House M.D.

House M.D.

Have you always thought that Chandler Bing is the king of sarcasm or….

Did you always consider Sheldon Cooper as the penultimate Master of arrogance….

And if you ever took Chandler and Joey or Sheldon and Leonard as the epitome of bromance…

Then my friend I’m pretty sure you haven’t watched “HOUSE M.D”. A whole new medical world brought to life on the small screen with a perfect balance in its elements. The show presents an extraordinary combination of Science, Friendship, Office Politics, Arrogance, Love, Addiction and what not…

For those haven’t seen it yet, lets’ jump straight into it:

The show begins with an arrogant doctor, Dr. House (Hugh Laurie) who believes in solving the unsolvable. He is a complete pain in the ass for his colleagues yet his charisma is such that no one ever loses his cool on him. He is a person filled up of Sarcasm, Euphemism, Insults and Dangerous Dares. Ofcourse being a doctor he has to treat some terribly tangled cases (and he usually succeeds ..). As the storyline progresses and the seasons fly by the office politics comes into picture and some filthy dares with his friend Dr. Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard). Also in the later seasons we see love and addiction play their roles and it ends on a high note of friendship.

Basically, it’s a meal for teleshows viewers..

For those who have seen the show, here are some facts that would never have imagined:

1. Hugh Laurie is also a writer (he’s written a novel called The Gun Seller), a musician (he plays a number of instruments) and rides a motorcycle

2. House’s character is strongly based on the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, particularly with his addiction to drugs and his desire to solve the insolvable:

Dr. Gregory House was based on Sherlock Holmes... but Holmes, in turn, was based on a Doctor that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle knew while studying medicine, Dr. Joseph Bell, whose specialty was diagnosis. In several episodes, House is shown at home and his address 221B, a tribute to Sherlock Holmes famous London address, 221B Baker Street.

3. By season five Laurie was earning around $400,000 per episode, making him one of the highest paid actors on network television.

4. Hugh Laurie, who plays House on the show, is actually British. He’s starred in many British comedy films and television series’ but House is his first American television endeavor.

5. Olivia Wilde (Thirteen) is a vegan

6. Hugh Laurie’s own dad was a doctor, and he feels a twinge of guilt at “being paid more to become a fake version of my own father”.

7. Epps (Dr Foreman) and his brother started a rap group called “Wolfpak” in 1991.

8. Jennifer Morrison, who plays Dr. Cameron, is actually a blond.

9. Kal Penn’s (Dr Kutner) real name is Kalpen Modi, he says after he changed the name on his resume and photos his audition callbacks rose by 50%.

10. In season three House decided he wanted a change and so fired Australian Doctor Chase (Jesse Spencer), causing Dr Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) and Dr Foreman (Omar Epps) to quit. In season four he hired his new team including Foreman again, while Cameron and Chase became recurring characters still working in the hospital.

11. During Hugh Laurie’s audition, David Shore says that Bryan Singer, one of the executive producers, said, “See, this is what I want: an American guy.” Singer was completely unaware of the fact that Laurie is English.

12. In “Sports Medicine”, Bryan Singer (one of the Executive Producers of the show) plays the director who’s doing the anti-drug commerical in the very beginning of the episode.

13. Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. Wilson) played a student who commits suicide rather than becoming a doctor in the film Dead Poets Society.

14. In “Control”, the guy who can’t talk is named Mr. van der Meer. Garet van der Meer is also a producer of the show. I guess the writers figure they’re being clever and that nobody will notice something like that. But oh, how wrong they are.

15. Spencer (Dr Chase) and Morrison (Dr Cameron) became in engaged in December 2006 when he proposed in French on the Eiffel tower; however they called the engagement off five months later.

16. Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson) starred in The Violet Hour with Scott Foley. Foley made a cameo appearence as a pro baseball player in “Sports Medicine”, an episode of House.

17. Hugh Laurie plays the piano, saxophone, slide and acoustic guitar and harmonica.

18. Hugh Laurie suffers from clinical depression. His bouts of depression leave him feeling pretty worthless and that even with all the success House has brought him and the fact he gives a pretty phanominal performance as him, Laurie feels he dosen’t deserve it. In fact he can often be seen on the set of House sitting on the pavement worrying what he’s done isn’t good enough.

19. Hugh’s full name is James Hugh Calum Laurie.

20. In “Fidelity”, House is watching TV and the credits roll onto the screen. One of the names is “Marcy Kaplan” who is supposedly a hair stylist. Marcy G. Kaplan is one of the producers of the show.

21. House’s character is strongly based on the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, particularly with his addiction to drugs and his desire to solve the insolvable.

22. The show has won 2 Golden Globes, another 28 wins and has had 66 nominations.

23. The hospital is based on a real hospital in Princeton, Princeton Hospital, the University Medical Center at Princeton.

24. The writers have real doctors at their disposal to help them write the scripts so it is all medically accurate!

25. Dr. House’s most famous line “Everybody Lies” was in fact used by another doctor about a year and a half before the pilot episode, in another medical show, the sitcom Scrubs (2001). Dr. Bob Kelso says “Everybody lies, Dr. Turk” in the season 2 episode My New Old Friend (2003), after Dr. Turk fails to prevent an old lady to drive home because she said she was fine enough to drive and that she had to pick up her grand kids.

26. Numerous times throughout the series, House mentions watching The O.C. (2003). In season four Olivia Wilde joins the cast as a series regular. She also played an recurring part during season two of The O.C. (2003). She played a bisexual in both series.

Apart from being fun and jovial, the show has quite a lot of teachings in offer…

Here’s a list of things I learnt after watching the show:

1. Everybody Lies. (Sad isn’t it?? But it’s true without any doubt)

2. It’s Never Lupus :P (This you’ll understand after watching the show let’s not ruin your experience)

3. Life is full of pains you gotta deal with.

4. We all make mistakes and we pay the price.

5. Normal is never Normal.

6. Normal is overrated.

7. People might change from the outside but never from the inside.

8. Truths begin in Lies.

9. The eyes can mislead, the smile can lie but the shoes always reveal the truth.

10.What you want, you run away from…what you need, you don’t have a clue

11. Arrogance has to be Earned.

12.Cancer is Boring

13.And last but not the least, You can even “DIE” for your friend (That’s a spoiler right there)

And we have reached an end here. Hope that I have been able to recreate the characters through this article for those who have seen the show or intrigued those who haven’t . I would like to end the article with these funny quotes from the show: