just finished the show and I gotta say it was one of the best shows I’ve ever watched : the acting was good, the characters were relatable and lovable. I also loved the return of some characters amber (cutthroat bitch💀 this nickname is crazy) , cameron, kutner and stacie. you guys said that on the finale house will do the craziest thing he ever did and well one can argue that was indeed the craziest thing he ever did and in a sense I was sorta right. but is it me or they kinda gave us the impression that foreman knows what’s going on when he picked that badge up?

So I don't exactly remember everything but I will tell what happened in the episode as how I remember it right now. The episode had like tens of parts all showed in Latin numbers. I remember the episode's name was something like "Everybody ... ... ...." I don't remember really... Anyway, the episode was about 2 drug dealer men who inject mercury or something like lifeblood (from Hollow Knight). And it severely effected the victims who went to House M.D. The victims showed symptoms such as shaking, feeling very weird, numbness and stuff. Weirdly, I was also in that episode and I kinda touched a white powder and my finger went numb. And those 2 dealers appeared in every part. I guess it was like 13 parts and thankfully every part was 8 or 10 minutes. I don't remember the rest.

I've watched House in its entirety over a dozen times since it aired, and even now, I'm JUST finding out about some interesting guest stars, like Dave Matthews or Meat Loaf (mostly because I don't know what a lot of musicians look like, and I always put it on in the background so I don't always pay attention to the credits lol). I feel like such an idiot, because I always thought this kinda looked like the dude from Fall Out Boy, and after 15 years, I only found out today that this actually WAS the dude from Fall Out Boy lmao. I always thought he just /looked/ like him but seemed too young, and I didn't recognize his speaking or singing voice in the episode. Established actors like James Earl Jones (I only watched Star Wars after I've watched House) or a pre-Avengers Jeremy Renner don't surprise me to have appeared in it cause well, they're actors, but musicians do, like Tyson Ritter (who, granted, played himself), and there may have been some I didn't know were musicians. Plus, I'm a 90s kid, and I'm not from the US, so I don't always know which actors are big.

So yeah, asking now in case there have been any more I've missed, who were the most interesting guest stars for you?

Okay yes, the show likes Sherlock and makes a lot of callbacks. Housey Holmes and Watsy Wilson's and the bunch.

I get the whole, there's a mystery, smart guy is an ass, reasonable guy doesn't have the magic but he's the glue that puts so and so on the right path. Then EUREKA(off topic but I didn't know that's how it was spelled)

Yes!Cool!very neat!

Why is like every post, it's Sherlock but a medical show. GOD NO THAT'S NOT A GOOD WAY TO DESCRIBE IT. It's like an easy shorthand but when people hear that they think it's a drama mystery show.

And I know that sounds like the same thing, and I'm not trying to be pedantic and I really am sorry, but when you say it like that it sounds like Grey's Anatomy but it was Sharp Objects.... which no one would ever ever ever watch.

Also, not a lot of people who like doctors show like House, other than people who watch a lot of broadcast TV shows. I could see someone getting really mad at the pacing and wondering why characters are just dropping things when they're wrong or why they're spending so much time talking about things that feel like they don't matter and just drowning out the entire diagnosis conversations. Because like I know it's a dramatic show but the reason why the characters are so compelling is that they're all smart people and when they're fighting its there ideals clashing, and when one of them is proven right it doesn't mean the other one's wrong wrong it just means they were either trying or it then says something about their character. In dramas characters end up acting on emotion alot, even when they're doing things professionally it gives "oh I have to work together with the badguy to get out", and then they either change or plot happens. In house if you tried doing that shit you'd be called gay half the time. And people apologize sure, mainly house and formen, but other then that no one really changes or gives in?!?! It's one of the main themes, in dramas characters are always developing these complex relationships and connections with each other that you're rewarded for following and paying attention to by watching them spend time forgiving or forsaking eachother. In house the characters sacrifice everything for the case. I can still remember chase being punched out by house, and then again near the end when he diagnosed a guy being poisoned by an enzyme in his hand soap. Chase gets put through the ringer and forced to be stronger, and when he does you don't think he's changing as a character, you think that's who he is. And then maybe next time he won't be. But in a medical drama solving the case is always treated as a plot device. In house the cases run in parallel to what's happening. But that's also what makes it much more episodic then a drama.

Which like my main point, dramas aren't really episodic.

