House-isms
Season 6
He's brash, he's blunt, he's acerbic, he's...House. And, believe it or not, he does think before he speaks. Whether he's belittling his staff or explaining to patients precisely why they're so stupid, House is never at a loss for words, and we've selected the most outrageous quotes from each episode.
Help Me
- "That a pill in your pocket or are you just happy to have a tiny pill shaped penis?"
- "That much caffeine for a coffee virgin?"
- "Every time Cuddy leans over a patient, it's another opportunity for a downblouse nipslip."
- "Why would I want to consider something that doesn't benefit me?"
-
"I'm
not asking your name so we can become friends; I'm trying to gauge your mental
state."
- "Now is probably the only time in your life when you can't possibly worry too much."
- "Like asking too many questions when your savior is trying to take a quick disco nap?"
- "I think I'm the only one here who knows what a leg is worth."
- "You have a life. And this...is just a leg."
Baggage
- "Therafy me."
- "I'm not stressed - beyond the stress induced by your telling me how stressed I am."
- "Given your usual rate of commitment, we're lucky you're not already re-divorced."
- "Her old friend, the fried carbohydrate."
- "You
think she fell down the stairs and pissed her pants because Wilson dumped her too?"
- "Everyone wants their stuff. That's why it's their stuff."
- "I
cared for eight seconds. Then I got âdistracted.'"
- "Aren't therapists supposed to be nurturing?"
- "People
who kick when you're down are jerks, but generally not irrational jerks."
- "For godsake, Wilson. You really span the chasm from wishy to washy."
- "Make
a decision. If you're gonna be an ass. Stick with it."
- "Colluding about me is their favorite pastime."
- "People's
brains stop working when they think they're losing someone they love."
- "If you're going to invest everything I haven't mentioned with unnatural significance, let's include drawstring pants and the Peloponnesian War."
The Choice
- "Kryopodia. Greek for 'duh.'"
- "You're
compensating for your loss of professional conquests with sexual ones."
- "There's a better way to call off a wedding. A tweet, for example."
- "Doesn't
mean you're gay just because the guy you're sleeping with is."
- "Sodomy - one of the top ten most common household accidents."
- "Taub
asking me out was quirky. Thirteen doing it was a barking cat."
- "So what's masquerading as a stroke? Voted worst Halloween costume by the way."
- "If
history is written by the victor, how do we find out what really happened?"
- "If he can't tell his fiance he's gay, how's he going to tell her he's pregnant?"
- "I
think I sleep better in rocket ship sheets."
- "You still won't be pitching a tent for your lady but that's cause, you know, she's a lady."
Help Me
- "That a pill in your pocket or are you just happy to have a tiny pill shaped penis?"
- "That much caffeine for a coffee virgin?"
- "Every time Cuddy leans over a patient, it's another opportunity for a downblouse nipslip."
- "Why would I want to consider something that doesn't benefit me?"
-
"I'm
not asking your name so we can become friends; I'm trying to gauge your mental
state."
- "Now is probably the only time in your life when you can't possibly worry too much."
- "Like asking too many questions when your savior is trying to take a quick disco nap?"
- "I think I'm the only one here who knows what a leg is worth."
- "You have a life. And this...is just a leg."
Baggage
- "Therafy me."
- "I'm not stressed - beyond the stress induced by your telling me how stressed I am."
- "Given your usual rate of commitment, we're lucky you're not already re-divorced."
- "Her old friend, the fried carbohydrate."
- "You
think she fell down the stairs and pissed her pants because Wilson dumped her too?"
- "Everyone wants their stuff. That's why it's their stuff."
- "I
cared for eight seconds. Then I got âdistracted.'"
- "Aren't therapists supposed to be nurturing?"
- "People
who kick when you're down are jerks, but generally not irrational jerks."
- "For godsake, Wilson. You really span the chasm from wishy to washy."
- "Make
a decision. If you're gonna be an ass. Stick with it."
- "Colluding about me is their favorite pastime."
- "People's
brains stop working when they think they're losing someone they love."
- "If you're going to invest everything I haven't mentioned with unnatural significance, let's include drawstring pants and the Peloponnesian War."
The Choice
- "Kryopodia. Greek for 'duh.'"
- "You're
compensating for your loss of professional conquests with sexual ones."
