#house goes to Wilson for another Vicodin

[uncle-sams-dirty-socks]

The ONLY reason people think Wilson is a normal guy is because he hangs out with House all the time. The man’s a fucking freak and House is the only one who knows the truth

[devotioncrater]

the levels of repression in both house and wilson…yet they are opposite of one another. house routinely makes gay innuendos (whether sexual and/or romantic) towards wilson, yet wilson doesn’t take him serious at all.

and this constant rejection from wilson is both a buoy as well as a giant wall. house pushes their relationship time and time again. wilson refuses to let the nature of it change. house brings up a romantic getaway, wilson shoots him down. house sabotages wilson moving out, wilson doesn’t stay. house allows himself to be The Other Woman regardless of how bonnie or wilson’s other ex-wives feel. in a way, it boosts his ego and makes him feel special. he is allowed to have wilson in this way.

amber is an extension of house; she is house in a woman’s body. house can accept it because he has expressed before that if wilson were a woman, they would’ve been married already. so why can’t the same be true for wilson? let him find a woman version of house. house loves wilson so much that he goes into a risky surgery to try and save amber. this is his Place simply because wilson and him cannot escape the confines of compulsive heterosexuality.

and it is compulsive. wilson never feels good enough or secure enough in a relationship outside of his and house’s. he cheats, he lies, he manipulates. all because at his core, wilson’s insecurities render him into a selfish person. he has affairs and he prioritizes house over his wives, because he doesn’t feel like his own wants/needs are met by his wives. or that they should/deserve to be met. he doesn’t know how to communicate them!! he maybe even feels guilty for having them. because even to house, he communicates these desires in metaphors or pranks or whatever other indirect way he sees fit. but the difference between house and his wives is that wilson has no tangible, legal sense of obligation to house. if house doesn’t meet his expressed needs, fuck him!! they don’t owe anything to each other!! the rejection will sting less.

wilson chases women on such a compulsive level that it’s nearly a reaction to whatever house has done. it’s affair after affair. wilson moves in with his patient during the time house is on a ketamine treatment. house, his patient who seemingly no longer needs vicodin. no longer needs him. if wilson is no longer needed, he parasites to the next host. why? because he doesn’t know who he is on his own. why? because he has trouble expressing his own core needs as a person. and as a result, these core (repressed) needs seep out sideways.

so why threaten this sense of safety he gets with keeping house at a platonic level? if they were to entangle into a relationship, wilson would be wrapped under an Obligation Gauze. there is a fear he’d lose house because, historically, all of his relationships end in loss. because, historically, he cannot express his needs to his partners due to his fear of rejection.

and then wilson becomes terminal. and then death becomes bigger than an anxious fear of loss/rejection.

“i need you to tell me that you love me.”

wilson, my brother in christ. house cannot say those words to you because for all the years you’ve known him, you’ve denied him it. the only way house can tell you that he loves you is by burning his home down and faking his death. he is nothing without you. you know it as well as he does. these things remain unspoken because that is the way you’ve molded the relationship to be.

wilson has house on a leash. house runs as far out as possible until the leash yanks him back. when wilson finally trusts house enough to let him go off-leash, house is too conditioned to act as expected.

and this conditioning in house is not just wilson’s doing. it’s primarily house’s own doing. his own self-loathing chains him to wilson’s side. as an addict, yes, but also as a support system. house hates himself so viscerally that it affects every interpersonal relationship he has, including with wilson. but wilson never, ever leaves no matter how bad it gets.

also. who else other than wilson gives him a sense of bodily autonomy? not stacy, not cuddy, not his fellows. wilson doesn’t pity him. wilson enables him. wilson lies for him. house will selfishly keep wilson forever because wilson is all he reliably has.

so house can push and prod wilson into gay romantic/sexual innuendos, but when wilson yanks that leash, he’ll drop it. it’s a buoy for reality checking where he is with wilson. it’s a giant wall for enabling his self-hatred thought process that even his boy best friend has limitations to his love for him (or at least what is acceptable). addict line of thinking.

they both eat each other up like an ouroboros. where does wilson’s repression end and house’s begin?

[thechy-fychannel]

You said you think pre-infarction house was an addict-can you expand on that? What drugs were he hooked on and why did he fully switch to vicodin and never used others again? Did he ever reach a go-to-rehab level addiction? How did wilson handle that? And what was Stacy's attitude towards his addiction? I think she would have been a lot more forgiving than cuddy because 1. She herself is a smoker who goes back to cigarettes during hard time and 2. Unlike cuddy, she didn't have a small child to worry about.

Ahhh thank you sm, I love this question!!! Let's get into it ✨

So my theory is that house was abusing morphine prior to the infarction. here are my reasons for thinking so:

1. Three Stories- the entire reason house's infarction was as bad as it was is bc everyone except house was convinced he was just drug seeking at first. it makes absolutely zero sense for them to think that unless he already had a history of drug seeking. unless I misremember (anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) he already worked at PPTH for a while before the infarction happened. so it was the same doctors he knew and interacted with every single day that saw him screaming in agony and chose to believe he was just trying to seek drugs and not actually in pain. he had to have a history, it just doesn't make sense otherwise for them to assume he was drug seeking.

2. one very specific line in No Reason (the episode where house is shot and the whole episode is a hallucination). when house, wilson, and cuddy are in her office and house is realizing they did something to his brain (the ketamine treatment) cuddy says this specific line: "You were out of control, you were shooting morphine!" This line has always stuck out to me and no one ever seems to mention it. It's very out of place bc the conversation they're having is about him being shot and them doing something to him while he was under. I think this was his brain connecting this event to the last time someone did something to him while he was unconscious, trying to rationalize these traumatic events.

3. In early s3 when the pain comes back, he begs cuddy to give him a shot of morphine in his spine (the scene where he drops his pants in her office and asks her in tears if the scar is all in his head too since she thinks the pain is all in his head.) cuddy gives him the shot and he comes back looking for another one later on, after the pain comes back again. she informs him that she never gave him morphine, it was saline. the fact that the pretend morphine worked suggests he had a mental dependency on it. I'm pretty sure this is the point where he goes back to vicodin (it's been a few months since I did my last rewatch so I could be wrong). I think had she actually given him morphine, he likely would've become addicted to it again. Just the thought of the morphine was enough to have him looking for more.

4. Wilson's tendency to jump straight to heroin use when he thinks house is on something other than vicodin. it happens more than once in the series when house starts acting just the slightest bit off, wilson leaps to the conclusion that he's on heroin. which is an insane leap to make unless it's something he's had to worry about in the past. I think the reason wilson would jump to heroin over morphine is if he knows what it looks like when house is high on morphine. If house used to abuse morphine, wilson would be able to recognize it and if he can't, it must be something much worse. this again plays into why I think he was an addict prior to the infarction even if it wasn't morphine, because who in their right mind would jump to their best friend using heroin if that person didn't have a long history of abusing similar drugs?

Now to answer your other questions:

Why did he switch to vicodin and not go back to others he may have been addicted to? I can tell you from personal experience that while morphine feels great, it makes you hazy and tired and out of it. I think once he was prescribed vicodin after his surgery and learned that he could function on it and not feel hazy, it was a match made in heaven for him (he says a few times in the show that vicodin doesn't make him hazy, so he immediately knows if he's on something else bc he feels hazy.) He didn't need to switch to anything else as long as he had access to vicodin bc he got the high, the pain relief, and no haziness. but when he got cut off of his vicodin during the tritter ordeal, he stole oxycodone (I think?) from wilson's dead patient. so if he didn't have vicodin, it's safe to assume he would go back to whatever he had access to.

