House Explained — Episode by Episode

The 20 most entertaining, rewatchable episodes of House — pure viewing quality picks. Jump between episodes using your podcast app's chapter navigation. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows...

House is forced to cover a diagnostics lecture, presenting three cases of leg pain to a classroom of medical students. The cases unfold in sequence — a farmer whose dog bite is mistaken for a snakebite, leading to...

The 20 most essential episodes of House — landmark moments, fan favorites, and major turning points — plus a cast & creators bonus. Jump between episodes using your podcast app's chapter navigation. — Part of the...

A kindergarten teacher collapses mid-sentence into a seizure and spends a month undiagnosed before oncologist James Wilson manipulates his friend Dr. Gregory House into taking the case with a lie about being her cousin...

Keith Foster, a sixteen-year-old, has been bleeding internally for three weeks with no clear cause. While House works the case — ruling out drugs, infection, lupus, and cancer before landing on naphthalene poisoning...

Stacy Warner brings her husband Mark to House under the pretense of a dinner, and House drugs him into a hospital admission. With every test returning clean, House pushes for exploratory surgery, catches abdominal...

House faces a disciplinary hearing after a patient dies under his team's care. The episode unfolds in flashbacks as Chase and House separately prepare with hospital lawyer Stacy Warner, each withholding the truth about...

House opens its eighth season with Gregory House eight months into a New Jersey state prison sentence, five days from early release due to overcrowding rather than good behavior. A gang leader demands twenty Vicodin as...

House is shot twice during a routine differential diagnosis by a man whose wife — a former patient — took her own life after House exposed her husband's affair. House wakes in the ICU two days later with his chronic leg...

In this episode, House takes the case of Adam, a ten-year-old nonverbal autistic boy whose parents — both former professionals who quit their careers to care for him — bring him in for the first time in a decade. What...

House pulls a six-year-old boy named Ian from Cuddy's care during a hospital charity poker tournament, recognizing his symptoms from Esther Doyle, a patient House failed to diagnose twelve years earlier. Working against...

A cop arrives at Princeton-Plainsboro euphoric and laughing after being shot during an arrest, and the team traces his symptoms through carbon monoxide poisoning and Legionnaires' disease before realizing something far...

In the conclusion of the two-part Euphoria arc, Eric Foreman remains in isolation with no diagnosis and roughly thirty-six hours to live. House attempts increasingly reckless measures — flooding Foreman with...

House wakes a man from a ten-year vegetative state to get a family medical history for the man's dying son, then takes him on a road trip to Atlantic City while the clock runs down on the drugs keeping him conscious...

House's father has died, and Cuddy and Wilson conspire to get House to the funeral he is refusing to attend — Wilson drives while House, stripped of his Vicodin, negotiates, sabotages, and finally delivers a eulogy that...