [[NCIS|Special Agent Kate Todd]].
** [[Murphy Brown]] is Cuddy's mother?
** [[Murphy Brown]] is Cuddy's mother?
** [[Mad Men|Paul Kinsey]] shows up as Taub's brother-in-law in [[S 7 E 11]].
** [[Mad Men|Paul Kinsey]] shows up as Taub's brother-in-law in Season 7 Episode 11.
** Apparently, after [[Joan of Arcadia|Joan Girardi]] graduated high school, she became a med student and ended up working at Princeton-Plainsboro.
** Apparently, after [[Joan of Arcadia|Joan Girardi]] graduated high school, she became a med student and ended up working at Princeton-Plainsboro.
** After defeating the Blight, [[Dragon Age|Alistair]] became House's first (and thus far only) Lupus patient.
** After defeating the Blight, [[Dragon Age|Alistair]] became House's first (and thus far only) Lupus patient.
** [[Family Matters|Urkel]] was a fellow convict who supplied House with vicodin while in prison.
** [[Family Matters|Urkel]] was a fellow convict who supplied House with vicodin while in prison.
** [[Limp Bizkit (Music)|Fred Durst]] was a bartender in two episodes from season four.
** [[Limp Bizkit|Fred Durst]] was a bartender in two episodes from season four.
** "Alvie", House's Bipolar I rehab roommate, is Shock's beatboxing buddy from the [[New Electric Company]].
** "Alvie", House's Bipolar I rehab roommate, is Shock's beat-boxing buddy from the ''[[New Electric Company]]''.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Well yeah you see [[James Earl Jones]] but do you really care about anything but the voice?
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Well yeah you see [[James Earl Jones]] but do you really care about anything but the voice?
** Wait... Sir William was the energetic [[Butt Monkey]] host of ''[[KaBlam!]]''?
** House's Italian dubbing voice is also [[Johnny Bravo]].
** House's Italian dubbing voice is also [[Johnny Bravo]].
*** And in French, his voice is [[Aladdin (Disney)|Jafar]]'s.
*** And in French, his voice is [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Jafar]]'s.
* [[McLeaned]]: {{spoiler|When Kal Penn left the show to serve in the Obama administration, the producers had his character, Kutner, commit suicide. Though this was due to the first reason, not because of any friction with the rest of the cast. They just wanted some drama and a [[Very Special Episode]]. The director later joked that if he'd left for another acting role, the death would have been autoerotic asphyxiation}}.
* [[Celebrity Resemblance]]: [[House (TV)|Omar Epps]], i.e. Dr. Foreman, looks a LOT like [http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/multimedia/photo_gallery/0812/athlete.lookalikes.fan.submissions/images/mike-tomlin-omar-epps.jpg Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin]. This was referenced in the episode "Ignorance Is Bliss":
* [[Playing Against Type]]: Before ''House'', [[Hugh Laurie]] was famous in Britain as a comedian and half of the [[Stephen Fry|Fry]] [[A Bit of Fry and Laurie|and Laurie]] comedy team, as well as various [[Upper Class Twit]]s on ''[[Blackadder]]''.
{{quote| '''House:''' Got all of my starters back plus a couple of free agents. I feel like Mike Tomlin. ''(looks at Foreman)'' Probably not as much as you do, but you get the idea.}}
* [[Romance on the Set]]: Jesse Spencer and Jennifer Morrison, who play Drs. Chase and Cameron. They were at one point engaged to be married, but called it off shortly before the wedding. Meanwhile, in a case of [[Real Life Writes the Plot]], their characters also got together romantically... but the plot didn't catch up to their [[Real Life]] breakup, so the actors were filming proposal and wedding scenes well after they had broken up.
* [[Superlative Dubbing]]: The Spaniard dub is one of the best in an American TV series in recent memory. Specially House's voice actor, Luis Pórcar. Eventhough his voice doesn't sound like Hugh Laurie's (although it fits him, nonetheless), his performance is so good that even a lot of people that are normally against dubs watch each episode twice: once in English and once in Spanish. All just to enjoy both voices.
** Almost but not quite: Michelle Trachtenberg (best known for playing Dawn Summers on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'') guest starred in the episode "Safe". She has admitted to having had a crush on Hugh Laurie and writing "I love you" on her inner thigh before a scene where he would see it. We might be getting to [[Stalker with a Crush]] territory with that.
** This is specially surprising considering that, due to the huge popularity the series has in Spain, they have to dub every chapter insanely quickly in order to not loose TV audience when they broadcast it.
* [[What Could Have Been]]s:
** [[Felicia Day]] auditioned for the pilot. She showed up as the POTW in a Season 5 episode.
** Not to mention that ''Patrick "Dr. McDreamy" Dempsey'' originally auditioned for the lead role.
** A physical deformity or handicap was always part of the character design for House, but early versions of the show put him in a wheelchair rather than giving him a bum leg; this was thrown out because it limited the character but showed up in the episode "Needle in a Haystack", where House tries to go a week in a wheelchair as a bet. In another early character design, he had a giant scar on his face.
** "Chasing Zebras" was an early working title for the show, after the common med-school saying "if you hear hoofbeats, you think horses, not zebras" (i.e. a simple, mundane explanation for a group of symptoms is likelier to be right than an exotic or complicated one).


