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== House is the Riddler from Batman in an alternate universe. ==
Think about it. The crummy childhood (not really unique, but a similarity), the obsession with riddles and puzzles, the cane, the contempt for authority, the utter disregard for any sort of laws, the willingness to gamble with people's lives: the list goes on.
== House is an [[Alternate Universe]] where the [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Cleveland Hellmouth]] is under Princeton instead. ==
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This would mean that all his porn's [[Hentai]].
* ''That's'' [[Canon]].
* In one of the newest episodes, he mentioned [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
== Stephen Fry will guest star as House's Psychiatrist. ==
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== Stephen Fry will guest star as Patient of the Week. ==
And they'll throw some ABOFAL reference just for the heck of it. For example, let's suppose someone, say, Thirteen, tells him about some of House's opinions:
{{quote|
'''Thirteen (or even better, House himself):''' I beg your pardon?
* Will Marcus Mumford play Stephen's son whom they have to track down for a kidney? }}
== House is in a coma and hallucinating everything. ==
Think about it. The entire universe revolves around him - often, it seems as if nothing in the hospital would get done if he was not there to help. He is always right (more or less); he is never called to task for any of the ethically gray (or black) things that he does; and he is [[Suetiful All Along|incredibly fascinating]] to everyone he meets. This is all easily explained if the "universe" that he sees is the result of his delusions while he's in a coma. The hospital where he works is loosely based on what he experiences when his brain swims towards lucidity.
* The scary thing is, this theory could be ''half'' right.
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House rejected the original illusion because it was too perfect. When he slipped back into coma, the illusion eventually became [[Darker and Edgier]] so House would accept it - [[Darker and Edgier]] than the first two seasons...
This would also explain how House could survive so many near-death experiences with so little permanent damage.
== House is literally an anarchist. ==
When Foreman calls him an anarchist, it's meant to be a bit of hyperbole. But House sees every rule from "get permission before experimenting on babies" to "the cafeteria is closed after 6" as a personal challenge. He also defies every authority figure, without exception, and never votes in any election. Sounds like a classic anarchist to me.
* Looks like this is confirmed as of "Broken" (the season 6 premiere). But it's compulsive. He does it even when he knows it's against his best interest.
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The actor who plays Wilson is Neil Perry, and {{spoiler|faked his own suicide to escape the [[Billy Elliot Plot]] and pursue a career in acting}}. He then found a job playing a doctor (the career his father wanted him to pursue) on TV and became successful enough that his father accepted his choice in careers. As a peace offering, Neil invited his father onto the show for a guest appearance as a father whose son is a brain-damaged pianist.
* Wouldn't House be [[Long Runner|running in the universe for around 50 years then]]? House is set in the present day, while [[Dead Poets Society]] happens during the late '50s.
** No - Wilson isn't that old. What happened was, in this universe, the teacher played by [[Robin Williams]] made so great a mark on society that all the social and scientific revolutions happened ahead of schedule. [[House (TV series)|House]] is set in that universe's 1970s-1980s. (It would explain Chase's fashion sense.)
** ^ And all this has officially become my canon.
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Naturally, Thirteen does not know about this. Foreman maintained the relationship to ensure she never has reason to find out - that, and she's attractive in a skinny-white-girl way.
There is a chance that Thirteen isn't the only patient Foreman switched - just the only one we know about. A lot of [[House (TV series)|House]] has been running behind the scenes lately.
Note that Foreman distanced himself from Thirteen as soon as he got a plausible excuse.
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== House is [[The Grim Reaper]]. ==
Or at least a Grim Reaper. And he is very bored. He does ''not'' enjoy watching people die, which is one reason he doesn't just hand out his [[
He might be unconsciously killing people around the globe when their times come. He might be a plague-bringer to the American Northeast. He might be on vacation with a temp filling his position.
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== "You Can't Always Get What You Want" will be the song for the final minutes of the series' finale. ==
It will likely include the [[Last
* <s> The [[Last
== House is an adult [[Doogie Howser, M.D.|Doogie Howser]]. ==
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== Whatever causes House's boredom has happened to Cuddy. ==
In the first three years of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', Cuddy's primary roles were to give House cases and make sure he did his job or, if there was no case, clinic duty. After Cameron got rehired into PPTH's ER, her primary role onscreen has been to deliver cases, one way or another. Since she, as a doctor trained under House, doesn't always consult Cuddy before transferring cases, Cuddy no longer knows for sure when House and his team are working. Having lost the most enjoyable part of her job, she is trying to compensate by entering the games House and Wilson have long engaged in with both feet - which otherwise would have died down, since Wilson had been mourning Amber for half that time (counting the seasonal break).
