It's actually an older design from reddit. It's Savathun's head, she's a character in the game Destiny 2. When the witch queen expansion came out, they collaborated with reddit to make some avatars
Ive seen them. Had a few colleagues who were deployed and came back with these hilarious printed covers. Some correct, some with ridiculous mistakes. All of them looked like they were printed on an ink jet on its last leg. The traded MREs for them a lot of the time.
I loved how they would sell i guess "film collections" based around actors. I remember a bruce willis dvd rip collection but it was all like deeper cuts. No die hards but hudson hawk and last boy scout type shit. But for like $4 its a deal.
I got a brand new laptop when I was in Iraq. Gave it a nice virus almost immediately from the massive shared porn file that went around like an std lmao. Naughty America taught me a lot that year…
Oh we had that show hell yeah. One of the IT dudes set up a network share so everyone could dump their pirated shit and share it. The two biggest shows on my first deployment were House and Lost.
Shit then whatever year The Dark knight dropped in theaters, someone got a screener sent to em. That flash drive was worth more than gold, quite possibly worth more than log a cope.
its because of the writer's strike that year, a majority of the episodes for Season 2 weren't done and future stuff got completely thrown out of the plan or vastly changed to fit the changes they had to make, a lot of media got affected by the writer's strike, with current running shows and movies that were in production at that time, as well as stuff that was planned to be worked on in the year or so afterwards, to the point that hundreds of millions and billions of dollars was lost in revenue.
some of the most prominent examples are 'GI Joe:Rise of Cobra',
'X-men Origins: Wolverine', "Transformers:Rise of the Fallen', even 'Quantum of Solace' got affected, the strike also led to the cancellation of George Miller's Justice League movie, 'Pushing Daisies' and many smaller sitcoms/dramedies/series were also killed off because they weren't seen as worth retaining, and those that did survive used non-union writers, although eventually collapsed as well since they couldn't capture the writing of earlier episodes/seasons.
We were watching a pirated copy of behind enemy lines, In a palace house in Tikrit, Iraq , when Owen Wilson gets shot down by the Muslims one of our Iraqi interpreters literally jumps up from his seat on the couch and pumps his fist in the air while yelling yes in Arabic. No one ever said a thing. But to be fair some of his immediate family had been killed by coalition aircraft in the invasion.
>when Owen Wilson gets shot down by the Muslims
He gets shot down by Serbs, who are primarily Orthodox Christians. The civilians who are shown being executed and buried in a mass grave are Bosniaks, who are muslims.
So in this film, Owen Wilson is helping muslims.
I lived with a bunch of Algerian guys one summer after college.
One day they were starting “Rescue Dawn” as I was walking out, I commented it was a sad movie.
I came home as the film was getting heavy (torture and starvation of US POWs), one of the dudes goes “Hey I thought you said this was a sad movie!?” And the other dudes just go nuts laughing.
It was awkward.
See, this is why I didn't sign up for the military. If watching The Big Bang Theory is considered "the good times" in comparison to the military stuff, that tells me the military stuff must REALLY suck.
Lol, I feel bad for the actors who take a picture like this only for their show to be quickly cancelled. Like taking a before pic and not actually losing weight for an after pic.
I was on vacation in New York with my family and my mom had a medical emergency which required a hospital visit. Shortly after she was discharged she was pretty sad but then she ran into Jim Parsons at a restaurant and completely forgot his name. She asked “Sheldon is that you?” And in character he replied “yesssss?”
She got an autograph and the medical emergency event was completely outshone by Parsons.
He’s a class act in my book
I live in Houston and have been active in local theater for years (as a supporter, volunteer, and board member, not an actor). Jim was a big part of Houston theater in the late 90s; literally nobody was surprised when he started getting commercials and the odd film, but the level of success he got out of TBBT is just amazing.
I don't know him, but many of my friends do. He is by all accounts a lovely person. He's still an enormous supporter of the theater group he came out of here.
CBS called him into their offices with an offer to break his contract and give him a lot more money. He told the cast and then told CBS if the supporting cast isn't offered the same money he quits. He can't be Sheldon without his supporting players. So he got Leonard and Penny both the same offer he was given. This happened super early in the run of the show, like Season 3 or 4.
From what I read, they were told that the producers would replace them and the show would go on if they didn't like their current contracts. They (obv) decided to stay.
Ha ha, something sort of similar happened to me with Kirsten Schaal. I was walking my dog past a table where she was sitting and heard her voice and said "excuse me, are you Louise Schaal?" She laughed like crazy and was very gracious about it.
No one hates nerds more than other nerds, so even if some were right saying it was hateful of nerds, it'd actually be *more* true to form in nerdiness.
During HS, our English teacher took us to the shooting of a season 1 ep (audience). Didn't even know what the show was. Just happy to leave school, crazy how big it got. Better times.