Did he ever reach rehab level addiction? / What was Stacy's attitude towards his addiction? I think if we go based off his colleagues thinking he was drug seeking + cuddy saying he was out of control and shooting up morphine, I would say yes, it was rehab level addiction. But— I feel like if it had been that bad, stacy would've mentioned it in some sort of capacity during her arc when they were discussing their relationship. she never hints at him being an addict as far as I can remember. she loved and cared about house so much that she was willing to accept him hating her if it meant he was alive and healthy. I feel like if his addiction had been dangerous, she would've done anything to get him help the same way she did during his infarction. even if it meant going against his wishes and him hating her, she would've insisted he got help. so I'm conflicted on that question, honestly. I think maybe it depends on the perspective of those around him. maybe those at the hospital saw something stacy didn't, I'm not sure. but I agree with what you said about her being more forgiving and understanding of it than cuddy was. I think if he had been an addict while they were together, she would've given him an endless amount of chances until it became dangerous, that's when she would put her foot down and try to force him into rehab and their relationship probably would've crumbled for a whole different reason.

How did Wilson handle his addiction? I think house being an addict prior to the infarction plays perfectly into the theme of wilson emotionally neglecting his wives for house. we obviously don't have an exact timeline of his marriages aside from his first one ending just before house and wilson met, but it's pretty safe to assume that he was married to and even possibly divorced from bonnie before the infarction ever happened since he seems to have been married to julie for a little while in the beginning of the show.

[sidenote: here is my personal timeline HC for wilson's marriages.

Sam: 1991-1992 (canon)

Bonnie: 1993-1998

Julie: 1999 (before infarction) - 2005]

In the episode where house uses bonnie to get dating info about wilson, she says the iconic line, "You always needed him and he was always there for you. He had a wife waiting for him at home and you didn't care." And it just makes sense if the reason house always needed him was because of his struggles with addiction. house in general is a needy person who always wanted wilson's affection to himself, that much is clear, but wilson had to of had a good excuse to always run off for whatever it is house needed from him prior to him being disabled.

Getting into more specifics about how wilson would've handled his addiction back then— I think he would've handled it similarly to the way he did with the vicodin. he's an enabler unfortunately, he would've let house make excuses and made excuses for him because he tries to give house the benefit of the doubt that he can control himself. I think back then even more so, because house wasn't in pain and disabled, wilson had no reason to think house couldn't control himself. I think it's even possible that wilson was in denial about it too, he didn't want to believe his best friend was an addict and maybe he felt like he needed to protect house when others started accusing him of such. I think that may be why wilson asked cuddy to make that bet with house to find out if he was addicted to vicodin. he ignored it and denied it last time and he's enabled him for years since the infarction, he wanted to know if he was treating house's pain or still enabling an addict. the answer was both, which makes it no less complicated. but like with all of house's issues, wilson continues to stand by him and be there for him bc he loves him and wants him in his life, addict or no addict.

[atomicradiogirl]

hot take: seasons 5 and 6 hilson is peak and in this essay i will tell you why.

spoiler alert obviously.

season 5 deals with the aftermath of amber’s death. an event that deeply affects house and wilson. house since he blames himself for her death and wilson since he and amber had a healthy and happy growing relationship, although it was short lived. amber’s relationship with wilson also was one of the only ones that house seemingly “approved” of and amber warmed up to house quickly. house held some underlying romantic feelings towards amber but this was never confessed or really confirmed out of house’s own imagination and hallucinations.

season 5 of house sees house spiraling after the death of amber, trying to get wilson back into his life while he goes through grief, and abusing vicodin in a much worse way than before. this is the ultimate test for house and wilson at that point of the show up until season 8. house attempts to emotionally blackmail wilson and hires a PI to try to get him back. these actions are irrelevant since in ‘birthmarks’ wilson is forced to take house to his “father’s” funeral where the way their friendship started is revealed and where wilson sees a more emotional side of house. house digs through wilson’s insecurity that he needs house and left him because he’s afraid of losing him. their relationship is essentially healed back again after opening up to each other and house allowing himself to be vulnerable about his father.

there is an underlying theme of grief throughout this season and especially the unhealthy ways to cope with it. the middle of season 5 sees house and wilson slowly gaining each other’s trust back but house is still spiraling behind the scenes. up until the season finale where he abuses so much vicodin that he hallucinates a dead amber and is forced to finally seek help and go to a psychiatric hospital to get clean.

this moves us to season 6 where house finally opens up in therapy and gets clean from vicodin. he is at his best mental health of the show and is genuinely slowly healing from his insecurities and issues. house grows hugely in this season and this also shows through his relationship with wilson. he still uses wilson as a crutch but much less so than before. he genuinely does nice things for wilson like stealing his speech at a conference so wilson doesn’t get in trouble for killing a patient. house and wilson also move in together to their own apartment and are genuinely happy and stable up until when sam, wilson’s first wife, comes back and uproots house, forcing him to move out, and destroys what stability house had. however house is healthy enough that he discusses this in therapy and doesn’t relapse. season 6 is the theme of acceptance and healing. the season 6 finale has house face another heartbreak of a patient dying because he amputated her leg, something he convinced her to do even though she didn’t want it, directly relating to his relationship with his leg. cuddy tells house that she’s moving on from him and wilson is moving on from him, he has nothing now and he’d be alone. this coupled with the patient dying no matter what he did almost gets him to relapse. yet house doesn’t and is held together in the end by cuddy confessing that she loves him even though she wishes she didn’t.

house’s growth in seasons 5 and 6 is punctuated by wilson’s stability in his life. when wilson’s prescience wavers, house falters. this makes their codependency especially obvious. even in season 6, wilson’s guilt of leaving house behind and hurting him deals house a serious blow even though he’s in therapy and is more mentally stable. this highlights the importance of their relationship and how house and wilson’s relationship is the backbone of the show and house himself. they need each other and when one stumbles, the other falls like dominos. seasons 5 and 6 is, in my opinion, the best example of the importance of house and wilson’s relationship and the ultimate example of their dedication to each other.

[unvsannvs]

Okay, I was hit with a wave of realization on my rewatch of this whole scene.

Intense House MD finale analysis below the cut!

House is pissed at Wilson, but then looks at his Vicodin in his hand, giving the most hurt, distraught face I’ve ever seen as he remembers the torture that he and Wilson endured, recalling his trembling hand easing that same pain medication into Wilson’s mouth; House remembered the whole night, and most likely that particular scene, as Wilson begs for morphine, yet could only be supplied those shitty pills. Ultimately, this harsh reminder makes House decide to let Wilson do what he wants; out of guilt, out of understanding, so be it (I’ll explain what I believe it is in a minute.)

On top of this, it transitions from House looking up with that face, sighing shakily, to Wilson, alone in his dim and hollow kitchen, clearly thinking about House as well. It transitions to House again, playing the piano, and glancing up, immediately going back to Wilson, to demonstrate how they are both overthinking their entire lives with each other at the same time. As Wilson goes to grab a drink, this reveals he is thinking of House in a bad light: he’s still pissed at House and he’s looking to repress it through drinking, just as House was pissed at him before making his decision in that recent clip with the Vicodin. But, seeing the Oreos, and being hit with a wave of fondness (his weakness), Wilson then decides to let House have what he wants.

Essentially, their parallel scenes here demonstrate both House and Wilson making their switch in choice to value the other persons needs above all else, and worst of all, they both are persuaded by the one thing that has defined and attracted their characters to each other from the start: House’s misery and recollection of his worst past time with Wilson from seeing his Vicodin persuades him to change his mind for Wilson’s sake, while Wilson’s fondness and recollection of his best past times with House from seeing the Oreos causes him to sacrifice his last decision for House’s sake.

