Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas the neighborhood of Southside in Birmingham, Alabama, that his father Hugh Martin designed for his mother as a honeymoon cottage. Located at 1919 South 15th Avenue (just down the street from his birthplace at 1900 South 14th Avenue), the house became the home of Martin and his family in 1923. The song first appeared in a scene in "Meet Me in St. Louis", in which a family is distraught by the father's plans to move to New York City for a job promotion, leaving behind their beloved home in St. Louis, Missouri, just before the long-anticipated 1904 World's Fair begins.
Merry Little Christmas goes home instead. House leaves a Christmas message for his mother on the phone, then ends up overdosing on pain meds and alcohol. Wilson comes to check on him at his house, and discovers House on the floor next to a pool of vomit, pills included. Wilson leaves in disgust after finding the pill bottle of illegally acquired drugs. House goes to Tritter to take up the deal, but Tritter turns him down, saying they have new evidence of House taking the drugs illegally from the hospital pharmacy. Merry Little Christmas "Merry Little Christmas" is the tenth episode of the