Mike Anderson:
Has anybody else ever noticed that … Dr. Gregory House’s address is 221 (whatever street) and that he lives in Apartment B, which would make his address 221-B? Just FYI, Sherlock Holmes’ address was 221-B Baker Street. I think that’s pretty cool. Good for the show’s writers for being literate, which ain’t always the case.
Not surprising, because the whole House series is modeled after the Sherlock Holmes books and character set. House (Hugh Laurie) is obviously Holmes, Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) is Watson, Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) is Lestrade, House’s Team (Jennifer Morrison as Cameron, Jesse Spencer as Chase, Omar Epps as Foreman) is modeled after the Baker Street Boys. The real life Arthur Conan Doyle was a physician by training, and he modeled the Sherlock Holmes character after a medical diagnostician.
There are even more House-Holmes parallels than these.
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