The show is filmed on the Warner Brothers lot, and there are many, many movie props on display elsewhere on the lot (as seen when you take a tram tour of Warner Brothers Studios), so I wouldn’t be surprised if they gathered all those geeky goodies from nearby.
I wonder if any of the actors on that show are nerdy enough (in real life) to be excited about those props and costumes.
Bernadette was pretty awful to Amy at one point.
Amt deserved it. She cost the world the chance to see Bernadette as a sexy scientist.
(Yes, I know Melissa posed for Maxim. But that wasn’t in character!) (Hot though.)
The way she said it, yes, but there was an element of truth to it. Personally, I saw it as somewhat insulting and hypocritical. I don’t think she’d have had a problem with her self-proclaimed BFF doing such an article when she was an actress; is Penny so dumb it’s okay to degrade her?
And the vanity card was a callback to Neil deGrasse Tyson posing over a Porsche. Referenced by (Bernadette?) earlier in the same show.
Setting aside the question of whether it’s legitimate to ascribe an unexpressed opinion to someone (especially a fictional character) - what an actor or actress looks like is relevant to the job. What a scientist looks like isn’t.
I thought what Bernadette said to Amy was incredibly nasty and outside the normal tone of the show. Yes, a lot of the show’s humor is based on the characters being mean to each other, but this wasn’t funny. It was just mean. Basically, Bernadette told Amy she was too ugly to be in a sexy photo shoot.
Billy Bob was a lot of fun.
I heard it as worse than that - it was a very personal jab at the fact that her now long term relationship partner has no interest in her physicially. Even more below the belt.
Yeah, that’s how I took it.
Bernadette is getting more and more mean spirited. The farther they take this line, the less funny the character is.
I did not know till now that’s who the Dr. was and I knew he looked familiar!:o
It’s not the same thing. Posing in sexy photo shoots is something that actors do either because they were/are models or to promote themselves or their latest project. Amy’s objections to an article highlighting the sexy women of science in a magazine whose readers are primarily people interested in science were reasonable. The proposed article was sexist, in poor taste, and there was nothing wrong with her contacting the editors to say so.
And of course the editors would not have realized that beforehand and a single e-mail would have been enough to cancel the concept.
My guess is that the character Bernadette is right … as written AFF would not have sent an e-mail if the female scientist was someone she did not know on the priciple that the spread is counterproductive to female scientists being taken seriously … she did it out of jealousy even if she believes the argument and is correct that it is. Which does not change the nature of the Bernadette response.
Which, to be fair, is her go-to nasty remark to Amy when they argue. (She said something similar in the parking spot ep.)
On rewatch, I noticed one of the props featured a plasma globe. Which movie or show was that from? (Actually, I assume someone somewhere has identified every prop in that scene.)
Me neither . . . and for a while I thought he was horribly miscast.
And I was surprised AFF stuck around, after what Bernadette said.
I’ve seen interviews with Mayim Bialik where she says she’s the only genuine nerd of the group and the only one to really enjoy some of the geeky guests they get or situations the characters end up in.
On the other hand, Jim Parsons comes across as a MASSIVE DORK in interviews (like seriously, A HUGE, GIGANTIC DORK), but he’s not interested in comic books or video games.
Jim Parsons voice and mannerisms IRL are exactly the same as Sheldon’s standard stuff. What makes him a good actor is the extra weird facial expressions and such (that I hope he doesn’t normally use). But most of the time he is playing himself and just stating lines. He and Cuoco are the two most acting as themselves.
A real blyeah episode. Pretty much everything but BBT was just boring filler. And BBT (not to be confused to TBBT) was underutilized. He is so good at stuff it’s a shame that didn’t let him go full Billy Bob. Cf. the recent Fargo series. (And that makes two actors from that guesting this season. And a third if you go back to season 4.)
It’s almost like that got a chance to have BBT guest star and just jinned up an episode to use him without much forethought.
At least a new vanity card this week, although no Lorre musings. (Unless he is actually fantasizing about NDT with an open shirt …)