:D Oh, yes! I love these sketches, Poeia! How I love Fry & Laurie! I still don't understand completely what some words are referring to in "Bartender", though. To understand "Bartender" or one like "Felching & Frotting", I have to use my most vulgar imagination and guess. :D

I have to use my most vulgar imagination and guess. That's the whole idea. Chocolate Hobnobs are just a brand of cookie but somehow they managed to make it sound filthy. Most of the words in Felching and Frotting are made up. And, when talking about political correctness, there's always their episode on censorship which includes the trial full of entirely new swear words.

According to Sara Hess via Twitter, it's David Shore's birthday. Happy Birthday! :balloon:

Happy Birthday David! Thanks for creating House.

Tweet from Doris Egan SaraHess just pointed out that by the logic of name-shmushing, the episode Matt and I are working on will be written by "Dormat."

Happy 50th Birthday, David Shore! I don't know if you feel flattered or not, but you look quite young for your age! ;D Thank you Poeia, for "Chocolate Hobnob"...How did you know that that was my biggest "???":D Sorry if my post is wide of the mark...(I'm watching Wimbledon, but it's late...I'd better go to sleep!). I just wanted to say I love the black humor in House, and before watching House I had a wrong idea of American dramas to be somewhat restricted by the politically correctness. I think House is a proof of the maturity of American viewers. The politically incorrect humor on House is one of the first things critics and viewers noticed when the show hit the airways. House got away with a lot of things that others hadn't dared for some years. As for the maturity of the majority of American viewers, I don't know about that. I do know that every week after a new episode of House airs you can visit the Fox forum (if you dare) and read the latest "I'm so offended I'm never going to watch this show again" posts. For some people the humor of House is just fine until their own particular ox gets gored. I sometimes think the downward trend of the ratings for the show is due less to the natural aging of the show over the years and more to the loss of whoever got offended with each episode and left in a snit. If House is continuously politically incorrect, and attacks others with his sarcastic comments and dark humor, I can easily expect that the viewers get offended in the end, but his sarcasm, or politically incorrectness is not just toward others, it's also toward himself. House is capable of analysing himself clearly and severly, and he's very good at making fun of himself, too. Beside Hugh's supurb acting, this inward black humor of House makes his character tolerable, even lovable, I think. If the rating is falling gradually, I think it's because of the aging of the show, as every other shows undergo. Some viewers get offended and leave the show, but some wants always more and more, and sometimes the writers exaggerate. But you can't satisfy all their needs, and people go searching for the new shows and new excitments. If you're airing for 4, 5 years, it's inevitable, I suppose. (Most of our shows finish within 3 month period, so 10/12 episodes.) What I hope is that TPTB doesn't worry about the rating, doesn't mind the demand from the viewers for more excitment, more blackness of the humor. As long as they stick to House's sarcasm not just outward but also inward, they can do quite anything, but when they start to use black humor just for its sake, I'm afraid it gets stale. "Dormat"!...:D

Happy Birthday Mr. Shore. Thank you for the wonderful characters of House AND Wilson!! :balloon:

fffaw wrote: I'm just so not following this. To me, it would probably just make more sense to admit that you misunderstood the tweets and let it go. Trying to justify your point using the regimes of Kim Jong Il, Idi Amin, Pol Pot and Ceausescu is something that I personally find pretty damn appalling. fffaw, it is my point and exactly why I feel as I do. It is also why I mentioned the people in the world who live or previously lived in intolerable conditions of oppression. I know some of them personally. I live in Switzerland, a country that accepts more refugees per capita than any other country. Some of them are my friends, neighbors, colleagues and acquaintances. Most of them are very proud of their black humor and I enjoy and appreciate it too. Recently, one of them mentioned, "The French love their food, we refugees love our black humor." My life experience gives me my own perspective which you find difficult to follow. So be it. I thought a connoisseur of black humor wouldn't be so easily "appalled".

jim, if, when the tweets were first quoted, you had said that you hadn't recognized them as black humor and had mentioned that the best dark humor you have come across was from people who were raised in oppressive regimes, this discussion would have ended long ago. But what you said was that it doesn't make much sense for a person who lives in the affluent and free United States to "indulge in continual black humor." Most of them have their tweets protected so we're usually only seeing one-half of the conversation. That makes it very easy to misunderstand things. From my perspective, I understand that it makes more sense to indulge in continual black humor (almost as a way of life) when you are a resident of a country with an oppressive regime like North Korea or Burma. Not so much when you are the resident of the most affluent and free country in the world and abundantly partaking of both those gifts, wealth and freedom. For those of us who live here and who also like dark humor that didn't make much sense, especially as we are fans of House -- a show that abounds with dark humor, supplied by the show's writers (including the authors of those tweets.) At this point, however, I think we have ranged far, far afield from the subject of House. It is obvious that HHoW members who live in the U.S. and are fans of black humor do not (and will not) understand your point that we should not thus indulge and that you do not (and will not) comprehend our lack of comprehension. Therefore, mod note, I hereby declare that this horse has died and, rather than continue beating it, we should accept its demise and move on. (In other words, time to stop beating a dead horse.)

Variety reports that David Shore has been tapped for a remake of The Rockford Files.

Good for Shore, but I'm sad that it means he won't be concentrating on House any more, or I suppose not working on it at all. I wonder what the time schedule is for this new show. Ah well, all good things must come to an end, and I personally think House only has at most two seasons left. :cry: