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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 40
******* "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
DocBastard has kids, eh?
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Comments (114)
Fuaaad1994 31
Scrubs is awesome though, you need a little JD in your life!
MSCCG 16
Scrubs should have been the go to show if you wanted a light hearted way to bond. House is awesome but too heavy.
Ibroughtuamento 10
Who hates house? Your dad clearly doesn't know good tv shows when he sees them
eyedea84 5
well in perspective, one of my army friends despises the film hurt locker, due to the fact he was EOD. he knows they do not rambunctiously chase down enemies, but rather defend themselves under fire if need be. Hollywood loves dramatic entertainment even if it is falsified.
apu_nahasapeemap 10
Doctors hate House, that's who. Grey's Anatomy is just as bad. As a general rule, it's best not to watch shows about professions with people in those professions, unless they're comedies. Heck, I've been warned not to watch Star Trek with engineers.
IAmMe204 25
I know what it's like. Both my parents are doctors and how they described parts of their work was very similar to both House and in its time Scrubs. Yet every time I tried to show it to them my mom would say that it was stupid and would just leave while my dad would criticize me, prohibit me to watch the show and basically tell me the huge idiot I was for liking such and idiodic show.
cryssycakesx3 23
I thought they were fellows?
guineagirl96 38
He has a point my mom is a doctor and can't stand it. It even drives me nuts sometimes. I clicked both because it sucks that he went off on you and you don't have horrible taste but you should have thought about the fact that he might perceive it differently because he works in the field.
Teyros 24
My parents (nurse and paramedic) always tell me what doctors and paramedics are doing wrong. It's kinda funny, but interrupts what's going on and destroys the show/movie -.-.
stolenballoon 5
Interestingly, my mom is a doctor, and when we watch House, she does the whole: "I bet it's..." and is usually right. She also explains in further detail what they're talking about, rather than what they're doing wrong. But the first time she watched Scrubs? Opening credits: "That X-ray is backwards."
Dmc169 9
Was gonna say that. At least he will get a great laugh out of Scrubs
sadistmonkey 19
The way I see it, no fictional TV shows are going to get all the technical details correct, and they shouldn't be obligated to. They're categorized as fiction for a reason. The technical accuracy or lack thereof should theoretically not matter in terms of how good or bad the story is, as long as internal logic is maintained (unless it's a comedy and deliberately breaking the internal logic is part of the comedy). That said, I don't blame someone who is savvy in the specific technical field for being annoyed. But let's not hold shows to different standards. I bet the OP's dad is perfectly fine with other movies or shows where the technical details are botched, simply because he's not familiar with that field.