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He had an infarction in his right thigh.

Similar to a clot that causes a stroke if it is in the brain, a heart attack if it is in the heart and an embolism if it is in the lung, an infarction in his leg blocked the flow of blood. House explains this in the "Pilot."

It is further explained in "Three Stories" that his condition went misdiagnosed for three days causing severe nerve damage and muscle death. They wanted to amputate his leg but he opposed it. The surgery that tried to restore blood circulation and removal of dead muscle tissue left his leg permanently impaired and in chronic pain.

Hugh Laurie made this statement on a guest appearance of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, November 16, 2005. It's also been stated by executive producer and writer David Shore that some people prefer to use the cane with their dominant hand regardless of which leg is injured.

This was also addressed in House M.D.: Whac-A-Mole (#3.8).

It is not a mistake. Biomechanically a cane should be used in the opposite hand when the injury is at the hip joint. If the injury is at the knee or below, it is more efficient and more biomechanically sound to hold the cane on the same side as the problem. In House's case the injury is involving muscles that are primary movers--specifically extensors--of the knee (he seems to be able to move the hip at will). It can be assumed, therefore, that the cane is to compensate for his knee instability; thus he is actually using it properly on the side of the injured leg.

As someone who suffers from constant leg pain I would like to add that by carrying the cane on the same side as the bad leg you can put most of your weight on the cane and hardly even use your leg. If you use the cane on the opposite leg while it may help with stabilizing as you walk you can not put nearly as much of your weight on it thus putting more pressure on your painful leg.

" Bear weight on the proper side. You should hold your cane on the same side of your body that your injury is on. If you are using the cane for general mobility rather than an injury, hold the cane using your dominant hand and bear weight on this side of your body. This will make the cane bear the majority of your weight, as well as the impact caused by your motion when walking (eHow)."

http://www.ehow.com/how_2050240_use-cane.html

House (Hugh Laurie) is the Head of the Diagnostics Department with dual specialty in Nephrology and Infectious Diseases. Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) is an Immunologist. Foreman (Omar Epps) is a Neurologist. Chase (Jesse Spencer) is an Intensivist (Intensive Care Specialist). Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) is a Oncologist as well as the Head of the Oncology Department. And Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) is the Hospital Administrator as well as the Dean of Medicine and an Endocrinologist (Insensitivity, Season 3, Episode 14). "13" is an internist, Taub is a plastic surgeon, and Kutner is a sports medicine specialist.

Most of this has been mentioned in various episodes but it was established for the first time in the Unaired Pilot Episode.

There is a slightly longer version than the one that aired or is available in the boxset DVDs.

A special DVD was distributed in some magazines prior to the initial premiere date for promotional purposes and it had about 4 minutes of additional material that was edited from the aired version.

The additional material includes two deleted scenes. The first is an extended version of the scene where Wilson is trying to convince House to take on Rebecca Adler (Robin Tunney) as a patient. Just after he tells House that she's his cousin, House tries to enter an elevator, Wilson grabs his cane and won't let go until House agrees to see Rebecca.

The second is an extended version of a scene that aired in "Paternity" where Chase is doing a crossword puzzle and asks Foreman for a 9-letter word meaning "iodine deficiency in children" (A: cretinism). In the scene, they discuss their specialties and how long they've each been working for House.

Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital is fictitious.

It was recently announced in the local newspaper (West Windsor Plainsboro News) that there is in the works a Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital in the works because the current Princeton Hospital to improve facilities.

The actual building filmed in the flyovers is not a hospital instead it is the First Campus Center at Princeton University. This building is the former Palmer Physics Lab and a new modern addition creating the main social center for students of Princeton University. The flyover includes the Princeton University Campus and the surrounding area. The flyover starts in Plainsboro fly's across the Carnegie Lake, which is very narrow and looks like a segment of a river, then travels towards Princeton University. Hence the name Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.

The show is filmed in Los Angeles, California, at 20th Century Fox. Season one filmed on two sound stages: 11 and 14. Season two added an sound stage 15. The show occasionally goes on location to nearby locales around Los Angeles County. Also, the original pilot was filmed in Vancouver, Canada. Outdoor scenes are usually filmed on campus at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) or the University of Southern California (USC).

For thorough reviews by episode by a real doctor, please visit http://www.politedissent.com/house_pd.html.

It's a Honda CBR1000RR Repsol Replica.

Yes, we have. Creator David Shore based House on Sherlock Holmes because of his ability to solve the medical mysteries of his patients. You'll find lots of similarities to Holmes, who was in turn based on a real-life doctor by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, so it's come full circle.

In addition, Holmes and House have something else in common: both are drug addicts. House is addicted to the powerful painkiller Vicodin and Holmes to injected cocaine.

The show is named after a play on words (House = "homes" = Holmes). House's best friend James Wilson is named after Holmes' friend John H. Watson. Both Wilson and Watson were three times married.

The man who shot House at the end of Season 2 is named "Jack Moriarty," who shares the surname of Holmes' archnemesis.

Holmes passed the time between cases by reading boring monographs; House passes time between cases by watching insipid medical dramas.

Does everyone also realize that their personalities are completely alike? Both are brilliant, arrogant, and single-minded in their pursuit of the answer to their mystery. The only difference is that Holmes is much more refined than House.

Arthur Conan Doyle partly based Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Joseph Bell, a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, and eminent surgeon. (reference - Reader's Digest Strange Stories, Amazing Facts 1976, LCCC 76-2966, pages 554-555 - "The Incredible Dr. Bell") In season 5 Episode 11 "Joy to the World", House receives a Christmas present that turns out to be a book on surgery written by Dr. Joseph Bell.

