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''House'' (also known as ''House, M.D.'') was a television series which debuted in November 2004 and ended in May 2012 centered around Dr. Gregory House, an expert diagnostician at (the fictional) Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. House, a [[Deadpan Snarker]] played by [[Hugh Laurie]], suffers from chronic pain in his right leg and is quickly identified by the cane he uses as well as his regular (or not so regular, depending on the season) downing of Vicodin. He is abrasive socially, professionally, and personally; he usually refuses to take on a case unless something about it piques his interest and he is known to engage in bizarre (and not always legal) hobbies and pranks while working. [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|However, he is such a genius in diagnosing patients]] that the Dean of Medicine, Dr. Lisa Cuddy, allows him to continue. His only friend is Dr. James Wilson, head of the Oncology department.

** House, near the end of Season Seven, performing open leg surgery ''on his own thigh''. Even with painkillers, the operation was too much for him to bear. Jesus.

* [[Greek Chorus]]: The patient in the episode "Locked In" makes some hilariously accurate observations about the main characters as he watches them interact with one another. All these observations are only uttered in his own mind, since he has [[Title Drop|locked in]] syndrome and can't control anything but his eyes.

* [[Groin Attack]]: House pushed one recent widower a little too far.

* [[Harmful Healing]]

* [[Hero Insurance]]: In [[Real Life]], House would be in prison with dozens of malpractice suits pending. This gets [[Lampshaded]] in one episode where Cuddy mentions that the hospital actually has a budget for dealing with suits against House - and that he's under budget. Somehow.

** Because he's [[Crazy Awesome]]. As reckless as he is, most of his stuff works, and most patients aren't inclined to sue the guy who just saved their lives, even if he had to torture them to do it.

* [[Homoerotic Subtext]] : House and Wilson. It seems Wilson is the only person who is willing to ride out all of House's quirks, and thereby his only real friend.

** Later, when Wilson accepted that his relationship with {{spoiler|Amber}} was perfect largely because of her similarities with House:

** Thirteen seems to be a conscious effort to create a [[Lipstick Lesbian]] [[Hospital Hottie]] [[Ms. Fanservice]]. Unlike Cuddy, however, the writers forgot to add anything ''else'' to her character, and as such she is just about [[Creator's Pet|universally loathed]].

** Nurse Brenda (played by Stephanie Venditto), the resident [[Deadpan Snarker]].

* [[Near-Death Experience]]: House has had plenty of these.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: One episode preview made it look like House had finally lost it by showing a clip of him shouting "I NEED THE DRUGS!" In the actual episode, he was just parodying the [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]].

* [[There Are Two Kinds of People in the World]]: From a Season 7 episode: "There are two kinds of people: those who move on, and those who can't."

* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: Literally. {{spoiler|She has Huntington's Disease}}.

* [[This Means War]]: The escalating prank war between House and the adjacent Orthopedics department.

* [[Five-Token Band|Three Token Band]]: House's team ''twice'' consists of a foreign [[Butt Monkey]] (Chase/Kutner), a belligerent, super-competent ethnic who challenges House (Foreman/Taub), and a hottie with a tragic past (Cameron/Thirteen).

* [[Two Girls to a Team]]: Yes, there are only ever two women in the main cast.

* [[Typhoid Mary]]: In "Maternity", an elderly volunteer unwittingly passes around a virus that is lethal to infants.

 

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