> In 2008, House was distributed in a total of 66 countries. With an audience of over 81.8 million worldwide... There’s only like 6bn people on the globe, righ

> In 2008, House was distributed in a total of 66 countries. With an audience of over 81.8 million worldwide... There’s only like 6bn people on the globe, right? And that’s including feral wolf children and fuel-starved hermits living on sun tea in the Chinese desert. And yet, if aliens did some random sampling of people around Earth, they’d find that more than one in every hundred of us watches House. “The Earthlings’ religion is based on weekly silent observances of medicine-man figure called ‘Dwelling-Place’ in the local tongue. Possessing supernatural powers of observation and an ability to perform healing miracles, this god also suffers from hubris and vanity, and he is susceptible to the temptations of certain potions. Essentially, we are grading Earth’s religious development somewhere between animist and monotheistic. Not yet adequately prepared for Operation Helping Hand. Revisit in 1,000 local solar units.” http://modcult.org/read/2010/4/13/this-is-called-sending-the-lede-to-sleep-with-the-fishes http://modcult.org/read/2010/4/13/this-is-called-sending-the...