slashbabe ([info]slashbabe) wrote in [info]house_md,
@ 2005-11-24 15:18:00
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House 2x07 "Hunting"
Has anybody noticed the number on the house, where House lives ?




It´s 221B. The same number as the fictional residence of Sherlock Holmes.
221B Backerstreet in London.

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[info]chickhazard
2005-11-24 06:44 am UTC (link)
I squeed out loud when I saw that. Ok, maybe it wasn't exactly subtle, but it was awesome all the same. :D

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[info]stefestella
2005-11-24 06:50 am UTC (link)
Yeah I had the same reaction! Too perfect.
But does he live on Baker Street I wonder...

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42, 221B and literature
[info]bbarnett
2005-11-26 06:36 am UTC (link)
Well, of course, given your icon, Mulder's apartment number in X-Files was 42! Gotta love those literary referenced addresses, eh?

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Re: 42, 221B and literature
[info]stefestella
2005-11-26 06:59 am UTC (link)
I do love the inspired references like that!

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[info]aurora_storm
2005-11-24 06:46 am UTC (link)
Wow! That's incredibly cool. How'd you catch that?
I wonder how many other tidbit's they've worked into the show that we can catch onto. X)

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[info]slashbabe
2005-11-24 01:58 pm UTC (link)
Normally I don't see such things. But in this scene I was just wondering, why they showed us this number. I'm not a big Sherlock Homes fan. But who hasn't heard of that famous address. :)

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[info]_rumpleteazer_
2005-11-24 06:50 am UTC (link)
I'm somewhat confused. Has House moved at all during the show? Because he didn't USED to live at 221B. The number on his house in "Role Model" is 87.

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[info]atalantapendrag
2005-11-24 09:09 am UTC (link)
Every time they show "his apartment", it's different. I think he actually lives in a TARDIS.

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[info]chickhazard
2005-11-24 09:22 am UTC (link)
I think he actually lives in a TARDIS.

Bwahahaha!

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[info]slashbabe
2005-11-24 02:13 pm UTC (link)
"I think he actually lives in a TARDIS."


But in a working one. Because the Tardis was supposed to shift it's shape. And his apartment does just this.

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[info]_rumpleteazer_
2005-11-24 09:25 am UTC (link)
HA! Nice.

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[info]damaged_hearts
2005-11-24 07:17 am UTC (link)
Yes noticed it straight away, thought how cool :)

I suspect he has moved, also I think Cameron has as well

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[info]npkedit
2005-11-24 08:00 am UTC (link)
Well, Cameron definitely switched apartments. In Kids it's at the end of a hallway, whereas in Hunting it's right in the middle of one.

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[info]englishmann
2005-11-24 07:24 am UTC (link)
I bow to you for catching that.

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[info]amyhatch2001
2005-11-24 08:08 am UTC (link)
Well Cameron did need a new place where she could do drugs and bring home co workers to have sex with right?

And House moved caused he was afraid that too many of his call girls he gets at work would eventually find out where he lived..

;)

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[info]gandolforf
2005-11-24 08:48 am UTC (link)
Now all we need is for someone to make a smartass remark and call House "Sherlock".

<:3D~

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[info]finding_jay
2005-11-24 03:40 pm UTC (link)
House: I'm right! I was right all along! PWNED
Wilson/Chase/Foreman/Cuddy/whoever: No shit, Sherlock.

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[info]gandolforf
2005-11-24 04:45 pm UTC (link)
I'd thought of that, but they can't really say "shit" on Fox.

Maybe "What was your first clue, Sherlock?"

Then House can say, "Elementary, Watson." to Wilson. (Or "Elementary, Wilson," whatev.)

<:3D~

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[info]finding_jay
2005-11-24 06:14 pm UTC (link)
Wasn't Sherlock gay? Or was that Watson? I'm fairly certain one of the two was a bit fruity.

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[info]gandolforf
2005-11-24 06:53 pm UTC (link)
It would make my life right now it Sherlock Holmes was gay.

<:3D~

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[info]finding_jay
2005-11-24 07:12 pm UTC (link)
Somebody said he was... Maybe it was my mum? I dunno, mum says a lot.

But if they're following the Sherlock-y theme, I'm saying expect some down-right snogging between our two favourite docs.

Cuddy excluded. Cos Cuddy is doing the dirty with Stacy.

...

MOVING RIGHT ALONG

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[info]lemming23
2005-11-25 09:37 am UTC (link)
Uhm, sorry, Sherlock was pretty much asexual.

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[info]marie_1989
2005-11-26 09:56 am UTC (link)
no, no, not completely. there was one woman. sherlock always called her "THE woman." she was the only one (woman or man) who ever outsmarted him.

so as that relates to house... wilson? pretty please!

