The Big Bang Theory

[coccatino]

has anyone else caught this?

[Al]

Caught it. Loved it. Tivo'd it. Started looking behind my back to see how they can be watching me so closely. Specifically here. And here (warning for suggestive language).

Cybernotes has a great collection of their best stuff, too.


And I really want to know where they found Sheldon, because he is fantastic.

[Spiderdancer]

Hilarious clips. On the one hand, I'm all in favor of people who are as big of geeks as I am. On the other, I'm annoyed by the preponderance of "unattractive nerdy boys get hot girls, unattractive nerdy girls don't exist" media items and/or content. "Ugly Betty" is the only exception I know of.

I would completely have gone for the "transient idiopathic arrhythmia" line. Except that "transient idiopathic" means "brief and lacking an immediate cause," meaning he probably doesn't have an actual medical problem.

Go nerds.

[Al]

Well, to be fair, the hot girl remains ungotten (which is part of the premise) and they do have Sara Gilbert as the dressed down, sarcastic girl nerd--she's actually sort of like Darlene with a PhD.

[Rett Mikhal]

I'm with the arachnid on this one. Toonami alone gave me enough of the same nerd shy guy, unrealistically hot girl formula. In Japan it's sold as script glue and you can buy it from any corner vending machine.

But if there is a nerd girl in there to balance it out, this show plays out like a live action Venture Brothers but with less magic and it gets high marks from me for that. I'm NOT NOW, NOT EVER going to compare this show to Seinfield in ANY way because I hate Seinfield with the fires of a million adiabatic turbines.

[coccatino]

Al- I'm with you. Sheldon is just so ridiculously funny. And I Love the episode where Leonard calls his mom.

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

Apr 29, 2008 14:42:51 GMT -5 Al said:

Caught it. Loved it. Tivo'd it. Started looking behind my back to see how they can be watching me so closely. Specifically here. And here (warning for suggestive language).

*is crying with laughter* Oh wow. How have I not heard of this before? Al, that first link was so unbelievably hilarious and realistic. A situation like that happened to me once. Picture this: Japan, 2007. Me, my husband and two of his friends were at a bar. Somehow Spiderman 3 got brought up and I, simple and naive, offered up my opinion (which is that I liked some of it and thought some stuff was funny. That's it). Heaven have mercy upon my soul because what I said was BLASPHEMY! The guy sitting on my left (Duane) got a look on his face like he'd eaten a plateful of bad octopus and proceeded to proclaim that Spiderman 3 was nothing but drivel, a hideous, bastardized piece of celluloid drivel. The guy on my husband's right, Will, said to me "You really shouldn't have said that. He could go on all night". And he really did proceed for a good ten minutes at least on how IT WAS NOTHING LIKE ULTIMATE SPIDERMAN and SPIDERMAN WOULD NEVER HELP THE HOBGOBLIN! Well then Will had to join in about how Ultimate Spiderman is not the end all be all of Spiderman comics. And so they argued: In comic book number such and such this happened which was totally different from the movie and number blah blah COMPLETELY discredits this scene and that one and this one and.....you get the point.

I sat dumbfounded between two rabid rans, ordering myself a shot of Evan and seriously considering the habu sake. My knowledge of Spiderman extends to the cartoon I watched as a child and that fact that he was and still is my favorite of all the superheros. Mostly because I love his attitude.

[TheLuckyOne]

Next time, BCWC, interrupt calmly and tell Will the following, being sure to keep a completely straight face:

1) Harry Osborn was only the Hobgoblin in Ultimate Spider-Man. In the "regular" Spidey universe, the Hobgoblin was Roderick Kingsley. Harry was only ever the third Green Goblin.
2) Harry wasn't even called the Hobgoblin in Spider-Man 3.
3) Ultimate Hobgoblin was poop.

Then go back to your drink as if nothing had happened. Trust me.

-D

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

Haha...that'd be great. Thanks. I don't know when I'll ever see that guy again, though. He's still in Japan. But I'll will keep those in mind for arsenal against future Ultimate SpiderMan fanatics. Sometimes it's fun to make people cry.

