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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

My older coworker and I used to watch this show on our Tues. night break. He told me I'd end up like the crazy 90-yr-old syphilitic chick who starts writing sugrary crush poems for HOUSE. Fuck no, I'm goint to end up like HOUSE.

My boif and I love this show because there's so much PWNAGE in it. The show could be called HOUSE PWNS and be more accurate.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

i want that picture on my gravestone

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

Everyone who makes that fan art their new desktop image, come back and repost please!

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

does he have a first name?

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

GREGORY

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

Not Sherlock.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

Wow they really do capture his eyes well in the lower right don't they.

― deej.. (deej..), Sunday, 5 March 2006 02:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

I like how the buddy-guy's turned into a pixie.

― Øystein (Øystein), Sunday, 5 March 2006 03:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

he does look rather elfin...

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 5 March 2006 03:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

this show is rather silly, but the House character is so great it's actually quite watchable. And count me as American #2,784,987 who didn't know Laurie was a Brit (I guess cuz we're so stupid, right guys?)
Has anyone noticed something very "off" about the look of the show - the sets & lighting are more like something from a corporate conference room than a real hospital (i know, tv show in not reflecting reality shocker, but still, ER at least looks semi-real)

― timmy tannin (pompous), Sunday, 5 March 2006 03:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

I'm down because hospital verisimilitude=creepiness. I hate those places. Just fine if Princeton's hosp. is just a glorified eleveator shaft + House's office + a whiteboard.

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 5 March 2006 04:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

i like the rooms with the sliding glass doors

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 5 March 2006 04:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

i find the accent question sort of irresistible, since of course it makes sense for a curmudgeonly character to have a slightly eccentric voice - i wonder how much is deliberate on his part... has anyone on here only learned he was british afterwards - were you surprised by the news??

― dave k, Sunday, 5 March 2006 04:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

i didn't know he was a brit til i saw him on conan or something, and itg was surprising. but now, i can see it. but only cause i know. hard to explain.

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 5 March 2006 04:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

My housemate loves this show. I saw an episode or two & thought, OK, so it's a passably entertaining show about a total asshole. Then the Emmys were on & Laurie got up there and started saying thanks, and I thought, wtf! he's British? I had no idea until then. No wonder they gave it to him, he gets the accent and the character right, that sort of know-it-all arrogant jerk is so American..

― dar1a g (daria g), Sunday, 5 March 2006 05:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

I said it before and I'll say it again, the show is so much better when you picture his Blackadder character as the Dr.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 5 March 2006 06:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Did anyone watch the finale tonight? Sweet merciful crap! I guess I'm just still a little confused as to what House meant in the end...Ketamine is the normal stuff, right? Not the experimental German drug? KIND OF IMPORTANT, DONTCHA THINK?? Someone help!

― musically (musically), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 04:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

no, dude. he wanted them to shoot him with ketamine, so he could get his leg fixed. cause of all the stuff the hallucination-wilson and hallucination-shooter said.

― 333333333333 (33333), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 04:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

that episode was crazy! the eyeball popping and scrotum exploding and murder by robot-surgeon!

― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 04:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

Whaaa? I'm going to have to rewatch the episode now.

― musically (musically), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 04:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

this show sucks

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 06:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh it does not.

I did not look at any of the frightening and gory bits. Probably just as well, judging by the look on Mister Monkey's face while he watched them. The bit with Cameron and the robot was all a little Demon Seed though, no?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

I enjoyed it. The existentialist conversation with the shooter; the no longer so latent lust for Cameron; the exterior location shots at the taqueria; the swollen tongue/tracheotomy/blood filled eyes/exploding ball sac (when ever is that not good TV value?) gore; and all the rest. It's a remarkably corny and stupid show but worth it for Laurie, and as Rufus 3000 points out, it's that much more fun when you think of Laurie's Blackadder characters, his similar Bertie Wooster performances, and the stuff he did on A Bit of Fry and Laurie. It's not only the excellent cane work but all the other little physical stuff they keep House doing that I love to check out too.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

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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 (11 months 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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