House's first differential: illnesses over patients, zebras over horses
House argues doctors treat illnesses, not people, waves off talking to the patient, and leads the team through stroke, mad cow and Wernicke's.
Eric Foreman's Best Moments
Every House moment featuring Eric Foreman, in story order. Played by Omar Epps.
141 moments · 3h 42m · by Favseen
Moments 1–30 of 141
- 01
- 02
House sizes up the lunch lady and reveals Foreman's juvenile record
To make his point about trust, House profiles the woman who made a sandwich, then orders Foreman to break into the patient's home.
- 03
House's plan: stop everything and watch how fast she dies
With Rebecca's symptoms spreading toward the brain stem, House proposes stopping all treatment to read the disease from its speed. The team is appalled.
- 04
Foreman and Cameron trade barbs while breaking into Rebecca's home
Snacking during the break-in, Foreman resents being hired for his record, and asks Cameron how she got the job with weaker grades.
- 05
Ham at her apartment: House exposes Wilson's lie and finds the tapeworm
A detail from the break-in proves the patient isn't Wilson's cousin and points House to a pork tapeworm in her brain, which he explains with relish.
- 06
House bets his team the father isn't the father
During the differential House claims the family history is wrong, puts money on paternity, needles Foreman into raising the stakes, and orders a sleep study.
- 07
Chase bluffs, House sees the bowing in the corpus callosum
Asked what the clean MRI shows, Chase guesses meningitis to impress; House calls it out and points to a subtle arch nobody else sees.
- 08
The team splits over MS and Dan hears what it means
The spinal fluid suggests multiple sclerosis; House waves off the six-month rule and goes home, leaving the team to explain the outlook to Dan.
- 09
Dan goes missing and House is dragged in from his evening
The team searches the hospital; House runs into a dressed-up Cuddy, then shrugs off the search and leaves a tip about the roof.
- 10
Dan nearly walks off the hospital roof
Confused, Dan believes he's back on his lacrosse field; Chase stops him, and Foreman explains to House why he didn't.
- 11
Not MS after all: House pushes neurosyphilis and a risky injection
The roof episode rules out MS; House rates teen sex odds, polls the team on his sanity and gets the shunt answer he wanted.
- 12
Back to square one with the MIDNIT mnemonic
With penicillin failing, House runs the team through a mnemonic he mocks for its spelling, then orders listening equipment for a talking brain.
- 13
Coffee-cup DNA reveals Dan was adopted
The paternity test brings a double surprise; House confronts the parents, waves off their outrage, and asks one question about the birth mother.
- 14
House explains the measles time bomb hiding in Dan's brain
An infant measles virus that mutated and waited 16 years: House names the rare disease, its fatal second stage, and the treatment dilemma.
- 15
A biopsy through the eye and a blunt consent talk
A retina biopsy confirms the virus; the parents can't follow the treatment plan, so they get the short version and a recommendation.
- 16
Why this patient? House takes the ER case after a stairwell check
House grills his team on why they care about this patient, then mocks a differential where nothing fits every symptom.
- 17
House argues two diseases beat one in an Occam's razor showdown
The treatment is wrecking Brandon's kidneys. Chase offers a one-in-ten-million fit; House recolors the board and does the odds for two diseases.
- 18
The team doubts House, then Chase and Foreman argue about Cameron
One doctor calls them House's puppets and heads to the lab; there Foreman and Chase spar over whether Cameron is weird or hot.
- 19
House tells Cameron she owns Chase, then gloats over the kidneys
House lectures Cameron on her effect on men, catches the team trying to disprove him, and explains why taunting keeps doctors working.
- 20
House stalls for Cuddy and bets Foreman fifty on the virus
Waiting out Cuddy's golf game with a runner's sore leg, House and Foreman argue the two-illness theory and wager on the patient.
- 21
Chase's awkward apology becomes a speech on what sex does to a body
Chase admits sex talk makes him uneasy and gets a vivid physiology lesson in return, and Foreman arrives with bad blood counts.
- 22
The cough was first: House works out a gout-drug mix-up
After a long silent think, House explains how a gout medicine handed out by mistake explains every symptom, then hits a timeline snag.
- 23
House storms the clean room to name the poison and its source
Finger pain completes the pattern; House walks into isolation, explains the order of the damage, and gets Brandon to admit to party drugs.
- 24
Epidemic differential: House explains Cuddy's sick baby
With four infants failing, House reads why Cuddy needs a swab team, then the team narrows a resistant hospital germ.
- 25
House orders a trial: one drug off each baby
The antibiotics are killing the babies' kidneys; while the team argues which to drop, House decides to treat the two infants differently.
- 26
From an autopsy slide to eight vials: hunting a virus
Heart tissue says virus. With little blood to spare, the team crosses out families of viruses and House adds a healthy baby as a control.
- 27
The healthy baby's blood points to the mothers
Three viruses show up in the sick babies and two in the healthy one; House realizes mothers' antibodies decide who survives.
- 28
The Hartigs finally get to hold Maxine
Foreman explains the heart-damaging virus and an experimental antiviral; a small request lets the parents hold their daughter at last.
- 29
House awkwardly asks Foreman how Cameron is doing
Foreman is thrown when House asks about someone's well-being, and the two circle each other over why he wants to know.
- 30
Churg-Strauss, candy canes and House's verdict on nuns
The team settles on Churg-Strauss vasculitis, a gift of Christmas candy canes gets mocked, and House shuts down any suggestion he made a mistake.