# Question About 'House'

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-house/524489>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 11, 2010, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-house/524489 "2010-01-11T08:03:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![v\_lucas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a698b9/32.png) [@v\_lucas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/v_lucas)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-house/524489/21 "2010-01-13T06:32:04Z")

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> [@Alessan](#):
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> The very essence of a Moriarity is that he’s Holmes’s intellectual equal as well as his nemesis, and we’ve yet to meet anyone who meets that description.

What about Lucas Douglas? It’s subtle, but he’s with Cuddy, and it feels as though the writers are at least trying to make them intellectually similar…

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-house/524489/22 "2010-01-14T14:40:40Z")

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The Hugh Laurie [House audtion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJUwTAGYOSg) is a hoot. One moment he is being the proper Englishman, apoligizing for his scruffy appearance, and the next moment he IS House.

The casting people must have fallen off their chairs.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-house/524489/23 "2010-01-14T17:34:25Z")

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[Here’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYmrg3owTRE&feature=related) an amusing video of Laurie on the Ellen DeGeneres show, speaking with his natural accent. He and Ellen are playing a game of English slang vs. American slang.

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**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-house/524489/24 "2010-01-14T18:14:16Z")

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> [@torie](#):
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> _Sigh_ I love you, James Wilson. I’d never cheat on you, and your crazy friend can live with us forever…
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> I’m sorry, what was the question?

Oh no you don’t, he’s mine! I found him first, I’ve been in love with him since Dead Poet’s society,and I was the first to forgive him for the head shaking in Much Ado. . .  
And House can’t have him either: [Shudder](http://www.housemd-guide.com/miscellaneous/house-art.php)

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**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-house/524489/25 "2010-01-15T18:54:42Z")

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> [@Alessan](#):
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> \<snip\> No Moriarity has appeared yet, but that’s probably because Stephen Fry’s schedule has been too busy.

Or Rowan Atkinson either…

I’d love to see any of the Blackadder cast members appear on House as patients/rival visiting doctors…

Rowan Atkinson (Blackadder)  
Stephen Fry (Melchitt)  
Miranda Richardson (Queenie)  
Tony Robinson (Baldrick)  
Tim McInnery (Percy/Darling)

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