A Doctor in the House?
Dr. House
Not your old Gregory Graves
(Image from Wikipedia)
A couple of weeks ago, my cyberfriend Malcolm Pollack mentioned a cynical remark that he had made as a teenager:
Everyone needs a pack of lies to live by, and if you'd rather not create your own there's no shortage of people who'll be happy to hand you theirs.In response, another cyberfriend, Kevin Kim, commented:
Nice to make your acquaintance, Dr. House.Cultural Philistine that I am, I had no idea what Kevin was referring to . . . but also, as that cultural Philistine, didn't much care. Yesterday in a sermon, however, I heard another reference to Dr. House, this time to his statement that "People always lie."
"So, that's what Kevin was referring to," I found myself thinking, and resolved to find out more.
I now know a tiny bit more, courtesy of Wikipedia, but if anybody would like to save me some time and link me directly to some especially fine You Tube clip of Dr. House at his best, I'd appreciate it.
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 6:01 AM
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18 Comments:
If you have the bandwidth, go to www.hulu.com and search House MD. You can see the last five episodes. There may some clips that would explain the expression "People always lie", but I can't tell you how to find them.
I remember one episode in which a woman had an allergic reaction to sperm that had been exposed to a tropical bacteria (I think). The lie was that her exposure wasn't that it was from her fiance's sperm, but his fathers. That lack of information had hindered the diagnosis.
Thanks, I'll try that . . . and thanks also for the anecdote about one of the lies.
Jeffery Hodges
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Wikipedia has interesting trivia on the show. "House" is based on the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and the name "House" is itself an intertextual pun, since "Holmes" sounds like "home," and a home is notionally related to a house. (That was too subtle for me to catch, but the show's creator says that's one of the many ways in which House is connected to Holmes.)
For more info, see the Wikipedia entry here, especially the section titled "References to Sherlock Holmes."
Kevin
Thanks, Kevin . . . though I do have an obscure link to Wikipedia already.
As soon as I have time, I'll look into this further -- and also check You Tube.
Though I still haven't checked up much on The Wire . . .
Jeffery Hodges
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"House" is an above average, well-made show, but it is the character of Dr. House that is outstanding. House gets killer lines and Hugh Laurie is marvelous. House is a much more compelling character than Detective Holmes.
--lollabrats
"House is a much more compelling character than Detective Holmes."
--me
At least, I can totally buy that Sela Ward was madly in love and often frustrated with him.
:p
--lollabrats
Lollabrats, thanks -- and I see that I've been missing out by not watching television (though I probably can't get House in Korea anyway).
Jeffery Hodges
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House, during most of the series, has an addiction to Vicodin, a synthetic codeine. That's the only reference to the Sherlock Holmes character I see.
I never understood how one could get addicted to Vicodin (hydrocodone) and Percocet, I could never take enough to ease the pain completely, because I get nauseous and dizzy.
I saw the reference to Vicodin somewhere, but I had no idea what it was. Thanks again.
Jeffery Hodges
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"House, during most of the series, has an addiction to Vicodin, a synthetic codeine. That's the only reference to the Sherlock Holmes character I see."
--Hathor
Come now, Hathor, you can try a bit harder. Both Holmes and House are musical virtuosos (violinist and pianist respectively). Hugh Laurie is terrific at the keyboard, by the way. Both are cold personalities, who are brutally direct in their speech. "Holmes" is homonymous with "homes," which means the same as "house." House is a medical detective, who uses an encyclopedic knowledge of everything related to medicine to solve bizarre medical cases no one else can solve. He has a trusted wussy sidekick. He is selfish. He is smarter than everyone and makes sure everyone knows it. etc.
Also, the show's creator has said that House is based on Holmes.
;)
--lollabrats
"Also, the show's creator has said that House is based on Holmes."
Yeah, but can we trust him? After all, people always lie.
Jeffery Hodges
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"Yeah, but can we trust him? After all, people always lie."
--Horace Jeffery Hodges
That's what doctors say right before they put you under anesthesia, I believe. It's a famous paradox, actually. You cannot logically trust the words of someone who insists that everyone always lie. If everyone always lie, no one would be awake to do the surgery. Typical Obamacare, I believe...
--lollabrats
"That's what doctors say right before they put you under anesthesia . . ."
So, that's their little game! I alway imagined that they were telling me that the anesthesia would make me lie down and go to sleep!
Jeffery Hodges
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Lollabrats, can you actually see your other comments? Blogger has been acting up, and I haven't received some email notices of comments.
Jeffery Hodges
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"Lollabrats, can you actually see your other comments?"
--Horace Jeffery Hodges
I'm missing one here. Haha, as if the disappearance of examples of my sopho-moronic humor is a great loss to the world...hehe.
:p
--lollabrats
^I only replied with that dumb joke because I just could not let you have the last word with: "Yeah, but can we trust him? After all, people always lie." I gacked when I first read your reply.
But I've calmed down since.
:p
--lollabrats
^By the way, I didn't quite understand your response to my vanished joke. What was that? That wasn't even amusing. haha. Oh well. The evidence of our folly have gone missing. Isn't that a good thing?
:D
--lollabrats
Actually, I was enjoying the humor and the information -- from everyone -- so I mourn the loss of comments.
Perhaps, like MacArthur, they shall return.
Jeffery Hodges
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