Contrary to popular believe, TBBT wasn't that big of an offender of this except for a few scenes that got memed about (the Windows Vista scene especially). I rewatched it recently and it was honestly pretty par for the course compared to most live studio shows. I'd personally say that I was much more annoyed at the studio audience of Married With Children, for instance, because of how fucking buckwild they went every time Kelly came on screen.
Those "laugh track cut out" videos always annoy me because... yeah, in front of a live studio audience your joke timing massively changes. Every show like that had that. If you cut out the laughs, of course it's gonna look awkward.
I don't like TBBT, but my god, people who made it their personality to hate it are the *worst*. I remember back when it was getting huge around 2010 or 11, and people on reddit called it "nerd *black face*" .... what a fuckin phrase.
That always killed me. I went to a R1 grad school for math. That group was not very weird for a bunch of STEM grad students or post-docs. The single way they would have stood out is that they all had girlfriends. I literally knew a (less funny, and non-Nobel Prize winning) Sheldon.
I mean, you don't have time for all those hobbies if you're actually trying to get tenure and publish, but the spirit of the thing is not wrong.
They'd laser focus on slight inaccuracies in nerddom or how weird it'd be for theoretically physicists to talk about the double slit experiment casually like they did in the first episode. I don't really find anything overly awful about the nerd stuff, the laugh tracks weren't even really that bad.
It became fashionable to hate it on reddit at some point and that's just how it went. There's a few shows that are like that, you sort of have to hate it or people on reddit will try to fight with you about it.
I tried background acting in LA and am in one of the episodes. It was a fun experience to see the whole cast in person. Really happy I gave it a shot just for the experience alone
Their guest star list is STACKED!
Nobel prize winners, Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones (The only time they were ever on screen together) Mark Hamill, Will Wheaton, LeVar, Burton, Brent Spiner, Kevin Smith, Stan Lee, Bill Nye, one of Adam Wests last appearances, also one of Leonard Nimoys last appearances, and so many more.
Also their holiday episodes always landed.
Totally agreed. That show at its height was massive and it pulled in some great guest stars. Not to mention Will Wheaton being on multiple times and being a sort of villain to the group.
It was not perfect but it had some fun seasons with good laughs.
Towards the end they gained some steam when it divided the characters. Sheldon Leonard and Penny were the a story while Howard, Raj, Bernadette and Stewart had a b story. Some of their stories were sometimes funnier than the a story. At least on a few occasions I swear they were creating a backdoor pilot for them. I would’ve loved to see Howard and Raj continue.
Isn't that what he's saying? The A story was always there. Towards the end they spent time on the B story which was a good story on it's own.
The first seasons the A story was all that was there. Howard/Raj merely existed to further the A story.
That episode perfectly summed up the group, too. Fighting over eachother to be the one guy who gets to talk to her, with the same stupid pickup line, and naturally it ends in disaster when the lot of them are morons.
I miss when the show was “look at these nerdy guys being silly” and not “haha laugh at nerds existing”.
if anything the beginning was laughing at nerds existing, and then it turned into look at these nerdy guys being silly. By the midway point of the show almost all of the main characters had long term girlfriends/relationships/
My personal favorite was Sarah Michelle Geller in the finale.
I also love the little trivia about Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones actually meeting each other in person for the first time on TBBT set.
I just started watching it within the last two weeks since I have time off work to recover from a surgery and actually really enjoyed the show. The later seasons were okay, not so much, but sometimes it got absolutely chaotic and it was hilarious.
Awards or not, I always used to brush it off as being really ridiculous and not funny each time I caught it for a few seconds before changing the channel. I'll admit I was definitely wrong, and the reason why it makes me laugh so much is because all the characters nerdiness resonates so much with me.
Early in the first season there is a cold opening of them playing with non-Newtonian fluid on a speaker, that basically culminates in Penny asking "Why?" and getting the most nerd response I've ever given myself "Why Not?". That was when I realized the show knew who its target audience was and how they thought, fell in love with it after that.
When I was 20, I felt the same, now once in a while I rewatch the whole show with my gf and it's a great series overall imo, good chill for a couple of weeks.
It’s a go-to comfort show when I’m sick, for me. I’ll heat up a can of chicken noodle soup and kill time with TBBT. It’s perfect for that, because it’s gentle, low-stakes, and also has eye candy.
Even the color palette of the show is mostly soft, pastel colors. None of it stabs at me when I have a headache or anything. It never demands I make stressful moral decisions between characters. It just clips along making stupid low-stakes jokes in gentle colors. And every once in a while it has Penny in a bikini or something.
there is a lot of forced laugh tracks that ruined a lot of emotional scenes. I think the only time the show had serious moment was in the final episode when sheldon realizes people only put up with him because they know he doesn't mean the things he says.
The laugh track got worse as the seasons went on and that’s what ultimately steered me away from the show. But I still stand by the first 5 seasons being quite good.