Yeah, that casually slapped me in my noggin. I think I have a scar. Now, you can assume from this new angle of information what you will, but House could have changed his mind for countless reasons.

One idea is that Wilson making this life and death decision for House instead of himself causes House too much grief (House spent a whole episode about furniture trying to get Wilson to do something for himself, and Amber did the same; ‘female house’ doing this as well was a way to emphasize House’s belief that Wilson needs to be more independent and value his own personal wants over others when decision-making, let alone the one that decides his fate).

Maybe, House realizes that he feels incredibly understanding of what pain he let Wilson endure on his sofa - emotionally and physically - and ergo, is scared for Wilson, and can’t stand the thought of him going through that pain again, but in the one place Wilson begged not to be. As House looks at the Vicodin, he envisions Wilson become depressed and constantly in pain like he’d been on that couch, in an awful reflection of House himself from the one person he cares for the most, and all for the sake of House alone, given that in Wilson’s view, he has nothing else to live for.

Another could be that this reminder pushed House to feel a spark of need/love for Wilson’s presence, but more for his fuller, happier and guilt-free self for five months than the pitiful, unwanted version of Wilson in a hospital bed for an extra year.

It could easily be all the above, and most of them blend together anyway. I feel House changed his mind on account of all of these and many more (please let me know what you think it is! I love angsty stuff), but to summarize, this clip leaks way too much about House’s character development, showing the emotions that drive him to make the decision of letting Wilson be, and enjoying what they have left together, against all firm opinions he has well established throughout the show, as well as it demonstrates the climax of Wilson’s sacrificial and selfless behaviour being rejected and put to rest, as they both decide what’s best for each other rather than whatever their characters were full-force dedicated to before (Wilson’s selflessness and House’s selfishness).

[estrella-zoe39]

i love dumping random shit onto my tumblr anyway weird discussion of the most random fandoms combined go! mostly discuses love as core themes of stories.

i think my favourite pieces of media are those that just dont make sense if you dont view them as a love story. i came across this discovery as i was watching code geass ep 17 when lulu goes insane when he realises the one thing thats in his way is also the person he trusts completely. there is no other genuine explanation other than love for the reasoning of his reaction in that scene. with shirley he had this mellow yet sorrowful reaction when he realised he couldnt be with her anymore. not saying there wasnt a part of him that didnt love her but with suzaku? he goes berserk. whatever he felt couldnt have happened if he didnt love suzaku.

other good examples of this are frieren, orv, and house. there are more my brain is just kinda fried rn and i think these three are good examples of like. varying levels of how explicit the message is. (theyre all obvious af tho)

ill start with frieren because i think if youve even like. heard about it youll know but himmel and frierens relationship really is the core of like the entire story. a boy who loved too soon and a girl who loved too late. frieren just isnt. frieren when you take that away. frieren at its like core is about love you cant just remove that because then the story wouldnt be the same it probably wouldnt even exist!!! and im sure everyone knows this its just surprising how frieren isnt officially a romance manga considering its entire premise

another example is orv which is a bit harder to know if youve only read the webtoon. orvs story just wouldnt exist if hsy didnt love kdj. if she didnt write yjh and then kdj wouldve died, plain and simple. and if kdj didnt love the story back then he wouldve also died. hsy, yjh, and kdj at their core are their love for each other. hsy spent 12 years writing a book everyday just for kdj to keep on living and in kaizenix she waited 50 years for him. yjh spent the entirety of orv learning how to love from kdj, through fighting alongside him, through protecting him, through seeing him die, even when he learned he wasnt real he still believed him, and in the end yjh was the one who let kdj be known in every universe. his mission was something that he only could brave through if he loved kdj. and he did. speaking of kdj, i think its very obvious to everyone but his self-sacrificial nature is due to him only knowing that as a love language. something else is how without kdjs love, orv also just wouldnt exist. if his love for twsa, for the chars, for STORIES, didnt exist, he wouldnt be alive. if he didnt keep on molding twsa, to be alongside every yjh and co, to suggest new plot points, he wouldve never came to love it.

onto my last example, house. now i think you gotta be a very specific type of person to catch them (its called not being homophobic) but man are house and wilson like. house the show itself. their love defines the show, from the first scene to the last. he only took that first case which started everything because of wilson. half of his stupid antics are because of wilson. his love starts and ends at wilson because he knows wilson will be the one person who will always be there consistently for him. because no matter what happens, like house getting sent to trial by tritter, or house failing to save amber, they will be together, whether they want to or not. so when wilson is diagnosed with cancer, he breaks. the one person who he thought would always be there for him. isnt. in fact, he'll die first. and so, he does everything. he listens to wilsons stupid fucking ideas because he needs wilson to be there for him, he needs wilson at his grave, not him at wilsons. thats why he gives everything to wilson, his vicodin, his attention, and even his life. the only reason he dies is so he can be with wilson. none of this actions can be done without love in them, absolutely none. i think my favourite quote of them is "if house chops down a tree, and wilson isnt around to hear it, did it really fall?" it just sums up their stupid, needy, insane, and romantic dynamic so much.

all of these pieces of media need love in them to be them, so i hope ive loved them more than they could ever want, despite some of their flaws 🩷🩷🩷

[ladyofdecember]

I think it's important to realize during House's desperation and anxiety over his perhaps decaying mental health that he first goes to Wilson because of course in a time of crisis he goes to Wilson first! 😲 They are in love and obviously care about one another however his insistence that he go to a rehab facility to get weaned off Vicodin makes him hesitate. 🤔 He truly believes he's crazy but in the off chance it is the Vicodin he knows he'll just cheat again and find a way to game the system. So what does he do rather than go to rehab?

He asks Cuddy to help him get off of it. 🥺 Not because he knows he can con her into letting him sneak pills (he can't, she doesn't care about him like Wilson does) but because he knows she loathes him, hates him, is his boss and will absolutely mandate he get off the Vicodin free and clear because of course she wants her employees healthy and sober so they can do their jobs!

🤷‍♀️😮 It's important that after this fact when Cuddy actually refuses to help him and he hallucinates her actually helping him only to find out he's really mentally ill, that he again, a second time goes to Wilson for help. And then goes to the asylum he wanted him to go in the first place!!! 💕🌈☀️ Because of course he does! He has at this point accepted Wilson's theory of it being his mind rather than the Vicodin. And he just wants to get better and stop hallucinating at this point.

[marc--chilton]

mgv house!! okay so what if house is left alone in his & wilson’s apartment while wilson goes to a conference in another state, and something about being away from wilson for a longer period than normal mixed with a bad pain day triggers an early heat. he tries to ignore it for a day or so, since wilson had scheduled this so perfectly to line up with their cycles (which had synced and were due in like a week) BUT eventually he just Cannot Handle It so he calls wilson absolutely RABID with the need to be railed so hard he forgets his own name. cue wilson pacing a hotel room and trying to a) get a plane home asap, like calling around madly trying to find some way to get back to his omega. b) have desperate needy phone sex with house to try and help as much as he can from a distance and c) keep his own rut at bay which is becoming increasingly more difficult since he keeps hearing house whining and begging and pleading and whimpering about how desperately he needs to be knotted 🥰 pls also imagine what both of them would do the SECOND wilson opens the front door to their apartment. thank u for ur time

HELLOOOOOOOO ANON

some omegas cycles aren't so bad, manageable with toys if an alpha isn't available, but house's heats are SO bad. he fevers, he aches, and the stress to his system aggravates his leg until he's in agony. the echo of his Doctor Brain telling him the endorphins will help; his hands shook so bad when he tried to take some vicodin he dropped the bottle out of his nest, and getting out of it when he feels that bad is unfathomable.

he still has the phone at his bedside, though. and even as miserable and stupid as he is, he still manages to call wilson. luckily wilson is his hotel room in vermont when he picks up because house's keening is more than audible to any would-be passerby. he hadn't even had a chance to snarkily greet him before house was whining these awful rattling breaths. it sets off alarms immediately. he knows those noises.

