—References to "General Hospital"
Paternity; Occam's Razor
Well, I seem to have had a very productive day yesterday! Watched Tape and thought it was very good except Robert Sean Leonard acted rings around Ethan “what the Hell were you thinking!?” Hawke and Uma Thurman.
I’m always fascinated (Laurie, I’m lookin’ at you, mister) by an actor who can completely out-act his ensemble mates and yet never once seem to intend to or even to upstage them.
Some people just have “it” and some don’t.
ANYway, here’s a bit of a formatting idea for this blog. First, I’d like to introduce the uninitiated as to why this blog exists. Then, I’ll try and keep up to speed watching Season One of House in order and update the General Hospital references as I go along.
Additionally, a certified genius sent me a long list of questions that people might have about GH in general and its relationship to the show and the House-ian characters in specific. I’ll try and answer a new question with each entry until I run out of ‘em. Questions, that is. Not entries.
Hey, I’m a lawyer. You can’t shut me up….
So.
Yesterday. “Tape”. Very good. Ethan Hawke: Bizarre and totally unsympathetic. Which made the film a lot less likeable. Uma Thurman: Very good. Her character took a lot of twists and turns in a relatively brief amount of screentime and she got it all in there. RSL? You rock. Someday (soon?) I’d like to see you on stage. You must burn it up. I especially liked John’s hand gestures. Not too much. Not too little. And really amazingly graceful for a guy under so much (imaginary) pressure.
Speaking of hand gestures, that leads me straight away into General Hospital. Kelly Monaco plays Sam McCall, the hitman’s girlfriend, and she’s very, very talented. Except for the overarching hand gestures. Tone it down, KM. Really. Take a lesson from Robert Sean Leonard. Tape. Rent it.
(*warning* Do NOT google images of KM with kids in the room. A number of years ago she did a Playboy shoot and those are the first pictures to come up. So now I know y'all are going to run out and do it anyway. Just don't say I didn't warn ya.)
According to my outline, I’m now supposed to explain General Hospital a little bit and how it relates to House.
The second part is easy. Like the cane and the Vicodin, General Hospital plays a role in House unto itself. On the surface, we’re to understand that House watches the show religiously. But more importantly, it becomes a reason not to interrupt him. Not to bother him. To leave him alone. Or a reason for him to make good his escape from whatever awkward position he’s found himself in. Having a date every day between 3 and 4 can be very convenient.
Take it from someone who knows.
As far as General Hospital itself goes, rather than go into plot detail here, I think I’ll just post my Corinthos/Quartermaine family tree synopsis. It’s the one that I use when I’m pushing GH on other people and they need to figure out who is who and why and wherefore art thou, Romeo?, et-bloody-cetera.
I’ll do that in the next post. So, you’ll get a whole family tree and broad outline of the plot so far. Although that does not really put the “meaning of GH to House” on the canvas, it does supply a good background for the show and, if y’all ever are interested in watching GH in real life, you’ll have a leg up on everyone else who’s just joining in the fun!
Remember, this show has been on the air for over 40 years (not including the half hour radio show that started the whole thing off.) If I were to write the full story, I’d be old and grey long before I got finished. Please don’t expect to know everything about the show upon reading my family tree. Some stuff we’ll just have to pick up as we go along.
Here are some little tidbits of knowledge about the technical side of the GH. On the East Coast of the US it airs on ABC Network 5 days a week, Monday through Friday, at 3pm. It’s one hour long. It’s just after One Life to Live and before Oprah!
While I have no doubt that Mr. Laurie’s labours on House are Herculean, if I hear him complain one more time about how hard he’s working on a nighttime serial, I’m gonna sign him up for a daytime soap opera. Let’s hear it, then. O_O Those people earn their vittles. I’m convinced they are the hardest working actors in the medium.
As for yesterday’s House viewing. My best friend and I have agreed to do this endeavour together and, man, she’s keeping me on my toes! She even had me looking up the ABC affiliate in Princeton, NJ to make sure that House had the right channel. (He didn’t.)
