House

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...

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... :')

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.

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.

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 show

A strange mix of both CSI and ER, House is centered around the illusive Dr Gregory House, an anti-social and controversial doctor who dislikes most of his patients and trusts nobody but himself.

In the opening episode, kindergarten teacher Rebecca Adler has a seizure in the middle of her class and is rushed to hospital. The team of doctors helping her, House, Foreman, Chase, Wilson and Cameron, soon discover that the seizures have been caused by a tumor inside her brain which has so badly harmed her, that she may only have a week to live.

When watching House, you imagine it to be like a little mystery. House is the detective and the virus or illness of the patient-of-the-week is the villain.

House himself is one of the greatest lead characters in a TV series for a while now. He has a bizarre but hilarious humor to him (he substitutes pills for mints to give to a patient who doesn't need treating) and has many quirky obsessions (like never missing an episode of General Hospital) and is wonderfully played by British actor Hugh Laurie, who puts on an American accent for the role.

The rest of the cast are superb as well, including ER alumni Omar Epps, Mr and Mrs Smith star Jennifer Morrison and Dead Poet Society's Robert Sean Leonard. The little hints at their characters are also intriguing. Epps' character Eric Foreman and an event in his teens when he broke into a house and Morrison's Dr Cameron and House's honest and hilarious critique on her are both interesting and hopefully will be evolved on in later episodes.

All-in-all, House is a promising show which brilliantly combines mystery, comedy and drama all in a 42-minute package.

well, i thought the first episoide was quite good, i can't believe i'm actually going say this but i'm hooked, They really know how to draw you in, based on House's attitiude and patient wanting to die , i thought she might die but it's nice she didn't. it nice to have diffrent series on same concept as medicine and the graphics of the inside her body are brillant. i really enjoyed that aspect of series. i have high hopes, only 21 episoides left until the series finishes which mean my summer already looking great, i was getting bored with CSI stuff, i'm glad this provides new aspect of medicial drama. until next week that's it from me.

Slightly surreal because of my love for the British comedy show Blackadder, from years ago of which Hugh Laurie starred and made me laugh so much that a little bit of wee came out.



And all these years later, here he is not only deadly serious but, an American!!! He's really put some time into mastering that accent - Well done Hugh!



So what about the show then? Well, i loved it. I thought it was a great introduction to Dr House and from this episode, you can only suggest that the season that lies ahead is certainly going to be entertaining....and its a most welcome addition.



The Acting is tight, the storyline is interesting and the flow is perfectly timed. A great episode - I cannot wait for the rest. Bring it on Dr.

The pilot episode. Named only the pilot, it also has the nickname “everybody lies” which has become a well used phrase by Dr. Gregory House. This is one of the best pilots I have ever seen, most pilots I can sit their and pick out how they introduce characters, etc. in this, I never noticed any of it, the performance of the main cast (Hugh Laurie especially) is amazing, but what I find even more spectacular is that the guest star performances are just as good. I trully felt sorry for Rebecca Adler. I also love seeing Jesse Spencer in this, as an aussie myself. He really captures the character in my opinion. You might notice house refer to mick jager saying "you cant always get what you want" this rolling stones song is played at the end of not only this episode, but the season finale of season one. all in all, i found this pilot got me totally hooked.

I missed the pilot episode in it's original airing, but I recently rented the DVDs and watched it.



To me this episode was totally different from any of the other episodes in the series. Don't get me wrong, the characters are pretty much the same, but the style in which the show is presented is vastly different.



First of all, the color looks different. Most of the colors are washed out and desaturated except for the color orange... it's a little distracing.



The scoring and title credit music was different too, the score was much more classical feeling than the norm. All of the scenes in the show were presented in a very un-Houselike way. Long pan up to the patient, weird point of views from the camera when they're invesigating the patient's house. Just very different.



NOT THAT I DIDN'T LIKE IT!! I DID.



Just had to tell someone about all the stuff I noticed that was so different. And if anyone else pointed any of it out... sorry... i didn't read the other reviews first. :)

I though it was a good start to a great show. You get introduced to all of the main characters and you really learn how they act. House is introduced and is as sarcastic and housey (umm yeah housey) as ever. I don't think it is the best episode in the series but I think it is a pretty good one. Considering that this was the first episode (where lots of shows don't try to go all out afarid they will scare away viewers) I really liked it. It wasn't too bloody and gorey as some of the other ones that came out later but I personally don't like the blood and gore so that was only a plus to me.

