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4* In the pilot, Wilson and Rebecca are talking about House.
5-->'''Rebecca:''' He's your friend, huh?\
6'''Wilson:''' Yeah.\
7'''Rebecca:''' Does he care about you?\
8'''Wilson:''' I think so.\
9'''Rebecca:''' You don't know?\
10'''Wilson:''' As Dr. House likes to say, everybody lies.\
11'''Rebecca:''' It's not what people say. It's what they do.\
12'''Wilson:''' ...Yeah, he cares about me.
13** Extra heartwarming considering "Wilson's Heart" where House risks his brain to save Amber, and the finale, where he fakes his death to be with Wilson until he dies.
14** Chase and Cameron sneaking Rebecca's kindergarten class into the hospital for a visit. The kids present their teacher with a giant card that reads, "We're happy you're not dead, Miss Rebecca."
15* The end of Damned If You Do has House and Wilson eating Chinese food at House's apartment and the two of them being genuinely happy and laughing.
16* In "Fidelity", when Cameron tells House about her first husband with metastasized thyroid cancer while crying in the lab.
17-->'''Cameron:''' I’m re-calibrating the centrifuge.\
18'''House:''' Turn around. It’s a very sad thing, an un-calibrated centrifuge. It makes me cry too.\
19'''Cameron:''' I’m not crying.\
20'''House:''' Okay.\
21''[later]''\
22You can't be that good a person and well adjusted.\
23'''Cameron:''' Why?\
24'''House:''' Because you wind up crying over centrifuges.\
25'''Cameron:''' Or hating people.
26* House actually being rather kind to a patient (a patient with a crush on him, no less) in ''Poison''.
27* In "Control", where House lies to the transplant committee to get a bulimic woman onto the list.
28-->'''Carly:''' Why did you fight for me? You risked so much, and you hardly know me.\
29'''House:''' You're my patient. Don't screw it up.
30** This is just one of several times over the course of a series when House lies for the sake of a patient (as opposed to lying for the sake of solving the puzzle). One of the show's basic premises is that the things people are willing to lie about are the things that matter most to them.
31* The auditorium slowly filling up to capacity as House gives his lecture/tells the story about his leg in "Three Stories". Plus one of the most hopeful lines for an asshole HollywoodAtheist: "It gives me more comfort to think that this [life] isn't merely a test."
32* "Honeymoon". ''House finally hugs somebody.'' (Granted, he was ''in'' a hug before in "Sports Medicine," but that was only because the wife of the PatientOfTheWeek started crying on him.)
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35* A subtle one in "Autopsy". When they're doing the incredibly risky operation on the POTW, Foreman is the only one to see the life-threatening clot, before it disappears again. House initially questions it, but quickly accepts it. Eventually, you realize that if anyone else had said it, House would never have believed him. THAT is how much House trusts Foreman.
36** Before leaving, the little girl gives House a big ol’ hug, and despite his embarrassment, [[DefrostingIceQueen even he can’t hide that his heart is melting.]]
37* In "Need To Know", even if it does go to shit for them a few minutes later, House showing off his cute romantic side by giving Stacy a prescription for her "heart condition".
38* Sorta subtle, but in the season two episode "Distractions", House decides to prove that an old rival's new migraine medicine doesn't work by testing it on himself. First he injects himself with medicine to induce a severe migraine, then injects himself with the new 'cure'. He's right, it doesn't work. He tries to [[DeadpanSnarker play it off smugly as usual]], until [[OhCrap the migraine hits him full force]]. The heartwarming part? His team doesn't insult him. They don't belittle or react snidely. Foreman gives him a sedative to help him sleep through the pain, and when House soldiers into the next room to discuss their current patient, Chase and Cameron leap up to kill the lights and pull the blinds, so as not to aggravate his migraine. [[DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery As much as he annoys and frustrates them]], they do care about House, at least on some level.
