Reasons Why You Should be Watching The Big Bang Theory
for picspammy's 'Reasons why...' challenge
Note: Contains images and quotes up to the latest episode, so if you want to remain spoiler free you've been warned.
The characters
Penny: Why can't all guys be like you?
Leonard: Because if all guys were like me the human race couldn't survive.
Dr. Leonard Hofstadter is a Caltech experimental physicist who shares an apartment with Dr. Sheldon Cooper in a building in Pasadena, California. Despite being a physicist, he's the 'everyman' of the cast who the audience can feel for, especially concerning his crush on neighbor Penny.
Well, at least now you can retrieve the black box from the twisted, smoldering wreckage that was once your fantasy of dating her and analyze the data so you don't crash into Geek Mountain again.
Dr. Sheldon Cooper is Leonard's best friend, roommate, and colleague. A theoretical physicist, Sheldon is deeply oblivious to anything in the world that doesn't directly effect him, can't detect sarcasm, and is annoyingly OCD.
Holy crap on a cracker!
Penny is Leonard and Sheldon's neighbor across the hallway and is a waitress at the local Cheesecake Factory, who moved to California from Omaha, Nebraska with the hopes of becoming an actress. She is the object of Leonard's affections, and is the down-to-earth character that the audience can most relate to.
Leonard: OK, is everyone clear on the plan?
Howard: Yes, Koothrappali's going to wet himself, I'm gonna throw up, Sheldon's gonna run away and you're going to die.
Howard Wolowitz is a Jewish engineer at Caltech's Department of Applied Physics who often hangs out at Leonard's and Sheldon's apartment. He is the only one of the guys who doesn't possess a PhD. and gets made fun of for only holding a Master's degree. He still lives with his mother, who the audience never sees, but they communicate by screaming at each other from different rooms. Howard considers himself a ladies' man, but most would probably label him a perv.
Sheldon: You know, gram for gram no animal exceeds the relative fighting strength of the army ant.
Raj: Maybe so, but you can't incinerate a Bengal tiger with a magnifying glass.
Rajesh Koothrappali is Wolowitz's best friend and yet another genius. He also works in the Physics department at Caltech, where his area of expertise is particle astrophysics. He's originally from India, where he came from a wealthy family (his dad is a gynecologist, as Howard likes to remind him). Raj is so shy around women that he loses the ability to speak around them unless he's drunk. As Penny hangs out with the guys a lot, Raj has to whisper everything he wants to say into Howard's ear, who will then repeat it to the rest.
The guys' outfits.
(Especially Sheldon's.)
The Roseanne reunion.
(both Sara Gilbert and Laurie Metcalf have guest starred. Sara plays Leslie, a fellow physicist, while Laurie plays Sheldon's mom.)
Leslie: Yeah Leslie Winkle. The answer to the question, who made Sheldon Cooper cry like a little girl?
Sheldon: Yes well I am polymerised tree saps and you are an inorganic adhesive so whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off of me, returns on its original trajectory and adheres to you.
Leslie: Oh, ouch.
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Sheldon's Mom [to Raj]: Now I fixed chicken. I hope that's not one of those animals you people think is magic.
The hot guest stars from sci fi shows.
(Michael Trucco from Battlestar Galactica played an experimental physicist who dated Penny and Summer Glau played herself.)
The things they do for fun
Leonard: Do you really need the Honorary Justice League of America Membership card?
Sheldon: It's been in every wallet I owned since I was five.
Leonard: Why?
Sheldon: It says keep this on your person at all times. It's right here under Batman's signature.
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Leonard: Most people don't sort their breakfast cereal numerically by fiber content.
Sheldon: Excuse me, but I think we've both found that helpful at times.
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Penny: How are flower barrettes going to appeal to men?
Howard: We add Bluetooth.
These nerds actually get some action.
Howard: Check out the sexy nurse. I believe it's time for me to turn my head and cough.
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Howard: He doesn't do anything for me. If I were going to go that way, I'm more of a Zac Efron kind of guy.
Raj: Oh yeah, like you have a shot with Zac Efron.
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Sheldon: I would ask you to find some way to suppress your libido.
Penny: I could think about you ...
Sheldon: Whatever works.
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Sheldon: I don't know what your odds are in the world as a whole but as far as the population of this car goes you're a veritable mack daddy.
The geeky references
Sheldon: Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.
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Sheldon: I'm sorry but I'm not going to watch the Clone Wars TV Series until I've seen the Clone Wars movie. I prefer to let George Lucas disappoint me in the order he intended.
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Leonard [looking at the heavy box and the stairs]: Do you have any ideas?
Sheldon: Yes, but they all involve a Green Lantern and a Power Ring.
And if you aren't into all the science-y talk, there's always the eye candy.
Sheldon [to Leonard]: I think that you have as much of a chance of having a sexual relationship with Penny as the Hubble telescope does of discovering at the center of every black hole is a little man with a flashlight searching for a circuit breaker.
The theme song is really catchy.
Click to viewIt's just really freaking funny.
Sheldon thanks you for checking out this picspam, now if you'll excuse him, he has some equations to work out.