== Cameron's real reason for resigning from Acting Dean of Medicine was ''not'' that she had too many lingering feelings for House to deal with him at work. ==
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== Cameron resigned from being Acting Dean of Medicine because her feelings for House at work were interfering with her relationship with Chase at home. ==
Chase looked like a mess when we did see him in the time she was Dean - perhaps because he knew why she took the position by then. [[Love Makes You Crazy|Love has made Chase crazy,]] more or less, or else given him a new focus for latent craziness; Cameron is afraid of what might happen if he ever empties that drawer she gave him. His skillset (intensivist-surgeon who can deal with House's team) is too valuable for her, as administrator of PPTH, to risk losing over heartbreak. And she already knew that she could find someone else to distract House.
* This might also explain [[The Tag]] to "Saviors." Apparently, some form of [[
** If that last speculation is true, then PPTH is gonna have a blue Christmas.
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He was not seen in the OR proper during that time; the one time we saw him in scrubs then, he was cozying up to Cameron. He had not done operations or even tried to scare "ducklings" from the OR.
He has been known to unintentionally kill or injure patients when he tries to work under emotional stress, and he had enough of that when Cameron was Acting Dean. Ordering the leave might have been the last thing Cameron did offscreen before she informed Cuddy that Cuddy needed to take her position back.
* It was no more than six weeks' leave. Unfortunately, the underlying issues aren't completely resolved.
* Or he's mentally slipped off the rails far enough that he's only ''thinking'' he's back at work. Insane!Chase is nicer than classic!Chase, and House also believes Chase is back at work, and so everyone is humoring them.
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House told Foreman while (temporarily) firing him over Thirteen that, had Chase let his relationship with Cameron get in the way of his work, he would've fired Chase. But at no point ''during'' Chase and Cameron's tenure with House did they have a genuine, official relationship; that is why they both remained employed after the sleep-lab debacle. When Chase expressed interest in a genuine relationship, Cameron ended the pseudo-relationship, at least for then...
Chase ''did'' get fired a few months after that. The real reason was that he was still trying to pursue a relationship with Cameron. The mental effort he put into this distracted him from the differentials, which likely contributed to at least one disaster (Season 3 had several). House couldn't tell him to drop his relationship with Cameron because, technically, there wasn't one yet.
== Cuddy has used a [[Fountain of Youth]]. ==
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* The relationship is '''confirmed''' in "Top Secret" and "Known Unknowns."
== ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' takes place in an alternate universe. ==
Because nothing in New Jersey should look like California.
== If Taub leaves PPTH, he could join the organizations of [[
First, he finds a teenager who accused a priest of molesting him - with no more info than that and who the priest in question was. Two episodes later, he has found Wilson's insane brother, whom Wilson had been looking for (off and on) for 13 years - and Taub couldn't have been working on that for more than 18 months! Anyone that good at finding people would be useful at a Missing Persons department or hunting down witnesses to a cold case.
* Or he could join Lucas Douglas in [
** We might get to see that ''before'' Taub leaves PPTH. Lucas has been spun back in.
* Someday, when he's ready, Taub will find out {{spoiler|who killed Kutner.}} And then take revenge.
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The various members of the cast are either people that he knew at some point or are amalgamations of certain traits. The various medical cases are a way for House's brain to avoid atrophying as well as a way to try to pull himself awake.
This also would explain the obsession with pain medication and his almost always being eventually right. The later seasons are examples of his mind either trying to shock or scare him awake or trying to help him deal with his underlying problems and flaws, such as his selfishness, the way he takes friends for granted, etc.
== House is in Purgatory or something like it. ==
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== The network or producers {{spoiler|[[McLeaned]] Kutner}}. ==
Okay, the actor had asked to leave the show. He had good reason to. But surely {{spoiler|Kutner could've been [[Put
* He wasn't [[Screwed
** The problem isn't that he left, or even (for viewers) why he left. It's ''how'' he left.
* Wait...''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' airs on [[FOX]]. Newscorp owns broadcast Fox and [[Fox News]]. Kal Penn leaves to join the Obama administration and... Goddammit, Fox.
