House

[crokett]

Anybody else watch this show?

Great episode last night. I love the ending with them doing nurses' duty because they are both so stubborn and childish and Wilson just laughing.

[DaveS]

Yep, we watch this one - for some reason we like it... I'm not sure why.

But, I'm wondering if I missed one... we watch them on DVR, and we saw an ad for a new episode that was supposed to end with House in some sort of accident. We didn't see that one.

My wife and I have a running joke, anytime one of us doesn't feel well, or if we hear of someone who is sick (not really sick, just like normal sick) we always say "it could be sarcoidosis", it seems every patient they have on House is tested for this, so it must be common

[germdoc]

I've only seen it once or twice. It is amusing--I think we docs always love a doc on TV or at the movies who's smart but dyspeptic and not the Marcus Welby type. Some of us are like that at times.

As usual, the medical stuff is pretty far out there and unrealistic. Most diagnoses are not made by brilliant insight but by careful plodding deduction. (I've saved more lives by telling people to get their colonoscopies and vaccinations than by coming up with an amazingly insightful diagnosis.) On the factual level I think it's pretty good and better than most TV shows.

Hugh Laurie, by the way, played Bernie Wooster in the old PBS series "Wooster and Jeeves", with the amazing Stephen Fry as Jeeves. Laurie was marvelous in that show, and very different from how he comes across on House. If you haven't seen it you should get it on DVD--higly recommended, and completely family friendly.

[Richard in Smithville]

Check out this from 1989.

Funny to think that he talks with an accent when he's on American tv.

[unclecritic]

Loml and I love this show. We sat and watched it from begining to end one weekend and then got pretty perturbed at the writers strike. On one of the dvds there is a behind the scenes with an interview with Hugh Laurie and hes talking with a thick british accent. We looked at eachother and thought he was making fun of the actor that plays Chase.

[cwithboat]

A new one? It's been almost all (if not all) reruns. Well it should be on the DVR.

[Anna]

Hugh Laurie, by the way, played Bernie Wooster in the old PBS series "Wooster and Jeeves", with the amazing Stephen Fry as Jeeves. Laurie was marvelous in that show, and very different from how he comes across on House. If you haven't seen it you should get it on DVD--higly recommended, and completely family friendly.

He was also hilarious in The Black Adder series.

I can never get my husband to watch medical shows. He says he sees enough of those (cases) at work, and he can never stop nitpicking on the wrong diagnoses or procedures in the shows. I guess his drive-by nitpicking (I'm watching TV, he walks by and catches a minute of the show and totally deconstructs it) when I'm watching House turned me off of the show, so I have not seen it in a while. Maybe I should give it another try.

[MilDoc]

As usual, the medical stuff is pretty far out there and unrealistic. Most diagnoses are not made by brilliant insight ...

Absolutely true. In addition, on House, some of the diagnoses they come up with make me wince in pain. Absolute nonsense in many cases. They jump from one thing to another with no logic whatsoever, and come up with things that would be very far down on a differential diagnosis list. But, I like House. Mainly because I wish I could be more like him in attitude sometimes!

[rnelson0]

I can never get my husband to watch medical shows. He says he sees enough of those (cases) at work, and he can never stop nitpicking on the wrong diagnoses or procedures in the shows

My wife is the same way, she has a PhD in Genetics but has a lot of preliminary training applicable to an M.D. She can't stand the show or his attitude. Myself, I liked a scene where he's on a video conference during a surgery and yells, "Help, I'm stuck in the TV!"

To be fair, I can't stand movies where computers are involved typically because of all the crappy mistakes. Firewall was about the only exception to that - totally incorrect but it never really focused on the technology. My favorite is the magic "enhance" button - when the guys on Law and Order take some $50 dimestore black and white camera and enhance the nametag on someone 100 feet away so that it's legible!

[Tom Slick]

I enjoy house, purely for his attitude, as mentioned the medical stuff is easy to see though.

I have a difficult time with tv shows that involve the military. Incorrect uniforms/decorations, non-realistic speech patterns/attitudes (most military folks don't spit out "sir" constantly). The last one I watched had a staff sergent that was walking around at "parade rest".

[poolhound]

We are big fans of both the show and Hugh. As Brits who have watched him since his first (primarily comedic) emergence with Stephen Fry we find it funny to see him taking the US TV ratings by storm. There are lots of people over here that still dont believe he is English

[Crash2510]

love the show never missed an episode

Love Hugh Laurie

he was in the new flight of the pheonix

[Knottscott]

Love the show. Been watching since it's debut.

[germdoc]

And of hourse here's Hugh as the Prince Regent in Blackadder 3:



BTW inaccuracies on TV medical shows bother me a lot too. I wish they would just hire me as a consultant and we'd clear all that stuff up.

My favorites: on a medical show a few years ago countershocks were administered during CPR through the victim's shirt. Maybe because it was a woman and we're talking TV, not R-rated movies. Surprisingly, no smoke came from the electrocuted fabric.

And on "ER" a few years ago one of the docs diagnosed and managed an HIV-positive child's cryptococcal meningitis there in the ER over a 24-hr. period or so. I know there are long waiting times in ER's, but I can guarantee that kid would have been out of there to the PEDS ICU pretty quickly. (ER theme song in reality is "Movin', movin', movin', keep those doggies moving"...)

Now I wish I had as many women lusting after me as Dr. McDreamy...