Wilson pitches his 'cousin' case and House calls a brain tumor boring
House refuses a white coat because of his cane, mocks an HMO lab, and gets nudged into using his bored team on a 29-year-old who can't speak.
Gregory House's Best Moments
Every House moment featuring Gregory House, in story order. Played by Hugh Laurie.
360 moments · 8h 56m · by Favseen
Moments 1–30 of 360
- 01
- 02
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.
- 03
Cuddy corners House over six years of skipped clinic duty
The administrator who signs his paychecks lists his non-existent billings and ignored consults; House answers with tenure, quips and a Jagger lyric.
- 04
Cuddy pulls House's privileges and turns the Jagger line back on him
House storms in yelling about his cancelled MRI; she stays calm, finishes the song lyric, and he gives in to clinic hours he'll owe until 2054.
- 05
House's first clinic case: the man who turned orange
House asks for cable TV, not patients, then diagnoses a golfer's orange skin as carrots plus vitamins and his marriage as something worse.
- 06
House schools a steroid-wary mother on asthma
A mother questions her 10-year-old's inhaler and House's leg; he explains asthma bluntly and walks out mid-sentence.
- 07
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.
- 08
Cuddy halts House's steroid guess, then it works
Cuddy compares guess-based treatment to medical atrocities; House defends acting without proof. Rebecca recovers, and he's told he got lucky.
- 09
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.
- 10
A self-diagnosing clinic patient gets exactly what House wants
A patient who read up on chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia gets praised for her diagnosis, and House makes an unusual request of her.
- 11
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.
- 12
House finally meets Rebecca and tells her there's no dignity in dying
Rebecca refuses more treatment; House explains the infarction that crippled his leg and argues against dying with dignity.
- 13
X-ray the leg, not the brain: Chase's idea gives Rebecca her proof
Instead of a court order, a simple X-ray idea is turned toward the thigh, where House is sure the worms hide. The larva shows up on film.
- 14
House tells Cameron why he really hired her
Asked why he hired her, House explains his picks, compares her to lobby art, and probes what damage drove a beautiful woman to medicine.
- 15
Wilson owns the cousin lie and House returns to the clinic
House calls out Wilson for lying to win his help; Wilson turns it back on him, and House heads back to a patient with a familiar request.
- 16
House hides from a full waiting room doing a crossword
Holed up in an exam room until his shift ends, House explains why he won't see runny noses and admits his team has no cases.
- 17
A forged letter with a girlie G hooks House on night terrors
House tries to clock out and spots a fake signature from his own office; the case of a 16-year-old with night terrors makes him stay.
- 18
House interrogates Dan's family, then catches him falling asleep awake
An animal-naming test, a blunt abuse question, a glasses theory, and finally a leg twitch that tells House the boy isn't sleeping at all.
- 19
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.
- 20
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.
- 21
House sells an anti-vaccine mother on baby coffins
A mother refusing vaccines blames drug companies; House answers with a speech on toy frogs, tiny coffins, and what her choice really costs.
- 22
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.
- 23
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.
- 24
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.
- 25
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.
- 26
The boy who sued wolf: House reads a litigious patient's knee
A man with an infected knee drove 70 miles past two hospitals; House works out why and threatens to page a Dr. Wolf.
- 27
Cuddy catches wind of the paternity bet and buys in
House and Cuddy trade jabs about her night out, then set terms: a tie at the symposium against a week off clinic duty.
- 28
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.
- 29
Dan's parents confront House over lunch
Accused of not caring, House recites their son's every test result from memory, then sends them to hold his hand.
- 30
House turns the tables on Mr. Funsten's lawsuit
The litigious patient returns with papers; House hands him a lab result he'd rather keep from his wife and pockets the paperwork.