Talk:List of House episodes

Episode Synopses

I'm concerned with these synopses' provenance; they are, in a stunning display of irony, too good. If someone wants to take credit for them, and say they're original (they're uneven: some of them are clearly original, some read like they came out of TV Guide), fine. Otherwise, I guess I'll buckle down and rewrite them.
--Baylink 00:51, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Good call, plugging the long ones into google quickly shows they're copied. --W(t) 01:34, 2005 Jun 1 (UTC)

I just made some spelling/grammar corrections to this article before seeing the comments. If you'd like to split the job of rewriting the summaries, I'd be happy to help. I'll check back here.--64.203.152.181 14:34, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Spoiler material - How should it be treated (if at all posted). This is speficially referring to Season 2's final episode, which was had a twist that the current summery doesn't quite sum up.--AlphaTwo 14:50, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Here's what I think: short summaries on this page make it like a list format similar to List of Lost episodes or List of South Park episodes. Then place the other episodes in either own articles or on a season page whichever the consensus prefers. Minor spoilers are fine in my opinion but especially with last night's you don't want to be too revealing...that's for the other page. Also, I'm looking for pictures however FOX only starts with 206 which is just half of a season. Sfufan2005 20:32, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

TWoP

Why is there a TWOP recap link to every episode summary? My objection to TWOP is that they don't allow any feedback or commentary on their recaps (apart from "great recap") and more often than not they aren't really recaps of the episodes but an extended gripe or lovefest by the author. There's really no attempt to recount what happened in any particular episode. I've looked for a rationale of why TWOP is being promoted so heavily here but I couldn't find one. As a wikipedia user I would much prefer to see, at most, one link indicating that more episode information can be found at that site. Since there is already a link on the main page maybe no additional link is needed at all. Actinium 18:53, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't object to linking to other site's recaps for the eps, too, if there were workable direct links to such recaps (as long as things didn't get out of hand). I *do* think we ought to cut our *own* episode pages, though, and unlink the titles in the table. Votes?

Seriously, is there some sort of kickback that someone is getting for including so many TWOP links? Part of the way the reviewers or recappers is paid is based on traffic, traffic which Wikipedia is strangely just handing to them. They are making money because someone has turned Wikipedia traffic into TWOP traffic. It seems wrong and it affects adversely Wikipedia's credibility. Why not just use one link at the bottom of the page?

What happened to the tv.com links? I think tv.com is far far better than the TWoP links. --antilived ^{trash vandal results} 11:06, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Music

If anyone has time, I think it would be nice to add what music is featured in each episode... that is one of the most searched-for pieces of info regarding this show, and is very encyclopedic. I'll try to start adding some soon 69.142.21.24 09:29, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That is a VERY good idea, I'm going to start going through episodes 1-8 to try to figure out what songs are used. Jules su 1:45, 7 March 2006 (PST)

Cool idea, since there is almost commerical music in every episode. Sfufan2005 20:54, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm, I'm having trouble figureing out which music is commercial and which isn't. I assumed that all the background soft stuff was done for the show, as I haven't recognized any of it. Jules su 13:10, 7 March 2006 (PST)

Yeah, that's definitely all score. The composer should be in the credits. But the music people recognize (i.e. One is the Loneliest Number in Occam's Razor) is what should be featured in the episode guide. Sfufan2005 22:11, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey great idea, if you go to IMDB you can find the soundtrack listing for each episode, but this requires going to each episode's page and clicking 'soundtrack'. Also you can check out the official Fox website. Patriarch 08:05, 23 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

IMDB summaries

The summaries on IMDB are very similar to the ones on Wikipedia. Can anyone verify which came first? Jules su 19:27, 12 March 2006 (PST)

Skipped episode?

Why do the episode labels skip from 2-16 to 2-18? (overall 38 to 40) Where is episode 2-17, #39? Mistake?

Yeah, that was a mistake on my behalf. Fixed it so everything should be fine now. Sfufan2005 21:51, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Need a list of medical terms used in the show

For the laymen, the dialog in the show just flew by without even knowing what all the medical terminologies really mean or how they are spelled. It would be useful to create a list of medical terms used in the show and cross reference them to this list of episodes. The wiki-links of these terms can help viewers read further about those terminologies, and add some educational value to the show. A less attractive alternative is to add those terms in this list along with each entry, but they may turn into spoilers for those who have not seen the episode yet. For example, mentioning tick paralysis would spoil this week's episode. IMO, it is better to have a separate list because some procedures and terms were used frequently in many episodes. Perhaps the list can be divided into symptoms, tests, treatment etc. Kowloonese 19:10, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In my opinion, that sort of unnessesary. I mean, it's not like adding music, which many people would want to know. Most of the medical terms are either explained in the show, or are shown (i.e. lumbar puncture) It's entirely too much work and just doesn't seem to fit in.jules_su 10:25, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Considering the fact that a good amount of the medical terminology used on the show is innaccurate or complete BS (particularly in the earlier shows) it seems really unnecessary. It's better just to go with the show's logic, and try to pick things up by context.

the chart format is ugly

is it supposed to look like that, with the broken horizontal chart? Can someone who is better with chart formatting than me clean this up a bit? 69.142.21.24 07:36, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest keeping the chart however adding photos and making it look similar to other lists like List of Prison Break episodes or List of Grey's Anatomy episodes. Also, the summaries on this page should be about 1-2 lines with lengthier episode summaries on either season pages or individual episode pages. I just wanted to suggest this to other editors to gain feedback. Any suggestions? Sfufan2005 00:46, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject List of Television Episodes might be able to help :) The project is still getting back up to speed, but you can find some very good advice via Template:Episode list and Template talk:Episode list. Hope that helps. -- Ned Scott 06:46, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Links to relevent titles?

Some of the titles of episodes contain refrences that I think ought to be linked to. For example, "Occam's Razor" and "Socratic Method" should be linked to the respective articles somwhere. Having the titles themselves be links seems out of place, so I'll be bold and add links as "see also—Link" Ce1984 21:01, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Music Removed?

For some reason, all the music was removed from the first season, for seemingly no reason. I'm assuming it's vandalism, and I'm putting it back.

All the music is already liste on the individula episode pages--Dr. Zaius 13:13, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]