Let’s rewind a few days. Back to Tuesday.<\/p>\n
House<\/i> returned to FOX on Tuesday for its final three episodes of the fourth season with a Very Special Christmas Episode.<\/p>\n
Unlike previous Very Special Christmas Episodes, Dr. Gregory House didn’t OD himself into oblivion. He had case. He had his new team. He had new mind games to play with, well, everyone<\/i>.<\/p>\n
And House even went to church.<\/p>\n
I loved it. House<\/i> was back, even though come Tuesday House<\/i> will be finished for the season.<\/p>\n
But wait! Didn’t I write above “three episodes”? I did — the other episode is on tomorrow night, after the Super Bowl. Go Tom Petty! Yeah, that’s what I’ll be watching the Super Bowl for. Tom Petty.<\/p>\n
I digress.<\/p>\n
It’s always fun to watch a television show and hear, in the background, a song that you know that you’re absolutely certain<\/i> no one else knows. And that’s what happened to me on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
I heard a Fab Four song.<\/p>\n
I don’t remember the scene exactly. It doesn’t matter. But in the background on one scene, The Fab Four’s “Little Drummer Boy” played in the background.<\/p>\n
The Fab Four are a Beatles tribute band. And they released two CDs of Beatles-inspired Christmas music<\/a>. “Little Drummer Boy,” for instance, sounds<\/i> like “Sun King” from Abbey Road<\/i>. It has the distinctive instrumental opening of “Sun King,” and then segues into a Beatle-tinged “Little Drummer Boy.”<\/p>\n I thought it was absolutely awesome.<\/p>\n And I knew exactly<\/i> what it was. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Other people heard it. How do I know?<\/p>\n People are looking for “Beatles Drummer Boy Mash Up.” Or they’re looking for “Beatles Christmas Drummer Boy.” Or similar search phrases.<\/p>\n Based on the phrases searched for, I have the impression that viewers think the Beatles were the ones to record “Little Drummer Boy.” Just an impression. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n The recent redesign<\/a>, in this case, isn’t helping them find the information they’re looking for. The new tag pages, for example, don’t have text<\/i>, but that’s what recent Google-crawls indexed. So they’re not finding the post where I broke down the twenty Christmas songs the Fab Four recorded, and the Beatles songs they used as their templates<\/a>.<\/p>\n And now you know. And knowing is half the battle.<\/p>\n As for House<\/i>…<\/p>\n I’m glad it’s back. Even if it’s just for three more days.<\/p>\n After a definite dip in its third season, I loved the Survivor<\/i>-style contests that dominated the first part of the season. It was time for the Ducklings to move on. The interpersonal dynamics had become a bit too… bland. I like Taub. I like Kuttner. I like Thirteen. I do miss Cutthroat Bitch, though.<\/p>\n The post-Super Bowl episode looks good and exciting. A format-breaker. House<\/i> needs more format breakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let’s rewind a few days. Back to Tuesday. House returned to FOX on Tuesday for its final three episodes of the fourth season with a Very Special Christmas Episode. Unlike previous Very Special Christmas Episodes, Dr. Gregory House didn’t OD himself into oblivion. He had case. He had his new team. He had new mindContinue reading “On House and The Beatles”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[507,4119,187,98],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-fab-four","tag-house","tag-hugh-laurie","tag-the-beatles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}