They have elevated themselves to almost as nerdy cool as They Might Be Giants.

Oxen are in my bed! Many, many oxen!

Makh: They have elevated themselves to almost as nerdy cool as They Might Be Giants.

Bite your tongue!

Kaley Cuoco...The Big Bang Theory...Kaley Cuoco...The Big Bang Theory...Kaley Cuoco...The Big Bang Theory...etc.

Not their best song. But hey, it's a paycheck.

Insufficient Kaley Cuoco pics in this thread.

Also, Big Bang Theory is the funniest thing on TV nowadays.

DarthBrooks: Insufficient Kaley Cuoco pics in this thread.

Also, Big Bang Theory is the funniest thing on TV nowadays.

How can you post a Big Bang Theory clip and not use this one (new window)??

/God, I love this show.
//I catch more references than my Trekkie husband

I graduated from the same high school as the guy that plays Sheldon. Missed him by about a year.

I was on an American Airlines flight last night and they were showing Big Bang episodes on the cabin screens.

It was the episode where they're playing Klingon Boggle and they wind up watching America's Next Top Model with Penny.

I think I hurt myself on the armrest from laughing at this episode.

/sign of a good show: when reruns make you laugh.

A bit of Kaley in a bikini for your viewing pleasure on this thread...


You're welcome.

Dammit! I've always hated the Barenaked Ladies(the band...not actual nekkid ladies.)but this song is actually pretty clever...my new philosophical dilemma is how do I hate a band with a likable clever song?

Cabal468: Dammit! I've always hated the Barenaked Ladies(the band...not actual nekkid ladies.)but this song is actually pretty clever...my new philosophical dilemma is how do I hate a band with a likable clever song?

Just give in and start liking them. They're a lot of fun.

/two weeks until Ships & Dip V

CyberDave: /two three weeks until Ships & Dip V

FTFM

brigid_fitch: DarthBrooks: Insufficient Kaley Cuoco pics in this thread.

Also, Big Bang Theory is the funniest thing on TV nowadays.

How can you post a Big Bang Theory clip and not use this one (new window)??

/God, I love this show.
//I catch more references than my Trekkie husband


Show could be SO much better with out the laugh track and 3 camera sitcom setup. Could just be my hate for that style though.

LonMead: A bit of Kaley in a bikini for your viewing pleasure on this thread...


You're welcome.

very nice

thanks

=D

LonMead: You're welcome.

Only one?

Fail. Need at least five photos to properly fap to it...

CyberDave: Just give in and start liking them. They're a lot of fun.

Especially with the increasingly-changing lyrics on live versions of If I Had a Million Dollars.

tshetter: Show could be SO much better with out the laugh track and 3 camera sitcom setup. Could just be my hate for that style though.

Please list three sitcoms you like not using that style.

DarthBrooks: tshetter: Show could be SO much better with out the laugh track and 3 camera sitcom setup. Could just be my hate for that style though.

Please list three sitcoms you like not using that style.

Three sitcoms not using it would be hard to list, they all just use it out of definition. True scottsman and all that.

Listing GOOD shows that used that would be a better question.

Hollywood seems to think that format works for them, so they keep using it. Who am I to suggest different?

But still, I find the laugh-track kills the jokes more than reenforcing the timing and punch. Making for dry delivery and robotic acting.

Production value and cost would obviously change, and that may be the major reason for the majority of its current usage.

In conclusion...do i have a point or anything?

No, im just half drunk, the Eagles won, and I dont like laughtracks. =D

DarthBrooks: Insufficient Kaley Cuoco pics in this thread.

Also, Big Bang Theory is the funniest thing on TV nowadays.

You have obviously not see The I.T. Crowd (new window).

I really wish CBS didn't have such a fit about this show. I can watch just about any major network television show online so that I may catch up. CBS doesn't like this show to be on hulu or their OWN website so I can't catch up. I went to some other sites and found that many people were having issues finding this show anywhere online as well. While other major tv companies are making advertising from things like hulu etc, CBS remains far behind the curve unable to adapt to modern television trends. The sad part is that there is no reason for this, and the show is about nerds, it's ironic that they wouldn't make it available on the internet a place where nerds live...

DarthBrooks: Especially with the increasingly-changing lyrics on live versions of If I Had a Million Dollars.

I completely lost it at "You are... my fire". Too good.

For some reason I read this as 'They Might Be Giants'.

Still nice, even with my massive dislexia.

Remember:

'Dislexics of the world UNTIE!'

i love that show, but im worried that its to nerdy to make it. anyone know if its coming back next year?

DarthBrooks: tshetter: Show could be SO much better with out the laugh track and 3 camera sitcom setup. Could just be my hate for that style though.

Please list three sitcoms you like not using that style.

