Ok boomer

House is cathartic for low-IQ and midwits. He has one-sided shower conversations with everyone where he's always right, they're always wrong, and he always has some witty and cutting remark that puts them in their place.

>>218198724
House is wrong very often, both in medicine and his personal life, fuck are you talking about

because people thought he was cool and wanted to be like him

>>218198697
It was a good show.

>>218198724
>where he's always right, they're always wrong
So you haven'[t watched it.

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>>218198697
Because it's good.

It appeals to like nearly everyone in some capacity
You don't become the number 1 TV show without a substantial amount of mass appeal

house was like the law and order of doctor shows. it was very formulaic but fun to binge. Hugh laurie put on a great performance too

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>>218198746
>n-no, just because House is almost always right is immaterial, he's occasionally temporarily wrong before being right again later!
You understand that something can be true in principal without it needing to be true 100% of the time, right? Like you two faggots suck dick. Now, you might be taking it up the ass this second, but still, in principal, you suck dick. And so, House might occasionally be wrong, but the point of the character is that he's written to usually be right and outsmart everyone else with belittling banter.

Get it?

>>218198697
House being a legit top 10 all time TV character, top fucking notch dialogue, also an easy watch with a lot of scenes about boring medical stuff you can half tune out while you’re doing other shit

>>218198789
>House is almost always right
This just isn’t the case at all, you fucking retard. Maybe actually watch a show before bitching about it.

>>218198789
Idiot. He's right about medical stuff. He's constantly wrong about normal human level things. The whole point is that his attitude makes him jaded an miserable. It cost him Stacy and Cuddy.

>>218198803
>He's right about medical stuff.
He's not even right about that most of the time.

>>218198827
Yes, but he's usually right in the end.

>>218198697
le snarky doctor makes for good tiktok fodder

I think Sherlock Holmes has been proven to be a popular character by now

>>218198789
House is right like maybe 20% of the time while on screen

>>218198697
The first season did something that felt unique in these medical procedurals, which was boiling (almost) every episode down to house acting as a judge presiding over the life of one of these people, forcing them to betray their ideals or beliefs in order to receive treatment.
Like making that beaner choose between having a faggot brother and a dead brother.
Those are the bits that seemed really visceral to me anyway.

The show is actually perfect for zoomers because it's 50% completely irrelevant medical drivel they can ignore while doomscrolling

house are either ugly men who are asshole jerks or fat women who want to be dominated humiliated

>>218198927
*house fans

>>218198895
I liked the student hunger games arc. That was fun.

>>218198927
the leading demographic of most padded out procedurals is just housewives
that's why so many of the subplots revolve around cheating or cuckoldry or other relationship slop

Just restarted watching the series. The episode where napthalene fuckin releases from the kids fat killing him worse at the hospital is so kino

>>218198802
>>218198803
>>218198881
I get that you were so busy living vicariously through House that you didn't actually watch the show, so let me go ahead and explain what happens.
>House proposes a theory.
>Team objects.
>House mocks them.
>House is proven wrong mid-episode.
>Twist.
>House’s underlying instinct or contrarian reasoning is validated.
>He solves the case.

Every episode uses that paradigm. His intellect > everyone else's. His cynicism > their optimism. His pragmatism > their sentimentality. Even him losing Stacy and Cuddy, it just reinforces the trope. The audience is never led to believe that House can or should change, but that the world and the people in it cannot accommodate someone like House.

House gets to win the arguments, shit all over everyone, and always solve the case. Yes, for drama and to fill an hour long runtime, he doesn't usually solve the case instantly (though frequently he does), and we have to go through the paces of his initial diagnosis being wrong so 45 minutes in he can see something unrelated, pause, stare into the camera with a smile, then rush to be right in the end.

>>218199022
And then he fucks up and ruins his life, several times.

>>218199030
Didn't say he doesn't. I said he gets to win all the arguments and be right in the end. That's why people like him. That he has a shitty life and being an asshole (even a correct one) doesn't make him happy just makes him MORE relatable to the midwit viewers who all secretly suspect that the reason they have no friends or loved ones is that they're closeted geniuses too brilliant for others to understand.

>>218199049
Thats why people tolerate him, not like him. Youre a dumb fuck

>>218198969
To me, that's maybe the worst part of the show. Followed by the part where House and Cuddy get together, probably.

>>218199053
We're talking about why the VIEWERS like him, retard.

>>218199056
It was nice to see Hugh Laurie have more people to play off of, Kutner zapping people, and the Three Cases episode is one of the best of the series.

>>218198724
seething contrarian

>>218199022
>House’s underlying instinct or contrarian reasoning is validated.
No it's not. Usually some completely unrelated interaction he has with a retard he never wanted to talk to in the first place while doing forced clinic duty deus ex machinas the solution into his lap. Nothing about the half dozen failed leads due to his reasoning gets him anywhere near the real answer. He almost always comes to the answer through what amounts to divine intervention in spite of his "genius" not because of it. If he was what you say he is every episode would be 15 minutes long because it would be the first or second thing he cooks up.

