I have to admit I just started watching this show regularly... I would watch occasionally before, but now it's on the auto record. I know way too many Leonard's and Sheldon-lites to not enjoy it immensely.
i love the show, but someone like Penny would never date a Leonard. and Sheldon's sister should have been the Penny of the show. Yikes!
Like what, other than he's from Houston? I really don't know other than what I've read on his Wiki and it looks like a pretty normal life. I've tried watching the show. Like all CBS comedies, I just don't find it funny at all. I haven't enjoyed a CBS sitcom since M*A*S*H.
i've only seen the show a few times and i have laughed some while watching it. I do, however, think the whole trying to be as nerdy as possible schtick gets a little old and just seems forced.
You didnt even have to leave the show in question to disprove that point, htownrox already pointed out that Johnny Galecki(Leonard) dated Kaley Cuoco(Penny) for over two years in real life.
i'm strictly talking about the characters on the show. a hot blonde, socialite isn't going to give the time of day to a geek whose idea of a good time is playing rock band with 3 other guys on a Friday night.
I already said it, but this my favorite current show. For me its very funny, and I laugh most of the time. I love this show.
I love Frasier, and while I wouldn't necessarily compare it to BBT, I can see why the poster said that... in the beginning of the series. While I was away doing physics for grad school, my mom calls me and says, "Oh you have to watch this show about these nerds - they say all the same things you do! It's so funny." Naturally, I ignored my mom's well-meaning recommendation... besides, I generally hate TV sitcoms. Finally, she insisted and I watched it during the first season and I was pleasantly surprised! This was a show about the typical science nerd--idiosyncrasies, geeky eccentricities and all. It was kind of eerie to relate to characters on a primetime sitcom... However, as the show gained popularity, the characters soon became parodies of themselves--or maybe it was the other way around? Anyway, the subtleties are gone and the nerds have all degenerated into barely functioning supergeeks. Also, the show has incorporated way too much relationship drama and sex, which I suppose helps with the popularity. Being so alienated from the world of girls is generally the mark of a nerd and was another great aspect of the show in the beginning. Now, it's slowly becoming a dorky version of Friends... and continuing with '90s references, Sheldon's character is following an Urkel-like trajectory. Eek! I certainly don't begrudge them the success--I'm not even sure the show would've survived as written in its infancy. Even now, I'll catch an episode or two and chuckle a little... but it definitely doesn't appeal to me like it used to.
This. Anyone who watches the show regularly... if you haven't watched the first couple episodes recently... please do. Notice Sheldon, in the first episode, actually seems to have a basic understanding of most social situations and humor. He's clearly very nerdy, but in a plausible sort of way. But as the character stands now, I can't see how that person could exist in real life. It just wouldn't work. Every show seems to go into the death spiral 5 seasons in or so though, where the writers start loving the characters' romantic lives more than the ideas and kinds of stories that originally made the show successful. Like Scrubs... great show that slowly got more emotional, but stayed tolerable through season 5... then season 6 hit and it was all touchy-feely BS and relationship drama. Season 7 was more of the same. Thankfully they made somewhat of a recovery in season 8, but I think they'd lost a lot of their audience by then.
Having watched that ridiculous show, they actually cleaned up the nerds. Still it was like 1 out of 12, and in a situation where they're forced to get to know each other.
i'm sure that off the set Johnny Galecki is a mirror image of his BBT character who is a timid, socially awkward, beta-male and the proverbial doormat. i'm just saying given their character traits, it would never happened in real life.
