The gang celebrates Halloween at Stuart's comic book store. Meanwhile, Leonard seduces Penny with science.Download Video The Big Bang Theory The Holographic Excitation Episode On ABC Family Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch The Big Bang Theory Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV.Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists, the kind of "beautiful minds" that understand how the universe works. But none of that genius helps them interact with people, especially women. All this begins to change when a free-spirited beauty named Penny moves in next door. Sheldon, Leonard's roommate, is quite content spending his nights playing Klingon Boggle with their socially dysfunctional friends, fellow CalTech scientists Wolowitz and Koothrappali. However, Leonard sees in Penny a whole new universe of possibilities... including love.One of the things that I originally found so different about The Big Bang Theory in its earliest seasons was that - and I struggle here with a way to phrase this that sounds complimentary (as I intend it) rather than derogatory - several of its episodes didn't really have much in the way of a plot.
Compare this sitcom to other comedies like Friends or Scrubs, where each episode had its own distinct story to tell with a beginning, middle, and end. Oftentimes, The Big Bang Theory doesn't have that, and sometimes, it doesn't even need it - it just does what it does best, which is to say: let its talented cast be funny for twenty-two minutes and call it a show.
The show did that quite well in its early seasons, though it's turned plottier as time has gone on. This week's episode was a return to the former, but I'm not sure it worked in its favour.
Nothing much happened in this episode other than the introduction of a new character named Alex, a grad student whom Sheldon has hired to go through all his old journals to see if anything he wrote while younger would now be a notable scientific accomplishment.
(This, he reasons, worked for Peter Higgs with the recent success of the Higgs boson. While we're on the topic, it struck me as odd that Sheldon didn't mention any of the other scientists involved in predicting the Higgs; certainly they are often overlooked by the public, but would a stickler for accuracy involved in the physics community not insist on giving credit where it is due?)
Amy is initially bothered when finding that Sheldon's assistant is, in fact, a woman, and is jealous for all of ten minutes until she sees Alex and Leonard having a flirty conversation and realizes that she is not the one who should be worried.
There's not much I could say to add to the concerns I voiced last week about Penny's characterization, but this week certainly compounded them.
All of which would be valid, if we had any sort of inclination of what is going on in her head (or heart). The way it's written, it just makes her seem shallow and vapid.
This week’s episode of The Big Bang Theory, “The Re-Entry Minimization,” was what I’ve been wanting from the show since the season premiere. It was funny, but not mean, and personal without being melodramatic. Also, there was no mention of Leonard and Penny breaking up yet again. Let’s hope they just forget that whole plot thread.
Howard came back down to Earth, but rather than a hero’s welcome from his friends and family, he returned only to find that his wife is sick, his mother is sleeping with his dentist, his best friend has replaced him with Stuart and his other friends cared more about winning a pie-eating contest than welcoming him home.
You really felt for the poor guy. I’m always amazed at how Simon Helberg took the character who could have been utterly reprehensible and turned him into someone completely loveable. In some ways I think he might have done it even better than Jim Parsons. Sheldon can still grate on the nerves more than just occasionally, but Howard really grows on you. I hope he gets something next week, a party or a cake or even just a really good night with his wife.
Meanwhile, it was game night at Sheldon and Leonard’s. Girls versus guys in the classic Pictionary. To Sheldon’s disbelief and Leonard’s frustration, Penny and Amy used the boys to wipe the floor, mostly due to Sheldon’s inability to think small. Why draw a Christmas present when you can think abstractly and draw the present as in the present scene going on around you?
The network that produced such classic sitcoms in the past as "All in the Family" and "The Munsters" does it again with "The Big Bang Theory," a tremendous success for Chuck Lorre following his drastic failure with "Dharma & Greg".
"BBT" follows the witty and sarcasm-soaked misadventures of Leonard and Sheldon, two socially awkward scientists thrust full-force into standard sitcom story lines-- themes of rejection, friendship, and pride, among others. The important thing is, the standard sitcom story lines feel new for the first time in decades, mainly because the mile-a-minute dialogue now comes with gloriously incomprehensible techno-babble and high-level jargon that could send Kissinger screaming from a room.