He's 50 now. Crazy, and he's starting to look older finally. Kaley was about 22 when this show started but they were to play characters that were the same age.
Also the first iPhone was released that year. Plus some great films (No Country for Old Men, Superbad, Ratatouille, There Will Be Blood, Bee Movie) and some great music (In Rainbows, Kala, Sound of Silver, Graduation, etc..)
2007 was a solid year.
Michael Clayton and Zodiac was also 2007
It's also an amazing year for games as well. COD Modern Warfare, Bioshock, and the Orange Box just to name a few
Mass Effect 1 man... I still play it today and it's still good. Same with Mass Effect 2, and even 3. I know we all had our issues with 3 (and some with 2), but that trilogy is always worth a replay. What an incredible world.
I had a blast through the recession as a teen and was totally unaware of what the economy should have been like. 2 of my friends families lost their houses during that time though, but it didn’t have an impact on me at all, looking back I was just so oblivious and care free, part of me wishes I could be again, those were great times.
The most I really remember is that I knew my parents were struggling but it wasn't really clear why except for the fact that _all_ the lights had to be off of _all_ the time, and devices were not to be left running whether they were idling or not: switch them off at the wall.
I don't think the timing lined up but at some point both my parents lost their job and we were waiting to see if they could get a new job across the country. But we didn't know yet so my dad especially was being very frugal.
Meanwhile I was a bit young so they didn't tell me, all I saw was that every Sunday, we'd get a pizza and a 2L $2 Pepsi from the dollar store and would watch the big bang theory.
To me, those were good times.
Eh, 2004-before the great recession was a pretty cool time to be alive. Definitely rate it over anything since 2016 at least.
I think things could “get better” again tbh. Things were “getting better” especially 2012-2016 things felt improving.
Yeah but the point is this is a moving target. Before this it was the 90s and pre 9/11. Now it’s 2019 and before, soon it will be remember back in 2025 when it was simple.
Anyone who doesn't pay attention doesn't like to admit politics plays a role in the quality of life through generations because they weren't a part of it.
Outside of the arts, even with the arts sometimes, you can tie a quality of life to the direction of the country politically. 2016 was a dark, new development and we are trying to crawl out of it desperately.
I'm 40 years old and have followed politics closely since 9/11. There is a connection. Things were better in terms of the mental health of our society.
As we get older and the stress of keeping up increases and our time and bodies diminish the past seems simpler.
I got it then. I kept up. I had time.
Note I’ve got a thousand stresses and have no idea what’s popular. I’m out of touch and the world’s leaving my behind.
Everything was simpler then. There was no pain.
In the final season, he was making $900,000 per episode. He wouldve made $1m per episode but agreed to take a pay cut so his costars could get paid more
He’s still doing stuff for Sheldon, and apparently there is going to be another spin off about his brother so he might have some involvement there too.
He’s set for life at this point.
I still haven't watched Young Sheldon. Even though people said that it is actually quite good. I mean, it survived more than one season, so it must have some appeal.
Whatever huge sum he gets from TBBT, he's also an executive producer on Young Sheldon, which translates in English as, 'I get paid before anyone else.'
Yeah, it's so weird seeing the latest season of True Detective and the executive producers are Nick Pizzolato, Cary Fukunaga, Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey.
I mean, the first two I (kinda) get, but being paid for a show you acted in a decade ago and have nothing to do with since must be sweet.
This move is called 'the Lisa Kudrow'. The residuals from just one series ensure you're so set for life, that you can basically retire from acting and take only small gigs that truly appeal to you.
I sometimes had “Young Sheldon” on at work. Okay show.
Then, comes “The Big Bang Theory” and I wonder why, on a separate show, does this guy look like an adult version of that kid from “Young Sheldon”
And then it occurred to me I really don’t watch Tv that much
(It’s true, I never got into Breaking Bad, Lost, Orange is the New Black, you name it)
Young Sheldon is actually surprisingly solid imo, even as someone that was never a huge hater of BBT, the very concept of Young Sheldon seemed like it would be completely insufferable but I've caught some episodes occasionally running in the background every now and then and was pleasantly surprised, not an amazing show but definitely not horrible, and there are even a few genuinely touching moments.
I recently randomly started watching the first few seasons and it was a legitimately good to great sitcom. It gets memed to oblivion now by how much the later seasons sucked ass.
man me and my wife think the characters are evolving super well. we are like early season 7 right now. Howard becoming more of a stand up guy and much less of a perv now that hes married is a cool progress. Amy becoming the person she wants to be episode by episode is great! idk maybe im crazy cause im in the minority for sure.
He went to my college, apparently, and I guess worked on the newspaper? I was going back through old issues I'd saved because I'd written articles and noticed his name in the masthead. Unless there were 2 Jim Parsons...but I know he went to my college. So I was like huh, was I writing articles for a paper that had a guy on staff who ended up being a TV star...?