The song that plays BEFORE he talks to Vogler (which he is tapping along to) is Baba O'Riley by the Who. Vogler stops this. The song that comes on AFTER he's done talking with Vogler is "Hava Nagila," a Jewish folk song.

Soundtrack listings are available at IMDb - each episode page has a soundtrack list - links appear on the left hand side of the page.

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Please visit: House Transcripts = http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/house/

There you'll find a transcript of each and every episode that's aired so far in the United States. If you live elsewhere and just can't live with yourself until you find out what happened in the latest episode, please go here and read it for yourself.

The one you are referring to is when Englishman Hugh Laurie exaggerates his native accent speaking on the phone in episode #1.6, "The Socratic Method."

Currently, iTunes has all of Season 1 and 2,3,4 and what has aired of Season 5 available for purchase and download for $1.99 an episode.

In addition, News Corp. and NBC Universal announced plans on 3/22/07 to launch a video distribution site this summer featuring thousands of hours of content from at least a dozen networks and two major film studios -- including House, M.D.

Hulu.com Shows some full episodes with small 30 seconds or less commercials the episodes are listed here http://www.hulu.com/house

Or try: blockbuster online - rent full seasons

Update: www.fox.com offers free episodes to watch as does this site, imdb.com.

also, try surfthechannel.com

The game is ATV Offroad Fury Blazin' Trails.

Earlier, House was also seen playing Metroid: Zero Mission on Game Boy Advance.

The theme music uses excerpts from the song "Teardrop" by Massive Attack. However, some international screenings use a different, sound-alike instrumental theme produced specifically for the show.

He usually refuses to wear it since he doesn't want people to know he's a doctor. He's worn his lab coat only a few times throughout the series: the first time in House M.D.: Mob Rules (#1.15) to distract Vonger, and few more times thoughout the series, when Vogler insisted that he wear it, in House M.D.: Sex Kills (#2.14) and again in House M.D.: Games (#4.9) when he sat in as Wilson told a patient that he was not dying as he'd been told earlier. In Season 5, he also puts on the lab coat as he's trying to act like a friendly doctor, in order to get a christmas present from a patient.

It was filmed in black and white then particularly colorized. That is why some backgrounds look black and white while the forground is in a limited range of colour.

Well, there are many answers for this question. Most people like to believe that he became nasty after the infarction in his leg that he refused to have amputated and instead lives with chronic leg pain and struggles with a Vicodin addiction. However, in one episode Cameron states that Wilson said he was like that before his leg so we don`t really know whether or not the leg caused his current behaviour.

Another theory is that he is miserable because he was abused by his father when he was younger as explained in Season 2, Episode 12.

Eventually we will find out more about his past but for now keeping his past as ambiguous as possible is part of the mystery of the show.

As a matter of fact, in season 3, after a renegade detective (Dt. Tritter) tries to put House in jail for being under the influence of narcotics while treating patients, House goes to rehab as part of a deal with the DA to avoid jail time but Detective Tritter stills pursues him despite his attempts to get clean. House ends up in jail for one night on contempt but tells Wilson even though he will return to rehab he will still have his Vicodin because he has an orderly on his payroll.

After House is shot in season 2, he requests a special treatment from Cuddy that will eliminate his leg pain but he will still have to recover on his own from his gunshot wounds. He gets the treatment and ends up being able to run and walk without a cane or Vicodin but after a while the medicine wears off and he goes back to Vicodin.

In season 5, House comes into work unusually happy and willing to "humour" a patient's family by allowing a useless treatment to be given to their son, the patient, to prove that it's useless. The team, Wilson and Cuddy deduce that House is on Heroin because in order for him to be pain free he would have to be on something stronger than Vicodin. Wilson confronts House about his suspicions and House reveals that he is actually on Methadone which relieves his pain and enables him to be nice to people. Cuddy tells him that in order to keep his job she would have to control his use of Methadone but he decides to quit because he feels that it makes him to soft which resulted in him causing more problems for a patient by humouring the family instead of going with his instincts.

House has been addicted to Vicodin for many years and despite many attempts to get clean he is still on it.

In season 2, House took a special migrane prevention drug and than took a drug that would cause a migrane to try to prove that the migrane prevention drug didn`t work. He later took Acid to eliminate his migrane and then took anti-depressants to short circuit the LSD.

In season 3, House stole Oxycodone from a pharmacy that was to be given to a patient who was already dead.

In season 4, House takes a special azheimers medication to try and remember who he saw on the bus before it crashed.

In season 5, House takes Methadone to wein himself off of Vicodin and eliminate his pain but quit after realizing that it made him too soft.

Season 6, House is off Vicodin and is now only taking asprin as directed by his therapist, Dr. Nolan.

His main vision is that of Amber, who he determines to represent his irrational mind. He notes this during a discussion with Wilson who says "Your irrational mind is like my rational one."

His second halluncination is Cuddy taking him hom eto detox and ultimatly sleeping with him. He then continues this by seeing her lipstick in place of vicadin bottle. He figures out that it was all fake after announcing their trist to the entire lobby full of nurses and fellows. She fires him.

The final hallucination is Kutner. Who may simply represent his rational mind. However it is never stated why he sees the recently deceased doctor.

House is only in the mental hospital for the season 6 premiere. He leaves at the end of the two-part episode. As for the fictional time he spent in the mental hospital, in Episode 5 of Season 6 House talks to Chase about Chase having a problem with having killed a patient, House tells Chase that he should go see a doctor (psychiatrist) since they could fix him in just 10 hours since they only needed 7 weeks for himself, most likely he is referring to his time at the mental hospital.