Nanda wrote:
Not to be a killjoy, but every time someone makes the House "It's never Lupus" reference, I'm reminded that my mother does, in fact, have Lupus. So I'm right there with Cope - *shakes fist at house.* (In Ugly Girl, Tilde's mom has Lupus, too. I've never mentioned it by name in the comic, though. Now with all the House references, I don't think I'm going to, either.)
I just think that it's weird that when you say the word, people associate it with house and not with it's, you know, obvious latin meaning. It's like if you said Franz Ferdinand, and your first thought is band.
I regularly watch House and I don't even find why "it's not lupus" is so funny. It's mentioned maybe 3 times in the entire show, and as far as I can remember it's not a quote.
O think that it was mentioned regularly when Cameron was on team because it's in her area of expertise so it's always her first idea. When they canch House hiding drugs in hollowed-out book about lupus, he says the actual quote. I think that what's actually funny is that the name gets thrown around very often but most of viewers don't have idea what it actually is.