Saw a new ad for House last night on FOX during the Fiesta Bowl. The show is moving to a new time slot on Monday nights, and this new ad features the curmudgeon-savant played by Hugh Laurie edited against "I Don't Like Mondays" as performed by The Boomtown Rats. Why is this a yellow card? FOX apparently has no idea what the song is about.I suspect the writers of the show have some clue. After all, they featured the piano riff from the song's open in an episode where Laurie's character, House, plays the theme and a "half-wit" genius played by Dave Matthews immediately mimics him:
I'm unaware if the episode's plot in any way reflects the song's somber origins, but I'm betting the promo folks wouldn't have chosen it had they noticed that Bob Geldof penned the U.K. chart-topper in 1979 about a school shooting in San Diego. Not that a song's inspiration should prevent it from being enjoyed. I just find it a bit lacking in taste to take a song about the indiscriminate shooting of ten people and treat its refrain like a Garfield punchline.
Of course, I suppose it's not the least bit ironic that the song was performed for the first time live in San Diego only one month after the shooting... at the FOX Theater. FOX cautioned anyway per Sec. B-1 for not thinking--or Googling--any further outside the box than Jim Davis.
Of course, I suppose it's not the least bit ironic that the song was performed for the first time live in San Diego only one month after the shooting... at the FOX Theater. FOX cautioned anyway per Sec. B-1 for not thinking--or Googling--any further outside the box than Jim Davis.
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