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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Tritter probably didn't expect tripping House and complaining about waiting times to earn him 2 hours with a rectal thermometer. Similarly, House probably didn't expect abusing Tritter, a police detective, to result in him [[DisproportionateRetribution trying to ruin House's life with a drug investigation in response]].


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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Tritter probably didn't expect tripping House and complaining about waiting times to earn him 2 hours with a rectal thermometer. Similarly, House probably didn't expect abusing Tritter, a police detective, to result in him [[DisproportionateRetribution trying to ruin House's life with a drug investigation in response]].
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** The patient of the week in the Season 3 episode "The Jerk" acts as a kind of {{Deconstruction}} of House - casually insulting to everyone, making sarcastic jokes constantly, showing no gratitude to others, lashing out when he doesn't get when he want, and generally behaving like a complete asshole to everyone for no real reason. Unlike with House, though, peoples' reactions to this are portrayed ''entirely realistically''. In real life, behaving like that doesn't get you laughs at your acerbic wit, or mere eye rolls, even if you have a genius-level talent like House does - everyone will instead simply do as much as they feasibly can to avoid you, and eventually snap at you to shut up and stop acting like a prick.
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** In "97 Seconds", [[spoiler: after the patient agonizingly dies, the applicants realize that the only reason he didn't improve was because his dog (who died too) ate the pills meant for him. House was right all along on his diagnosis, meaning that had they simply took notice of the patient taking the medicine, he wouldn't have died.]]
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** Initially averted with House's game console choices; he starts off using a UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance SP, then for the rest of Season 1 alternates between a UsefulNotes/NintendoDS and a UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable. Starting in Season 2 however he only ever plays with the PSP, and is also seen using a PSP Go in latter seasons, and finally a UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita near the very end of the show.

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** Initially averted with House's game console choices; he starts off using a UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance Platform/GameBoyAdvance SP, then for the rest of Season 1 alternates between a UsefulNotes/NintendoDS Platform/NintendoDS and a UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable. Platform/PlayStationPortable. Starting in Season 2 however he only ever plays with the PSP, and is also seen using a PSP Go in latter seasons, and finally a UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita Platform/PlayStationVita near the very end of the show.
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* CATTrap: complications relating to the MRI, CT or PET machine is almost a OnceAnEpisode occurrence.
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* UnderappreciatedWomensWork: In "5 to 9", the show follows Cuddy in her job as the hospital's administrator. It turns out dealing with House's antics is barely a fraction of her workload, yet another stressful distraction from keeping the hospital running. Some dubs rename the episode "{{ComicBook/Wonder|Woman}} Cuddy".
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** The Patient of 7x03 happens to write books sharing some similarities with [[Literature/{{Twilight}} a vampire story you may know]].

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** The Patient of 7x03 happens to write books sharing some similarities with [[Literature/{{Twilight}} [[Literature/{{TheTwilightSaga}} a vampire story you may know]].
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* TournamentArc: In season 4, House temporarily hires over 20 people, and put them through a serious of tests to remove people who would be a problem. Once it is down to 10 people, he increases the challenge by having them help him diagnose and prognose various PatientsOfTheWeek, break up into rotating teams, etc. It ends with him hiring 3 people.
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*** The judge taking House's pleas in "Words and Deeds" refers to the case after House's as ''People v. [Whoever]''. But criminal cases in New Jersey are called ''State v. [Whoever]''. But guess what they’re called in California?

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*** The judge taking House's pleas in "Words and Deeds" refers to the case after House's as ''People v. [Whoever]''. But criminal cases in New Jersey are called ''State v. [Whoever]''. But guess what they’re called in California?California.
*** "Words and Deeds" also includes a preliminary hearing on whether the evidence is sufficient to present to a jury doesn’t exist in NJ—Jersey uses grand juries for that function. But guess where judges do serve that purpose…

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** Vogler's ultimatum in Season 1. No, you cannot make a donation to an organization and then, weeks later, take it back because they won't do something you want.



** Vogler's ultimatum in Season 1. No, you cannot make a donation to an organization and then, weeks later, take it back because they won't do something you want.

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** Vogler's ultimatum in Season 1. No, you cannot make a donation The Tritter arc leads to an organization a few goofs on the New Jersey legal system—usually by confusing it for California:
*** Tritter
and then, weeks later, take it back the other characters always refer to the "District Attorney" or "DA", which is what the head of public prosecutions is called in California. But in Jersey, the equivalent post is called the County Prosecutor (usually just the Prosecutor).
*** The judge taking House's pleas in "Words and Deeds" refers to the case after House's as ''People v. [Whoever]''. But criminal cases in New Jersey are called ''State v. [Whoever]''. But guess what they’re called in California?
*** None of the offenses House seems to be charged with rates as higher than a third-degree crime under NJ law—and those carry a maximum sentence of 5 years, not the 10 usually mentioned onscreen. (Also, NJ has "crimes" not "felonies", though only NJ lawyers really know that.)
*** House is a prime candidate for NJ's drug court program, which was well established in NJ by 2006 (it was started in 1999–and even earlier in Mercer County, where Princeton is). Drug court is, systematically, letting addicts who commit crimes to feed their addictions serve their sentences by going to rehab—the deal Tritter offered and then took away
because they won't do something you want.House tricked the pharmacist into giving him a dead cancer patient's oxy. No NJ County Prosecutor would let the cops stand in the way of offering such a prototypical drug court defendant a drug court plea for, um, committing a prototypical drug court offense. (Not even the notoriously aggressive Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, which covers Plainsboro.)
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Updated CBS link in the "Here Kitty" section of Ripped from the Headlines, also corrected a spelling error


* PatrioticFervor: When overseas job relocation comes up in a conversation between House, Adams and Parker in season 8, House dismisses patriotism with his usual cynicism:

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* PatrioticFervor: When overseas job relocation comes up in a conversation between House, Adams and Parker Park in season 8, House dismisses patriotism with his usual cynicism:



** "Here Kitty" was based off [[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/25/health/webmd/main3097899.shtml this]]

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** "Here Kitty" was based off [[http://www.[[https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/25/health/webmd/main3097899.shtml com/news/cats-sixth-sense-predicting-death/ this]]
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** Also RealLifeWritesThePlot: the reason the leg pain was gone in those episodes was that Hugh Laurie was starting to develop ''actual'' pains from walking around with the cane all the time.

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** Also RealLifeWritesThePlot: the reason the leg pain was gone in those episodes was that Hugh Laurie was starting to develop ''actual'' pains from walking around with the cane all the time.time[[note]]The same thing happened to Laura Innes on ''Series/{{ER}}'', after years of playing a doctor who needed a forearm crutch[[/note]].

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