The episode that introduced Dr. Gregory House is titled “Pilot.”
“Pilot” is the first episode of House M.D. and originally aired on November 16, 2004. It establishes House as the head of Diagnostic Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital and introduces his original team: Eric Foreman, Allison Cameron, and Robert Chase.
The episode follows the team’s attempt to diagnose Rebecca Adler, a kindergarten teacher whose symptoms begin with seizures and progress rapidly. The case demonstrates the show’s core format: competing hypotheses, tests that eliminate possibilities, and House’s unconventional deductions.
The episode is commonly called “Everybody Lies” because that phrase appears prominently in the story and became closely associated with the series. However, “Everybody Lies” is the title of the second episode, while the first episode is officially “Pilot.” This distinction makes the episode title a useful fact for separating the opening installments.