History Series / House

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The obese patient in "Que Sera Sera" refuses to accept any diagnosis connecting his symptoms to his obesity. He got his wish: [[Spoiler:they diagnosed him with lung cancer]].

* OddCouple: House stays in Wilson's apartment (and vice-versa). A bonus trope from this pairing includes Wilson catching House during ADateWithRosiePalms (and the UnusualEuphemism "your morning glory.").

Each episode is a medical procedural. A patient suffers unexplained, potentially deadly symptoms which worsen dramatically. House begins the case by having a brainstorming session with his crack team of doctors: [[Creator/OmarEpps Eric Foreman]][[note]]not [[Series/That70sShow that one]][[/note]], [[Creator/JenniferMorrison Allison Cameron]] and [[Creator/JesseSpencer Robert Chase]]. They come up with possible causes while House makes snide remarks and mocks their suggestions. They diagnose the disease incorrectly for the majority of the episode, subjecting the patient to a wide variety of tests that may or may not be ethically sound. Finally, the real problem is found via EurekaMoment. The solutions are not always from House himself, and they range from the mundane to exceptionally rare, and the end result for the patient can be anywhere between an easy full recovery to a death sentence. The character development and personal interactions of House, his team, Wilson and Cuddy is the other major element of the show.

While House is ostensibly a physiologist rather than a psychoanalyst, his diagnoses benefit from him [[WarriorTherapist verbally pummeling his patients and their relatives or associates]] into revealing all the [[ThisLoserIsYou secrets]] they possess, such as [[FreudianExcuse abuse]], sexual misbehavior, or [[DrugsAreBad drug addiction]], one of which will prove instrumental in diagnosing their illness after House has ruined their life. While he has genuine medical reasons for doing what he does, in the course of finding the solution to the puzzle, he is shamelessly manipulative and dismissive of medical and legal ethics, and it is always left to interpretation how big of a jerk he is.

While House is ostensibly a physiologist rather than a psychoanalyst, his diagnoses benefit from him [[WarriorTherapist verbally pummeling his patient and their relatives or associates]] into revealing all the [[ThisLoserIsYou secrets]] they possess, such as [[FreudianExcuse abuse]], sexual misbehavior, or [[DrugsAreBad drug addiction]], one of which will prove instrumental in diagnosing their illness after House has ruined their life. While he has genuine medical reasons for doing what he does, in the course of finding the solution to the puzzle, he is shamelessly manipulative and dismissive of medical and legal ethics, and it is always left to interpretation how big of a jerk he is.

*** Thirteen is [[spoiler:dying from Huntington's. (Her mom died from it too.)]] And had to [[spoiler:euthanize her older brother who was 'also' dying of Huntington's and spent six months in jail as a consequence]] - it's complicated.

** The show often features chemotherapeutic drugs as a single "chemo" chemical that you just give a patient to kill any cancer that might be anywhere in the body. In reality, chemo can use alkylating agents, antimetabolites, anthracyclines, plant alkaloids, topoisomerase inhibitors, or any number of other chemicals, and it all depends on the specific type of tumor.

While House is ostensibly a physiologist rather than a psychoanalyst, his diagnoses benefit from him [[WarriorTherapist verbally pummeling his patient and their relatives or associates]] into revealing all the [[ThisLoserIsYou secrets]] they possess, such as [[FreudianExcuse abuse]], [[DeathBySex sexual misbehavior]], or [[DrugsAreBad drug addiction]], one of which will prove instrumental in diagnosing their illness after House has ruined their life. While he has genuine medical reasons for doing what he does, in the course of finding the solution to the puzzle, he is shamelessly manipulative and dismissive of medical and legal ethics, and it is always left to interpretation how big of a jerk he is.

* DeathBySex: One of the most common causes of rare, horrific and hard-to-diagnose illnesses, according to the show. It gets even more so if you include pregnancy as a cause.

** Series 4 episode 4, though it sits mostly on the mundane side, excepting House's deceased Grandfather.
** Episode 8.18, leaning slightly towards the magical side.

* BareYourMidriff: Thirteen during her workout scene in "Teamwork" and Cuddy in House's hallucination in "House's Head".

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* DanBrowned: [[http://politedissent.com/house_pd.html Read more here.]] Although the editor is a frustrated physician, he does say that House is better than most other medical shows.

