Sherlock is a mad doctor?

MAD DOCTOR OF THE WEEK

It’s that magical time again! This week is…

DR. HOUSE

From House, M.D., House is the leading character (as the name of the show suggests) that specializes in helping patients that have unknown illnesses. He’s brilliant in this regard as he treats all cases as if they were a mystery, somehow always able to find out what it is in the end. He has a team of doctors that work under his wing, changing between the first three seasons and season four, that he uses to bounce ideas off of and come up with solutions.

House is one of the very odd cases that refuse to wear a lab coat, preferring not to stick out as a doctor. He also has a problem with his thigh, not only leading him to have an addiction to Vicodine but have to walk with a cane. It’s interesting in the show’s first episode that it’s pointed out by House that people, “Don’t like to be treated by a sick doctor.” House has many different theories about how people work and loves to use analogies when he’s explaining medical illnesses. His most notable catch phrase is, “Everybody lies,” where House will refuse to believe anything the patient says unless backed up by evidence.

The “mad” part about him would be his method of treatment, where he puts the patient at risk almost every episode to find out what’s wrong. This varies from giving patients untested medication that in theory should help them, causing patients to have seizures or heart attacks to find another symptom, bringing back a coma patient temporarily only to find out history about another patient, temporarily “killing” a young girl with cancer to do an operation that is impossible to do on a living being, and so many other things. He’s also been hinted at having Asperger's, but in all honesty, that’s the least of everyone’s worries.

Some fun facts about House, he’s actually played by a British man. It’s a little weird to be hearing interviews with the actor, being it’s almost like watching House make fun of the British.

Another interesting fact is that the show is inspired and based on the Sherlock Holmes series. House represents Holmes, who both are brilliant with mysteries, both have social issues (Sherlock is also an asshole), and both having drug addictions (Sherlock takes them when he’s not on the case, pretty much because he’s bored).

Wilson, House’s best friend and cancer doctor, represents Watson. They both have a history of having multiple relationships (Wilson constantly is dating someone. Watson, depending on how it’s interpreted, can have as few as two wives to many others throughout the Sherlock series.), they both are the “emotional” one (they’re both good with people and have a knack for calming people down).

There’s other parts of the show that relate to the Sherlock series, one good example would be the end of the second season. A patient shoots House. Though the name of the patient is never mentioned, in the end credits, the name for the character is specified as “Moriarty,” who is the notorious villain of the Sherlock series that matches Holmes with brilliance and at one point has a duel with him on top of a waterfall to kill him.

One last relationship between the two series is that House lives at 221B Baker Street. This is the same address Sherlock lives at.

SCIENTIFIC THEORIES

This time, I will be talking about the difference between a “mad doctor” and a “mad scientist.” It’s very important to be educated about the difference.

First off, a mad scientist suggest someone who is in the field of science, making inventions (such as death beams, robots, a brain switcher thing, ect.), chemicals, having a henchmen, being surrounded by lots of flashy things and machines that no one has any idea what they even do, and so on.

Now, a mad doctor is someone that is more in the field of medical treatment. These guys are a bit more creepy than quirky, as they do things such as experimenting on human bodies, replacing organs with robot parts, trying to bring back the dead, and so on. One example would be Jack the Ripper, another being the crazy guy from the Mickey Mouse cartoon “The Mad Doctor.”

The reason I choose to use the term “mad doctor” rather than “mad scientist” is that a mad scientist specifically targets the first group, with scientific experiments and all that fun stuff. “Mad doctor” can refer to both at once, being that it not only describes the weird medical doctors, but it also can have the scientists in this category too. Scientists are doctors, after all. Just different kinds of doctors. However, not all doctors are scientists.

In conclusion, the best term to use for this concept is “mad doctor,” not “mad scientist.”

EVIL CREATIONS

In this section, I will go on about things that I myself have created that relates to the field of mad doctery.

This week, I’ll be introducing the character pictured in the last Scientific Theories section: Dr. Jasper Zinc. He’s a character I’ve mad that fits into a story I make for comics.

Now, Jasper isn’t evil. It’s not to say he’s really that nice of a guy, either. His field of expertise is chemicals, being one of the best in his field of study with notable discoveries and is incredibly bright. Because of this, he’s pretty smug. I mean, ultra smug. He brags a lot. If you were in an elevator with him, you would suffocate in his ego. Then again, he wouldn’t be in the elevator in the first place because he’s claustrophobic.