39* "Forever" has an implied one: after [[DeathOfAChild Michael dies]], Chase blames himself for the death since he didn't give the child enough medication after his kidneys started failing. After House figures out that the kid actually had Celiac disease instead of colic like they thought (and that the medication was ineffective from the start), he gets Chase to do the autopsy to discover it: the implication is that he gave the autopsy to Chase specifically so that Chase could see that it wasn't his fault, a subtle moment of care from House.
40* "Euphoria", especially the second part, is ripe with these moments (strewn in in-between all the tearjerking and whatnot).
41** You have Foreman calling his dad and his dad flying in to see him, and all their interactions. Seeing Foreman breaking down crying when talking to his father about the very real possibility that he might be dead before the day is through is rather gut-wrenching but it also gives some real nice insight to their relationship, and they show a lot of love for one another through discreet means. Though most heartwarming is probably Mr. Foreman telling his son ''"I don't want to have to miss you."''
42** Cameron's concern for Foreman despite what he did to her earlier in the episode, and Foreman asking her to be his medical proxy. Her tears at his bedside, both out of fear and sadness and out of joy, shows how much she does value him, despite their arguments over the episodes leading up to "Euphoria".
43** On a minor scale, Chase showing a colder attitude towards Foreman fits into this as well, since it's derived from Foreman having intentionally exposed Cameron. Chase cares enough about Cameron that he can't instantly forgive Foreman for putting her at risk, despite Foreman being in mortal danger.
44** Most of all the double episode provides a lot of these moments from House, as it becomes clear how much his team means to him. He goes to great lengths trying to save Foreman's life and protect Chase and Cameron from being exposed and his handling of the case is clearly impacted by his own emotional investment. Oddly, the most heartwarming part of it is House choosing to try and expose Steve [=McQueen=] (his pet rat, previously one of the few beings he's been shown to care about) so that he can kill him and do an autopsy to find what is killing Foreman. It doesn't work, Steve doesn't get sick, but the sacrifice still stands.
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47* At the end of "Informed Consent", Cuddy comes to see House and tells him his patient, who wanted to be euthanized, died suddenly. She assumes House is responsible, but chooses to maintain plausible deniability rather than press him. House goes to the chapel, where he finds Cameron in tears. He puts his hand on her shoulder for a minute, then simply says, "I'm proud of you."
48* "Lines in the Sand" has a severely autistic boy as a patient. His parents are a wreck the entire time because they are starting to lose patience in him. They want him to get better so much, but there's so many communication problems. And then at the end he gives his PSP - his most cherished possession - to House as a thank you and House just looks stunned that someone was nice to him.
49** The boy looked up at House before giving him his PSP. The boy never made eye contact with anyone before. Buckets of tears were shed.
50* "Son of Coma Guy": In order to save his son (who needed a new heart and was denied a transplant due to being an alcoholic), the titular coma patient (who House had managed to revive for a short period of time) [[HeroicSuicide kills himself in order to give him his heart]]. When House tells him that killing himself via strangulation, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath despite being significantly more painful than overdosing on pills or breaking his neck when he hangs himself]], is more likely to keep his heart from being damaged as he dies, he barely even hesitates, telling House that he's "not afraid of pain" if it meant increasing the odds of the transplant being successful.
51* "One Day, One Room": Despite her case being medically mundane, House spends the whole episode consoling and chatting with a rape victim, to the point that she's willing to discuss what happened. Initially, House ''didn't'' want to treat her, but not because her case was mundane -- because he says he's "not good at this kind of thing", the implication being he doesn't want to make matters worse for her. The girl ''still'' insists on being treated by him, because she trusts him -- a man she met ''once'', but showed her genuine empathy. Yes, we're talking about the same House.
52* "Half-Wit" was a brand of heartwarming that only a show like ''House'' can have, because it showed that even the biggest {{jerkass}}es can have people who care about them. Everyone in House's circle complains about his attitude regularly, but when they think he has brain cancer and only a year to live, things change.