>>218198697
Competent straight white males.
Black guy wasn’t a minstrel type.
Lesbian chick wasn’t a girlboss.
Good intentions didn’t guarantee good outcomes.
Every single character had a flaw that came into play.
It felt real and not like propaganda.
House was the perfect synthesis of hero and antihero.
The doctor who got it right the most (Chase) got the least recognition, mirroring our sad reality.
In short, the perfect show.

>>218198789
>doesn’t know the difference between ‘principle’ and ‘principal’
>thinks he’s smart
Get rekt mate

>>218199150
>got the least recognition, mirroring our sad reality.
He was still based and became a less depressed house in the end.
So, he won.
Shame he's busy playing the firefighter, because I could have seen a Chase MD revival.

>>218199115
>No it's not.
Name one episode where someone else solves the case and House has to admit their diagnosis and/or worldview was superior. I'll wait.

>>218199193
Didn't say I was smart. But
>asspained that he felt stupid reading my post
>thinks because he feels stupid I must be smart
>scours my post for a typo
Proved yourself an insecure dumb nigger.

>>218199200
Chase MD just wouldn't work
Hugh Laurie is easily 70% appeal of the show

>>218199207
>has to admit their diagnosis and/or worldview was superior
Not what I said, try again. I'll wait.

>>218199022
>House gets to win the arguments, shit all over everyone, and always solve the case
In the pilot Chase comes up with the idea of using a plain X-Ray to find Taenia cysts in the teacher’s tight muscles. Chase solves the case and that’s in the fucking pilot episode. You are a complete retard and I prescribe mouse bites, stat.

>>218198969
>>218199056
I didn't like the arc, but I really liked some of the characters in it (the boomer faking being a doctor was kino, and they removed him just before he overstayed his welcome).

>>218199207
I think at one point Masters both solves the case and makes House concede that sometimes brutal honesty is the best policy at the same time

>>218199200
You are 100% correct.
>>218199229
You are 100% incorrect.
>>218199227
You are 110% butthurt.

>>218199281
Rip bosley

>>218199066
Are you too much of a midwit to admit that you're one of these "viewers"?

>>218199115
You're now remembering the building collapse episode and the "you need a team" scene with Cuddy. I don't like that you refer to it as deus ex machina or as divine intervention. Every time he has a problem figuring something out, it is because of a lack of the creative, artistic, unorthodox thinking that another person brings to the DDX.

He flat out says it to schoolgirl Cuddy on the bus and multiple times to Wilson throughout the series. His cold, calculating, measured, analytical way of processing information can only get so far on its own - and whenever Wilson proposes something, it forces him to consider the rare cases, the smallest symptoms, the least likely but still plausible causes. House goes in a straight line, but Wilson, Cuddy, and his team make him take detours that have him consider more than just horses. Because every now and then, hooves in the halls ARE zebras.


And to the point about him being a genius and always right and having to pad screen time for full episodes - if the cases themselves were easy, any regular doctor could do it and the need for this show to exist would cease. House is double board certified in infectious diseases and nephrology. He is the world's leading diagnostician. Because he can and does solve the unsolvable cases, he gets to get away with who he is. He takes the cases he wants that are interesting to him, because lesser cases are easily solved and boring. The episodes that focus the hardest on his vicodin addiction practically beat you over the head with the fact that he uses the puzzles of hard cases as a crutch because the high he experiences from solving them distracts him from his ever-present muscle death leg pain.

>>218199022
By your own admission he's wrong more often than he's right. He fucks up multiple times before he gets to the right diagnosis in a case. And his personal life is just him constantly shooting himself in the foot.

>>218199229
I'd say closer to 90%. It would be like trying to have a Batman show, but have it be about Robin trying to be Batman.

>>218199303
No. I'm just self-aware enough to know why I (and everyone else) like the character. Something about identifying with House triggers people though. It's okay to see yourself in Al Bundy or George Costanza, but have someone tear the mask off you seeing an idealized version of yourself tearing people down with cutting remarks and being constantly fellated for your brilliance? Watch the asspain flow.

>>218199207
The building collapse episode. Cuddy gets a great monologue at the end of the episode that basically starts the student hunger games. House knew she was right.

>>218199115
The real answer usually comes after someone that was lying starts telling the truth. The kid who had leprosy got cured only after his dad that had been telling him he was a test pilot was actually a hippie that went to India and got scammed of all his money by a guru. Coming home with misdiagnosed carpal tunnel syndrome almost killed his son because he'd rather spend money donating to the hospital for prime service than admit he lied.