The biggest detail about Jasper is that he’s got a sever temper issue. It doesn’t take much to make him angry and he has an unhealthy way of relieving stress (most if not all the time getting into fist fights over questionable arguments). Jasper is incredibly violent and is not afraid to swing first or even pull out a gun, though he’s a lousy shot. The best solution is to run away, because Jasper’s athletic ability is laughable at best. In a matter of seconds of chasing, Jasper will probably stop and wheeze from running too much. He also has a weight issue because he always gives into his sweet tooth. Don’t tease him if he’s hungry, though. He gets cranky. And violent.

Now, Jasper isn’t filled completely with bad qualities. He’s actually very reliable with situations and goes out of his way to make sure his friends and family are safe. This isn’t too difficult of a task for him, being he doesn’t exactly have a large array of friends because of his “quirks,” but those he does have he’ll defend to the very end.

Now if only he would stop trying to punch people when being sent to anger management.

Mad doctors in Minneapolis

And here we are again!

MAD DOCTOR OF THE WEEK


DR. FORRESTER

From the Mystery Science Theater 3000 series, Dr. Forrester is the main antagonist. The theme song for the show explains the entire plot with Forrester launching Joel or Mike (depending on the season) into space and forcing him to watch bad movies from the Satellite of Love. He has a henchmen named TV's Frank who always bumbles around, and in very early seasons had a fellow mad doctor help him with his experiments. When the actor of Forrester left the show, Forrester's mother (Pearl) took over as the mad doctor responsible for making Mike or Joel watch terrible movies.

The basic formula for the show was that it would begin with Forrester introducing the bad movie that Mike or Joel had to watch, then would send them into the theater with two robot friends to make fun of the movie (with Crow and Tom Servo). After watching the whole movie, it would wrap up the episode with Forrester observing the effects of either Mike or Joel and the robots.

The entire show was pretty much an excuse to make fun of bad movies, but it still had good characters and a brilliant (if silly) plot. Some facts about this show, this was actually created in Minnesota, a lot of the earlier seasons having Servo telling viewers to send any mail to Hopkins. Also, Trace Beaulieu (who played Dr. Forrester) also did the voice of Crow when he was on the show, with Bill Corbett taking over when he left the show.

WHERE'S WILY?

I'm off again searching for mad doctors! This time I recorded my explorations with my adventuring buddies Rick and Krem. It's broken up into seven parts.

We start off our adventure by going towards downtown Minneapolis.
Then it's to the Target store, then convinced to buy shoes.
We go down what I like to call Scientology Street.
Rick explores a water temple.
Free money from the bank for Krem.
There is a space worm in the sky here.
We conclude our adventures with an interview and a bite to eat.

MAD MUSIC

Here, I finds songs that relate to mad doctors. Because supplying you with mp3s would be illegal, I'm linking YouTube videos to the songs.

I'm Going Slightly Mad by Queen
Weird Science by Oingo Boingo
She Blinded Me With Science by Thomas Dolby
Funny Farm by Dr. Demento (a mad doctor made this one)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Theme Song
Unwell by Matchbox 20 (mad doctors are sensitive)
Bill Nye the Science Guy Theme Song

Also Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog can be found on YouTube, all the songs. Fun times for all!

Sing-Alongs and DeLoreans

Here are the three sections for this week, first off with:

MAD DOCTOR OF THE WEEK

THE DOC

From the Back to the Future series, the Doc isn't about taking over the world. In fact, he's a protagonist in these stories, though still mad and a doctor. Played by Christopher Lloyd, the Doc is fascinated with time and builds his own time machine, wanting to see 30 years into the future. Of course, instead of making this time machine out of anything logical, the Doc decides to make it out of a DeLorean (he claims that if you're going to make a time machine, it's got to have style).

After his successful test run of his beloved time machine, the Doc gets shot by terrorists he was involved with (he really needed the plutonium) and Marty, his right hand man with his experiment recording, flees in the DeLorean and ends up time traveling to 1955, when the movie takes place in the 80's. To get back to his own time, Marty has to team up with the 1955 Doc and get Marty back to where he belong, all while trying to keep the space/time continuum intact and try to warn the Doc of his own future.

The Doc has a habit of refusing to want to know about the future or change time from how it should be, but always ends up going, "Eh, it won't do much damage, anyways." He also loves making model examples to demonstrate his plans to Marty, going to great care to add all little details to it even though none of it is to scale, as he always apologises for. The Doc's filled with little oddities that makes him by far the most interesting character of the entire series, which is saying a lot since the movies have good character development and plot.

