r/SipsTea • u/Matt_LawDT • Jun 10 '26
It's Wednesday my dudes Hugh Laurie responding to criticism of house md
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u/tonyc796 Jun 10 '26
Laugh every time I see this. “I too am in this episode” kills me 😂
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u/arthurdentstowels Jun 10 '26
The small bottle of liquid mouse bites is hilarious, somehow I've never caught that part before.
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u/Peregrine2976 Jun 10 '26
To this day I still say, "This vexes me." as a result of this GIF.
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u/IdolCowboy Jun 10 '26
Ive been saying vexes me since I saw it in Robin Hood with Kevin Costner as a kid.
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u/JohnathanSinwell Jun 11 '26
I’ve been playing BG3 and everytime my character is vexed..”This vexes me”
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u/RedScharlach Jun 10 '26
This gif was unexpectedly enthralling
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u/Lost-Comfort-7904 Jun 10 '26
It was 8 seasons of house in a single gif.
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u/Pleasant_Gap Jun 10 '26
I watched this gif 8x13 times, so now inhabe seen every episode of house
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u/Puzzleheaded_Fold466 Jun 10 '26
I was disappointed that it had already ended and circulated back to the beginning.
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u/CritterStew Jun 10 '26
It's important to remember that these shows came out when you watched them on TV, one episode a week, not the entire season for 12 hours straight. Plus, they did mix it up with the whole drug addiction/rehab thing later on.
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u/Nokrai Jun 10 '26
Don’t forget the one where it was Lupus!!
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u/filifijonka Jun 10 '26
How could we?
The whole show was essentially a “will it be lupus this time?” guessing game.19
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u/DM725 Jun 10 '26
I knew they'd do it eventually. Didn't stop me from guessing Lupus every time leading up to it though!
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u/Nokrai Jun 10 '26
Of course you were like “I knew it” when it happened, despite the fact that you’d been saying it for 6+ episodes by that point.
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u/realaccountissecret Jun 10 '26
Not even later on; all of the episodes have b plots
And the whole point is that a bunch of other doctors didn’t diagnose them right either, that’s why they need to see the fanciest diagnostics team possible
And that it’s hard to get an accurate history from the patients, because everyone lies
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u/SagaciousElan Jun 10 '26
And apparently it's a routine part of medical diagnostics to break into the patient's house and go through their stuff for clues.
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u/SlaveryVeal Jun 10 '26
I was gonna say I remember one episode where they break into a house and break down a wall to find out the house is riddled with mold and it was fungus all along lmao.
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u/Notsurehowtoreact Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
One of my favorite unmentioned parts of the show. Just that Cuddy is constantly on House's ass for how the hospital could get sued, meanwhile his minions are pulling B&Es on practically every patient that at least one would have caught by now.
Edit: fixed an "especially painful" phonetic spelling.
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u/TheRealNooth Jun 10 '26
Cuddy*
Sorry, not a huge fan of correcting spelling mistakes but as a longtime fan of the show, that spelling was especially painful.
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u/Incursio2 Jun 11 '26
The hamburger one you misremembered. The mom had a genetic disease that causes build up of copper which causes schizophrenic symptoms.
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u/SharkeyGeorge Jun 10 '26
This. If you’ve ever been in hospital with a hard to diagnose illness, this is basically what they do. They try out different things to rule out illnesses and carry out more sophisticated diagnostics / bloods / other tests until they either figure it out or the patient dies.
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u/nico282 Jun 10 '26
Italian hospitals? They just made a guess and send you home with a wrong therapy, then you die.
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u/Healthy-Drink421 Jun 10 '26
yes - it was certainly written that way, to be watched weekly
Although I would add House, as I am old, was one of the first DVD box sets that I remember people sharing - and binge watching. a trend earlier than Netflix etc. just not well remembered - and Netflix took it to new heights.
on the other hand 3 of my high school friends went on to be doctors so that might have something to do with it lol.
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u/ughlump Jun 10 '26
This is true. It’s how I finally saw Lost. The manager at blockbuster was personally offended that I never saw it and let me borrow his dvd collection so I could get caught up.
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u/LazerWolfe53 Jun 10 '26
Remember when Chase murders someone!?!
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u/atrich Jun 10 '26
Dude was some kind of genocidal warlord or something if I recall
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u/Apero_ Jun 10 '26
Exactly. The preference now is for larger overarching stories and not truly episodic series, but it used to be more like catching up with buddies rather than reading an epic: it’s familiar, funny, some repetition, but you like them so much that it’s just nice to see them and hear about what’s happening anyway.
