House, M.D.

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

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

i was a little concerned at the beginning that we were going to get the ol' "cutty needs his seed" for the finale, but this was so much better. even though bits of it were too creepy for me to watch.

hugh laurie is god.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

It was way more luridly gory than usual.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

HUGH LAURIE ROBOFUCKED CAMERON.

I had the extreme misfortune of watching this ep. with a room full of people who'd been using a vaporizer through the whole thing, and I got to explain how it worked several times. No, house was not trapped in a k-hole. no, it was not like Memento and the ep. did not go backwards. That debate lasted for a long time. "If the ep. went backwards, it wouldn't make any sense. You can't start out an ep. by killing the patient with robosurgery." I also had to convince one guy that the shooter was not played by Phil Collins.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 25 May 2006 02:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

Man, rereading this thread. House really makes me bust out the caps lock!

He had Blackadder on his Tivo list a couple of episodes back.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 25 May 2006 02:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

So I take it they got bored with Medical Mystery of the Week at some point and just went wild and crazy with plots?

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 25 May 2006 02:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

It was the classic TV move of OMG TEH WHOLE EPISODE WAS A DREAM, except the dream was actually a hallucenation or something. That was kinda awesome how that guy's eye, testicles, and torso all went asplode throughout the course of the episode.

― Fonzie Scheme (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 25 May 2006 02:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

nah it's still medical detectives basically they're just amping up the soap opera - 'he's tortured' stuff. milo i know i don't need to tell you how/why this made me roffle just now - We must put a stop to the use of "Hallelujah" by network dramas.

-- milozauckerman (wooderso...), September 13th, 2005 10:06 PM. (miloaukerman).

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 25 May 2006 02:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

I've never seen tha show but the commercials make it sound awful and that guy seems like a real dickhead

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Thursday, 25 May 2006 05:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

I have nothing but love for this show.

― Hal! Jordan! HAL! JORDAN! (Barima), Thursday, 25 May 2006 06:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

okay, this show is really good. although up above I said no-one watched it except for my mom. that may have been true at the time

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 28 August 2006 21:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

K-CLASSIC episode last night if only for referencing an obscure Woody Allen stand-up routine...

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Woody says he has a pain in his "chestal area" but his friend Eggs Benedict has the same thing - so instead of going to the doctor he waits to see what they say about Eggs. Then he hears Eggs is dead. He immediately checks himself into a hospital pays thousands of dollars for a complete series of tests, they let him out a week later and say they can't find anything. Really worried and fearing for the worst, Woody goes to Eggs's mother and asks if he suffered at the end. She says, "No, the bus hit him and he died quickly."
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― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 23:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

if this is on i'll watch it, but i geek on this stuff anyway

― river wolf, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 23:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

Man, I loved how all the promos for last night's episode were like:

FIND OUT HER SHOCKING SECRET!

*zoom in on little girl saying..*

"I..."

"Want..."

And it turned out what she wanted was JUICE.

― Abbott, Thursday, 19 April 2007 01:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'm really not a PC paranoiac but is this show obsessed with mixing SEXUALITY + KIDS? like the last 3 eps, or 4? I can't be arsed to do research to support this but I was already onto this before THIS week, which had a) a 6 yr old girl in stirrups and b) an 8 yr old boy grabbig the female doc's (the one on House's team) ass. It's really fucking disturbing.

― wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 19 April 2007 01:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

er, no

― akm, Thursday, 19 April 2007 03:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

*whew*

― wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 19 April 2007 03:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

House has a thing for wiseasses with conversion disorders and his unattainable coworkers, Cameron only truly loves the dying (including strangers) Wilson likes sensitive cancer patients, Chase stupidly hearts mousy irritating Cameron, and Foreman has had girlfriends twice for plot points, the first of which was mentioned in all of one sentence.

― Abbott, Thursday, 19 April 2007 04:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

And Cuddy wants demon seeed.

― Abbott, Thursday, 19 April 2007 04:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

the whole episode was dynamite -- whatever the script team was was leagues better than the usual. its like all the house nastiness bits were really amped up a notch.

― s.clover, Thursday, 19 April 2007 05:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

I used to really love this show and hated to miss is this show, but now after a season I feel it's stale and it's so formulaic, I can predict the outcome 100%. It's always someone with a total mystery disease that takes (3) 10 minute scenes where the interns are forced to think of the most extreme outside the envelope diseases that may present on a patient with the prescribed symptoms and sure enough, it's the most extreme and seemingly least expected of them all. I am sorry that it's gone this way, because I so wanted to love it, since I am over ER and other med current medical TV shows.

― Wiggy Woo, Thursday, 19 April 2007 06:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

ZEBRAS, GUYS, FUCKING ZEBRAS

― river wolf, Thursday, 19 April 2007 06:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

Last night was the first time ever that we got to the punch before they did. It's amazing how frustrating it is to be one step ahead of House.

I'm just overall sick of every fucking television programme and every bloody conversation I have having to revolve around children. Adults get sick too! The one last week with "OMG House discovers that foetuses are really children" just fucking annoyed me.

But I love him and Wilson and Cuddy so much. The others, meh.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 19 April 2007 07:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

Foreman put in his two weeks, dudes!

― Abbott, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

I keep waiting for the day Stephen Fry guests.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

As a dying man who bests House in verbal sparring matches at every turn, obviously.

― en i see kay, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

House "accidentally" forgets to anesthetize him before sticking a needle in his eye, hilarity ensues.

― en i see kay, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

I've only seen about 1 episode of this show, but I like this essay: http://jeremydenk.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-about-house.html

― Jordan, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 20:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

I've started watching this thing a few days back because someone told me the main character looked like my dad (which he does indeed). At first I foundthis show really boring but i came back for more House zings. I agree that it's a bit formulaic, that you know they'll try a first cure that will make the patient's condition worse before finding the cure, usually at the last moment. What matters is House pwnage as Abbott said upthread. Chase and Cameron feel a bit useless on this show, they hardly bring anything to this show (well, except the fact that umm House needs other doctors to boss around). I like Foreman more and he also seems to be the only one of the three who doesnt look at House like he is God almighty. Wilson and Cuddy are great too.

― Jibe, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 20:41 (6 years ago) Permalink