Pilot
- Episode aired Nov 16, 2004
- TV-14
- 43m
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8.5/10
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Young kindergarten teacher Rebecca Adler collapses in her classroom after losing intelligible speech while teaching students.Young kindergarten teacher Rebecca Adler collapses in her classroom after losing intelligible speech while teaching students.Young kindergarten teacher Rebecca Adler collapses in her classroom after losing intelligible speech while teaching students.
Rekha Sharma
- Melanie Landon
- (as Reika Sharma)
Ava Hughes
- Sydney
- (as Ava Rebecca Hughes)
Ethan Kyle Gross
- Molnar
- (as Eitan Kyle Gross)
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Did you know
- TriviaAt the beginning of the series, a woman has the name of Rebecca Adler. The female antagonist in the Sherlock Holmes is named Irene Adler. House is based on Holmes.
- GoofsIt is shown that steroids initially relieve symptoms of neurocysticerocis followed by worsening. House says that it is due to dead worms causing inflammation for which he gives albendazole (which is in fact used to kill the worm). In reality, what happens is when albendazole is administered it causes death of worms which may worsen symptoms and needs steroids to relieve symptoms. Here it is shown exactly opposite.
- Quotes
Rebecca Adler: I just want to die with a little dignity.
Dr. Gregory House: There's no such thing! Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're 90, sometimes before we're even born, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it! I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass... it's always ugly - ALWAYS! You can live with dignity; we can't die with it!
- Alternate versionsA slightly longer version of this episode (with about 4 minutes of extra material) was distributed free with various magazines as a promo for the series.
- ConnectionsFeatured in House: Swan Song (2012)
- SoundtracksYou Can't Always Get What You Want
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Performed by The Rolling Stones
Featured review
A hell of a pilot
Filmed much like a theatrical movie, the pilot for HOUSE, M.D. wastes no time in establishing the show's recurring theme: an individual falls ill, and Greg House and his merry crew spend the next 45 minutes or so trying to diagnose the illness before the patient croaks. Few episodes have varied from this pattern, for better or worse. In the pilot, House treats a young teacher (movie actress Robin Tunney) for an aphasia that gets worse by the minute. The symptoms pile up quickly. Eventually, she becomes paralyzed from the waist down and decides she wants to go home to die. House wants to do some more work on her instead. The incredibly intense scene that follows between the ailing teacher and House is what makes the episode. We also have all the basic characters introduced without a lot of wasted time, including the very sharp neurologist (Omar Epps), the emotionally charged immunologist (Jennifer Morrison) and whatever the heck the surfer-looking Aussie is (Jesse Spencer). Dr. Wilson (Robert Leonard) is the staff oncologist and House's closest friend. And Lisa Edelstein is House's incredibly nagging but sympathetic boss, who as time goes on we discover may have had a relationship with House in the past. Only time will tell. HOUSE is the best TV show since LAW & ORDER, hands down.
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