- "There's a better way to call off a wedding. A tweet, for example."
- "Doesn't
mean you're gay just because the guy you're sleeping with is."
- "Sodomy - one of the top ten most common household accidents."
- "Taub
asking me out was quirky. Thirteen doing it was a barking cat."
- "So what's masquerading as a stroke? Voted worst Halloween costume by the way."
- "If
history is written by the victor, how do we find out what really happened?"
- "If he can't tell his fiance he's gay, how's he going to tell her he's pregnant?"
- "I
think I sleep better in rocket ship sheets."
- "You still won't be pitching a tent for your lady but that's cause, you know, she's a lady."
Open And Shut
- "He's just trying to get into your skirts. And I don't mean metaphorically."
- "Stop before you interest me to death."
- "Gotta
see if our patient's a unicorn or just a slutty horse."
- "Must be interesting, growing up in a production of Oh Calcutta."
- "The world's your freaky oyster and you opt for another long-term relationship? That's just stupid."
- "You're the moron who took marital advice from Tila Tequila."
- "Think there's a chance the husband's a Plushie?"
Cuddy: "Do you read any of your departmental memos?"
- House: "Only the ones labeled NSFW."
- "He's wearing cologne, but not the stink of shame."
- "Pain, pain went away, came again another day."
- "What's with the lack of afterglow? Physio girl not as freaky as you hoped?"
- "Pretty awful. Which explains why it was named after a German."
- "Other than you still wanting to have sex with other dudes, and him having bankrupted your family, I think you kids are pretty much home free."
Knight Fail
- "Foreman, take Frodo and break bread with the hobbits."
- "Lord
have MRSA."
Taub: "Not exactly sanitary."
- House: "Fun stuff never is."
- "It's
hemlock, you embossed carbuncle."
- "Because you poisoned him, your royal anus."
- "Is that the statutory period for soul sucking?"
Lockdown
- "You go back to sleep, everyone's a winner."
- "Heart disease is kind of below my pay grade."
- "I take maybe one in twenty cases. Dozens of the people I turn down end up dying."
- "It's a really good argument for there being more than one of me, isn't it?"
- "Let me guess? Lighthouse keeper?"
- "You think Odysseus would want to lie whimpering like a loser in a hospital bed?"
- "We're better off alone. We suffer alone, we die alone. Doesn't matter if you were a model husband or father of the year."
Black Hole
- "Buy some furniture or admit that you're empty inside."
- "So either you think smart women look out for each other, which means you're an idiot. Or you think Cuddy's not smart, which means -- well I guess it's the same either way."
- "When an American schoolgirl has two drinks by ten a.m. it's a pretty good bet the plan is to have a lot more, and it probably wasn't the first time she had that plan."
- "So, come up with a better plan or have a crash cart ready."
- "Not my fault, I was busy trying to judge Taub."
- "Texting doesn't prove you're faithful, it just proves you know she thinks you're unfaithful."
- "Can't force trust."
- "Inspiration point doesn't open 'til dark."
- "So, that's one imperfect theory plus a rare complication of a second theory gives us a complete explanation."
- "You got to the point where half your age plus seven just wasn't young enough anymore?"
- "At least he has the young and stupid excuse."
Private Lives
- "If you mean you're dating on meth, count me in."
- "What does she blog? Politics, dominatrix, cooking -- I want recipes."
- "And knowing too much about each other is exactly why people leave small towns and move to the city."
- "Connections are for airports. For people, we have over 300 cable channels."
- "Eenie, meenie, minie, Thirteen and Tiny."
- "Did you not go to college? You go to a bar, you bring your ugly friends."
- "You have some natural talent as a liar, but not enough brains to follow through."
- "The quiet ones are always deeply repressed."
- "Not my fault your mom was hot."
- "He's not a director; he's an artist. The way he plays with light and darkness and boobs."
- "Read chapter six - entitled shut the hell up."
- "That was pretty cool what I did, right? Wanna make out?"
- "Natural selection is not an infallible force."
- "Do you poop?"
- "Four thousand pages and not one word about BM's. And I bet yours don't smell at all."
- "We all need some secrets. As long as they don't kill us, they keep us safe and warm."
- "Can you write a book? So I can stop talking to you?"
