this would be true if it were true. fact is, leonard dating the unachievable penny already happened, 7 seasons ago. that ship done sailed. but what's worse, and shows you are just trying to insul, is you neglect the fact the producers have developed leonard into a stud.

not only does he snag penny, but in-between all their breakups he's banging multiple very hot chicks with bootie calls too.

fyi, that's not a nerd.

oh, so this is about me and has nothing to do with the topic.

i see. go for it, couldn't care less, hope you feel better about yourself as a result. :)

opinions are like assholes - everybody has one ;)

my opinion is the show stands up to the ultimate sitcom test- repeat viewings.

i've watched many of the episodes 6+ times, some more. the only other sitcoms i can do that with are top gear and seinfeld.

for me definitely also MASH

but i do own all seasons of Big Bang on DVD as well

and 2 and a half men - but no Ashton Kutcher for me

Big Bang Theory is one of the best sitcoms at the moment and the only one together with 2 and a half men that I do watch. The rest is garbage and obviously suits low IQ watchers better according to :321GFY

I feel right at home with that show, great humour and right on the spot dialogues.

Going to get the bluray edition in the near future. Haters judge me all you want!

I think the show is great.. Leonard is probably the least favorite character.. but his mother was awesome. Hands down the best addition to the show has been Mayim Biailik as Amy. She plays an awesome character. The relationship with Wolowitz and Bernadette is great too.

It's great background fodder, but not a show that I clamor over.

this.

expanding, both moms are fantastic. amy is fantastic. the interaction b/w wolo and bern is too. at the same time, the show has evolved into a show about relationships. hell, even kuth has a chick now.
again, still a great show, but far from what it was about originally, comepletley anti-social nerds that creeped girls out. how creepy was wolo the 1st 2.5 seasons? very!

hahahahah sure whatever

I watched a few episodes of MASH last night. I don't spend much time watching TV, but there has been nothing on recently... So I found a channel that plays old goofy stuff - MASH, I dream of Jeanie, Star Trek, Emergency, Odd Couple, Mission Impossible... I've been recording some of them on the DVR.

MASH brought back some memories.

Did you know that Mayim Biailik was Blossom? I never watched it, but I was surprised to find out the other day... It hit me like a rock the other day - I was watching the episode where they were having that quiz bowl and one of them said "Let's get that Blossom girl from TV, she seems smart" and I said to myself "That is just so odd and random" and then it hit me.

>>> guilty!

hulu is showing a lot of those now too, and the classic saturday morning cartoons.





i love super sugar crisps when i'm watching my cartoons!

I love the show as well. It's a great ensemble cast and of course, as stated, Kaley is hot :thumbsup

-- Bill

Yup, the wife used to watch that show and pointed her out. She actually has a Phd in Neuroscience. So of all of the characters, she actually knows the field her character is in. Her relationship with her test monkeys is outta hand hilarious.

Watch the show almost daily, really who cares if one likes it or not?

Welcome to most every guy I have seriously dated. I have a type.

If he a Unix user too?

Can't believe that theres no mention of Community in this thread :)

It will force me to think about Donald Glover and then I will be too distracted to work for the rest of the day.

As a matter of fact, yes. He now works as a network admin for Intel.

See.... lol

Love the show.

i've always been interested in how and why the show morphed from a show about guys incabable of forming relationships with girls to a show about guys having relationships with girls. again, don't get me wrong, big fan, i actually buy the episodes via amazon prime so i can get the current ones immediately and get them in my streaming rotation queue. still waiting for seinfeld to stream somewhere, please, thank you.

anyhoo, but it sure seems the writers left a lot of comedic props and opps behind when they got wolowitz especially in a relationship and ultimately married. his creepy attempts to pull girls is always good.

he could be the most badass character on the show, and that's a fact that that is my opinion. :winkwink:

In some ways I agree and some I don't. Relationships happen in life and I like that geeks get to have sex and romance too even if it is awkward. The early Sara Gilbert character was good, Bernadette and Howard works for me and I like that she is smarter than him. Amy and Sheldon works too in it makes Sheldon almost the normal one for a change. What I do agree on is I stopped caring, if I ever did, ages ago about Leonard and Penny. The other relationships make more sense to me and not because Penny is pretty just because they way they were developed made me believe them more.

To me the show is a combination of Frazier and Perfect Strangers. In the Frazier dynamic, Sheldon is is Niles and Leonard is Frazier. On that show you needed the extreme of Niles to make Frazier be somebody to whom the audience could relate.

Perfect Strangers had that weird pairing of guys living in an apartment near the sexier girls. The show suffered as soon as those relationships started too.

i liked frazier too, another one that many epsiodes stand up to repeat viewing, not sure if i've seen every epsiode though. the show was vrey clever.

you hit the nail on the head, back to bbt, the episodes where they got laid/scored were fantastic, when leonard snagged peeny, sara gilbert banging around, penny being a slut, <-loved that.

but as a prop for comedy, a single wolowitz was fucking spot on for some funny & unique television.

I might have been able to enjoy it if they laid off the laugh track button a little bit, or preferably completely. They should film before a live audience. The first episode I ever tried to watch there was a massive burst of canned laughter from something that wasn't even remotely funny and that was it for me.

they do film in front of a live audience - maybe not in the first episode since that's a pilot (actually the second pilot, the first one had another Penny actress).

but since then...

Thanx, that was awesome

But that's life. You start off as a geek who can't get laid, and eventually women discover that boy toys and jocks are dumb, undependable, rarely make good money, and aren't marriage material.

There are articles out there that claim they still add plenty of laugh tracks to bolster the audience reaction. Even Youtube videos making fun of them such as contained in this article I found while searching "is big bang theory filmed before a live audience?".

http://thefw.com/big-bang-theory-laugh-track/

And there is this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3200234.html


I'm glad they're making use of a live audience though and didn't know that. Since it's on about 3 out of my 6 channels at some point, maybe I'll give it another chance.

That's a great clip.

I go past their studio fairly often. Getting tickets appears to be fairly impossible but I'm going to try now and then.

That is an older gentleman complaining that things aren't done the way it was in his day. All it says is that some scenes aren't taped live which is fairly standard on American sitcoms now.

I love how so many people are complaining about how it's devolved into relationship BS. Because I hate when that happens, and it ruins so many good sitcoms.

Not sure if anyone ever watched scrubs - but when the show was small and not popular - first two seasons it was just fucking hilarious. By season 5 and 6 it was all about who was dating who, which ones were having kids, and who was getting back together with who. So fucking ridiculous. It's the situations that are funny, who gives a flying fuck about person A finally getting with person B - that is such weak television.

it's called the "Cheers" effect btw - because the ratings for Cheers dropped the moment Sam and Diane finally got together.

but i think especially for Scrubs the last 2 seasons (Med School) were extremely horrible

for some it is, sure. the majority of revolting nerds that creep the shit outta girls usually don't evolve that fast.

nevertheless, my point was i liked that humor. by evolving into a *that's life* show, we don't get that humor any more.