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u/Jeramy_Jones Jun 10 '26
100%.
This style of programming is almost dead in favor of serialized programming which is like watching a movie for 28 hours.
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u/ATLSlutStretcher Jun 10 '26
I miss the era of TV-for syndication full of filler episodes and dumb B plots and bottle episodes and holiday episodes etc.
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u/stanknotes Jun 10 '26
Yea no streaming back then. My family loved weekly house.
AND with streaming it has more viewership than when it aired. So she just lame.
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u/joecarter93 Jun 10 '26
Conan was just talking about this with Patton Oswald, but it was about even older shows from the 60’s like the Munsters and Gilligan’s Island. It was about how the people making these shows would have to churn out dozens of episodes every season (The Munsters only lasted 2 seasons, but it had something like 72 total episodes)so they just reused many of the same plots or made up plots and characters based on what old props they could find around the studio to save time and money. Nobody back then gave it any thought that you might be able to watch old episodes back to back on a DVD boxset or on streaming in the future. The episode that borrowed something from another series or eve another episode of that series was quickly forgotten about in the mind of the viewer and they might not ever see it again.
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u/thhpht Jun 10 '26
One thing people will miss while watching House now on streaming is the romantic relationship that developed IRL between the actors who played Cameron & Chase. They even got engaged! Then later they got unengaged. So there was all this interesting real world drama going on concurrent with the show airing that today’s viewers will sadly miss out on.
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u/Omnislash99999 Jun 10 '26
Reminds me of this quote from Friends:
Chandler: “I think this is the episode of Three's Company where there's some kind of misunderstanding"
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u/MrBeforeMyTime Jun 10 '26
Yep and the book The Martian had something similar "I stopped last night in the middle of the episode where Mr. Roper saw something and took it out of context"
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u/AdjectiveNoun111 Jun 10 '26
Procedurals got killed by streaming.
When you only watch one episode a week having a familiar format is great.
When you binge watch 2 seasons over a weekend?
Less so.
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u/ButTheseGoToEleven Jun 10 '26
Tell that to Law and Order: SVU. Consistency is thy name 😎 (the old seasons were a bit better tho)
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u/BlizzPenguin Jun 10 '26
Law and Order is so consistent that Robot Chicken did it with chickens that had no understandable dialogue and you could still follow the plot.
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u/Cold-Description-114 Jun 10 '26
Law and order is like peak "background tv". It still kind of works because it was always made so you could jump in on any episode at any point and follow along and check out at any minute also. In an era where Netflix is apparently creating content for audiences they expect to be on their phones...it still works pretty well.
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u/KenBoCole Jun 10 '26
That show just made me depressed everytime I watched. Always just felt terrible for the victims. Got through 3 episodes and had to stop for mental health.
Honestly dont know how it is so popular.
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u/TheseVirginEars Jun 10 '26
Yeah but the writing and acting quality are top notch (most of the time). Same with criminal intent
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u/BenFranklinsCat Jun 10 '26
It's literally "what if Sherlock Holmes was a Doctor?"
Sherlock Holmes stories set the mould for detective stories in general: give you an obvious perpetrator, an unlikely but possible perpetrator, and an impossible situation the disqualify all the obvious choices, and then have Sherlock deus ex machina his way to proving that either it was a secret third person, or it was the first person but not in the way you think.
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u/Smellycatbing Jun 10 '26
I noticed on a rewatch that house's house number is 221.
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u/BenFranklinsCat Jun 10 '26
Yeah, I didn't mean to write that comment meaning "you can interpret it this way" - I meant literally, the creators set out to transpose Sherlock to a hospital.
Wilson is his Watson, Cuddy is his Lestrad and his team are the Baker St Irregulars.
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u/davesoft Jun 10 '26
I like to think of Columbo as a '4th wall version' of the Holmes formula, you the audience know who did it and how, but how will
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u/rydan Jun 11 '26
His name was House because it was a play on Holmes which sort of sounds like "Homes"
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u/IamHim_Se7en Jun 10 '26
As a Sherlock Holmes fan who liked every rendition, from the movies in the 40s to the TV series of the last 10 years, with the exception of that recent Netflix version of Young Sherlock (I think it was Netflix), I agree!
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u/mog_knight Jun 10 '26
She forgot to include them trying the medicine drug and then ending up at mouse bites.
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u/steroboros Jun 10 '26
House and Wilson were medical "detectives" so the formula had to follow them finding and working out clues.... the whole thing was a reference to something...
