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WHAT accent??!?! The astounding thing about Laurie is that his American accent is, as far as I can tell, PERFECT. I've never been thrown off and I HATE the abominable "British" and Oirish accents that are tossed around on US tv. I just read in some review that when they were doing the orig casting the director refused to see any more audition tapes from Brit actors because their accents were uniformly harrible but someone slipped him Laurie's tape and he didn't even notice.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

i didn't know he was british, but he looks it doesn't he?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

i used to find hugh laurie to be totally hot, something about the tall and lanky funny-man aspect. his character on house looks like he doesn't shower enough though, it doesn't do it for me at all.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Relationships" = overrated.

― Leeeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Hugh Laurie rulez OK.

― Mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 02:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

i like how every episode includes a moment where his superiors will bark at him about going outside the bounds of legality and ethics and one of them will shake their fist in the air when they hear about what he's done and cry out, "House!"

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 02:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

i am going to marry dr. house and i don't care what anyone says.
i miss this show soooo much now that i work when it's on :( :( :(

― tres letraj (tehresa), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 06:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

Even though I remember Laurie from Blackadder, his accent/persona on the show strikes me as so believably American (or so American TV, which is the same thing from where I'm sitting) that when I saw an interview with him about the show and heard his normal accent I was shocked. SHOCKED!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

yeah his accent is probably fine it's just that many British people just cannot accept his voice as doing anything other than typical 'jolly hockey sticks' schtick.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

it's just that many British people just cannot accept his voice as doing anything other than typical 'jolly hockey sticks' schtick.
-- Sororah T Massacre (stevem7...), December 14th, 2005. (later)

Yeah, true. But I think the problem many Americans might have with our problems with this is that we know that that actually is the way he speaks; it's not a schtick.

I like the fact that Laurie's character is something of a misanthrope and sees no reason to change that. I also like the fact that the reason he is this way is because he cares.

Like cynics, I've always suspected that misanthropes are actually romantics with a realistic worldview.

Oh yeah, and the lass who plays his foil Dr Cuddy is HOTT.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

I really don't understand how people could think he got the accent right, it is horrible. It's very nasal and over-exaggerated, it's like the American equivalent of a Dick Van Dyke.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

I do understand the America Medical System, but how does a house become a doctor? That is crazy! Could you imagine in ESTONIA if there would be a Dr. Apartment? Dr. Hut? Dr. Semi-Detached? The doctor would be laughed out of ESTONIA MEDICAL SYSTEM for being of a stupid family name!

― Piotr Skut, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

I like the fact that Laurie's character is something of a misanthrope and sees no reason to change that. I also like the fact that the reason he is this way is because he cares.

sounds like he's totally biting Dr Cox style in Scrubs.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

TS: House MD v Howser MD

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

Howser all the way!

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

I HATED this show when I first saw it. I lasted about 10 minutes before I wanted to climb into the tv and punch him in his smug, craggy face.

Had it on in the background a couple of weeks ago and got sucked in.
I'll probably be watching this again...

― Will (will), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:29 (7 years ago) Permalink

sounds like he's totally biting Dr Cox style in Scrubs.

-- Sororah T Massacre (stevem7...), December 14th, 2005. (later)

Well it is a standard trope in both drama and comedy that the bitter cynical character actually is the one that cares the most.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

He lives in number 221B. I noticed that the other week when they had a brief scene outside his house so you could notice that he lived in 221B.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

Nicole Kidman has a wretched american accent - Hugh Laurie's is pretty damned good (and I say this knowing full well what he really sounds like).

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

The astounding thing about Laurie is that his American accent is, as far as I can tell, PERFECT.

No, no, it isn't, it really really isn't! I know it's not my place as a Britisher to say this, but his accent isn't perfect. It's decent, but it's wrong. I can't get over it, I just can't.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

i'll take dude from the wire's fake american accent but house's is fun, sorta the inverse of mike myers on that old snl british actors sketch. the show's good silly fun but here's a question - you brits have on average like 10 (or in any case not very many) tv channels right? how in the fuck is house showing over there? why do you guys import so much american tv? i mean we guys have 500 channels and we don't import anywhere near as much british tv so how the hell are yall importing all this american tv to the extent that yall have house for fuck's sake? if there was as much american tv on iraqi tv as their is on british tv wouldn't people go 'wtf' over that?

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

I've totally gotten hooked on this show over the last few months. last night's episode with Cynthia Nixon was one of my favorite so far.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

James, it costs a lot of money to make tv programmes. Why make them when we can buy them pre-made?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

Has there been a show yet where House is put in a situation where he has to fake a british accent?