First we watched Paternity. Yes, the one that has that rat-bastard of a tag that ALWAYS makes me cry. Sheesh. I now only have to ~hear~ “Wheels, one eight. Wheels!” and I tear up.
Dammit.
GH notes on Paternity went like this:
Me: I can’t include that! It’s too obscure!
Best Friend (BF): You ~have~ to! This nice person gave you blogspace in the blogosphere and you have to be thorough!
Me: But! Butbutbut, it’s so……..remote!
BF: Do it.
Me: Sheesh. Okay.
So, the first ~potential~ Paternity reference to GH is when House does the mnemonic MIDNIT for determining Dan’s symptoms. House mentions that Midnight is, in fact, spellt with a G and an H. Reference to “Greg House” or, in BF’s mind, General Hospital?
You decide.
Next reference occurs when House enters the very dark lab while Foreman and Cameron are running tests. Foreman is busy. Cameron is waiting around and House hands her the coffee cups he purloined from Dan’s parents. He orders Cameron to perform a DNA test on the cups to determine if the Father really is Dan’s parent. “Hurry up. GH is on Channel Six” he says as he leans over her work.
And here is where we owe another round of thanks to BF since it’s when she insisted that I actually look up the freakin’ stations in Princeton to see if Channel Six is really the ABC affiliate.
It isn’t.
It’s Channel Seven.
http://www.city-data.com/city/Princeton-New-Jersey.html
GAH.
Next, BF and I ogled, er, I mean, watched Occam’s Razor which…..amazingly enough……BF had never seen! We got through the teaser and, well, it’s rather steamy. BF says quietly, “Huh. I’m pretty sure I’d have remembered this.”
Heh.
So, that’s it for today.
Next up is the Quartermain/Corinthos Family Tree. Please remember, also, that people (read, I) get really invested in these life long devotions to soap operas. I have my own opinion of characters and plot directions. Your mileage may vary. While I encourage comments and debate, I’d rather not login to see vitriol. As my Sainted Mother always says, “If you have nothing nice to say, it’s always wise to shut your piehole.” She’s a hoot that lady is.
Question of the Day:
What Network was GH on?
ABC; 3-4 pm Eastern Time; after One Life to Live and before Oprah! Channel 7 in Princeton, heh.
I’m always fascinated (Laurie, I’m lookin’ at you, mister) by an actor who can completely out-act his ensemble mates and yet never once seem to intend to or even to upstage them.
Some people just have “it” and some don’t.
ANYway, here’s a bit of a formatting idea for this blog. First, I’d like to introduce the uninitiated as to why this blog exists. Then, I’ll try and keep up to speed watching Season One of House in order and update the General Hospital references as I go along.
Additionally, a certified genius sent me a long list of questions that people might have about GH in general and its relationship to the show and the House-ian characters in specific. I’ll try and answer a new question with each entry until I run out of ‘em. Questions, that is. Not entries.
Hey, I’m a lawyer. You can’t shut me up….
So.
Yesterday. “Tape”. Very good. Ethan Hawke: Bizarre and totally unsympathetic. Which made the film a lot less likeable. Uma Thurman: Very good. Her character took a lot of twists and turns in a relatively brief amount of screentime and she got it all in there. RSL? You rock. Someday (soon?) I’d like to see you on stage. You must burn it up. I especially liked John’s hand gestures. Not too much. Not too little. And really amazingly graceful for a guy under so much (imaginary) pressure.
Speaking of hand gestures, that leads me straight away into General Hospital. Kelly Monaco plays Sam McCall, the hitman’s girlfriend, and she’s very, very talented. Except for the overarching hand gestures. Tone it down, KM. Really. Take a lesson from Robert Sean Leonard. Tape. Rent it.
(*warning* Do NOT google images of KM with kids in the room. A number of years ago she did a Playboy shoot and those are the first pictures to come up. So now I know y'all are going to run out and do it anyway. Just don't say I didn't warn ya.)
According to my outline, I’m now supposed to explain General Hospital a little bit and how it relates to House.