A fun fact, Christopher Lloyd voiced a mad doctor-like character in the Hey Arnold Nickelodeon movie. This character also stays in the drawers that keep corpses just so he can scare any guests coming by. Little weird.

SCIENTIFIC GOOGLING

This section is dedicated to different things I come across involving mad doctors that can be found on the internet. This week, I came across this address: http://www.drhorrible.com/

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a 45-minute musical broken up into three parts. It's about Dr. Horrible, who's striving to get into the Evil League of Evil ran by Dark Horse. To accomplish this, he tries to pull off heists and other crimes with his inventions to get in. However, Dark Horse isn't impressed by Dr. Horrible and requests that he kill someone to get in.

During this little storyline, Dr. Horrible goes to the laundromat to not only wash his clothes, but try his best to talk to a girl named Penny he loves. Of course, he always ends up coming off as awkward, but he tries nevertheless to win over her heart.

To top this all off, Dr. Horrible's evil nemesis, Capt. Hammer, always gets in the way to foil his plans and beat him into a bloody pulp. This egotistical superhero notices Dr. Horrible's love for Penny, then goes out of his way to date her to make the poor doctor miserable. This pushes Dr. Horrible off the edge as he makes his most evil plan yet.

As mentioned, it's a musical that has a good number of catchy songs, such as "My Freeze Ray" and "Brand New Day." It's aimed to be a comedic story though the main conflict turns for a dramatic piece. The title of this suggests blogging, which is how Dr. Horrible introduces himself by reading emails and going over his latest evil scheme (unfortunately, Capt. Hammer also watches the blog at one point). It's a fun musical to watch (especially since it's free to watch) with a humerous story and Dr. Horrible's one of those characters you just can't help but feel sorry for with all his luck (or lack of it). It can be found on YouTube and other sites, too.

SCIENTIFIC THEORIES

Here I'll be be explaining aspects of mad doctors and attempt to explain them. This week will be going on about evil laughter.

We have an example here that I have illustrated of what it's like for a mad doctor to laugh. Now, not all mad doctors laugh like this, but in all honesty, it should be encouraged. The thought here is that every time a mad doctor laughs, lightning will strike. See old Frankenstein movies for more details.

First, we should go over the laugh itself. It's quite important to have a good laugh as a mad doctor (Dr. Horrible even goes over this in his blog). Evil sounding, sinister, with a touch of insanity. The most common evil laughter seem to be the "HAHAHAHAHA" laugh, though there are probably some that go "HOHOHOHO" or "HEEHEEHEEE!" The main point is to communicate to others that you are indeed insane and very dangerous to approach, especially when holding a death laser. It's also a nice segway to go on about nasty plots to all others involved, even if they don't wish to hear it. Granted, it usually ends with the hero using the speech to defeat you, but it was a pretty badass speech for the time.

Now, the lightning effect. For dramatic effect, when certain mad doctors laugh, lightning will strike. It's a common cliche, but I wouldn't call it that. I like to call it good staging. Either way, whether the mad doctors in question create the lightning to laugh to for the effect or if the laughing itself causes the lightning. It probably goes both ways, with some doctors loving the dramatic effect to recreate it themselves to those who just have such a good laugh of pure evil that even God Himself must try to strike down the mad doctor in question.

Which leads to another thought. For those who use their laugh to create lightning, wouldn't it be a more of an effective plan to laugh at the hero and electrocute them? In fact, one could play Thor with this ability and control something so uncontrollable as weather. Is there a reason mad doctors don't use this laughter to their advantages?

The answer is yes. They put a lot of time and money into their overly complicated plans that it would all be ruined if the hero was electrocuted before putting their plan to effect. Thus why mad doctors never use their laughter as a weapon.

Why hello there

Welcome to the latest and greatest in research and evidence of mad doctors. Here, I will be revealing mad doctors from every point of reality, fictitious or not; attempt to collect mad doctor instruments and wardrobe to better understand them; perform very delicate mathematical and scientific research to dwell into more about mad doctors; and go on an epic quest to find a true, living, breathing example of a mad doctor.

First, before we go any further, we should define exactly what makes a mad doctor a mad doctor. In my own research and experience, I've found that a mad doctor must fall under these categories:

• The person in question must have training in the medical or scientific field or be bright enough in the field to not need a certificate officially.
• This person must also have a mental issue, thus the "mad" part of a mad doctor.

It's very important we make our definition clear from the start. For example, Prof. Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes is a criminal mastermind with the title of professor, but does not show an interest in performing scientific research and does not appear to be insane (though lacks any sense of morality). Dr. House from House, M. D. not only is skilled in the field of medical diagnosis, but also has proven himself time and time again to have a few screws loose, whether it be doing dangerous procedures to drug addictions to being hinted at having Asperger's.