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

i love mcnulty's voice!

so this show... the medical stuff is pretty fun but the character stuff can be pretty DIRE.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

i mean aside from house himself who is cool. the supporting character b-plots are kinda ecch.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:29 (7 years ago) Permalink

I know it's not my place as a Britisher to say this

You know, I do believe you're right.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

blount C5

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

> why do you guys import so much american tv?

Clever enough to be on ILM, but still completely obvious to US (cultural) imperialism. Wake up, Bush voter!

― Mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

this is ILE, numbnuts

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

sorry that shld read

blount, C5 do show an awful lot of bought-in US tv programming but I think the main reason they're showing House is because it stars a well known British tv personality! the boy Laurie done gd, yknow!

also: ubiquity of american tv progs on most European tv systems = cultural imperialism! (xpost!)

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

Clever enough to be on ILM

I cannot parse this.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

stringer bell's accent is even better!!!

― IN UR BASE KILLING ALL UR DUDES (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

stringer's not american??!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

I love The Wire. They can all be Estonian cousins of Piotr Skut, I'd never know, I'm so sucked in. Medical shows I avoid, even though House is a temptation. They exacerbate my already extreme hypochondria.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:29 (7 years ago) Permalink

stringer's not american??!

EXACTLY!!!

also possibly of interest to the ilx dweeb contingent; he makes grime music or some shit too.

― IN UR BASE KILLING ALL UR DUDES (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

All of the accents on The Wire are much better than House's.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

i recall that ray winstone was offered a part on the show. I always wonder who he would've played - Rawls?

― IN UR BASE KILLING ALL UR DUDES (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

yeah there was a scene in one episode where he "faked" an English accent to someone on the phone. oooh the ironing.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 15 December 2005 04:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

ts: hugh laurie's accent in house vs joely richardson's accent in nip/tuck...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 15 December 2005 08:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

No, no, it isn't, it really really isn't! I know it's not my place as a Britisher to say this, but his accent isn't perfect. It's decent, but it's wrong. I can't get over it, I just can't.

You should get over it. Really. He sounds enough like an American that Americans are surprised that he's not American every time.

I've always suspected that misanthropes are actually romantics with a realistic worldview

"Realistic" isn't quite the right reading. He is realistic to a point, except when it comes to people he cares about. Then he's a supreme asshole. It has nothing to do with his being a romantic. He's a realist whether or not he's a romantic, because he's a doctor and has to be. But he's bitter because he's a wounded and broken romantic, which in turn makes him a broken person, which makes him a broken realist. So his whole reality is filtered through this bitter, wounded, and yes, I suppose, realistic personality. But the "realism" is incidental to his emotional makeup.

Great character. I love this show.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 08:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

He's so broken. Sigh.
I just watched Tuesday's episode. Very good. Nice chemistry between him and Cynthia Nixon, I thought. It's also funny to see the repeats of ER on More4 at the moment, featuring Omar Epps as the hapless Dr. Gant who ends up under a train. It's like House takes place in some alternate universe where Eriq La Salle smiled once in a while and Gant didn't end up under a train and went on to become a top doctor in Jersey.
I really, really need to get out more.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

The flashback episode when he uses himself as an example case for the med student lecture without telling them is a work of genius.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yes that was a pretty awesome episode, esp. in so far as I was thinking "this is not working" about a third of the way through, and then it came together so beautifully that everything prior was not only redeemed but imbued with a certain gleam of perfection.

"how in the fuck is house showing over there? why do you guys import so much american tv?"

Ha ha Blount you should see Australian TV. It's like, 3 channels with 90% American shows, 1 channel with 90% BBC stuff.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

My favorite ep as of late is the one where Chase has killed someone, and so they work the formula kind of backwards. Nicely done.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

British terrestrial tv tends to be fairly picky about US import tv shows. We get stuff like the Sopranos, Oz, ER, The West Wing. Six Feet Under etc. (Oh yeah, and tosh like Sunset Beach and Murder She Wrote too; Channel Five used to show some godawful US daytime soaps). We tend to get Australian soaps too.

The BBC make most of their own programming so their US imports are few and far between.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

He sounds enough like an American that Americans are surprised that he's not American every time.

Not every time. It's pretty cheesy.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

FAN ART

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

that creeps me out more than words can say

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

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i'm pretty sure it became actively bad about 2 seasons ago

― Mordy, Thursday, 9 February 2012 00:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Series finale on Monday. Some pretty uhh...interesting developments the last two episodes. Kind of falls under "misery porn" at this point but there was a really gut-wrenching 'twist' at the end of the last one, as manipulative and stupid as it was, I dunno, I think you guys may want to see this

― frogbs, Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

Haven't really followed this since, oh season 5 I guess, but I'ma get the complete 8-aeason box set when they release it (christmas probably)

― StanM, Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

i even thought there were a few worthwhile episodes in the previous season, despite everything, but in the current one they have pretty much run every single thing about the show into the ground. it's kind of instructive. i can't imagine that the last episode is going to make me think any differently. but i haven't seen this week's yet.

