TV shows and Miscellaneous: Bonding moment

Bonding moment

By Anonymous - 31/12/2013 20:11 - United States - San Francisco

Today, I introduced my dad, who is a surgeon, to the TV show 'House, M.D.' I thought it'd be a good bonding experience. How wrong I was. He spent the whole time yelling about the "insane" medical inaccuracies, then lectured me about my crappy taste in TV. FML

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By randommanwill - 16/02/2016 20:22 - United States - Philadelphia

Today, my dad got angry with me for not watching "Better Call Saul" with him, because he thinks it will help me with law school. He did this while I was actually reading for a class taught by the top health law professor in the country. FML

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By Gen - 17/12/2008 09:40 - France

Today, I was telling off one of my friends, a fellow student of medicine, who was spending his evenings watching "House" instead of revising for our important exam, as I was. The topic mentioned in the episode came up in the exam. He got 4 points more than I did. FML

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By Anonymous - 19/10/2015 09:26 - United States - Lexington

Today, my husband won't seek medical treatment for a condition he's been living with for years because he saw an episode of House, in which the treatment made the condition worse in a very rare instance. FML

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Get in, kid

By -__- - 28/10/2011 11:50 - Australia

Today, I think my dad has finally lost his shit and is having a mid-life crisis. He showed up at my school and had me brought to the front desk. He told me to get in the car because we were going to have some "father-daughter bonding." This meant us watching Silent Hill with his work buddies. FML

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Foot, meet mouth

By Anonymous - 20/01/2016 02:51 - United States - Mission

Today, I was talking to one of my supervisors at my new job. He asked if I knew a professor at the school I recently graduated from, and I decided to babble on about how shitty of a professor he was and how much I loathed his class. He then looked at me and said, "That's my dad." FML

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Catchphrase hell

By Anonymous - 06/09/2013 22:56 - United States

Today, a week after my dad discovered Family Guy and started mindlessly repeating catchphrases from it 24/7, I finally lost my temper and told him how incredibly annoying it was. He just paused, turned to look me in the eye, and said, "Shut up, Meg." FML

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Great, just great

By Norwegian - 02/06/2012 16:55 - Norway

Today, I introduced my girlfriend to my dad. I thought it was a good idea at the time, at least until he took her aside for a private chat. During the chat, he told her all about my two previous marriages and advised her to "get out while you can". FML

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By RectalSteve - 10/09/2017 20:00 - United Kingdom - Belfast

Today, I showed my girlfriend some old home videos of me as a kid. My dad must have taped over one though, because halfway through it cut to extremely graphic footage of his colonoscopy. FML

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Toxic people

By Anonymous - 05/10/2022 17:30

Today, I went out with my parents and a family friend. After saying goodbye to the friend and as soon as the elevator doors shut, my parents started trash-talking the friend's looks, stature, choice of clothes, etc. Now I understand a lot about my education growing up. FML

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Let the man be happy!

By Anonymous - 16/02/2014 19:21 - United States - Glasgow

Today, I walked in on my dad singing along to a song on Sesame Street. He tried to divert attention from what I'd just witnessed by angrily grilling me over "just barging in" and not respecting people's privacy. Apparently he forgot that we were in the living room. FML

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DocBastard 38

Wednesday 1 January 2014 2:48

******* "House". I can't watch that goddamned show. Doctors don't do their own pathology, give medicines, start IVs, take X-rays, do angiograms, or run the MRI. $@!% &*#%* £$!@ "#+*!

Zaros_fml 24

Wednesday 1 January 2014 0:36

DocBastard has kids, eh?

Comments

sarah2144 14

Wednesday 1 January 2014 9:17

Haha, my dad is a surgeon too and he haaaaates medical shows (especially Grey's Anatomy) because of how inaccurate they are. I agree with watching Breaking Bad with him instead though. My dad loves that show and so do I. Can't go wrong.

1947Chevy 17

Wednesday 1 January 2014 9:17

I get what he is saying. For me it's cars. Every tv show where people work on cars you see something that's just dumb. For instance when you see a show where a cars brakes were cut I always hate that because care as soon as you start your car you will know there is an issue because what do you press when starting it.

KociaQ 30

Wednesday 1 January 2014 14:37

Never, ever, introduce someone who specializes in something, to a TV show about it. It will be pretty much always inaccurate and in best case, the solutions will be at least funny to the specialist.

LexSwift 17

Wednesday 1 January 2014 15:52

#57 Okay, this is where it gets confusing. I'm not enrolled in a Med School, but I'm studying everything that you learn in Med School. I figured that would sound like I'm making it up (like it does now) and people wouldn't understand, so I tried to simplify it for y'all. You could quiz me, though, and I'd answer 98% of it correct. Hope that clarified it a bit. :)

ConfidenceIsCool 4

Wednesday 1 January 2014 17:03

That's what medical school does to you!

ashleyjade12 9

Wednesday 1 January 2014 17:22

My mom does the same thing!

TheyCallMeDamien 17

Wednesday 1 January 2014 19:05

TV is notoriously inaccurate no matter the profession they portray. Trying watching an action show with a physicist you'll get the lecture of a lifetime.

Shade1982 20

Thursday 2 January 2014 12:06

True, but it just gets annoying when they don't even try... At least in ER they had real professionals present when shooting the scenes to make it as close to reality as possible...