[Closed] Big Bang Theory

Sheldon doesn't need or want a bike. He usually gets driven everywhere by Leonard and Penny.

29er? Chortle!
Have you any idea of the drag coefficient of an upright bicycle?! Dear lord no. Sheldon would be on a recumbent. A trike as they're more stable and therefore safer.

Sheldon would never ride a bike. He doesn't drive so he certainly wouldn't use the lower laws of physics just to get about.

Sheldon ride a 29er ?? He's a geek, not a dork.

He's buy a folding bike and then put it in someone elses car to be driven around.

+1 for recumbent trike

They actualy have a prof from UCLA doing the physics stuff for the script (and Sheldon's boards actualy show the working to a real problem through the series). And the actres playing Amy is actualy a neuroscientist!

29er? Chortle!
Have you any idea of the drag coefficient of an upright bicycle?! Dear lord no. Sheldon would be on a recumbent. A trike as they're more stable and therefore safer.

Excellent reply to the OP.

If you watched Breaking Bad you'll no doubt have found Gale's recumbent an excellent match for his character. Made me smile.

Is it wrong that i find Penny the least attractive of the three main female characters?

If you watched Breaking Bad you'll no doubt have found Gale's recumbent an excellent match for his character. Made me smile.

I particularly liked that when it popped up in his lab notes book 🙂

And the actres playing Amy is actualy a neuroscientist!

Pah, hardly her greates achivement, she was Blossom in "Blossom"...

In an early episode they make a joke about the blossom actress being a neuroscientist now

My kids and I watch a lot of Big Bang!

Hmmm

Penny... 😉

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I watch Penny... are there other characters...

You know, I think I'd maybe watch more of this show if it was broadcast a little more often. I mean, some stuff is on every flipping time you switch the telly on. Oh hang on...

FWIW I think Sheldon would be disgusted at you for starting this in the Bike Forum...

Teetosugars:

That's cheating, she's not in character.

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I heard it had an explosive start but once they expanded the characters it eventually fell into chaos.

Love it and I normally hate American sitcoms.

I'm a big fan! 🙂

Sheldon doesn't seem to appreciate sports, or anything with risk...not sure he'd take to cycling!

Cookie cutter sitcom shite.

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Teetosugars - Member

Hmmm

Penny...

Indeed, although her back looks a bit odd in that picture. Shoopery afoot?

Besides, Bernadette is the thinking man's Penny. 😀

Besides, Bernadette is the [s]thinking[/s] [b]boob[/b] man's Penny.

Well I am sorry but as a fully signed up Sci Fi Nerd, this show is a long way from cookie cutter sitcom shite. There are TONS of in-jokes in the early series, which clearly sailed right over your head mr svalgis

And even better, cast members from Battlestar Galactica keep popping up. It doesn't get better. But in the same way that Will and Grace should have been called Jack and Karen, this is the Sheldon and Amy show.

Probably my most hated programme, but that blonde girl is hot.

I think it's one of the most inspired pieces of TV to come out of the US. I've watched it right from the beginning. It ticks all of my nerd boxes.

This and Justified are the best television in the last few years. My Name is Earl was king of the comedy before Big Bang.

It is 'Friends with Brains' but it certainly is only cookie cutter as far as the sets go - that and it being about people.

This is watched every night in my household...even though I've watched all episodes countless times...they all still make me laugh.

Penny was much hotter in the earlier episodes before she started gyming it.

There's loads of characters from Roseanne too.

The original ' theoretical ' question seems to of been mis-read some of the STWers. I know he gets driven everywhere. Q was..what would...?

Wonder if you could do a Cycling specific one. When I stopped racing BMX to buy a MTB I'd get the Mick ripped out of me because I was going to join the ' queers with gears ' 😀 . If I'm out on the bike with the bouncy bit on the front the lycra boys don't wanna say hello ha ha. You gotta laugh. So for the cycling equialent you could have a gearing obsessed Bmxer, a singlespeeder, 29er fan with a Fat-bike in his Quiver and a weight obsessed, lycra clad, drop-bar loving racing snake.

Oh, and Penny..yes I would. She also plays the part she's been given very well. I don't think the show would be the same without Penny or Sheldon.

Enjoyed here too. Scrubs is also good value. As was Northern Exposure. The US does produce some quality sitcoms.

The US produces all the best Sitcoms !! Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Roseanne, Seinfeld, need I go on.

What has team UK done since Fawlty Towers ??!! Allo Allo ???? Miranda ????

Yes the US does produce some great TV but

is this it?

Last US comedy i really enjoyed was Parks and Recreation:

About to start on BBC4 don't miss it! 🙂

Its good but its no futurama, the writers actually had a 2 day discussion on whether a planet with two suns could exist.

It think its brilliant I love all the physics

Shame I've seen every episode

Lol, Big Bang Theory made me love geeks 🙂

Loving Parks & Recreation at the minute, just finished Season 3. Kind of tired of Big Bang Theory, it's been on so much.

On the OPs question, recumbent sounds right, but it would be roboticised so he didn't actually have to go out.

It is simply brilliant IMO

Penny. Penny. Penny. Penny. Penny. Penny. Penny.