The second part is easy. Like the cane and the Vicodin, General Hospital plays a role in House unto itself. On the surface, we’re to understand that House watches the show religiously. But more importantly, it becomes a reason not to interrupt him. Not to bother him. To leave him alone. Or a reason for him to make good his escape from whatever awkward position he’s found himself in. Having a date every day between 3 and 4 can be very convenient.
Take it from someone who knows.
As far as General Hospital itself goes, rather than go into plot detail here, I think I’ll just post my Corinthos/Quartermaine family tree synopsis. It’s the one that I use when I’m pushing GH on other people and they need to figure out who is who and why and wherefore art thou, Romeo?, et-bloody-cetera.
I’ll do that in the next post. So, you’ll get a whole family tree and broad outline of the plot so far. Although that does not really put the “meaning of GH to House” on the canvas, it does supply a good background for the show and, if y’all ever are interested in watching GH in real life, you’ll have a leg up on everyone else who’s just joining in the fun!
Remember, this show has been on the air for over 40 years (not including the half hour radio show that started the whole thing off.) If I were to write the full story, I’d be old and grey long before I got finished. Please don’t expect to know everything about the show upon reading my family tree. Some stuff we’ll just have to pick up as we go along.
Here are some little tidbits of knowledge about the technical side of the GH. On the East Coast of the US it airs on ABC Network 5 days a week, Monday through Friday, at 3pm. It’s one hour long. It’s just after One Life to Live and before Oprah!
While I have no doubt that Mr. Laurie’s labours on House are Herculean, if I hear him complain one more time about how hard he’s working on a nighttime serial, I’m gonna sign him up for a daytime soap opera. Let’s hear it, then. O_O Those people earn their vittles. I’m convinced they are the hardest working actors in the medium.
As for yesterday’s House viewing. My best friend and I have agreed to do this endeavour together and, man, she’s keeping me on my toes! She even had me looking up the ABC affiliate in Princeton, NJ to make sure that House had the right channel. (He didn’t.)
First we watched Paternity. Yes, the one that has that rat-bastard of a tag that ALWAYS makes me cry. Sheesh. I now only have to ~hear~ “Wheels, one eight. Wheels!” and I tear up.
Dammit.
GH notes on Paternity went like this:
Me: I can’t include that! It’s too obscure!
Best Friend (BF): You ~have~ to! This nice person gave you blogspace in the blogosphere and you have to be thorough!
Me: But! Butbutbut, it’s so……..remote!
BF: Do it.
Me: Sheesh. Okay.
So, the first ~potential~ Paternity reference to GH is when House does the mnemonic MIDNIT for determining Dan’s symptoms. House mentions that Midnight is, in fact, spellt with a G and an H. Reference to “Greg House” or, in BF’s mind, General Hospital?
You decide.
Next reference occurs when House enters the very dark lab while Foreman and Cameron are running tests. Foreman is busy. Cameron is waiting around and House hands her the coffee cups he purloined from Dan’s parents. He orders Cameron to perform a DNA test on the cups to determine if the Father really is Dan’s parent. “Hurry up. GH is on Channel Six” he says as he leans over her work.
And here is where we owe another round of thanks to BF since it’s when she insisted that I actually look up the freakin’ stations in Princeton to see if Channel Six is really the ABC affiliate.
It isn’t.
It’s Channel Seven.
http://www.city-data.com/city/Princeton-New-Jersey.html
GAH.
Next, BF and I ogled, er, I mean, watched Occam’s Razor which…..amazingly enough……BF had never seen! We got through the teaser and, well, it’s rather steamy. BF says quietly, “Huh. I’m pretty sure I’d have remembered this.”
Heh.
So, that’s it for today.
Next up is the Quartermain/Corinthos Family Tree. Please remember, also, that people (read, I) get really invested in these life long devotions to soap operas. I have my own opinion of characters and plot directions. Your mileage may vary. While I encourage comments and debate, I’d rather not login to see vitriol. As my Sainted Mother always says, “If you have nothing nice to say, it’s always wise to shut your piehole.” She’s a hoot that lady is.
Question of the Day:
What Network was GH on?
ABC; 3-4 pm Eastern Time; after One Life to Live and before Oprah! Channel 7 in Princeton, heh.
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