—References to "General Hospital"
Paternity, Maternity, Damned if You Do, Socratic Method: Cookin' with Gas
Good evening , Popsicles!
Time for another installment of General Hospital meets House.
Is it too much for me to hope that one day General Hospital has the presence of mind to mention House? Now, ~that~ would be truly meta.
First of all, I need to amend my “Paternity” observations. The ever on-her-toes Best Friend told me that my facts were a wee bit off and, by God, she’s right. (Duh.)
In “Paternity”, House walks into the darkened lab and leans over ~Foreman’s~ shoulder (not Cameron’s). Foreman is looking at the computer that is monitoring the patient’s night terrors. House says, “General Hospital is on channel six.” (Hence my dutiful search to prove that, in fact, Princeton’s ABC affiliate is channel SEVEN. See blog post for url.) Foreman answers, “Dan’s brain is not showing channel six right now. It’s showing mush.”
As for “Maternity”, just to be clear, the bogus GH character in the bed on the screen has been in a car accident. And, just to make sure the t’s are crossed and the i’s are dotted….Wilson accuses House of having been in the OB/GYN lounge “all morning” but, if that’s the case, House definitely wasn’t watching General Hospital which doesn’t air until afternoon.
So, we now proceed on to “Damned if You Do”. The first appearance General Hospital makes is on House’s handheld television (damn, he’s got a bunch of those) in the chapel. He’s gone there for privacy and to get away from the rabble.
As I mentioned before: Having an excuse to get away from it all between 3 and 4 in the afternoon has its advantages.
House is sitting in a pew watching a surgical procedure on GH. Again, it’s a bogus bit of film but it is freakin’ hilarious. Since this is a Christmastide episode for House, so, too, is it for GH. (Nice attention to detail.)
In the vignette on the GH screen, there is a surgery with a nurse and a doctor conversing amiably over the supine patient. (I would have said prone but we all know that prone means tummy-side down, don’t we?)
The convo goes accordingly.
Surgeon: Who’s your favourite reindeer?
Nurse: [complete with Santa Claus hat] Rudolph! (you silly goose)
S: I thought it would have been…….[wait for it]…….Vixen.
N: Why would you think that?
S: I saw you at the hospital party with [every doctor in the room].
N: I was just dancing!
Suddenly the annoying Sister BusyBody comes in and interrupts House’s television watching.
At Chez Cap/BF, we call that being a “bonehead”.
Never, and I mean NEVER, call during GH. You’re labelled a bonehead and woe betide you.
Just as House is turning off his minivision, we hear the Surgeon say, “Well, it could have been North POLE dancing.”
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
I got no end of amusement out of that.
Because I’m twelve.
After the convo with Sister BusyBody is over, House immediately goes back to watching GH.
Socratic Method, next in the batting order, has no GH reference so I’m off the hook for that one.
Time for another installment of General Hospital meets House.
Is it too much for me to hope that one day General Hospital has the presence of mind to mention House? Now, ~that~ would be truly meta.
First of all, I need to amend my “Paternity” observations. The ever on-her-toes Best Friend told me that my facts were a wee bit off and, by God, she’s right. (Duh.)
In “Paternity”, House walks into the darkened lab and leans over ~Foreman’s~ shoulder (not Cameron’s). Foreman is looking at the computer that is monitoring the patient’s night terrors. House says, “General Hospital is on channel six.” (Hence my dutiful search to prove that, in fact, Princeton’s ABC affiliate is channel SEVEN. See blog post for url.) Foreman answers, “Dan’s brain is not showing channel six right now. It’s showing mush.”
As for “Maternity”, just to be clear, the bogus GH character in the bed on the screen has been in a car accident. And, just to make sure the t’s are crossed and the i’s are dotted….Wilson accuses House of having been in the OB/GYN lounge “all morning” but, if that’s the case, House definitely wasn’t watching General Hospital which doesn’t air until afternoon.
So, we now proceed on to “Damned if You Do”. The first appearance General Hospital makes is on House’s handheld television (damn, he’s got a bunch of those) in the chapel. He’s gone there for privacy and to get away from the rabble.
As I mentioned before: Having an excuse to get away from it all between 3 and 4 in the afternoon has its advantages.
House is sitting in a pew watching a surgical procedure on GH. Again, it’s a bogus bit of film but it is freakin’ hilarious. Since this is a Christmastide episode for House, so, too, is it for GH. (Nice attention to detail.)
In the vignette on the GH screen, there is a surgery with a nurse and a doctor conversing amiably over the supine patient. (I would have said prone but we all know that prone means tummy-side down, don’t we?)
The convo goes accordingly.
Surgeon: Who’s your favourite reindeer?
Nurse: [complete with Santa Claus hat] Rudolph! (you silly goose)
S: I thought it would have been…….[wait for it]…….Vixen.
N: Why would you think that?
S: I saw you at the hospital party with [every doctor in the room].
N: I was just dancing!
Suddenly the annoying Sister BusyBody comes in and interrupts House’s television watching.
At Chez Cap/BF, we call that being a “bonehead”.
Never, and I mean NEVER, call during GH. You’re labelled a bonehead and woe betide you.
Just as House is turning off his minivision, we hear the Surgeon say, “Well, it could have been North POLE dancing.”
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
I got no end of amusement out of that.
Because I’m twelve.
After the convo with Sister BusyBody is over, House immediately goes back to watching GH.
Socratic Method, next in the batting order, has no GH reference so I’m off the hook for that one.
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