House
TV Show • 2004 • Drama Report
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kcwonder
A man has to put his dog down because he bit him. Another dog eats his owners meds and dies.
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Traves
S3 E21. Hector, a dog who previously belonged to Wilson and his second wife, Bonnie. House ends up adopting the dog, but then getting annoyed after he destroys his things. He leaves pills out in attempt to poison him (he eats them but isn't bothered). And then seemly accidentally slams a door on his front leg, crippling him. (He doesn't show any remorse so it's unsure if it truly was an accident). Hector ends up with a limp but is otherwise okay.
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kcwonder
no but there is bird fighting in one episode which could be distressing to some viewers
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Krumpet95
Season Three "Informed Consent"
First few minutes or so, rat lovers should look away. Do not watch the start of the episode, skip to 2 minutes 30 seconds. Plot wise all you miss is the man collapsing at work:
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Dr Ezra Powell is seen to remove a rat from a cage with other rats. The rat puts up a struggle, Dr Powell says he admires the rats attempt and then injects him with a needle euthanising the rat. Its is seen lying dead. He then proceeds to do a dissection. Dr Powell becomes incapacited and a second rat takes the opportunity to eat a bit of the man.
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Same episode, Season Three "Informed Consent"
15 minutes and 40 seconds in a sequence of scenes start that are jumbled around. Each member of the team is doing different tests. In a few of the sequences Dr Cameron is searching Dr Ezra Powell's lab and is looking for anything that could help diagnose Dr Powell. She finds a biohazard bin with 6 (possibly more) dead rats and blood, they have clearly been dissected. The camera shows this on-screen, Dr Cameron then collects one of them to help Dr Powell's case. Picking one of them up and placing them in a zip lock bag. It then cuts to different members of the team doing other tests but a few seconds later Cameron is shown again in Dr Powells' lab swabbing the rat that had been euthanized at the beginning of the episode when Dr Powell collapsed. This lasts until 16 minutes and 38 seconds in
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Traves
S3 E18 a cat dies, and its body is shown around 36mins in.
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RogueValor
S4
E4
Mention of the passed away dog from the prior episode.
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38
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fran123
what episode?
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kcwonder
Ticks and worms
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1
Mister
S5
E4
It turns out that an adopted Chinese-American patient's biological father planned to kill her (with her mother's complicity) and stopped part way.
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CarlaSueThompson
House is hooked on painkillers.
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TheHallowedAngel
The main character, Dr Gregory House, struggles with an addiction to prescription pain medication throughout the whole show.
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JoyJones17
In some episodes (such as one with a prisoner on death row), they need to use restraints to keep patients down
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1
there is a CNC scene between a husband and wife at the start of one episode.
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Dan
S3
E12
House references how his father would give him cold baths (outside? I think) as a punishment
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roseatespoonbill
House drugs Wilson multiple times with uppers and downers and it's always funny. Patients are sometimes drugged when a doctor is concerned they're not actually better and need to stay in the hospital but don't want to.
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Traves
Episode 12, Season 3. While it's not explicitly shown, it is mentioned. A girl come in for an STD check. When House goes to touch her, she freaks out. we find out the reason for that and her Chlamydia is that she was assaulted.
SPOILER:
she's also pregnant
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26
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RogueValor
S4
E4
In a hallucination.
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kcwonder
it's not shown, but one character hangs himself in order to donate his heart to his dying son.
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illuminatemyskies
There are multiple scenes throughout the series that depicts patients struggling or failing to breathe.
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mmaddie
S3
E19
A girl starts her period very early at age 6 and attempts to shave off her pubic hair, but ends up cutting her vagina.
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EerieNobility
Several episodes throughout the series involve medical procedures involving the eye.
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JoyJones17
In some episodes there is vomit, blood, and in most episodes they show surgery and an animation of what goes on inside the body
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40
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mmaddie
S3
E19
A girl starts her period very early at age 6 and attempts to shave off her pubic hair, but ends up cutting her vagina.
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0
Multiple episodes involve crush injuries eg s6e21 (building collapse, multiple victims) and s4e1 (building collapse, one patient dies)
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JoyJones17
In one episode, its at the beginning of the episode where a boy and his father is on a quad bike, and when the boy takes control he crashes and burns, the rest of the episode shows the burn marks on his skin
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clownish
idk why anyone hasnt said it yet but im 8 episodes in and so far i dont theres been a single episode where someone doesnt have the most violent seizure or convulses in some way, shape, or form
edit: ive finshed the series and besides all the patients house has 2 seizures in total throughout the series idk abt other main characters
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emorybee
In a few episodes buildings collapse and there are characters that die but some survive
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KnightWhoSaysNi
Season 6 Episode 22 had a very graphic scene of a woman having her leg amputated without anesthesia. In Season 2 Episode 3, a character has his hand amputated. In Season 3 Episode 10, House decides to amputate a girl's arm and leg. The girl is shown in the OR, and a scalpel is brought up to her arm, but the surgery is cancelled before it starts.