** Because [[The Simpsons]] and [[Family Guy]] totally aren't allowed to express the writers' moonbat opinons.
** [[The Simpsons]] and [[Family Guy]] have [[Negative Continuity]], run on [[Rule of Funny]], and take [[Refuge in Audacity]]. [[FOX]] allows those shows their moonbat opinions because they ''look'' like moonbat shows. [[House (TV series)|House]] is a semi-realistic [[Medical Drama]] with continuity averaging positive, and it had [[Very Special Episode|Very Special Episodes]] even before the incident being theorized about. [[FOX]] and [[Universal]] do care about the messages the show sends; else, we would not have a "House is not an addict" WMG.
== Wilson wasn't there when House had the infarction because Wilson didn't live in Princeton yet. ==
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<s> 1997</s> 1992: House has his infarction. When he recovers, Cuddy hires him out of pity. House, taking advantage of Cuddy's then-sincere generosity, gets Wilson into PPTH on his heels.
* Note -- dates have been changed in the timeline because Wilson gave a hard date for [[Year Zero]] in "Lockdown," and it is considerably earlier than what had been commonly assumed.
== Kutner is [[Harold
Because Kumar ''is'' planning on being a doctor following ''[[Harold
== Chase is moderating his accent. ==
This theory won't fly everywhere; maybe it's only popular In America! But it's bandied around a lot...
We had twenty years prior to [[House (TV series)|House]] to learn what an Australian accent sounds like. Chase's accent, while noticeable, is milder than those of, say, [[Crocodile Dundee]] or Steve Irwin. Clearly, he's toning it down deliberately to seem more refined or be more comprehensible. If he didn't, he might sound like pure "Outback" - or worse, Czech-Australian. (That last possibility isn't usually brought up but, since he ''is'' Czech-Australian and we've heard his dad speak, it's just possible.)
* Discredited. Lo and behold, very few Australian people sound like Crocodile Dundee or Steve Irwin. This Australian troper thinks Chase's accent pretty typical, especially if Chase comes from the city. (Where in Australia does Chase come from?)
** Melbourne.
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* We now know that this theory might be possible. Chase can ''drop'' his accent with minimal preparation, so he might be able to adjust it.
== Chase spent Summer 2008 competing on ''[[
He hid his accent thoroughly, but anyone who watched that season of ''[[
* Alternatively, that was one of Chase's half-relatives. This possibility is much more likely, since we didn't see any epi-pens floating around.
* The odds of this being Chase himself have gone up slightly now that we know that he ''can'' hide his accent thoroughly. Though if it was him, he should have remembered it ''before'' taking the speed-dating bet. ''[[
== PPTH has an interesting age superstition going ==
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== Kutner was in love with Thirteen. ==
They had been friends early on; he had even given her comfort when she first was diagnosed with Huntington's. Kutner was shocked to learn she slept with Foreman. (She replied that it was because Kutner was busy at the time.) He seemed to have some interest in her, and he was jealous enough that he told Foreman that her being bisexual gave her twice as many people to cheat with. He finally couldn't stand watching her together with Foreman anymore, and {{spoiler|shot himself.}}
* Watching her go through House picking on her, living through the whole one-night-stand episode, and knowing about her brain tumor made it worse.
== It ''wasn't'' Lupus. ==
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== House is an [[Our Elves Are Better|elf]]. ==
Or a [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-elf]] –- the human half would explain why he has [[Perma
* And his infarction was due to a wound received from a Nazgul thousands of years ago.
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== The hallucination in "House Divided" is a [[The Dresden Files|Knight of the Blackened Denarius]]. ==
It knows things an ordinary hallucination shouldn't and tried to make House kill Chase. It took the form of Amber to try and further erode his sanity so that it can fully take him over. It came quite close...
* What's more, the real Amber acted the way she did because she had the Coin originally. House accidentally picked it up during the bus accident. This is also why she didn't fight harder to live.
* Alternatively...
== The hallucination in "House Divided" was [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|The First]]. ==
Again, it knew things it shouldn't and tried to make House kill Chase. The First always seemed to like making people on the side of good kill others or themselves and House, despite an asshole, has saved hundreds.
== The guy that shot House will be revealed as {{spoiler|the guy who shot Kutner}}. ==
House was grasping at straws, but it has been a long time since they added anything to that sort-of-[[Myth Arc]]. And it might get fans off their backs about giving the character a [[Dropped a Bridge
== Season 5 Penultimate Episode spoilers: House is {{spoiler|still on vicodin; he just doesn't know it}}. ==
That was {{spoiler|''way'' too short a detox for him to be walking around and doing other stuff}}. Amber went from a hallucination to full-blows dissociative identity disorder, and she's taking pills and dosing his coffee/mugs with vicodin while neither he nor Cuddy are looking.]] That's why the next episode has a guy with Alien Hand Syndrome: It's going to provide the clue that shatters House's wall of security.
