The Big Bang Theory (TBBT) is in its third season and from what I’ve gathered has been something of the little show that could. That was, of course, before Jim Parsons garnered an Emmy nomination for best actor in a comedy and the ratings this season began to shoot through the roof. I heard the buzz touting this show as one of the only intelligent shows aimed at people in their young 20s and I thought, “Hey I’m in my young 20s maybe I should check it out”. It’s been on the back-burner for a while especially after I saw the clips shown in the Emmy promos and shown during the actual ceremony—especially the Leonard Nimroy clip from “The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis”. I finally got around to checking the show out about two weeks ago and I actually gauffed out loud. The cast is lovely. I loved Johnny Galecki on Roseanne, Kaley Cucco on 8 Simple Rules, Simon Helberg in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and when the hilarious Jim Parsons and Kunal Nayyar are thrown in the result is a heart-warming, hilarious show about incomprehensible physicists struggling to understand the social world. TBBT is a refreshing show for many reasons but the chief among these is the fact that show is about intelligent people. When was the last time a sit com centered around main characters that hold Ph.D.s in theoretical physics, astro physics, or applied physics? Or Ph.D.s at all? Sure Ross had a Ph.D. on Friends but he rarely acted like it. The guys on this show speak a language all their own—not only strange sounding physics lingo but also debating the minutia of the comic book and video gaming world. The show is intelligent, heartwarming and definitely worth checking out.
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