Quem vê Brian Singer dirigindo filmes como X-Men não tem muita idéia do quanto ele pode fazer por uma série dramática. Se me perguntassem, não seria de forma alguma minha primeira escolha para esta série. Mas mordi minha língua e confesso que ele mandou muito bem. Será que ele volta na segunda temporada?

This pilot is very cool!! since i've seen it i'm a big fan of the show!! you're an addict after seeing that! House is the greatest doctor in the television history!! Er is soo bad against this show!! Very big thumb up to the Fox network for this one! :)

Take a Medical Mistery, a team of bored doctors including a neurologist (Dr Foreman), an Intensivist (Dr Chase), an inmunologist (Dr Cameron); a sarcastic, bittered chief of Department Dr House); a loyal friend (Dr Wilson)and a tough Hospital Administrator (Dr Cuddy). What do we get? An amazing medical show, very accurate, exciting, who digs in the life of the patiens and medical Staff.

Of course it shows very rare diseases, uncomonly presented un US, but its like a medical CSI, trying ti find the potential Killer, running against time, even Playing God.

In this case, a kindergarden teacher who deteriorates from speaking troubles to seizures and how they evaluate all the posibilities ruling out diseases and treatments is Exciting, one of my favorites shows of all times.

I Saw this episode when season one came out on DVD. It was just so cool to see how the entire series started. This episode certainly did its job as a Pilot too. It Introduced all of the characters along with their general personalities and ideas.



Im sure if I would have seen this when it first aired, I am almost positive that this would have hooked me instantly. With each symptom i began to wonder more and more what the problem would be, i could not obviously get it even close to correct. Great First Episode!!



Medical Problem: Tape Worms in the Brain.

Rating. 9.6/10

Thought Id give this episode some love, as it is the one that started the great show that is House.



First the way it was shot. This episode seemed to be shot differently, you could tell they were aiming to impress, though the lighting was awful, it was weird and it kind of hurts your eyes.



As far as introducing the characters - fantastic House/Wilson dynamic from the first seconds we see them, the patient asking if House cared for him (Wilson) and the way Wilson lied to get House on the case.

Cameron, Set up as a doormat immediately, answering House's mail out of his bin, showing her caring sensitiveness right from the start.

Chase, Starts off a lot more intelligent than he seemed to become later on, but still a great introduction.

Foreman, right away we can see the clashes ahead between him and House and his stubborn nature.

Also a great introduction to the whole House Cuddy dynamics, straight away we see how House treats her and how she doesn’t give in.

We only get a taste of Houses personality, but still we see the general behavior stamps the he is defined by.



The plot it self was also great. It helps us see how House treats patients and learn a bit more about his personality. We also get a taste of the kind of cases House will take on, all the weird things we will see, and some of the risks House is willing to take.

We get to hear some great House quotes from the start, and this episode even has some of the best (i.e Humanity is overrated).



All in all a great episode and a great start.

First of all, I love Hugh Laurie! I would never know that he is British, by the way he talks on the show. He is absolutely hilarious as Gregory House. I love the sarcasm and the harshness of the dialogue. It was great when he gave the patient candy and told him they were pills (and of course, he pocketed the painkillers for himself).



I like the internal shots; I think it's really cool to see what's going on inside the body as well as what's seen on the outside.



I also love the supporting characters; Cuddy, Wilson, Cameron, Chase, and Foreman all seem to add a little more to the show.



All I can say is I'm very excited for this season!

To base a show on a ruthlessly honest character has baffled and enthralled me for both the first and second series, and made me eagerly anticipate the next series in the work. This was a perfect pilot, with an insight into who the characters are, and how the show will play out it's structure for the coming episodes. It shows in this episode about how pain transveres into honest brutality that leads to truth andn the way to cure. A doctor who cures without wanting to see the patient, the stereotype destroyed. An unbelievable start to a series, so truthful so enthralling, so funny, so saracstic, and most of all so intuitive.

I loved this episode. Very good pilot episode. We are introduced to the main cast, and of course, Dr. House. House is probably one of the if not the best characters on TV. But a character would be nothing without a great actor. And trust me... Hugh does great acting.



