Hey, Nerdlinger,Sheldon Has Klingon Hearing! (Big Bang Theory Thread)

i heart laurie metcalf. can't wait for her and darlene to have a scene together. THREE, count them, THREE Rosanne alums on BBT!

man now you have me imagining how awesome a John Goodman guest spot would be

this will finally stop me from blabbing about this show on the how i met your mother thread.

it's a funny show but i dunno it feels kind of unsustainable, like they feel the need to keep upping the ante on Sheldon antics until eventually it'll just get unbearably stupid. already does, sometimes.

they really need more girls on this show though. Bring Leslie back!

Jim Parsons's acting in the scenes with Laurie Metcalf this week was really, really good for a sitcom!

I laughed all the way through. Even the rather extended "cannot catch a break" motif made me chuckle.

Bring Leslie back!

Yes.

they really need more girls on this show

According to wiki - episode 3...
Howard and Raj visit a Goth nightclub to pick up women

I have a mancrush on Raj.

<3 this show

sheldon and raj were on fire last night. zing zing!

I'm pissed they've separated How I Met Your Mother and Big Bang Theory. I enjoy watching both but I lose interest in television if I have to sit around for an hour to watch the next show that's mildly funny.

i could BARELY stay awake to watch big bang last night. in fact, i nodded off a couple of times before it came one.

came on.

"did the Kiss Army repeal don't ask don't tell?"

nice of them to give penny the zing of the year.

will wheaton episode will go down in history. laffing muchly!

He is probably exactly what Wesley Crusher fans are like.

nice of them to give penny the zing of the year.

― scott seward, Tuesday, October 6, 2009 9:43 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Penny gets some of the best lines in the show pretty consistently imo -- at the beginning i thought she was gonna be the weak link in the cast based on, i dunno, 8 Simple Rules, but some weeks she's funnier than the guys.

I like the show.
I'm always happiest when the show info mentions Raj and/or Wolowitz

i always get a bit sad when BBT makes me laugh more than HIMYM but it's pretty much every episode now

yeah, i feel guilty about that. but its not my fault!

always love it when they bring up Sheldon's Texas upbringing

Does Sheldon use hookers?

he is pretty much asexual, he's just well-read in the ways of tricks

I finally started watching this last week, and I'm 100% a fan already. The Wil Wheaton episode reeled me in...I'd always given it a wide berth because the commercials left me with the impression of a bad 80's movie.

But there's so much to love!!!

- Leonard/Johnny Galecki. I was a huge Roseanne fan, so Sara Gilbert! Laurie Metcalf! Just makes me giddy with nostalgia.
- Sheldon. Huge nerd crush already. I mean his character seems like someone said, hey lets' make high functioning Asperger's hilarious. But it so works. I love it.
- Howard. Moist from Dr Horrible! Love! I just keep waiting for him to ask if Leonard needs something moistened or made damp.

Sure the show's a bit of a one trick pony but the nerd humor is SO right on. I love it. I could care less about Penny and her midriff shirts but damn the show is mighty watchable and I will probably finish Season 1 tonight.

Anyone know what this shirt is about? I think I want one.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2571/4131523029_f773c0ffa2.jpg
(I tried Sheldon's Shirts but couldn't find it)

Very good episode I thought. Danica McKellar and Sheldon very nearly getting it on. I lol'd.

no, danica was mackin on tipsy raj, some other lady was tryina woo sheldon

this is the funniest show on tv btw

I am sad that I never see this show anymore

why would sheldon not want to mack w/ hot science geek girl? i don't understand. i thought he'd be all for finding a superior mate to make beautiful, uber smart children or something

u 4get that human interaction baffles and exhausts him also he will probably asexually reproduce around s5

loved this whole episode so much.

longtime lurker here, posting to help ned trifle find his tshirt:
http://www.special-blend.com/
this ep really hit home for me, as i often rely on a wingman who insists on wearing a green lantern ring.

no, danica was mackin on tipsy raj, some other lady was tryina woo sheldon

Yeah, I missed a comma there or something! Raj ALWAYS gets the women. I really wanted Sheldon to get some action but the cruel writer(s) snatched it away in the last moments.

And thanks ras trevor!

Mr Veg went on a Sheldon Shirt mission and gave me a Greatest American Hero t-shirt for Christmas!