5 To 9
-
Cuddy: "What'll you do next time one of your patients needs a liver transplant?"
House: "Go talk to Wilson about something completely unrelated and see what happens." -
"If you really wanted to make a deal you should have ditched the push-up and gone with the demi. Nothing makes a guy want to close like highbeams."
-
"You ever noticed how many porn sites have 'mom' in the domain name?"
-
Cuddy: "She's not massaging your leg."
House: "She will...eventually." -
"Despite what you may have learned in Hebrew school or from Jimmy Cliff, sometimes the bigger they are...the harder they kick your ass."
-
Cuddy: "You knew she was stealing meds?"
House: "No, but have you seen the way she opens the mail?"
Moving The Chains
- "You don't think they grow 'em that big naturally?"
- "So our homeland should be unsafe because your private was unsafe?"
- "Back in my day, the real dodgers had the stones to run off to Canada or shoot themselves in the foot."
- "I can tell by your little puppy dog face that his pituitary's fine."
- "Hey, I don't care where an idea comes from. As long as it's one that makes sense and embarrasses someone."
- "As a former psychiatric patient, I take offense at that terminology."
- "Uncle Flo visiting?"
- "Stopping his heart speaks louder than words."
- "The neighborhood opossums don't need motive, only opportunity."
- "I want to learn more about one of my employees so I can manipulate him and destroy him if and when I choose. Information is power."
- "You want to tell me my real evil plan?"
- "You can't accuse me of the opossum attack and underhanded kindness in the same visit."
- "And you obviously have a theory why demeaning isn't demeaning."
- "You got a girl pregnant. You're still just a guy."
- "That opossum was meant for me."
- "I gave you empirical proof I didn't prank you."
- "I don't master prank."
- "If we sleep, we're going to wake up next to severed horse heads. Or worse, the rest of it."
- "Maybe I should put this into an acronym you'll understand. This is FUBAR."
- "If only you could combine that medical chicanery with your brother's ability to fetch me mochas, you'd be the perfect Foreman."
- "Then the same crappy life the rest of the guys you're graduating with are going to lead, minus the student loans."
Remorse
- "Tell him to masturbate no more than three times daily. With meals."
- "It's because she's hot and her husband's ugly. That's a fascinating window into the mysteries of human psychology."
- "In the great game of chess that is our relationship, Wilson sees only one move ahead. I see dozens."
- "If you're sharing an amazed look, please do it louder."
- "So...how long you been a psychopath?"
- "Psychopathy can get a bad wrap."
- "You're her boss. In some vague, never to be usefully defined way."
- "The fact that you also fired her takes it from a little complicated to a little moronic."
- "I'm not saying it's logical, I'm just saying it's human."
- "Man, one false accusation from a psychopath and you turn out to be a real bummer."
- "I'm gonna go see if Wilson has any liver left."
- "No, it's a giant novelty item for winning the lottery. You're just standing really far away."
- "You had me at 'easier.'"
- "Which means you have years of manipulation and lying to look forward to."
The Down Low
- "Assuming you did this shaving your forehead."
- "Cameron get your hair in the divorce?"
- "We're two tigers away from an act in Vegas."
- "We're doctors all the time. It's so boring."
- "I hear you thought Wilson and I liked to polish each other's swords."
- "Seriously, you're invoking the Guy Code?"
- "In the land of No Fun, you own a very sensible piece of property."
- "Looks like somebody missed something. Which is embarrassing for somebody."
- "And I hate Evita. That's how much I like your boobs."
- "Mendacious dirt bag comes much more naturally to me."
Wilson
- "Why rule out the hand of God so fast?"
- "I look for zebras because other doctors have ruled out all the horses. You are those other doctors. You haven't earned a zebra."
- "Friends don't diagnose friends with cancer."
- "Your caring clouds your diagnosis. Just cut that out and you could be a decent doctor."
- "The fact that you can't speak English is not an excuse for you not being humiliated by what I'm about to say."
- "Obviously, you question one of those assumptions or you've got an issue with logic."
- "And two bedrooms. Just reeks of commitment issues."
- "It means I'm ignoring you to make a point. There is a difference."
- "Well played. Religion just killed another person."
- "Your mouth says no but your pathetic attempt at deflection has guilt written all over it."
- "Bad things happen to people who are sick."