"it's your heat, isn't it?" a meek yeah tinged with pain is his answer.

but when he tries to hang up so he can call cuddy, house sobs. the resolve shatters instantly. so wilson instead calls cuddy with the room's phone with his cell close enough for house to pick up his voice but with his thumb over the speaker to muffle the sounds of an omega in distress.

at first, cuddy simply does not believe him. "he's probably just bored and trying to trick you. there's that saying, 'everyone lies'--"

and it swells something ugly and protective in his gut, just like every other time he has to defend house from her, or the board, or vogler, or tritter, or the fucking hundreds of other people that have the power to make house's life worse.

"you think i don't know my own omega?" he growls without thinking. a challenge is clear in his words, one alpha to another. later wilson would wince at his choice of words and nothing else.

the line crackles with cuddy's sigh after a few seconds of silence -- even house's muffled whining on the cell has dimmed. "dammit, wilson," she huffs wearily. "he's already pulling you down to his level. at this rate you'll be in full rut by tomorrow, just in time for your panel--"

"i know, lisa." wilson has to set his cell down to pinch the bridge of his nose before he snaps again. "but i need you to find me the next flight back. he needs me."

cuddy's tone is laced with something almost sad among the ire. "he always needs you, wilson. you owe me." then she hangs up.

he lets himself have a moment of composure only to realize house has been quiet. cautious, not unlike how he would approach house when he's in the throes of it in person, he puts the cell back up to his ear. house is saying something and sheets are rustling. "house? you still with me? i can't hear you."

the shifting gets louder -- did he drop the phone? -- and suddenly house is panting into the receiver, "yours... 'm yours, always..." and wilson is FLOORED at how he can almost smell the pheromones through the phone, can practically see house's pathetic attempts to grind into the bed when his leg is spasming.

it's so pitiful it makes wilson's heart clench and his slacks tight. "oh, honey...."

[canonmisogynyvictimstournament]

PROPAGANDA

IS (KAMEN RIDER 01)

1.) You know it's bad when the main female character is both an android built to serve humans and a secretary for the CEO of the android company. That girl is going to spend her entire life justifying the actions of a 20-something year old male CEO as he makes questionable decisions. Like that one movie where the androids become sentient and go "hey, wait, we'd like to be paid a fair wage for our labour!" and she comes out to convince them that no. No they don't. You see, 20-something year old CEO says you should LIKE doing labour for free and whatever he says goes. So she's just going to. Help him convince her race to go back to doing unpaid labour. For bosses that have been shown throughout the show to be abusive. Sometimes even killing their androids. Because a guy wants her to do that. Anyway, SPOILERS; at the end of the show she sacrifices herself for the Good Of Everyone. What does the CEO do? He replaces her with a new one. Just. Makes another android exactly like her. It's meant to be this emotional scene where he tells her about the previous Is but. That's not her. He just. He replaced her. This woman literally just got replaced.

AMBER VOLAKIS (HOUSE MD)

1.) Holy shit thank you for reminding me about Amber. Her nickname that almost everyone calls her to her face every day is Cutthroat Bitch. When she & Wilson start dating there are so so so many jokes about her keeping his balls in her purse & having him whipped & etc etc just bc she’s assertive & confident. & then the whole two-part episode where they fridge her (which is. not quite house’s fault directly but he definitely contributed to it) they make it completely about house & wilson & maybe 2% about HER. I’m still mad forever

2.) After being fridged, she does show up in later seasons! As a hallucination. She shows back up to be the devil on House’s shoulder when he is hurtling towards a vicodin-induced breakdown. Literally only shows up to steer him into making bad decisions (including almost killing Chase (allergic to strawberries) by inviting him to a party where the stripper is wearing strawberry scented lotion that sends him into anaphylaxis)

3.) im so glad someone else submitted amber because she fits so well for this poll but i couldnt get my words out right but im going to try again anyway. i think an important aspect of how ambers character is treated and written for the audience has to do with if a man did what she did, hed be opportunistic and ambitious, if not a bit of an ass, but because shes doing it it makes her 'bitchy'. "cutthroat bitch" "coldhearted bitch" etc is practically her canon alias at this point by how much she is referred to that way rather than her name. she is probably the most humanized out of wilson's canon relationships and its mostly because theyre paralleling her to house. she deserved so much better she deserved the world and more

[all-pacas]

That "it was just me you couldn't love" moment is so funny when you think about it lol. She is literally talking to him like they are exes who broke up because house was emotionally cheating on her with a new girl while being married. This also puts in perspective (for both us and cameron) that how little she knew him as a person untill then. Cameron fully thought her date was gonna be all romance and house confessing how in love he is when it was farthest from what happened(again agree with you that house might have entertained the idea untill she went all freud on him). He literally goes back to staring at an old photograph of stacy after that date( Ironically, if she had found that photo in his drawer, I think it would have solidified her perspective of well-adjusted pre infarction house because there is no way a house similar to current house holds onto such nostalgic things). And I love that all these revelations doesn't make her crush magically disappear. Cameron still cares for house, she gets worried about him from time to time, she still has hots for him. But by the time she reaches s3, she won't even write a vicodin prescription for him(something s1 cameron would have done). House has stopped being a mythical figure to her and she started to see his real self.

my delusional queen <3

Cameron… I don't actually want to make her sound nuts, because it's honestly a pretty normal and human thing to do. But she absolutely over-read and over-interpreted House: he was nice to her, he did care about her, she wasn't wrong to see something there, but she absolutely… took it to eleven. It was just me you couldn't love is so funny of her, because now she's suddenly under reading him, acting like he was never caring or interested at all.

In a lot of ways, I think Cameron is actually remarkably good at reading House, and in a lot of interesting ways, at that. I don't think it's a huge surprise to anyone that House has a Facade, that a lot of his outward personality is an Act — which isn't the same as saying it's fake — but where most people are satisfied with dealing with House as he presents himself, with knowing he's hiding his feelings but being okay with it, Cameron… is not. She sees through the facade (in part because I think she and House are more alike than people give them credit for; they both want to understand people, to pick them apart, are capable of great empathy and understanding), and she never lets House get away with it: she is constantly poking at him, trying to get to the Real Him, not taking him at his word.

And so of course in her Crush Era she does it, and over does it, because she has an agenda, she has things she wants him to be. But she's also… not entirely wrong. She's not delusional. "You're holding me accountable for a mistake because you're in love with me" is a wild take, but "you have feelings for me and can't and won't deal with them like a normal person" is honestly not all that wrong. She fails to understand that willpower alone isn't going to be enough to get House to fall for her or want to date her (Huddy neutral here but: you can't deny he had a pretty blatant crush on Cuddy for years before he had even the slightest interest of pursuing it). On one level Cameron actually does see through House; in another she really doesn't understand him.

The S3 white knighting is fascinating for that same reason: when she finds out Cuddy and Wilson lied to House about curing his patient, she's furious, she's protective, she's threatening them both. She spends several episodes sort of… coddling House, trying to understand him, reading deep, deep meaning into his carpet replacement and power play with Cuddy — and, well. House really didn't mind that Cuddy and Wilson lied to him (if anything, he found it kind of amusing when he found out). The carpet thing did bug him, but it was also a fun excuse to fuck around with Cuddy. Cameron sees through House, but she sort of… interprets him as more hurt and vulnerable than he usually is.

