remember House M.D?

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

He's also sometimes said to be Sherlock Holmes but as a doctor. Apparently that was the intent but.... I feel like it doesn't hold up.

Because he's not. Literally every episode is the same: House diagnoses strange never before seen condition, turns out he's wrong, then he brilliantly comes up with the proper solution while everyone gruffs and tells him he's wrong. Sherlock was a chad who solved shit right away and only fucked up when 10/10 Adler pussy was involved. Goren on Criminal Intent was a much better Sherlock.

tl;dr - House is a lame show.

 

[Foltest]

House is awesome.
Me and my family watch it when it went on television.
Huge Laurie best work, togheter with Blackadder and Night Portier.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

it had a cool opening title song tho

 

[Bonesjones]

It was a pretty good show that suffered from "weekly episode" formulaic bullshit. The clinic episodes were usually the best just for breaking up the formula.

 

[UnKillFill]

I have rewatched House dozens of times. It's one of the best shows ever, it couldn't be made today, and that stupid asian bitch should've been sent in a crate to a panda exhibit in China.

Watch the last season then. There is a short ugly Asian Dr woman with a bad accent and bad acting.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who hated coconut head. I pretty much tuned out any time she spoke, which was too much.
There was an episode where she tried to sing too, emphasis on "tried" .

 

[DankSmoker]

it had a cool opening title song tho

Massive Attack is fantastic, listen to more of their stuff if you haven't.

 

[Baraka Obama]

First 3 seasons are great. Season 4 was fucked over by the writer's strike as well as Kumar bailing to join Obama's administration. I feel like the show never recovered after that but I also stopped watching some time in the 5th season because it got so bad.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

Massive Attack is fantastic, listen to more of their stuff if you haven't.

i have the album on my phone

 

[User names must be unique]

I liked house, but it was a victim of its own success. Too many middle-aged women got wet at the sight of Hugh Laurie for the show not to have an "I can fix him arc" and a saccharine ending for the shippers.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

, I don't remember faggots in it though.

There's an episode where a parent has a gay son he hates, house goes "why do you hate ur gay son u bigot" and it turns out the gay son was a manwhore that had 50 different strains of aids from all the unprotected assfucking and the dad hates him because the son was the only match for a kidney with his mother who died because they couldn't do a transplant due to all the aids.

 

[Racist Trash]

All the misogyny and racism, though playful and hilarious, would cause an uproar.

Fucking breaking and entering references and watermelon farm comments towards Dr Foreman was great.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

It was a pretty good show that suffered from "weekly episode" formulaic bullshit. The clinic episodes were usually the best just for breaking up the formula.

Just an example of my theory that good comedies are superior to good dramas

Scrubs was good until that stupid last season that doesnt count cause the entire cast was replaced

 

[007Eleven]

"I too am in this episode."

Good show, may The Good Doctor continue its legacy.

 

[StevieLasVegas]

It's was good in doses. The formulaic episodes are not good for marathons, so it being syndicated worked in its favor.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

One of the episodes I watched is the one where a sick young adult comes with his father and it ends with the team discovering the dad gave his son a keepsafe he fashioned (unknowingly) from radioactive material and the episode ends with the son dying of it. I didn't remember the show could be so brutal.

It's sad that House wouldn't be made today and MadTV would never be this spicy

There's an episode where a parent has a gay son he hates, house goes "why do you hate ur gay son u bigot" and it turns out the gay son was a manwhore that had 50 different strains of aids from all the unprotected assfucking and the dad hates him because the son was the only match for a kidney with his mother who died because they couldn't do a transplant due to all the aids.

Reminds me of the episode with the interracial couple and the man's racist dad, only to find out that the dad was actually the father of both and tried to separate them so they won't have an incest baby. The show had a lot of balls subverting morality tropes.

First 3 seasons are great. Season 4 was fucked over by the writer's strike as well as Kumar bailing to join Obama's administration. I feel like the show never recovered after that but I also stopped watching some time in the 5th season because it got so bad.

Pretty sure that's how I also viewed it. Though house in an asylum was pretty fun, up to the point he causes an autist to jump off a roof since, crazy idea, how shouldn't incentivize delusions of crazy people.

 

[Jason Wynn]

It was a decent show. Didn’t really love it or hate it. Watched up until about the 4th season, started to get bored (the formulaic plots others mentioned being a big part why) and left off there. Might go back and give it a rewatch.

 

[Pedophobe]

or Doctor House, or simply House... but I include the "Doctor" part so nobody thinks I mean the horror movies

Nobody remembers those movies.

I did like the episode where Billy from Neighbours murdered Robert Mugabe and a Catholic priest told him to get fucked lol.

 

[skykiii]

I think it held up quite hard, to the point it feels like a ripoff. Sherlock was a drug addict, he had a tendency to really distance himself from people to the point it grated them, they both have a musical instrument they masterfully play, and they have that one sidekick best friend they opened up the most to. Hell, House even shacked up with Wilson on occasion and had messy tendencies, just like Sherlock and Watson's roommate dynamic. If you're talking about Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock, then I'm surprised you have this take.

Holmes was socially distant but was rarely ever an ass, he usually tried to be cordial and respectful unless the other party had seriously offended him (like the guy who faked his son's kidnapping, or the father who tricked his daughter into falling for him under a disguise so she wouldn't leave).

And as another poster pointed out, Holmes usually figured shit out.... House comes off like he just keeps testing stuff until something works.

Early on I can kinda see the similarities but especially as things keep going House becomes more and more defined by the "asshole" traits, to the point where the show becomes just having him do audacious things for the sake of wowwing the audience.

 

[The Fair Lady]

Used to be one of my favorite shows, kinda fell off towards the end though.

 

[no-exit]

He's also sometimes said to be Sherlock Holmes but as a doctor.

Yeah there was supposed to be a Sherlock/Watson dynamic with Dr. House and Dr. Wilson, but the the Watson role was filled by House's team. There are still influences in the names (duh), drug addicted detective who doesnt take boring cases, inductive reasoning, etc.

The other big failure is that the "genius doctor" angle doesn't hold up. Nothing in the show ever convinces the viewer that House is any better than your standard run of the mill doctor. Even the investigative tactics he uses are apparently standard operating procedure, according to anyone I know who worked in medicine. And yet the show's whole conceit is he's special somehow.

Even if the medicine is accurate, they are definitely not standard, and it's definitely not how hospitals and patient care goes. I watched an episode with a physician once, he got the diagnosis 10 minutes into the episode (it was Hepatitis C). He didn't get the answer because he was some 1000 IQ super genius, but because the show spends a lot of time using exotic procedures when a simple blood panel would point you in the right direction.

The show was originally titled Chasing Zebras. House MD is an inversion of the old medical adage "When you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras". The phrase advises to consider what is common before what is exotic and rare. The show deliberately contradicts this, because a show about common diseases that could be addressed by a quick blood panel isn't that interesting (this is not necessarily a bad thing, I enjoy the show too). Also (thankfully), I think there are way fewer patients going into seizure or cardiac arrest every episode.

Logistically, the show is even more inaccurate. "Diagnostic Medicine" isn't a hospital department. A lot of the stuff that goes on (aside from the obvious stuff like breaking and entering a patients home) shouldn't be handled by House's team, let alone a physician. The team isn't performing and reading CT scans, those are handled by rad tech and radiologists. Same with blood work, pathology, nursing etc. This is understandable, given that I don't think the audience would enjoy cutting to a random tech or nurse, and i think it'd complicate the filming of the show.

I'm not one of those pedantic faggots like cinemasins who cites unrealism as their only criticism, I enjoy House MD as well, although my personal favorite is Scrubs.