53** It also probably set a record for Most Subversions of SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} in a single episode of anything. Cameron's kiss was also to get a blood sample so they could check if House ''actually'' had cancer, Chase's hug could double as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} ("I'm sorry you're dying. ''I'm going to hug you.''"), and the House/Cuddy hug ("I'm here if you need me." [[PuppyDogEyes "...I need you."]]) was partially an excuse to grab Cuddy's ass. The big one came at the end when the team has checked House's blood and found that he's perfectly fine and all go to his apartment together to tell him the news, looking ''very'' happy. ''Then'' House reveals that he'd been faking cancer the whole time to get into a clinical trial for a drug that would directly stimulate the pleasure center of his brain.
54* At the end of "Fetal Position", House is adamant that they should terminate Emma's pregnancy, but she refuses, so they try operating in utero. The baby reaches out and grasps House's finger, and you can tell he's affected.
55** At the end, Emma's hanging pictures of the team minus House. Then she picks up her baby, and if you read her lips, she calls him "[[MeaningfulName Greg]]".
56* "House Training" has a patient that Foreman accidentally kills because he thought she had cancer (in reality, she had a massive staph infection that was treatable until the round of chemo ordered by Foreman ripped her immune system to shreds). He is utterly beside himself for the error, and stays with the patient until she dies. Two of the people who comfort him are Wilson (who's no stranger to this, as an oncologist) and, of all people, House, who sits him down and explains that despite Foreman's mistake, he did everything that he thought was right and that's all that matters: "They can't forgive you, Foreman... because there's nothing to forgive."
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59* In "The Right Stuff", House lies to protect Greta's secret, not wanting to kill her dream of being an astronaut.
60* Despite being very amicable and similar to each other, at the end of “Guardian Angels”, House rejects Dr. Argenziano. However, unlike most of the others, he does it respectfully, even apologizing and calling him by his first name, Henry. Henry doesn’t show any hard feelings either, as he understands that House doesn’t need someone who thinks so much like him. They both agree to hang out sometime outside of work.
61* "Frozen" is one big PetTheDog machine for House, from actually being concerned about whether the PatientOfTheWeek is all right or not (as in more than just his usual detached way of looking at these matters) to him eventually guiding the mechanic through the procedure to save her life. After which she thanks him for saving her, but House simply tells her to be grateful to the man who actually did the deed itself--and is revealed to be in love with her.
62* In "Living the Dream" it seems Amber has actually started to grow as a person. She recognized her own propensity for brow beating and took House's warnings about her relationship with Wilson seriously. While still a bit passive aggressive, her 'test' to make sure Wilson chose a mattress he wanted speaks to a genuine desire to make their relationship work. Her support of his decision and subsequent regret in buying a waterbed is sweet as well, not taking time to mock or dismiss his decision but instead congratulating him for getting what he wanted and assuring him they'd fix it in the morning. It seemed like Wilson had finally found a partner who could challenge him without enabling the same habits that ruined his previous marriages, which makes the next two episodes all the more tragic...
63* Cuddy holding House's hand when he's in a hospital bed for the umpteenth time, after risking his life to save Amber, in "Wilson's Heart".
64** When House's team realizes Amber (formerly their rival for a spot on House's team, more recently Wilson's girlfriend) is dying and nothing can be done for her:
65--->'''Thirteen:''' We should say goodbye.\
66'''Taub:''' She didn't even like us.\
67'''Kutner:''' We liked her.\
68'''Taub:''' Did we?\
69'''Foreman:''' We do ''now''.
70** The scene where Wilson is trying to process the aforementioned information and Cuddy comes in to tell him that they can wake Amber up so that they can say goodbye to each other. This finally causes Wilson to break down in tears (the first time we see him cry in the show), prompting Cuddy to take him in her arms.
71** Cuddy staying by House's bedside, and she's seen sleeping there, holding his hand.
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74* The ending of "Birthmarks", portraying just what kind of bond House and Wilson have -- unbreakable, beautiful, powerful, true ''philia''.