And she does grow out of it! She absolutely stops idealizing him, she stops defending him — I think Tritter basically killed the last fragments of that protective arc. In S1's Detox she's literally the only one saying House is fine and not addicted to drugs and knows what he's doing; by S3 she's pretty over that. By S4 it's even more striking: she's teasing House, not in a flirting way but in a genuine one. Betting Cole will punch him and trying to help Cole along the way, delighting in watching Chase shut House down: it's not antagonistic, obviously she's still way over-invested in House, but she's no longer looking up at him all starry-eyed. She's no longer spending hours trying to read and understand him, she's just reacting to him normally, without an agenda.

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House MD 6x22

Wilson hears a crash while on the phone with House as they discuss Cuddy and her what might be going on with her, he asks if House is alright as he is a on site emergency (Unstable area). It was House breaking a vending machine for food but.

The entire episode leads to Hanna, who House finds stuck under rubble the relationship the build in this time of crisis. -CONTEXT; a crane fell on a building and ppl are trapped in the ruble- He becomes the person she leans on in this situation she is in, she needs/wants him by her side to advocate for her when it come to her wanting to keep her legs because of his history with his own leg. how he too wanted to keep his even though people were telling him it'd be easier to amputated it off.

They try a way that might get Hanna un-trapped but it fails. Eventually the only option left in order to save her is to cut it off, House is the one she wishes to talk to Cuddy tells him to do this as Hanna will only listen to House. He tells her about his leg, how he hates that he's always in pain and that he wished he'd cut it off. She agrees but only if House is the one to do.

House in this episode showcases a level of care while maintain that air of indifference towards Hanna, trying not to get close. Objectivity that he preaches when not interacting with his other patients. But here he has to get close, forced to even. A human-ness that is shown by him that goes unrewarded.

Eventually they get Hanna out – they had to cut her leg off- but there is an issue that arise. I think it was a fat embolism, but IDK

Hanna is dying. There nothing to be done. Hanna and House stare at each other, an intimate dance of communication, of dread on houses end and I personally believe a level of gratitude on Hanna's as House stays/stayed at her side until the end. Not alone.

House is tired, frustrated that all the work his put into bettering himself to try to become happy is blowing up, fail over and over. He is tripping over these blows, which lead him to falling back to an old pattern that worked for him. He almost returns to ole’ reliable “Vicodin”. The audience watches in held silence, this breakdown of house who is struggling, has struggled. As the music builds with Houses frustration of all that happened to him, we worry and wait not knowing the next move the series will take, stuck in the possible outcome that may occur. All the possible outcomes and then put to rest and Cuddy enter into the scene. She comes to the aid of House, helping him as they talk/discuss about the tension between them the future of "This relationship. Ending the series with them becoming romantically involved with one another.

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Ok Last of Us and House MD crossover

I am having both the last of us brainrot and my usual house brainrot. So I am combining the two. Thanks for @sinclarsupremacy for helping me and listening to me ramble. I love you bro. Anyways this is going to be long but here we go:

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Cuddy: head of the infection department that knew the infection was turning people. Hired House due to his board certification of infectious diseases. Main weapon is hunting rifle and maybe a few knives. She hooks up with Lucas who is a informant for the Fireflies and the military. Breaks up with him when he betrays her to the military. Her main group is with House and Wilson joins them after Amber dies. 

House: Leading the team to help understand how the infection is happening and hopefully to stop the spread. He and the rest of the team escaped but they got split up. It was House and Wilson at first but then he ran off with Amber. House finds Cuddy and teams up with her even though they bicker 24/7. No infarction until five years into the infection. He is somewhat grateful that Cuddy was able to cut out the dead muscle without giving him lockjaw or something. No Vicodin cause it is a pandemic so he is cranky. Can’t run due to leg but is good at close quarter combat. His main weapon is pistols. He has about five of them. Once he gets a flamethrower it is over for everyone lol. His cane is also his main weapon of choice. Hates clickers the most. 

Wilson: worked at the hospital where House and the rest of the team were working. Managed to get out and teamed up with his Amber who is his assistant. They managed to survive for a couple years but Amber gets bit by a clicker when she goes into a building looking for food. Wilson finds her and sees her start to turn. He cries the whole time when she asks him to kill her before she fully turns. After that, goes on his own just looking for anyone he knows. He finds House and Cuddy after they get a herd of the infected thrown at them while they were both trying to find a Firefly camp. Wilson had met both of them before the pandemic hit but really grows close to them when they finish off the herd. He and House fall in love but they still bicker and do prank wars. His main weapons are handguns and is good with explosives. Very creative with them

Cameron: was part of House’s team that was there when the infection broke out. Managed to get separated from House and Cuddy but now is in a group (and relationship) with both Chase and Foreman. They become hunters for a little bit using Cameron as bait because of her nice demeanor. They get tired of the senseless killing and heads off to find another safe zone. Is a fast runner and ok in close combat. She much prefers to set bombs like Wilson but is more basic with them. She and Foreman are the cooks because they know Chase cannot cook for shit. Her main weapons besides the bombs are a crossbow and tranquilizers she finds when looking for supplies. 

Foreman: was part of House’s team that was there when the infection broke out. Managed to get separated from House and Cuddy but now is in a group (and relationship) with both Chase and Cameron. The most stylish of the group no suits cause zombies but he has some nice flannels and keeps himself really clean. Took archery lessons as a kid so his main weapon of choice is a bow. He can throw a good punch so he also has a pair of brass knuckles for close combat. Complains everytime he gets blood and guts on his outfit. He carries most of the team’s shit cause he is the strongest. 

Chase: was part of House’s team that was there when the infection broke out. Managed to get separated from House and Cuddy but now is in a group (and relationship) with both Foreman and Cameron. Used to complain like Foreman when he got blood and guts on him but now doesn’t give a shit. His clothes are still randomly put together but he doesn’t care, it is just clothes. Is banned from cooking after he nearly poisoned Foreman. Is the planner of the group, likes to have a few backup plans in a pinch. Doesn’t trust anyone new he meets. His main weapon is a machete and a stolen assault rifle. 

13: 100% another hunter. She cares deep down but she is also trying to survive. She doesn’t know if her Huntington’s or this infection will kill her first. Dresses a lot in flannels and her hair is always tied back. Her main weapon is a shotgun and some knives. Will out arm wrestle you. House is like a father to her somehow so she is trying to find him.

Adams and Masters: were of of the firsts to die from the team. They were both sent to study how the infection spread but they really did find out. Adams dies to spore inhalation and Masters gets bit. They both turn but House finds them after not hearing from them and kills them. His first kill during the pandemic. 

Kutner: got out alive by the seat of his pants. He joined the military just to have some sense of safety and was recruited to be a sniper for them. Is a pretty good shot but unfortunately he gets distracted easily. Ends up being killed due to the fact he never checks the places he goes into for sniping so an infected got him. 

Park: also joined the military but regrets it. She is great in close combat but is a terrible shot. Ends up leaving and teaming up with Taub to go join the Fireflies. Always checks the places they stay at, she is paranoid about getting bit. She was part of House’s team that was there when the infection broke out. Her main weapons are a baseball bat or an axe.

Taub: is on the hunt for a cure. Is determined to find it and doesn’t like to kill people if he doesn’t have to. Is a decent shot but prefers to use his self defense classes to hold his own. He was also on House’s team even they both didn’t like the other. The second best most dressed for the infection but is way more dramatic if he gets blood or guts on himself. Will literally walk out in anger and disgust that he has to change. 

Lucas: is a double informant for both the Fireflies and the military. Used to hook up with Cuddy but she dumps him due to him turning her in to the military due to the fact that Cuddy and House killed a bunch of military during a raid for supplies. Uses a sniper and also some traps but eventually disappears off the face of the earth. No one knows where he is now. 

