A favorite must see TV show of many, House M.D., consistently manages to captivate and mesmerize its audience on a weekly basis. The main character, Dr. Gregory House, played by Hugh Laurie, a brilliant, Vicodin addicted diagnostician, is far from a traditional, straight-laced doctor. In fact, IMDB calls him “An antisocial maverick doctor who specialized in diagnostic medicine and does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way using his crack team of doctors and his wits.”
Currently in its 7th season, House M.D., is a Fox show and airs Monday 8 pm EST.
10. Honeymoon (Season 1, Episode 22) – For the first time in House M.D., the viewers catch a glimpse of the softer-side of Dr. House when he tells his ex-wife he is still in love with her. Unfortunately, she is now remarried and her husband is a patient of Dr. House.
9. House Divided (Season 5, Episode 22) – This is the episode that centers around the bachelor party of Dr. Chase before his marriage to Dr. Cameron both former team members of Dr. House’s diagnostic team. First Dr. House sets a cadaver on fire trying out his amazing display of shot glasses (full of shots of course) and then he almost kills Dr. Chase by hiring Strawberry, an exotic dancer who used flavored body lotion that Dr. Chase was allergic to.
8. Black Hole (Season 6, Episode 16) – For anyone who likes a little psychedelic mind game, this is a great episode to watch due to the hallucination of a young woman that she was slipping out of the MRI machine into a swirling black hole.
7. Dave Matthews – Half-Wit (Season 3, Episode 15) – Starring the famous Dave Matthews as a piano savant after a severe car accident when he was younger. Hugh Laurie, as Dr. House, graces us with his incredible piano skills during this episode while he tries to find out why the savant is having issues with seizures.
6. Both Sides Now (Season 5, Episode 24) – After the death of a close friend and colleagues girl friend (who used to be a candidate for Dr. House’s team), Dr. House finds himself caught up in a world of strange abnormalities even for him as his team starts agreeing with him. It is only towards the end that he realizes he is hallucinating due to his advanced Vicodin addiction.
5. Merry Little Christmas (Season 3, Episode 10) – Once again in this episode we see the more fragile side of Dr. House, when he realizes that his addiction to Vicodin is going to cause heartache and hardships for his close friends and colleagues. Dr. House approaches Detective Tritter, who busted him earlier in the season for having Vicodin without a valid prescription, and tells him he will take the plea Detective Tritter had offered earlier so that Wilson won’t have to testify or lose his license.
4. Euphoria Part 1 and Euphoria Part 2 (Season 2, Episodes 20 and21) – Although this is really two episodes, there is only one main story focusing Dr. Foreman who almost died after being exposed to something at a drug-dealing cops residence. After he is quarantined with the officer, who soon dies, Dr. House exposes Dr. Foreman to Legionnaire’s disease. Foreman’s father also makes an appearance in this episode that is extremely heart-wrenching.
3. Help Me (Season 6, Episode 22) – The season finale for season 6 not only shows a vulnerable side of Dr. House as he tries to talk a patient into having her trapped leg sawed off but it also brings about a relationship between House and Dr. Cuddy that has been escalating since the very beginning of season 1.
2. Selfish (Season 7, Episode 2) – A young ice skater finds herself in need of a kidney from her brother who is confined to a wheelchair who eventually begs her to “take a piece of him so that he won’t have to live without her”.
1. Wilson’s Heart (Season 4, Episode 16) – A continuation of the story from House’s Mind, where Dr. House tries to put the pieces of the previous night together so that he can save a life culminates in the death of his best friend Wilson’s girl friend. This episode is not only powerful but ends up being the whole back bone of the season to follow as House blames himself for her death.