House hates people. He never visits his patients, too. He\\\'s harsh, and to the point. \\\'Mayhe she has tomour..\\\' \\\'Yea.. then.. she\\\'ll die. boring\\\'



but afterall, he\\\'s a great doctor who knows what he\\\'s doing. The episode was excellent, however, If this wasn\\\'t the pilot episode, and we weren\\\'t introduced to the characters here, it would be a weaker episode compared to the others, because REbecca\\\'s story is...well... not too exciting, IHMO.

Great well written pilot.



It was very interesting to see this episode again ( some genius finally bought the rights and so it’s airing here, subtitled and all, 2 years after it aired in the US ).

Wardrobe/hairstyles even House’s limp are all different from what they are now, but the main characters’ characters are already there, they haven’t changed too much over the course of 2 seasons, just grew and got even more interesting.

In this pilot the ducklings seem to still be in the process of figuring out how to deal with House. Wilson knows how to, and I think Cuddy does as well – it’s House who hasn’t yet perfected his technique on this yet – he is defending and explaining his actions re: treatment to Cuddy. Cameron just thinks she has House figured out, I don’t really think she has, but while she explains House to her colleagues it helps the viewer understand as well.

House already has the severe clinic duty aversion, illustrated by a very funny scene between House and Cuddy.

The orange man is very memorable( no, not the fruit !).

And while lecturing a mom who thinks breathing is not nearly as important as preventing her child from taking pretty aggressive asthma medication , House pauses in the middle of explaining how steroids work and rushes back up. Clinic duty actually helped him solve his current case ( this won’t be the last time that happens).

The breaking and entering a patients home is already there as well.

Foreman got a criminal record when he was 16 for stealing a car and breaking into the Felkner’s home. Cameron managed to stay clear of one until she was 17 ( and by the end of Season 2 we *still* don’t know what she did !! )

The CFS/fibromyalgia guy that comes back for a refill is pretty funny.

(when the candy works, you know he doesn’t really have it).

Then back to Rebecca, who only gets worse after getting slightly better, and in the end just gives up hope and wants to go home to die.

The moving House speech “you can live with dignity , you can’t die with it. It’s always ugly. Always.” Has no real effect, but does do the great job of explaining House’s need for a cane to us viewers. ( Thank you writers for doing that in the pilot instead of have us wonder for 3 seasons !). Luckily Chase has a solution to non-invasively prove she has a tapeworm, and 2 pills a day will pretty much guarantee a complete recovery.

As far as pilot's go this was one of the better ones something I've also said about the lost pilot.



I enjoyed Wilson convincing House to treat Rebecca by saying that she was his cousin and of course Mr. Orange dude in the clinic was funny. Cuddy and House were hilarious in their arguments about House's duties to the clinic and the steriods he was giving Rebecca.



House's relationship with Foreman and their conversations were interesting as well. House's reasons for hiring everyone made the ending quite funny he hired Cameron for her looks and she had quite the reaction to that.



This was a superb start to a supreb series.

Whilst it is usually somewhat tedious to break into a series for the first time, this show has done a remarkably good job. There is a short time at the begining of the episode where some of the comments between House and his colleagues appear to be somewhat forced, this is unavoidable in order to set the scene and briefly outline some of the more important relationships that will develop as the series unfolds. In particular, an excellent job is done in setting up the boundaries for House's relationship with Cuddy. Although the characters are still new and unfamiliar to viewers, they are easily identifiable and immediately entertaining. The plot is fresh and fast paced, with the first scene jumping straight into the life of Rebecca Adler, House's patient for the episode.



This episode introduces House's recurring maxim throughout the series; 'everybody lies'.



Perhaps the most notable scene in this episode is when House discusses death with his patient, rebuking her wish to 'go home and die with a little dignity' because 'you can live with dignity but you can't die with it'.

House starts off with a great beginning with powerful acting by Robin Tunney and a strong introduction to The Princeton Plainsboro as well as to House's Three asistant, Wilson, Cuddy and the initiation of House's arrival at the clinic, which he hesitantly took up. The first case, albeit lacking of interest, served as a startup platform to the roles of House's three assistant as well as somewhat answers the question on why House hired them. Though it's unclear as why Cameron and Chase was hired, House did specify one of the major reason behind Foreman's appointment.



