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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 kindergarten teacher who suffers from seizures begins to speak nonsense to her students and then collapses. She is brought to Princeton Hospital, where Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) and his team think they they have found a tumor. 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.

House M.D. Episode Plot Danglers

  • House reveals why he hired each member of his staff. How will these qualities come back to play out in future episodes?

  • Will breaking into patients' homes become a regular diagnostic tool?

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: tapeworms
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:
    • Foreman: (to Cameron) So how'd you get the job? You stab a guy in a bar fight?
    • Cuddy: 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.
    • Cuddy: The son of a bi**h is the best doctor we have.
    • House: (to Wilson) People don't want a sick doctor.
    • House: (to patient) 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).
    • The episode is known simply as the Pilot but it has an alternate title: "Everybody Lies." This is the title that was used on the DVDs distributed to Academy members for their consideration for Emmy nominations. The DVD featured two episodes: "Everybody Lies (Pilot)" and "Detox." A videotape was also sent out to members which contained two other episodes: "Three Stories" and "The Honeymoon."
    Promo for "Pilot"



    HOUSE EPISODE PICTURES & VIDEOS
    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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