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House Explained — Episode by Episode

House Explained — Episode by Episode

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House — Top Episodes Collection (Chapters)

The 20 most entertaining, rewatchable episodes of House — pure viewing quality picks. Jump between episodes using your podcast app's chapter navigation. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/house-top-episodes-collection-chapters/id1896325454?i=1000766399072 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6XXF92mNvJiXovW9XlzoKP IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/73255 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1408

House — Around the Cast & Creators

House took shape through unlikely casting choices, personal connections, and a medical mystery pitch modeled on Sherlock Holmes. Hugh Laurie’s Namibia audition, Robert Sean Leonard’s deliberate move away from leading-man TV, Lisa Edelstein’s remembered guest spot, and David Shore’s “doctor as detective” framework all shaped the show’s first season. A concise guide to the actors, creators, career paths, near-misses, and production decisions behind House, with context on how the core ensemble and recurring players came together before the series became a defining medical drama. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/house-around-the-cast-creators/id1896325454?i=1000766398911 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3gWOLX8Al3xtXiLZ6GnoD3 IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/73255 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1408

House — The Essentials Collection (Chapters)

The 20 most essential episodes of House — landmark moments, fan favorites, and major turning points — plus a cast & creators bonus. Jump between episodes using your podcast app's chapter navigation. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/house-the-essentials-collection-chapters/id1896325454?i=1000766399052 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/69wvaRo8bYPwiU37XoHlMR IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/73255 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1408

House S01E01 — Pilot

A kindergarten teacher collapses mid-sentence into a seizure and spends a month undiagnosed before oncologist James Wilson manipulates his friend Dr. Gregory House into taking the case with a lie about being her cousin. House's team cycles through vasculitis, aneurysm, and other differentials, nearly loses the patient during an MRI, gambles on steroids that work briefly before she crashes again, and ultimately cracks the case through an apartment break-in that reveals ham in the kitchen — pointing to neurocysticercosis, a tapeworm larva lodged in her brain. The pilot establishes House's core operating logic: he works from a whiteboard, avoids patients, and relies on environmental evidence as much as clinical data. The diagnosis hinges not on a scan or a lab value but on a single domestic detail that exposes both the patient's real diet and Wilson's fabricated story. The episode also introduces the show's central thesis — everybody lies — not as a cynical tagline but as a structural fact demonstrated by the one character House actually trusts. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/house-s01e01-pilot/id1896325454?i=1000766399024 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1U05026p6uUri7rNrOOzrj IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/73255 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1408

House S01E11 — Detox

Keith Foster, a sixteen-year-old, has been bleeding internally for three weeks with no clear cause. While House works the case — ruling out drugs, infection, lupus, and cancer before landing on naphthalene poisoning from a termite nest inside the boy's bedroom walls — he is also mid-withdrawal, having accepted Cuddy's bet to go a week without Vicodin in exchange for a month off clinic duty. The diagnosis turns on a single detail: Keith hallucinates about his dead cat, House autopsies the animal, finds the same poison, and stops a liver transplant seconds before surgery. The episode uses the medical case to put House's addiction under direct pressure. Every decision he makes is shadowed by the question of whether withdrawal is compromising his judgment, and the answer — he breaks his own fingers to manage the pain and still gets it right — makes the final scene harder to argue with. When House tells Wilson he is an addict but has no intention of stopping, the episode has already demonstrated his logic: the pills let him function. Wilson, who quietly engineered the bet, has no counter. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/house-s01e11-detox/id1896325454?i=1000766399025 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6W0sFtB0sAAqzAkHogfiXK IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/73255 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1408

House S01E21 — Three Stories

House is forced to cover a diagnostics lecture, presenting three cases of leg pain to a classroom of medical students. The cases unfold in sequence — a farmer whose dog bite is mistaken for a snakebite, leading to amputation; a teenage volleyball player whose over-thorough workup accidentally uncovers cancer; and a third case that begins as a joke before revealing itself to be House's own medical history. Over the course of the lecture, House lays out exactly how he got the limp, the cane, and the Vicodin: a clotted aneurysm, a risky surgery he chose over amputation, cardiac arrest, and a medically induced coma — during which Stacy, his girlfriend and medical proxy, authorized a procedure against his explicit wishes. He survived. The relationship did not. This episode reframes everything established in the first season. The lecture structure lets the show deliver House's backstory without melodrama, embedding it inside a medical puzzle that works on its own terms. By the end, the cane and the Vicodin are no longer character quirks — they are consequences, and Stacy's return gives those consequences somewhere to land. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/house-s01e21-three-stories/id1896325454?i=1000766398949 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5OWPRW4DXYd0QHTOoUgKd1 IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/73255 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1408

