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The House/Wilson Timeline (Updated 8/23/07)
Geekery mode on! I feel the urge to write down my personal timeline for House and my justifications. I'll just keep adding to this post and linking back every time the topic comes up instead of repeating my arguments...

( House and Wilson met eight years before the start of the show. That's my argument and I'm sticking to it. )


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[info]carcinya
2007-05-02 08:31 pm UTC (link)
In my twisted mind, when Wilson met House, he was *already* married to Wife #1 -- thus making House the special "someone" in his infamous speech to Cameron.

As for Bonnie, I always felt the marriage must have broken up shortly after House's infarction, for obvious reasons ("You always needed him...").



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[info]nekocatmanga
2007-05-02 08:45 pm UTC (link)
That's what I like to think, too, since I think the "affair" (which I am now 100% convinced was an emotional affair with House) Wilson had was during his first marriage.

And ditto on the Bonnie thing.

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[info]woodencoyote
2007-05-03 02:57 am UTC (link)
That's what I suspect as well. If, as Bonnie claimed, House contributed to the death of marriage #2, he probably did the same for #1, and that would mesh perfectly with Wilson's "someone special". And with Stacy AWOL the infarction would be the perfect reason for House to need Wilson 24/7

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[info]joeybug
2007-05-02 08:32 pm UTC (link)
I think this is a pretty accurate time line and you've backed it up with evidence from the episodes so it's probably as close to the truth as we're going to get.

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[info]moony
2007-05-02 08:34 pm UTC (link)
- Wilson's brother goes missing (Histories) [Nine years before S1]

All Wilson says is that the last time he saw him was nine years ago on a random street in a bad neighborhood. It doesn't necessarily mean he's been missing for only nine years.

I need to do my own timeline. We should have a big ol' timeline hootenanny!

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[info]nekocatmanga
2007-05-02 08:42 pm UTC (link)
Alright, I'll change it to "last time Wilson sees his brother."

Timelines are love!

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[info]woodencoyote
2007-05-03 02:58 am UTC (link)
Whoo, duelin' timelines!

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[info]anamatics
2007-05-02 08:46 pm UTC (link)
I personally think that Wilson's first marriage was one of those college-style things that got Cameron so broken. I think that he most likely met wife number two around the time he met House.

- Stacy moves in with House a week later (Honeymoon)
You know, I've always wondered if Stacy just wanted a sparring partner, or if House was simply amazing in bed.

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[info]carcinya
2007-05-02 08:47 pm UTC (link)
For Wilson's sake (if not for my sanity's), I sincerely hope it's the latter. *grins*

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[info]nekocatmanga
2007-05-02 09:01 pm UTC (link)
You know, I've always wondered if Stacy just wanted a sparring partner, or if House was simply amazing in bed.

Thanks, I just finally managed to stop thinking about Wilson in bed, now this...

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[info]treelines
2007-05-02 09:01 pm UTC (link)
[Cuddy mentions him taking vicodin when she hired him - fanwank that she meant when she made him a department head. Hey!]

I've always assumed that House had been working elsewhere (Cuddy mentions him being fired by multiple hospitals before she took him on), and then took medical leave for the infarction (House seems to rigorously stick to the guidelines for the amount of time he's not able to boss others around -- see 3.01) and was such an asshole because of the procedure that he was fired. I've thought that Wilson, who was working for PPTH, probably appealed to Cuddy to get her to hire him based on his genius, and with the promise that he'd be able to corral the personality that would make him a liability to have on staff. I don't think that pre-S1 Cuddy would've hired House for any other reason, even taking into account the guilt she harbored from the procedure.

Also, sometime around S1, House and Cuddy apparently had a date -- sex or no sex still pending.

...Now I wanna make a timeline, too. Gees.

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[info]nekocatmanga
2007-05-02 09:17 pm UTC (link)
Hm, that's an interesting idea. I'd like to see your timeline (DO IT) for that. My brain is stuck on the "eight years" thing, because I'm trying to minimize the amount of evidence that's thrown out.

Also, sometime around S1, House and Cuddy apparently had a date -- sex or no sex still pending.

I thought that was before S1, because it's implied it happened before she hired him (House so egotistically claims she hired him because of the sex in Top Secret).

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[info]t_eyla
2007-05-02 10:10 pm UTC (link)
Oh, meming this. It seems sound, and I am sooo terrible at keeping my timeline straight (not that I want anything to do with House and Wilson to be straight, but you know what I mean ^^). Thanks for sharing this!

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[info]namasteyoga
2007-05-02 10:25 pm UTC (link)
That basically agrees with my mental timeline I've used. Until we get another piece of evidence that House and Wilson have known each other for close to 20 years years, I'm going with the theory that Bonnie is a flake who refers to any youngish, smallish dog as a puppy.

But then my friends still refer to their 10 year old Lab as a puppy because she still chews on stuff.

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(no subject) - [info]genagirl, 2007-05-02 10:29 pm UTC
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[info]genagirl
2007-05-02 10:26 pm UTC (link)
But Hector is 17 yrs old. Wilson and Bonnie got the dog on their honeymoon (as a puppy). House wasn't paying attention when Wilson started dating Bonnie but was already his best friend so he has to have known him for 17 years. We know Wilson hadn't seen his brother in 9 years (from S1) but he might have been missing longer. House didn't know about the other brother but it might be a family secret so we can't say anything about how long H&W have known each other from that. I think Wilson's first marriage was in college then he met "someone" and divorced her to devote his attention to House. (In the script for the pilot Wilson is suppose to be 38 - so is House but I think they changed that with HL's being cast - but Wilson might be meant to be older, closer to House's age early 40s, which would mean he was 24 when they met and just starting out as a doctor). All just my .02 of course.