Volger: gets bit and turned. Before getting bit, he was sponsoring the team to find a cure. But he backs out due to the fact that House exists. Gets turned into a bloater. 

Tritter: joins the military first chance he gets. Hates House in particular due to the fact that he thinks House was the one to let the infection spread in the first place. He tries to hunt House down at every chance he gets. Is trigger happy and also loves to hunt the hunters. Eventually goes insane with bloodlust and House kills him in a fight. 

Stacy: was in a relationship with House before the infection started. They were serious about each other but being separated and having fights right before the pandemic led to them breaking up. She eventually becomes one of the leaders of the Fireflies and runs a camp near New Jersey. She eventually meets her husband Mark during a raid. They are inseparable and Mark is her second in command.

That’s it for now. Let me know if you want to hear more about this crossover

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I knooow that this is yet another symptom of “men hate women and cannot conceptualize a relationship of deep trust and support with them”. nevertheless the effect is the same and it is entirely too much that when cuddy maaaaybe has cancer house is like “oh no way I can’t even be in the same ROOM as her when she has unconfirmed cancer. gotta take Vicodin to even look at you. I’m gonna bury myself in my work to show the deep angst of my straight love for you” and when Wilson has cancer house literally for the first time in the show takes a leave from work and goes to doctor’s appointments and makes wilson soup and then lovingly tells him not to be embarrassed if he shits himself because house is a doctor and can handle it

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House, M.D. Fanfic (7/?)

Thank you to everyone who has taken time to leave a note on my story. I hope you continue to enjoy my kind of rewrite and/or additions to certain episodes! As always, I don't own House. If I did, Lisa Edelstein would have gotten the respect she deserved contact wise for a season 8.

As stated in previous chapters, the story follows the big picture laid out on the show, but with my own take on things. This chapter picks back up with the show storyline in the beginning of season 3. I did use a bit of dialogue from the episode, but I definitely added and rewrote some stuff too. I also left out all the medical dialogue House spouted off at Cuddy's bedroom window because I'm not a medical professional and had no idea how to spell it or write it, lol.

Thanks to @love-hope-faith-feels-like-a-lie on Tumblr for reading my ideas and providing positive feedback! Anything in the way of feedback is always appreciated! Enjoy!

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"Did you really ask out Dr. Cameron?" Cuddy asked when he stepped into her office.

"Would you have a problem if I did?"

She just looked at him incredulously. Was he serious? "Why would you think I would be okay with that?!"

"Why wouldn't you be?" he shrugged.

"Oh, I don't know, maybe because you're already sleeping with me!" she hissed, careful to keep her voice down. The last thing she wanted was for anyone at the hospital to hear that they actually were sleeping together. She knew they were always fodder for the rumor mill, but she wasn't about to confirm it for them.

"Threesomes are sexy. And a lot of fun. You'd like it," he smirked, heading for the door since he figured that was all this conversation was about.

"House!"

"Relax. I asked her out to make a point. I'm not interested in sleeping with anyone else," he said opening the door.

"What if she'd said yes?"

He shrugged. "I wouldn't have gone. You are a slave driver in the bedroom. You think I have time or energy for another one?" He grinned smugly before leaving.

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"I can help him."

"That's it? That's your argument?"

"Seems like a good one." Why was helping someone suddenly not a good enough reason for Cuddy? Or Wilson? Or anyone else?

"If I thought for a second that you wanted to help him, you'd have carte blanche. You're doing this because it's...fun."

"Does nobody in this hospital have anything better to talk about than my motives? My motives have nothing to do with the case."

"Your motives have everything to do with your judgement."

"For the first time in years, I've got no opiods in my body, now you question my judgement? Is this still about asking Cameron out? Because I told you, that was to prove a point. Right now, jealousy has everything to do with your judgement."

"I'm not jealous of Cameron! House, 24 times a year you come storming into my office spouting that you can help someone, only you never say those words. You say something like, 'His pancreas is going to explode because his brain is on fire.' You come here with medicine, not with platitudes."

"I didn't want to bore you with the details."

"There are no details. You have a hunch. House, you don't use hunches. You always have reasons. This hospital doesn't exist for your whims. I'm sorry. As of 7AM tomorrow morning, I'm sending your patient home."

"I can help him!" he insisted.

She sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose. "I don't think you can. Because I don't think anything new is wrong with him. This is just you trying to make a puzzle out of something that isn't there."

He felt like he'd just been sucker punched in the gut. She didn't trust him on the medicine. She had never doubted him before. Sure, she'd said no plenty of times to procedures that were... questionable... she had argued with him when she didn't always agree with him. She'd never outright doubted him. That stung. And he couldn't help but wonder if the lack of pain in his leg, the lack of Vicodin in his system had caused him to see something that wasn't there.

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"So yeah, his brain is on fire." He stood outside her bedroom window like a teenage boy hoping to sneak in.

She shook her head as she got him a towel, handing out to him once he climbed inside. "Next time use the front door."

"The guy will have sex with his wife again. He'll hug his kid again." He took the towel and began to wipe his face and neck.

"House, you have no proof. No scar tissue on the scans. This is some wild theory that came to you while sweating and running into the university pool."

"Fountain. And it all fits. Just inject him with cortisol. There is no risk if I'm wrong." He studied her reaction and knew she wasn't biting. "You're smiling. That's a bad sign."

She nodded. "You're high."

"I told you, I haven't had anything in three months. You've been with me most of that time. You know I haven't taken anything."

"This is as high as you get. A theory that ties your case up in a neat little bow, but you don't have a lick of substantiating proof."

"Your decision doesn't make any sense," he said, clearly frustrated. "There is no risk to a cortisol injection. If I'm wrong, big deal. He goes home a vegetable, like he already is. But if I'm right..."

"This is not about downsides or risk management. It is a big deal for you to understand the word no." She sighed softly. "I'm sorry, House."

He breathed deeply and released it slowly, moving to sit on her bed and toss his towel beside him. She frustrated him to no end, but she was right. He wouldn't admit it to her right then, but as his boss, she was right to tell him no. He really had nothing to go on. No medical reason other than it fit. He couldn't do this, couldn't be the great doctor he had been without the leg pain.

She moved to sit next to him, placing a hand lightly on his back. "Do you want to talk?" she offered.

"No."

"Do you want to stay?"

He thought about it for a moment. He didn't have his bike, and he didn't really feel like running home. "Yeah, it's late."

"You don't say," she offered a small smile, picking up the towel and dropping it into his lap. "Go shower and dry off. You're getting my bed wet. And you smell like a locker room." She gave him a gentle shove to his feet then.

He took his time on the shower, both cooling off and working through everything on his head. Did he really need the pain to be great at his job? Was he really so far off base that she didn't trust his ability anymore?

She was half asleep when he came out of her bathroom with a towel around his waist. "You've got some clothes in the top drawer," she murmured. "I washed the ones you left here, " she added, seemingly answering his question before he could even ask it.

He simply nodded and pulled them on, leaving his wet towel on the floor.

"If you want to get in this bed, the towel goes back in the bathroom." She didn't even have to open her eyes to see the towel on the floor.

He just looked at her for a moment before picking it up and tossing it toward the bathroom.

"In the hamper, House," she murmured.

Once again he just stared at her a moment. How the hell did she know without even opening her eyes? "The force is strong with you," he murmured, going to put the towel in the hamper so she would let him in bed.

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The TV Show Trials - House M.D.

House M.D. is an American medical drama that ran for eight seasons from 2004 to 2012. The series follows Dr Gregory House, an ingenious and unsociable physician who flouts hospital rules, clashes with fellow doctors and his assisstants as he comes up with controbertial hypotheses about his patients’ illnesses.