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EffySnicket
Season 7 Episode 17 it is mentioned that a minor character is a cannibal but the cannibalism is not shown
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0
often, by house.
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Season 6 Episode 17 - Lockdown
In this episode the hospital goes into lockdown when an infant goes missing.
SPOILERS
The infant was moved by a nurse having an absent seizure, the baby is not harmed.
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mmaddie
S2
E22
A baby doesn’t die at first, but is found submerged in a bathtub and unresponsive. He survives, but his mother later attempts to smother him but he survives again. However, he later dies from the injuries.
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Mister
S3
E7
A man hangs himself offscreen so that his son can receive his heart.
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used at the start of s2 ep1 around one minute In
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Ninuhh
Wilson finds House unconscious in his own vomit next to a bottle of oxycodone, but he isn’t hospitalized
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EthanKoa
Several children's toys are shoved up a kids nose, but aren't damaged at all.
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clownish
adding to what the other person said, multiple parents of the very main characters pass throughout the show
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clownish
theres one episode where wilson does drug house and the scene cuts after passing out to him waking up in wilsons car, not fr kidnapping but it might count house also makes a joke abt kidnapping after he wakes up
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roseatespoonbill
Multiple main characters blow up their marriages by cheating with people they don't even care that much about.
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JojoCharlton
Dr Cuddy cools an overheating little girl down in the shower
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AdrianWood
No ghosts, but many instances of characters seeing dead friends or family members. Usually, but not always, explained as being hallucinations.
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astridd
there is one in the swan song + the patient in season eight episode six is a party clown and the episode begins with him performing
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lastfuture
House wets himself in his sleep in S3E16
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shark_emoji
I made a Google Doc with warnings and timestamps for each individual episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hSlT_ov4WlwB3M316-DDtDrUuxPQ2-UbckIZfUKWya4
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Dan
S7
E17
Not on-screen. SPOILERS!!
a patient is revealed to have killed and eaten multiple people
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Mister
S6
One of the psychiatric hospital's patients became mental ill after the death of his family. It's heavily implied (in conversation only) that they were killed on 9/11.
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Dan
S2
E13
(Spoilers) While no slurs are used, a patient is misgendered as it is discovered that she is intersex
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Dan
S2
E13
(Spoilers) While no dead-naming occurs, a patient is misgendered as it is discovered that she is intersex
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NobodyOwens
Various patients end up with cancer and a main character is an oncologist
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KnightWhoSaysNi
House is in a mental hospital for the first two episodes of Season 6.
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CarlaSueThompson
It's a medical show.
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PoppyS
This is a show about hospitals
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kcwonder
there is no autism specific physical abuse but house makes some ableist comments that could be categorised as verbal abuse
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IWantToContribute
S1
E4
MRI Machine
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TheHallowedAngel
Major spoilers follow-
In the episode “Simple Explanation" (05x20) a reoccurring main character, Lawrence Kutner, is found dead in his apartment after killing himself. Gunshot wound to the head, to be specific.
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SenMithrarin
The episodes “Control” and “half wit” involve eating disorders. In “The Softer Side” House makes himself vomit for non ED reasons, when Wilson confronts him on this he sarcastically says “you caught me, I’m bulimic, but don’t I look good in these pants?” There’s a male anorexic in Broken who House intentionally triggers.
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kcwonder
body dysmorphia is never discussed but there are two patients with eating disorders so it stands to reason that they probably experience body dysmorphia
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Traves
In episode 10 of season 3, Merry Little Christmas. House cuts himself as a way to relieve his pain when is vicodin is cut off. The wounds are shown fresh and bloody.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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PoppyS
Patients go into MRIs and other machines
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clownish
can't be one to say if it was misrepresented but there's a 14 yr old who is later to be diagnosed with d.i.d (not her official episode diagnosis) as she is revealed to be her own boyfriend along with child alters and maybe more, from my perspective at least the actress did a really good job at a young age
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0
S3 episode 1 - opens with a man in a wheelchair driving his chair into a swimming pool (spoiler - it isn’t a suicide attempt)
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RogueValor
S4
E4
Physical disorder causes psychological problems. The patient does fight/struggle during treatment due to this.
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iluvdata
in season 7 episode 14 "recession proof", the patient hallucinates: he sees flashing lights, blood coming from the faucet, and the walls closing in on him. this occurs at about 20:05 until 20:42.
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clownish
at least once maybe twice a season house has some sort of mental crisis and most of the time when it's getting worse and people around him who care force him to talk to them it usually ends with house lashing out and yelling at them as when this happened with cuddy for example he grabs her and pushes her against a wall as well
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EthanKoa
Last episode of season one, the very end scene.
