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.
Lisa Cuddy's Best Moments
Every House moment featuring Lisa Cuddy, in story order. Played by Lisa Edelstein.
67 moments · 1h 34m · by Favseen
Moments 1–30 of 67
- 01
- 02
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.
- 03
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.
- 04
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.
- 05
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.
- 06
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.
- 07
House argues the bet saved Dan, then collects his winnings
Cuddy balks at a $3,200 DNA test for a wager; House credits the bet with cracking the case, then counts the cash he won from everyone.
- 08
House introduces himself to the clinic waiting room
Forced into clinic duty by Cuddy, House greets the patients with a speech about his credentials, his reluctance and his Vicodin. No one picks him.
- 09
House pages Cuddy from a board meeting to look at a sore throat
Payback for clinic duty: House calls in the hospital's head for a formal consult on the most routine complaint in the room.
- 10
House turns clinic duty into a war game with Cuddy
Cuddy refuses to free him from clinic hours; House vows to win their game, insists to Wilson there's no thin line, and fills a Vicodin script.
- 11
The baby hunt turns up a third case and the ward is shut
House sweeps every maternity room and finds nothing until the overflow floor; Cuddy closes the ward and turns away a woman in labor.
- 12
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.
- 13
Cuddy's swab hunt and a tie declared a petri dish
Med students swab the hospital while empty gel dispensers turn up; and someone's tie gets declared a petri dish.
- 14
Cuddy and House clash over experimenting on babies
Cuddy demands a medical rationale and informed consent; House offers absurd reasons, then asks which matters more as two more babies fall ill.
- 15
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.
- 16
Cuddy suspects House grabbed the wrong epinephrine syringe
Cuddy says the standard dose can't stop a heart and threatens to report him; House insists he gave the right dose and gets 24 hours to prove it.
- 17
House dismisses the Hippocratic oath to Cuddy's face
Cuddy warns that oxygen therapy can do harm; House mocks the oath's fine print and dares her to stop him.
- 18
Cuddy takes House off the case
With Augustine's oxygen falling after the chamber, Cuddy rejects every explanation House offers and removes him from his own patient.
- 19
House crashes Cuddy's meeting with the figwort tea answer
As Augustine declines, House arrives with the monastery's herbal tea and shows how it plus a normal epinephrine dose stopped her heart.
- 20
House deduces who tattled to Cuddy, and it's about his birthday
Cuddy hints she knows his secret; House reasons his way to the informant and the secret, only to learn she just wants her clinic hours.
- 21
From a hiccups patient to Cuddy cornering House in the men's room
House mocks a hiccups sufferer's home remedies, then Cuddy follows him into the bathroom about the tumor that shrank overnight.
- 22
House turns an implant consult into an exposé of Wilson's ties
Talking about why people change their looks, House notes Wilson's new tie, decides he wants to look good at work, and teases him about a girlfriend.
- 23
House tells his clinic patient her husband is spiking her oatmeal
An EKG detail leads House to the husband's blood-pressure pills, a very unromantic motive, and some wildly inappropriate advice.
- 24
Matt's mother refuses the antidote, and House wants a court order
Margo says the garden spray was swapped for something organic and blocks treatment; House argues she should be overruled as irrational.
- 25
Cuddy hands the jazz legend's case to Foreman, not House
House wants the famous paralysed musician; Cuddy says his doctor asked for Foreman and to stick to the pneumonia.
- 26
Cuddy reveals she budgets for House's legal bills
Kept 50 feet away, House shouts across the clinic; Cuddy explains his legal fund, then drops news that Hamilton is coming.
- 27
Jane Doe bites Foreman, and House steals a plastic surgery patient's M.R.I. slot
After the bite, a chin-implant patient loses her scan; Cuddy finds a pin in the arm and sends Foreman to the streets.
- 28
Wilson's two craps and Cuddy's revenge: House must teach
House teases Wilson about caring for the patient, then Cuddy turns his fake cold into a teaching assignment.
- 29
House only cares about his missing Vicodin while Cuddy pitches a case
His pills got shipped to Research; between complaints about the delay, House sizes up the bleeding teen's case.
- 30
Cuddy bets House he can't go a week without narcotics
Cuddy calls him an addict; House insists it's the leg, and the stakes climb to a month off clinic duty.