- "All the pain pills I've taken? What if I need your liver later?"
- "Disappointment is anger for wimps."
- "You got mad. I'm proud of you."
Ignorance Is Bliss
- "Although I should be clear, for two bucks all you get is top half, over the clothes."
- "New me is static guarded and friction free."
- "Guy's a braniac and his secret drug of choice is booze? Kinda pedestrian, don't you think?"
- "Can't believe Lucas fell for my 'I'd never say this because it's so deeply personal except I'm drunk' profession of love. Second oldest trick in the book."
- "Sorry to inconvenience you. Dying patients can be so thoughtless."
- "Nice comeback. Very Oscar Wilde."
- "Internet special. Seventy bucks for all the nose job you want."
- "What's a conscience?"
- "All organs do look pretty much the same. Red and squishy."
- "Sixteen splenectomies. Pretty sure he gets a set of steak knives with that."
Teamwork
- "Oh good, you paged the limpness specialist."
- "Pretty sure they don't make Hallmark cards for self-serving power grabs."
- "Your only obstacle to coming back is your wife. Which has never been much of an obstacle."
- "Don't take their word for it, job applicants lie as much as patients."
- "They don't because their lives are irrelevantly and annoyingly complicated."
- "Guess he finally told you he iced Idi Amin Jr."
- "Metaphorically speaking, you're a Heimlich addict."
- "So what did she say about why she's finishing your sentences instead of finishing her marriage?"
- "All four of them want to work for me. But all four have reasons why they don't want to work for me."
- "So his life of filth wasn't the problem. The clean living was."
- "Better to cheat with a beaker and an MRI than one of your platinum blonde plastic surgery patients."
- "You can celebrate their humanity. I'd rather solve those little puzzles and save their lives."
- "Your husband killed a patient. Now you're breaking up with me?"
- "Any idea where I can find a great big 'Mission Accomplished' banner?"
- "Got my sanity back, my license back and now..."
Known Unknowns
- "Foreman expects me to read an x-ray on this itty bitty screen. He should have emailed me a larger phone."
- "Who wants to go to the Pillow Fighting Championships? Rutgers has a great team this year. So glad their anchor didn't go pro."
- "Isn't it annoying when everybody in the room knows something you don't?"
- "Word on the street is you set a new personal best for low cut."
- "Your outbox is three times normal size. That wasn't a metaphor."
- "So now you either have to come up with a convincing lie or tell her the truth. Your choice."
- "I like to know how much boredom I'm missing."
- "Just when you think you've left Flock of Seagulls in the rearview mirror, suddenly it's up ahead like an undead hitchhiker."
- "She's not some floozy in a bar, she's the floozy I work for."
- "It's seven in the morning. Somebody better be dead."
- "We've moved on to a new phase. I tell Cuddy I've always been interested in her, she leaves the room."
- "The oncology department is subsidized by drug companies. They don't want it run by a murderer."
- "Studies show that ten dollar wine tastes better when you're told it cost ninety dollars. I'm sure the same is true of grape soda."
- "I can't convince her my entire personality's changed in a weekend. It would be like expecting you to not sacrifice yourself in a stupid and self-destructive way."
- "Words can hurt, you know."
- "That awkwardness would probably go away if I left."
- "Yeah, you should let her know I drugged you so you wouldn't confess to murder."
Brave Heart
- "The dice have no memory."
- "You want to take this case because he's yet another lonely, sad puppy? You should have been a vet."
- "He's only agreeing with you because he wants to have sex with you. And by the way, I also agree with you."
- "Did she tell you how to stop me?"
- "Now I've done it. There's urine everywhere."
- "Gosh, the great thing about the teacher student relationship is that the teacher can often learn more from the student. Have you learned anything yet?"
- "I did notice someone's daddy chromosome has been severely damaged by someone else's bleeding heart chromosome."
- "I'm sure there were plenty of lies that would have worked just as well. Except without the years of therapy."
- "I don't think there's anything I can screw up that we haven't already screwed up."
- "I guess the autopsy will have to wait a little bit."
- "Was the hospital serving puffer fish last night?"
- "Let's work from the tenuous assumption that we're not idiots."
- "What's really scary is I'm hearing whispering while not on Vicodin."
- "You are a woman, you can do anything."
- "You sure you're only one woman?"
