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** [[Family Matters|Urkel]] was a fellow convict who supplied House with vicodin while in prison.
** [[Limp Bizkit|Fred Durst]] was a bartender in two episodes from season four.
** "Alvie", House's Bipolar I rehab roommate, is Shock's
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Well yeah you see [[James Earl Jones]] but do you really care about anything but the voice?
** Wait... Sir William was the energetic [[Butt Monkey]] host of ''[[Ka Blam!]]''?
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*** And in French, his voice is [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Jafar]]'s.
* [[Life Imitates Art]]: [http://www.princetonhcs.org/Default.aspx?p=4089&d=3617 Construction is already underway on the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro], which is replacing the already existing [[wikipedia:University Medical Center at Princeton|University Medical Center at Princeton]]. Seeing as how the "university" in the name is ''not'' Princeton University, why else would you put both names in?
* [[McLeaned]]: {{spoiler|When Kal Penn left the show to serve in the Obama administration, the producers had his character, Kutner, commit suicide. Though this was due to the first reason, not because of any friction with the rest of the cast. They just wanted some drama and a
* [[Playing Against Type]]: Before ''House'', [[Hugh Laurie]] was famous in Britain as a comedian and half of the [[Stephen Fry|Fry]] [[A Bit of Fry and Laurie|and Laurie]] comedy team.
* [[Romance on the Set]]: Jesse Spencer and Jennifer Morrison, who play Drs. Chase and Cameron. They were at one point engaged to be married, but called it off shortly before the wedding. Meanwhile, in a case of [[Real Life Writes the Plot]], their characters also got together romantically... but the plot didn't catch up to their [[Real Life]] breakup, so the actors were filming proposal and wedding scenes well after they had broken up.
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** [[Felicia Day]] auditioned for the pilot. She showed up as the POTW in a
** Not to mention that ''Patrick "Dr.
** A physical deformity or handicap was always part of the character design for House, but early versions of the show put him in a wheelchair rather than giving him a bum leg; this was thrown out because it limited the character but showed up in the episode "Needle In A Haystack", where House tries to go a week in a wheelchair as a bet. In another early character design, he had a giant scar on his face.
** "Chasing Zebras" was an early working title for the show, after the common med-school saying "if you hear hoofbeats, you think horses, not zebras" (i.e. a simple, mundane explanation for a group of symptoms is likelier to be right than an exotic or complicated one).
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