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"PILOT"


House Episode Number: 101

House Season: 1

Original Air Date: November 16, 2004

Writer
: David Shore

Director: Bryan Singer

Special Guest(s): Robin Tunney (Rebecca Adler), Rekha Sharma (Melanie Landon), Maya Massar (Asthma Mom), Dylan Basu (Asthma), Ava Rebecca Hughes (Sydney), Kvarra Willis (Kid #2), Ethan Kyle Gross (Molnar/Internet-Resarch Patient), Candus Churchill (Substitute Teacher), Michale Ascher (Egg Salad Lady), Alana Husband (Tech), Janet Glassford (Reception Nurse), Andrew Airlie (Orange-Colored Patient)

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House M.D. Episode Synopsis

A teacher has trouble speaking before collapsing and convulsing. House must diagnose her. After several attempts to diagnose her condition, House tells his team to break into her home to find any clues to her illness. When Foreman off-handedly mentions seeing a ham in the refrigerator, it's all House needs to solve the case.

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House M.D. Medical File Folder

HOUSE EPISODE: MEDICAL MYSTERY: PATIENT OF THE WEEK (POTW)

Location of incident: School Classroom
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW: Rebecca Adler/Kindergarten Teacher/29/Female
POTW symptom(s): Babbling, convulsions, seizures
Team mis-diagnoses: Brain tumor, vasculitis
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches: Foreman and Cameron break into the patient's home
House's "Aha!" moment: When Foreman tells him there was ham in her refrigerator.
POTW final diagnosis: Neurocysterosis
Other / clinic patient(s):
  • A guy who is orange (from too much vitamin A) and House deduces that his wife is having an affair.
  • A 10 year old with asthma whose mother doesn't want him taking strong medicine.
  • Guy who diagnosed himself on the Internet to whom House gives candy in a pill bottle.


House M.D. Episode Best Moments

Best Episode Moments:
  • Wilson telling House that it is his cousin so House will take the case.

  • Foreman catching Wilson in the lie about Rebbecca being his cousin.

  • House telling Rebecca that she can live with dignity, she just can't die with it.






House M.D. Episode's Best Quotes

    House Quotes:
    • "So how'd you get the job? You stab a guy in a bar fight?" (Foreman to Cameron)

    • "Oh, I looked into that philosopher you quoted. Jagger. And you're right. You can't always get what you want, but as it turns out, if you try sometimes, you get what you need."

    • "The son of a bi**h is the best doctor we have."

    • People don't want a sick doctor." House to Wilson

    • "You're orange, you moron!"

    • House: See that, they all assume I'm a patient because of the cane.
      Foreman: Then why don't you put on a white coat like the rest of us?
      House: Then they think I'm a doctor.
    House M.D. Episode Trivia
    House Episode Trivia
    • The bandages from Rebecca's tracheotomy are placed too high after the tube is removed.

    • Rebecca's name and personality is yet another reference to Sherlock Holmes--Irene Adler is a woman featured in a Sherlock Holmes story that gains Holmes' respect (and even admiration) by continuing to outwit him. House is left speechless after Rebecca manages to glean a significant portion of his personality through a brief, guarded conversation, probably better than any other person on the show has done except Jack Moriarty (who was really a "Devil's Advocate" persona created by House's own mind through most of the episode that he was in).






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    Rebecca Adler

    Rebecca Adler collapses after babbling to her kindergarten students
    X-ray of kindergarten teacher's leg


    X-ray of Rebecca Adler's leg where they found a tapeworm larvae
    Pilot

    Rebecca Adler has a CT scan

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