So I'm watching TV last weekend and I see Hugh Laurie, and he's speaking with his British accent, so I'm interested. I remember hearing that he's actually a great comic actor, and he was on a hilarious British series a while ago. But he was also kind of playing a bad ass character in this movie, so I though, ok, I'm hooked. So as I continue watching, I see a simple, pratfall-type joke, and I die a little inside. But oh if that were the end of the story. The movie he was in? 101 Dalmatians. Ugh.
That made me really sad. So I decided to look through his IMDb profile, and the first thing I see is that he's in this new movie called The Night Watchman, which sounds interesting enough. And he was also in Spice World, which, if memory serves, is one of the top two or three movies all time according to whoever ranks movies. But, he was also a voice on an episode of Family Guy. And now he's House. So I will give him a pass, reluctantly, for those two appearances. Oh, and, uh, on House this week, we learn that it's actually cool to share hypodermic needles because it's both a time-saver and makes you feel closer to your friends. (We did learn that, right?)
First this week we see a woman pilot "flying" some sort of jet. Of course, what we see from her view looks really fake. And we're supposed to believe a woman is capable of flying one of these highly sophisticated machines? Please. Anyways, all of a sudden this woman sees some sort of lightning bolt, which is bizarre because it's a sunny day. She sees another one and it turns her view red for a second. Then I think we see a third, and the camera zooms in on her eye and those goes to one of those special effects things where we see her rods and cones doing crazy things. Except it probably wasn't her rods and cones at all, but I refuse to actually look up anything about eyes, so we'll go with rods and cones. Suddenly, we see all sorts of crazy images, and it's hard to tell what's going on. I think what they were trying to get across is that this woman's seeing all kinds of crazy things that don't really look like anything that's in front of her. But perhaps I'm wrong, because shortly after that, you can see what's in front of her, but it's all different colors, and the colors keep changing. Drop acid much? Suddenly the warning goes off in her plane and she crashes. Eject! It's there for a reason!
All I could see was a lava lamp from Spencer Gifts! What's happening to me?!?!
Suddenly the screen goes black and I wait for the intro music to start. But wait! Whew, a door opens behind her, and it was just a flight simulator. The nerd patrol character comes in and asks what's wrong, but just before he does, she unplugs a cord. He asks why she wasn't responding, and then she goes into this long complaint about cords not being unplugged, and the controls should do this, I'm an inadequate pilot, and all the nerd patrol guy can do is apologize for the malfunctions. As he walks away, pilot woman starts breathing heavily, like she's just narrowly escaped being fired or something. And that's the intro. Not really suspenseful, and also not too life-threatening, so I don't think it was that great. Oh, and there was no projectile vomit.
In some sort of classroom, House is spinning his cane in front of a screen with some guy's picture on it. Also, there are like 40 people in the room. Ah yes, the group job interview. Who hasn't been through one of these? House asks who the man is, but no one answers. He says a wrong answer won't get anyone fired, and, of course, the woman, who I think was cute Cameron's replacement doctor from last week, answers wrong and is fired and leaves. Some old man in back says it's the man who was the original Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz. It turns out he had some sort of reaction to the Tin Man wardrobe or something and died mysteriously, and because no one is sick in an interesting way, they're going to find out what really happened to Buddy Ebsen.
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Comments (6)
Hugh Laurie was in this show called Blackadder starring Rowan Atkinson. It's a very funny show. Season one is nowhere near as good as the other seasons though, just FYI. Each season is set in a completely different time period: middle ages, Elizabethan time, World War I.
1 of 6 | Posted by hejohnsonvc | Posted on October 7, 2007 6:26 PM
Haha - I don't even watch House, but I loved Hugh Laurie in Blackadder, so when I saw that picture, I laughed out loud and decided to comment.
Yes, so hejohnsonvc above is right - and Blackadder is definitely one of the greatest British TV shows ever.
2 of 6 | Posted by georgiababe | Posted on October 7, 2007 8:13 PM
Don't know if it's because I miss the housemates, but I find this season somewhat annoying. Yes, I get it, House is supposed to be witty, excentric, annoying and juvenile, yet brilliant, but his total dominance of dedicated, intelligent doctors like Cuddy and Wilson is a bit much. I remember a good friend I once had who was fun and intelligent but possessed the annoying habit of arguing about anything I would say. He hasn't been my friend for years. Careful, House, I may walk out on you, too!
3 of 6 | Posted by talma63 | Posted on October 8, 2007 7:22 AM
Long recap, but that only reflects how much they pack into House.
Was I the only one reminded of that real astro-nut woman? I'll bet she lied to qualify for NASA, too.
As usual, some great lines, well delivered...
Liked Cameron better as a brunette.
Good job!
4 of 6 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on October 8, 2007 11:32 AM
"Cute brunette doctor with eyes possibly too far apart" is actually Olivia Wilde. You may remember her from The OC where she played Mischa Barton's lesbian lover and also from the Black Donnelly's which lasted all of about two seconds. Hope she isn't the kiss of death for House, although I liked her in this episode and hope we see more of her.
5 of 6 | Posted by mmmeg | Posted on October 8, 2007 8:51 PM
"Cute brunette doctor with eyes possibly too far apart" is actually Olivia Wilde. You may remember her from The OC where she played Mischa Barton's lesbian lover and also from the Black Donnelly's which lasted all of about two seconds. Hope she isn't the kiss of death for House, although I liked her in this episode and hope we see more of her.
6 of 6 | Posted by mmmeg | Posted on October 8, 2007 8:53 PM