Suicide is Painless - House

House's self-destruction set to "Suicide is Painless", better known as the theme to MASH

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• house
• hugh
• laurie
• mash

[JesseBlue1791]

I don't understand what everyone is so pissed off about. I grew up watching M.A.S.H. and I am a big fan of House as well. This is a very well put together video that could fit the subject matter of both television shows and instigates thought and consideration of different kinds of pain and suffering both emotional and physical. I can't find anything offensive or upsetting about it. I love the idea. @kaitlinredmond Intriguing idea and fine execution! I approve! :~)

[kaitlinredmond]

@JesseBlue1791 Reasonable comments shouldn't be such a rarity on Youtube, but they are. Thanks for this - this video seems to rile people up, for one reason or another (people seem to think I'm insulting either Mash or House - both of which I like, or that I'm advocating suicide, when I thought it was obvious that I'm not - I mean, do any of these scenes of House's self-destruction seem appealing?). Again, thanks for your comment, glad you liked the video.

[dogglebe]

This was stupid. MASH is an iconic film; you just butchered the song.

And I'm a fan of House.

[kaitlinredmond]

Good for you.

[paradigmstudiosca]

They're both against the grain of their times. House's hard-hitting personality is completely against the preachy, touchy-feely attitude of modern TV. Hawkeye Pierce was preachy in a time when the norm was the opposite. Watch, every show is going to go back to hard-hitting because of House, just like everything wen to preachy because of MASH.

[kioatee]

@JesseBlue1791 Thanks for your work making and posting this. I too am a fan of House and M.A.S.H. your work fits both. You would never hear the lyrics or the title "Suicide is Painless" on TV. It was always called "The Theme To M.A.S.H.", the lyrics and title were considered too rude or crude or something for TV. Your work and even the movie version where Jawbreaker "commits suicide" to the tune do not advocate suicide in any way. Watch the movie and see that there was no real suicide.

[aikijb]

sync to (Q)

[42jemini]

@PrankerDemon Well now I know where you are coming from at least. Yeah, your parents here are quite irrational and over the top by blaming others like this.

I have not encountered that behavior in response to pain my self, nor do I practice it. Me and most people I know who deal with chronic pain just get unpleasant to be around, snap at the smallest provolkation, and get a little overly cynical in my opinions. All things that are the complete opposite of me when I am not in pain.

[PrankerDemon]

@42jemini Migraines are painful as hell. I tend to get them constantly from sleeping up to 7 hours, which I do often. However, I was raised by foster parents that didn't release their frustrations at the exact people responsible, but were snippy psychos on whoever else was around. Their arguments were simply retarded. Frankly, they still are when I have occasion to listen. That irrational "blame anyone else" behavior sucks. So no, I don't take pain out on other people, I blame who deserves it.

[42jemini]

@PrankerDemon dude, have you ever experienced chronic pain? Pain for a short period of time doesn't change your personality, but if it goes on for days you start to really not be your self and you get angry and lash out in ways that you never would if you weren't experiencing pain.

Take it from someone like me who used to experience extremely severe and complicated Migrains that would last for a week and give me only a day or two of no pain. I was really not my self when that was happening.

[EaveSchaefer]

This make me cry, all the things in this video are things in my life, this video shows my life in 3 minutes...xx

[ponquinful]

@paradigmstudiosca Actually House IS "touchy feely" similarly to modern tv. However, it is unique because it's about a doctor who's ONE goal is to have a correct diagnosis that will allow his patient to live. This is different from other doctors and medical shows because most doctors may get to know their patient and feel sorry for them, but only House has ever tried EVERYTHING(at the cost of everything to him) to make sure his patient lives, even though he doesn't care about the patient.

[skgserenity]

Agreed - this is one of the deepest and most moving movie theme songs ever. Truly this song has been so misunderstood, as it is truly about LIVING. The men and women depicted in the movie and TV show are fighting for life in the chaos of war and the battle to save lives while staying alive. Suicide is "painless" - death is by far the easier choice, as this song lays out by speaking to the pain of living.