Disclaimer: legally unneeded, always like to add it though. This stuff is all true, but the names have been changed to protect the stupid…I mean "innocent". Yeah. That's it….
The Random Quote of... Randomness
"I was sitting in my garage in front of a little Wurlitzer electric piano and this song popped out and started this whole train a rollin' " - Dennis DeYoung, member of the band Styx, discussing their first hit single "Lady"
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The Show
Our story begins on a dark and stormy night (you knew it was going to start like that, didn't you?). While the weather was raging outside, I, Jeeves, was inside sleeping off the anesthesia from my wisdom teeth extraction earlier that day. The numbness was wearing off and my mouth was beginning to hurt like bloody hell when my mother came into the room.
"There's this show I want to watch."
"What?" I moaned weakly.
"It's a medical show called House, and I heard it's really cool."
"House? What the hell kind of name is that for a show?"
She plopped down in the bed beside me and seized the remote. "Oh, shut up and take some Vicodin."
I obliged.
After the little trailer: "Hey," I said. "This is kinda cool."
Ten minutes in: "This is really cool!"
Fifteen minutes in: "Hey, he likes Vicodin as much as I do right now!"
Unfortunately, twenty minutes into my first experience with House MD, the Vicodin took effect and I rolled over and got some much-needed sleep.
My mother and I began to watch the show regularly on Tuesdays. We both thought it was the best medical show we had ever seen. We liked to make a game out of the episodes, and try to guess the disease before House did (Score: Us: 2, House: 1968982759206825)
There was only one little problem: my best friend Wooster liked to call me, unknowingly, right in the middle of my show!
"Wooster, you are interrupting my show."
"Oh, sorry."
"What are you watching right now? You should really watch this, it's amazing."
"Oh, nothing much..."
Wooster successfully blew off my recommendation for several weeks until I spent the night at her house (we watched star wars) and wrote her a note on her dry erase board: House, FOX, Tuesday, after American Idol.
The next week she watched it. She loved it. She quickly became as addicted as I was.
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Wooster and I's instant messages began to consist mainly of fangirl-y squeeing about House. During one of these conversations, I thought to myself, 'I bet there's House fanfic!' I had been on several times before reading Harry Potter fanfic. I liked the site, so I began my search there.
Lo and behold, there was a rather little bit of House fanfiction on the site. I scanned the titles for something appealing, and after a brief search, I knew I had found it.
Jeeves: Wooster, I just found this amazing fanfiction.
Wooster: Eh?
Jeeves: It's called House Party-
Wooster: omg that's our term! ('Tis true, we had used the phrase "House Party" before to describe a Tuesday night viewing party)
Jeeves: -by Ruthless Bunny. But you'll never guess what the best thing about it is….
Wooster: what?
Jeeves: House has a valet named Jeeves.
I knew that Wooster would love this. Though neither of us knew anything about Hugh Laurie's resume at the time and therefore we didn't get the irony, Wooster was a big fan of the wonderful works of Wodehouse and owned all 30-something books in the Jeeves series.
Wooster: SQUEEEEE! I love it!
While Wooster read the fic for herself, I did something I had been meaning to do for a while- I looked up Hugh Laurie on the International Movie Database. What I saw there both shocked and awed me.
Jeeves: OMG!
Wooster: Whaddya want, I'm reading!
Jeeves: I just read something that will make that fic you are reading 30 ½ times better!
Wooster: What?
Jeeves: Hugh Laurie
played Bertie Wooster in a British TV show called Jeeves and Wooster,
based on the PG Wodehouse books!
Wooster:
OMG! faints
The next few days passed in a fangirl-y blur. We researched the show Jeeves and Wooster, Wooster acquired the entire series on VHS from her grandmother, we came up with many fanfiction ideas, and we registered on this site, becoming, officially, Jeevesandwooster. And the rest, as they say is history.
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The Fanfiction
I Have a Bad Feeling About This….
Star Wars was chosen completely at random for this fic. We had written the first chappie without the name of the fandom and we were trying to decide what Cameron would like. (Jeeves: Harry Potter? Wooster: Nah, she's a bit too old. Jeeves: How 'bout Star Wars? Wooster: Hmm… that might work.) We were only going to continue the fanfiction bit through the first chapter, but Star Wars just lent itself to jokes so well and everything kind of went in another direction from there…
We know House is 45 because Hugh Laurie is 45. I personally think it would be cool if Cam was born on the day the first Star Wars came out in 1977- making her 28, about the right age for an intern.
I can't tell you too much about patient Mark Dallas except for the fact that my mom had what he has.
Just try and count all the Star Wars references in this. There are so many.
We watched the Han and Leia kiss scene approximately seven times until we memorized it.
For lack of a better prop, we did use a Swiffer Sweeper as a cane proxy to figure out how House would sit down, because authors have to be omniscient.
Friday the 13th
This one-shot for the holiday came into Wooster's warped little mind in chemistry.
Yes, it is loosely based on the movie. No, not the Lindsey Lohan one.
Our friend Allyce invented adding the phrase "in bed" to the end of fortune cookies. Can't you see Chase doing that?
Candy is Dandy, but…
Wooster actually saw a shot checkers set in Bed, Bath, and Beyond once.
We would love to get House drunk.
Why House hates My Fair Lady will be discussed in a later fic. We love My Fair Lady. A lot.
The girl who was House's first kiss is, well, essentially me, Jeeves. I would love to have House in my chemistry class.
We became our personas Jeeves and Wooster due to this fic- Wooster posted it without running it by me first, a very Wooster thing to do. So that's why we call her Wooster now.
The showing of the leg bit was a long time in coming- we have always wanted to do something like that. I have always had this mental image of how his leg should look- in the book Seabiscuit; they describe the game leg of jockey Red Pollard as looking like "a charred, knobby broomstick". I suppose we ended up describing it differently, though. Medical Food for Thought: If the infarction was in House's thigh, wouldn't the necrotic tissue have been all the way down his leg, therefore, wouldn't the whole leg be wasted, not just the thigh?
Ramblings
Umm… we're just crazy.
Jukebox
Expect crazy, fabulous music in this series of songfics chronicling the House and Cameron relationship, everything from show tunes to indie rock.
Future Projects
I Have a Bad Feeling About This will be finished.
More ramblings.
Jukebox could go on as long as we want it to.
Some fluffy fluff.
Three companion fics exploring the whole My Fair Lady thing…
Any suggestions?
Wooster would like it to be known that I would have started watching the show EARLIER if Jeeves had stopped harping on about how cool the MED stuff was and told me how HOT the main character was. I mean, I like med drama and all, but I was kinda bored with it after several seasons of mom forcing me to watch ER with her… Next chappie is from me: and it's a sequel to the fluffiest fluff at the request of my contest winner cheesystar. Love ya!
