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mr_splenda
Boot
Joined: 14 Jul 2009 Posts: 14 Location: Redondo Beach, CA
House Viral? I was watching So You Think You Can Dance last night on Fox when I saw a super short clip with a picture that said http://snakesonacane.com .
It lead me to a page with a counter that I believe is counting down to house's season premier, but thus far I haven't seen anything else.
Just thought I'd put it out there.
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:14 am
snorkle256
Unfettered
Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 631 Location: West Central Wisconsin
Deff could be, domain is owned by fox and site is run on fox servers. Weird part is that one of the blogs on the fox server is running an ad through google adsense for snakes on a cane. Its costing them money to run ads on themselves and that makes me laugh, wtg fox!
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:26 am
Mescad
Boot
Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 63 Location: Lexington, KY
Interesting find, thanks.
The House website http://www.fox.com/house/ shows a different countdown leading to August 17th, but IMDB confirms that the season premiere is indeed the date that snakesonacane.com is counting to.
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:28 am
dposse
Entrenched
Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 954 Location: CT
Well, the name is a homage to the Snakes on a Plane film, while at the same time being a play on words for a Caduceus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:45 am
magnet0
Unfettered
Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 398
Although a lot of speculation, I started searching for more info on the web yesterday and came acros a thread somewhere (don't remember where or I'd post the link) where someone claimed to have seen a 5 second preview of season 6 for House immediately followed by the snakesonacane ad.
snakesonacane definitely registered to Fox. Caduceus with House's cane seems like a no brainer.
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:47 pm
thebruce
Dances With Wikis
Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 6899 Location: Kitchener, Ontario
FYI, I've posted an article about the site, linking to a video someone was able to get of the commercial. Not that it's anything special
http://wikibruce.com/2009/08/snakesonacane-snake-cane-cane-snake-cake
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:20 am
Abraxas
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Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 736 Location: Cologne, Germany
Mescad wrote:
Interesting find, thanks.
The House website http://www.fox.com/house/ shows a different countdown leading to August 17th, but IMDB confirms that the season premiere is indeed the date that snakesonacane.com is counting to.
They count down to re-runs, apparently.
I don't know how I feel about a House viral, yet...
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:48 am
FSURobbie
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What kind of viral could you have for House? I mean, srsly, House?
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:11 pm
Abraxas
Unfettered
Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 736 Location: Cologne, Germany
FSURobbie wrote:
What kind of viral could you have for House? I mean, srsly, House?
Who knows, with the new setting they could set up some psycho storyline and then say it was only playing out in the mind of someone. I mean, there were already several episodes like this, you could generate a game from this "concept". Which would be ok, I guess.
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:33 pm
Kandiman
Decorated
Joined: 09 Aug 2009 Posts: 160 Location: Oxford, England
FSURobbie wrote:
What kind of viral could you have for House? I mean, srsly, House?
Honestly? Any number of things. The show is about a diagnostician which leaves you some possibilities - maybe you're investigating the cause of a local epidemic of a mysterious illness that's been seen in patients at the hospital recently. The further down the rabbit hole you go, the more apparent it is that it's been launched from inside the hospital, continue ad infinitum.
Also, you have a corrupt, drug addicted doctor being covered for by his boss constantly. Maybe a relative of a victim decides to investigate House, Cuddy and a potential cover-up? They had a storyline that was similar in the show of House being investigated by a cop. Maybe he reopened his investigation and needs YOUR help.
The possibilities are limitless.
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:59 pm
Iknowone
Guest
He's also going to be in a psych ward in season six.
A creepy psych ward.
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:07 am
Phrack
Boot
Joined: 14 Apr 2009 Posts: 48
Kandiman wrote:
Maybe a relative of a victim decides to investigate House, Cuddy and a potential cover-up? They had a storyline that was similar in the show of House being investigated by a cop. Maybe he reopened his investigation and needs YOUR help.
The possibilities are limitless.
That particular story actually ended up taking nearly an entire television season to tell... but yeah. This has my interest.
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:21 am
a_champ
Guest
hey,
site has changed, definitely related to house it seems...
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:00 am
thebruce
Dances With Wikis
Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 6899 Location: Kitchener, Ontario
hmm... nice
methinks perhaps weekly image updates at the least. we're all a part of his crazy imagination =P
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:17 pm
_ghost
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Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 27 Location: Ohio
ok so the site's been changing a bit recently and I just wanted to kind of bump this up, just in case!
like, in case we forgot about it O.o
there's a video but I haven't watched it because I am in a hotel with poopy internet so I'll have to wait a couple of days :[
there was also a sticky note the week prior, which said
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
I was deluded into thinking I might be crazy
!!! lol
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:16 am
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