House, M.D.

Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) is one of the best diagnosticians in the country but also one of the biggest jerks in the country. He is rude and arrogant, but he is very rarely mean. He is a drug addict because of the pain in his leg, a result of tissue damage from years before. His girlfriend at that time, Stacy, told the doctors to take out the dead tissue while House was in a coma, which they did. However, because the doctors waited so long to do the surgery, House still has chronic pain in his legs. He takes Vicodin to relieve that pain. Now, he is severly addicted to Vicadin.

Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) is the dean of medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital. She puts up with House everyday, through his teasing and rude comments. House often comments on the fact that Cuddy looks pregnant, something that Cuddy really wants. Although House is always rude to her, she lets him get away with almost anything because he is one of the best diagnosticians in the country. Without him, half of their patients who are alive now would be dead, a fact House frequently reminds her about.

Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) is the head of oncology at Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital. As House's best friend, he acts as House's conscience and tries to trick House into doing things, such as rehab (Wilson normally loses, mainly because Cuddy caves in the end).

At the end of season 4, Wilson's girlfriend, Amber (Anne Dudek), died because of a bus accident. She was only on that bus because of House, something Wilson knows well. Wilson will probably never forgive House for being the cause of the death of someone he loved.

Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps) is the only character who was in House's first team and is in House's second team. He quit after he put a small child through excrutiating pain in order to save his brother, who was dying of leukemia. Although Foreman managed to save two kids, he was not proud of the way he did it, which he thought was a result of House's techniques rubbing off on him. Therefore, Foreman quit. After Foreman left, House fired Chase and Cameron quit.

Foreman got a new job but quickly got fired after acting too much like House. He took his job back at Princeton-Plainsboro and worked for House again.

Now he is in a relationship with 13. During a drug trial for Huntington's, 13 was on the placibo and the drugs appeared to be working. Foreman put 13 on the real drugs which consequently gave her a brain tumor. This act almost destroyed Foreman's medical career.

Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) is one of the doctors from House's original team. As the ethical one, she acted as House's "conscience" (which he often ignored) for medical cases. Throughout Season 3, she had an affair with Chase, which she ended when Chase declared that he loved her. At the end of Season 3, they got back together. Cameron quit House's team after Foreman left and Chase was fired. She is now head of the E.R. at Princeton-Plainsboro.

Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer) is the third person in House's original team. He was the suck-up of the group and always agreed with House (which was probably a good idea, because the one time he did disagree with House, House punched him) and the only one who got fired. He had an affair with Cameron which ended when he told her he loved him, however, they are back together now. He is now a surgeon at Princeton-Plainsboro.

Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn) is one of the members of House's new group. He has taken up the place of "suck-up" for this team, though he is not nearly as much of a suck-up as Chase. He was adopted when he was six, which allows him to have interesting relationships with various patients. He is the quiet, yet persistant one of the group. When he was fired when House was deciding who to hire, he came back as number 9 (as opposed to number 6).

In the episode on April 6, 2009, Kutner commits suicide. At this point, nobody knows exactly why he committed the act. House goes into denial after hearing about the suicide, saying that Kutner was murdered and he didn't commit suicide as there was no reason why he would have done it at that time. In reality, Kal Penn had decided to leave the show for a job at the White House, causing the writers to kill him off.

Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson) is another member of House's new group. He used to be a plastic surgeon, but had to leave his job because he cheated on his wife. Although he is no longer a plastic surgeon, his experience has helped the team get through many sticky situations, such as when they had to hide a scar from NASA in Season 4, episode 2. Taub is the most creative doctor in the new group.

Although we don't know her real name, Dr. "13" (Olivia Wilde) is the only female in House's new group. House tricked Cuddy into letting House hire her by hiring two guys (Taub and Kutner) and not hiring any women. Cuddy then said that House must have a woman in his group and that he should hire 13, which was House's plan all along.

13 is the most interesting new member of the team. She is in denial of a hereditary disease, Huntington's, for which she is positive. She is also a bisexual. These two traits allow for interesting relationships to patients in the show.

Now, she is in a relationship with Foreman. He risked his career to treat her Huntington's with an experimental drug he was testing.

I had a heart attack this morning. I can't do any more drugs 'til at least lunch.

I kidnapped you and you're surprised I lied to you?

Okay, maybe I am biased. Let's take a vote. Who thinks niceness is not a symptom?

People don't change. For example, I'm gonna keep on repeating 'people don't change.'

Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them.

Dr. Cuddy -- the face that launched a thousand long faces.

I noticed a trend: if no one does anything, sick people often get sicker.

Just a warning: if we have to start getting 'consent' every time we do a procedure, soon it'll be 'informed' consent they'll want.

Paging me during Judge Judy -- not a good way to win my affections.

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

I'm thinking the broken bones are a response to the building falling on her head.

The patient's husband prefers her not dead.

The only thing I hate more than a thief is a crippled thief.

You guys are still thinking like doctors when you should be thinking like plumbers. Come on, I wanna see some butt crack.

I thought I'd get your theories, mock them, then embrace my own. The usual.

Cameron: You okay?
House: Hurt my shoulder playing fantasy football.

Is this an intervention? You're a little late, since I'm not using drugs anymore. I am, however, still hooked on phonics.

The kid is having nightmares. Only happen at night. It's right there in the name.

Saying there appears to be some clotting is like saying there's a traffic jam ahead. Is it a ten-car pile up, or just a really slow bus in the center lane? And if it is a bus, is that bus thrombotic or embolic? I think I pushed the metaphor too far.

Chase - We've got an MRI scheduled in twenty minutes. Earliest Foreman could get the machine.
House - I teach you to lie and cheat and steal and the second my back is turned you wait in line!

Wilson - Did you know your phone is dead? Do you ever recharge the batteries?
House - They recharge? I just keep buying new phones.

Is it still illegal to perform an autopsy on a living person?

House: Haven't done the MUGA.
Wilson : Then how do you know she needs a heart transplant?
House: Got my aura read today. Said someone close to me had a broken heart.

Her leg hurts after running six miles. Who knows? Could be anything.

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