I have that series in my Netflix queue. I absolutely loved him in Jeeves & Wooster, and I like watching his musical performances on YouTube. I also hear that he has written two spy novels.
Just wait til you see the size of these trousers!
You probably already know this, but there were 4 Blackadder series, “Black Adder”, “Blackadder II”, “Blackadder the Third”, and “Blackadder Goes Forth”. I consider the second and third to be the best with “Blackadder II” being my favorite.
There is also a Chrismas special. 
I agree that II and III are the best, but the other series all have their moments. My favorite from the original: “Run for the hills!” “but… they’re coming from the hills!” “RUN AWAAAAAY FROM THE HILLS! RUN AWAAAAY FROM THE HILLS! IF YOU SEE THE HILLS… RUN THE OTHER WAAAAY!”
I wish I could turn off my brain during this show because I love Hugh Laurie. But the loose writing is causing me to throw stuff at the t.v.
There is no ethical doctor in the world who would perform open heart surgery on a patient when a simple round of antibiotics would cure him. Even if his poor brother was on the transplant list. It flies in the face of “Do no harm.” And Cuddy would have never allowed it.
I’m willing to live with the shaky science, but recommending the surgery is contrary to House’s personality as well. It’s been well documented that House is emotionally disconnected from his patients. He’d never think “Well, it would cripple the kid, but losing his brother would be worse.” because he doesn’t think in terms of emotions. As long as he figured out what was wrong with Maddy, he’d be okay with the fall out. If Nick died, then Nick died. That’s life.
The bit with the dog was really cute. I thought it was touching that he had grown fond of the dog. And we’ll just pretend that it made sense for him to bring the dog to the hospital. And that a 17-year old dog with arthritis could have jumped up on House’s bed.
I wish I could turn off my brain and just enjoy it for what it is.
BWAH! OK, I’m totally rooting for this storyline.
I don’t mind it because he’s being so low key about it. Once a week, one sentence, he moves on to the actual work at hand.
A similiar-ish thing happened in the Studio 60 world - but there, it was constant, unending, and vaguely threatening. Plus the people involved got totally sidetracked by the “reminders.”
Here, he’s just being an annoying co-worker for 45 seconds a week.
That’s pretty much what I try to do. I notice the gaps and scientific innacuracies, but it’s so damned entertaining that I just let them go (other than to rant about them on message boards 
). But I did find the bone marrow thing to be especially irritating.
I just consider it an entertaining surreal version of reality and leave it at that. I have a lot of practice at that from watching things like Star Trek (in the generic sense, not just TOS) and Stargate which almost require plot gaps and bad science.
Yeah, I’m starting to tire of the series. My dad had histoplasmosis in 1978, and a couple of hick doctors in Alabama had NO trouble diagnosing him. I just kind of threw up my hands and changed the channel. I was expecting maybe ascarid worms or something.
One of the rowers in the coxless pair event, W.G.R.M. Laurie, was the father of the famous actor Hugh Laurie.
Just a little trivia here.
There is a shot in the opening credits that shows a scull on a river somewhere.
I believe it is a shout out to Lauries father.
His father was a member of a ‘Coxless Pair’, winning a gold medal in the 1948 Olympics.
You must and as soon as possible.
You will never look at House the same way again. Although I loved the show from the beginning, I had a real problem with it at first. “Sweet but daft Prince George, sweet but daft Bertie Wooster, playing this hard edged, sarcastic, misanthrope? Does not compute!”
Favorite line of the night: “Your dog is dead. Oh, no, wait, he’s just stoned.”
I think that’s the Schuylkill River, which is near Philadlephia. At least it looks like it to myself and some family members. That would make sense since they are in New Jersey. I live within walking distance of the river. When I worked in Philly and rode the train in every day I would sometimes sees the scull teams (from Penn State?) out practicing on the river.
So I assumed it was just to give local flavor to a show set in NJ, but you may be right and it may also be a tribute to his father.
I have got such a thing about needles, and the scene with Foreman getting the bone marrow forced me to run into my bathroom, screaming louder than the kid.
AAAAAAAAAUUUUURRRRGGGGHHHHH!
Although I’m a few posts past it, are we sure about how much of House’s pain is real? I was catching up on some of the re-runs (having come late to the show), and in one of them House asks Cuddy for a morphine shot so that he can function…instead she gives him a placebo and he’s fine with it…acts like the morphine was working. So do we know how much is real, and how much is mental?
Simply put, no we don’t. But they pursued the story with the detective story arc and it seems they’ve let it drop for the time being (yay!) - personally I don’t care. Not at all. Real or fake, he takes Vicodin and saves 98% of his patients.
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The overhead shots of the “hospital” are Frist Campus Center at Princeton and surrounding campus, so I just assumed the rowing was on Lake Carnegie.
{British Comedy Hijack}
You can also search for “Fry and Laurie” on Youtube and spend an enjoyable time watching those clips. One has Fry and Laurie acting as Italian brothers - Stephen Fry can’t do the accent, but Hugh nails his (no surprise at this point). (Just as an aside, Stephen Fry is also the magic psychologist on “Bones.”) I think the “Derek Nippl-e” sketch is my favourite. (And when you’re done with those, search for “Smack the Pony” for more British comedy.) {/BCHijack}
You know, Cameron could probably make legal trouble for Chase (heh - talk about accurate names) if she wanted to push for a sexual harassment suit.
Here’s the opening sequence: http://youtube.com/watch?v=2XMaxrfiLUg
Looking at it I think it looks more like a river than a lake. The bridge looks familiar to me which may be why I think it looks like the Schuylkill.
While looking for that opening sequence on youtube, I also ran across this.
It’s Hugh Laurie casting for House MD. Note the apology at the beginning which appears to be out of character and genuine.
Emotionally disconnected, but he does want to keep them alive. In this case, he saw a way to keep both patients alive.
Two is still greater than one (like six is still greater than four). House is a good influence on me. 