House

Dr. Wilson: Worried about making your one-patient-per-week quota? Yet another reference to the show's featuring one major case per week.

House: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. A reference to a scene near the end of the movie The Wizard of Oz (1939). The "wizard" is actually a normal man from Kansas who creates a giant image of a wizard. Toto the dog figures it out and starts to tug on the curtain he is hiding behind. Also, Joel Grey played the Wizard of Oz in the original Broadway production of Wicked.

House: Fine. Tell the truth. Just get me a pound of flesh. From the comedic play Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. Shylock, a greedy and manipulative moneylender, vows to take "... an equal pound/Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken/In what part of your body pleaseth me." from Antonio, the title Merchant, if Antonio does not pay his debt to Shylock in the agreed amount of time.

Dr. Cameron: And I want to get a foot massage from Johnny Damon. Johnny Damon is a Major League Baseball center fielder who formerly played with the Boston Red Sox and went to the New York Yankees via free agency in December 2005. He is considered by many to be attractive and charismatic both on and off the field. In the movie Pulp Fiction (1994), Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent (John Travolta) argue about whether giving a woman a foot massage is an innocent action or a sensual one.

House: He was about to dissect one of his lab rats when he collapsed. The little vermin seized the day, so to speak, and went medieval on his ass. "I'ma get medieval on your ass!" is a now-famous line spoken by crime boss Marcellus Wallace (played by Ving Rhames) in the film Pulp Fiction (1994).

House: Don't go towards the light. Referencing the movie Poltergeist (1982) and its sequels, where the main character Caroline is told not to "go into the light." Associated with the "white light" reported in many near-death experiences.