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House

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Season 5, Episode 3, Aired Sep 30, 2008

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- House: People should not be testing drugs because they are desperate. But, people won't test drugs unless they are desperate. We need drugs to save children and puppies ergo we need desperate people ergo welfare kills sick children.
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- Taub: Not if something else changed. House: Like? Taub: His heart. He could have recently gotten a intermittent arrhythmia House: I know "heart" and "head" start with the same three letters, but you gotta read all the way to the end.
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- Lucas: Hey, I like the shoes, by the way. Dr. Cuddy: Thank… you. House: You don't like her shoes. You like her legs. Lucas: It sound less creepy if you say shoes. House: Less creepy, more gay. Lucas: That's my firm's motto.
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- Thirteen: Did you run a credit check on me? House: That would be illegal. Interestingly enough, paying somebody to run it for me, though…
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- Taub: You've discovered that one of us has been hiding the ability to stretch or shrink themselves? House: No. I would never out someone's superpowers.
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- Kutner: Wait, your wife's doing the doorman in your bed, and they're sweating all over the sheets that you paid for, and you... Taub: My wife's not doing the doorman. Kutner: How do you know? Taub: We don't have a doorman.
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- Thirteen: Drugs? How many trials are you on? Brandon: Three. House: Admirable. Not many idiots have that much ambition.
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- Brandon: You going to tell Heather? House: Couldn't, even if I cared enough to want to.
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- House: You want my advice? Taub: Of course not. House: Good, 'cause I have no idea what you should do.
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- Lucas: I like her, I don't wanna do her. House: Then what's the point of liking her?
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- House: (to Taub) Your marriage is like a broken toaster. Bread keeps popping up, you keep calling it toast. Which is weird, because you put your bread in a lot of toasters, and apparently you don't see any difference. It's kind of fascinating.
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- House: You know, people hate people who have theories about people.
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- Original International Air Dates: Australia: October 8, 2008 on TEN Portugal: November 24, 2008 on Fox Latin America: November 27, 2008 on Universal Channel The Netherlands: January 22, 2009 on SBS 6 Germany: March 17, 2009 on RTL Denmark: April 11, 2009 on Kanal 4 Poland: September 9, 2009 on TVP2 Czech Republic: September 21, 2009 on TV Nova Slovakia: September 23, 2009 on STV1 Sweden: October 13, 2009 on TV4
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- Music: Drown in My Own Tears (Ray Charles)
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- Jennifer Morrison and Robert Sean Leonard are credited but don't appear.
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- House: I take it none of you saw Trainspotting? Referencing the 1996 movie starring Ewan McGregor as Renton, an Edinburgh youth who tries to break his heroin habit.
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- House: This is like the Mod Squad: nothing can stop them. Referencing the 1968 TV series starring Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, and Peggy Lipton as three kids in trouble with the law, who get recruited by Captain Greer (Tige Andrews) to infiltrate the counter-culture and use their knowledge and appearance to get into groups that regular officers couldn't. Omar Epps (Foreman) played Linc in the feature film based off of the series.
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