One thing I really like about the television show "House, MD"

[xiphias]

. . . is that there is now, on American television, a male character who is cranky, in chronic pain, unshaven, haggard, walks with a cane, and is considered sexy.

Okay, I'm not as tall as Hugh Laurie, and I'm significantly heavier, but, still -- that's me on a bad day. . .

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[hangedwoman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's pretty popular over at snarksexual.

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

So very, very sexy.

You just need to go a little more unshaven, and hone your sarcastic remarks to a fine art. ;)

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

Sounds like Ranj, except for the haggard part. :)

And the world knows I think he's sexy.

[copperpoint.livejournal.com]

What I find most amusing about that show, is that up until now Hugh Laurie has been a complete goofball. Somewhere I've got a tape of Ric Mayall and Adrian Edmundson (from The Young Ones) interrupting a "Fry and Laurie" skit.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I've been going unshaven a bit more recently, being in the hotel and all.

My beard comes in grey in all the parts that it used to be red.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I think of him as the brainless twits in Blackadder III and Blackadder Goes Forth, and as Bertie Wooster. So seeing him as a cranky, brilliant doctor -- and with an American accent -- is rather jarring.

But he does drama well.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Did anyone ever suggest that you weren't sexy?

I would have thought it was axiomatic.

[copperpoint.livejournal.com]

Yes, I actually really like the show. The only thing I don't like is that it's on opposite Scrubs, which not only has cranky doctors, but also zany humor. And as for the whole "House is Sexy" thing, it's pretty easy to be sexy when your character is a genius and a room full of people are writing your quips for you.