Three Stories

House takes over a diagnostics class for a day and presents the class with three case studies of leg pain. As House tells his story and the class fills up, the class learns to be better doctors and Chase, Foreman and Cameron learn some important details of House’s past.

Going into this show, I was vaguely aware of an episode where House tells a class what happened to his leg, and I assumed it would be much later in the series than this; but the placement of this episode makes perfect sense. Overall, it’s a decent episode. It gives a good insight to House as a character and his attitude towards his job.

Rating: 4

House’s Head/Wilson’s Heart

A bus that House was riding crashes. House claims there’s a victim that’s dying, but not from the bus accident. The key is inside House’s head and he will stop at nothing to figure out who the patient is and what is ailing them.

These episodes are very reliant on the overall series narrative, something that I have minimal knowledge of which made it somewhat difficult to enjoy these episodes for what they are. Apart from that, these episodes are somewhat mediocre compared to most of the other episodes that I watched.

Rating: 3

No Reason

As House and his team are working on the diagnosis of a man with a giant, swollen tongue, the husband of a former patient walks into House’s office and shoots him. From his hospital bed, House continues to treat the patient while his shooter is handcuffed to the neighbouring bed.

This and two other episodes are competing for top spot in my rankings. What I’ve noticed is that the episodes where the entirety is spent finding a diagnosis are my favourites, and this is no excuse. The added storyline of House being treated himself and having to navigate between reality and hallucinations makes for a great episode.

Rating: 4.5/5

Broken (Part 1 & 2)

House fights his doctors, the staff and his fellow patients when he’s forced to stay in the psychiatric hospital under threat of permanently losing his medical license.

As mentioned above, my favourite episodes are about uncertain diagnoses, turns out that my least favourite episodes are those with no patients at all. This, combined with my borderline hatred of Lin-Manuel Miranda, makes for my least favourite episodes out of all fifteen that I watched.

Rating: 2

One Day, One Room

To punish House, Cuddy banishes his to the clinic. While dealing with a rash of suspected STD cases, he realizes one of the patients is a victim of rape. In the end, to deal with the patient’s trauma, House may have to deal with some of his own.

I think the fact that I only watched this episode two days ago and that I can’t recall any of the plot speaks volumes about its quality; perfectly average.

Rating: 3

Euphoria (Part 1 & 2)

When a police officer with a gunshot wound to the head and uncontrollable laughter is admitted, House and the team are baffled. When Foreman begins showing the same symptoms, they race to determine the cause of the illness before Foreman’s condition takes the same path.

This is another of the episodes competing for my favourite. The performances from Omar Epps and Scott Michael Campbell are what make these episodes excel.

Rating: 5

Help Me

Cuddy, House and members of the team join forces with a search-and-rescue team to provide medical attention at the scene of a crane collapse.

This is another satisfactory episode, it isn’t bad but it also isn’t great. I enjoy the change in scenery from the hospital while retaining the same urgency and feeling I also really enjoy seeing House mirror the patient’s desperation and struggle. This episode also highlights a rare instance of House’s emotional response to his patient which is quite refreshing.

Rating: 4

Birthmarks

House tries every delaying tactic available when Wilson forces him to attend his father’s funeral. Meanwhile, the team tries to find the cause of a young woman’s abdominal pain and hemorrhage.

Easily my favourite part of this episode is the relationship between House and Wilson. Despite that, the storyline involving House’s father is less interesting than the hospital storyline. Are we seeing a theme yet?

Rating: 3

Detox

A teenage boy is admitted when he starts coughing up blood. Meanwhile, House tries to prove he isn’t addicted to Vicodin by betting a week without it, but when he suffer withdrawal symptoms, his team starts to lose confidence in his judgement.

This is another mediocre episode that only has one solid benefit, that being showing the audience the extent of House’s addiction as well as his extreme stubbornness.

Rating: 3

Autopsy

A nine-year-old with terminal cancer who is hallucinating comes to the hospital. House thinks her bravery in the face of imminent death is actually a symptom of her condition.

I’ll be honest, this episode is only worth watching for the surgery scene where they can finally diagnose the patient. Other than that, it’s pretty bland.

Rating: 3

Babies and Bathwater

While House and his team scramble to treat brain and kidney dysfunction in a pregnant woman, Vogler is on the warpath to get House fired.

Like Autopsy, this episode is pretty standard, but unlike Autopsy this episode doesn’t have any major events saving it from mediocrity.

Rating: 3

Airborne

House and Cuddy are flying back from an international conference in Singapore. While en route a mysterious disease strikes one passenger and an epidemic unfolds, causing House to diagnose in mid-air. Back in Princeton, Wilson leads House’s team when a middle-aged woman seems to be suffering from her recent decision to live life to its fullest.

This episode has the best dynamic between House and Cuddy of all the episodes I watched. Along with this, I also tend to enjoy the episodes where they have to do field work in order to diagnose a patient. Overall, it’s a pretty good episode.

Rating: 4

A Pox on Our House

After a 200-year-old medicine jar found on an off-shore shipwreck shatters in a teenage girl’s palm, she is admitted with symptoms similar to smallpox, and the CDC issues a lockdown.

The opening of this episode is very strange, so much so that I thought I was watching the wrong thing for several minutes. Apart from that, there isn’t much that particularly stands out about this episode.

Rating: 3

Lockdown

When a newborn disappears from the nursery, the hospital goes on lockdown, preventing anyone from entering, leaving or moving within the hospital. While House and his team members are trapped in various parts of the building, new insights about the team’s personal histories, relationships and regrets surface.

The first thing I noticed about this episode is how to colour-grading is all off, but that may be a symptom of the shows evolution and not a mistake. Being a character-based episode, it wasn’t the easiest to follow without watching everything before it, but it is written well enough to fill in the details that are necessary.

Rating: 3

Lines in the Sand

A ten-year-old boy begins screaming in pain, but nobody knows why, because he is autistic and cannot explain. House refuses to use his office because it has new carpet.

This was the first episode I watched, and it was a fantastic introduction to the show. It isn’t anything special in the grand scheme of things, but it served its role of being a good jumping off point; even though that was all coincidence.

Rating: 3

Did I like this show? Overall, yes. While a lot of the episode where mediocre, I still had fun watching it.

Will I continue watching? Yes, I’m not sure if I’ll end up watching all eight seasons though.

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Sherlock HLV-S4 (aka EMP) vs House M.D.

First of all, it’s worth mentioning that House MD was inspired by ACD stories therefore it wouldn’t be odd for Mofftiss to take inspiration from the series. Also, it’s the only modern Sherlock series except for their own.

Gregory House - Sherlock Holmes, James Wilson - John Watson, Amber (aka Wilson’s dead gf) - Mary (aka Watson’s dead wife). 

Ok let’s start with S4E15 ‘’House’s head’’

Summary: House has a short disjointed vision and presumes that "somebody's going to die". Back at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, House is diagnosed with a concussion and post-traumatic retrograde amnesia. Chase performs a medical hypnosis on House to stimulate his memory. While the team investigates several pathologies to fit the bus driver's condition, House overdoses on his Vicodin and starts to hallucinate. In a renewed attempt to retrieve his memory, House has his team reenact the bus crash. House overdoses on physostigmine, a medication against Alzheimer's disease, and his mind flashes back to the bus scene before the accident. "The answer" reminds House that since he values reason above everything else, there must be one for her presence in his mind. She keeps asking House what her necklace is made from, until House realizes that it's made of amber. "The answer" transforms into Amber Volakis, and when Wilson and Cuddy manage to resuscitate House from his overdose-induced cardiac arrest, House immediately informs Wilson that Amber's life is in danger as he now remembers the crash.

