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== Tropes U-Z ==

* [[Ultimate Job Security]]: Dr. House is this trope incarnate, and he knows it. In Season 1, he's so sure of it that he basically dares Vogler, the new chairman of the board, to try to fire him. Vogler takes the dare. {{spoiler|House wins, but it's a near thing.}}

* [[Ultimate Job Security]]: Dr. House is this trope incarnate, and he knows it. In Season 1, he's so sure of it that he basically dares Vogler, the new chairman of the board, to try to fire him. Vogler takes the dare. {{spoiler|House wins, but it's a near thing}}.

* [[Un Paused]]: In one early episode, a patient is having seizures. He will stop in the middle of a sentence for a few moments before going right back to what he was saying, unaware that he lost any time.

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: {{spoiler|House is revealed to be one of these in the Season 5 finale}}. Though this is more to the character's point of view as this show has little to narration at all.

** Played less seriously in early episodes "The Mistake" and "Three Stories", and "Nobody's Fault" in the final season where the bulk of the episodes consist of characters reliving past events from various viewpoints with various differences. The trope shows up briefly in the series finale "Everybody Dies" when House skips over a part of a conversation with the patient in his recollection of the case.

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: In the episode "Euphoria Part 2", House whips up a veritable storm (including pop cultural references) of these to explain to a worried mother that her child does in fact not have epilepsia.

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: In the episode "Euphoria (Part 2)", House whips up a veritable storm (including pop cultural references) of these to explain to a worried mother that her child does in fact not have epilepsia.

{{quote|'''House:''' In actuality, all your little girl is doing is saying yoo-hoo to the hoo-hoo.

'''Mother:''' She's what?

'''House:''' Marching the penguin. [[Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood|Ya-ya-ing the sisterhood]]. ''[[Finding Nemo]]''. }}

'''House:''' Marching the penguin. [[Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood|Ya-ya-ing the sisterhood]]. ''[[Finding Nemo]]''.}}

* [[Up to Eleven]]: House uses this to describe himself when he replaces Vicodin with ''cooking''.

{{quote|''"What did you expect? I'm an addict. I turn everything [[Up to Eleven]]."''}}

* [[Very Special Episode]]: The episode with {{spoiler|Kutner's suicide}} strays into this territory.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: House and Wilson, one of the best examples on TV.

* [[Waking Up At the Morgue]]: {{spoiler|"Brave Heart".}}

* [[Waking Up At the Morgue]]: {{spoiler|"Brave Heart"}}.

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: House, with his father; also Chase, in regard to House. He had problems with his own father, kept trying to win his approval until he finally realized that his father didn't care and that it was easier for Chase himself not to care whether his father cared.

* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: Foreman in "Forever", after his brain biopsy turns him incredibly optimistic and agreeable.

* [[Wham! Episode]]: From "Simple Explanation" and beyond, {{spoiler|Kutner kills himself, Chase proposes to Cameron, House begins to doubt his talent to see everything coming, House hallucinates seeing Amber, Chase and Cameron break up, House detoxes off Vicodin, House and Cuddy have sex...}} So what was next? {{spoiler|House DIDN'T detox off Vicodin, House and Cuddy DIDN'T have sex, House starts seeing Kutner along with Amber, and finally goes into a psychiatric institute!}} [[You Just Had to Say It|We had to ask!]]

* [[Wham! Episode]]: From "Simple Explanation" and beyond, {{spoiler|Kutner kills himself, Chase proposes to Cameron, House begins to doubt his talent to see everything coming, House hallucinates seeing Amber, Chase and Cameron break up, House detoxes off Vicodin, House and Cuddy have sex...}} So what was next? {{spoiler|House DIDN'T detox off Vicodin, House and Cuddy DIDN'T have sex, House starts seeing Kutner along with Amber, and finally goes into a psychiatric institute}}! [[You Just Had to Say It|We had to ask!]]

* [[Wham! Line]]: Say it with me, folks: "I punched my attending in the face."