* Confirmed.
**
== House's real dad is Hawkeye from ''[[
We know from the paternity test that his mother's husband wasn't his real father. And Hawkeye was also in the military.
== House '''is''' Hawkeye from ''[[
Think about it. Hawkeye is snarky, clever, has blue eyes, and has almost no respect for authority; the same goes for House. So... as soon as Hawkeye got back to the States, he used a [[Fountain of Youth]], changed his name, and took a job at PPTH.
* Not so fast.
== Foreman was trying to hurt or kill Chase in "House Divided" ==
Chase is allergic to strawberries. This is in his medical file. Odds are high that, post-Vogler, House tried to use that to torment Chase at least once when we weren't looking (say, sending Chase on a donut run, demanding a dozen strawberry iced - or maybe ten of those and two of something Chase ''likes''). Foreman is not the sharpest knife in the diagnostic drawer, but he likely got the idea that Chase had a strong aversion to strawberries at the very least; and if House tried to ''secretly'' trigger the allergy - well, everyone in Diagnostics would find out.
And then, some time later, Foreman learns that Chase's bachelor party contains a strawberry-flavored stripper, either directly or ''via'' Thirteen. ''He'' was, canonically, the one who urged Chase to take one last drink off that stripper.
== House is going to marry Lisa Cuddy. ==
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== In season 5, Amber Volakis is real but a ghost. ==
She's blocked from heaven because she's the CTB, and she's willing to let House believe she's a hallucination because he would never believe the truth.
This, naturally, is ''never'' going to be confirmed; but by its nature, it probably can't be [[Jossed]].
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== Chase is an evil djinn. ==
Somehow, some time ago, a djinn bottle got mixed up with the gin bottles at Chez Chase. The first Mrs. Rowan Chase released the djinn and made a wish that trapped it in a human body, whereupon he took on the ID of Robert Chase. Djinni [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|aren't allowed to break out of their own soul-jars,]] and so he's been stuck pretending to be human ever since. Since he isn't really human, he often is aloof and inhuman - especially early on. His apparent combo of ambition and laziness just naturally goes with being from a race that has great power (when free) but gets forced into long periods of inactivity.
He's a bound djinn. He ''always'' does what anyone else asks of him when possible, no matter how hard, humiliating, or illegal it is, even if it's against his express desires or his own self-interest (which he tries to protect when he acts on his own). House has no way of knowing that Chase is ''compelled'' to be like that.
And he is positive about the existence of the supernatural; it takes one to know one.
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Or Cameron exposed Kutner. {{spoiler|Thirteen killed Kutner, and then tried to kill Chase as a warning to Cameron to keep quiet. Even she dares not kill the most generally caring woman at PPTH.}}
** But I thought I saw Chase in that the hallucination to. So is Chase a mole to?
== Chase owns the death cat. ==
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About three episodes and one major disaster after that, House says that Chase has a cat. This is the first we've heard of it. If House is right about this, it could be the same cat. Chase is friends with Taub, more or less, since they're both surgeons; Chase took pity on Taub's plea to save him from perpetual litterbox duty and Kutner from letting his fear of death cats lock him out of Diagnostics. Chase is fairly cold-blooded; no cat is going to cuddle him for warmth...
And if he ended up cuddling the kitty a little (offscreen) during the last few episodes of season 5 - well, he'd done things to antagonize Cameron (bachelor parties, jealousy over dead husbands, you know the drill), and he was a little lonely...
== House's laptop died shortly after the deathcat sat on it. ==
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== Kutner {{spoiler|faked his death.}} ==
Any and all evidence to {{spoiler|his supposed 'suicide' was planted by Kutner in association with a third party organization whom he may or may not currently be working for.}}
* Further evidence will be revealed in the third [[Harold
== House ''will'' detox from Vicodin completely and successfully. ==
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== Allison Cameron will be Dean of Medicine at PPTH at the beginning of season 6 ==
The reasons Cuddy had for trying to leave the position remain valid: Cuddy is still a mom who wants to learn to bond with her kid. The reason Cameron resigned from the Deanhood ceased to be valid, at least temporarily, at the end of Season 5. And, when Cuddy picks her replacement while she's on sabbatical, Cameron has an edge because she's had the position before.
