Corrected entry: As Cuddy is making the deal with House, how much time off from Clinic duty for a week off his vicodin, while the camera is behind Cuddy you can see there is bright sunshine on House's head. The shot switches to a camera behind House and now his head is shaded.
Corrected entry: The doctors tell House that blood tests did not show anything wrong with the teenage boy, but near the end of the episode, he realises that it is naphthalene poisoning. Naphthalene poisoning is something that is easily noticed by doctors through blood tests.
Correction: Naphthalene is fat soluble. It was only released in his bloodstream when he started losing weight in the hospital.
He didn't start losing weight while he was in the hospital. He started losing weight before he was in hospital. And the naphthalene would have been released into his bloodstream before he was in the hospital.
Did he start losing weight before or after the blood tests?
Corrected entry: A kid is being taken to surgery to remove a magnet he swallowed because it may be stuck in his upper intestine. House diagnoses that the magnet is already in the lower intestine by taking a scalpel and showing that it's magnetically attracted to the lower abdomen. Surgical scalpels are made of high grade stainless steel and are not attracted by magnets.
Correction: Some scalpel blades are made of high carbon steel or tempered steel. The material used depends on the alloy content of the stainless steel. Certain types of stainless steel may be magnetic even if they do not contain nickel.
Corrected entry: The scene with the poker game. House claims to have a straight flush. His cards showing are 2, 6, 8, 4 of clubs. He then is called, turns over his last card and says, "Nine bucks for a straight flush". A straight flush consists of five cards in a row, the same suit. No card could have made his hand.
Correction: He was bluffing. In poker you can tell people anything to get them to fold.
Corrected entry: When House is talking to the CIA agent at the beginning of the episode, he is watching his team in the other room through a window. There is no window in the doors or next to the doors, and the doors are shut.
Correction: It is an open door, he even says "would you mind closing the door?"
Corrected entry: While in the elevator with House and Melinda, Foreman gives her Atropine to stabilize her heart, which has slowed to a dangerous rate while House is looking for the tick. Atropine affects the vagus nerve to increase a patient's heart rate. This nerve is cut during the heart Transplant procedure which would render Atropine completely ineffective with patients such as Melinda. The only treatment for her is a pacemaker, otherwise, she most likely would have died in the elevator.
Correction: Atropine acts on the heart in more than one way, the antimuscarinic action of atropine will lead to an increase in the heart rate despite the Vegas nerve being severed...the action will not be quiet as potent but it does lead to an increased heart rate. As demonstrated by the effect of cardiac stimulants experiment on frogs' hearts.
Corrected entry: Zachary tells Colleen that he gave the other girl a cheat code for Red Dead Revolver to hit her with the jump-rope, forcing her to lose the bet so she'd have to kiss him. Although it's possible that the girl was playing a 7-year-old game on an outdated system, it's more likely that he meant Red Dead Redemption, the sequel released last year. (00:36:50)
Correction: I still play Super Mario World - a twenty year-old game on a system outdated three generations over. People like old games.
Corrected entry: Cameron calls Chase by his real name (Robert) right before Chase tells Cameron about there being something wrong with the Dibala case. (00:19:25)
Correction: His name is Dr Robert Chase. So calling him Robert is simply using his first name. The actor's name in real life is Jesse Spencer.
Corrected entry: In the scene where House and Foreman ride the elevator down and are talking about Cameron, if you look at the the back of the elevator, there are panels where a light is shown moving up to signify that the elevator is moving down. When the elevator reaches the ground floor and there is a "ding," you can see that the light in the panels is visible while the door is opening, but then continues to go up and disappear out of sight even though Foreman and House are walking out of the elevator.
Correction: I have been on a lot of elevators where the bell goes off before the door opens and its still moving down.
Corrected entry: In House M.D. season 7 titled "Now What?" They are looking for a neurosurgeon to replace the one that is sick. Foreman is a neurologist who would have studied neurosurgery, but they took the whole episode looking for a neurosurgeon.
Correction: Studying neurosurgery as part of neurology does not make one a qualified neurosurgeon. Foreman would undoubtedly be familiar with the basic practices involved, but he would by no means be qualified to take on that role.
Fidelity (aka: Truth or Consequences) - S1-E7
Corrected entry: 7 minutes and 30 seconds into chapter 3, Dr. Cameron and Dr. House are walking through a hall-way and Dr. Cameron's mic wire is very evident under her shirt.
Correction: The show is not recorded with mikes, no show is. The show is filmed with booms - overhead microphones on sticks.
Insensitive - S3-E14
Corrected entry: In the beginning in Cuddy's office, the background goes from snowing to not snowing then snowing again between shots.
Correction: Which is exactly what happens when you have snow flurries.
Birthmarks - S5-E4
Corrected entry: When House and Wilson are sitting on the bench at the police station, Wilson is moving his arms while he talks. His hands are visible. Then the officer comes over and removes their handcuffs with the audible click and Wilson rubbing his wrists.
Correction: What is The Mistake here?
Corrected entry: When Wilson is securing an alibi for himself and House by hitting on a woman in the casino, he asks her if she likes swing music. Robert Sean Leonard played the lead in the movie "Swing Kids".
Correction: Actually, he asked her if she liked to swing - to wife swap for sex.
Corrected entry: At the end when the jazz player comes off the elevator says that he has been discharged. Hospitals require that a patient be wheel chaired out.
Correction: I work in a hospital and have had plenty of my patients not wheeled out. If someone says no, you can't FORCE them to.
Corrected entry: During the opening scene where the painter is painting the portrait of the woman, there is a shot of the painting where you can see the woman's shoulder and jaw profile. You can see that the picture isn't distorted like the painting you see after the painter gets hit.
Correction: That is because you see it from the painter's point of view. He had no idea his portraits were distorted, so he didn't see them that way.
Corrected entry: Several references are made to the patient having both male and female DNA. There is no such thing as "male" or "female" DNA. DNA is just a molecule. It's the chromosomes (specifically the X and Y chromosomes) formed from the DNA that determine if someone is male or female.
Correction: What they are referring to is that he has two distinct lines of cells: one with an XY pairing (thus, "male DNA") and one with an XX pairing ("female DNA"). This is a known but rare occurrence. Check out the Polite Dissent site for a doctor's review of the medicine in this episode and others.
Corrected entry: In the episode "The Greater Good," House is forced to use the stairs and uses his cane with the wrong hand.
Correction: House actually uses his cane in the wrong hand all the time. He uses it on the opposite leg, something that Cuddy even points out in a previous episode.
Corrected entry: In the men's room, the father admits to having had sex with Alex, but gives no details. House goes back and tells his team that the father said yes and was drunk. We don't learn he was drunk until later when Alex is talking to Cameron.
Correction: House is making an educated guess that the father was drunk.
Corrected entry: During the scene where House opens the door of the limo to escort Brock into the hospital, he explains that his reading speed has slowed from 2.1 to 2.9, which is an increase not a decrease.
Correction: He means the time taken to read a line - he's taking 2.9 seconds rather than 2.1 seconds.
Correction: The light is still visible in the shots from behind House, just not as easy to see.