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  • Actor Allusion:
    • Leslie Hope and Sarah Clarke, who played the female leads in the first season of Fox's other big hit of the early 2000s, 24, each appears as a patient of the week in the first season, and both have fates that mirror those of their 24 characters. Hope, who played Teri Bauer, plays the first patient in the series to die on House's watch, while Clarke, who played Nina Myers, pulls a Karma Houdini.
    • Sarah Clarke's character did die in a later season of 24.
    • In one episode, Blackadder can be seen on House's list of Tivo'd shows.
      • Not to mention the dual-joke of House showing up to an 80s party in Regency period costume.
      • And occasionally he will imitate a posh English accent, which is ironically LESS of a departure for him as an actor.
    • House MD exists in an Alternate Universe where Neil Perry actually does become a doctor.
    • In one episode Jolene Blalock plays a porn star who mentions that emotions are emotions and sex is mechanical, and there's no reason to overlap the two.
    • In another episode, Taub comments that he figured Foreman's house would have a more "Mod Squad" kind of feel.
    • Season 7 Episode 17 wasn't the first time Chris Marquette and Amber Tamblyn worked together. They have a lot of appropriately intimate scenes between them.
  • Billing Displacement: Despite appearing in barely a quarter of the episodes in Season 7, Olivia Wilde was billed as a main cast member over Amber Tamblyn, who had a far larger role in the season.
  • The Danza: Lisa Edelstein as Lisa Cuddy.
  • Dawson Casting:
    • The 15-year old model in "Skin Deep" is played by a then-27 year old actress.
    • Cuddy's daughter is usually played by a much older child actress (looking about four or five) but is treated as though she's two. This is pretty jarring as it looks like the child has developmental disabilities.
  • Defictionalization (sort of)/Life Imitates Art: The Princeton University Hospital at Plainsboro, which opened in May 2012 (replacing the already existing University Medical Center at Princeton) and even looks somewhat like the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital. However, it has nothing to do with Princeton University (which has no medical school); it is instead loosely affiliated with the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the medical unit of Rutgers University (in full: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey).
  • Development Gag: "Dead and Buried" had a toy zebra as an important clue. "Chasing Zebras" was considered as a title for the show, based on the medical saying “If you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.”
  • Directed by Cast Member: "Lockdown", by Hugh Laurie himself.
  • Executive Meddling: The reason why Vogler was introduced in Season 1 (see page 2 of the article).
  • Fake American: Hugh Laurie as Dr. House. His American accent is one of the better examples, though the way he pronounces some words can give it away. Strangely, he keeps the accent even when he's screwed up lines, as can be seen in the outtakes. When executive producer Bryan Singer saw Hugh Laurie's audition tape, he turned to the casting department and said, "See? This is an American actor!" The casting department had to correct him.
    • Lampshaded in Season One when House calls a doctor in the early hours of the morning. When asked to explain why he is calling at such an early hour, he "puts on" an English accent and pretends he was calling from the UK and hadn't considered the time difference. For this scene, Hugh Laurie is of course putting on the silly voice he used for oddball sketch comedy in the 80s.
    • Like most fake-American accents, Laurie uses a "gruff voice" as a cover-up in order to fake an American accent over his British-- ala Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and John Mahoney on Frasier not coincidentally, they're all playing stereotypical "tough American detectives" who supposedly all speak in gruff Midwestern dialects.
  • Hey It's That Girl/Guy: Blair Waldorf had a crush on House in season three.
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: Well yeah you see James Earl Jones but do you really care about anything but the voice?
  • McLeaned: When Kal Penn left the show to serve in the Obama administration, the producers had his character, Kutner, commit suicide. Though this was due to the first reason, not because of any friction with the rest of the cast. They just wanted some drama and a Very Special Episode. The director later joked that if he'd left for another acting role, the death would have been autoerotic asphyxiation.
  • Playing Against Type: Before House, Hugh Laurie was famous in Britain as a comedian and half of the Fry and Laurie comedy team, as well as various Upper Class Twits on Blackadder.
  • Romance on the Set: Jesse Spencer and Jennifer Morrison, who play Drs. Chase and Cameron. They were at one point engaged to be married, but called it off shortly before the wedding. Meanwhile, in a case of Real Life Writes the Plot, their characters also got together romantically... but the plot didn't catch up to their Real Life breakup, so the actors were filming proposal and wedding scenes well after they had broken up.
    • Almost but not quite: Michelle Trachtenberg (best known for playing Dawn Summers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer) guest starred in the episode "Safe". She has admitted to having had a crush on Hugh Laurie and writing "I love you" on her inner thigh before a scene where he would see it. We might be getting to Stalker with a Crush territory with that.
  • What Could Have Beens:
    • Felicia Day auditioned for the pilot. She showed up as the POTW in a Season 5 episode.
    • Not to mention that Patrick "Dr. McDreamy" Dempsey originally auditioned for the lead role.
    • A physical deformity or handicap was always part of the character design for House, but early versions of the show put him in a wheelchair rather than giving him a bum leg; this was thrown out because it limited the character but showed up in the episode "Needle in a Haystack", where House tries to go a week in a wheelchair as a bet. In another early character design, he had a giant scar on his face.
    • "Chasing Zebras" was an early working title for the show, after the common med-school saying "if you hear hoofbeats, you think horses, not zebras" (i.e. a simple, mundane explanation for a group of symptoms is likelier to be right than an exotic or complicated one).