Arrested Development
It's always sunny in philly
The Office
Malcom in the Middle
Reno 911
Monk

3 cams & laughtrack is almost obsolete at this point. It's a great way to make a show on the cheap, however.

Greenline: 3 cams & laughtrack is almost obsolete at this point.

The existence of Chuck Lorre Productions would invalidate that theory.

The only comedy in the top ten besides "Desperate Housewives" is "Two and a Half Men".

Let's not forget the complete failures of TV series such as Friends, Seinfeld, Cheers, and a thousand more.

Desilu's 3-camera, studio audience setup is not going away any time soon.

tshetter:
Show could be SO much better with out the laugh track and 3 camera sitcom setup. Could just be my hate for that style though.


It's filmed in front of a live studio audience.

One of my favourite parts of the show is reading the blackboards in the background because that's real physics. Sometimes I recognize it too!

Scutter: DarthBrooks: Insufficient Kaley Cuoco pics in this thread.
Also, Big Bang Theory is the funniest thing on TV nowadays.

You have obviously not see The I.T. Crowd (new window).

thats a great show too, but it really could use one of these..

Makh: They have elevated themselves to almost as nerdy cool as They Might Be Giants.

I actually thought it was a They Might Be Giants song.

/don't read the credits

Darkwing: Makh: They have elevated themselves to almost as nerdy cool as They Might Be Giants.

I actually thought it was a They Might Be Giants song.

/don't read the credits

I immediately thought of TMBG's 'cover' of Why Does the Sun Shine... the tempo, beat, and overall cadence is really almost identical actually. BNL's tune is still plenty clever and well done on its own though.

I love the show, and its theme song. Although, I do have one quibble over the lyrics: why would autotrophs drool? They don't need saliva, since they don't have to digest food... they make their own (hence autotroph: auto = self, troph = nutrition).

Yes, yes... very Sheldon of me.

oh ye of short memories, can't you see
it's just a lame-ass rip-off of monty
python?
"just remember that you're standing-
on a planet that's evolving"
etc.
jesus how i hate this novelty song puking up
bunch of fuglies.
love that blonde though....

Damnit I hate "Big Bang Theory". I literally spaz out while I'm watching it, I just can't stand to watch the characters.

BECAUSE TRAINING MYSELF NOT TO DO THAT SHIAT WAS HARD!

It's like I can feel all my hard-won social skills, the results of countless trial and error human interactions, are slipping away as I revel in watching a bunch of nerds be nerds. After about five minutes I start screaming at the blonde because she's stupid, and her supposed "real world" smarts are anything but, and I'm trying to convince the geeks in the show that they've got the wrong value for the specific heat capacity of water or something.

It's at this point I need to be given a beer or a tranquilizer and I require at least a good half hour of observing normal humans before I feel ready to socialize again.

woogs: Damnit I hate "Big Bang Theory". I literally spaz out while I'm watching it, I just can't stand to watch the characters.

BECAUSE TRAINING MYSELF NOT TO DO THAT SHIAT WAS HARD!

It's like I can feel all my hard-won social skills, the results of countless trial and error human interactions, are slipping away as I revel in watching a bunch of nerds be nerds. After about five minutes I start screaming at the blonde because she's stupid, and her supposed "real world" smarts are anything but, and I'm trying to convince the geeks in the show that they've got the wrong value for the specific heat capacity of water or something.

It's at this point I need to be given a beer or a tranquilizer and I require at least a good half hour of observing normal humans before I feel ready to socialize again.

My non-nerd wife loves the show (the often offers to settle
disputes with Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock now), so at first
I was leery of a show about nerds that she liked. I gave it a
try, and it didn't catch my fancy. My wife reminds me strongly
Penny (in many ways).

Until about the 3rd episode I saw, when they were at the
restaurant talking about who would win: Godzilla or a bunch of
LOTR Orcs (assuming the Orcs were backed up by a Panzer division).

I've had that conversation, so that told me whoever was writing
the show knew what they were talking about, so I've continued to
watch.

And Kaley Cuaco is HOT (and Sarah Rue ain't bad, either).

Cubansaltyballs: LonMead: You're welcome.

Only one?

Fail. Need at least five photos to properly fap to it...

Do not complain to me about your insufficiencies.

brigid_fitch: DarthBrooks: Insufficient Kaley Cuoco pics in this thread.

Also, Big Bang Theory is the funniest thing on TV nowadays.

How can you post a Big Bang Theory clip and not use this one (new window)??

/God, I love this show.
//I catch more references than my Trekkie husband

Actually, I'm more partial to this one. (new window) (Mostly just the last scene.)

TommyBahama: i love that show, but im worried that its to nerdy to make it. anyone know if its coming back next year?