This has been a great pilot episode to this successful series.

I liked this epsiode ok. I really enjoyed seeing the actress that played the patient, because Ive seen her in Prison Break, But I dont think this episode was one of the best, which really you cant put against anyone because it was the pilot and shows usally just get better as they go. I love the way they introduced the characters the way they let you know them on a personal level. I mean really they (the producers) dont really have to let us know about them I mean the shows is about the patients But yea I really enjoy it.

The "Pilot" of House is one of the most original pilots that I have seen in quite a time, and that is saying much. I haven't been this excited about a medical show since Scrubs, and I think that this show has its own way of being as funny and as dramatic as Scrubs, though this show focuses mostly on the mysteries that happen to the patients.



I think that this episode was great. Its great how do we get to see everyone around it, and how does everyone thinks that House is a solitary and that he always does the thing the way he wants too. However, as Dr. Cuddy remarks at the end of the episode, he is the best doctor of the hospital and I think that he unique way of being its what makes him great. In this first episode, we see a kindergarden teacher who after suffers from a strange disease and begins talking like a litte girl, is taken to the hospital. After a lot experimentations, she decides give up and decides to die, however, this is when we are able to see House's doctor side when he remarks "there is no dying with dignity". This episode was fantastic!

This show throws you straight into it, letting you get the feel of the characters as you go along. It introduces Dr. Gregory House, a drug addicted, anti-social diagnostician, and his team of three doctors: Dr. Eric Foreman, Dr. Allison Cameron, and Dr. Robert Chase. It also introduces Dr. James Wilson, House's only friend, an oncologist who actually lies to House to get him take a patient. Because House does not interact with his patients, it lets him be more objective when it comes to diagnosis, plus he just has a lack of concern for the feelings of others. When he is forced to interact with his patient, and he gains respect for her and can no longer diagnosis her because he actually cares, he can no longer be objective.



Plus the clinic scenes are very funny. House is relentless of a man who has turned orange, tell him that his wife is having an affair because she hasn't noticed that her husband has turned orange.



It was a great way for the writers to start a show.

House and his team battle a deteriorating patient, Rebecca Adler who started talking gibberish and had a seizure. House and his team have already looked at the likely causes and are left baffled after the tests came up negative. House as usual is in his own sarcastic sense of humour, miserable and yet humourous. Meanwhile, Adler is quickly deteriorating and House just wants to 'watch her die.' Still with nothing, he asks Foreman to break into Adler's house. Foreman eventually is forced to agree after Adler's condition is getting worse. He goes there, shoves some ham in his mouth and goes back to the hospital. House then puts the pieces together and finds out it's a tapeworm! A good introduction of a comedy-drama.

This episode was pretty good for a pilot. Most pilots are crappy and build from there, but not this one!



PROS:

1) It was a good case! The idea of a whats-it-called worm in her body. It was pretty interesting to see how that all fit together.

2) It was a good way to introduce characters this episode. And gave a good first impression of House! =]

3) It was funny too, I love the "I'm just the lowly infectious diseases guy" line! XD



CONS:

1) The way it was filmed itself was different, it seemed to be darker, as in a harder to see darker.

2) There were some areas where it could've been improved..



Overall, yeah! Pretty dang good for a pilot! If you haven't seen it yet, i suggest you do! And if you haven't, sorry i gave away that it was some kinda worm! =P

Character Development is the most important job a group of writers face when sitting down to write a Pilot episode of a televsion series. I think that the writers did a great job introducing some of the characters, but not so much with others. The on screen connection with Cuddy and House was great, they really compliment each other well and both of them seem to be as smart as their comebacks to one another. I thought that the rest of the cast simply stands behind House. House is the comical sarcastic doctor and everyone else does all the medical randomness that make the show a hospital drama. I think without a doubt the scenes with House are the best and I think there should be more of him and a little less hospital drama about whatever case they may be working on.

The pilot episode of House is where it all begins. The show that I watch almost every Tuesday. This was a really really great episode and just watching the first episode about a half an hour ago I realise a big diffrence in the age of the characters. All the characters on the show look way younger then today, its only three years ago. But out of that this was a great episode with a women who has worm in her house after dr. Foreman discovers a certain meat in the patients house. They wind up finding it and saving her and I enjoyed this episode because of many funny parts.