― j., Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

basically I'm just hoping for as crazy a finale as possible, something to justify keeping up with this show even though it really hasn't been good in years

― frogbs, Friday, 18 May 2012 13:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

like a lot of the storylines they've done lately have been kinda stupid, but they usually lead up to one good episode or a few great scenes. as dumb as the Cuddy/House relationship storyline was, the one where House basically hallucinates he's on different TV shows was pretty brilliant

― frogbs, Friday, 18 May 2012 13:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

I think this season has been mildly more interesting than the previous couple, despite Charlene Yi's character being pretty annoying. I'm expecting the finale to ratchet up the misery even more.

SPOLIERS (if you haven't seen the last episode) SPOILERS

I was starting to cringe at the sentimental scene in the cafeteria and was about to get on a "oh come on, fuck this show" thing, but thankfully the "twist" stayed true to House's character.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 May 2012 13:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

That was hardly a "twist" - he pulled the same stunt like, 3 episodes before that

The female characters since Cameron have pretty much all been bad (well, 13 was pretty okay), but what the hell is Yi even doing on this show?? I just really dislike the tone of her voice. At least her character is more interesting than Adams (requisite hot doctor who serves no purpose whatsoever)

― frogbs, Friday, 18 May 2012 13:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

well. maybe i already posted that

― frogbs, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

Well I just used "twist" to avoid being too spoilery, "reveal" was probably more accurate.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

So anyway it ended.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

the last minute was good. right after the terrible montage.

― Mordy, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

Did anything think for even one second the producers of this show would actually end it with him dying? Because I sure didn't. But I'm sure glad they avoided doing anything interesting so they could stunt-cast Kal Penn and Jennifer Morrison and what's-her-face and the other what's-her-face.

― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

House could never be anything other than a jerk. He figured out he had to quit being House.

― mh, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

no lisa edelstein which is really... i mean, c'mon, i know she left with some harsh feelings but they couldn't get her back for the LAST EPISODE EVER? srsly now???

― Mordy, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

;_;

― mh, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

I was wondering where she was

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 20:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

First 45 minutes were boring, but overall I kinda liked the way the series ended. Though it was definitely on the high end of the "how the hell could he have accomplished all that" scale. It did go nicely against the "everybody changes" theme in the beginning of the show. Also I realize now why they had him get into legal trouble for flushing tickets (no aspect of which made sense) instead of trying to kill a patient, as this way he could get someone to take the fall for him.

― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

Also Camerson trying to convince House to commit suicide was pretty creepy and amazing (the other cameros sucked though)

― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

I was happy to see Kal Penn, if only in shadow.

― mh, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

Suicide causes weight gain.

― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

I read a thing earlier this year that said Lisa Edelstein wouldn't be coming back for any reason, no way no how. I didn't see the finale (or even any of the past season), but it seems wrong to end it without one last bit of Cuddy.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

This was kind of bad, apart from Cameron egging him on. Also, surely they could have cobbled together some Cuddy voiceover footage or something at least. Though there was a end-of-show documentary on beforehand on Britisher telly (I guess you got that too?) which Edelstein participated in, so she evidently hadn't completely washed her hands of the whole thing?

Would totally have welcomed a Tritter or a whatever-the-private-detective-that-ended-up-with-Cuddy's-name-was cameo, but they'd probably have arsed that up too.

― ailsa, Friday, 25 May 2012 10:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

More cameos definitely would have been cool - the Amber and Kutner parts were all the same kind of boring character studies that the show's been doing for pretty much every single episode. "You care about the puzzle more than you do yourself! The puzzles are what make you live!" Yeah okay, that's good and all, but wasn't that the theme of like 10 other episodes??

Cameron's was pretty awesome though. "You deserve the gift of death" or whatever she said; maybe one of the freakiest moments on the show

― frogbs, Friday, 25 May 2012 14:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

Sela Ward has had a lot of work done. Her face is so plastic. Surely getting that level of surgery makes you less likely to get hired as an actress, not more?

― trishyb, Sunday, 27 May 2012 16:12 (11 months ago) Permalink

I mean, I know *technically* it makes you look less old, but it doesn't necessarily make you look younger. And certainly not better. I agree with everyone that Cameron's cameo was the best one, although I was not pleased to see her hideous slacks 'n' waistcoat combo make a comeback.

― trishyb, Sunday, 27 May 2012 16:14 (11 months ago) Permalink

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