Pilot

Season 1, Episode 1, Aired
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A young kindergarten teacher, Rebecca Adler, who suffers from seizures collapses in her classroom after uncontrolled gibberish slips out her mouth while she is about to teach her students. She is taken to Dr. House and his team of experts who identify it might be a tumor, and she might have only a week to live.moreless
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  • Everyone looks like Oompa Loompas

    7.5
    "Good"
    By Megaeak, Jun 04, 2011 Report Abuse
    The show is great but tI think they were going for a dramatic or interesting look with the pilot, it didn't work. Everyone looks like Oompa Loompas, and the whole episode looks like it was filmed through a jar of urine. Glad the got rid of this coloring for the rest of the show. There are other episodes where they color-shift but its much more subtle and effective. Sometimes artistic efforts work and sometimes they just seem a bit uneccessary. This is the later. But overall this is a strong opening pilot to a fantastic show. I just have to say, House... Road House...moreless

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  • This episode is just so brilliantly made.

    9.5
    "Superb"
    By thecheesykid, May 11, 2011 Report Abuse
    I should start by saying that I've seen every episode of House and for the most part, I've enjoyed every one, but it's only going back to the start that I realize that the early episodes are just that much better. The quality of the seasons decreased as they went on, I'm not saying that the new seasons are bad, in fact, I love them, but they just aren't as well made. Not as much craftsmanship was put into them.

    The pilot episode always gets a much higher score if it's as good as the proceeding episodes, because it's always a lot harder for the crew to get it right (along with budget reasons), but right away you can tell that in this episode, EVERYTHING is considered. They get everything exactly right and for that reason, this is one of the best of Season 1, and possibly the show.

    The script is enthralling, all characters get suitable introductions and we actually feel tension when the patient malfunctions (something that is severely lacking later on in House). The thing I really loved was the fact that Cuddy still had control over House at this point, he recognizes that she is his boss and he only ever does crazy things to get his patient fixed. This is demonstrated by Cuddy's statement "The only reason I don't fire you is because of your reputation", well later on it seems as if every doctor who speaks of House considers him an utter nuisance, surely his reputation is gone and with the amount of ridiculous things House gets up to later on, Cuddy should have punished him somehow. Here, in the pilot, it feels like Cuddy has just enough control on him for the show's plot to be believable, later, it just crumbles and seems uninspired.

    PS. By GOD does Wilson look young in the first episode... :')moreless

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  • Pilot episode.

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    By Canogaparkcindy, Nov 03, 2010 Report Abuse
    Honest to god, one of the most underrated episodes of House to this day. Did anyone else see how flawless the writing was here? It was a perfect introduction to all the characters and the end just proved how addictive this show can really be with the end leaving you wanting more House.

    All the story lines were wildly intriguing here and the series comes off as a darkly humored medical drama, but this isn't Grey's Anatomy. An intellectual show about a diagnostic team. Within the first episode, we know some very personal things about the main characters which makes them all the more intriguing. Gregory House has definitely become one of the best television characters of all time, and you can see his potential as early as the first episode. From his back and forths with Cuddy to his ways of diagnosing a patient: taking the risk. This pilot was just amazing, also perfect balance of drama and humor.

    Switching the vicodin with the mints was absolutely hilarious, and it really just shows you what kind of humor this show has. Amazing well written, well edited pilot of House. If this episode doesn't get you watching, I have no idea what will.moreless

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  • "I need thirty-six Vicodin and change for a dollar."

    10
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    By byjillian, Jul 06, 2010 Report Abuse
    Although I have seen the 'unaired Pilot', I don't believe the season ever started until this episode was on network primetime television.

    Of course, like every other Pilot you have seen in your lifetime, sometimes there are some awkward moments and pauses in the episode, and I recall a few from this one even, but that doesn't mean it isn't a great episode. It's the one that everyone remembers because it has the woman from "The Mentalist" in it, Robin Tunney, nice actress choice there.

    Although the characters were just getting started (check out Dr. Cuddy's and Wilsons haircuts!), if the Pilot speaks for how awesome the rest of the show is going to be, then let this be the Pilot that started it all.moreless

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  • this was a good ep

    8.5
    "Great"
    By cube2k8, May 24, 2010 Report Abuse
    in this ep of the show house it is the pilot ep and so there is a women in classroom and she falls down in front of her students but before she does she writes something on the board. and so she is taken in and they must figure things out in this ep . before she dies this is a good show and its the interduction of the show learning things and figuring out he people that house works with. and that is why i gave this one a 8.5 becasuse its the beging to a really good showmoreless

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    • When Rebecca is in the bus in the beginning her sweater is blue, but when she talks to her friend and the children it is green. Edit
    • House states that it is 12:52 p.m. and he asks if there is a TV handy because in eight minutes General Hospital would begin. However his claim would mean that the soap starts at 1 p.m. but since House is set in New Jersey, the soap would actually air at 3 p.m. Edit
    • It is strange that the doctors would have tracheotomy tools near the MRI scan room because of the incredibly strong magnet that is used to take the pictures. They would have to be special - no ferrous metal in them. Edit

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    • Robin Tunney is credited as Special Guest Star. Edit
    • The show started airing on the French cable channel, TF6 on April 1st, 2006. The TV channel airs two episodes each week. The theme song used in the French airing is the music being played at the end of each episode and not Teardrop from Massive Attack. Edit
    • The episode is known simply as the Pilot but it has an alternate title: "Everybody Lies." This is the title that was used on the DVDs distributed to Academy members for their consideration for Emmy nominations. The DVD featured two episodes: "Everybody Lies (Pilot)" and "Detox." A videotape was also sent out to members which contained two other episodes: "Three Stories" and "The Honeymoon." Edit

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    • Rebecca: Am I ever gonna meet Dr. House? Dr. Wilson: Well, you might run into him at the movies or on the bus. Rebecca: Is he a good man? Dr. Wilson: He's a good doctor. Rebecca: Can you be one without the other? Don't you have to care about people? Dr. Wilson: Caring's a good motivator. He's found something else. Edit
    • Rebecca: (about House) He's your friend, huh? Dr. Wilson: Yeah. Rebecca: Does he care about you? Dr. Wilson: I think so. Rebecca: You don't know? Dr. Wilson: As Dr. House likes to say, "Everybody lies." Rebecca: It's not what people say. It's what they do. Dr. Wilson: (pause) Yeah. He cares about me. Edit
    • House: Gorgeous women do not go to medical school... unless they're as damaged as they are beautiful. Were you abused by a family member? Dr. Cameron: No. House: Sexually assaulted? Dr. Cameron: No. House: But you are damaged, aren't you? Edit

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    • Rebecca Adler The patient's name references the first Sherlock Holmes short story, A Scandal In Bohemia, in which the woman whom Holmes investigates is named Irene Adler. Edit
    • Dr. Cuddy: You don't prescribe medicine based on guesses. At least we don't since Tuskegee and Mengele. Tuskegee refers to the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932-1972), in which 399 black men were misled by researchers, who told them they were being treated for "bad blood" when in fact the men had syphilis and did not receive any treatment for it. Mengele was Josef Mengele, the most notorious of the Nazi doctors who carried out thousands of bizarre, painful, unnecessary and usually lethal medical experiments on prisoners in concentration camps (1943-1945). Edit
    • Dr. House: To quote the philosopher Jagger, "you can't always get what you want." The "philosopher" in question is Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones with the song "You Can't Always Get What You Want." Edit

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