# Big Bang 1/20 The Love Car Displacement. And Bang's been renewed for three more years! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 20, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338 "2011-01-20T16:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/41 "2011-01-22T02:33:13Z")
[quote=“GuanoLad, post:15, topic:568338”] Whenever I see pictures of him, he looks so artificial and weird, with his ridiculously white teeth and deeply tanned face (he’s of Bahamas extraction); It’s quite off-putting./QUOTE] I agree . . . but I can forgive anyone with eyes like that. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/42 "2011-01-22T03:20:05Z")
I have no problem with it. I mean, if you all can be turned on by the likes of Pamela Anderson, are we really expected to turn down the dial over some overbleached teeth? Puhhh-leeeeezzee. ---
**Author:** ![iftheresaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/43 "2011-01-22T04:58:57Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Not to mention her outspoken desire to have a penis (not for sex, mind you, just for the more convenient plumbing aspect). > > “Handy thing to have on a picnic” indeed. Was I the only one who didn’t think that conversation was weird at all? I’ve had conversations about what it’d be like to have a penis many times. I thought it was far weirder that Penny had never even considered it. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/44 "2011-01-22T05:12:39Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > I have no problem with it. I mean, if you all can be turned on by the likes of Pamela Anderson, are we really expected to turn down the dial over some overbleached teeth? Puhhh-leeeeezzee. That argument would make a lot more sense if I actually considered Pamela Anderson to be attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/45 "2011-01-22T06:18:56Z")
> [@iftheresaway](#): > > Was I the only one who didn’t think that conversation was weird at all? I’ve had conversations about what it’d be like to have a penis many times. Heck, there’s even a song about it. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/46 "2011-01-22T10:51:49Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > This would likely have been the reaction of people who _don’t_ live in a sitcom. But that wouldn’t have been funny. I can forgive them for pushing the envelope of plausibility while going for the laughs, because they got them. Yeah, you’re right, and I can’t tell why I can except some things that only happen in sitcoms and laugh and why I reject others - but this just seemed a bit too far. For instance, I also thought it was odd that this particular group would - by coincidence - be on the same discussion panel. Their diverse areas of expertise wouldn’t likely have all of them there. But I would have shrugged it off. Maybe you hit closer to the mark - you accepted it because for you there were laughs. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/47 "2011-01-22T11:05:55Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > That argument would make a lot more sense if I actually considered Pamela Anderson to be attractive. Or, for that matter, human. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/48 "2011-01-22T13:21:40Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > That argument would make a lot more sense if I actually considered Pamela Anderson to be attractive. It would also have more teeth if women in general didn’t look down on guys who find Pamela Anderson attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/49 "2011-01-22T14:29:13Z")
Add me to the folk who thought the panel scene pushed this over the edge from an okay ep to a crappy one. One of my favorite shows, but I can only suspend my disbelief so far. This required 2 steps I was unwilling to take - especially not in combination. First, it was ludicrous to imagine they would all be on the same panel; and second, I thought it too extreme to accept that every one of them would have acted so unprofessionally before their peers. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/50 "2011-01-22T14:59:50Z")
There was also the fact that you’d not go through Bakersfield to get from Pasadena to Big Sur (not that I cared about that really but it seemed an odd little error from writers who, presumably, live in LA). ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/51 "2011-01-22T17:26:23Z")
They do make some odd errors on the show; for a show about geeks that has a massive geek following, some of their geek details are wrong sometimes. I guess the bottom line is it’s just a sitcom, and nobody’s getting fired if one of the geek details isn’t perfect. ETA: And one more time - geek, geek, geek - yup, the word’s lost all meaning to me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/52 "2011-01-22T18:01:27Z")
At our house, ‘coitus’ elicited our very first “I’ll tell you when you’re older” comment to my son. We usually watch it on the DVR after they go to bed. Oh well, Sex Ed’s next year, he’s just reading ahead. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/53 "2011-01-22T21:09:49Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > AFF did a fantastic job of making the bedroom scene physically uncomfortable. The way she perched onthe bed, just infinitismally too close, and then just spoke and stared, then spoke and stared again. . . it was finally the artistry I was waiting to see from Mayim. “Is this about women wanting penises, because if it is I’d like to weigh in.” Delivery was so deadpan and perfect I had to rewatch it 4-5 times just to see her blank face. Loved the episode. Not completely coherent, but it brought the funny. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/54 "2011-01-24T13:26:40Z")
As I recall, the setup for their appearance at the conference was little more than “we’ve been invited to be on a panel” or something like that. Maybe the idea was to have professionals from diverse fields weighing in on a common topic. Maybe Amy Farrah Fowler herself had been asked to assemble the panel. It’s easy enough to explain away, so it doesn’t bother me. It’s true that their unprofessional behavior was over-the-top, but I didn’t have a problem with that either. If anything, it was consistent with the characters. I personally don’t _expect_ sitcom characters to act realistically. If they did, you’d have all sit and no com. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/55 "2011-01-24T13:34:08Z")
> [@Cyberhwk](#): > > “Is this about women wanting penises, because if it is I’d like to weigh in.” Delivery was so deadpan and perfect I had to rewatch it 4-5 times just to see her blank face. I enjoyed the show, but this one confused me at first. It wasn’t until I was reading some of the discussion here that I realized it was a callback to AFF’s discussion with Penny about ‘penis envy for the plumbing aspects’. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/56 "2011-01-24T14:28:23Z")
Raj taking two kleenexes to bed with him…in order to cry over “Bridget Jones’ Diary” was hysterical, though I wish they would have omitted him saying, “I’m crying already.” because we got the joke. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/57 "2011-01-24T14:43:24Z")
i think that statement was needed to reinforce the double entendre. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/58 "2011-01-24T15:03:33Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > It’s true that their unprofessional behavior was over-the-top, but I didn’t have a problem with that either. If anything, it was consistent with the characters. Seriously…when have this lot EVER acted professionally? ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/59 "2011-01-24T15:47:48Z")
Finally watched last night. Seemed about average, which for this show is pretty darn funny. The whole room switching business was hilarious. In addition to Leonard’s “NO!” another bit of perfect timing was his jumping into bed and kissing Penny mid-sentence. Also, I loved the new twists on the “Raj can’t talk to women” gag. “Raj just texted me, he said to tell you when Howard says ‘nap’, he means, ‘sex’” and also his clamming up immediately upon realizing Penny was in the hotel room. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338/60 "2011-01-24T18:26:50Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > Raj taking two kleenexes to bed with him…in order to cry over “Bridget Jones’ Diary” was hysterical, though I wish they would have omitted him saying, “I’m crying already.” because we got the joke. Sorry, not me. If he hadn’t given that line I’d have been perfectly prepared to believe that he was about to yank it to Renee Zellweger. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-1-20-the-love-car-displacement-and-bangs-been-renewed-for-three-more-years/568338.md?page=4)