remember House M.D?

no-exit said:
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.
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It's like CSI, where the crime scene guys not only collect the evidence but personally run the lab tests before interrogating suspects and getting into gun battles with drug lords. And don't get me started on NCIS: LA, where the Los Angeles-based investigtors spend half their time on secret missions in Afghanistan for some reason.
 
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I'm one of the few people that enjoyed the later seasons as well. It's a different show from the earlier seasons 1-4, but I enjoy the relatable drama of being a lonely bitter asshole. The real fall off is S8. House got away with too much stupid shit while the patients were horrible people. I wished House had caned that chink bitch back when she hit him though. Kutner's death around S4 or S5 changed the tone but it was still kino in its own way.

Also the show was much more like Sherlock Holmes early on. I feel by S2 they had already dropped that whole idea and it just kept going by inertia.
 
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House was the best show on broadcast television ever of all time. I'll fight you IRL if you disagree with me on this.

Though I will admit the last 2 seasons kind of sucked in comparison to the rest. Still even those two seasons are better then 80% of shows on teevee to that time.
 
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One of my favorite shows, so I'm heavily biased towards it. I'm currently re-watching it for the umpteenth time.

Yeah, the medicine isn't 100% accurate, but the show was never about the cases so much as about the people and the 'message'. House only takes cases that are unique and pique his interest ('zebras'), the audience only watches the show because he's a 'zebra'.

I like the show because I think it's a perfect mix on different levels: it's got both comedy and drama, both serious and silly moments, both a bit of liberal/'progressive' message as well as 'controversial' takes (cancellable 'Nazi'-tier offenses by today's standards).

To illustrate this last point, over the course of the series, House takes jabs at: the Catholic doctor (Christians in general), the black doctor(s), the Jew doctor(s), the bisexual doctor, women, gays and trannies, hipsters, vegans, single moms, midgets, gypsies, etc. I think the only major category left out are the muzzies (no particular scene/episode comes to mind), and I'm not sure whether it's because it was still 'to soon' after 9/11, because they didn't want to get sacrificed to Allah, a bit of both or neither.

For me, the show got better with age because, like many commenters before me said, you just won't see a show like this be made again soon, if ever at all.
Finally, to end my diatribe, I recommend anyone who wants to watch it for the first time or to get back into it to start with S1E21 - Three Stories, as it gives you a taste of everything the show has to offer: the comedy, drama, House's methods as well as his motives, his reason for being the (un)likeable asshole he is.
 
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I've always liked the episode Last Resort from Season 5. I've used a scene to show people that the way we question a client may make sense to us but not to them. Over the entire episode and in the guys previous medical stuff they would ask "have you been to the tropics" and he always said no. But he had been to Florida to him the tropics could not be the united states. But southern florida does have weather considered to be "tropics." Its helpful to show the newer people that if you ask vague questions you get vague answers and that if you ask specific questions you can help a client quicker.
 
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Bonesjones said:
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.
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You say this but I miss television when it was procedural. I specifically go back and only watch monster of the week episodes for Xfiles now, and when I rewatch House I almost always just watch the standalone episodes and skip anything to do with the overarching "plot". I admit it can be very formulaic, but thats why its a comfort TV show for me personally.

TV wants to be 8 hours movies now and I just want to be able to watch an episode and get a complete story.
 
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Not A Bunny said:
I kind of wonder how authentic the show would be today.

Like, I'm sure it would have the world's most unsubtle arc about getting vaccinated. And nobody, despite being medical professionals and having to deal with tricky things like biological realities, would be able to say a negative thing about trannies.
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There's a vaccine episode iirc and a lot of nuance around it but in the end House is right, although most episodes revolve around the patients refusing treatment. However this was years ago before Covid. House makes fun of trannies repeatedly in the show.
 
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Seventh Star said:
House makes fun of trannies repeatedly in the show.
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Sure, I've watched it. But that was years ago.

If House were a show today, there would be no doubt that the writers would put the words in his mouth that the trans identity is valid, even though there is no reason for the character to actually think this. Back then, if a character were MTF, House would immediately lose his shit over the character (that he initially refused to treat directly) telling everyone he was female despite the fact that biologically, the body he's treating is male.

Now, because House is a character perceived as intelligent and authoritative, he would absolutely need to espouse that the trans identity is valid, even though based on who the character is, the writers don't care, only about who the writers need him to be.

It's sort of like that ridiculous episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia where Mac is all cut and doing an elaborate (and admittedly well-done) dance with a professional ballerina. It's not a big twist that Mac was gay as fuck, but there's a sudden and inappropriate tone switch of a show that's been going on for 13 years where nothing is sacred, suddenly, exactly this one thing is shown as an exception to the rules of the world that the show established, because the writers need their pet issue to be that special thing that can't be joked about, even if it's been treated equally with other issues presented in prior episodes, because apparently, people need to "feel seen" by the misanthropes and assholes that they see on the television.
 
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CHARizard said:
Was the tranny episode the one where the dad slept with his model daughter and every character was ogling her, only for the end to be "thats a dude" or was there another one?
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I think that was the only "tranny" episode where the patient was a really a male with no testosterone and testicular cancer or something.
 
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Man I just remembered an episode where someone is gonna die from heart failure, but his dad is alive in the hospital albeit in a vegetative state and has been for years.

They can't harvest the heart because the dad is still alive even if he is unconcious, so house gives the dad a cocktail of drugs to temporarily revive him, and then tells him about the sitiuation and suggest he kill himself by overdosing on aspirin so they can harvest his heart to save the son before the cocktail expires and he goes back in a coma.

I need to rewatch house.
 
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CHARizard said:
or was there another one?
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FamicomGorby said:
I think that was the only "tranny" episode
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There was also the XXY baseball kid from 5x16, but I wouldn't necessarily count that one as a tranny. Tl;dr parents don't tell kid he's born intersex, he likes dance more than baseball and thinks he might be a fag. No gender/pronoun bullshit, almost like the tranny craze is an invention of the late 2010s.

There was, however, constant tranny mockery, with House calling Cuddy one all the time. I'm sure he even dropped the T-bomb at least once (can't remember the episode though) and I think Wilson might've as well.

Edit: Oh yeah, I don't know how I forgot, considering I just saw the episode yesterday. In 6x17, House brings a tranny prostitute to dinner with Wilson and his first wife to piss them off. Needless to say, everyone was less than thrilled (House included).
 
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Oilspill Battery said:
Man I just remembered an episode where someone is gonna die from heart failure, but his dad is alive in the hospital albeit in a vegetative state and has been for years.

They can't harvest the heart because the dad is still alive even if he is unconcious, so house gives the dad a cocktail of drugs to temporarily revive him, and then tells him about the sitiuation and suggest he kill himself by overdosing on aspirin so they can harvest his heart to save the son before the cocktail expires and he goes back in a coma.

I need to rewatch house.
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The only thing the dude wanted to do was go eat his favorite sandwich one last time. I would've done the same.
RiceofSkywalker said:
There was also the XXY baseball kid from 5x16, but I wouldn't necessarily count that one as a tranny. Tl;dr parents don't tell kid he's born intersex, he likes dance more than baseball and thinks he might be a fag. No gender/pronoun bullshit, almost like the tranny craze is an invention of the late 2010s.
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I feel like that episode was already getting up there on the tranny shit, although to be fair it's such an extreme case. They tried to overcorrect for the earlier tranny episode with that one.
 
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