House (TV series)/Trivia: Difference between revisions

:: 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.

* [[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]]."

** My, my, what's the call girl from the first episode of ''[[The West Wing]]'' doing as Dean of Medicine of a hospital?

** [[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.

** [[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.

** [[Cabaret|The Master of Ceremonies]] is {{spoiler|euthanized by Cameron}} in season three.

** [[That 70s Show|Donna Pinciotti]] appears as a patient who writes about everything on her blog.

*** 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.

** [[Glee|Emma Pillsbury]], ironically enough, had the Black Plague.

** [[Neighbours|Billy Kennedy]] killed {{spoiler|[[James Earl Jones|Darth Vader.]]}}

** [[Murphy Brown]] is Cuddy's mother?

** [[Mad Men|Paul Kinsey]] shows up as Taub's brother-in-law in [[S 7 E 11]].

** 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.

** "Alvie", House's Bipolar I rehab roommate, is Shock's beatboxing 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?

** House's Italian dubbing voice is also [[Johnny Bravo]].

{{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.}}

* [[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.