I still remember watching an interview with him only after watching the entire series and how mind blowing it was to me that he was English.
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Wasn't he well known in the US before House? I mean.. Blackadder?
Nah, blackadder didn't really reach household name status here. About the only british shows that're at that level are dr who and Monty Python. Fawlty towers, abfab, red dwarf, blackadder and others tend to be more niche. Hell, we had versions of shameless, the office, and queer as folk, and people don't really realize they are copies (with varying degrees of similarity to the originals).
I can't recall if blackadder was even on BBC America or not, but I don't recall seeing it on there back when we had cable.
I think PBS, or some channel ( Maybe TCM? Can't remember.) would show it along with the others and Are You Being Served. My grandfather and I used to watch them together all time.
Yeah, I think that's maybe why it didn't spread as far. Back in my younger days, PBS in specific was much bigger because it was typically one of four or five channels. So when it ran Dr Who and Python, there was a greater chance of it being watched per household. By the time some of the other shows came to the US, cable was fully ensconced as the primary access to television. More channels, less chance of a given one being on at a time.
Definitely PBS, I used to love watching Are You Being Served?. :) it’s how I learned the word “ Haberdashery”!
I'm pretty sure all the niche ones aired on my local PBS station, though we did have BBC America as well.
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Fry and Laurie is good too
101 Dalmations
Before house I knew him from 101 dalmatians and Stuart little.
Jeeves and Wooster ftw
I had heard/read that his commitment to the cain limp walk fucked up his gait in real life and caused him some issues lol. How awful
Happen to the actress in ER too. She walked with a limp in that show and it fucked her up.
He was quite well known in England. Fry and Laurie, Blackadder, etc.
The one that gets me is Dominic West. I saw him in The Wire first, and every time after I'm like "that's a decent English accent he's doing there. Oh wait."
I suspect I'm going to be the same with Shiv and Tom from Succession.
Dominic West.
Full name: Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West - fuck me! 😂
House prescribed cigarettes to Santa for the squirts. Miss that show.
And here is how he learned about the benefits of cigarettes: https://youtu.be/XewVicFzRxw
"Too much of everything is bad for you. That's what 'too much' means." is one of my favorite quotes of all time.
My IBS/Gastritis/thefuckIknow sometimes gets better after smoking on the weekend.
I rewatched recently and while there is a lot that’s dated as hell the show in general does hold up
The whole show outside of the barely plausible medical drama is about how awful House is as a human.
At every opportunity they go out of their way to spell out how horrible he is. He’s an egomaniacal drug addict with daddy issues and a borderline pedophile.
The most fun thing watching the show is counting the number of crimes he commits an episode.
If I had to choose between you and House though... Sorry bro, it's entertaining TV.
I’m not saying it’s a bad show, quite the opposite.
People who don’t grasp that he’s a terrible person but a great character just annoy me.
Probably the same people who look up to Rick Sanchez.
I haven't seen all the episodes but I think the underlying point was he is an asshole with actual good intentions underneath. Like he doesn't care about the BS of being friendly, he just wants to get down to business of helping people.
It wasn't about helping people, it was about finding the solution to puzzles and proving that his solution was right. If that just happened to involve helping people, so be it.
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Most of the time he didn't even have good intentions though. What motivated him more than anything was being right about everything. His ego always took precedence to anything else.
Is rare that he's not used in memes as the Joker, American Psycho or the guy from picky blinders.
What are some things you'd call dated? Genuine curiosity, it's been a while since I saw some episodes.
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I've resisted adopting the phrase out of pocket, but it actually is perfectly reasonable to use here. What the fuck, Greg?
Did he pay for expenses out of his own money? Is he away from his usual station? I have a feeling this means I'm old.
Let's just repurpose existing phrases, nobody can stop us. House sure is watching the bottom line, huh?
"Out of pocket" meaning unruly, inappropriate, or out of control appears to have usage at least as far back as the 1940s.
In what of part of the English speaking world is this phrase used this way. I've only ever understood "out of pocket" to mean, to use immediately available resources to pay for something.
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You are a black man.
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