It comes down to essentially this. Spot-on writers and directors handle a spot-on cast in spot-on situations. Those of you who are turned off of shows by audience laughter, it adds a much-needed level of reality to this surreally present crowd-pleaser. And when the Writers' Strike ends (still happening as this is being written), fans of great comedy should look forward to much more from this high-potential hit.
Compare this sitcom to other comedies like Friends or Scrubs, where each episode had its own distinct story to tell with a beginning, middle, and end. Oftentimes, The Big Bang Theory doesn't have that, and sometimes, it doesn't even need it - it just does what it does best, which is to say: let its talented cast be funny for twenty-two minutes and call it a show.
The show did that quite well in its early seasons, though it's turned plottier as time has gone on. This week's episode was a return to the former, but I'm not sure it worked in its favour.
Nothing much happened in this episode other than the introduction of a new character named Alex, a grad student whom Sheldon has hired to go through all his old journals to see if anything he wrote while younger would now be a notable scientific accomplishment.
(This, he reasons, worked for Peter Higgs with the recent success of the Higgs boson. While we're on the topic, it struck me as odd that Sheldon didn't mention any of the other scientists involved in predicting the Higgs; certainly they are often overlooked by the public, but would a stickler for accuracy involved in the physics community not insist on giving credit where it is due?)
Amy is initially bothered when finding that Sheldon's assistant is, in fact, a woman, and is jealous for all of ten minutes until she sees Alex and Leonard having a flirty conversation and realizes that she is not the one who should be worried.
There's not much I could say to add to the concerns I voiced last week about Penny's characterization, but this week certainly compounded them.
All of which would be valid, if we had any sort of inclination of what is going on in her head (or heart). The way it's written, it just makes her seem shallow and vapid.
This week’s episode of The Big Bang Theory, “The Re-Entry Minimization,” was what I’ve been wanting from the show since the season premiere. It was funny, but not mean, and personal without being melodramatic. Also, there was no mention of Leonard and Penny breaking up yet again. Let’s hope they just forget that whole plot thread.
Howard came back down to Earth, but rather than a hero’s welcome from his friends and family, he returned only to find that his wife is sick, his mother is sleeping with his dentist, his best friend has replaced him with Stuart and his other friends cared more about winning a pie-eating contest than welcoming him home.
You really felt for the poor guy. I’m always amazed at how Simon Helberg took the character who could have been utterly reprehensible and turned him into someone completely loveable. In some ways I think he might have done it even better than Jim Parsons. Sheldon can still grate on the nerves more than just occasionally, but Howard really grows on you. I hope he gets something next week, a party or a cake or even just a really good night with his wife.
Meanwhile, it was game night at Sheldon and Leonard’s. Girls versus guys in the classic Pictionary. To Sheldon’s disbelief and Leonard’s frustration, Penny and Amy used the boys to wipe the floor, mostly due to Sheldon’s inability to think small. Why draw a Christmas present when you can think abstractly and draw the present as in the present scene going on around you?
The network that produced such classic sitcoms in the past as "All in the Family" and "The Munsters" does it again with "The Big Bang Theory," a tremendous success for Chuck Lorre following his drastic failure with "Dharma & Greg".
"BBT" follows the witty and sarcasm-soaked misadventures of Leonard and Sheldon, two socially awkward scientists thrust full-force into standard sitcom story lines-- themes of rejection, friendship, and pride, among others. The important thing is, the standard sitcom story lines feel new for the first time in decades, mainly because the mile-a-minute dialogue now comes with gloriously incomprehensible techno-babble and high-level jargon that could send Kissinger screaming from a room.
It comes down to essentially this. Spot-on writers and directors handle a spot-on cast in spot-on situations. Those of you who are turned off of shows by audience laughter, it adds a much-needed level of reality to this surreally present crowd-pleaser. And when the Writers' Strike ends (still happening as this is being written), fans of great comedy should look forward to much more from this high-potential hit.