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On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:28:08 +1100, "David L. Jones"
<altzone@gmail.com> wrote:

>Just finished watching Season 1 of Big Bang Theory, and have started on 
>Season 2.
>Is it just me or is this the most hilarious and well written TV comedy ever 
>for nerds?
>They have one engineer in the mix, but few engineering jokes, it's mostly 
>physics or geek gags.
>But what a great value show.
>If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and give it a go.

Hi, Dave.  I was pretty hopeful about Netflix'ing some of
these after seeing a scene that was on Youtube, perhaps 6
months back.  This scene is what caught my attention:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A03gbr6oY0

They nailed the physicist/engineer thing nicely.  And it
played neatly into the fun I have with my son, joking about
the differences between the work life of theoretical and
experimental physicists, too!  He and I found it putting that
into a nice "box" to see.

We got our first disk for the first season and I watched it
with my wife.  We found the laugh tracks annoying, the humor
cheap, and the appeal mostly puerile ... broadly speaking.
Bear in mind that I've only seen perhaps the first four or
five shows, though.

There are some good moments (when I can ignore the laugh
tracks.)  I'm _very_ glad to have watched that one scene.
Most of it is difficult for me to wade through, though.

If you know of some really good scenes to watch in the first
season that you've already enjoyed (knowing that one which I
considered 'nice'), I'd be interested in a pointer to the
shows and perhaps the scenes within them.  I would like
looking at two-minute-at-a-time high points.  I just can't
wade through all the rest.

Maybe it is just because I can't stand the way they use the
laugh tracks, though.  It reminds me of the very first show
to really use them (which went overboard), "The Real McCoys"
back in the mid 1950's.  That series had Walter Brennen and I
liked him on other movies I'd watched before, but the whole
show is simply unwatchable because of the laugh tracks.  A
person says "Hi" and a laugh track plays.  Another says,
"Well, I have to be going" and a laugh track plays.  It
doesn't matter what's said... it's almost continuous.
Destroys the show for me when it is inanely flooded with
laugh tracks.  There's only so much I can stomach.

Jon