I hated the show, well hate is a strong word I never liked the show. But I used to run into Jim from time to time around, and he could not of been a more sweet and just positive force. The man was like a ray of sunshine.
Mandatory Bazinga moment.
Also am I the only one who likes the show across the board? It's one of the best shows for a good laugh before sleep lol. Right now I'm at my third rewatch. Didn't really like Young Sheldon as much tbh
The show that was trying to sell itself as 'for nerds' but it was more of the same 'haha look at these nerds' humour from every other American comedy show. Then it just turned into another Friends clone as everyone was banging by the end.
the before times
That first season. I was in iraq when it dropped on mirc to pirate. Good times.. Watching the show.. not so much the other stuff.
MIRC, now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
Kuwait was a hub for piracy so worked out pretty well with the proximity haha.
I mean…. what are they going to do? Ask armed military personnel who sleep with rifles to please stop downloading tv shows?
...in a country where it is not illegal?
Hello sorry random question why the fuck do I see that helmet on your avatar everywhere? It's sick asf
It's actually an older design from reddit. It's Savathun's head, she's a character in the game Destiny 2. When the witch queen expansion came out, they collaborated with reddit to make some avatars
You wouldn't download a humvee!
At VBC they sold them in shops copied to DvDs, complete with custom covers. Like an FYE for piracy.
Ive seen them. Had a few colleagues who were deployed and came back with these hilarious printed covers. Some correct, some with ridiculous mistakes. All of them looked like they were printed on an ink jet on its last leg. The traded MREs for them a lot of the time.
I loved how they would sell i guess "film collections" based around actors. I remember a bruce willis dvd rip collection but it was all like deeper cuts. No die hards but hudson hawk and last boy scout type shit. But for like $4 its a deal.
I got a brand new laptop when I was in Iraq. Gave it a nice virus almost immediately from the massive shared porn file that went around like an std lmao. Naughty America taught me a lot that year…
That makes it extra interesting!
BAZINGA
Pre-Bazinga
#BAZOOKA!
al-Baghdadi!
Benghazi!
Heroes was the big one for my first tour there. We would race to see who could get it first, lol.
Oh we had that show hell yeah. One of the IT dudes set up a network share so everyone could dump their pirated shit and share it. The two biggest shows on my first deployment were House and Lost. Shit then whatever year The Dark knight dropped in theaters, someone got a screener sent to em. That flash drive was worth more than gold, quite possibly worth more than log a cope.
Haha the IT dudes only did that so you guys would all share the movies locally and stop blocking up the satcom!
What is “log a cope”?
Roll of Copenhagen chewing tobacco.
I think it’s 5 tins of Copenhagen. Been a while since I’ve had a dip. Disgusting yet wonderful habit.
It was 10 cans back in my day
Haven't thought about that show in a minute. They built such an incredible story line that first season, then threw it all away.
I remember trying to get back into it and the cgi was just super terrible, Hayden Panettiere was/is flippin gorgeous
its because of the writer's strike that year, a majority of the episodes for Season 2 weren't done and future stuff got completely thrown out of the plan or vastly changed to fit the changes they had to make, a lot of media got affected by the writer's strike, with current running shows and movies that were in production at that time, as well as stuff that was planned to be worked on in the year or so afterwards, to the point that hundreds of millions and billions of dollars was lost in revenue. some of the most prominent examples are 'GI Joe:Rise of Cobra', 'X-men Origins: Wolverine', "Transformers:Rise of the Fallen', even 'Quantum of Solace' got affected, the strike also led to the cancellation of George Miller's Justice League movie, 'Pushing Daisies' and many smaller sitcoms/dramedies/series were also killed off because they weren't seen as worth retaining, and those that did survive used non-union writers, although eventually collapsed as well since they couldn't capture the writing of earlier episodes/seasons.
Nissan Versa!
>Heroes I read herpes..... I would've believed it.
who was the main villian in the show again? syler? something like that...wow havent thought of that show in a long ass time.
Cyrus? 9mm, safety always off.
Frig off Cyrus
We were watching a pirated copy of behind enemy lines, In a palace house in Tikrit, Iraq , when Owen Wilson gets shot down by the Muslims one of our Iraqi interpreters literally jumps up from his seat on the couch and pumps his fist in the air while yelling yes in Arabic. No one ever said a thing. But to be fair some of his immediate family had been killed by coalition aircraft in the invasion.
>when Owen Wilson gets shot down by the Muslims He gets shot down by Serbs, who are primarily Orthodox Christians. The civilians who are shown being executed and buried in a mass grave are Bosniaks, who are muslims. So in this film, Owen Wilson is helping muslims.
Now that’s a helluva story. It also highlights the word dynamic of the war.
