House

2-HR EPISODE
MON 8/7c MAY 28

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."

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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 ‘distracted.'"
  • "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."

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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."

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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."

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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 ‘distracted.'"
  • "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."

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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."

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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."

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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?"

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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."

 

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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."

 

 

 

 

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    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?"

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    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?"

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    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."

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    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."

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    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."

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    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."

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    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."

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    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..."

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    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."

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    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."

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    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."

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    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."

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    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."

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    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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