''House'' (also known as ''House, M.D.'') is a MedicalDrama which aired on FOX from 2004 to 2012. Created by Creator/DavidShore, it centers around [[Creator/HughLaurie Dr. Gregory House]], a genius diagnostician and DeadpanSnarker at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.

%% ** TheChick: Cameron has high moral standards.

** House consciously does this in the episode "Airborne", where he must solve a medical mystery on a plane without his usual team. He promptly instructs a blond boy to fake an Australian accent and agree with him no matter what he says, an AmbiguouslyBrown passenger to disagree with him, and a female passenger to be morally outraged, filling (what he perceives are) the roles of Chase, Foreman and Cameron respectively.

* KnightOfCerebus: Dibala in Season 6. Despite appearing in one episode, he ends up having a massive impact on several characters lives and in some ways, changes them for the worse. He’s the closest thing the show has to a CompleteMonster.

* RealitySubtext: House walks improperly with his cane to exaggerate his limp and use it to manipulate people[[note]]He holds it in the same hand as his injured leg, when usually you're supposed to hold it in the ''opposite'' hand so you can lean away from the injury and use a natural arm swing[[/note]], but doing this for so long was causing Hugh Laurie real pain by the third season, so to give him a break there was a several-episode arc where House was pain-free and didn't need his cane.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Many appear, but Wilson tends to stands out. He has trouble with relationships and is drawn to help anyone with a problem, yet is highly manipulative and seems to impose himself on his patients' lives even though they don't seem to want it; said patients usually don't object because they don't want to be rude to their doctor.

* EmptyPromise

'''Character tropes go on to the [[Characters/{{House}} Characters Sheet]].'''

Dr. Gregory House is [[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas not to be confused with]] [[{{Anime/GregoryHorrorShow}} the Gregory House]].

** Another episode opens with a man knocking on his neighbors' door in the middle of the night to tell them to stop arguing, only to find the woman has a massive bruise on half her face. He's about to call the cops before she starts [[BloodFromTheMouth Bleeding From The Mouth]]; turns out the bruise is caused by coagulopathy (her blood's inability to clot properly, just the first of her symptoms) and she's not being abused.

* AccidentalChildKillerBackstory: In "Emancipation", House's teenage patient needs a bone marrow transplant from a family member, but she lies about her identity to avoid seeing her parents. House guesses that something happened that makes her think she doesn't deserve to live, so she confesses that she ran away from home because her little brother drowned in the bathtub when she was supposed to be looking after him. She assumes her parents must hate her, but House convinces her to call them by pointing out they really will hate her if she lets herself die.

** In one episode, we see a patient ripping out his cochlear implant -- cue spurting blood and frantic attempts to save his life. In real life, the external parts of the device (the microphone and speech processor) are held on magnetically, with the actual implant itself safely under the skin. Deaf people and hearing itinerants remove them all the time. It's the equivalent of someone tearing their eyes out by removing their glasses. [[note]]Some of the earliest experimental implants did have the external components physically connected. As this requires leaving a gaping hole in the patient's flesh, they don't do that anymore. Chances are that any of the recipients of those early prototypes are either dead of old age, or have upgraded to a newer model.[[/note]]

** In one episode, House claims that epilepsy is curable. It is not (it cannot be cured because its causes are not fully understood), but it is ''treatable'' (there are several generations of various drugs that, taken constantly, prevent the epileptic fits from occurring). While an ordinary viewer might not know the difference, any MD student not to mention doctor should know this.
** Apparently, [[UnfortunateImplications asexuality doesn't exist in healthy people]] [[note]]despite an estimated seventy ''million'' people being asexual in RealLife[[/note]], is the same thing as absent libido[[note]]it's not--it's the absence of sexual ''attraction'', not the inability to get horny. However, the absence of libido ''can'' be a sign of other medical problems[[/note]] and can be caused by tumors.

* UpToEleven:
** House uses this to describe himself when he replaces Vicodin with ''cooking''.
--->'''House:''' What did you expect? I'm an addict. I turn everything UpToEleven.
** In the Season 2 episode "TB or Not TB," House invokes this trope when running the "board" test on a patient. He increases the intensity of the test from 6 to 10, while asking "Does this thing go UpToEleven?"

%% ** The first season is bookended by the philosopher [[Music/TheRollingStones Jagger]] and "You Can't Always Get What You Want".