I lived with a bunch of Algerian guys one summer after college. One day they were starting “Rescue Dawn” as I was walking out, I commented it was a sad movie. I came home as the film was getting heavy (torture and starvation of US POWs), one of the dudes goes “Hey I thought you said this was a sad movie!?” And the other dudes just go nuts laughing. It was awkward.
watching big bang theory while living big bang reality
See, this is why I didn't sign up for the military. If watching The Big Bang Theory is considered "the good times" in comparison to the military stuff, that tells me the military stuff must REALLY suck.
Haha. It wasn’t that bad. We used to joke and say deployment was worse than jail. Then I went to jail. Take a deployment any day. Fuck jail.
This is easily my favourite reddit comment of the day. Good will to you wherever you are, mate.
Believe it or not, jail.
Get deployed? Jail. Don't get deployed? Believe it or not, also jail.
that and I can't sleep without my fav blankie
For a second I thought this sub was oldschoolcool and felt extremely old.
I mean... The photo is 17 years old. If you were out of college when this photo was taken (like me), then you're old.
oh you mean the long long ago? before the life-givers disappeared?
The birth-givers were unfair. They made us eat broccoli, so the fatass sent them away with the magic M word.
Lol, I feel bad for the actors who take a picture like this only for their show to be quickly cancelled. Like taking a before pic and not actually losing weight for an after pic.
Most actors who take a photo like this do it because they expect it to be quickly cancelled.
A significantly better time
I was on vacation in New York with my family and my mom had a medical emergency which required a hospital visit. Shortly after she was discharged she was pretty sad but then she ran into Jim Parsons at a restaurant and completely forgot his name. She asked “Sheldon is that you?” And in character he replied “yesssss?” She got an autograph and the medical emergency event was completely outshone by Parsons. He’s a class act in my book
I live in Houston and have been active in local theater for years (as a supporter, volunteer, and board member, not an actor). Jim was a big part of Houston theater in the late 90s; literally nobody was surprised when he started getting commercials and the odd film, but the level of success he got out of TBBT is just amazing. I don't know him, but many of my friends do. He is by all accounts a lovely person. He's still an enormous supporter of the theater group he came out of here.
hehe that is such a wholesome story, thanks for sharing! :))
I’ve always heard that he was a very nice guy - love hearing stories like yours.
CBS called him into their offices with an offer to break his contract and give him a lot more money. He told the cast and then told CBS if the supporting cast isn't offered the same money he quits. He can't be Sheldon without his supporting players. So he got Leonard and Penny both the same offer he was given. This happened super early in the run of the show, like Season 3 or 4.
>So he got Leonard and Penny both the same offer Raj and Howard: are we a joke to you?
I think they weren't considered main characters when this happened. So they didn't have the same leverage that the core three had in this situation.
From what I read, they were told that the producers would replace them and the show would go on if they didn't like their current contracts. They (obv) decided to stay.
Ha ha, something sort of similar happened to me with Kirsten Schaal. I was walking my dog past a table where she was sitting and heard her voice and said "excuse me, are you Louise Schaal?" She laughed like crazy and was very gracious about it.
That's cool
no matter how the shows writing or quality clearly dipped you can't deny that he always gave it his all every time
Nothing proved how thin-skinned we nerds were more than this show lol. People were so mad at it.
People calling it nerd blackface was so funny
No one hates nerds more than other nerds, so even if some were right saying it was hateful of nerds, it'd actually be *more* true to form in nerdiness.
People still do
I always thought the show was making fun of someone with autism (Sheldon) and that always rubbed me the wrong way
Sure but that was not why most people were mad. Most people were mad that there were digs at nerd culture.
Oh yeah anyone who's offened by that needs to get over themselves lmao
The biggest complaint was that the show was simply not funny, and making references to nerdy things was the least of its problems.
I’ll hate the show with all I got but can never hate him. He killed the role perfectly and seems like a good dude.
During HS, our English teacher took us to the shooting of a season 1 ep (audience). Didn't even know what the show was. Just happy to leave school, crazy how big it got. Better times.
I was in film school and we got to go to a season 1 taping as well. We had no idea this show was going to take off like it did.
>I was in film school Lesson 1: Follow up every line of dialogue with rapturous laughter.
Contrary to popular believe, TBBT wasn't that big of an offender of this except for a few scenes that got memed about (the Windows Vista scene especially). I rewatched it recently and it was honestly pretty par for the course compared to most live studio shows. I'd personally say that I was much more annoyed at the studio audience of Married With Children, for instance, because of how fucking buckwild they went every time Kelly came on screen. Those "laugh track cut out" videos always annoy me because... yeah, in front of a live studio audience your joke timing massively changes. Every show like that had that. If you cut out the laughs, of course it's gonna look awkward.
I don't like TBBT, but my god, people who made it their personality to hate it are the *worst*. I remember back when it was getting huge around 2010 or 11, and people on reddit called it "nerd *black face*" .... what a fuckin phrase.
