Season 5 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 24
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

House Season 5 (2008-2009)

House Dying Changes Everything 5x01 Dying Changes Everything
After Wilson threatens to resign House thinks of anything to try and keep him at the hospital, and to keep their friendship alive. Meanwhile, the team treat an executive assistant with ...
Sep. 16, 2008
House Not Cancer 5x02 Not Cancer
The team deals with an organ donors whose organs prove fatal, and the two surviving patients. Meanwhile, House hires a private detective to spy on Wilson, but hears a few things about ...
Sep. 23, 2008
House Adverse Events 5x03 Adverse Events
House and his team diagnose a struggling artist dying of an unknown disease, whose illness affects not only his career and his relationship, but his work.
Sep. 30, 2008
House Birthmarks 5x04 Birthmarks
House's friends and teammates coerce him going into his father's funeral. However, en route they get the case of a young Chinese girl and House must participate in the differential ...
Oct. 14, 2008
House Lucky Thirteen 5x05 Lucky Thirteen
Thirteen's female lover has a seizure after a night of partying and she takes the woman to the hospital. It turns out the woman has a long-standing medical condition and slept with ...
Oct. 21, 2008
House Joy 5x06 Joy
The team takes on the case of a dreary middle-aged man who has been experiencing unexplained recurring blackouts and time lapses. With possible diagnoses ranging from a stroke to a ...
Oct. 28, 2008
House The Itch 5x07 The Itch
An agoraphobic man falls ill and refuses to leave his home to be treated at the hospital. Therefore, House and the team go to his home to figure out what might be wrong. Cameron takes ...
Nov. 11, 2008
House Emancipation 5x08 Emancipation
The team takes on the case of a 16-year-old factory manager who collapsed when her lungs suddenly filled with fluid while at work. The teenager informs House and team that she has been ...
Nov. 18, 2008
House Last Resort 5x09 Last Resort
A man takes over Cuddy's office and holds House, Thirteen, and several patients hostage, demanding a diagnosis. The man forces Thirteen to act as a guinea pig for his treatments and ...
Nov. 25, 2008
House Let Them Eat Cake 5x10 Let Them Eat Cake
A fitness guru known for her "natural" lifestyle collapses while shooting an infomercial. Meanwhile, Thirteen participates in a clinical drug trial for Huntington's Disease led by Foreman; ...
Dec. 02, 2008
House Joy to the World 5x11 Joy to the World
A troubled teen collapses during her high-school Christmas program; Foreman and Thirteen learn more about each other as they work together on the Huntington's disease drug trial; House ...
Dec. 09, 2008
House Painless 5x12 Painless
At Cameron's urging, the team takes the case of a suicidal man who suffers from excruciating chronic pain--pain that mirrors House's. Meanwhile, Cuddy discovers that caring for her ...
Jan. 19, 2009
House Big Baby 5x13 Big Baby
Cuddy decides to spend more time at home to take care of her new foster baby and gives Cameron the responsibility of overseeing House. The team treats a special education teacher whose ...
Jan. 26, 2009
House The Greater Good 5x14 The Greater Good
House and the team take on the case of a woman who collapsed in the middle of a cooking class. When they learn that the patient gave up her career as a highly renowned cancer researcher ...
Feb. 02, 2009
House Unfaithful 5x15 Unfaithful
When a priest who runs a homeless shelter sees a bleeding Jesus hovering at his doorstep, he is admitted to the ER. House takes on the case as a distraction for the team while he confronts ...
Feb. 16, 2009
House The Softer Side 5x16 The Softer Side
The team encounters a teenage boy who collapsed from severe pelvic pain after playing basketball. The boy was born with a condition called genetic mosaicism, or both male and female ...
Feb. 23, 2009
House The Social Contract 5x17 The Social Contract
House and the team take on the case of Nick Greenwald (Jay Karnes), a book editor who loses his inhibitions and starts insulting coworkers at a dinner party one night before falling ...
Mar. 09, 2009
House Here Kitty 5x18 Here Kitty
Morgan, a nursing-home nurse, fake an illness to get House to see her. She believes that a "death cat" at the nursing home can predict who will die next... and the cat has settled on ...
Mar. 16, 2009
House Locked In 5x19 Locked In
House is injured in a motorcycle accident in New York and finds himself in bed next to a patient (Mos Def) suffering from complete paralysis from a bicycling accident. As House transfers ...
Mar. 30, 2009
House Simple Explanation 5x20 Simple Explanation
The team deals with an older woman who has been tending to her dying husband but is stricken down with an unknown disease that threatens to kill her before her husband.
Apr. 06, 2009
House Saviors 5x21 Saviors
House worries he's lost his mojo when he can't determine the reason for Cameron and Wilson's changed behaviors or his new patient's diagnosis.
Apr. 13, 2009
House House Divided 5x22 House Divided
A deaf 14-year-old wrestler collapses during a wrestling match while hearing imaginary "explosions." However, House is distracted by his lack of sleep, hallucinations of a familiar ...
Apr. 27, 2009
House Under My Skin 5x23 Under My Skin
When a ballerina's lungs collapse during a performance, she's brought to the hospital where the team soon discovers that her skin is coming off. House is distracted by his hallucinations ...
May. 04, 2009
House Both Sides Now 5x24 Both Sides Now
House takes on a case of a patient with two different personalities as a result of having the left and right part of the brain operating independently. Meanwhile, he deals with the ...
May. 11, 2009
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Season 5 Characters

