That was pretty awesome, if just for the string bit bit

Awesome. Thanks, subby

^ Unimpressed

So, is a scientologist yet?


I hear they get you durring post production, when you let your guard down.....

The biggest takeaway from that clip is that American TV sucks donkey balls. There is simply no American TV audience smart enough to understand or care about that subject.

Pegg is one of the few famous people I follow on Twitter. Him and Weird Al.

ModernLuddite: WE'RE MADE UP OF STRINGS BEING MANIPULATED BY THE ENGLISH!

Completely explains Doctor Who.

whither_apophis: LouDobbsAwaaaay: The biggest takeaway from that clip is that American TV sucks donkey balls. There is simply no American TV audience smart enough to understand or care about that subject.

Oh yeah?! Then explain why the Big Bang Theory is so popular pal!

/no really, I watched one episode and felt my brain dying.

That's like Star Trek. Nobody understands why reharmonizing the wave disruption tachyon emitters while inverting the phase field will save the ship, it just will, and the audience accepts it.

What you think of as complicated dialogue filled with science is just filler padding to nerd jokes, hot chick shots.

That was brilliant.

whither_apophis: Oh yeah?! Then explain why the Big Bang Theory is so popular pal!

Big Bang Theory is not a geek/science show. It is a chick-flick show with geek/science trappings (much in the same way many sports movies are really chick flicks in disguise, like Jerry Maguire or anything with Kevin Costner in it).

I thought Big Bang Theory was funny for about the first half of the first season, when it was about these super dorks freaking out their neighbor with their offputting weirdness like, well, like real geeks. The show should've continued along that theme, with them waylaying her like Calvin terrorizing Suzie. The show could've taken the perspective of her, a normal person, reacting to how geek subcultures think, act and operate within a less dialectic world, opening the door to a whole branch of observational humor (how subcultural social tribes perceive each other and themselves). It would've been great if she were portrayed as being just as intelligent as they are, just without the education and the geek mindset, and to have her armed with normal social skills (as opposed to their aspergers-like tics) that allows her to make vicious-tongued snipes at their proclivities all the time. This would simultaneously garner their respect and enmity, making her a worthy foil for their antics.

At least, that's how it should have played out.

But the problem is the show developed a female geek following, and female geeks watch geek/sci-fi stuff different than male geeks. Specifically, they are obsessive shippers. The show's creators and writers took note of this and gradually shifted the show's focus from geek and sciencey stuff to relationship bullshiat. Consequently, the social behavior in all but one of the geeks graduated into normalcy in order to placate this relationship bullshiat.

Now the show has basically become Friends..... with doctorate degrees.

thisispete: Fans of Brian Cox and comedy might enjoy his BBC podcast, The Infinite Monkey Cage (you can get more free episodes through iTunes) - I just started listening to it this week, after watching his QI episode.

I love tIMC, but only just heard of this QI show due to you. Quite funny!