[Closed] The Big Bang Theory

Where have you been?

It's the new bloody friends, on constantly and the mrs default choice.

Now my default choice 8)

I hated friends with a vengeance.

I like also - saw an old episode of Coupling last night which was funny too

I hated friends with a vengeance

I give you 6 months, max, before you're reaching for a claw hammer to cave your own skull in.

try Community.

My current guilty pleasure is How I Met Your Mother. Big Bang Theory is so last month.

Penny. Penny. Penny. Penny. Penny.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Penny.

Is it too soon in the thread for random Big Bang clips?

Great show, especially for Sci Fi nerds like me. I want a Cyclon Toaster more than I want children.

New series not as funny though, it has to be said. They are kind of running out of ideas.

Mmmmm Penny and the bird from Blossom!!!!!

not forgetting Bernadette

i know someone at work who is actually Sheldon's double in mannerisms - i.e. thats my seat, i've drawn up a new contract for the kitchen space etc.

FREAKY! as this person is a she! we've actually started calling her sheldon (she hasn't a clue about the show though) - maybe best

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Half the cast of Roseanne. (well OK 3 people, David, Darleen and Jackie)

Mister P - Member
My current guilty pleasure is How I Met Your Mother. Big Bang Theory is so last month.

HIMYM is last year. It jumped the shark recently when Ted realised that thing, again.

New Girl is where it is at.

New Girl. but then i'd watch anything with Zooey in it

I will be right back before this banana hits the floor....zoom zoom

Thank you for pointing out my faux pas Capt. I will check out New Girl this evening.

Rules of Engagement FTW

I don't like it - too many painfully obvious laugh at the geek jokes. A bit like the new Friends, yes, but reminds me more of Taxi and Seinfeld.

MrNutt - Member
Rules of Engagement FTW

Are you sure you don't mean the delightful Happy Endings? With the delightful Elisha?

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Bazinga! 😆

Two Broke Girls...

what has happened to New Girl, has it been bumped from the schedule?

Penny. Penny. Penny. Penny. Penny.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Penny.

8 simple rules is a bit like the big bang theory, but without the geeks, and mroe penny

Don't know. Its mid-season break is over the in the US, so the episodes are available to Channel 4.

If we're talking general TV viewing, rather than sitcoms, i'd highly recommend Friday Night Lights.

BBT is good but have you seen New Girl?

It's really well written and properly laugh out loud funny in a way Friends never was.

Been watching it from S1.. Catch up fellas..

Don't like the way E4 repeats the same old epesodes over and over again when there are so many more they could play.. I must have seen the first one about a gazzillion times now..
And we're on S5...like already.

Have also been watching it since episode 1 first aired

Thursday evenings are the only time my tv is on for more than 2 hours straight.

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Big Bang Theory for the laughs.

Justified for everything else, plus dark laughs.

Took me ages to realise that it was great, then bought seasons 1-4 and watched them all though in a couple of damp dark winter weeks.

Great show and yeah, with the exception of Sheldon's sister, Penny is very lovely.

Sometimes the obvious laughs are the best, nut personally I now enjoy knocking on people's door in a repeated way and saying their name, till they answer, and on occasion even after they answer!

Kwipkey 😀

I don't like it - too many painfully obvious laugh at the geek jokes. A bit like the new Friends, yes, but reminds me more of Taxi and Seinfeld.

Yeah, but it's not the obvious laughs you watch it for, it's everything in between. It's a bit of an opinion splitter at work (University) - some like myself love it, others really REALLY hate it.

I think a large part of it's appeal hinges on whether or not you have geeky tendencies. (so of course, I think it's ace).

I also have geeky tendencies, and I think it's rubbish. Having said that I havne't got into it for the characterisations, but that's because the naffness of it put me off.

Love bbt. Himym went off the boil. Also like New girl and community. However, also loving person of interest but really loving finder. Both streaming only but finder is awesome. Shame they're only doing one season.

I don't like it - too many painfully obvious laugh at the geek jokes.

A lot of geeks do seem to like it tho.

Same could be said for IT Crowd. It makes a lot of jokes about geeks but geeks generally love it.

So, is Raj dancing at the other end of the ballroom or not? That is the question?

I'm a fan. Clever, funny stuff, without needing to resort to the childish "gross out" genre of comedy, or the equally puerile "look at me, I can swear" sort of comedy.

Funny, witty, erudite stuff.

I know from watching the trailers that I'd hate it. To be honest I prefer my comedy a bit more sophisticated and less geek-masturbatory. But hey, it'd be boring if we all laughed at the same thing.

TBH, the early episodes were a bit "laugh at the geek" whilst it found its feet / garnered a mainstream audience, but it's not been like that for a while now.

I don't mind jokes about geeks but they have to be clever not just stupid and obvious.

But I will admit I only saw a couple of eps. However it's hard to get 'into' something later, isn't it?

I don't care what you all think I'm playing,

rock scissors paper lizard spock

I think it's very funny, have bought and watched the entire boxset. Well worth the money. I'm a full on geek and like the geeky stuff.

Plus, at the start I didn't fancy Penny but I did by the end.

The show is just simplistic stereotyping. I've watched a few episodes - not a titter from me. Sorry.

Bit too autobiographical for me 😕 . My kids, however seem to love it. And I'm now referred to as "Sheldon". Not sure if that's a compliment. I will admit to trying to read the equations on their boards whenever I glimpse a scene 😳 . But I've only watched one whole episode.

I think it's great, however explaining why I was laughing at the Doppler effect joke to the mrs was a bit of a challenge, bless her!!!!!

New Girl is crap, I think I only continued watching it because Zooey is so hot.

How I met your Mother- Jesus its soo bad I wanted to hurt someone.

By contrast I laughed out loud a few times during BBT last night 8)

New series of BBT is the best yet in IMO -genius.

Spock talking to Sheldon. Amazing.

Spock talking to Sheldon. Amazing.

big bang is genius, my other US fave is 30 Rock.

I think they need to bring the Mother characters into BBT a bit more, both are hilarious.

And P.S - what is Penny's surname ?? We know all the other characters. Even Kwupky.

I like the nods to other series too, the running Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek references and cameos. The nod to Frasier in that you never meet Mrs Wollowitz, she is always offscreen. Although unlike Marys you do hear her.

Love the Indian stereotype 'why did you call us during the Cricket semi-final'?

A 9 minute Sheldon and Penny "minisode" for those undecided:

i love Big Bang Theory ,I find it really funny. My wife works with a lad who has aspergers who views Sheldon as a posative roll model.

I like it - actually i love it!

The characterisations have grown as the series progresses, at first they were cardboard cut-outs but now have become more rounded.
I love how Howard's beautiful and sexy girlfriend is gradually morphing into his mother - a classic Jewish joke there. The ongoing sexual adoration of Amy Farrar-Fowler for Penny is pretty good too.

I don't know whether it is part of the direction or the actress's talent but those strange looks that Kaley Cuoco gives to the camera whenever there is a punchline crack me up 😆

Love the way there are websites/blogs devoted to complaining that Autotrophs can't actually drool!