Good God! A TV Show…

Blame it on my inner nerdiness or fortunate position of the constellations but I find TBBT hysterically funny. The casting is brilliant, the chemistry on screen — unmistakable, the scripts — pure joy. It’s one of those rare character-driven gems that lighten up your day after some TV show goes sour. I haven’t laughed that hard since IT Crowd (and with two seasons and 12 episodes total that was simply not enough).

The premise of the show is rather simplistic: The Nerd and The Nerdier roommates Leonard (IQ 173) and Sheldon (IQ 187) meet their new neighbour, pretty material girl Penny. The brainiacs have two friends: a horny engineer Howard Wolowitz and Raj, a cute astrophysicist who turns mute in front of girls. Leonard is less smart more social, so he immediately falls for Penny.

Sheldon:

Okay, look, I think you have as much of a chance of having a sexual relationship with Penny as the Hubble telescope does of discovering that at the center of every black hole is a little man with a flashlight searching for a circuit breaker. Nevertheless, I do feel obligated to point out to you that she did not reject you. You did not ask her out.

Leonard:

Our kids will be smart and beautiful.

Sheldon:

Not to mention imaginary

Leonard:

I’m a male, and she’s a female.

Sheldon:

But not of the same species.

Writers managed to get the best of the plot exploring and gently and lovingly mocking stuff the geeky guys are supposed to enjoy: comics, Sci-fi TV shows, MMORPG, social networks, etc.

Leonard:

We need to widen our circle.

Sheldon:

I have a very wide circle. I have 212 friends on myspace.

Leonard:

Yes, and you’ve never met one of them.

Sheldon:

That’s the beauty of it.

Sheldon (about Penny playing Halo):

I don’t know how, but she is cheating! Nobody can be that attractive and this good at a videogame.

What sets this show apart is the cast. Each character has a distinct style in clothes, specific gestures, mannerisms, even a definite way of walking.

All the four types are easily recognizable. If you’re in IT or science or accounting you met at least one of them for sure.

Each and everyone on the show is just perfect but Sheldon is the ultimate star. The actor plays the part effortlessly, balancing on the very edge of driving you nuts and still being adorable. Gosh, I want to adopt him to shield him from this cruel world where things happen not according to schedule, people occupy his favorite spots, Tangerine Chicken is actually Orange and some smug female Ph.Ds call him names.

The show is deep into second season and it hasn’t lowered the bar even an inch. I’m still afraid that one of Murphy laws would kick in but even so it already provided almost unbeliavable amount of laughs and such genuinely good things are so scarce these days.