This should make things interesting for both the Diagnostics Department collectively (since she'll be better able to obstruct it needlessly this time around) and for Dr. Robert Chase (who will be at least two levels below her in the hospital hierarchy, again).
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(NOTE, based on episodes shown in the UK.)
* This was once [[Word of God]], but there has been at least one [[Flip
* Drug seeking behavior and stock-piling are medically recognized as signs of dependence, not necessarily addiction. You can not take opiates long term without dependence and tolerance. But when the drugs cause problems in your life (social, mental, physical, whatever) and you still continue to use narcotics, or when you take prescription painkillers at unscheduled times to alleviate symptoms other than pain (ie boredom), those are signs of addiction. IRL, Vicodin is what the dentist gives you when you need something after you have a tooth pulled. House has had major damage to a major thigh muscle, leaving him with permanent nerve damage and a permanently incapacitated leg (which by itself would also cause fairly severe back pain, just ask Hugh Laurie about simply faking a limp). House, as a real pain patient, would realistically be prescribed something like a few oxycodone a day (without acetaminophen, to lower his long-term risk of liver damage) as needed for "breakthrough" pain, and ms contin several times a day for regular maintenance. He would also probably have to take a recommended daily dose of aspirin (or even prescription anticoagulants) to prevent recurrence of the thromboembolism. With such a course of treatment, the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners would probably have to limit his authority to practice, if they didn't revoke his license outright and force him into teaching.
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== Wilson will be having a relationship with Karamel, the stripper with the strawberry body butter. ==
She will call him John because of [["Happy Ending" Massage|how they]] [[
* Now Robert Chase will really have a reason to avoid the Diagnostics floor.
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The only question left if this is true is, what ''is'' the correct new season numbering?
* Further evidence: Katie Jacobs, a current producer for the show, told TV Guide that she would decide "next year" when the current season would end. This interview was printed ''late January 2010''!
* And further evidence: [[House (TV series)|House]] is distributed by [[Universal]]. Other shows associated with Universal have had confusing numbering conventions: [[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]] has had five Volumes in its four seasons, and [[Battlestar Galactica]] has a "season 4.5." ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' is jumping onto this bandwagon a little late.
* It appears that a season divider has been informally drawn between "Wilson" and "The Down Low."
== Season One (standard numbering) will end up in [[Canon
This is the season with the Vogler arc, which the creators dislike; several characters behaved then in ways contrary to more recent portrayals. This is where we first deal with Cameron's deceased relatives. (There was one early episode where her dead first husband would've been relevant but was never brought up.) This is when Cameron tried to date House, planting the seed to a pairing that thrives in [[Fanfic]] to this day. This is where much of our info on Chase, including one of his diagnostic successes, comes from. Most critically, '''this is the season in which it is sincerely argued that''' '''''House is not an addict!'''''
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Now, think of Chase as he is now -- that is, deep in love or a reasonable facsimile thereof with Cameron. Now think of how he treated Cameron, and perhaps life itself, in seasons 4 and 5 during those moments when he thought she didn't love him back. He may have been paranoid some of those times, but that's no comfort to Cameron.
This was the same sort of thing. It is not ''objectively'' justifiable.
== Chase's parents abused him, in the loose sense of the word "abuse". ==
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* <s>Probably</s> true. But House will try to get him back even if it means blackmailing him again. He is the better living Number.
== ''House'' and ''[[
Both are serious [[Medical Drama|Medical Dramas]] that take place in hospitals which run far more chaotically than any [[Real Life]] hospital would dare. Both are heavy on soap-operatic plots; [[House (TV series)|House]] just lessens the burden on the main cast by giving the [[Patient of the Week|patients of the week]] soap-operatic plots, too. And Princeton is far enough from Seattle that it's unlikely that something will happen in [[Canon]] to [[Jossed|joss]] this.
== The fellowships have no time limit ==
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== Some woman, probably a [[Patient of the Week]], will rape Chase. ==
And his relationship with Cameron will end in an [[Ironic Echo]] of how it began.
* There was another way to pull that off.
== House is in league with the [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|Horseman]] Pestilence. ==
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Bonus points if the successor to that dictator supports that dictator. (''Very'' unlikely, but...) Then PPTH may ''literally'' become a war zone.
* The Princeton mafia may also start attacking PPTH soon.