It starts/started back today (12 Jan in the USA). The number of episodes in the rest of the season isn't official yet but probably a standard 24. No confirmation for third season yet, but then the second season won't be finished until around May/June so that's no surprise.

I agree with whoever upthread said a sign of a good show is it's funny in repeats. I've watched every episode several times and it's still hilarious.

/I can grow my own Leonard Nimoy!

If it's funny at all, it's already better than any BNL song I've heard.

Matter of taste, I'm sure, but I find them hugely boring, even annoying. I especially can't stand that 'Apartment' song. I feel like a drunk moron is slowly beating me with a plugged-in guitar.

I know plenty of people who are big fans, and I'm very happy for them. It's just not for me, even a little bit.

IMHO, "Gordon" is one of the very best [pop/rock] debut albums of the past 25 years.

"maybe you should drive" wasn't too shabby either...

DarthBrooks: Also, Big Bang Theory is the funniest thing on TV nowadays.

Thanks, you just confirmed my reason for not watching it, it's not funny. But as long as you like it.

I really wish CBS didn't have such a fit about this show. I can watch just about any major network television show online so that I may catch up. CBS doesn't like this show to be on hulu or their OWN website so I can't catch up. I went to some other sites and found that many people were having issues finding this show anywhere online as well. While other major tv companies are making advertising from things like hulu etc, CBS remains far behind the curve unable to adapt to modern television trends. The sad part is that there is no reason for this, and the show is about nerds, it's ironic that they wouldn't make it available on the internet a place where nerds live...

Try: WatchTVSitcoms.com

They've got everything.

The Big Bang Theory drives me nuts. It has good geek humour, but it also works in stereotypes that are just wrong, and I can't stand stand them. I wonder if it's how black people felt watching comedy depictions of themselves in the 30s-50s. Also, standard annoying uncomfortable situations that every ordinary American sitcom does because it's expected.

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock was hilarious though, thanks for that link.

Overall though, I think The IT Crowd is a far better geek comedy, because it goes more for geek humour than for making fun of geeks. Which I get plenty of in real life thanks.

Wow, I forgot all about Encarta until this video. Wikipedia drowned them out HARD by integrating with the information age. Really is amazing how a couple years of stagnant growth is the difference between being worldwide renowned and erased from history.

The Barenaked Ladies are a bunch of unfunny, untalented, fat, ugly canadians. They suck. Anyone who likes them sucks.


I love the show though. I was in a test audience for it in Vegas. It never would have been put on the air if it wasn't for my sage input. You're welcome.

DemonEater: The Big Bang Theory drives me nuts. It has good geek humour, but it also works in stereotypes that are just wrong, and I can't stand stand them. I wonder if it's how black people felt watching comedy depictions of themselves in the 30s-50s. Also, standard annoying uncomfortable situations that every ordinary American sitcom does because it's expected.

We choose to be geeks. I think their abuse of other stereotypes (Indian families, overbearing Jewish mother, ditzy blondes) is more lazy than the "geeks in the wild" type.

I do really like this show and watch it weekly on DVR with the wife. While a bookworm and very intelligent, my wife isn't a "geek" but still loves it. I think the character development and consistency with Sheldon is the best thing about the show.

While the "laugh track" is a studio audience (yeah I was shocked, too), it is obviously one with a massive noise gate and heavy compression: dead silent or loud white noise, plus cue cards. Ugh.

DarthBrooks: Insufficient Kaley Cuoco pics in this thread.

Also, Big Bang Theory is the funniest thing on TV nowadays.

You misspelled "The Venture Brothers."

I was 'watching' this show on a plane yesterday without audio. I figured it was horrible just by what I was watching.

I then watched the two linked vidoes in this thread.


I was 100% correct. The acting is horrible and the writing is idiotic and predictable. I knew which jokes were coming and I never saw the show.

DemonEater: Overall though, I think The IT Crowd is a far better geek comedy, because it goes more for geek humour than for making fun of geeks. Which I get plenty of in real life thanks.

Really? I thought it was the complete opposite. The IT Crowd just seems to make fun of geeks and used silly/basic techie stuff in the few episodes I watched before I got sick of it, whereas The Big Bang Theory's characters actually have conversations I've participated in. Sure, the characters are exaggerated (they all are in sitcoms), and Leonard annoys the heck outta me (kinda reminds me of me a few years back) but hey, I found it amusing.

Makh: They have elevated themselves to almost as nerdy cool as They Might Be Giants.

What?!

MugzyBrown: I was 'watching' this show on a plane yesterday without audio. I figured it was horrible just by what I was watching.

I then watched the two linked vidoes in this thread.


I was 100% correct. The acting is horrible and the writing is idiotic and predictable. I knew which jokes were coming and I never saw the show.

This is funny because I can hear it in Sheldon's voice.