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** {{spoiler|Kutner was hastily removed from the show when Kal Penn took a job with the Obama administration}}.
** Olivia Wilde is curiously absent from the early seventh season episodes... right about when ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'' was filming.
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Several regular characters: 13Thirteen in Season 5, exclusively with women even though she's bisexual; Chase after {{spoiler|his divorce from Cameron}}; Taub regularly cheated on his wife Rachael until {{spoiler|she left him - later he cheated on his girlfriend ''with'' Rachael and [[It Got Worse|impregnated]] them both}}; House himself, though mainly with prostitutes.
** {{spoiler|House's mother}}.
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: The opening theme for ''House'' is the opening of [[Massive Attack]]'s "Teardrop", except in countries where the rights to the song aren't available. There, it's replaced by a [[The Jimmy Hart Version|rather similar]] original song called "House".
* [[Recruiting the Criminal]]: Foreman got his job because House researched his past and discovered a criminal background as a teenager. This not only interested him as far as his personality but also because he wanted someone with the skills to break into people's houses (to find environmental health sources and/or evidence of lying). Mirrored in the seasonSeason 8 premiere when Foreman, as the new Dean of Medicine, gets House out of prison and gets him his job back.
* [[Recycled in Space]]: ''House'' is Sherlock Holmes... <small> IN A HOSPITAL!</small>
* [[Relationship Sabotage]]: In the sixth season, House decides to try this on Cuddy and Lucas.
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** Season 5 also has House cure his pain with methadone, shave his beard, quit his job and go seek a post at another hospital. Status quo is restored in about 20 minutes.
** Probably the biggest one, {{spoiler|after all House went through with getting new team members, rehab, and leaving the hospital to find a way to avoid Vicodin, he ends up coming back to work with Chase, Cameron, and Foreman all over again. Minus the Vicodin. For now, maybe}}.
*** Subverted to a moderate degree a few episodes later with the cast shuffle.({{spoiler|Cameron leaves, Taub and 13Thirteen return}}).
**** In Season 5, {{spoiler|House finds a that Methadone cures his pain ''completely'', but he ''quits'' it-- simply because without pain he's not House}}. This is a pure status-quo argument, since the entire series House whines non-stop about how he's a jerk because he's in pain.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Actually a musical pun: in the episode "Half-Wit" House plays the opening part of a song with a musical savant on a piano. The song is "I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats, on a show that airs on... Mondays.
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* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: The new ducklings.
** House consciously does this in the episode "Airborne", where he must solve a medical mystery on a plane without his usual team. He promptly instructs a blond boy to fake an Australian accent and agree with him no matter what he says, an [[Ambiguously Brown]] passenger to disagree with him, and a female passenger to be morally outraged, filling (what he perceives are) the roles of Chase, Foreman and Cameron respectively.
** Played with in the episodes following the departure of Martha Masters. When 13Thirteen comes back from prison, she's blonde with her normal hairstyle, until Martha leaves. Next episode, she's got long, thick red hair with straight bangs, just like Martha.
* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: Episode 15 in Season 7 introduces us to House's cane-axe-shotgun. In a dream. But it's still [[Impossibly Cool Weapon|very very cool]].
* [[Swiss Cheese Security]]: PPTH's security. Full stop.
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