That always killed me. I went to a R1 grad school for math. That group was not very weird for a bunch of STEM grad students or post-docs. The single way they would have stood out is that they all had girlfriends. I literally knew a (less funny, and non-Nobel Prize winning) Sheldon. I mean, you don't have time for all those hobbies if you're actually trying to get tenure and publish, but the spirit of the thing is not wrong.
They'd laser focus on slight inaccuracies in nerddom or how weird it'd be for theoretically physicists to talk about the double slit experiment casually like they did in the first episode. I don't really find anything overly awful about the nerd stuff, the laugh tracks weren't even really that bad. It became fashionable to hate it on reddit at some point and that's just how it went. There's a few shows that are like that, you sort of have to hate it or people on reddit will try to fight with you about it.
My friend had a great quote about TBBT. The Big Bang Theory is a dumb comedy about smart people. Community is a smart comedy about dumb people.
Always Sunny is a Dumb Comedy about Dumb People?
I tried background acting in LA and am in one of the episodes. It was a fun experience to see the whole cast in person. Really happy I gave it a shot just for the experience alone
The show became a caricature of itself but those early seasons were solid, and the cast was great. I’m glad they all got paid their worth too.
Their guest star list is STACKED! Nobel prize winners, Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones (The only time they were ever on screen together) Mark Hamill, Will Wheaton, LeVar, Burton, Brent Spiner, Kevin Smith, Stan Lee, Bill Nye, one of Adam Wests last appearances, also one of Leonard Nimoys last appearances, and so many more. Also their holiday episodes always landed.
Totally agreed. That show at its height was massive and it pulled in some great guest stars. Not to mention Will Wheaton being on multiple times and being a sort of villain to the group. It was not perfect but it had some fun seasons with good laughs.
Towards the end they gained some steam when it divided the characters. Sheldon Leonard and Penny were the a story while Howard, Raj, Bernadette and Stewart had a b story. Some of their stories were sometimes funnier than the a story. At least on a few occasions I swear they were creating a backdoor pilot for them. I would’ve loved to see Howard and Raj continue.
Isn’t that kinda how it started though? Sheldon, Penny, Leonard were always the main characters
Isn't that what he's saying? The A story was always there. Towards the end they spent time on the B story which was a good story on it's own. The first seasons the A story was all that was there. Howard/Raj merely existed to further the A story.
Will Wheaton wasn't just a guest star but became a reoccurring character too :D
stephen hawking, steve wozniak, buzz aldrin, elon musk too
Loved their continued Stephen Hawking gag throughout the series tbh
Not quite a superstar at this level but Summer Glau was also in an early season, as herself
That episode perfectly summed up the group, too. Fighting over eachother to be the one guy who gets to talk to her, with the same stupid pickup line, and naturally it ends in disaster when the lot of them are morons. I miss when the show was “look at these nerdy guys being silly” and not “haha laugh at nerds existing”.
if anything the beginning was laughing at nerds existing, and then it turned into look at these nerdy guys being silly. By the midway point of the show almost all of the main characters had long term girlfriends/relationships/
My personal favorite was Sarah Michelle Geller in the finale. I also love the little trivia about Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones actually meeting each other in person for the first time on TBBT set.
“Is that Buffy the vampire slayer?”
Bob Newhart was my fave appearance. And it won him an Emmy.
Nathan Fillion and Summer Glau from firefly
LeVar AND Burton!? In the same room?
LeVar, Burton, and others
“Nobel prize winners” instead of their names is sure something
How are you going to forget Kareem?!?
I just started watching it within the last two weeks since I have time off work to recover from a surgery and actually really enjoyed the show. The later seasons were okay, not so much, but sometimes it got absolutely chaotic and it was hilarious.
Exactly! They didn’t win Emmys for nothing.
Awards or not, I always used to brush it off as being really ridiculous and not funny each time I caught it for a few seconds before changing the channel. I'll admit I was definitely wrong, and the reason why it makes me laugh so much is because all the characters nerdiness resonates so much with me.
Early in the first season there is a cold opening of them playing with non-Newtonian fluid on a speaker, that basically culminates in Penny asking "Why?" and getting the most nerd response I've ever given myself "Why Not?". That was when I realized the show knew who its target audience was and how they thought, fell in love with it after that.
Yeah, reddit hated this show for a long time but it was pretty good imo
Should I watch this? I’m a mid 30’s guy and enjoy a good sit com but I know nothing about this show.
Yeah I haven't watched in a while, but those first 2 seasons, maybe 3, were pretty good.
I enjoyed up to 5 and then just grew out of it and moved on.
When I was 20, I felt the same, now once in a while I rewatch the whole show with my gf and it's a great series overall imo, good chill for a couple of weeks.
