Come to Springfield: Hugh Laurie
Basically, I’d like to create an ongoing series on this blog, on which I think up an actor or actress and argue why it would be great to see them on The Simpsons. This isn’t fan fiction, although it is going to be a bit of wishful thinking on my part. Of course, there will be a number of suggested storylines for the prospective guest star.
First up, this time around, is Hugh Laurie, noted comedic actor from BBC shows like “A Little Bit of Fry and Laurie” as well as “Wooster and Jeeves.” Laurie will likely get a second entry later based on that part of his resume, but at the present, it would make more sense if he did a guest spot based on his widely successful turn as Dr. Gregory House. Most viewers in America know him as that cranky doctor, the one that shoots cadavers to test his theories, can’t get along with his patients, and his a prescription drug problem.
So, it’s in that fashion Hugh Laurie should first visit Springfield. Naturally, this episode would call for some sort of epidemic of a hilarious nature, but it really should not be something gas related – this is The Simpsons, after all, not South Park. Lets say everybody in town starts hallucinating. “Dr. House” is passing through Springfield because somebody duped him into 
thinking that there was a prestigious medical conference in town. At any rate, he sees everybody tripping out, and he gets to his diagnostics. He is alone, however, and so that means his entourage and team are back at Princeton-Plainsboro. That means he has to enlist the assistance of Doctor Hibbard, and Doctor Nick Rivera, both of whom irritate House to no end. Dr. Hibbard can handle the usual ethical complaints, and Dr. Nick can end up offering the most inane, useless advice ala “lets give everybody boob jobs!” And, despite Dr. Hibbard and Dr. Nick’s uselessness, Gregory House saves the day, but in the process, he makes everyone in Springfield so mad, they chase him out of town in classic Springfield mob fashion, led by Sideshow Mel.
The Simpsons, House, Hugh Laurie
November 19th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
[...] isn’t, of course, another moment where I speculate about a possible appearance, as I did with Hugh Laurie. Via Now [...]
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:59 am
[...] ‘coming to Springfield,” this sort of blog entry is a little different than the ones done for Hugh Laurie or America Ferrera. I’d like to see Sideshow Bob return to Springfield and do something different [...]
May 27th, 2008 at 2:14 am
oh my god! yes! that would be fantastic!!! they HAVE to do that! great story line!
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May 27th, 2008 at 2:15 am
hugh laurie im simpsons whoooo! that’d be great
(thats what i was talkin about before)
May 8th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I would like to see him in Simpsons. House character can fit anywhere but Hugh Laurie is great actor and he can be in Simpsons as him self. One more thing, House doesn’t go on conferences no matter how prestigious they are.
June 14th, 2009 at 8:37 am
BB above: good idea. Laurie is so different from House that the differences between him and the expectations a TV-obsessed moron would have of him are comedy topsoil.
I’d rather see Laurie make a briefer appearance, with Homer insisting that he be House for him…Laurie eventually decides to humour him, comes up with (switching to House accent after Homer says, ‘Why are you talking funny?’) ‘You’re a morbidly obese alcoholic who takes stupid risks and should have been dead fifty times over.’
Homer’s reaction: ‘Now do something irascible.’ Lisa: ‘Dad, that’s a perfectly accurate diagnosis delivered in a fairly irascible manner….’
‘Limp, damn you!, limp!’