Now that we have that defined, let's carry on with our investigations.

MAD DOCTOR OF THE WEEK

Every week, I will introduce a mad doctor while giving some history about them, their history of diabolical plans (or just the really, really crazy ones), and anything else that needs an explanation. This week's mad doctor is...

DR. CLAW

Dr. Claw is the main antagonist of the cartoon series Inspector Gadget. What he does in every episode is plot some sort of horrific deed for his MAD agents to perform to gain money and power, but always gets his plans foiled by none other than Inspector Gadget himself (though it's always Penny and Brain doing it, despite neither Claw or Gadget realizes this). Claw is most notable for his demonic-sounding voice, only ever having his gauntlet shown at any time, having a car that can transform into a plane and submarine, and his constant screaming and slamming his fist onto his table (always causing MAD Cat to jump up out of being startled). Sometimes he'll even hit his cat, which I'm sure PETA has knocked on his door a few times over it.

All of Claw's plans are over the top and ridiculous, ranging from causing a volcano to explode to get the inhabitants off an island for his own dirty deeds, having his MAD agents disguise themselves as pharaohs and mummies in an attempt to steal an Egyptian sarcophagus, and using a mechanical sea dragon to kidnap a scientist. No matter what the deed, though, Claw always gets close to accomplishing it. The only reason he never does is because of either Brain and Penny's interference unknowingly (despite the fact he kidnaps Penny in like, almost every episode?) or Gadget's own bumbling mistakes and pure luck on his part.

This doesn't stop Claw, though. In the end credits, Claw always ends the episode yelling out, "I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME, GADGET! NEXT TIIIIIME!"

KLEPTOMANIA

Here, I'll go over what I've collected over time of mad doctor paraphernalia in an attempt to better understand them.

First off, is it just me or does it seem like mad doctors are always wearing ties with their lab coats? Or at least bow ties. For this reason, I'm revealing my entire tie collection, a grand total of 30 (not all in the shots, like the one I was wearing at the time of the photo). Off the top of my head, I can name off Dr. Wily and Bill Nye of wearing some sort of necktie device. This tie in particular is the best I have for a mad doctor tie, being it's suppose to be for optometrists. I guess it would be rather interesting to see a mad eye doctor, wouldn't it?

Also, it wouldn't be much of a mad doctor collection without a few lab coats, right? Below, I have two lab coat, one that I now use as my painting coat and the other used for laughing evilly during electrical storms. This is by far the best part of being a mad doctor; I can't resist lab coats. They're just so spiffy.

WHERE'S WILY?

Last, but not least for today, I will be going on about my grand adventures in hunting down the elusive mad doctor. Now typically, the best area to be looking for these would be in a secret castle or some sort of strange laboratory. However, everyone knows that mad doctors can't resist funnel cakes. Therefore, the most logical answer is to search for mad doctors at the Minnesota State Fair.















After treating myself to a funnel cake, I came upon some robotic equipment that was judged. This, ladies and gentlemen, is how mad doctors fund their insane deeds. They enter contests like this in an attempt to get enough money to get plutonium so they can charge up their DeLorians so they can go to the future at 1.21 jigawatts.

Though it would probably be much easier to take out a bank loan, I approve of this method of getting some quick cash. However, I do believe a mad doctor was out for blood.

What we have here is a very dangerous robot. It even goes by Dr. Wily's naming scheme for his robots of "[Blank]man." What's most peculiar about this robot is that it not only looks like it wants to rip my spine out and jump rope with it (or if it had legs, it would), but also the megaphone (besides the fact it's in a very inappropriate spot; mad doctors can be so immature). Obviously, this means that this robot is capable of carrying on a conversation, which may or may not scare the crap out of me or anyone else depending on what it's saying. If it asks for a hug, just turn away. Everyone knows that robots don't have feelings therefore cannot desire hugs.

I'm pretty sure I found the mad doctor, too, though I wasn't able to get to him in time before he kidnapped someone.

The victim in question is known as Ashley, though has not been seen in almost a week, disappearing on Saturday. This is the last evidence of her existence before the abduction. I'm positive the mad doctor in this picture (disguised as a pickle so not to arouse any suspicion) was in charge of this nefarious crime, probably mistaking her for Penny. They're both blonde, anyways.

And that is all I have for this week. Keep an eye out for any mad doctors about.