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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.housemd-guide.com/miscellaneous/images/Abiding-Spirits.jpg

FAN ART

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

that creeps me out more than words can say

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

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 (twenty years ago)

i want that picture on my gravestone

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

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

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

does he have a first name?

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

GREGORY

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

Not Sherlock.

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

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

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

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

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

he does look rather elfin...

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

i like the rooms with the sliding glass doors

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/images/400/blackadder3_1.jpg

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

two 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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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

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

this show sucks

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

It was way more luridly gory than usual.

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

I have nothing but love for this show.

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

three months pass...

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 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

er, no

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

*whew*

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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