r/HouseMD

Mine is The Thomas Crown Affair... the Steve McQueen version. The way House looks is just so accurate and ridiculous at the same time. It's up there with Nathan Lane doing the John Wayne walk in The Birdcage

i really don't understand the reactions from House and Alex's father when its revealed that she has XY chromosomes and is meant to be a boy. it was such a strange reaction; she's so clearly a girl and has lived her entire life being a woman, so whats with the dad appearing as if he's disgusted by this and House constantly referring to her as male?

i imagine its probably because this was the mid-00s and i dont imagine general knowledge on intersex people was any better than how it is today but still, it felt really jarring how the characters responded. Alex having XY chromosomes and undeveloped testicles meant nothing?? why did it matter?? did i miss something as to why they responded this way?

The synopsis for Season 3, Episode 12 is grammatically incorrect on Disney+, reading: "While on compulsory clinic duty, who challenges him to unravel a very different kind of medical puzzle."

The synopsis on HBO Max reads: "While on compulsory clinic duty, House encounters a rape victim who...", so someone has seemingly deleted the "House encounters a rape victim" part without correcting the rest of the sentence.

Censoring it in the first place is a little silly (the episode is still about a rape victim even if you change the synopsis, not sure what editing it accomplishes), but it's crazy how someone just deleted that bit and assumed the sentence would still read the same way. Are there any other examples of this?

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Mine was the time House told Wilson that the CIA is listening to their conversation and that they know that "you brought the heroin back from Afganisthan".

The look on Wilson's Face 🤣🤣🤣.

The forest nymphs episode was crazy too.

Soo House is getting an Indian remake and I just don't know what to feel about it 😰😰

I've been trying to understand what house really means when he says "people don't change". I remember instances in the show where House himself behaves in a way that directly contradicts this stance. Did house mean it as an absolute or as a general observation (a disposition)? I don't think i understand what he refers to as "change" here. Is physiological change that consequently results in a significant shift in a person's behavior not considered as a changed person? I've read some posts say that he means "people don't change, they become more of what they are", what does it even mean to become more of what we are, doesn't this assume there is a threshold or boundary or some kind of marker that indicates who we are concretely and that there is more to us? At first i thought that this doesn't hold because the act of introspection can make people think / act / behave differently but then again a person must be capable of introspection to begin with, making them more of what they are in some sense (assuming introspection is an inherent part of who they). Then there's the take that "people's internal motivations don't change", people change the medium through which they choose to express their motivations. I also remember house stating "Almost dying changes nothing while dying changes everything" which connects back to his belief that "people don't change". Another take is that he believes that "people don't change" as a diagnostic heuristic, he assumes "everybody lies" and if a diagnosis depends entirely on what a patient says then he treats that info as unreliable until independently verified (often involving breaking into houses lol).

I would love to hear your thoughts on which take(s) you guys resonate with or if you have any other takes, i would love to hear them :)

What do you think went through his mind when he saw Cameron in that red dress?

This clip has a special moment near the end where the patient and House connect.

Some still don't understand that House is a detective first and then a doctor.

Also it's a fictional show, Holmes and Watson at fictional PPTH.

So the reason he sends his team to break in is because that is the potential scene of the crime/infection. They are collecting evidence.

I wondered why the families were allowed in so much, but again House collects evidence from the parents and sees how they interact with their child.

In this case the parents are not communicating with their child and he gets frustrated and stressed. House communicates with him in a way he understands and in his moment of clarity he realises the boy has been giving them the correct diagnosis from the start.

So funny, never noticed when it first aired, but binge watching, literally 20 episodes out of 22, the big question, "Could it be sarcoidosia?"

So I have to wonder if a writer had a relative that had that?

I think season 7 finally it was sarcoidosis, but then it turned out to be something else.

Just very odd to have it mentioned every episode... kind of lazy writing, as much as I absolutely love the show.

House gets psychoanalyzed a lot, being the main character and all. But I feel as though Wilson is just as interesting. I mean even beyond his interactions with House. How he treats patients, his relationships, himself. How he likes being prepared for the worst, etc.

I always wonder if there ever was a universe where him and House were never friends, and Wilson was just the head of oncology.