- "When I come back I want three new ideas. One of them has to not be stupid."
Instant Karma
- "Right now I'm Kobe, playing the game I love, however the hell I want and Phil Jackson has to listen to everyone else bitch about it."
- "Don't usually see brain damage after a rectal biopsy."
- "I assumed you were lying because it would be idiotic to tell me the truth."
- "Since when has cancer been considered nothing?"
- "Continue to say nothing if you agree."
- "And if you're telling the truth, you're even more rational than, well, maybe not more, but then again, more sane. You're gonna be a good boss, Boss."
- "I'd be a lot more certain if it was my idea, but it's as good as we've got."
- "Just waiting for whatever is about to go wrong."
- "He loves power, I love puzzles."
- "I believe he believes him."
- "The billionaire thinks the gods will treat him better if he's broke."
- "Who said the world was supposed to work?"
- "He's irrational. So are most people. Unfortunately, doesn't make them sane."
- "People don't get what they deserve. They just get what they get, and there's nothing any of us can do about it."
- "She's a smoking hot, newly single bisexual."
- "Cause I was born with a heart three sizes too small."
- "He still alive?"
- "I doubt we'll ever be treating any genocidal dictators again."
- "Better a murder than a misdiagnosis."
The Tyrant
- "Then it's perfectly justified to gaslight your friend who just graduated from crazy school."
- "Coping skill number one - total avoidance."
- "Booty call? Give me twenty minutes not to shower."
- "You're not actually saying I have too loud a cane?"
- "Only in the sense it has a rubber tip on the end, not a tap shoe."
- "You'll be able to sip Courvoisier next to a replica of the Playboy grotto once you tell him what you've got on him."
- "Patient's dying, I'm done with clever."
- "If you believe in God, pray that this works. Also you might want to ask him why he blew off your arm."
- "There is a reason I hired you. You used to know what to do with a locked door."
Epic Fail
- "Like breaking up with a clingy girlfriend. Sure I'll miss the sex, but now I get to drink milk right out of the carton."
- "Right, doctors world over treat chronic pain with collections of Hummel figures."
- "Difference is, Beethoven's Fifth isn't going to be poop tomorrow."
- "Try not to be a jerk. I'm trying. I'm just failing."
- "Bed is for sissies. Unless you're having sex, in which case...no it's still for sissies."
- "I'm an addict. I turn everything up to an eleven."
- "I went crazy, not stupid."
- "Daddy's little co-dependent is all grown up."
- "Started thinking about what you said about me obsessing. Started obsessing about obsessing."
- "How like a man to think I enjoy slaving over a hot stove all day while you're off banging secretaries."
- "That's like adopting a puppy. Suddenly someone's whining, following me everywhere, chewing up my LPs..."
- "If you wanted a quickie, you should have called ahead. I'm a mess."
- "The only thing you know is that I'm a genius who got a dog to pee in your toilet. You don't know how I did it or, more interestingly, where I peed."
- "If the lab says this is Labrador too, please let me know right away. It'd explain my overwhelming desire to wipe my butt on your carpet."
Broken
- "Dry heaves are gone and so am I."
- "And he's black. You'd think you'd be a little more sensitive on the slavery issue."
- "I was deluded into thinking I might be crazy."
- "This is a popular new treatment? Blackmail?"
- "Is suicide taboo? Or is it just irrelevant?"
- "I want to deal with my problems some place where I can get a decent cappuccino."
- "Seriously, anorexia? Were you supposed to be a girl? And, in answer to your implicit question, yes those pants make you look fat."
- "So how upset were you when you woke up in the ER and you were still alive? And a failure?"
- "It's table tennis, not table volleyball. And with no net, it's table nothing."
- "Then we can assume the girl he's with is named Nooner."
- "You're my only friend. And I hate you."
- "How come every time you compliment me it sounds like an accusation?"
- "What exactly is the difference between pretending to cooperate and actually cooperating?"
- "Hi. It's like hello, only shorter."
- "I started to connect with one guy but then my propensity for screwing things up overtook me. And then my desire to have fun overcame my propensity."
- "Successes only last until someone screws them up. Failures are forever."
- "We're all pathetic. It's what makes everything interesting."
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The team analyzes the significance of dreams.
The team dissects different relationships.