House MD is the perfect show for memes because it’s already a shitpost

polygon.com:

Streaming services constantly try to make their new shows the next big thing, but the power of the nostalgia watch is unrivaled. It’s not just about Friends andThe Office — every so often, an old show just starts to gain traction again, and it seems like everyone across social media is rewatching it at the same time. Columbo, The Sopranos, and Breaking Bad, for instance, have all risen back into the zeitgeist within the last couple of years.

And we can add House MD to that list.

The House resurgence has slowly been gaining momentum since the end of 2022, but this year it’s fully come to a head. And as it turns out, the medical drama is just primed for the shitpost era. With The Sopranos or Breaking Bad, fans have to work to imagine its characters in absurd scenarios. In House, those scenarios just straight-up happen.

Premiering in 2004, the cases of the eccentric, narcissistic, and brilliant Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) ran for eight seasons as he solved confounding medical mysteries and his best friend — soft-hearted oncologist Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) — put up with his increasingly batshit behavior. Technically, House was inspired by Sherlock Holmes (House = Holmes, Wilson = Watson), but as the show went on, that connection became looser and looser. During its time, House was a serious hospital drama, and Laurie’s performance as the tortured, unhinged jerk that was Dr. House was critically acclaimed.

But in the almost 20 years since the show first premiered, fans are appreciating it for just how bonkers it actually is. The doctors commit medical malpractice every episode (breaking into their own patients’ houses is a regular occurrence and honestly one of the more benign ones). House just says