History Awesome / House

* "Under my Skin": The whole episode is pure Crowning Moment of Awesome Acting from Hugh Laurie. You can feel the Fear when House believes he has shaken off his hallucination of Amber when he realizes in a phone call with Foreman that his diagnosis wasn't rational, just lucky, thus his rational side is still on walkabout. Cue creepy ambient {{BGM}} and Amber standing on the clubs stage, singing "Enjoy yourself, it's later then you think" in a ghostly voice complete with a SlasherSmile.

'''House:''' So, it ''was''. You took a chance. You did something great. You were wrong, but it was still great. You should feel great that it was great; You should feel like crap that it was wrong. That's the difference between him and me. He thinks you do your job, and what will be will be. I think that what I do and what you do matters. He sleeps better at night. He ''shouldn't''.

'''House:''' That is not what he does.\\

'''House:''' So it ''was''. You took a chance. You did something great. You were wrong. But it was still great. You should feel great that it was great. You should feel like crap that it was wrong. That's the difference between him and me. He thinks you do your job, and what will be will be. I think that what I do and what you do matters. He sleeps better at night. He shouldn't.

* In "Three Stories", House gives a lecture on diagnostics to about two dozen medical students. By the end, the auditorium is almost completely full with other staff, including House's team, Wilson, and Cuddy. Just goes to show that despite his curmudgeonliness, House is definitely recognized as absolutely brilliant by his coworkers.

** Hell, every damn scene of that episode is a [=CMoA=] for House. Crawling through the ruins would be hard even with two good legs.

* Dr. Nolan is already awesome simply by being able to match House in wits, but what really makes him a [[BadassNormal awesome is actually succeeding in helping House deal with his issues]] [[MundaneMadeAwesome with talk therapy and SSRIs, an idea that House thought was ridiculous.]]

* In the same episode, Chase is the one to figure out who canceled Foreman's job interview. It was House, who denied doing so at first and then blamed Cuddy, who then blamed Wilson, who blamed Cameron, who blamed Chase. Chase guessed House did it and then started the whole thing not to get caught. House then smiles and replies, "Sometimes I forget why I hired you." It's the most praise Chase has ever gotten from House.

* In season six, episode ten, Wilson's neighbor in their apartment complex thinks Wilson and House are a gay couple. After Wilson has no success flirting with her, House attempts to get her drunk and convince her that he and Wilson are having relationship problems as part of a plot to get into her pants. In order to foil this plot, Wilson follows the two into a fancy resturaunt, then publicly and dramatically proffesses his love for Dr. House before falling onto one knee and proposing to him; all in the name of foiling his evil plot.

-->'''Cameron:''' ''(smilling)'' Why? Her urine turning orange?

-->'''Foreman''': And he does it like he doesn't care. He assaults the guy and moves on to the next differential diagnosis--\\
'''Cameron''': What do you want from him? More hand-wringing, more torment? You want him to cry himself to sleep at night?\\
'''Foreman''': Yeah! Yeah, I want some clue that he knows it's a big deal, that it scares him, that it matters.\\

'''House''': I checked [Hamilton] out. He's a great doctor. Do you think he's better than I am?\\
'''Foreman''': Is this about your ego?\\
'''House''': Answer the question. It's not gonna change how I think about myself. Might affect my opinion of ''you''. But that shouldn't affect your opinion of yourself. ...Now I'm getting confused. If you think he's a better doctor than I am, you should take the job. Otherwise, you should get him to buy you two or three more nostalgic lunches and then politely decline.\\

* The episode "Meaning" is an entire CMOA. House suspects a man who has been a complete vegetable for 8 years due to brain cancer might actually have some underlying condition as the cause. However, after two fruitless tests that nearly kill the patient and prove House's theories wrong, House is accused of satisfying his own desire for a puzzle by Cameron, Cuddy, Wilson ''and'' Foreman. Cuddy refuses House any more tests and asserts that the man will leave with his family the next day. That night, House has an epiphany and rushes to Cuddy's house. He excitedly explains his diagnosis and then the unbelievable treatment: a single injection of Cortisol will ''completely cure the man''. Cuddy initially refuses to give the man the injection, but the next morning, as he is being wheelchaired out with his family, she injects him saying that it is "against infection". A moment passes and nothing happens. Looking dejected, Cuddy turns and leaves the family as they board an elevator. But before the man is wheeled on he suddenly lifts his head and gasps for breath. He begins to unbuckle himself from the wheelchair and stand up unsteadily as his wife and children scramble to help him up. They lift him to his feet and he and his wife hug, tears streaming from their eyes. The wife looks over to a stunned and crying Cuddy and says "Thank you".

