Which Big Bang Theory character Is Most Like You?

Quote: Doc

I've never seen a single episode of either show. Doubt I will. For that matter, I don't even recognize the name "Community" -- is that really a TV show?

Of course, I never saw any of Friends and never a full episode of Seinfeld or Lost. The mass popularity of a show doesn't seem to draw me in.

Doc, you are scaring me. I think we are brothers from different mothers. Your list of shows never seen is exactly the same as mine. I don't watch as much TV nowadays. So perhaps something else is on at the same time. When is Big Bang on?

Quote: Ayecarumba

When is Big Bang on?

It's on at 8pm ECT on thursday nights. I never watched Lost, but that's the same night as Friends and Seinfeld were on.

No Votes for Howard yet?

I call shenanigans on the voters.

No one on this forum lives with their mom (or did so for a very long time), considers themselves a ladiesman (albeit only in their own minds) and is the 4th wheel of the friendship circle?

Come On Man!

Quote: Maverick17

No Votes for Howard yet?

Simon Helberg ( Howard) was excellent as "Rabbi Scott" in "A Serious Man".



Chuck Lorre is now one of the most successful producers & writers of TV Comedy shows, with "The Big Bang Theory","Two and a Half Men","Mike & Molly", and "Dharma & Greg" among other shows. Charlie Sheen picked the wrong guy to try and publicly humiliate. The network has to stick with Lorre.

Its been renewed thru 2014, so that means it will
definitely go into syndication. I never even heard
of it till just now. I don't watch network shows
anymore, I wait for syndication. I never heard
of 'How I Met Your Mother' till it was on this spring
7 days a week. I love it, but would never watch
the eps week to week. I'd rather watch cable
shows, which often don't show repeats and never
go into syndication anywhere.

Quote: Doc

Of course, I never saw any of Friends

Looking back on it, you didn't miss much....

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and never a full episode of Seinfeld

Go stand in the corner. No soup for you! :)

Friends was OK sometimes. Seinfeld was amazing when it
was on, just incredible. You can't watch it now and judge
how it was received 20 years ago. Its been copied and duplicated
so many times, it just looks trite now.

BBT is fine, it's gone downhill since the first few seasons but is still good enough to watch (ratings are through the roof).

Community... ugh. There's only like one episode of worth this season and the ratings are nowhere near acceptable for a network comedy.

My recommendation is "Archer" on FX. It's just... hilarious.

Quote: ahiromu

Community... ugh. There's only like one episode of worth this season and the ratings are nowhere near acceptable for a network comedy.

Completely disagree. 'Remedial Chaos Theory', 'Horror Fiction in 7 Easy Steps', 'Documentary Filmmaking: Redux' and last night's 'Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism' have all been simply great and unlike anything else in network sitcom land. The rest weren't so bad either (although 'Advanced Gay' was pretty lackluster). Last season's 'Advanced Dungeons and Dragons' and '...For a Few Paintballs More' were complete nerd-gasmly awesome.

The ratings weren't great for Arrested Development either. Just because a show is not popular does not mean it is not good. It could just be over the head of the average American television viewer. Or it could be murdered by a network that doesn't know how to promote or schedule it (Firefly, anyone?).

Quote: ahiromu

My recommendation is "Archer" on FX. It's just... hilarious.

But I'll completely agree with this. H Jon Benjamin is great in Bob's Burgers too. His show on Comedy Central has its moments.

Quote: progrocker

Completely disagree. 'Remedial Chaos Theory', 'Horror Fiction in 7 Easy Steps', 'Documentary Filmmaking: Redux' and last night's 'Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism' have all been simply great and unlike anything else in network sitcom land. The rest weren't so bad either (although 'Advanced Gay' was pretty lackluster). Last season's 'Advanced Dungeons and Dragons' and '...For a Few Paintballs More' were complete nerd-gasmly awesome.

Community spends a lot of time making fun of the idea of making a television sitcom, as they do on the plot lines. In theater, it is similar to breaking the fourth wall, when the actors talk directly to the audience.

Cooperative Calligraphy which aired November 11, 2010 was a bottle episode. Every sitcom has a "bottle episode" which is defined as an episode with no guest stars and minimal extras, where the regular actors are forced into one or two scenes for the entire show, and they mostly talk to one another. The idea of a "bottle episode is to spend the minimum amount of money producing the show, to save the budget for sweeps week, series and season finales, and series and season opening shows. The Seinfeld 1991 episode "The Chinese Restaurant" where the show features the cast waiting for a table at a Chinese restaurant is a "bottle episode".

The difference is in Community, the characters actually say out loud that it is a "bottle episode".

A good example of a "self referential movie" is City Heat (1984) where Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds play characters who are basically send-ups of their normal movie characters. Another example is Last Action Hero (1993) where Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a movie character who is basically a standard "Arnold Schwarzenegger character". The movie American Dreamz (2006) about the USA being obsessed with a stupid karaoke talent show on TV, and a president who discovers that he can learn things by reading near the end of his first term, was a self referential comedy.

Self referential media almost never appeals to broad taste, but it can be some of the most inspired writing. I think most viewers find it confusing or irritating.