Painfully unfunny show. Up there with Two And A Half Men in the inexplicably popular stakes

It's hilarious.

It can be good. It can be rubbish. Pacing always seems a bit broken (that episode up there with the laughter track removed makes it really obvious but it's always a bit slow, like they're reading their lines before saying them)

(that episode up there with the laughter track removed makes it really obvious but it's always a bit slow

I think it is filmed before a live audience in the studio, so that clip only sounds odd because the actors wait for the laughing to die down before they carry on with the next line - so you will lose the continuity, which distracts from what they're actually saying.

If you did the same thing with any comedy filmed before an audience it would sound weird.

Mmmmmmmmmm Penny

Sorry what were we talking about?

I think it's great although I'm smart enough to get the jokes. 😉

I've caught the odd half an episode here and there and it never really did anything for me, but the last few weeks I've become somewhat addicted to my two episode a night fix. Caught an old ep last night and Penny has somehow become noticeably less hot, has to be said that Mayim Bialik scrubs up quite nicely.

jon1973 - Member

I think it is filmed before a live audience in the studio, so that clip only sounds odd because the actors wait for the laughing to die down before they carry on with the next line - so you will lose the continuity,

If you watch a better made comedy- say, Fresh Prince of Bel Air- that was filmed the same way, it doesn't have that same stop-start feel, though.

I simply don't find it funny at all. Maybe I'm less geeky than I thought.

Princejohn, I don't mean to be rude, but who on earth is that tool in the weird video you linked to ? 😐

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air..what a pile of croc. In your face predictable, not clever = not funny.

I love it, just finished downloading what has been shown of Series 6.

As for the bike, that would be far too scary for Sheldon.

If you had a bike shaped like a train 😆

Penny

To all you haters........BAZINGA!!!

Well whatever Sheldon rides...it won't be Amy 😳

Princejohn, I don't mean to be rude, but who on earth is that tool in the weird video you linked to ?

Dunno but he really reminds me of Barry Shitpeas.

Last episode was a doozy and one for fans of the real BBT 😉

This is for BoardinBob and cheers_drive.

Penny. 😆

I only started to "get it" a few months.ago now am peed off if I miss it, and Penny or Amy? can't decide 😀

Bazinga!

My girllfriend and I like it but she likes it less now I've adopted Sheldon's "Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny..." replacing it with her own name.

I've watched a bit of it but never really got into it. Not too sure why, but I think it's just that the geek conversions just don't quite ring true. It's like xkcd, just trying that fraction too hard.
Maybe I just need to watch more of it, but I think I've just used up my quota of US sitcoms.

So good I needed to say it twice.
Here's a picture of a kitten as compensation -
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Never mind the kittens, here's some baby hedgehogs.

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Baby hedgehogs! TOO cute!
Although I think these are even cuter:

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[i]My girllfriend and I like it but she likes it less now I've adopted Sheldon's "Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny Penny..." replacing it with her own name.[/i]

When do you do this?

It's pretty dumb tv, but Bernadette makes it worthwhile. She is approximately a million times hotter than Penny.

Too much talk of Penny. Where are the pics of Penny... Yehhh...

Never been able to watch a full episode because it's crap. No matter how fit Kaley Cuoco is I cannot endure the canned laughter and one liners of the majority of American Comedy.

I do enjoy 'Big Bang Theory', but then I liked'Better off Ted' as well.

I cannot endure the canned laughter and one liners of the majority of American Comedy

^this

I like my US stuff a bit less predictable. It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is a real hidden gem

As lightweight sitcoms go its pretty good. Its probably not so great if every in-joke goes sailing over your head.

Also, baby armadillo!

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Its a Pangolin isnt it?

Bernie has two outstanding assets 😉

It's not that geeky though. Even ordinary people can appreciate it. Comic roles they may be, but not far from the truth. It's nowhere near as clever as IT Crowd but it's still fun.

IT Crowd: smart show abut dumb people
Big Bang Theory: dumb show about smart people.

I still think IT Crowd S2E1 is one of the best bits of sitcom farce ever written, up there with Fawlty Towers. S1 was better overall with Chris Morris rather than that fat overdramatic bloke i forget his name..

The humour has nothing in common with BBT. Also UK shows usually know when to end, US shows nearly always get run into the ground..

I've only recently discovered BBT, but it's highly addictive, for the comedy and Penny and Bernadette and the ever growing list of extra characters who appear that make you go "He/she was in...oh, what was it called...."

I think of it as a lightly smuttier version of Friends for geeks, and my wife hates it and storms off upstairs when it is on cos she hates Friends!

Re the IT Crowd I hugely enjoyed the 3 series. The one that makes me laugh the most though is 'The Work Outing' episode. Brilliantly acted 🙂

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yeah mate that's the one i linked a little bit of above.. almost perfect 24minutes of comedy for me too there.. didn't even know there was a series 3 might have to check it out, nervously!

I'm trying to think of a US series that [i]didn't[/i] get shit after first few series.. Six Feet Under was probably only one i've ever stuck through.
Things like Earl, Dexter, Breaking Bad all started great and turned soapy and meh.