History Series / House

* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler:House is revealed to be one of these in the Season 5 finale]]. Though this is more to the character's point of view as this show has little to narration at all.

*** In Season 5, [[spoiler:House finds a that Methadone cures his pain ''completely'', but he ''quits'' it-- simply because without pain he's not House]]. This is a pure status-quo argument, since the entire series House whines non-stop about how he's a jerk because he's in pain. Also, most people who knew House before the pain in his leg began there wasn't really any difference in his personality before then and he was still a world renowned doctor, thus there was no actual reason curing his leg pain should effect who he is or how well he works.
* StealthPun:A musical pun: in the episode "Half-Wit" House plays the opening part of a song with a musical savant on a piano. The song is "I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats, on a show that airs on... Mondays.

** House's solution to a dinner with Cuddy's [[ObnoxiousInLaws massively rude, judging mother]] is slipping a sedative onto her coffee. When Wilson admits he's relieved at this new situation, he ''also'' passes out; it turns out House thought Wilson would also be insufferable over dinner.

* ParentalIssues: House has had four episodes devoted to his daddy issues and Chase's mom was an alcoholic while his Dad abandoned him. Foreman's mom has been shown to be suffering from Alzheimer's and only remembers who he is some of the time, while his father is extremely religious and less than doesn't even try to understand what's happening in Foreman's life. [[spoiler:Guilt over not spending more time with his mother before she died in Season 6]] is the only reason Foreman still talks to his father.

** The team finding out the patient has lied about some detail relevant to the case that usually results in the patient getting sicker due to them having not told the truth. [[TooDumbToLive Sometimes several times an episode]]. If it weren't TruthInTelevision, it would be a wallbanger, as people (both on the show and in real life) apparently don't realize there is nothing to be gained by not telling your doctor everything relevant to the case.

** Subverted in an episode where Wilson finds out that a patient he had diagnosed with terminal cancer is actually going to be fine. TO his surprise, the man is outraged, because knowing he was dying had made his life happier, and finding out that he's not made him miserable.

** Then there was Dr. Terzi in Season 4, who House brought in right to the middle of his recruiting contest, infuriating the other contestants. House is convinced that she's a brilliant doctor, but at the end of the episode he realizes that her looks distracted him and made him think she was much better than she actually was[[note]]the main reason he thought she was brilliant was that she went along with his crazy idea; he considers that a desirable trait in a ''boss'', but doesn't find it particularly useful in an ''employee''[[/note]] , and he fires her.

*** Shelly Cole, aka Nurse Adrienne Maldonado. [[http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM1MTYwMjQ4MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNjc3MjY1._V1._SX261_SY400_.jpg]].

*** Dava Krause who played Daria (a [[SpearCarrier minor character]] who rarely, if ever gets credited, let alone, speaks). [[http://images.starpulse.com/news/bloggers/6/blog_images/dava-krause-.jpg]]

-->'''House:'''She's sleeping eighteen hours a day, it takes a team of doctors and a coma to realise she's got sleeping sickness?

* LayoutOfASeason: Season 6 begins with [[spoiler: House's stay in the mental hospital, which mentions that he will be seeing his doctor for outpatient therapy after being discharged.]] This is not referenced again until a couple of episodes before the finale.

* LastNameBasis: All characters are referred to only by last names, except Thirteen, Stacy and Amber, whose name became a plot point in one episode. House is only referred to as "Greg" by his mother and Stacy, and on one occasion, Wilson. Even the Chase/Cameron and Cuddy/House romantic couples keep this trope (Thirteen never calls multi-episode boyfriend Foreman "Eric" either). Stacy is the only one who approaches this the way a normal person might -- she calls the series' main character "House" during hospital business but in less formal situations (and when addressing him directly) she refers to him as "Greg." She also calls Cuddy "Lisa" at least once.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: The Season 4 DVD has pictures of the candidates who win the season long competition, as well as giving the actors' names. The winners aren't decided until almost the end of the season.

