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
Every House moment featuring Lisa Cuddy, in story order. Played by Lisa Edelstein.
67 moments · 1h 34m
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The team says House is unfit, then he walks in with the Goldilocks plan
In Cuddy's office the team argues detox has broken him; House arrives and proposes a test dose that hurts just enough.
House breaks his own hand to drown out the leg pain
House explains pain gating with a smashed hand, then defends playing chicken with the father over the lupus treatment.
House halts the liver transplant mid-incision: termites
House stops the surgery, explains naphthalene stored in fat poured out as Keith lost weight, and fakes a sneeze.
House guesses the donors, then hunts for the rash's cause
Cuddy pitches a 12-year-old's odd pneumonia; House reads her silence as big donors, then runs a differential that lands on a tick bite.
Gabe's airway closes and the team races to trach him
Gabe can't breathe, the tube won't pass, and Chase cuts a tracheotomy while his father watches and pleads.
House forces Gabe's dad to confess his years in India
House squeezes the father's 'carpal tunnel' wrist and corners him until he admits two years at an Indian ashram, in front of his son.
Edward Vogler buys the board with $100 million
Cuddy introduces the new chairman, who tells how his father's Alzheimer's drove him to write the hospital a blank check.
Vogler spots the doctor without a lab coat
Vogler tells Cuddy he will run the hospital like a business, then fixes on House wandering past in street clothes.
Cuddy orders House into the lab coat as Wilson defends Vogler
House calls Vogler's clinical trials unethical; Wilson points out the irony and Cuddy warns that Vogler already dislikes him.
Vogler asks Cuddy if she is sleeping with House
Vogler calls House's department a financial black hole, then questions Cuddy's judgment and her history with House.
House lies to the transplant committee
House presents Carly's case, explains his early 'hunch', and under Cuddy's direct question says there's nothing to disqualify her.
House gets a court order and refuses to play fetch
Vogler is pressing Cuddy for House's numbers when House barges in with a federal order to treat a witness, and picks jail.
House finds his patient released and takes on Vogler
Vogler had the witness discharged; House storms in, calls Vogler not even a doctor, and Vogler makes him say 'sir'.
Vogler tells Cuddy her liking House is bad for business
Cuddy defends House while hunting his records; Vogler dismantles her reasons and says the hospital is a business, not a team.
House accidentally reveals the secret hep C treatment
Vogler calls the feds to release Joey, then learns from House about the off-record hep C treatment and loses his patience.
Cuddy saves House's job, at a price
Cuddy tells House she held on to her job and his, but Vogler wants profits, more clinic hours, and one of House's team fired.
Cuddy orders House to fire one of his team
House dodges with talk of piercings and endless performance reviews; Cuddy gives him one week.
House offers a pay cut, Vogler says it was never about money
House proposes cutting all four salaries to keep everyone; Vogler refuses, wanting to know House will obey.
House and Cuddy fight over a senator's brain biopsy
Cuddy refuses to let House biopsy a sitting senator's brain on an MRI spot; House turns it into a choice the patient must make.
House calls Cuddy a Quisling
Cuddy admits she called Social Services on House's patients. He compares her to a wartime traitor; she says she's protecting him.
Cuddy: you're not worth a hundred million
Mid clinic exam, House accuses Cuddy of sacking Wilson; she tells him the money matters more than he does.
House solves the shrinking baby for Cuddy
House shows Cuddy the scan: a genetic syndrome, not starvation. He hands off the treatment, assuming he'll be gone.
Cuddy votes no and dares the board
At the second vote on House, Cuddy votes no, Vogler turns on her, and she tells the board whether he owns them is their choice.
Drinks for Cuddy, who isn't celebrating
House's team toasts Cuddy as champion; she reminds them what losing Vogler's money cost the hospital.
Cuddy drafts House into the meningitis quarantine
Thousands exposed to meningitis flood the hospital; House tries to slip out and Cuddy orders him to act like a doctor.
House bargains with Cuddy for one hour
House argues the diver's neck pain doesn't fit meningitis; Cuddy gives him an hour and Chase gets the A-to-Z list.
Firing Chase, and Cuddy's outfit
House says he'll torture Chase before firing him; Cuddy catches him slacking, takes his comments, and orders him to interview.
'Position's been filled'
A hopeful candidate arrives for an interview; House insists the job is taken and offers to validate the parking.
House's apology to a soaked-in-juice patient ends in a stroke
House overreacts to a spilled 'urine' sample, is ordered to apologise, offers the sobbing patient cash, and the kid's pupil blows.
Foreman catches Annette choking Harvey: she is his dominatrix
Foreman pulls Annette off the patient; Chase identifies her, and she calmly explains Harvey likes being strangled and what he pays her.
Cuddy tells House to stop walling himself off; he eyes her blouse
Cuddy backs the Cameron date and says five years of self-pity is enough; House deflects, and she suggests a shirt.
Cuddy drafts House to teach a diagnostics class
House doubts the absent lecturer is sick, refuses, then haggles over clinic hours once Cuddy fails to stop him leaving.
House refuses amputation and picks the riskiest option
House tells Cuddy to save his leg with a bypass despite the risks; Stacy calls him an idiot and admits she's scared he'll die.
House diagnoses his own cardiac arrest from a hospital bed
After surgery House screams for morphine, Stacy hears of a middle-ground option, and House reads his own heart failure before he crashes.
Stacy uses her proxy while House sleeps
House asks for a coma to sleep through the pain; Stacy, his proxy, says goodbye and then signs for the middle-ground surgery.
The class argues Stacy's choice, then House calls her back
House lays out his lasting pain; students split on the proxy decision, the class runs over, and House phones Stacy to book Mark in.
Cuddy wants to hire Stacy and asks House's permission
Cuddy has offered Stacy a job as general counsel, but only if House says yes; he has to answer.