In House M.D., what is the title of the pilot episode that premiered in 2004?

In House M.D., the pilot episode is titled “Everybody Lies.”

“Everybody Lies” introduced Gregory House, his diagnostic team, Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, and the series’ central idea that an unreliable patient history can make diagnosis much harder. It premiered on Fox on November 16, 2004.

The title comes from one of House’s defining beliefs: patients may conceal information, distort facts, or omit details that are medically important. That idea becomes a recurring diagnostic principle throughout the show and helps distinguish House’s skeptical approach from more conventional bedside manner.

The title is often confused with the later episode “Everybody Dies,” which served as the series finale in 2012. The two titles deliberately sound related, but they belong to opposite ends of the program: “Everybody Lies” begins the series, while “Everybody Dies” ends it. The pilot established the format that would shape the show’s first season and much of its later run.