<p>I need a new show to watch and I like Mayim Bialik.
Plus 30Rock is over & I can only watch the old shows so many times.</p>
<p>I absolutely cant stand many sitcoms though.</p>
<p>Oh I just saw it has a laughtrack.
I cant watch shows with laugh tracks- too distracting.
Damn. :(</p>
<p>Emerald–if you like it, you’ll be laughing too much to even notice it has it’s own laugh track.</p>
<p>My whole family loves the show. We are all geeks, so we were prepared to dislike it - thought it was intended to bash us dorky folk. What we found was a show that really strikes a chord with us. I couldn’t tell you why (maybe because I am from a family full of geeks), but it just makes me laugh out loud.</p>
<p>I love the show makes Nerds look sexy, and actually legitimizes them as desireable</p>
<p>^^^
I think Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg did a lot towards that end.</p>
<p>Watched the Tiara episode tonight with Happydad. The geeks I know best are biochemists rather than physicists, but I’ve also known geeky experts in many other fields. I think that BBT nails this tribe perfectly.</p>
<p>I have a bunch of geek friends who aren’t scientists, but are into sci fi and fantasy. What strikes a chord with me is the characters collecting, movie-watching and Comic-Con attending habits. That is pitch perfect. Trust me, there are plenty of people like that.</p>
<p>The one thing that bugs me is how they dress. Leonard with the hoodies, Howard’s tight pants and bright colors, Sheldon’s T-shirts over long-sleeve shirts – that doesn’t ring true to me based on the geeks I know. The occasional hoody is fine, just not every single day. My friends wear sci fi T-shirts a lot, but can and do dress in appropriate work clothes, also. </p>
<p>And I really really wish Koothrappali would get some therapy and a girlfriend. The whole “he can’t talk to a girl unless he’s drunk” thing has gotten really old.</p>
<p>Raj has found a girlfriend fireandrain. Where HAVE you been?</p>
<p>Love this show, and adore Jim Parsons and what he has done with the Sheldon character.</p>
<p>It’s one of those show that a family with older kids can watch, and everyone can be entertained. Though I admit, it irritates me that my kids understand what Sheldon is talking about more than I do.</p>
<p>D watched a marathon of BBT when she was home for winter break. It was first time I had seen the show. Of course, the first episode I saw was all about sex. Then, my 5th grader was writing a report on Steve Wozniak and his bio mentioned he had a guest role on BBT and she wanted to watch it. It was so silly but appropriate for her (thank goodness) and IMO, gave her impression that being smart is cool.</p>
<p>I love this show and, while I liked the tiara episode, my personal favorite is the Christmas episode from Season 2. I love Sheldon’s reaction when he receives Penny’s gift and the hug at the end. This year’s Valentine’s episode was almost as sweet when Sheldon gave Amy the gift of being his emergency contact.</p>
<p>This is one of those shows that turned out so much better than it started.</p>
<p>I watched the first episode or so and didn’t care for it. But my daughter got me to give it another try in the middle of the second season or so, and I absolutely love it. From time to time, I’ll see a re-run of an early episode and I can see how the characters have evolved and the writing has improved.</p>
<p>I find the characters to be remarkably well-developed–their relationships with one another, their own complexities, things about them that are both admirable and ridiculous. I think Penny is one of my favorite sitcom characters ever–she has an extraordinary ability to see the good in anyone–dating Leonard and Stuart, befriending Amy, truly caring about Sheldon, even learning to appreciate Howard. Actually, the one character I don’t care for is Amy. She has morphed from an affectless female version of Sheldon who was perfectly comfortable with who she was and how she was, to a kind of pathetic soul begging for the affections of Penny and Sheldon. I suppose it makes for funnier situations, but I miss the old Amy. (Just stopped by to say that I’m expecting Sheldon’s baby. Also, I’m thinking of getting orthotics. Mum’s the word!)</p>
<p>I have developed a real intolerance for most sitcoms, but I love this one and can’t wait for new episodes each Thursday.</p>
<p>I love the show. I find the way they celebrate sterotypes actually refreshing. It is out in the open and they are not embarrased by it. I love Sheldon character. Just when I think I figured his algorithms for being funny, he throws in a surprise and makes me laugh.</p>
<p>Sheldon reminds me of my son or somewhat how I picture him in a future life. I like the show.</p>
<p>bethie, do you mean the quiet girl he’s seen a couple times? I’m not sure that she qualifies yet. And I think he’s yet to be sober when he’s been with her.</p>
<p>She may not qualify yet, but she’s plausible as a GF for Raj.</p>
<p>I don’t like the show at all. It’s very formulaic and outside of the first few shows, which I thought were funny, it switched mostly away from the ‘geek theme’ and dropped into the ‘sex/relationship theme’ for every show. I guess they ran out material to do for the ‘geek theme’ so they dropped to the old tried and tired but easy to write fallback. </p>
<p>I’ve been in the computer business doing circuit design and software development for my whole career so I very much ‘get’ the geeky humor and actually appreciate it including the making fun of stereotypes but the problem is they do very little of this anymore - every show is about the same with the sex/relationship attempt at humor.</p>
<p>I love the show. I don’t see it as awful or mocking anyone - it actually makes the characters very endearing. My daughter and her husband are definite science geeks/nerds and they both love it also (enough that they buy all the episodes on CD). They are proud to be nerds and also both have a good sense of humor.</p>
<p>The episode about D&D was very enlightening for me as my SIL plays that with a group of grad student friends. Even my nerdy daughter thinks that is nerdy, and I was a bit baffled by what she was trying to explain to me till I saw the episode. Well still a bit baffled but in a more tolerant way.</p>
<p>The other day, she told me she baked a pie for pi day. I was thinking “there’s a pie day?” until she told me he texted her at 3.14 to wish her happy pi day.</p>
<p>" it’s brilliantly written. " - I agree.</p>
<p>DH and I are engineers, and we enjoy BBT. (We have tow techie kids - one likes it, one does not. TV is often a matter or personal taste. Or lack of it… DH and I really like Two Broke Girls.) </p>
<p>Although we don’t know anybody exactly like Sheldon or others, we do see traits similar with friends from college and work. It has surprised me that the show has mainstream popularity - it seems like some of the situation and jokes just would not be funny to non-techies.</p>