This one is going to be pretty messy because this episode parallels HLV, TAB, and T6T. The most important thing is that Sherlock/House overdoses to solve a case in his mind, turns out it has to do with James’/John’s wife.

S4E16  "Wilson's Heart"

Summary/highlights:  In an attempt to remember exactly what he saw that caused his initial concern and help definitively diagnosis her (Amber), House decides to undergo deep brain stimulation with Wilson's urging. The crash caused such extensive anatomical and physiological trauma to Amber that she ended up suffering acute renal failure. This damage to her kidneys made them unable to adequately filter out the amantadine, causing her to overdose, and thus causing all her unexplained symptoms. Wilson suggests dialysis as a treatment, however House tells him during the memory of the moments leading up to the bus crash that when unfiltered, amantadine binds to proteins in the kidneys, and therefore dialysis is unable to clear it from the blood, and ultimately there is no treatment for Amber. House and Wilson begin to cry, and House goes into a seizure while still connected to the Deep Brain Stimulation equipment. The seizure causes the equipment to shift, thus causing House's brain to bleed, leading to him falling into a coma. An unconscious House has a vision of Amber who persuades him not to give up on life and die, telling him that he "can't always get what he wants". Wilson returns home and finds the note Amber left him in their bedroom saying she went to pick up House and would return home soon, causing him to breakdown in tears.

S5E01  "Dying Changes Everything"

Highlights:  House then enters Wilson's office and offers an apology in a final attempt to make him stay. Wilson tells House that he does not blame him for Amber's death, as much as he wanted to, and tried hard to. However, when House starts to assume that everything is fine, Wilson tells House that Amber was never the real reason why he was leaving. Wilson says that he has realized that House is rude and malicious to everybody he knows, including him, and throughout their entire friendship, he's been enabling his behavior. Wilson claims that as long as the two remain friends, he will always continue this negative atmosphere. He then begins to say that he should have been on the bus that crashed, but then pauses and says that House should have been on it alone. "We're not friends any more, House; I'm not sure we ever were," Wilson says as he leaves his office and leaves House in the room alone.

(cont. Wilson: I don’t blame you. I wanted to-)

S5E23  "Under My Skin"

Summary: [...] House must solve this daunting puzzle, even while going to extreme measures to rid himself of his continuing hallucinations of Amber.  House confides in Wilson about his problem, and they create a list of potential diagnoses, ranging from MS to schizophrenia. While House tests for and eliminates diagnosis after diagnosis, Wilson consults on House's case, serving as a monitor to make sure House does nothing that goes beyond "House-radical" to "House-out-of-his-head-radical". Meanwhile, House eliminates all possible diagnoses but severe mental illness and Vicodin addiction—both prognoses bleak, as House would be unable to practice medicine if taking anti-psychotics, or if in continuous pain after detox. In desperation, House gives himself insulin shock as an alternative to anti-psych drugs or ECT. After recovering from the insulin-induced coma, House finds himself free of his hallucination and eagerly returns to the diagnosis of his patient. Returning to the case, House finds Penelope's boyfriend's devotion suspicious, and believing it to be guilt-induced, tells his team to test him for gonorrhea. The test returns positive, but it becomes evident that the boyfriend was shocked by this, and that Penelope had been cheating on him, not the other way around. As House realizes that he reached the correct conclusion by accident rather than through accurate observation, he once again starts to have hallucinations of Amber.This leaves House's Vicodin addiction as the final diagnosis for his hallucinations. Rather than go to a clinic or check into the hospital under a pseudonym, House reveals his situation to Cuddy and asks her to personally help him. Cuddy spends the night at House's home, destroying any caches of Vicodin and monitoring him as he detoxes, with Amber eventually disappearing. The episode ends with House and Cuddy kissing passionately and disrobing.

S5E24  "Both Sides Now"

I’d rec reading the summary, i know it’s long but it’ll make you realise how similar to TLD the ep is. And if i’d have to rec you one episode of house to watch from this list, it’d be this one. 

Summary:  House wakes up at his apartment after spending the night with Cuddy. He discovers that she has left her lipstick on his bathroom counter, as well as on his cheek. House pockets the lipstick, and goes to work in a cheerful mood and a remarkable lack of pain.  Meanwhile, Cuddy tells House that their relationship must be that of employer and employee. House tells Wilson that he kicked his drug habit and had sex with Cuddy; Wilson advises that he talk to her, advice which House ignores. Instead he begins a campaign to annoy and provoke her, an attempt to break through her composure. In a final attempt to provoke Cuddy into examining her true feelings for him, House announces to everyone in the main lobby of the hospital that he had sexual relations with Cuddy. Cuddy responds by confronting him in a hallway, and then firing him after he suggests that they move in together. Cuddy storms off but before House can do anything else. House then goes to talk to Cuddy in her office, and asks her if she could possibly be overreacting to the previous night. She finally admits that maybe she is, since he's "said plenty of lousy things to [her] before." House seems confused, as he assumed that she was overreacting to her and House having sex and what it could mean to their employer-employee relationship.  But he realizes that Cuddy's reactions all day have been consistent, and in fact it is his own memory of the situation that is faulty. He turns his attention to the lipstick Cuddy let at his apartment, which he has been playing with all day, and is troubled that Cuddy's coffee cup shows no lipstick smears; his memory of the prior evening included smears of lipstick on his face from kissing Cuddy, so he expects her lipstick is the sort that smears. He asks Cuddy whether she has another type of lipstick, one with a "sealing agent", that might explain the discrepancy between his memory of the smeared kiss and the reality that now confronts him of the unsmeared coffee cup. House then has a flashback to the night (from the episode "Under My Skin") before when he thought he told Cuddy that he needed her help with his addiction. He suddenly sees the reality of what has happened: he never told Cuddy he was having hallucinations that night. His final words of the evening were: "you can go suckle the little bastard child if that makes you feel good about yourself." Upset by this remark, she left the office and went home, never accompanying him to his apartment.House snaps back to reality and tries to explain to Cuddy that that's not what actually happened, saying "I told you I needed you, and you helped me." He reaches into his pocket to remove the lipstick, but, to his shock, he discovers that it is actually a bottle of Oxycodone which states 'not to exceed'. He drops the bottle on the floor and gingerly backs away from it. Cuddy, now realizing House is not joking, rushes to him and asks if he is okay. He doesn't respond, but then has another flashback, and realizes what happened. The whole previous night was a complete hallucination, beginning from him telling Cuddy that he needed her to help him detox and her accompanying him home. His memory of Cuddy staying by his side at his apartment was not real, and, in fact, he spent the night popping pills by himself. Hallucinations of Amber and Kutner then appear and tell House that while the story he invented about himself is nice, it's not true. House finally looks at Cuddy and is able to fearfully tell her that he is not okay.

S6E2  "Broken"

Highlights:  House awakens in the Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital after suffering through the painful effects of Vicodin withdrawal. Dr. Nolan tells House he cannot possibly treat someone so uncooperative. As Nolan leaves, however, House softly calls him back and says, "I need help." He begins therapy with Nolan and House says, "I want to get better." House apologizes to Steve, and as he wheels him away, Steve breaks his silence and gives the silent Annie the music box he was holding. For the first time, she speaks to say 'thank you'. Lydia arrives and House takes her in to see the group watching her sister-in-law playing "Bach's Cello Suite No. 1" on the cello.

Ah, I’ve forgotten to add this. It’s from the beginning of season six. House finds out that Lisa didn’t break up with her bf. = Sherlock didn’t ‘’break up’’ with the woman. Parallels the 221B scene in TLD.

(House: they didnt break up. Wilson: and youre ok with that? House: it is what it is)