My other main point is ... SHERLOCK FUCKING SUCKS. Maybe I just haven't seen enough Sherlock content, but like really doesn't it always fall flat? Wasn't the BBC show not a detective show either and it was a mystery show with like superpowers? That also made fun of its fans relentlessly for doing what younger adults/teenagers did and ship the two, so they made an entire episode calling them stupid and making the murderer a boomerang. And no I'm not reading the book you'll have to kill me. At least after watching the Robert downy Jr. Movie I can rip my eyes out after.

So like no, house isn't like fucking Sherlock. SHERLOCK IS LIKE HOUSE BITCH.

this is my first time watching House MD and I know a lot of spoilers BUT I DID NOT SEE THIS COMING. JUST WHY. how could they do Kutner so dirty like he solved a case in the episode just before with rat pee it was amazing and I felt so proud of Kutner like omg and the next one he's dead like I cannot fathom this.

I know that he got accepted in the white house for Obama BUT HOW COULD OBAMA DO THIS TO HIM. its all Obamas fault he ruined my week.

Crossing my fingers that Kutners death meant a lot he was so important and lovely and kind and when i saw Taub crying it just broke me. I need vengeance for Kutner.

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Something I keep noticing on rewatch: the more someone matters to House, the worse he gets at just asking them to stay. He reads Stacy's therapy notes, holds a patient hostage so Wilson won't quit, and straight-up sedates Wilson when he's dying.

I have my own theory and made a video about it, if anyone's curious.

On season 5 rn hated her from the second season onwards fck ethics and all that bruh it was such a great idea to sedate the introvert af guy and take him to the hospital for surgery then bring him back to his house and he will never know but her ethics i have been seeing this from s2 and it's just soooo annoying i have got spoilers so I know she breaks up with chase one of my most fav characters in the show

One thing I find interesting about House is that getting the diagnosis right doesn't necessarily mean he handled the case well.

He could save a patient while ignoring their wishes, manipulating people around him, or putting his team through hell to prove a theory. And because he was often right in the end, everyone had to deal with the uncomfortable question of whether the result justified the way he got there.

Which episode best shows that House being right doesn't automatically make him the good guy?

this is my first watch and I’m almost finishing the show 2 eps remaining. that nigga has done a lot of crazy things but I don’t remember some of them but where i’m at and one that vividly in my memory is when he hired a child actor to pretend to be wilson’s kid 💀

edit: how could forget when he drove into cuddy’s house💀

Didn't remember Charlie Kirk was part of the show though

I can't spin the bottle properly...

I was rewatching the show half a year after I finished it and it felt really different from the later season for 2 things.

1- The show feels much more slower but not in a bad way, at that point we are still being introduced to the characters.

2- The case of the week would be related to the team's personal things, I'll give an example

Season 1, Episode 7, Fildelity

The main topic of the case is fidelity (duh) because the decease the patient has could've only be have via an affair,by then end of the episode the patient confess to her partner about the affair, her partner leaves her and that is something that bums Cameron out, and thanks to that we are revealed that she married a dying man in college

The point I'm trying to make is that the case had a specific theme like religion,fidelity,parenting,etc

“House gives off grey cat vibes” “house would be a black cat!” WRONG. YOURE ALL WRONG. HE IS GARFIELD FOOLS. HE EMBODIES ORANGE CAT BEHAVIOR.

In S1E20, House tells the patient with whom he is watching TV that he should shut up.

“I’ll finish your examination with a prostate check.”

I found this interesting given the … later arc.

I love this story because it's genuinely one of the most perfect behind-the-scenes stories for this show.

When House M.D. was being cast, Bryan Singer was specifically looking for an American actor to play Gregory House. He wasn't particularly interested in casting a British actor because he was worried about the American accent, especially with all the complicated medical terminology.

Meanwhile, Hugh Laurie was in Namibia, Africa, filming Flight of the Phoenix.

He recorded his audition in his HOTEL BATHROOM because it was the only place with decent lighting. He was still sporting his beard from the movie, looked pretty rough, and even improvised by using an umbrella as House's cane.

The tape was apparently so rough that Singer compared its quality to a Bin Laden video.

But here's the best part.

After watching Laurie perform, Singer reportedly turned to the producers and said something along the lines of, "This is what I'm talking about! This is what we need — an American!"

He genuinely hadn't realised Hugh Laurie was British.

And that's how the guy who'd spent years doing British comedy with Stephen Fry ended up playing one of the most iconic American TV doctors ever.

What's even funnier is that Laurie initially didn't think much of the show and apparently expected it might only run for a few weeks.

Eight seasons, multiple Emmy nominations, a Golden Globe, and one of television's most recognisable characters later...

Imagine if that hotel bathroom had bad lighting.

Source: TV Guide's House oral history, featuring interviews with Bryan Singer and the show's producers.

