Posted on 04/29/2014 6:58:16 AM PDT by Scoutmaster
He has come close to death several times and I have heard that a priest has been present at those times. Maybe there are no atheists in black holes either.
“I would add that Leonard is hopelessly out of his league with Penny, and such a relationship would never happen.”
I disagree. Believe it or not, there have always been a group of girls that are basically “brain groupies”. I’ve seen it first hand at graduate school in physics and this was in the 1980’s.
With the Big Bang tv show, my guess is there are even more groupies now.
Good point.
There are brain groupies, but penny is obviously NOT one of them.
I reference BBT and Firefly by Joss Whedon. On that show, Shepherd Book is portrayed as a much more than decent human being, despite the fact that none of the other main characters seem to particularly agree with him.
I don't know about Chuck Lorre of BBT, but Joss Whedon is a well-known atheist. Yet he portrays religious people, even Christians, fairly in his shows.
All I want is for Christians to be portrayed in the media with the respect normally shown to Jews, Muslims or Hindus.
And BTW...I’d have been hitting Jessica Walter like Mickey Mantle hit a baseball. I didn’t understand Leonard’s trepidation at responding to her advances.
She’s 73 years old.... :)
There's no show without him, as played by Jim Parsons. I've heard that the actor playing Leonard was the original cast for Sheldon, and that he insisted they hire Parsons. I think that actor Johnnie Gilecki is the weak link in the show, but give him credit for that suggestion! Also, FWIW, I think the best comedic timing by far goes to Wolowicz….
“Leonard’s mother was quite obviously a much worse parent than Mrs. Cooper.”
Probably based on BF Skinner who actually put one of his kids in a “skinner box”. Skinner’s theories were that all behavior is controlled by conditioning. “A clockwork orange” was mostly about skinner’s theories and their ultimate failure.
True, but they so rarely are portrayed fairly…..
Mrs Cooper: You’re missing out. It’s gonna be wall-to-wall fun. It’s all themed. There’s Jonah and the Whale Watching, all-you-can-eat Last Supper Buffet, and my personal favourite, Gunning with God.
Leonard: What’s Gunning with God? I’m afraid to ask.
Mrs Cooper: Oh, it is a hoot and a half. You write your sins on a clay pigeon, they fire ‘em up in the air, and you pulverize them with a 12-gauge shotgun full of our Lord’s forgiveness.
“Really well done, with a cast of incredible actors and actresses. “
I don’t think the acting is that good. The script is really good. The whole “smart guy with science but can’t understand humans makes funny joke” has been done with Spock and with Data on the Star Trek series.
And the guy who has Obsessive compulsive disorder has been done before in “the odd couple”.
Big Bang sort of married these two concepts.
To each his own. I think the comedic acting is as good as I’ve ever seen.
11. The Elevator / Stairwell. Though the “Out of Order” sign has now been explained.
12. Anything Star Trek.
13. I can’t believe that no one has mentioned Bob Newhart yet. “So..............is your grandmother married? Happily?”
Well...back then she was 70. Besides....she's damned fine for that age. And it's called taking one for the team and being none the worse for the wear....so to speak.
=;^D
LOL... I’m just saying ... ANYTHING that is 70 years old needs “ironing”..... you know...
Don’t forget the unspoken gag. Penny has no last name.
I love Bernadette. (She has a LOT in common with my wife.) The one weakness in her writing is that you never get a sense of why she loves Howard.
Amy is desperate, but she’s also so well-written that you can buy that Sheldon is exactly the guy she would fall in love with. Leonard is so desperate to please and that’s what Penny needs: someone who is good to her. But why does Bernadette love Howard? She dislikes so many of the things that make Howard Howard: that he’s a Mama’s boy, that he’s an uber-geek. She doesn’t even particularly like his space program stuff.
Aside from a good opening song, I have no use for B.B.T.
There’s truly nothing new under the sun……but I think BBT is actually quite original on the whole. There are also a lot of veiled Frasier references in there, to the point that some of the writers must be the same. (another brilliantly written show).
But borrowing a theme is not a bad thing necessarily. Darrell, Larry and Larry was obviously a take on the old Andy Griffith spoof, the brothers in the Darling family. They both worked.
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