“I’m Not Insane! My Mother Had Me Tested!”

A few months ago I posted a review of Parks and Recreation and I have come to the conclusion that I don’t feel the same way about the show as I did before. I still think it’s had some good episodes but I’ve been slightly disappointed week after week. After watching back to back episodes of P&R and then Community (on hulu), I have to say that I preferred Community to P&R four out of five times. Community’s holiday episodes were better/funnier every time with more imaginative plotlines, sharper dialogue, etc. I’m still a P&R fan but I hope they start surprising me.

Also, my new favorite sitcom is The Big Bang Theory. I saw it a couple of times on airplane rides to and from LA/NJ. A few months after that I finally decided to watch the show all the way through. The show centers on three extremely gifted physicists and one talented engineer whose social awkwardness stifles their lives outside of their lab rooms and halo nights. In the pilot an attractive blonde waitress moves in across from two of the friends, Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) and Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki). Leonard befriends her, which shakes up the daily routine that the guys have grown so accustom to. My favorite aspects of this show include its sharp and smart dialogue and its character development. A mix of neurotic behavior, OCD, genius intelligence, and a lack of social understanding, makes Sheldon Cooper one of the best sitcom characters I’ve ever seen. He says a lot of things that the average modern gal, guy or cynic may want to say out loud everyday but doesn’t. This show has also provided a platform for Nobel Prize winners, comic book heroes, and classic sci-fi TV characters to make very amusing cameos. Best of all, the show is a refreshing take on love and friendship and the fact that it’s been renewed for TWO more seasons, at least, makes me very happy. My goal for next season is to secure tickets to a live taping of the show! It shoots in Burbank and tickets are free from tvtickets.com

Fun facts: The Big Bang Theory shares executive producers from Roseanne and many of the characters from that sitcom make appearances on this one, including Johnny Galecki, Sara Gilbert and Laurie Metcalf.

The theme song is performed by Bare Naked Ladies.

The show’s had several Emmy nominations and last year it won a People’s Choice award for Favorite TV Comedy.

Ratings are high here in the states, but I also read that The Big Bang Theory is the number 1 sitcom in Latin America, go figure.

Let me leave you with some amusing quotes from the show:

I'm polymerized tree sap and you're an inorganic adhesive, so whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off of me, returns to its original trajectory and adheres to you.

Oh, well, this would be one of those circumstances that people unfamiliar with the law of large numbers would call a coincidence.

Oh Gravity, thou art a heartless bitch.

And of course…

I'm not insane! My mother had me tested!