Besides....I think it's strange to be a fan of the Ultimate and not the regular. I don't think the movies were intended to follow Ultimate, right? So I just kinda took everything he said with a grain of salt anyway.

[bladestarr]

Jun 11, 2008 16:55:04 GMT -5 BlackCatWhiteCat said:

Haha...that'd be great. Thanks. I don't know when I'll ever see that guy again, though. He's still in Japan. But I'll will keep those in mind for arsenal against future Ultimate SpiderMan fanatics. Sometimes it's fun to make people cry.

Besides....I think it's strange to be a fan of the Ultimate and not the regular. I don't think the movies were intended to follow Ultimate, right? So I just kinda took everything he said with a grain of salt anyway.

Any comics fans that go nutso over ANY movie adaption based entirely on plot is simply STUPID. The truth is that most comic books have a continuing plot without a beginning, middle and end. For time's sake, not EVERYTHING will be included, and for drama's sake and the sake of all those casual viewers that are NOT fans, certain changes need to be made.

Now if Spidey suddenly starts to shoot fire out of his anus as a new power, THEN they have something valid to whine about. The SPIRIT of the comic is what's important, just like the spirit of the law is more important than the letter of the law.

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

Jun 11, 2008 18:23:05 GMT -5 @bladestarr said:

Any comics fans that go nutso over ANY movie adaption based entirely on plot is simply RETARDED. The truth is that most comic books have a continuing plot without a beginning, middle and end. For time's sake, not EVERYTHING will be included, and for drama's sake and the sake of all those casual viewers that are NOT fans, certain changes need to be made.

Now if Spidey suddenly starts to shoot fire out of his ******as a new power, THEN they have something valid to whine about. The SPIRIT of the comic is what's important, just like the spirit of the law is more important than the letter of the law.

I totally agree. I am one of those people that gets upset over completely unfaithful novel adaptations,though. I recognize some things just aren't going to translate well, but overall I think a novel shouldn't be as difficult to take to the big screen as a comic book that spans multiple decades, generations, storylines, etc. Biased? Maybe. But I never said I was fair.

So...sorry coccatino! Didn't mean to totally veer your thread in a new direction. I will say I have downloaded the whole first season for my watching pleasure, after reliving my terrible bar scenario via the Superman scene. Thanks! I wonder if the show's good for next season?

[bladestarr]

Modify your quote please!

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

Jun 11, 2008 18:42:41 GMT -5 @bladestarr said:

Modify your quote please!

?

The time stamp says you wrote this yesterday (July 11th) at 4:42 (Pacific time). If that's true then what's wrong with "I'm holdin' in the heat like a fishstick"? If it's anything weird to do with fish I'm going to be offended and I'll change it back on purpose. It's a lyric of a Jason Mraz song.

If the timestamp is wrong and you've written it in the last couple of hours (between 4 and 8:30 PM Pacific time July 12th) then you don't like my newest quote. This is what I assume, since you chose to write about it on the Big Bang Theory board and that is where I got quote from. The offending word here I assume would be "meat"

Either way I honestly can't keep up with every single double entendre out there. Plusly I like this quote. So there.

[StarOpal]

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

*cough* Excuse me....

BCWC he's talking about your quoting his post (I think). He changed what he said in the original.

But I think your various euphemistic (is that a word) assumptions are hysterical! "Men. *shrugs*" Indeed.

Of course if your right, then I'm not as much of a gutter brain as I thought and there's hope for me yet.

[Hucklebubba]

If I understand correctly, here's how it all went down. . .

In his original post, Phil used questionable* terminology to describe Spidey's hypothetical peristaltic pyrotechnics. Thinking better of it shortly thereafter, he modified his original post, substituting a more dignified synonym.

However, he didn't count on you being in the neighborhood, BCWC (or, as I may call you from now on, Quickpost McGraw). You quoted from his orignal post before he had a chance to change it, and he would like for you to change your quote to reflect the modified post, lest this leak out to the tabloids and tarnish his reputation as not only one of the most successful recording artists ever to come out of the UK, but also one of the most clean-cut.


*Personally, Phil, it wouldn't have offended me, but I can understand your concern, and you probably made the right move going for a more clinical term. Had it been me, I would've split the difference with "poop-chute".