The Big Bang Theory TV Show
How many here watched the Big Bang Theory show about Sheldon and his nerdy friends? There were many funny sketches, true. But there were a number of hidden shall we say Easter Eggs in the show.
For instance, in nearly every show they did, there was a laundry scene where the characters were washing clothes. Do you know where those clothes came from?
I will also give you an easy one. Amy's apartment number was 314. What is the significance of that number?
The gang loved Comicon shows. What comic series did they always use?
There are other easter eggs in the show. Please share the ones you remember?
For instance, in nearly every show they did, there was a laundry scene where the characters were washing clothes. Do you know where those clothes came from?
I will also give you an easy one. Amy's apartment number was 314. What is the significance of that number?
The gang loved Comicon shows. What comic series did they always use?
There are other easter eggs in the show. Please share the ones you remember?
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Was Amy's apartment anything to di with Pi? It's the only thing I can think of.
Cheery son and I love the episode when Leonard and Sheldon sneak in at night to clean Penny's apartment, but I am sure we never joined the dots about any easter eggs!!
Like I said, that was an easy one.
Over the years since then I have watched random episodes of it, but not consistently enough to pick up any themes. Mr RoS does not understand any of it, and usually leaves the room if I put it on.
I think I have seen most episodes, but not in chronological order, so have only patched it together slowly over several years. There may still be unseen episodes to come, which is what keeps me watching.
I love knowing stuff like this!
The programme itself is ok, I can take it or leave it, but very much here for ancillary facts.
But then I’m the UK generation/niche that prefers Coupling to Friends…
Coupling is a much underrated show.
But Big Bang is brilliant.
Thank You!
I suspect it's aged really badly though.
It has. I have all the DVDs and tried to introduce my partner to it a few years back....it was like watching a different show to the ine I remembered so fondly.
(My genius nephew didn't like it because he thought it was making fun of the scientists.)
My daughter and I still sing Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty to her cats!
Amy's Apartment Number was 314, a reference to Pi.
In the laundry scenes, the characters were washing the clothes from the previous episode
The characters would wear costumes from DC Comics. When they went to Comicon meetings, they would dress up as members of the Justice League.
Another set of questions:
Why did Sheldon often wear the number 73 on his sweaters or shirts?
Sheldon's last name was Cooper. It is a nod to a certain real physicist, Who is that and what did he develop?
"Bazinga," was a favorite expression of Sheldon. What was he trying to convey with it?
How did the cast eat when they were in Penny's apartment?
And, of course, they ate with their mouths. That one's easy!
Did anyone ever eat in Penny's apartment? I remember Bernadette and Amy visiting, but did they ever eat? I remember all the eating being at Sheldon and Leonard's apartment. I remember Amy and Raj organising celebrations, but were they held at their places? I can't remember now!
I had wondered whether 73 is an atomic number and my friendly search engine tells me it corresponds to Tantalum, would that be the reason??
Young Sheldon, the prequel to The Big Bang Theory, explained that Sheldon saw a sign for the Bazinga Novelty Company in a comic book store. It had the slogan “If it’s funny, it’s a Bazinga!” Sheldon adopted the word as his signal that what he had just said should be taken as funny, facetious or sarcastic. So, it could mean “Gotcha!” in the sense of “you thought I was serious,” but not in the sense of “I win, you lose.”
Otherwise, in the episode I saw at lunchtime, Penny and Sheldon ate seated at a small dining table. Nothing remarkable about that, as far as i could tell.
Maybe that's the point of difference....in Sheldon and Leonard's apartment they always eat on the sofa. No dining table in sight....?
Meanwhile, the table in Penny’s apartment was only big enough for two people.
Of course, simply eating Chinese takeout in the living room ended up being the last scene of the series.
It differed though in actually being funny.
Here here!
And I thought I was the only one.
That said, I think it’s an overstatement to say that The Big Band Theory was a “mirror” of Friends. They were both sitcoms with ensemble casts, and the characters were young adults at various stages relationship-wise. But I think it’s a stretch to call that a “mirror” rather than a standard sitcom set-up.
The interesting thing about TBBT’s ensemble casts is how it grew over the course of the series, and not because of replacements due to death or people leaving the show (like, say, Cheers). New characters were introduced and became part of the main ensemble (Bernadette and Amy Farrah Fowler) or significant ancillaries to the main ensemble (Stuart).
The actor who played Sheldon was Jim Parsons. He was born in 1973. That would make him 52 years old this year.
Bazinga came from a practical joke one of the crew members played on Parsons. Parsons just kept the expression as part of his character. It was a way of saying what had just happened was a joke.
Next question: Did Leonard actually need eyeglasses?
Nerdy is the essence of my being! But maybe its own thread?
Some parts haven’t aged well and sometimes it feels like the writers are punching down too much.
I can’t get past Howard being so skeevy - he does improve but eww.
I liked Amy when they weren’t making her entire character ‘desperate’.
I found Young Sheldon much more enjoyable, thanks in no small part to the wonderful Annie Potts as Meemaw.
Oh, I quite agree. This one has pretty well run its course.
And yes, Annie Potts is wonderful. (Tangent: When my wife and I were in our late 20s, we took a trip to Hawaii and went to a luau. This was when Designing Women was on TV, and Annie Potts was also at the luau. I was one of three guys picked to go up on stage to dance, and as we started dancing, Annie Potts yelled “Show us your stuff, boys!” I cherish the memory of Annie Potts encouraging me to show her my stuff.
And I should revise something I said above: Cheers may not have been the best example. While Cheers did replace the character of Coach with Woody when Nicholas Colasanto died, and replaced Diane with Rebecca when Shelley Long left the show, the “added” characters of Frazier and, to a lesser extent, Lilith, became part of the main ensemble.
Perhaps M*A*S*H would have been a better example, where Trapper John was replaced with B.J., Frank Burns was replaced with Charles Emerson Winchester, III, and Col. Blake was replaced with Col. Potter.
Can't say it was much of an improvement.
I loathed Friends. I loved Big Bang Theory.
Another nuance: A thing about the long sleeve t shirts Sheldon would wear under his short sleeve t shirt.
Sheldon Cooper's color choices in his wardrobe are not random. In fact, they often reflect his mood and personality. Sheldon's most iconic look is a red Flash t-shirt, which is also his most common shirt. This is because he is often upset with having to deal with less intelligent people around him, and in the Green Lantern comics, the color red symbolizes anger.
Sheldon also wears other colors, including orange, green, yellow, and blue. Green symbolizes courage, yellow symbolizes fear, and blue symbolizes hope. Sheldon's color choices are not limited to these primary colors, as he has also been seen wearing purple, grey, black, and white.
Did you actually want to discuss The Big Bang Theory in this thread, Gramps, or did you just start the thread so you could provide the rest of us with information and quiz us? Because that seems to be all you’ve done, and I’m afraid a lot of the information you’ve provided isn’t accurate.
I had thought this thread would have been short lived, but it seemed to take on a life of its own, so I just thought I would add the comment about the shirts.
Thing about Penny in TBBT was she took on the role of Missy for Sheldon. A number of times Sheldon would tell Penny she was like his sister. One scene I remember well was when Sheldon was getting frustrated because he could not figure out a formula for sting theory. Penny listened to his frustrations, then gave Sheldon a commonsense approach to how strings would cross over, loop around and get tangled. Sheldon suddenly saw a solution to his formulation.
Whoops, didn't mean to do that.