Dr. Gregory House played by Hugh Laurie
Dr. Lisa Cuddy played by Lisa Edelstein
Dr. Eric Foreman played by Omar Epps
Dr. James Wilson played by Robert Sean Leonard
Dr. Allison Cameron played by Jennifer Morrison (II)
Dr. Robert Chase played by Jesse Spencer
Dr. Chris Taub played by Peter Jacobson
Nurse played by Bobbin Bergstrom
Dr. Lawrence Kutner played by Kal Penn
Dr. Remy 'Thirteen' Hadley played by Olivia Wilde
Dr. 'Thirteen' Hadley played by Olivia Wilde
Dr. Amber Volakis played by Anne Dudek
Rachel Taub played by Jennifer Crystal Foley
Lucas Douglas played by Michael Weston
Janice Burke played by Lori Petty
Doug played by Tim Rock (II)
Susan played by Parisa Fakhri
Man played by Nick Josephs
Doctor played by Fred Kronenberg
Nurse Helen played by Nicole Cannon
Sarah played by Meaghan Martin
Molly played by Shelli Boone
Minister played by Jonathan Palmer (II)

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Season 5 Videos

For Huddy Fans
For Huddy Fans (00:41)

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Season 5 Quotes

05x09 - Last Resort Season 5 / Episode 9: - Last Resort

Dr. Gregory House: [to Thirteen] Why are you still alive?
05x05 - Lucky Thirteen Season 5 / Episode 5: - Lucky Thirteen

Spencer: How long do you have?
Thirteen: Maybe a little more than you. Maybe a little less. I'll race you.
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Season 5 Trivia

  • Episode 06 - Goof (continuity error): During the ultrasound scene with Cuddy and Cameron, the expectant mother's belly is alternatively covered and uncovered between shots.
  • Episode 16 - Goof (factual errors): During "urethroscopy" Taub is using a tool which is apparently way too thick for a boy's urethra. It is in fact a gastroendoscope which is intended to go into a gullet (a much wider passage).
  • Episode 21 - Goof (continuity error): When Cameron explains the case, House is making a sandwich, and bites his toast's corner. In the next shot, the bite is in the other corner.
  • Episode 18 - In addition to the episode's plot, the title could also be a reference to Judy Greer's infamous role as "Kitty" on Arrested Development.
  • Episode 10 - Irv, the man who falls down for the commercial shoot in the opening scene, is played by Brad Grunberg. Brad is the brother of Greg Grunberg, who is the drummer for the musical act known as the Band from TV, which features [url=/person/hugh_laurie]Hu

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