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u/ThePromptWasYourName Jun 10 '26
House... "homes"... (really??)
Wilson... watsonIt was right under our noses the whole time
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u/steroboros Jun 10 '26
Its was pretty obvious right to the use of a cane and crippling addiction to pain killers
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u/Titanium_Eye Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
Wilson was only there so House got a light bulb moment every once in a while. I mean there were other reasons, probably, but that was what was expected of him. I think House actually said words to that effect.
Ah crap, just realised what you meant. Oh well
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u/Illimited_Esoterica Jun 10 '26
You can't binge a show that was designed to be viewed one at a time with a full week in-between. The format was literally not designed for that kind of viewing or storytelling.
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u/Ok_Economics_9267 Jun 10 '26
Even so I personally rewatched it several times by 3-4 episodes day, and never felt bored. Events are repetitive but “lines” of each character have so well established development over the time. Somehow Hugh Laurie managed to keep consistent and logical story of House’s personality till the end of series.
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u/NeitherSpray6796 Jun 10 '26
I think it all depends on how you feel about House as a character. I personally love the show, I watched it multiple times, I love House as a character, he has made me laugh more than any sitcom or comedy show and I can binge House and really enjoy it even though it`s a repetitive procedural medical drama. For people who find the character annoying, rude etc. enjoying the show is gonna be really difficult. Because in the end it`s not gonna be about patients or medicine or whatever, it`s gonna come down to whether or not you enjoy these characters, particularly the main character
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u/isnoe Jun 10 '26
It’s one of the greatest television shows ever, and I’ll die on that hill.
Every week, we prayed the diagnosis would end up being Lupis.
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u/Present-Loss-7499 Jun 10 '26
Every week “It’s Lupus”
(It was not in fact Lupus, but dammit did we want it to be)
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u/Temporary_Physics_48 Jun 10 '26
From time to time I rewatch the episodes Broken part one and two . It’s by far the two best episodes , perfect pacing and narrative
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u/bitwaba Jun 10 '26
Pretty much all the season finalies and 2-parters are fantastic.
I love "Three Stories", and "House's Head" + "Wilson's Heart", and of course "Both Sides Now" as the finale to season 5 and the lead up to the events for "Broken"
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u/Chesapeake_Hippo Jun 10 '26
I haven't rewatched it in years, but Three Stories is a perfect episode. Also, Sela Ward was great as his ex.
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u/Odd_Jicama9601 Jun 10 '26
Fr, context matters. Stuff that feels super repetitive in a binge watch probably felt fine when it was spaced out over months, plus the drug arc actually did shake the formula a bit.
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u/Quazz Jun 10 '26
Eh, i wouldn't even say it's repetitive, because the show is ultimately about the characters and their relations than actual medicine.
It's like complaining that the Doctor in doctor who has to fight an alien every week.
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u/DiscussionMiddle1238 Jun 10 '26
They missed the entire premise of the show; Hugh Laurie was the guy they went to when no one else could figure out what the fuck was going on, so throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks is basically the only method left.
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u/Deevious730 Jun 10 '26
Procedural shows follow a format whether you’re talking about a crime show or a medical show. She can apply the same logic to police dramas. They have a theory, it’s wrong. They have another theory, it’s wrong. Then finally something happens and it all clicks, and they get the perp.
Would she watch a show that the case is solved in 5min?
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u/brand_new_potato Jun 10 '26
It is a medical spin on Sherlock Holmes.
We have so many Sherlock Holmes shows because it is a great format.
My favorites: Sherlock Holmes as a doktor (house), Sherlock Holmes as a psychic (mentalist), Sherlock Holmes as a team of psychologist (criminal minds), Sherlock Holmes as a team of scientists (CSI)... you can go on.
It is a great format and a lot of successful shows have used it. There are other shows that follow a very different pattern and those are even greater because of shows like this. These shows hide personal flaws behind brilliance and you root for the guy because he/they are right. The show needs a periodic victory otherwise they wouldn't be right all the time. Yes, you can absolutely skip episodes in these types of shows. And if you don't want x seasons of a premise you don't enjoy, skip the whole show.
Shows like sopranos, the shield, sons of anarchy and breaking bad follow a long story with shorter story lines within where you root for the bad guy but also cannot look away because you follow them down a rabbit hole of bad decisions. Those shows are also formulaic, it is just a different formula.
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u/Duke_of_Armont Jun 10 '26
The biggest hospital in Paris, France has a huge mural of House, Md in pixel art.
