"As the philosopher Jagger once said, 'You can't always get what you want.'"
"This is Vicodin, it's mine. You can't have any."
Chase: The kid is missing.
House: Okay, you take Alpha Centuari, have Foreman check Tattooine, and have Cameron set up an intergalactic check piont. Of course if he went into hyper drive we'll never find him."
Being intelligent, drug-using, sarcastic, talented, insensitive, narcissistic, misanthropic, a jerkass, or in any other way greatly resembling Doctor Gregory House. Can be an expression of admiration as well as derogation.
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!