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* [[Race Against the Clock]]: the patient-of-the-week's "countdown to death", but made more dramatic by the fact that 1) the patient's remaining time is never certain to begin with, 2) it can be extended or shortened by anything the team does, and 3) the patient sometimes actually ''dies''.
* [[Rashomon Style]]: Episode "The Mistake" as told through narratives by House and Chase to the hospital lawyer, Stacy.
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Several regular characters: 13 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 Life Writes the Plot]]
** {{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 7th Season episodes... right about when ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'' was filming.
▲* [[Really Gets Around]]: Several regular characters: 13 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.
* [[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 season 8 premiere when Foreman, as the new Dean of Medicine, gets House out of prison and gets him his job back.
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* [[Televisually-Transmitted Disease]]
* [[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."
* [[The Topic of Cancer]]: Now that {{spoiler|Wilson himself has cancer,}} he doesn't want to go through what his patients have.▼
* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: Literally. {{spoiler|She has Huntington's Disease.}}
* [[This Means War]]: The escalating prank war between House and the adjacent Orthopedics department.
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* [[Throwing Out the Script]]: House does this in an early season when asked to give a speech about a new drug the chairman of the hospital wants him to puff up. He nearly gets fired for it.
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: Foreman, most definitely, and arguably House himself during the Tritter arc.
▲* [[The Topic of Cancer]]: Now that {{spoiler|Wilson himself has cancer,}} he doesn't want to go through what his patients have.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: In earlier seasons, there are repeated mentions as to House's love for Reuben sandwiches. As time goes by, however, House just steals Wilson's lunches.
* [[Trust Me I'm a Doctor|Trust Me, I'm A Doctor]]: House certainly isn't afraid to mention his profession in order to establish his authority or otherwise be a [[Deadpan Snarker|snarker]]. Once, after bluntly telling a female patient that he wants to inspect her vagina, he tells her, "I'm a doctor, so it's okay."
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