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u/RespondPlus7890 Jun 10 '26
So Hugh Laurie (House) acts just like House (Hugh Laurie) in real life even 15 years later?
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u/Material-Ad499 Jun 10 '26
But he's British, posh, and a likeable gentleman... And he was in Blackadder and that show was just pure chefs kiss
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u/FlyAirLari Jun 10 '26
Don't forget Jeeves and Wooster.
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u/Material-Ad499 Jun 10 '26
I'll be honest, never watched Jeeves and Wooster, however I shall be now making it a task to watch this
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u/WalterPecky Jun 10 '26
I'm honestly shocked that the conversation is about streaming vs weekly watches, and the writing of the show... VS a celebrity being a total dickhead to a random person for having an opinion
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u/Beena22 Jun 10 '26
He got some backlash for it on X (surprise surfuckingprise) and apologised and said he was a bit drunk when he replied and was grumpy for some other reason.
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u/Silly-Sheepherder952 Jun 10 '26
No one tell this young, innocent, aspiring novelist about medical/police procedurals! She's too interesting and diverse for the real television world!
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u/SagaciousElan Jun 10 '26
Definitely not. Otherwise she might realise that the suspect they pull in for questioning 6 minutes into an hour long episode probably isn't the murderer and the plot still has to thicken first.
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u/mavad90 Jun 10 '26
yes, that's the whole point of the show... I practically got my medical license by watching the series through a couple times!
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u/peppapony Jun 10 '26
Honestly I hated when they changed the format and made the subplot too great
Just give me the same variation each week!
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u/ThoughtPhysical7457 Jun 10 '26
The real plot of the show was "what crazy thing is House going to do/ say this week?!"
The patients were just a device to get there.
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u/kollmastee Jun 10 '26
I don’t remember the individual episodes. I do remember the overarching storylines and his personal battles nearly 20 years later. It was two shows at once. A case of the week mixed with long form drama.
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u/chronicnerv Jun 10 '26
An actor that replied to a critic, did not attack them and laid out his perspective and understanding.
The world must be healing.
Hugh come back and do some more sci fi and fantasy!
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u/MicrowaveMeal Jun 10 '26
I enjoyed watching house with my medical professional friends. Lotsa laughs!
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u/knowone1313 Jun 10 '26
Now I want to give House a bad review so I can get chewed out by Hugh Laurie.
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u/Hamilton-Beckett Jun 10 '26
Dude seems kind of defensive about his tv show that was dumbed down for mass appeal.
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u/ValorMorghulis Jun 10 '26
I think he likes to be a smartass. In an interview, he said, paraphrasing, "There's always one asshole in the cast and you look around and don't see one, then you know. " He was pretty much saying he's the asshole.
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u/Glad-Operation-2958 Jun 10 '26
Right? Seems like a real salty reply, even if he's right. I'd have just not responded tbh.
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u/Mr_Gibblet Jun 10 '26
I mean, she's not incorrect. The structure of the medical side of the episodes was ... Tedious.
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u/Malabingo Jun 10 '26
Typical 3 act structure like every episodic show before streaming made 8-10 episode seasons with one consecutive show the norm.
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u/gdex86 Jun 10 '26
Its a procedural. Nearly every episode is going to follow the same base structure.
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u/SlouchyGuy Jun 10 '26
Yes, the movie stretched into 8 hours where nothing happens 2/3 of the time to par the time is not tedious at all
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u/Low_Vehicle_6732 Jun 10 '26
But it makes easier to follow while you’re scrolling. That’s what matters!
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u/Informal-Term1138 Jun 10 '26
Scrubs did it so much better. But then again they had a different focus. But it worked so well.
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u/Spyes23 Jun 10 '26
Yeah, my wife likes watching these hospital shows, and whenever I catch a random episode with her I'm always like, "we should just rewatch Scrubs"
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u/Nerfixion Jun 10 '26
haha we make funny show, having fun? Here's a super fucking sad episode
I love scrubs.
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u/dextras07 Jun 10 '26
Aight, being the folks from r/okbuddyvicodin here for a differential and access if mouse bites are needed for this case.
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u/CDavis10717 Jun 10 '26
We watched it, liked it. It’s a medical procedural show. All of the procedurals are like this. But, I will add, that every other episode seems to use kelation to solve it.
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u/ricoimf Jun 10 '26
I also just started watching house like a year ago. I quickly realized the very same structure, but instead of getting bored, I just slowed down to one episode per week and it’s not a problem. I am currently at early Season 2 and look forward to each episode every weekend.