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(no subject) - [info]nekocatmanga, 2007-05-02 10:43 pm UTC
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[info]starhanyou
2007-05-02 10:37 pm UTC (link)
Cuddy also knew House when she was in school, he was "already a legend," if I remember correctly.

One could also assume that if the person lied about Hector being house-trained, they could also have lied about the dog's age. I've never had small dogs (to me a 45 lb. dog is small), but don't they live longer and have longer puppyhoods? BTW, notice Hector liked House?

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[info]lunamazes
2007-05-02 10:51 pm UTC (link)
Maybe Wilson married Julie during the infration, that's why he wasn't there...

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(no subject) - [info]nekocatmanga, 2007-05-02 11:16 pm UTC
more talk about timelines
(Anonymous)
2007-05-02 11:18 pm UTC (link)
where, on that timeline, do you think wilson became head of oncology?
average age of entry into medical school now is 25. Nevertheless, let's say wilson goes into med school directly from college at 22, graduates at 26, has three years of residency completed at 29 (he's in internal medicine)(1998), fellowship takes two years landing him at 31 at a minimum for becoming head (2000). This is all assuming that Wilson is 38 at the present time.
That means that Wilson would have to be already working at PPTH in 1996 when, according to your timeline, House is hired. Oh, and as a side note, the only two medical schools in New Jersey are in Newark and Piscataway. Princeton does not have a medical school (so those stories with House, the doctor at PPTH, meeting Wilson the medical school student don't take place in this universe).
There would have been no way for Wilson to influence the decision of House being hired since he would have been a lowly first-year resident in 1996 (not much power in your hands at the time). In fact, I'd be hard-pressed to believe that House would be paying attention to a first-year resident, especially if he's head of Diagnostics (he is pretty arrogant after all). If I had a say, I'd think that the two didn't become friends until at least 1998, if not later. If they meet and become friends in '98, the 2000 timeline with House's infarction and Wilson's subsequent attentiveness fits. If they become friends after Wilson's fellowship, however, they would've barely known each other when the infarction occurred.

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Re: more talk about timelines - [info]nekocatmanga, 2007-05-02 11:37 pm UTC

[info]idonmatrix
2007-05-03 01:29 am UTC (link)
This is interesting. However, I am going with the timeline that House and Wilson knew each other for 20 years because that explains Wilson's emotional attachment to House and House's possessiveness of Wilson. House told us in Half-Wit that Wilson didn't have any friends and that's why he made obscure pop culture references only House could understand. I am of the belief that Wilson went to medical school when he was quite young. House would have been fascinated by someone who was as brillant as him. Their relative status would not have mattered because as House said he lives outside the circle, not in it.

Finally, did anyone ever consider that Wilson might have been a ptient of House's. I know it's farfetched but possible.

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(no subject) - [info]nekocatmanga, 2007-05-03 01:56 am UTC

[info]c_carol
2007-05-04 11:05 pm UTC (link)
That's very well done! I vote for Theory Blue. And I wouldn't worry too much about minor inconsistencies - you know, it's been established that time is not a rigid construct.

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(no subject) - [info]nekocatmanga, 2007-05-05 01:18 am UTC

[info]sabinelagrande
2007-05-15 03:55 am UTC (link)
Something that might clear up the black and blue problem: is it common practice for doctors to be treated at the hospitals where they work? Because House was certainly treated for the infarction at Princeton Plainsboro. Three Stories seems to suggest to me that he went to a different hospital than the one he worked at (possibly because he'd pissed off the whole staff), but that's just supposition.

Though now that I think about it, that adds to the problem rather than solving it.

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(no subject) - [info]nekocatmanga, 2007-05-15 06:41 pm UTC

[info]mysidewayshalo
2007-06-06 12:04 pm UTC (link)
WOW, thanks for doing this.

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(no subject) - [info]nekocatmanga, 2007-06-06 05:16 pm UTC
Re time(very crooked)-lines
[info]menme_2
2007-09-29 01:45 pm UTC (link)
Wow, I just popped in here out of curiosity, but this timeline thing is giving me a headache - Didn't House say in one of hte Vogler episodes "I've been through three regime changes at this hospital" ? (great work though on collecting the quotes and making sense of them etc !!)

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Re: Re time(very crooked)-lines - [info]nekocatmanga, 2007-09-29 09:17 pm UTC

[info]pecking_keypads
2008-01-16 12:23 am UTC (link)
I always thought the House/Cuddy one-night stand was during college. It's in the context of talking about House being hired because of it (I don't believe that she hired him for that reason, but the tone of the scene makes me believe they did have sex), so it precedes the hiring. We could theorize that he worked at PPTH under another Dean, but we know about the University of Michigan and the college atmosphere seems more conducive to a one-night fling than a colleague relationship. Just my opinion, though!

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[info]dying_greed
2008-03-02 06:07 pm UTC (link)
thanks for the info

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