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Dr. House is based?? (hexbear.net)
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[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 51 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I was really cringe in high school. I watched House a bunch while actually getting addicted to painkillers. I had this guy best friend who I sort of crushed on before I even knew that I wasn't straight or cis, and he was basically my Wilson lol. He was this upbeat, positive bundle of social energy who had this tendency to cheat on every girl he dated, and I was this depressive asshole smartass hopeless romantic with an addiction to opioids.

I kept recommending House MD to literally everyone who knew us, hoping at least one person would see how uncanny this was just to make sure I wasn't going insane. It's a long ass show, so understandably I didn't get any bites lol

I'm sorry that was really cringe, I've never told another human being this before.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Hope you arrived at your happy ending. I've rewatched House and about to watch it again another time

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Not exactly haha, but I'll get there eventually I'm sure! I'm happy I've managed to sober up at least, though!

I've gotta rewatch it too, haven't done so in many years, but that's only because I watched it so many times already. It warms my heart that Hilson as a ship got probably as close to being the canon ending as network television would allow at the time

[–] MidnightPocket@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago

Good job on sobriety, comrade. Keep it up!

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

If you're going through sobriety, I just rewatched Loudermilk, which is a humorous show about the struggles through sobriety. Highly recommend it

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's such a good character, up there with Tony Soprano in terms of being compelling and sympathetic despite being an unabashed piece of shit at all times.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I genuinely can't tell which of the two you're talking about. This describes them both pretty well. I give the edge to House for being slightly more sympathetic.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think House is a lot more sympathetic, but that's just because he's a doctor and not involved in the mafia lmao. Still a massive asshole, but in such a charismatic and interesting way.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's been a while since I've seen it, and I forgot quite how much an asshole Tritter really was. I think Tritter is sort of sympathetic in that he's right: House is an addict, breaking the law to feed his addiction, and he probably shouldn't be practicing medicine. It works on TV but in real life, would you really want the doctor who spends his whole time high and doesn't care at all about you except as a puzzle? But I forgot that the whole thing started over him feeling personally insulted, and I forgot exactly how much he sucked as a person.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Laws are merely fads for the entitled to control the vulnerable- which is why laws change decade to decade. To "break laws" means nothing, if they are non violent offenses.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 47 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not rlly based, more like a broken clock.

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He has his moments. Castro did look amazing with a cigar and was amazing at training doctors. It's why what would otherwise be a relatively unimportant island regularly embarrasses the healthcare system of the wealthiest nation in history.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Dr. House is based?? (A meme about

{Insert your comment about Castroite Cuba's healthcare achievements}

And this is all said by Greg House by the titular medical drama T.V show "House M.D"?

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It is, in the episode where two Cubans come to find Dr. House because the wife has a condition her doctors can't figure out. Turns out it's a genetic mutation that causes her to have the wrong number of aortas or something unprecedented like that.

Edit: Tried to find the clip on YouTube but apparently they don't like it when a TV "genius" compliments Castro. Who knew?

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 41 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Episode Human Error

House: [takes off his cap and puts it on a model of a brain] If there's one thing Castro knows is how to look great in green. [he gives pointed looks in Foreman's direction but the duckling has his back to the rest of the room and doesn't seem to see] And if there are two things Castro knows is how to look great in green and train doctors. Even without the medical records we can assume she was drowned in antibiotics before she risked drowning to see me.

Cameron: So what doesn't Castro know?

House: How to lay his hands on high-tech scanning equipment. [points to the list of symptoms on the board] Pain, double vision, point us towards the head. Cameron get an MRI, see what's cooking in the old cabeza. [she goes out to do as asked] Chase, check out the husband.

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Cameron: So what doesn't Castro know?

House: How to lay his hands on high-tech scanning equipment.

I find it very funny that a mere month after this, Michael Moore's Sicko came out in theaters featuring a finale where he brings a bunch of Americans to Cuba to get medical care including scans they couldn't get approved in the US

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

In all fairness that movie was a huge revelation to the portion of Americans that saw it. It's doubtful the writers were aware of how advanced Cuban medicine was since Americans are so propagandized.

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago

Would not have believed it without the transcript tbh, thanks

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 43 points 6 days ago (2 children)

No, I believe he is quite transphobic and basically an asshole to everyone. It's just that this cop character is a POS, and a major antagonist in the series, he arrests House as revenge.

Detective Michael Tritter was a recurring character on House in the third season. He is the main antagonist of the third season, which ran between 2006 and 2007. Tritter is a police detective, who tries to get Gregory House to apologize for leaving him in an examination room with a thermometer in his rectum.

After House refuses to apologize, Tritter researches House's background and discovers the doctor's Vicodin addiction. Tritter turns people close to House against him and forces House to go to rehab. When the case ultimately comes to court, the judge sentences House to one night in jail, for contempt of court, and finishing his rehabilitation, telling Tritter that she believes House is not the drug addict he tried to make him out to be.

[–] IncensedCedar@hexbear.net 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

pooh-wtf

[–] fox@hexbear.net 27 points 5 days ago

Dr House fucks with a cop and the cop decides to make it his life mission to destroy Dr House

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the thing is that House actually was drug addicted but they've chosen the worst character ever to call him out on it. It's like with Skyler White being objectively right but being made out to be a negative character (with adultery et al.)

[–] CharlieTheOctopus@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I disagree that Skyler White is made out to be a negative character, but she certainly was perceived as so by fans of the show

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There were certain decisions that contributed to it, eg. the aforementioned adultery arc, her smoking while pregnant, etc.

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 39 points 6 days ago

heartbreaking

[–] Ithorian@hexbear.net 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No but Hugh Laurie is.

[–] Champoloo@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Can anyone recommend one of his recent works?

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

first season of avenue 5 was good

[–] WorkingClassCorpse@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago

Not recent but he was pretty good in Veep

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 21 points 6 days ago

Was this the rising action or the climax of "um actually" culture?

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Time to rewatch house

[–] hogslayer@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago

yeah, it's been a few years for me. I've re-watched the series like a dozen times, but I think I can give it another run.