"Hello Macgyver"

This has to be the best reference I've heard made not only in House, but in all of television - the phrase "how's it going team Macgyver?" used by House in an episode where the patient is stuck in the South Pole.

... Don't get it? Well, not all of us like watching sci-fi as well as Macgyver. Colonel Jack O'Neill in Stargate, played by Richard Dean Anderson, was stuck with his team member Samantha Carter in Antarctica in ep i-don't-remember, in season i-also-don't-remember. At the beginning of the Stargate series, I think in the 2hr pilot, Carter made reference to Macgyver's ingenuity (to which O'Neill did a curious raise of eyebrows). One of the much watched bloopers of the Antarctica episode is where a frustrated Carter yells out something like "Build a nuclear reactor, for crying out loud! Your used to be Macgyver, Macgimmic, Macgadget and now you're just mac-useless. God! I'm stuck in the ice with Macgyver!" Of course, it was part of her dialogue and did not go on air.

... Still don't get it? Oh come on! You must know who played Macgyver! Richard Dean Anderson! He became the face of Macguyver, way before our time mind you, and I'm pretty sure he became the face of the Stargate series too ... at least to sci fi fans. ... But you wouldn't know, would you?

Ah well. There's three of my favourite shows so cleverly combined that it was hardly noticeable... or was it? May be the writers of House didn't even know what they were putting in Laurie's mouth... Or may be Laurie improvised it...