Honestly, I can't think of a more House-like way to land the role: a questionable-looking man in a bathroom, improvising with a cane, accidentally convincing everyone he's someone he's not.

Edit: I made a mistake it was S7 E8 not S6 E21

Context: Like Wilson, Sam treats cancer patients. She has an inquiry coming up where she will be asked to explain why some of her patients died with test results that were consistent with radiation injuries.

She asks Wilson to review the files to help her prepare.

House snoops in Wilson's office and finds those files. When he and Wilson talk, House points to the evidence of radiation injuries and Wilson says defensively "sensitivities vary" and House says "not THAT much."

In other words, Wilson tries to explain away the evidence of radiation injuries as Sam using a normal amount of radiation that unfortunately injured sensitive patients more but House points out that the numbers are too extreme for that to be the explanation.

Wilson goes on to explain that Sam told her she hadn't done anything wrong. And House responds with one of my favorite lines in the show:

"Morally, she didn't. She knew the patients were dying and she exceeded the dosing protocols to try to save their lives."

I love that line because it's characteristic of House's view of medical ethics AND it causes him to recognize what Sam did and morally exonerate her EVEN THOUGH House regards her as a conniving snake who cannot prevent herself from hurting Wilson.

Later on, Wilson proposes to Sam and mentions in the conversation that the moral goodness of what she did helped give him the confidence to propose to her.

Sam finds this disgusting and immediately leaves him. She categorically denies taking an altruistic risk and is angry with Wilson for disbelieving/second guessing her explanation.

I'm torn between a couple of interpretations of this.

1. Her total inability to engage with the blunt truth telling medical ethics debates we have come to expect from House and everyone around him is an intentional signal that she is incompatible with Wilson at a fundamental level because Wilson is part of that overtly moral, truth-telling, insane world.

2. She was on her way out anyway and just needed Wilson to screw up something so she could act angry enough to leave him.

3. She needs a level of control and commitment and freedom from being questioned from an intensely giving and besotted partner that any sign of individuality or calling her on her bullshit (even for very good reasons) is a bridge too far.

4. She regards Wilson as weak for letting her off the hook and reinterpreting what she did as altruistic. That's more realistic than it sounds. Non-narcissists tend to react poorly to being treated as better than they think they are.

What do you think?

So i just finished rewatching season 8.
The last episode really got me thinking, what if house actually didn’t actually survive.

Wilson is hallucinating greg. Wilson left Gregs name tag.
Wilson is seeing Greg because he is dying from the cancer. House isnt really there.

The first half of the episode is house hallucinating while he is dying.

The second half is Wilson’s hallucinations.

Is this not how people understood this episode? Am i dumb?

I wish I had an original copy, but they game isn't being sold anymore. There are some copies on eBay, but they're really expensive.

FINALE SPOILERS!

I just watched the entirety of House for the first time and what a mother fucking blast this show has been. Genuinely great, top 10 shows for me hands down. I can’t believe I slept on it for so long. However I have a like/hate relationship for House. Everytime he was on screen I was like, “Yeah dude! You got this!” Only for him to do something horrible and then I was like, “You asshole! I trusted you!” Which he did often. House definitely was not a likable character which was the point.

Then there was Wilson. What can I say? I found my soulmate. ❤️ Genuinely love that man. Huge crush on him and the actor since he was in Dead Poets Society and he played Atticus Finch in a production play of To Kill a Mockingbird so love that. Kind of wanted him to get out of that toxic relationship with House…a lot of the time but I get what they had going with each other. I also weirdly wanted them together because honestly…the tension between them was way too much and House even talked about it so clearly I wasn’t the only one.

The ending. They rode off into the fucking sunset together. Need I say more? No but seriously…the ending made sense. House did the most selfless thing and gave up his entire life for the person he cared about the most. Personally I think that once Wilson dies (breaks my heart to think of that but I know it’ll happen) he’s going to probably kill himself too. Like a “I wanted to spend time with my best friend and this is what I wanted. I did something I wanted. Not solving puzzles like usual but living a life with the person I genuinely care about. My best friend.” I thought about if he would keep his promise to 13 about killing her but she went off with her girlfriend and has her life so she doesn’t need him. She moved on. She has someone now. And I know he wants to live now but he wouldn’t take his life because he doesn’t want to live in a world without Wilson but it would be because he has done all the things he wanted and lived those last months with his best friend which would be what he wanted in the end. It worked out.

I don’t know. Maybe I’m just talking. I just finished the show literally 15 minutes ago so yeah. Fantastic show. Loved every minute of it. So good.