** In "Body and Soul", the patient's grandfather believes his symptoms are signs of demonic possession (even appearing to be floating in the air, though House dismisses it as an illusion). When the team is unable to solve the case, the grandfather conducts an exorcism, and Thirteen, at the exact same time, tries a last-ditch treatment. The boy is completely cured, and it's impossible to say what cured him.

** In "House Training" Foreman is so determined that the patient can be fixed by giving her radiation treatment, but it turns out that she just had a Staph infection and the radiation treatment destroyed her immune system, essentially killing her. Foreman doesn't just beleive he made a mistake and attributes what he did as akin to pulling a trigger.

''House'' (also known as ''House, M.D.'') is a MedicalDrama series which aired on Creator/{{FOX}} from 2004 to 2012. It was filmed on the Fox Studios lot and produced by Creator/{{Universal}. Created by Creator/DavidShore, it centers around Dr. Gregory House (Creator/HughLaurie), a genius diagnostician at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in Plainsboro, UsefulNotes/NewJersey.

''House'' (also known as ''House, M.D.'') is a MedicalDrama series which aired on Creator/{{FOX}} from 2004 to 2012. It was filmed on the Fox Studios lot and produced by Creator/{{NBCUniversal}. Created by Creator/DavidShore, it centers around Dr. Gregory House (Creator/HughLaurie), a genius diagnostician at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in Plainsboro, UsefulNotes/NewJersey.

''House'' (also known as ''House, M.D.'') is a MedicalDrama series which aired on Creator/{{FOX}} from 2004 to 2012. It was filmed on the Fox Studios lot and produced by Universal Television. Created by Creator/DavidShore, it centers around Dr. Gregory House (Creator/HughLaurie), a genius diagnostician at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in Plainsboro, UsefulNotes/NewJersey.

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

''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 in Plainsboro, UsefulNotes/NewJersey.

House suffers from chronic pain in his right leg. He copes with it by using a cane and taking a lot of Vicodin pills. House is only interested in unusual medical cases and while he is [[DrJerk abrasive socially, professionally, and personally]], [[BunnyEarsLawyer he is so good at diagnosing patients]] that the Dean of Medicine, [[Creator/LisaEdelstein Dr. Lisa Cuddy]], [[TheLastDJ allows him to continue]]. His best (and, really, only true) friend is [[Creator/RobertSeanLeonard Dr. James Wilson]], head of the Oncology (Cancer) department. Being a modern-day {{homage}} to ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'', House and Wilson correspond to Holmes and Watson, respectively.

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 patients 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.

* Genius Level intellect: House's complete mastery of diagnostic medicine is at a science fiction level. He frequently solves cases that no one could ever solve, not even with his own team working together. House's mother Blythe once told her new husband Thomas Bell that "He's one of the most well-respected doctors in the world. He's saved more lives than you can count."

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: House and his underlings are pretty much Omnidisciplinary Doctors. Officially, House - nephrology/infectious disease, Cuddy - endocrinology, Wilson - oncology, Cameron - immunology, Chase - cardiology and intensive care (he also did a residency in neurosurgery, but never became certified in it), Foreman - neurology, Kutner - sports medicine, Taub - plastic surgery, Thirteen - internal medicine. But they regularly carry out their own blood tests, MRI scans, and even surgery, jobs that are usually reserved (sometimes by law) for specialists. Oh and the [[ChildProdigy 25-year old]] omnidoctorate Martha M. Masters (no not Music/{{Eminem}}), whose combined doctorates of [[MixAndMatch applied mathematics and art history]], (yet not [[NotThatKindOfDoctor medicine funnily enough]]) ... don't expect any advanced deconstruction of 15th century Impressionism or constrained numerical optimisation anytime soon.

* RealityEnsues: Foreman tries to strike out on his own but quickly finds that employing House's methods at other hospitals not only gets him fired but also makes him unemployable as a doctor. Cuddy is able to hire him back cheap because nobody else will take him.