** {{spoiler|"I have cancer."}}

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: The go cart racing scene in Season 7.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: {{spoiler|We don't find out the real story of the guy who shot House (unless what House imagined was from him remembering having seen him before), nor do we see him again.}}

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: {{spoiler|We don't find out the real story of the guy who shot House (unless what House imagined was from him remembering having seen him before), nor do we see him again}}.

** Also, {{spoiler|there is a cannibal serial killer out there who was saved by the team...}}

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: These happen pretty much [[Once an Episode|all the time]].

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'''House:''' ''I'm going to save [his/her] life!''

'''Cuddy:''' ''No, you just want [to solve the puzzle/drugs]!''

Rinse and repeat. Oh, and if Cuddy says no, House will probably try to get Wilson to help him. }}

Rinse and repeat. Oh, and if Cuddy says no, House will probably try to get Wilson to help him.}}

** It's gotten to the point where the bar for this trope is so high on the show that House needs to do something ''really'' outrageous for this to really qualify.

** Lampshaded in the episode where House kidnaps an actor from his favorite soap.

{{quote|'''Foreman:''' ''You kidnapped him?''

'''House:''' ''It's cool that I haven't lost the ability to surprise you.'' }}

'''House:''' ''It's cool that I haven't lost the ability to surprise you.''}}

** Also seen between Foreman and Chase after Chase {{spoiler|alters the tests of an African dictator patient, effectively killing him.}}

** Also seen between Foreman and Chase after Chase {{spoiler|alters the tests of an African dictator patient, effectively killing him}}.

* [[Wilhelm Scream]]: In a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] [[Dream Sequence]].

* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: House/Cameron, House/Cuddy, House/Stacy, and to some extent [[Ho Yay|House/Wilson]].

** Answers, in order: {{spoiler|No, yes but not anymore, no, and pretty much.}}.

** Answers, in order: {{spoiler|No, yes but not anymore, no, and pretty much}}.

* [[With Friends Like These...]]: House and Wilson. Mostly House but Wilson has had some crappy moments as well.

* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Not spoken outright, but in "After Hours" Chase goes to considerable lengths to warn Thirteen that he's going to move her out of the way when she refuses to allow him to take her stab victim, parolee friend to the hospital (even though she'll die if he doesn't). When she still refuses, he moves her out of the way without hurting her, prompting her to attack him. After several very weak looking punches and one that looked like it might have hurt, Chase easily overpowers her (with a distinct look of [[Oh Crap]] on her face as he does) and she ends up on the floor. Later in the episode, she's putting ice on her neck and he apologises for having hurt her - even though she nearly killed her friend and assaulted him in the process.

* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Not spoken outright, but in "After Hours", Chase goes to considerable lengths to warn Thirteen that he's going to move her out of the way when she refuses to allow him to take her stab victim, parolee friend to the hospital (even though she'll die if he doesn't). When she still refuses, he moves her out of the way without hurting her, prompting her to attack him. After several very weak looking punches and one that looked like it might have hurt, Chase easily overpowers her (with a distinct look of [[Oh Crap]] on her face as he does) and she ends up on the floor. Later in the episode, she's putting ice on her neck and he apologises for having hurt her - even though she nearly killed her friend and assaulted him in the process.

** She doesn't invoke this trope later, though, and tells him what he did was necessary.

* [[Writer on Board]]: When it happens it's oftentimes painfully obvious.

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** It happened again in Season 5. House switches to a different drug which allows him to be completely pain free, only to find it compromises his intellect (or so he says).

*** House still had his limp while on methadone, but it was not as pronounced. To what degree House's limp is due to his chronic leg pain or his lack of thigh muscle seems to vary.

**** It's interesting: when House's pain was cured by the new treatment after being shot, he was shown running 8 miles to the hospital with no limp whatsoever, a completely new and pain-free man but it was short-lived when the pain returned; but when the pain was completely cured on methadone, he threw away his cane but was still limping. (~~Strangely~~, House then ''quit'' methadone because the pain "made him a better doctor--" insert any applicable trope here).