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KnightWhoSaysNi
Off screen in Season 1 Episode 19.
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Nate2020
House is physically disabled and makes self deprecating jokes regarding this, including describing himself as crippled. Some other characters also make jokes regarding his disability but not generally in antognistic ways.
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EerieNobility
The titular character often uses bigoted speech when belittling those around him. Additionally, various patients or patients' families can be seen to occasionally engage in it.
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EerieNobility
The titular character often uses antisemitic remarks when belittling Taub, a Jewish doctor. House often incorporates various forms of bigotry when belittling the people around him, and the antisemitic remarks are only made when speaking directly to/about Taub.
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roseatespoonbill
S8
E9
There's an episode in which House doesn't believe in asexuality and bets Wilson it's a medical issue for one partner and the other is lying because she wants to stay with her husband. He is proven right.
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roseatespoonbill
VERY MUCH SPOILERS: One of the main characters is explicitly bisexual and has a terminal illness that will eventually kill them. Another main character is subtextually queer and is given a short time to live by the end of the show.
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EerieNobility
Several female characters are joked about as "secretly being a man". In S2E13, "Skin Deep", an intersex woman finds out she is intersex with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome and is frequently referred to as "actually a man" and "both male and female". In S5E16, "The Softer Side", a young intersex boy is referred to as "both a boy and a girl" "a h*she" and a freak by the team despite identifying as male. Despite this, once told his actual biological state, Thirteen still tells him to go with what feels right on identity. In S6E17, "Knight Fall", House brings a trans woman sex worker to a date to attempt to unnerve Wilson's date, though she is not directly misgendered she is still treated as abnormal.
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EerieNobility
Several fat patients are made fun of throughout the series, as well as jokes made about various characters getting fat. S1E16, "Heavy", and S3E06, "Que Será Será", both deal heavily in this.
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EerieNobility
In S1E15, the patient's partner in crime uses various homophobic slurs at the concept of the patient being gay.
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clownish
besides the asexual episode (I'll agree the aphobia is pretty bad but the characters are shown being proud of who they are at least) the show is definitely lgbtq friendly with even a main character representing and that one time house and wilson pretended to be a gay couple and almost got married, also things like race, religion etc are topics in the show and majority of houses team are never just "all american" beside house himself who the actor hugh laurie himself very clearly is british if you take one look at anything he's done in the past
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roseatespoonbill
S2
E2
One of the doctors is talked into giving a nine year old cancer patient a (dry, no tongue, brief) kiss because she wants to "kiss a boy" before she dies. Nothing really comes of it, but it's indicated to be part of her "living her life" better than everyone around her since she's got about a year left.
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Mister
S2
A patient in her mid teens is revealed to have lost her virginity prior to the events of the episode. It indirectly leads to the condition that brings her to the hospital.
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AdrianWood
One episode has two characters in a relationship fall ill, later discovering that they are unknowingly half-siblings.
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Ninuhh
House, mostly talking about Cuddy and usually straight to her face.
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Pantalones
It is a medical show with a wide cast of chronic illnesses. House himself has chronic pain and a limp. Some patients have diseases like cancer, ALS, lupus, and other chronic mental and physical conditions.
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Markmymake
Main character foreman's mother is inferred to have memory problems similar to alzheimers or dementia.
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clownish
many patients stroke throughout the show including children but i don't think the main characters ever do if that's what you'd be worried about
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S3
E17
The episode "Fetal Position" has often been described as an anti-abortion piece. In the episode a pregnant woman and her unborn child are in critical condition and need a lifesaving operation. House is at first incredulous over the concept of saving the fetus, convinced that an abortion will be the only solution. However, after getting a look at the fetus while it is being operated on, he changes his mind and notably starts referring to the child as a baby in front of its mother (up to now he only used the term "fetus") and becomes optimistic about its chances of surviving to full term.
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season 3 episode 6 “que sera sera” is about a 600 pound man and it is done very insensitively.
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AdrianWood
The show as a whole: YMMV but probably, it's arguably better described as bittersweet. For individual episodes/plotlines/characters, definitely and often.
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Nate2020
There is a bus crash at one point that leads to a supporting character dying.
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iluvdata
in s03e18 "Airborne", the episode takes place in a commercial airplane, and turbulence occurs when House is about to attempt a lumbar puncture. the plane does not crash though.
in s04e02 "The Right Stuff", before the opening credits the patient, who is a military pilot, apparently crashes during a flight, but it is quickly revealed to have been only a simulated flight.
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BrendaMoe
Close call Season 4 ep. 3
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PoppyS
Surgeries are shown
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TheHallowedAngel
Major spoilers follow- In “No Reason" (02x24), Gregory House is shot twice. One bullet hits him in the stomach and the another grazes his neck.
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