== Chase is going to federal prison. ==
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== Chase will try to turn himself in to the authorities, and fail. ==
If he had done it immediately, before he started coming unhinged, then it might have worked...
== Wilson is trying to undermine the Diagnostics department. ==
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== Thirteen's first name, Remy, is another nickname. ==
Because Remy is not a sane girl's name. (Ask any [[X
Inspired by an AU fanfic in which Thirteen has a sister named Danielle, nicknamed Dani. In that fanfic, "Remy" is short for Remembrance. That might be her real first name, too -- one too embarrassing to use, given what sort of woman she is.
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== Taub entered the witness protection program in order to successfully quit PPTH ==
This explains why he's the only one to ever manage it and why there has been no mention of forcing him to come back. They simply cannot find him.
* Now there's been a mention! And now that House is back in touch with Lucas, the two together can find him.
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By the time he gets ''treated'' for this self-inflicted infection (he can't do it until the scandal has died down if he wishes to avoid Death Row -- yes, New Jersey in this show has one), he'll probably be irreversibly damaged. Those hallucinations weren't entirely psychological.
* [[You Fail Biology Forever|Does scleroderma transmit that way?]]
== Cameron was in on the sample-switching ==
She ran the blood test, and she ran a ''complete'' blood test. She would have been in on all the irregularities; but she has acted like she didn't notice ''any.'' (And we know there were some.) So she knew the blood sample was not real...
Unfortunately, Chase doesn't know that she knows.
* Discredited.
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== House is not better. ==
In "Brave Heart," House is hearing whispering. He finds out that the whispering he was hearing was Wilson, which makes pefect sense. Except he also heard it at the Hospital, where that explanation doesn't hold up.
== Wilson is going insane. ==
House heard whispering at the hospital because Hallucination!Amber is "following" Wilson there, and he is still talking to her there. Eventually, he'll imagine that he has reformed House even more thoroughly than House has been reformed, or else endanger the life of someone over at Diagnostics (probably Chase, or Cameron if she sticks around long enough).
== That incident between Cameron and Chase in "Hunting" when Cameron was under the influence of meth falls under the Consent Incompleteness Theory. ==
Either Cameron was competent to make the decision to have sex when she decided to have sex with Chase, or she was not.
# If she was not competent to make that decision, then Chase statutorily raped her.
# If she was competent to make that decision, then her consent is okay -- but she pressured Chase into it (she wouldn't take his first "no"), so his consent is dubious. (We are presuming that
So, there is dubious consent on at least one side, but we cannot be 100% sure which one.
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== If Chase attended an '80s party, he would wear tie-dye. ==
== If Chase attended an '80s party, he [[For Halloween I Am Going
Yes, he has ''that'' kind of fashion sense.
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== If Thirteen attended an '80s party, she wouldn't get any of the references as it was 'before [her] time' and would refuse to wear a costume ==
Nevertheless, she would get hit on by everyone there.
== At least one member of the first team is paying protection to the Princeton Mafia. ==
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== House had been embezzling from the hospital for a while before Foreman came. ==
Five billion dollars is easily justified with what Diagnostics does now and how it does it. But, immediately before Foreman joined, there was a period when House wasn't taking cases and nothing interesting was happening [[In
* It was for the entire diagnostic department, which includes the free clinic and any other diagnosticians that took care of patients who didn't have "interesting" cases. A hundred million a week minus legal expenses is ''way'' more than even House's method takes up, despite the MRI Machine of Doom and him being under budget, especially before they (presumably) reallocated the budget for his team's wages. He was still technically embezzling, but it was most likely all over-the-table.
** Doesn't that imply that House is ''still'' embezzling "over-the-table"?
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== Foreman will be [[Put
David Shore, creator of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', has been working on a remake of [[The Rockford Files]]. [[NBC]] just picked it up. He'll want to focus his attention on the new series -- he has to help NBC get 10 pm back.
This affects Foreman because Shore intended him to be an [[Audience Surrogate]], and he is Shore's [[Author Avatar]]. Unfortunately, most of the vocal part of the audience doesn't identify with Foreman, and neither do the newer writers for the show. So, with Shore gone at least temporarily, putting Foreman on a bus with as much grace as the House 'verse permits (which is not much, but oh well) is better than risking [[Character Derailment|derailing his character]].
== Thirteen is attracted to other women ''only'' when she is drunk or high or both ==
This is inspired by the synopsis to a season 6 episode of [[House (TV series)|House]] in which all the men in Diagnostics are ''very'' attracted to the [[Patient of the Week]], but Thirteen resists her charms. This sort of plot is not new; if everyone involved was heterosexual, then this would be expected with a sufficiently attractive patient. This could easily have worked in one of the Foreman-Chase-Cameron seasons.
