Posted on 08/08/2009 6:44:38 AM PDT by ak267
August, 2009
FOX has annouced that its popular show HOUSE will be canceled and will not have its 2009 season televised as planned.
Due to Obamacare restrictions, delays, rationing and age-to-benefit studies, the show simply can't be done. Writers & producers have concluded that each episode would take 10-20 times longer while necessary medical tests, needed to move the plot/story line, have now become unavailable.
Episodes dealing with elderly patients were scrapped as their stories constantly ended with either pain pill overdoses or euthanasia. Episodes involving unborn children with defects/complications were constantly ending with an abortions. There were also too many scenes where patient-actors had to wait in long lines or were told to come back in a few months for follow up treament (which only exasperated studio production costs).
Leading actor, Hugh Laurie, was most upset that his show was becoming a UK production with all of the bureaucratic pitfalls.
FOX producers tried to save the show with an all new cast of cheap foreign doctors and nurses (H1B visas), but red tape snags and producer squabbles crushed the idea.
As one producer stated, "What the heck were we goning to do every week? Have death counseling sessions, arguments with government officials, and dispensing pain pills? HELLO, can you say boring!!! We're suppose to be fiction, not a reality show!!!"
To date, FOX officials haven't confirmed internet rumors on a possible replacement show dealing with Hugh Laurie's character opening a private clinic in Mexico.
What you said...
Not watchable any more.
You are very, very bad!
“When in doubt, treat” Dr House
perfect for you!
I’m going to email this to flag@whitehouse.gov you evil, right-wing reactionary.
Damn you!!! You beat me to it! I was just about to post just such a funny!
Free HOUSE MD! Defeat Obamacare!
You scared me! Bad bad man.
But clearly House is using far more than his permitted ration of painkillers, taking them away from the truly needy and setting a bad example for patriotic Americans.
Have a chuckle....ping
ping
It’s never lupus...
“It’s never Lupus.” — House
Hugh Laurie = one of my top favorites since Blackadder along with Rowan Atkinson, who has a wife so beautiful that I was stuned.
Oops, sorry!
i love house it is one of the best shows ever i was scared there for a sec until i got the joke lol and btw
ITS NEVER LUPUS
Another victim of the typo virus appears!
Long live the typo virus!
MWUh-hah-hah-hah-hah-haaaaaa!
];-)
Just kidding.
I’ll confess - while I’m a huge Blackadder fan, I’ve never seen House. I just wanted to use that LOLcat.
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