75-->'''House:''' If you're coming back because you're attracted to the shine of my neediness...I'd be okay with that.
76** Then Wilson gives the real reason he's coming back; he had ''fun''. Their weird relationship is often characterized as AllTakeAndNoGive, but he does get something out of his friendship with House besides someone whose need he can fill.
77* The father and daughter in "Joy" being cured of the disease that was halting dopamine production in their brains, preventing them from feeling happy. Their shift from expressionless faces in a bland, muted apartment to smiling and laughing with relief in a vibrant world just lifts the spirit.
78* In "Emancipation", the mother of the little boy Foreman treated hugging him in gratitude.
79** Said little boy turned out to have iron poisoning due to his big brother giving him too many vitamins. The big brother said, "He's gonna hate me." but as the family walks away, his brother takes his hand.
80* The episode "Joy To The World" contained so much heartbreak and misery and seemed to confirm that HumansAreBastards. But then the episode makes up for it with two double-scoops of SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}. First Cuddy finally gets the baby she always wanted, ''and'' Eric Foreman and Thirteen passionately kiss during the holiday party. Forget all the shippers who were rooting for it to happen; when you consider all that both characters have been through you're overwhelmed to see them find a bit of romance and happiness with each other.
81* House and Wilson at the end of "The Social Contract". Wilson didn't tell House about the whole thing with his brother because House doesn't observe [[TitleDrop the social contract]] -- like saying everything will be fine when he doesn't know that.
82-->'''Wilson:''' Do you think things will work out with my brother?\
83'''House:''' No...but when it does go wrong, it won't be your fault.\
84'''Wilson:''' ''[sincerely]'' Thanks, House.
85* "Under My Skin" was just a brilliant masterpiece, even if the medicine was lacking.
86-->"You want to kiss me, don't you?" "I always want to kiss you."
87* "Both Sides Now" has a weirdly cute moment: The patient suffers from an alien hand (one hand acts like it has a mind of its own) that seems to dislike his extremely understanding girlfriend. It even slaps her once. However, when the girlfriend figures what is making him sick, the hand shows it appreciates her help by tenderly stroking her cheek.
88** While mostly a TearJerker, [[HeroicBSOD when House starts to realize]] [[SanitySlippage he’s lost his mind,]] Cuddy instantly switches from wanting nothing to do with him to being extremely worried for his well-being and trying to help him.
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91* This exchange at the end of "Broken", when House is being discharged from Mayfield, and they're having his re-birthday party:
92--->'''Alvie:''' ''[runs up with the intention of throwing his arms around House]''\
93'''House:''' Back off. People already think we're gay.\
94'''Alvie:''' ''[steps away, looking disappointed]''\
95'''House:''' ''[smiles and tugs Alvie closer and hugs him tightly]''
96* In "Wilson" where one of Wilson's patients needs a liver transplant and there are no donors, James ''donates a piece of his own liver'' to save him.
97** We get to see House confessing outright how much he needs Wilson, saying, "...if you die, I'm alone"; showing up at Wilson's surgery (in dramatic slow motion, no less) just as the anesthesia tugs Wilson under, and continually sitting by his convalescent bedside after the transplant.
98* Wilson tries to get Taub, Thirteen, Chase and Foreman to hang out with House outside of work, as he's currently in a relationship with Sam and is afraid that House might be lonely. While Taub's hangout falls flat with House secretly inviting his wife and ditching them there, House has a good time with Thirteen. He also has a great time with Chase and Foreman, getting drinks and singing Midnight Train To Georgia at karaoke together.
99** Wilson asked Chase and Foreman how it went before going to talk to House about it. Evidently, they both admitted that they had fun, and believe House had fun with them too. House begrudgingly admits he's considered the possibility that they could both be his friends - [[BaitAndSwitch before sobering up]]. Wilson doesn't buy the "I was drunk" excuse, even for a second, and tries to encourage House to keep hanging out with them. [[StatusQuoIsGod It doesn't work, and their relationship goes back to normal]], but it was absolutely huge for House to even admit that he likes Chase and Foreman as people ''and'' potential friends, and Wilson is [[SoProudOfYou flabbergasted at it.]]