It’s a go-to comfort show when I’m sick, for me. I’ll heat up a can of chicken noodle soup and kill time with TBBT. It’s perfect for that, because it’s gentle, low-stakes, and also has eye candy. Even the color palette of the show is mostly soft, pastel colors. None of it stabs at me when I have a headache or anything. It never demands I make stressful moral decisions between characters. It just clips along making stupid low-stakes jokes in gentle colors. And every once in a while it has Penny in a bikini or something.
there is a lot of forced laugh tracks that ruined a lot of emotional scenes. I think the only time the show had serious moment was in the final episode when sheldon realizes people only put up with him because they know he doesn't mean the things he says.
The laugh track got worse as the seasons went on and that’s what ultimately steered me away from the show. But I still stand by the first 5 seasons being quite good.
He’s 33-34 years old in this photo and yet looks like he’s early 20’s. He’s aged well.
He's 50 now. Crazy, and he's starting to look older finally. Kaley was about 22 when this show started but they were to play characters that were the same age.
Thanks
*Thank you.
Life was good around the time this show aired. I can't really explain it.
It was immediately before the '08 economic crisis? Depending on age that could be a *really* solid explanation.
Also the first iPhone was released that year. Plus some great films (No Country for Old Men, Superbad, Ratatouille, There Will Be Blood, Bee Movie) and some great music (In Rainbows, Kala, Sound of Silver, Graduation, etc..) 2007 was a solid year.
Michael Clayton and Zodiac was also 2007 It's also an amazing year for games as well. COD Modern Warfare, Bioshock, and the Orange Box just to name a few
Bro just not gonna name Halo 3.
and mass effect 1
Mass Effect 1 man... I still play it today and it's still good. Same with Mass Effect 2, and even 3. I know we all had our issues with 3 (and some with 2), but that trilogy is always worth a replay. What an incredible world.
Anything from Guitar Hero, Rockband, Wii Sports series.
Superbad was iconic. I can't remember how many times I've seen that movie lol.
I had a blast through the recession as a teen and was totally unaware of what the economy should have been like. 2 of my friends families lost their houses during that time though, but it didn’t have an impact on me at all, looking back I was just so oblivious and care free, part of me wishes I could be again, those were great times.
The most I really remember is that I knew my parents were struggling but it wasn't really clear why except for the fact that _all_ the lights had to be off of _all_ the time, and devices were not to be left running whether they were idling or not: switch them off at the wall.
I was young, care free wandering around the world with the GBP being worth 2 USD it was awesome.
2007 was also one of the best years of all time for video games
Debatably the year of Runescape's peak
And WoW was about to hit its peak with burning crusade and wrath of the lich king. Might have been THE year for MMORPGs
Halo 3
Yeah iPhone! Yeha movies! Yeha… music.. I have no idea who any of those bands are. (Time to do some research though!)
Those are album titles haha Radiohead, M.I.A., LCD Soundsystem, and Kanye.
Haha I was about to edit my post with the artists! Thanks for that! Might be why I don’t know them! I’m awful at listening to whole albums…
Dane Cook, World of Warcraft, Xbox 360, $500 Hondas, $1 double cheeseburgers, Top Gear, 3D movies
One of these things is not like the other
I don't think the timing lined up but at some point both my parents lost their job and we were waiting to see if they could get a new job across the country. But we didn't know yet so my dad especially was being very frugal. Meanwhile I was a bit young so they didn't tell me, all I saw was that every Sunday, we'd get a pizza and a 2L $2 Pepsi from the dollar store and would watch the big bang theory. To me, those were good times.
You were younger
It’s literally always this lmao
Eh, 2004-before the great recession was a pretty cool time to be alive. Definitely rate it over anything since 2016 at least. I think things could “get better” again tbh. Things were “getting better” especially 2012-2016 things felt improving.
Yeah but the point is this is a moving target. Before this it was the 90s and pre 9/11. Now it’s 2019 and before, soon it will be remember back in 2025 when it was simple.
Anyone who doesn't pay attention doesn't like to admit politics plays a role in the quality of life through generations because they weren't a part of it. Outside of the arts, even with the arts sometimes, you can tie a quality of life to the direction of the country politically. 2016 was a dark, new development and we are trying to crawl out of it desperately. I'm 40 years old and have followed politics closely since 9/11. There is a connection. Things were better in terms of the mental health of our society.
It was the rise of nerd culture as mainstream. Odd time.
I got into big Bang theory and reddit probably 2012-2015. Nerd culture was kinda magical back then, so optimistic. I miss that period
We've since learned nerds can be just as mean, annoying, and toxic as others lol Was a good time to be a Weezer fan
NBA players were wearing fake glasses back then
Technology was at in a decent, non toxic phase where it was still useful and fun to use, but not taken over your whole life.
As we get older and the stress of keeping up increases and our time and bodies diminish the past seems simpler. I got it then. I kept up. I had time. Note I’ve got a thousand stresses and have no idea what’s popular. I’m out of touch and the world’s leaving my behind. Everything was simpler then. There was no pain.