The problem is, Thirteen is supposed to swing both ways. She is supposed to be attracted to both sexes. Since she used to sleep around freely and is currently unattached (barring surprise developments in "The Down Low"), there is no clear reason for ''her'' to be the one less attracted than anyone else... unless her bisexuality is mostly an [[Informed Attribute]].
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== House is Sylar in an Alternate Future. ==
Just like [[Heroes (TV series)|Sylar]], he is calm, sarcastic, has more than a few mental issues, has a hunger for knowledge and most importantly, understands how things work.
This means that Wilson is Peter Petrelli.
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The hepatitis was, if not caused by a pre-existing but unidentified condition or drug use ("everybody lies"), a result of one of the guys who ''had'' gotten prison raped (or taken drugs) spitting in his "gift for the made man" soup out of spite.
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== The reason House tried to rip a new one into the patient in "Private Lives"... ==
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This is determined by external evidence.
The episode was filmed and ready to air by Valentine's Day, and given certain events mentioned in previews, would appear on the surface to be suitable for then. [[FOX]] would get the preview clips a little over a week before then so that they could make their promos. Instead, they take a two-month hiatus on new episodes -- including half of a sweeps month, which would hurt [[FOX]]'s own ad rates (even given that the Winter Olympics were also going on), and a period when the show after it, ''24,'' ''was'' airing new episodes. It got bad enough that [[FOX]] was adding commentary footage to the Friday night reruns -- yes, that's right, we had two months in the spring of 2010 when two entire 8 pm timeslots were filled with [[House (TV series)|House]] reruns. Fortunately, this show has a ''large'' dedicated fandom.
So, why was [[FOX]] playing chicken with its own ratings this way? Well, what [[House (TV series)|House]] episode aired around that week in April in 2009?
That's right, "Simple Explanation." It's perhaps the most painful [[Wham! Episode]] of [[House (TV series)|House]] ever because we had no reason to suspect that it was more than interesting beforehand -- we had no idea that what seemed like the selling points before would look so irrelevant after. [[FOX]] execs were no happier about that than we were. They were likely told not to reveal that twist until after the episode aired; [[FOX]] sent out a huge press release about it at ''precisely'' 9 pm Eastern, spoiling West Coast viewers in the process.
This is symbolic timing. And, since "Lockdown" is no longer in the ''middle'' of a block of [[House (TV series)|House]] episodes, viewers will be more alert this time around. But the work required to set this up is so drastic that ''something'' must be going on here that is even worse than the [[Shocking Swerve]] in "Simple Explanation."
Note: this probably should go under [[Poison Oak Epileptic Trees]], too.
* Hmm... We learned that Thirteen ''[[Self
** <shrug> On the other hand, we may have seen a domino drop. Wilson appears to be taking romantic advice from Thirteen.
* Something horrible happened from House's POV.
== "Lockdown" was delayed because of the final debates on the [[Real Life]] health-care bill of 2010. ==
In January 2010, the Congress ''finally'' got serious about debating health-care reform. [[House (TV series)|House]] is generally assumed to be in a universe similar to our own, so the passage of a health-care reform bill -- some of which has already taken effect in [[Real Life]] -- would, in theory, affect how things work at PPTH. If opponents of the bill were right, it could make House-style diagnostics even less practical for PPTH to practice than it already is.
Now, [[House (TV series)|House]] pays for its attempts to be at the cutting edge by being visibly vulnerable to [[Executive Meddling]]; [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] here means accepting a [[Creativity Leash]] there. So, [[FOX]] and [[Universal]] had to wait to see if the [[Real Life]] status quo would change and, if it did (as it did), decide the least destructive way to deal with it...
== The dates of Wilson's first marriage in "Lockdown" are ''not'' a [[Series Continuity Error]]; they are an attempt to dodge health-care reform ==
We finally got a date for [[Year Zero]] to ensure that the writers would not have to deal with the effects of the new health-care bill (now law) until they are clear. This pushes some aspects of this show at least [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] (phones in 2000 in [[Real Life]] were still more brick-like than not, for instance), but even the average Internet-vocal viewer is more likely to notice recent social discrepancies than distant ones (see [[M*A*S*H (
* Discredited. Wilson's hard dates weren't a [[Series Continuity Error]], but the relative continuity has been adjusted.