100-->'''House:''' The night just keeps getting better...to Wilson!
101-->'''Foreman/Chase:''' To Wilson!
102-->''(all clink glasses)''
103* The entire final scene of "Help Me". Cuddy's tender declaration of love and House's emotional response are pretty damn heartwarming. May also be a TearJerker moment for some saps.
104** House actually cared about an uninteresting patient, thus demonstrating to Cuddy that he has changed and he wants to fix his life, leading to [[RelationshipUpgrade the crazy kids finally getting together]].
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107* The beginning of "Selfish", where the patient of the week, a teenager skater, is pushing her paraplegic little brother around the skating rink, is quite cute and establishes their strong relationship. Later, the brother is insistent on donating organs to her, while she is reluctant to take them out of concern for his health.
108* In "Unwritten", with a patient who blames herself for her son's death, House saying "your son was very lucky to have you as a mother" after preventing her from killing herself and lying to her, saying she wasn't responsible for his death.
109* "Carrot or Stick" deals with a drill sergeant at a juvenile offender camp who falls sick, initially suspected to be poisoning at the hands of one of the campers. The prime suspect is a boy who the patient seems to drive particularly hard, who we later learn is [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan an orphan]] and was placed in the camp for a minor offense. The boy falls ill with the same disease, clearing him from suspicion. It's a hereditary disease; the drill sergeant is in fact the boy's DisappearedDad, who decided to take an interest in his son's life after his ex-wife died, but didn't want his son to know the truth. All of that apparent "excessive" pushing becomes perfectly normal fatherly concern.
110** The B-plot follows House trying to prepare Cuddy's daughter, Rachel, for preschool, which amounts to playing educational games with her. The episode ends with Rachel crawling into House's lap for the first time.
111* In "After Hours", the entire last few minutes of the episode, where Wilson is there when House wakes up from surgery. Goes up to eleven when he helps carry him. [[TrueCompanions As he always does.]]
112** The last few minutes are a CMOH for everybody else as well. Chase and Thirteen both find somebody they can talk to about their burdens who wouldn't judge them. Taub takes responsibility for his actions and lifestyle. The team at the table can qualify as a CMOH on its own, as the normally nosy and judgmental team refrains from poking or prodding into each other's adventures of the night and instead just get to examining cases.
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115* In "Charity Case", House fires Thirteen so that she can be happy in Greece with her girlfriend in her final years.
116* Park playing "I Got You Babe" with another doctor at the end of "We Need the Eggs".
117* "The C Word", the whole thing. From the POTW being a young girl with a rare mutation, that has constantly fighting parents (one of whom is her doctor as well), and House taking care of Wilson. Every single moment, action, look, line.
118** Especially the end, when Wilson finds a silly montage House made, with photos of them and girls having a crazy party (while Wilson was unconscious) and Wilson laughing. You realize this is the first episode where from start to end, House has been a true friend: he made Wilson feel better.
119** Also the fact that he let Wilson have (most?) of the Vicodin, lying that he had plenty and going without, even if it meant his leg feeling worse. Also nice that after thirteen years and a lot of psychoanalyzing, Wilson realizes just how bad House's pain really is.
120* In "Everybody Dies", House cooks up an elaborate scheme to fake his own death so he can be with Wilson during his last months to live, even though it means he can never practice medicine again. The series ends with both friends riding motorcycles off into the sunset.
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123* When Chase correctly guesses why Cameron doesn't want to get rid of her husband's sperm and she breaks down crying.
124* "I'll [[MercyKill kill you]]... ...Seriously I'll do it right now, I've got a baseball bat in the back seat." Yes, House managed to turn that line into a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
125* When Thirteen comes out of prison, House is waiting for her - with the martini he once saw her drink.

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