# Big Bang Theory Returns tonight
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 17, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668 "2008-03-17T17:50:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/1 "2008-03-17T17:50:28Z")
As Ivylass tried to state in another thread:Big Bang Theory returns tonight
Thank Og too, because the mid-season replacement for it: Welcome to the Captain sucked in legendary ways.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/2 "2008-03-17T17:57:14Z")
As I said in my OP before the hamsters passed out again…I have warm fuzzies for this show. I missed it.
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### Author:  [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/3 "2008-03-17T18:04:46Z")
I love this show…looking forward to the new episode!
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### Author:  [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/4 "2008-03-17T18:13:01Z")
This is our favorite new show this year. I’m happy that the writers’ strike didn’t kill it. Can’t wait!
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### Author:  [@GoodGrief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodGrief)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/5 "2008-03-17T18:25:51Z")
Almost forgot it’s starts back up tonight-thanks for the reminder! We love this show, too.
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/6 "2008-03-17T18:37:57Z")
Awesome, I’ll probably watch it while it’s on.
Edit: …as opposed to letting my Tivo record it and watching it later…
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### Author:  [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/7 "2008-03-17T18:55:58Z")
Love this show. Thanks for the reminder.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/8 "2008-03-17T18:59:52Z")
Ivylass gets all the credit - the hamsters ate her post.
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### Author:  [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/9 "2008-03-17T21:00:52Z")
I figured we would talk this up again.
I am glad it is back too.
Also season 2 is confirmed.
[http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-cbsrenews11for200809,0,7341122.story](http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-cbsrenews11for200809,0,7341122.story)
I missed this show. I love how I can ““get”” this show, like a lot of other people ““get”” Idol, or something like that.
Smart and Funny Television.
Everything Idol isn’t
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/10 "2008-03-18T12:36:14Z")
The opening scene with them using the internet to turn on the lamp had me screaming. How incredibly geeky can you get!
“There’s 20-25 people in there!”
GASP!
“Among particle physicists, that’s like Woodstock!”
Anybody understand super solids?
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### Author:  [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/11 "2008-03-18T13:03:30Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass]
Anybody understand super solids?
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No, but I made the mistake of trying to explain the spherical chickens in a vacuum joke to my wife. You see, they’re _theoretical_ physicists…
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/12 "2008-03-18T13:54:08Z")
Of course, some of the scientific stuff is nonsense, but there’s enough there, like the bit with the Internet-enabled lights (just because we can), to show that someone on the writing staff know what they’re talking about. I thought this show was funnier last night than How I Met Your Mother.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/13 "2008-03-18T14:32:46Z")
[QUOTE=SuperNelson]
No, but I made the mistake of trying to explain the spherical chickens in a vacuum joke to my wife. You see, they’re _theoretical_ physicists…
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I didn’t get it either, but I assumed that we weren’t supposed to. The fact that everyone except Penny did is what made it funny.
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### Author:  [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/14 "2008-03-18T15:43:56Z")
[QUOTE=Meeko]
I missed this show. I love how I can ““get”” this show, like a lot of other people ““get”” Idol, or something like that.
Smart and Funny Television.
Everything Idol isn’t
[/QUOTE]
Some of us manage to “get” both.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/15 "2008-03-18T15:47:59Z")
The laugh track is a bit… relentless, wot?
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/16 "2008-03-18T16:07:48Z")
Yeah the laugh track is jarring indeed. For such a smart show, do they need to have that track?
My interpretation of the spherical chicken in a vacuum joke was that the physicists were setting things up that way to simplify the problem. Maybe I’m way off, I’m not a theoretical physicist.
This episode wasn’t the best, but the beginning was great and the fight between Sheldon and Leonard being posted on YouTube was funny.
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### Author:  [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/17 "2008-03-18T16:17:42Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
The laugh track is a bit… relentless, wot?
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I found this show by accident and loved it, for about ten minutes. The laugh track really pissed me off after a while and eventually drove me away. Maybe I’ll give it another try. It’s on after House this Thursday and it’s a bank holiday weekend, so I’ll be quite relaxed by the time it’s on.
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### Author:  [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/18 "2008-03-18T17:27:13Z")
Yeah, it was a pretty lame joke, at most it was somewhat witty. Real nerds wouldn’t give it more than a chuckle. Bad episode. The girl does have a nice ass though.
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### Author:  [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/19 "2008-03-18T18:17:49Z")
[QUOTE=control-z]
Yeah the laugh track is jarring indeed. For such a smart show, do they need to have that track?
My interpretation of the spherical chicken in a vacuum joke was that the physicists were setting things up that way to simplify the problem. Maybe I’m way off, I’m not a theoretical physicist.
This episode wasn’t the best, but the beginning was great and the fight between Sheldon and Leonard being posted on YouTube was funny.
[/QUOTE]
I interpreted the spherical chicken joke like this: A farmer had a real world problem, and needed a real-world solution. And that’s what he would have gotten had he consulted an applied physicist, or an engineer, or a vet, or almost anyone other than a theoretical physicist. However, a theoretical physicist was who he asked, and an abstract solution was what he got. Intellectually compelling, and probably revealing of a greater truth, but of no practical application in the immediate context of the question.
What made this funnier to me is that we’ve seen Leonard and Sheldon get in trouble several times this way. Remember when they tried to carry Penny’s furniture up the stairs, and got stuck trying to calculate the mechanical advantage of an inclined plane? Or when they tried to hook up her stereo? They could recognize this behavior in theory, but not in practice.
Also, has anyone checked YouTube to see if a video was actually posted?
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-theory-returns-tonight/441668/20 "2008-03-18T18:22:14Z")
[QUOTE=SuperNelson]
…Also, has anyone checked YouTube to see if a video was actually posted?
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[Of course it is](http://youtube.com/watch?v=lMA_mMG1Scg).
No mention of the show, though.
The description: “Dr. Leonard Hofstadter and Dr. Sheldon Cooper square off during a presentation at the Topical Conference on Bose Einstein Condensates in Pasadena, California.”
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