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* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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.

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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.
    • The 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.
  • 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.
  • Did Not Do the Research: When House 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 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 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.

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.
    • 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.
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