Big Bang Theory

[Miriel]

That's so weird. They could easily have gotten some actual people from CalTech (the university Sheldon/Leonard/etc all work) to come in and write up some stuff for them to have in the background. But television people are just so lazy sometimes.

I've seen shows where they'll have the "korean" couple speaking chinese and expect you not to notice. How hard would it have been to get some actual Korean dialogue? Damn. There was an episode of Desperate Housewives recently with some italian dialogue and according to Italian speakers, the phrase they used made no sense. So lazy!

[Tavrobel]

I thought that they did, especially in the first season. Somewhere in the commentary (or the special features), they mentioned that they consulted actual physicists to get correct and incorrect equations (such as the case for Leslie correcting Sheldon's equation that one time.

That being said, those equations are technically correct. They're just simple. I'm not sure what they needed those equations for within the context of the episode. Whatever their researched involved at the time, maybe they needed to put those up in order to remind them of what reactions happens and when. I see that they have a tub of what is listed as "Rocket Fuel," but ammonia (NH₃) being split into nitrogen and hydrogen is not rocket fuel, and furthermore, if it were rocket fuel, it would still have the NFPA diamond on it. We aren't in the dark ages.

[Rye]

Penny's pink laptop is the same as my laptop, Honeybee, except mine is yellow, obvs. Cute!

[Madame Adequate]

I suppose that you guys are as bamboozled by this sort of thing as I am by the medpack/Halo 3 debacle. I sympathize, because the show rests on being a fairly affectionate portrayal of the whole thing and I don't get why sometimes the really obvious research stuff isn't done when they are digging up all this obscure stuff for Sheldon to spout.

[Del Murder]

It really doesn't bother me, but I guess it would bother me if I was a chemist or played Halo 3.

[Rye]

Oh my god, I just noticed, EVERYONE has a Dell laptop! They must be paid by Dell, because real nerds have PC towers. That they built themselves! Oh my god!

[Cuchulainn]

It's a comedy. Stop picking it apart and just smurfing laugh or turn it off. Jesus...have a day off you nerds.

[Madame Adequate]

It's a comedy. Stop picking it apart and just smurfing laugh or turn it off. Jesus...have a day off you nerds.

When your target audience is people who are nitpicks by their very nature, you better do your research

[Cuchulainn]

It's a comedy. Stop picking it apart and just smurfing laugh or turn it off. Jesus...have a day off you nerds.

When your target audience is people who are nitpicks by their very nature, you better do your research

Nerds are not their target audience. It spends its time making them look pathetic. Their target audience are people who laugh at pathetic nerds.

[Tavrobel]

Nerds are not their target audience. It spends its time making them look pathetic. Their target audience are people who laugh at pathetic nerds.

I don't know if you actually watch this show, because it's clear that you don't, I would have to say that these are pretty damn successful nerds. If someone is laughing at them, then chances are, they won't be watching this show for long.

At the very least, these are charming and endearing nerds, and when it comes to taking pleasure in noticing the little things, there's no days off. Do you take a day off from being male?

[Madame Adequate]

Nerds are not their target audience. It spends its time making them look pathetic. Their target audience are people who laugh at pathetic nerds.

We are actually able to laugh at ourselves quite readily tyvm

[Mirage]

If it just wasn't for the laugh track, I might have watched it

[Freya]

Tonight is the season finale!

[Del Murder]

I don't think hardcore nerds who nitpick everything are the core audience of the show. You can't ever please those types, and they don't buy commercial products anyway. I think it's more for casual nerds and people who are sympethetic to casual nerds. For example, my brothers are more hardcore nerd than I am and they don't watch it, but my parents are not nerdy at all and they love it, and they definitely don't care which chemistry formulas are on the board.

This show gets the nerdy thing done more accurately than most mainstream shows do, and that's pretty cool. But it's hard to be perfect, especially in this realm.

[Old Manus]

It's a comedy. Stop picking it apart and just smurfing laugh or turn it off. Jesus...have a day off you nerds.

Big Bang Theory

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Okay I'll stop trolling you lot now