**** It's interesting: when House's pain was cured by the new treatment after being shot, he was shown running 8 miles to the hospital with no limp whatsoever, a completely new and pain-free man but it was short-lived when the pain returned; but when the pain was completely cured on methadone, he threw away his cane but was still limping (strangely, House then ''quit'' methadone because the pain "made him a better doctor--" insert any applicable trope here).

** Also [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: the reason the leg pain was gone in those episodes was that Hugh Laurie was starting to develop ''actual'' pains from walking around with the cane all the time.

** The Season 5 finale.

* [[Yiddish as a Second Language]]: Cuddy's mother. Made grating by the fact that she had converted.

* [[You Called Me "X" - It Must Be Serious]]: {{spoiler|When Foreman thinks he's dying in "Euphoria, Part 2", he apologizes to Cameron for stealing her article and exposing her to his disease - and calls her Allison.}}

* [[You Called Me "X" - It Must Be Serious]]: {{spoiler|When Foreman thinks he's dying in "Euphoria (Part 2)", he apologizes to Cameron for stealing her article and exposing her to his disease - and calls her Allison}}.

** House calls her "Cutthroat Bitch" most of the time, so when he suddenly calls her Amber, she senses something's not good. {{spoiler|He's firing her.}}

** House calls her "Cutthroat Bitch" most of the time, so when he suddenly calls her Amber, she senses something's not good. {{spoiler|He's firing her}}.

* [[You Can Leave Your Hat On]]: Dr. Cuddy as a [[Sexy Schoolwoman]] in a [[Dream Sequence]] that is, for some strange reason that should be incredibly obvious, very popular on [[YouTube]].

* [[You Need a Breath Mint]]: Cuddy is trying to sober up the team in "House Divided" and gives them breath mints.

* [[You Never Asked]]: Almost always completely averted, since House and his team almost always ask the most relevant questions; often to the point of bullying the patient or breaking into their homes to get useful answers. If a patients doesn't provide the right answers, it's because he or she is either lying to hide a [[Big Secret]], or has picked up the [[Idiot Ball]].

** Played straight in "Private Lives" {{spoiler|the patient, a recent vegetarian, is having all sorts of medical issues and is given many proclamations of death, yet when House finally asks her about the quality of her bowel movements, the answer is obvious (and easily remedied). However, that is one of the FIRST questions doctors will ask when getting a history.}}

** Played straight in "Private Lives": {{spoiler|the patient, a recent vegetarian, is having all sorts of medical issues and is given many proclamations of death, yet when House finally asks her about the quality of her bowel movements, the answer is obvious (and easily remedied). However, that is one of the FIRST questions doctors will ask when getting a history}}.

*** The team always ''breaks'' into to the patient's home in order to "test for environmental causes;" if they simply ask for a key, House and the team condemns them as "cowards".

*** The team always ''breaks'' into to the patient's home in order to "test for environmental causes"; if they simply ask for a key, House and the team condemns them as "cowards".

* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: If a convincing diagnosis is made at all before the end, it's usually made around the halfway mark. Of course, it'll be the wrong one. Alternatively, it's the right diagnosis, but other things get in the way - for example a patient is correctly diagnosed as having Strongyloides, but his helper dog eats the pills the doctor in charge gives him. Result - one dead patient who didn't get his medication, one dead dog who did. or House suspects Erdheim Chester's in both an old woman and a young kid in "All In" within the first fifteen minutes, but the tests were screwed up because of the timing and they went through about fifteen other things.

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Martha Masters pulls off a couple.

** Amber also did on occasion.

* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: In ''Bombshells'', House dreams of one. It involves him killing his teammembers-turned-zombies with his cane, which can apparently turn into an axe ''and'' a shotgun. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Yes, it's as awesome as it sounds]].

* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: In "Bombshells", House dreams of one. It involves him killing his teammembers-turned-zombies with his cane, which can apparently turn into an axe ''and'' a shotgun. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Yes, it's as awesome as it sounds]].