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[info]lemming23
2005-11-26 10:33 am UTC (link)
Yes, but even to her he wasn't physically attracted, here's the exact quote from the book ('A Scandal in Bohemia'):

To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard
him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses
and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt
any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that
one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but
admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect
reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a
lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never
spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They
were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the
veil from men's motives and actions.

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[info]marie_1989
2005-11-26 03:04 pm UTC (link)
i stand corrected. ;)

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Ooh, coincidence.
[info]dethanh
2006-05-08 12:42 pm UTC (link)
Adler is the last name of the main patient on the pilot. (Rebecca)

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[info]splintercat
2005-11-26 02:36 pm UTC (link)
Actually, Watson was a woman.

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[info]sisterelwood
2005-11-24 10:17 am UTC (link)
Yup! My mom and I both spied it!

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[info]chuckjd
2005-11-24 10:34 am UTC (link)
My mom and I squeed like made when we saw it. It makes sense. They had been making serious allusions to Sherlock since the beginning.

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[info]alethiasmiles
2005-11-24 11:02 am UTC (link)
yeah my mom saw that too (when you become a mother do you inherit trivia about Holmes??) the other thing we noticed was similiarity between the characters, House---> Holmes, Wilson----> watson, watson had wife issues sometimes and wilson does too, holmes had a opium habit, and house has a vicodin habit...strange? I tihnk NOT!

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[info]septentrio
2005-11-24 11:46 am UTC (link)
Holmes really had an opium habit? I thought that was something added to the stories afterward, like in that Case of Evil movie for USA Network (which I love). Though I think that was Absinthe.

Didn't Holmes also have a higher-up with the police that he had to listen to sometimes, i.e. Cuddy? I can't remember his name, though.

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[info]alethiasmiles
2005-11-24 12:23 pm UTC (link)
OH gosh my dad said it and I can't remember the name...Yeah I thought it was opium but maybe it was absinthe...

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[info]alope_midnight
2005-11-24 06:33 pm UTC (link)
Inspector Lestrade...sounds a little bit like Lisa (Cuddy) if you say it funny.

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(Anonymous)
2005-11-29 03:45 pm UTC (link)
He never had to answer to Lastrade.

Holmes' cocaine use is also noted in "Devil's Foot"

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[info]septentrio
2005-11-30 11:11 pm UTC (link)
Yes, that's exactly who I was thinking of! Thanks for reminding me. :)

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(Anonymous)
2005-11-24 01:02 pm UTC (link)
A certain seven-percent solution of cocaine...

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Anonymous is right
(Anonymous)
2005-11-24 03:49 pm UTC (link)
Holmes never had an opium habit (although he would sometimes pretend to visit opium dens). We discover in the second Holmes story --- "The Sign of the Four"that he uses a 7% solution of cocaine when he wasn't working. Only when he wasn't working. He didn't need it when he was working. The cocaine appears in a few more episodes and then is never mentioned again.

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Re: Anonymous is right
[info]bpbomber
2007-04-21 03:13 am UTC (link)
"(although he would sometimes pretend to visit opium dens)"
as in The Man With the Twisted Lip

"It is cocaine," he said,--"a seven-per- cent. solution. Would you care to try it?" Sign of Four

In "Devil's Foot" while on the beach, Holmes pours out his "seven percent solution" then, he buries his syringe in the sand.

"Yes," I [Watson] answered, laughing. "It was a singular document.
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I
remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the
mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry
eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime
records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and
self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the
main points of my analysis." -- The Five Orange Pips

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[info]ravyn726
2005-11-28 01:14 pm UTC (link)
No. Freak'n. Way. That is too cool.

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[info]tainted__pen
2005-11-28 09:54 pm UTC (link)
I was just about to type the exact same thing xD

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[info]simmysim
2006-01-07 01:14 pm UTC (link)
Oh, score! X3

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[info]maddy_harrigan
2006-03-24 08:41 am UTC (link)
Dorothy L. Sayers' fictional detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, lived in 110A Piccadilly - every figure is subtracted one from 221B.

Not above a little subtle fangirlishness, even way back in the 30's ...

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[info]violetchaos_364
2007-12-07 07:13 pm UTC (link)
Cool! I never noticed that!
So, grudge match: Bunter Vs. Jeeves? :)

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[info]ghris
2006-04-08 10:32 pm UTC (link)
I've always wondered y i was sooo completely obsessed with House. and then i watched some doco/behind the scenes thing where david shore said House was based on Sherlock holmes, it all came together for me. I had the biggest obsession with Sherlock holmes in yr 6, I read every case, and then 3 years later i decided that it was a big enough gap that i would have forgotten the details of the cases so i read them all again.

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[info]buddhist_babe2
2007-08-18 11:47 pm UTC (link)
Looooo000000oooooove!

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