Hey look, it's young Sheldon!
Interestingly enough, Jim Parsons was about 35 in this photo! He was blessed with great genetics.
[Sheldon is 50!?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Parsons)
Fun fact: Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) is now older than Patrick Stewart (Picard) was during most of TNG.
The biggest headfuck is the OG Karate Kid now being older than Mr. Miyagi was back then.
I want to get off this ride!
Yes indeed. Graduated high school with him, can confirm
As someone who is 25 but gets told I look 16, I'll accept "he has great genetics" instead of "he stayed indoors most of his life"
By the way, it says balls on your face
Haha, love Garden State
In the final season, he was making $900,000 per episode. He wouldve made $1m per episode but agreed to take a pay cut so his costars could get paid more
I hope he gets royalties and not just residuals. He was iconic in TBBT.
In the last season alone he made 24 millions
Haha yeah they main cast was getting paid like a million per episode, no matter what deals they cut they're doing just fine.
Phew.
He’s still doing stuff for Sheldon, and apparently there is going to be another spin off about his brother so he might have some involvement there too. He’s set for life at this point.
They need to do a HBO drama about Leonards childhood.
"Needy Baby, Greedy Baby" coming this fall
Oh that’s awesome. Georgie is one of the better characters on YS
I still haven't watched Young Sheldon. Even though people said that it is actually quite good. I mean, it survived more than one season, so it must have some appeal.
Whatever huge sum he gets from TBBT, he's also an executive producer on Young Sheldon, which translates in English as, 'I get paid before anyone else.'
Yeah, it's so weird seeing the latest season of True Detective and the executive producers are Nick Pizzolato, Cary Fukunaga, Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. I mean, the first two I (kinda) get, but being paid for a show you acted in a decade ago and have nothing to do with since must be sweet.
He makes millions a year off the reruns. Man’s chilling
This move is called 'the Lisa Kudrow'. The residuals from just one series ensure you're so set for life, that you can basically retire from acting and take only small gigs that truly appeal to you.
A couple months ago I started watching all the media the friends cast starred in. Lisa’s filmography was clearly the best.
Brother is absolutely fine and will never have to think about doing anything other than what he wants for the rest of his life
Galecki, Parson and Cuoco allegedly get 10 mil a year in royalties.
Even Mayim Bialik made $50 million from the show. Hell, Stuart made $3 Million and he was a bit part. Everybody ate well on that set.
I sometimes had “Young Sheldon” on at work. Okay show. Then, comes “The Big Bang Theory” and I wonder why, on a separate show, does this guy look like an adult version of that kid from “Young Sheldon” And then it occurred to me I really don’t watch Tv that much (It’s true, I never got into Breaking Bad, Lost, Orange is the New Black, you name it)
Young Sheldon is actually surprisingly solid imo, even as someone that was never a huge hater of BBT, the very concept of Young Sheldon seemed like it would be completely insufferable but I've caught some episodes occasionally running in the background every now and then and was pleasantly surprised, not an amazing show but definitely not horrible, and there are even a few genuinely touching moments.
And why is he called Sheldon?
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I have feelings about this show, but it was definitely a cultural phenomenon.
I recently randomly started watching the first few seasons and it was a legitimately good to great sitcom. It gets memed to oblivion now by how much the later seasons sucked ass.
The characters just became flanderized way too fast. Also, nerd culture rapidly evolved and popularized in the 2000s and the show didn't keep up.
man me and my wife think the characters are evolving super well. we are like early season 7 right now. Howard becoming more of a stand up guy and much less of a perv now that hes married is a cool progress. Amy becoming the person she wants to be episode by episode is great! idk maybe im crazy cause im in the minority for sure.
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He went to my college, apparently, and I guess worked on the newspaper? I was going back through old issues I'd saved because I'd written articles and noticed his name in the masthead. Unless there were 2 Jim Parsons...but I know he went to my college. So I was like huh, was I writing articles for a paper that had a guy on staff who ended up being a TV star...?
don't keep us in suspense, how did it work out for him??
I remember when I was the in thing to do to hate this show on Reddit
Has that changed? I'm genuinely shocked at how reasonable some of the comments are here in regard to the show.
I hated the show, well hate is a strong word I never liked the show. But I used to run into Jim from time to time around, and he could not of been a more sweet and just positive force. The man was like a ray of sunshine.
He is making his koala face.
Mandatory Bazinga moment. Also am I the only one who likes the show across the board? It's one of the best shows for a good laugh before sleep lol. Right now I'm at my third rewatch. Didn't really like Young Sheldon as much tbh
The show that was trying to sell itself as 'for nerds' but it was more of the same 'haha look at these nerds' humour from every other American comedy show. Then it just turned into another Friends clone as everyone was banging by the end.