* Dr. Nolan is already awesome simply by being able to match House in wits, but what really makes him a walking CrowningMomentOfAwesome is actually succeeding in helping House deal with his issues [[MundaneMadeAwesome with talk therapy and SSRIs, an idea that House thought was ridiculous.]]

--> Hello, sick people and their loved ones! In the interest of saving time and avoiding a lot of boring chitchat later, I'm Doctor Gregory House; you can call me "Greg". I'm one of three doctors staffing this clinic this morning. This ray of sunshine is Doctor Lisa Cuddy. Doctor Cuddy runs this whole hospital, so unfortunately she's much too busy to deal with you. I am a ''board''…certified diagnostician with a double specialty of infectious disease and nephrology. I am also the only doctor currently employed at this hospital who is forced to be here against his will. But not to worry, because for most of you, this job could be done by a monkey with a bottle of Motrin. Speaking of which, if you're particularly annoying, you may see me reach for ''this.'' This is Vicodin. It's mine. You can't have any. And no, I do not have a pain ''management'' problem; I have a ''pain'' problem. But who knows…? Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm too stoned to tell. So, who wants me?

'''Foreman''': It's that simple? I should just ignore the mockery and abuse--\\
'''House''': Oh, how do I abuse you?\\
'''Foreman''': How do you not? If I make a mistake--\\
'''House''': I hold you accountable. So what?\\
'''Foreman''': Dr. Hamilton forgives. He's capable of moving on.\\
'''House''': That is not what he does.\\
'''Foreman''': I screwed up his case. He told me--\\
'''House''': He never said you were forgiven. I was there. [[ExactWords He said it wasn't your fault.]]\\
'''Foreman''': So?\\
'''House''': So it ''was''. You took a chance. You did something great. You were wrong. But it was still great. You should feel great that it was great. You should feel like crap that it was wrong. That's the difference between him and me. He thinks you do your job, and what will be will be. I think that what I do and what you do matters. He sleeps better at night. He shouldn't.

---> "So, that's a no?"

-->'''Wilson''': I was screwing with you. It needed to be done. After Amber died, I withdrew, tried to change everything, hoping I’d sort it out. Find some deeper truth. It was a mistake. I should have gone back to normal, to here and now, because that’s all we can every really count on. Things need to get back to normal in your life. And… what could be more normal than me screwing with you and you figuring it out?
-->'''House''': You [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative bitch]]. Did you just invoke the name of your dead girlfriend to play me?
-->'''Wilson''': Yes.
-->'''House''': You're my hero.

-->'''Wilson''': Dinner later? I'll pick something up?
-->'''House''': I heard about a great new vegetarian place. (Wilson had previously rejected a sandwich House offered him, saying he'd become a vegetarian.)
-->'''Wilson''': Screw that. I want a steak. I'll meet you at your place at eight.

* The fourth season has a low key moment: Chase has helped one of the contestants of the ''Series/{{Survivor}}''-like competition behind House's back. After a series of events, House goes to yell at Chase for doing so, only to be calmly talked down and told, "You're angry. I understand. If you need help, I'm here. If you just wanna vent...leave a message," and then walks away.
* Breaking up with Cameron in "Under My Skin," for standing up for himself and refusing to adhere to a completely unreasonable demand.

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* "Occam's Razor": House introducing himself to the group of patients in the waiting room. The speech deserves to be quoted in its entirety:
--> Hello, sick people and their loved ones! In the interest of saving time and avoiding a lot of boring chitchat later, I'm Doctor Gregory House; you can call me "Greg". I'm one of three doctors staffing this clinic this morning. This ray of sunshine is Doctor Lisa Cuddy. Doctor Cuddy runs this whole hospital, so unfortunately she's much too busy to deal with you. I am a board certified diagnostician with a double specialty of infectious disease and nephrology. I am also the only doctor currently employed at this hospital who is forced to be here against his will. But not to worry, because for most of you, this job could be done by a monkey with a bottle of Motrin. Speaking of which, if you're particularly annoying, you may see me reach for this: this is Vicodin. It's mine. You can't have any. And no, I do not have a pain management problem, I have a pain problem, but who knows? Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm too stoned to tell. So, who wants me?