Loved this week's ep. Sheldon's "Good night puny human!" with hulk hands was lolarious.

JUST THE ASIANS

This week was laugh out loud return to form I thought.

sheldon tour de force.

i was wearing size a million pants

ok i nominate the last episode as the best bit of telly i'll see all year.

love the recurrence of wheaton

was really going to stop watching this, but this ep has earned it a reprieve. everything actually came together, the writers didn't rely too much on the easy fallback humour, and wheaton felt like more than a stunt.

Yes! a mate for sheldon. did not see that coming.

Caught a few episodes on a plane recently (season two I think), it's definitely a funny show. There's an affection for/empathy with the nerd lifestyle that raises it above 'LOL geeks'.

Shelbot was funny.

does the fact that they never got rid of the shelbot mean its going to continue that way? because that would be proper wtf

Just started with this season, for those of you that have been watching for a long time - how do these stack up? Because, honestly, I haven't found it to be very funny at all. The Shelbot was definitely the high point.

its always been hit and miss. some episodes make me wish it'll end with shooting myself in the face, some are great. this season seems somewhere in the middle.

Yeah, definitely. Almost every time I think "we need to part company" along comes a really funny episode. You've got about about a 2 in 5 chance of a funny one, I reckon.

Penny gets some of the best lines in the show pretty consistently imo -- at the beginning i thought she was gonna be the weak link in the cast based on, i dunno, 8 Simple Rules, but some weeks she's funnier than the guys.

― a legendary hwood cocksman iirc (some dude), Tuesday, October 20, 2009 3:12 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its not just the lines--she is like a genius at reaction shots

i totally didn't know that amy farrah fowler was blossom for the longest time! just hadn't seen blossom in so long. and i certainly didn't know that blossom is actually a neuroscientist in real life!

"At the end of Blossom, she chose to attend UCLA, despite having been accepted at both Harvard and Yale.[9][10] She stated that she wanted to stay close to her parents and did not want to move to the East Coast. She earned a bachelor's degree in 2000 in neuroscience, Hebrew, and Jewish studies, and went on to the PhD program in neuroscience. A 2002 interview stated that Bialik is now involved in Conservadox Judaism.[2] She continues to study Judaism with the help of her Partners in Torah partner, Allison Josephs.[11]

She took a break from studies in 2005 to return to acting.[12] Bialik completed her PhD in 2008, but is not pursuing an academic career in the near future;[13] her dissertation was an investigation of Prader-Willi syndrome.[14][15]

She married Michael Stone on August 31, 2003, in a Victorian-themed ceremony with traditional Jewish customs.[16] They have two sons together; Miles Roosevelt Bialik Stone was born on October 10, 2005, and Frederick Heschel Bialik Stone was born on August 15, 2008.[17] She is a celebrity spokesperson for the Holistic Moms Network.[18]

Hayim Nahman Bialik, Israel's national poet, was Mayim Bialik's great-great-grandfather's uncle.[7]

She was featured in TLC's What Not to Wear in the Season 7 opening episode which aired May 29, 2009; she was not nominated, Stacey and Clinton stated they took it upon themselves to intervene. The actress Rachael Harris also appears in the episode, as one of Mayim's friends at the reveal party at the end of each show.

She is vegan.[19] She also has a very low Erdős–Bacon number of 7."

and i did already know about danica, who also guested on BBT:

"Danica McKellar, who has appeared on such shows as “The Wonder Years,” “The West Wing,” “NYPD Blue” and “Young Justice,” graduated summa cum laude in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she helped devise a mathematical proof for certain properties of magnetic fields — a theorem that bears her name along with those of her collaborators. She also writes popular books about math with clever PG-13 titles like “Math Doesn’t Suck” and “Kiss My Math.”

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/03/01/science/01angier/01angier-popup.jpg

You forgot to mention that McKellar's Erdős number is four (and) her Erdős–Bacon number is 6. Erdős–Bacon numbers are what I have learnt about to-day from ILX. So thanks.

Incidentally loving BBT at the mo. The more people in it the better it seems to get.

I watched one of the very early episodes the other night. Curiously, Sheldon had a noticeably deeper voice in the earlier days.

this show still mildly amusing enough. i love the girls.

yeah the girls > the boys

latest episode was great - drunk amy, sheldon waltzing, the smoking monkey.

and i kinda like how they've deliberately made priya annoying-but-not-annoying - like the reason why she's great is because she annoys the rest of them.

