TV: Paging Dr. House?

    • Gold Top Dog

    TV: Paging Dr. House?

    So DH and I were out on Saturday night and wound up getting in to a very enthusiastic discussion with another couple who are friends of friends about House, and we both realized that despite the fact that House is the highest-rated show on Fox currently, we never in real life meet other people who actually watch it with regularity (as in, it's "appointment viewing" for us and is generally the highlight of my week).

    So, House fans. Holla? I know you must be out there.


     

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    Oh yeah, that's one of our must sees.  I like Bones also.

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    *sigh* I can't watch Bones without wishing I was actually watching Angel.  I do watch it sometimes but I just can't get over this impulse to yell, "OMG Angel get out of the sun!!!"

     So, whaddya think of Season 4? I'm right now going with "a million times better than Season 3". I feel like it was perilously close to shark-jumping last season and am glad to see they've pulled back a bit from that precipice.
     

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    Angel?  You lost me there.

    Here's a bad one.....I've come to enjoy the two CSI spinoffs, but darned it, I can NOT get the image of David Carusso's skinny naked butt out of my head.  Everytime I see him I flash to that naked shot in NYPD Blue.  I almost think that Sipowits's butt bothered me less than that boney one!

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    I've been watching House since it first aired in 2004. It's one of the best shows I think I've ever seen. Most of the medical shows I haven't liked. I try and figure out what is going on with the patients right along with House (I work in the medical field).

    It's also one of those shows that I make sure I am not on call or working so I can see it. Same with LOST.
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    glenmar

    Angel?  You lost me there.

     

    David Boreanaz (Boothe) got his start on TV playing a vampire named Angel first on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and then the spin-off show Angel.  I was and am a huge Buffy fan, so I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around him as an FBI agent!

    Though I wouldn't mind wrapping some other stuff around him.

    *rim-shot*

    Thanks, I'll be here all week!
     

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    I've been watching House since the beginning too and it's one of my favorite shows. I keep thinking they're going to run out of crazy medical ideas, but so far, they've almost all been great.

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    Oh, I love House. I find it so humorous and dramatic at the same time. Not too many shows that keep you a bit on edge, but still make you laugh!

    Dh and I never miss an episode. This season is WAY better than last season. Its definitely more hilarious with House trying to pick a new team...

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    Love, love, love House. 

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    Hello Dog_ma, ma'am.

    This is for you!


    Cookie, pleez! Beer 

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    I also haz a lolhouse:

     

    There's been a lot of online debate (I am not just a dog-nerd, I am an equal opportunity nerd!) about the current situation with Chase, Cameron and Foreman being sidelined to B-Plots and the various merits of the newbies. Me, I feel that House is not an ensemble show.  It's about one guy and the various other characters only interest me in as much as they illuminate various aspects of the main character. But a lot of people feel sort of personally offended that their favorite original Duckling is not featured enough right now.

     

    Okay, and this one is for the ladies (and our man-loving man friends), just an informal poll.

    If you get gooey over now, did you have a thing for *here is supposed to be a picture of David Duchovny as Fox Mulder, but it keeps disappearing and reappearing for reasons that I do not understand* back in the day? I'm thinking the correlation has got to be fairly high on that.

     

    And lest anyone accuse me of being a fair-weather lol-maker:

     

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    I'm impressed by Laurie's comedic talent as an actor, but his few characters I know of are unsexy, to me.

    Yeah, I guess, on House, I find the female characters a lot more sexy than the males.Geeked

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    glenmar
    I can NOT get the image of David Carusso's skinny naked butt out of my head.  Everytime I see him I flash to that naked shot in NYPD Blue

     

    I remember seeing that episode just one time and I am also forever scarred by the vision.

    We are House fans, too. While I don't have all the quips he does and I don't set out to antagonize people, I say what I think or know and it gets me in trouble, too. So, he kind of reminds me of me. And I've used similar processes in troubleshooting at work. As in, we have tried everything we know. What about the oddball stuff? Other times, it scares me as they run through theory after theory, nearly killing the patient each time until it turns out to be something simple like a tapeworm. And, for once, I would like to see his boss, the adminstrator, and his friend, the oncologist, actually take his side, for once. They are constantly scheming of ways to "bring him down a notch," even as he solves yet another case that would have perished anywhere else.

    I admire his acting talent and his excellent mastery of the midwest american accent, which is primarily almost a non-accent, as opposed to Southern, New England, Northeast, and upper Midwest. One of my favorite shows is "In the Actor's Studio" and his interview was excellent.

     

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    ron2

    One of my favorite shows is "In the Actor's Studio" and his interview was excellent.

    I agree, Ron!  I think Hugh Laurie, the person, is just as complicated and troubled as Dr. House, the character.  He's incredibly smart, witty, melancholy, pensive.  I used to love "Jeeves and Wooster" on PBS.  Wasn't the piano song he performed on "Inside the Actor's Studio" hysterical

    I never miss "House" - the DVR is set to record it every week.  I like to watch it on tape because I often replay certain clips of dialogue just because I love the pace and intelligence of the writing.  At the start of the season I was a bit concerned about the lack of the "original team," but I have to agree that the show centers around House, so it's always entertaining, whether it's the "old" team, "new" team, a one-show-only character, it doesn't matter.  I really love the scenes with him and Dr. Wilson.  I like shows that make me laugh out loud yet have some emotional impact, too, and it does both.

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    Never, never miss this show!!!  I'm as addicted as House is to Vicodin!! 

    I think the supporting players are all good and interesting, but they are there as foils to Hugh Laurie.  Learning something about them makes you learn something else about House.  I'm glad they are all strong actors, but I really don't  need any more of them!

    I'm gonna miss "Big Love," though.  He presented a lot of challenges and opportunities for House to be at his very worst, which I love.......