House S01E22 — Honeymoon

Stacy Warner brings her husband Mark to House under the pretense of a dinner, and House drugs him into a hospital admission. With every test returning clean, House pushes for exploratory surgery, catches abdominal epilepsy in the surgical footage, then watches Mark's condition deteriorate through nerve death, paralysis, and delusions before a false memory about a Paris honeymoon points to acute intermittent porphyria. Confirming the diagnosis requires triggering a potentially fatal attack — Mark refuses, Stacy begs House to override him, and House ultimately injects the cocktail anyway. The case runs parallel to a reckoning between House and Stacy over the leg surgery she authorized without his consent years ago. Their confrontations clarify why House struggles to respect patient refusal in some cases and insists on it here, what it costs him to save someone he resents, and how the episode positions Stacy's return — ending with her hired as hospital counsel, Cameron formally stepping back, and House alone reaching for Vicodin after failing to walk without his cane. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/house-s01e22-honeymoon/id1896325454?i=1000766399026 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5G3DmBelz9SwFoQIO3uzkS IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/73255 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1408

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House S02E04 — TB or Not TB

When celebrated TB specialist Dr. Sebastian Charles collapses mid-speech at a pharmaceutical company, he arrives at Princeton-Plainsboro with a self-diagnosis and a refusal to cooperate. House rejects the TB-only explanation, pursues a cardiac theory by pushing a tilt-table test past its limits, and lands on a pacemaker recommendation — until Charles collapses again and Cameron's unauthorized TB test comes back positive. The real standoff begins when Charles refuses all treatment on principle: taking drugs his African patients cannot afford would, in his view, make him a hypocrite. House responds by trashing him to the press and stripping his room of comforts. A sweating anomaly spotted during a live press conference leads to cardiac arrest on camera, and House uses the moment to break Charles's resolve. Treating the TB clears some symptoms; the remainder point to a nesidioblastoma, a hidden insulin-producing tumor that was distorting results from the start. The episode uses the case to stress-test House's core operating assumption — that selfless motives are always a cover for something else. Charles's refusal to accept treatment is genuinely principled, and the show does not fully let House win the argument even as he wins the diagnosis. Cameron's pattern of attraction to damaged men is made explicit when she loses interest in Charles the moment he recovers. The medical puzzle illustrates how a real finding can be correctly identified but wrongly interpreted, and how a second condition can hide behind a first for the entire length of a case. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/house-s02e04-tb-or-not-tb/id1896325454?i=1000766398994 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5tUL4jMJ437mRIWDK7s69b IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/73255 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1408

House S02E08 — The Mistake

House faces a disciplinary hearing after a patient dies under his team's care. The episode unfolds in flashbacks as Chase and House separately prepare with hospital lawyer Stacy Warner, each withholding the truth about what really happened. Chase's missed follow-up question during a routine visit led to a perforated ulcer, sepsis, and ultimately Kayla McGinley's death — compounded by a second tragedy when the liver donated by her brother turned out to carry hepatitis C, leaving her terminal despite a successful transplant. Chase confesses to being hungover, a lie House sees through: Chase had just learned his father died, a death House had known about for months and kept secret. The episode uses the hearing structure to examine how guilt, grief, and institutional accountability intersect. Chase's false confession — choosing a version of events that punishes him more harshly than the truth — reveals how shame operates differently from honesty. House's culpability is institutional as much as personal, and the consequences reshape the team's hierarchy: Chase is suspended, House placed under supervision, and Foreman installed as his temporary boss. The Stacy subplot advances quietly, leaving her feelings for House unresolved one episode after a serious breach of trust. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/house-s02e08-the-mistake/id1896325454?i=1000766399023 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Vhv3rDitxntrSowjbDPDU IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/73255 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1408

House S02E17 — All In

House pulls a six-year-old boy named Ian from Cuddy's care during a hospital charity poker tournament, recognizing his symptoms from Esther Doyle, a patient House failed to diagnose twelve years earlier. Working against Cuddy's orders and a racing symptom progression, House biopsy-triggers a cardiac arrest, loses access to the patient, and is left with one tissue sample and five possible diagnoses before a conversation about poker reveals the key: Erdheim-Chester disease had been present all along, but the initial biopsy hit the colon before the disease had spread there. The episode reframes House's obsessive tendencies as both a liability and a diagnostic asset, showing how a twelve-year-old cold case shapes a live clinical decision. It also demonstrates how pattern recognition can fail on timing rather than logic, and why the same disease can present at a different pace in a child versus an elderly patient. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/house-s02e17-all-in/id1896325454?i=1000766398873 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Kqh1eEt4XvolKLNQjJjdY IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/73255 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1408

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