Only started paying attention recently and I am LOVING this program! (Only sitcom-w/laugh track I've loved since "Newsradio".) Such a joy to belatedly discover these shows via syndication, so you can see 'em everyday instead of once-per-week.

OK, I take it back. I only caught the show in syndication, and it seems to have tanked since 2009 or so. Mayim Bialik's the only real reason to watch now.

I must keep missing the good episodes because all four times I've tuned in now I've found this awful, but people I respect keep claiming its funny.

blossom and raj make it. everyone else is a funny vacuum, although mostly played out creepy jewish guy

I'm still loving this. Howard's creepiness has been pretty toned down in the last season I think. True that Bialik really make's it worth watching but I laughed out loud more at last night's episode than 30 Rock (which tbf was probably not one of the best).

Yeah, I still love this as well. It dipped a bit in the first half of Season 4, but the upgrading of Amy & Bernadette to full cast members during the second half refreshed the formant, and Season 5 has consistently brought the LOLs in our household. It reminds me of 3rd Rock From The Sun, in that a lot of its strength comes from the ensemble playing. You sense that the cast members are genuinely having fun with each other (particularly Kaley Cuoco/Penny, who often seems on the point of corpsing, just like Kristen Johnson/Sally in 3rd Rock), and that adds a lot of warmth.

Mayim Bialik totally spoke at the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando. my friend has a pic with her. so effing jealous.

Omg. I would not know what yo do. Just drool, I guess. I so love this show.

She has given the show a whole new lease of life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XxKz_--Z14&

Fun With Flags was funnier than anything else I saw this week. Bialik and Jim Parsons are just great together. Also, they seem to be making Sheldon a slightly different character, I can't quite put my finger on what it is though, but it's funny.

I'm surrendering...to fun.

Hahah that was great.

The women really are stealing the show at this point, although I'm glad that they are actually taking time to make Leonard more than just the "normal one" again.

Fun with Flags was great but I really loved the oblivious bug report. Raj seems to be falling WAAAAAY down the wormhole, though (in fairness, I am finding it hilarious, esp. the other characters' reactions to him).

And yeah, the sense that the cast genuinely enjoys working together really shines through in the ensemble work; even the most hackneyed writing is elevated by cast chemistry.

felt like apple product synergy kind of ruined this week's episode. really wish they would find something better to do with raj most of the time

Jim Parsons came out, was hoping for Galecki. (I don't watch.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/theater/jim-parsons-prepares-for-his-lead-role-in-harvey.htm

feel like this was already a known thing? not in the like "oh, big surprise" way but in the "i swear i read something about him proposing to his boyfriend like a year ago" way

Yeah, apparently he's been thanking his partner in all his awards acceptance speeches for years?

i like how it really just isn't a big deal

I did not realize Jim Parsons was my age

well, people who follow awards shows for a living seem to think this is news, so perhaps it was just an open secret.

that was a genuinely sweet episode, between leonard not knowing she was flirting w/ him and the hacky sack and omg space portal was awesome. i really like this show now.

At this stage, the show for me is all about the interaction between Sheldon and Amy, and the whole Leonard and Penny thing has become the least interesting part of the show. When Amy first appeared, she was quite robotic and Sheldon-like, but over time has become a more warmer, human character, and as a result has been gradually teasing this out of Sheldon, too. I generally think it has - on the whole - become a better show that it started out as, although I still sometimes feel that some of the Raj-centric gags can be a bit distasteful.

And now, the end is near.

https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/big-bang-theory-8-1202914074/

Which is probably 6 years too late.

Props for the pay equality thing though.

i knew there was a reason i was still watching this - the d&d episode.

just had what seems to be a common experience - was at the gym, TV was playing a show I hadn't seen before, it was this weird and kinda dark Southern drama that would occasionally crack a joke, you'd think "what the hell is this show?" and it turned out to be Young Sheldon

i don't know what happened to this show. it became some kinda thing. there were tons of t-shirts. i just thought it was a fun little show when it started! i wasn't there for the end. i don't know how bad it got. i got pretty tired of the male characters. the Young Sheldon thing...i really don't get it. and now there is a weird spinoff of Young Sheldon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABhcWmR-Nh8