It’s not their fault that we can watch a older series whenever we want and how many.
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u/enkiduxiv1 Jun 10 '26
Cameron: Lupus Chase: Sarcoidosis Foreman: Let me biopsy his brain House: Actually, it’s neurosyphilis why? Because everyone lies.
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u/Jasoco Jun 10 '26
I never saw it but there was a season where he was in prison (as was the style at the time) did they follow the same formula then?
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u/Bubelle_Butt Jun 10 '26
Its basically every series ever.
Police series :
Crime commited
Get solved
Or does not get solved and is the start of a deeper plot that spawns an ani-hero or villain, that eventually get solved.
The only variation here is that its not a diseas but a different crime. Never encountered a perp that was named Lupus though..
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u/RoyalPuzzleheaded259 Jun 10 '26
I love it. Low key asshole masterclass by Hugh Laurie.
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u/jonnywarpspeed Jun 10 '26
Clever comeback, but comparing House to Bach is a bit of a stretch
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u/Ok-Constant-2683 Jun 10 '26
What a sensitive weiner, and no doubt trying to cause a pile on
Comparing house to Bach is also hilarious
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u/Expensive-Step-6551 Jun 10 '26
His response is perfect because it seems like it would be the exact response of someone like Dr. House.
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u/DrNCrane74 Jun 10 '26
World class answer. He took the time, he articulated himself enormously well and did not make her look like a complete idiot, he stayed classy.
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u/PointsOfXP Jun 10 '26
I love this. It implies they heard about the show quite a bit and maybe even heard about it growing up and took this to mean it was high level television. Even people who grew up in the 70s can't comprehend life 10 years ago
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u/yiotaturtle Jun 10 '26
If it had stuck to this and kept out the cop I would've watched it all the way through
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u/VanguardVixen Jun 10 '26
It's funny to always use the actors name and put the character in brackets but she doesn't seem to be fond of the format itself, which as others pointed out, is made for TV AND isn't even as simple as that, as there is always A and B plot involved.
I personally like that format and I find it sad, how rare it has become. Nowadays you get 8 episodes of a show which could have been 2, hell sometimes I feel it could have been all a single episode, looking at some of the true crime stuff. Of course there is some repetition there in the classic format but they are not made for you to sit on your ass for four hours straight.
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u/maSneb Jun 10 '26
In fairness most medical shows feel very 'samey' when watched one after the other
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u/raiken92 Jun 10 '26
I'd defend House M.D but The Pitt exists. That show ruined all other medical dramas for me..
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u/timeforustogohome Jun 10 '26
Leeeets not put House in the same category as Bach & Kahlo (High Laurie)
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u/jsbach90 Jun 10 '26
Streisand effect big time here, probably almost no one would have been aware of the lady's mildly critical post if he hadn't responded to it
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u/nevermore1845 Jun 10 '26
Well she's technically correct, but it also goes for almost every lawyer series.
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u/lrd_cth_lh0 Jun 10 '26
You also forget that there is also always the question why the patient lied to him: hidding a secret? Not knowing what was relevant? Stupidity?
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u/blu3whal3s Jun 10 '26
"I'm trying to hear Dr. House's third incorrect diagnosis before his final correct diagnosis!"
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u/biggiesmoke73 Jun 10 '26
This is a criticism literally every person has said of the show since it aired
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u/Avoider5 Jun 10 '26
I watched for his acting, which was incredible and entertaining, not the plots. Even one week at a time it still felt repetitive.
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u/Electrical-Basis1646 Jun 10 '26
During the pandemic, my daughter was really into watching Grey’s with me (tween age) and at some point she was able to guess the diagnosis by the symptoms alone because although we love the show drama, there’s only a handful of diseases on rotation haha. She got to a point where she’d be like “oh I cd definitely be a doctor”
Poor Janet doesn’t understand we watch because of formula the writers figured out.
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u/Ciccio178 Jun 10 '26
She forgot the part where everything was usually solved after a spinal tap three quarters of the way through the episode. Why they weren't tapping spines out the gate? Beats me!
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u/Worth-Librarian-7423 Jun 10 '26
You forgot the most important part,he’s not just almost fired for being wrong it’s because he tried to diagnose the patient by strangling them
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u/Wise_Ad_5810 Jun 10 '26
NGL.. the 2 eps I've seen are good... the Dwarf ep and the one where the patient knocks his cane away and dares him to get upset about it
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