While it is not an incredible show, it is very watchable. I love seeing Galecki & Gilbert back together. I’m also glad to see that the guy who plays Sheldon is acting. I was afraid he was like Charlie Sheen/Harper, playing himself. I was so irritated by the character that I didn’t realize how good the acting is.
Roseanne spotted some fine young talent–Sara Gilbert, Johnny Galecki, Sara Chalke, and Joseph Gordon Levitt were all on her show.
Exactly. I also find it remarkable how well Leonard’s character is able to deal with Sheldon.
If you look it up, there is an incredible list of guests and semi-regulars on that show - Stephen Dorff, Stephen Root, Bert Parks, Martin Mull, Brad Garrett, Alyson Hannigan, Tobey Maguire, and George Clooney, to name just a few.
I love this show. I love picking up the little things, like Howard’s belt buckles and Sheldon’s shirts.
I love how Penny interacts with them (remember Schroedinger’s Cat from the season finale?) and how they don’t try to explain the nerdy jokes. If you’re a nerd, you’ll laugh with them, if not, you’ll laugh at them. Either way, it’s a laugh.
I love it when all the guys get together to play video games or design a way to turn on a light across the room by sending a signal via the internet to China and back a gain.
What’s up with Chuck Lorre’s end credits? They’re not up there long enough to read them. Any way to get a hold of them?
Dude, that’s what a DVR is for. I irritate my wife by pausing on that screen and reading every word. It’s called a vanity card, by the way.
Heh, that guy’s got a big ego. But I’ve gotta say some of the essays are pretty good.
I’d say it’s on a par with Cavemen, which I also watched. I don’t know why I watched it, I just did. It’s only 1/2 hour and every once in awhile they get a funny line in.
Couldn’t stand Roseanne, but BBT is very good. I’m just surprised that it has a large enough audience to sustain it since it leads off prime time on Mondays and seems to cater to people who appreciate geeky humor like dopers on this board. Maybe there are a lot of closet nerds out there! 
Also Bonnie Bramlett and David Crosby, who both sang on the show. But my aboslute most favorite was Shelly Winters as Roseanne’s maternal grandmother, Nana Mary.
Okay, a couple of questions about last night’s show (didn’t see a separate thread):
Was that Tom Brady playing Penny’s new “friend”? (My DVR didn’t get the credits)
What percent of people who like this show know who Tom Brady is and would recognize him in an acting role?
ONe thing that occured to me while watching last night’s show.
Gilbert & Gilccki. On Roseanne they were Darlene & David. He was originaly introduced as “Kevin” and in a later episode Roseanne said “David’s not even his real name. Darlene just calls him that cause she likes it.” They named their daughter “Harris Conner Healy” (Harris being Roseanne’s birth surname).
On Big Bang they are Leonard & Leslie.
Anyone else see a pattern there?
Okay, that was Travis Schuldt, not Tom Brady. Similar look, at least at a glance, but Brady has more of a cleft chin.
The Travis link doesn’t work for me. Here is his IMDB entry.
The station that I normally record my Monday night shows showed MNF instead, so I missed this week and also How I met your mother. :mad:
Okay okay, I’ll quit telling people that the theme song is by TMBG. Damn, it was a way to spread the TMBG goodness!
I love the show and my 7 y/o son and I sing the theme song to it - it leads to some interesting discussions (mom, what is the big bang theory?).
Hard to believe that so many years ago Gilbert & Gilecki played parents together so many years ago. I know their characters (then) were young teenage parents, but still… I think about their characters having a 11 year old child.
Darlene & David were 18 when Harris was born, which would make then 29 now. Leonard & Leslie are in their mid-20’s. Not much of an age reduction.
In real life they are both 33, making an 11 year daughter not only possible, but probable and hardly unreasonable.
And I’ve just shown why I like this show.
Another episode last night that started off sort of slow. But then Sheldon was banished to sitting in the apartment building stairway playing Mario on his laptop (on an “emulator” too, nice geek credibility!), while Leonard and Leslie are in the apartment trying to start a conventional relationship. A relationship where Leslie dictates exactly what they do and then follows with “But you’re the man, it’s up to you.” And every time Leslie would leave she’d say in a girly way “Call me!” I cracked up every time she said that. Good episode overall.
Did anyone else go immediately to the Internet to look up the “censored” vanity card message at the end? I bet his site got a big hit. http://www.chucklorre.com/
I am not alone! 
Last night had my favorite joke on the series so far, when Leonard tells Sheldon to make himself scarce and Sheldon says (paraphrased): “I’m a theoretical physicist with two PhDs and an IQ so high that no test can measure it. How much scarcer can I be?”
Perfect.
I laughed every time Leslie said “Call me!” with that little tilt of the head.
When Sheldon said “I have to make pee-pee.” I almost made some myself.
On last night’s episode, Penny was explaining Schrodinger’s cat to her boyfriend as they were walking up the stairs. So they’re influencing her in a weird way. And I’m surprised that the nerds haven’t attempted to fix the elevator themselves. (But then again, they’re scientist nerds and perhaps that’s a compulsion of engineering nerds.)