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== House was hallucinating during the lockdown. ==
It's why the guard gave him such a weird look. The room was empty.
It's also why he could get away with "turning up the morphine" when he did. The difference between 2.5 and 4.0 would be noticeable. House "turned up the morphine" ''after'' the lockdown ended and shortly before that guard came; there is no way it wouldn't be noticed.
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== Wilson will die during the season 6 finale ==
This will throw House's life into chaos because of what Wilson means to him. It will throw PPTH into chaos because Wilson is its Head of Oncology (even if we can never be sure if he's ''doing'' that job). The [[House (TV series)|Houseverse]] is cruel, so...
* Again, {{spoiler|fortunately, no.}}
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== There will be a plot development ''between'' seasons 6 and 7 that will be plot-critical. ==
It's the magic of the internet and the sadism of the showrunners.
* The end of the season 6 finale and the beginning of the season 7 premiere were the same day, perhaps the same hour, [[In
== House will find religion in the season 6 finale. ==
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== Dr. Nolan is telepathic. ==
The scenes in the penultimate episode of season 6, in which he appears to enter and observe House's recollections, have the same sort of imagery as [[Star Trek: Voyager]]'s telepathy scenes. The scenes in [[House (TV series)|House]] are less surreal than the ones in "Voyager" because House is more truly rational than even Tuvok & Seven.
This would go nicely with Nolan's being the demi-antichrist.
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What? He's shown a lot of talent in music and seems to have mastered a variety of instruments, so he could do it if he wanted to.
It probably wouldn't last longer than an episode, but wouldn't it be hysterical if that was how the show ended? House just quits to persue a career as a one man band?
== Kutner never existed. == House just hallucinated him.
== Martha M. Masters is a [[Doctor Who
She is a genius with three doctorates who bears the names of one of the Doctor's companions (who is herself a doctor) and of his archnemesis.
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== House takes place in the Tezuka-verse ==
That "janitor" that House mentioned in "Son Of Coma Guy"? ''That was actually [[
== House will eventually attempt to out-diagnose (read:compete against) a [[Jeopardy
IBM's stated plan (in real life) to comericalize Watson is to use the research to make what is essentially an electronic Dr. House to diagnose patiants. House, being an [[Insufferable Genius]], will not let a computer out do him, while Not-IBM, wanting to test their creation, agrees to let them compete.
* House is often described as "medical [[Sherlock Holmes]]", so Watson has other meanings...
* The show's [[Jeopardy
== Cuddy is going to die ==
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== David Shore is [[Invoked Trope|invoking tropes]] in an [[Creator Backlash|attempt to kill the series]]. ==
Shore is attached to a planned reboot of ''[[The Rockford Files]]'', but [[House (TV series)|House]]'s continued commercial viability keeps him too busy to work on this. And therefore during Season 7:
* House and Cuddy resolved their series-long [[Will They or Won't They?|will they or won't they]] sexual tension. And may have done so in ways that [[Broken Base|alienated some fans of the ship]].
* When Olivia Wilde went on hiatus to make movies, her character [[Cousin Oliver|was replaced]] by a suspiciously [[Mary Sue|Sue-ish]] ''wunderkind''.
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== 7x23 was made as a deliberate trolling of the fans ==
Notice several [[Leaning
== 7x23 is proof that the House writing staff have been killed and replaced by Soap Opera Writers. ==
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== House is dying of Lupus. ==
Because why not.
Or he could finally have syphilis.
== Dominika's story is a [[Shout
Dominika is like Saffron: beautiful, clever, deceitful and avaricious. She is a skilled cook, mechanic and pistoleer. Her scheme depends on a dubious marriage to the protagonist. Early in her last episode House referred to a prostitute as a [[Unusual Euphemism|Companion]]. QED.
== House didn't actually survive the final episode ==
He was in no state to get out of that building
* Notice Wilson is the only one who sees him at the end. He meets him up with him ''out in the open'' in front of a townhouse overlooking a busy downtown street. That coupled with the fact that House is a world-famous doctor that would be recognized fairly quickly make it obvious he couldn't have faked his own death (or if he did, it would a pretty bad idea unless Taub was also in on it to aid in his cover in his old fashioned way). The House we see at the end of the series is a
== Cuddy was actually there at the service ==
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He was still so traumatized by the breakup that he couldn't bear to hear anything she would have had to say. Stacy was used instead because the wounds had the time to heal adequately.
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