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The Big Bang Theory: season 3, episode 8
"The Adhesive Duck Deficiency"
November 17, 2009 - 01:11a.m.
"The Adhesive Duck Deficiency" has everything I love about The Big Bang Theory and everything I find enervating about it so close to each other that it almost serves as a perfect object lesson about what makes individual episodes of ...
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The Big Bang Theory: season 3, episode 7
“The Guitarist Amplification”
November 9, 2009 - 10:11p.m.
I’m stepping in for a vacationing Todd tonight, revisiting my old Big Bang Theory stomping grounds. Even though I stopped being the point-man for BBT coverage during the off-season—largely because I felt like I’d said about all ...
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The Big Bang Theory: season 3, episode 6
"The Cornhusker Vortex"
November 3, 2009 - 01:11a.m.
“The Cornhusker Vortex” isn’t a bad episode, but I’m not convinced it hangs together story-wise, like the best Big Bang Theory episodes do. It’s a collection of very funny scenes, but most of them don’t really ...
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The Big Bang Theory: season 3, episode 5
"The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary"
October 20, 2009 - 01:10a.m.
The perils of being a TV critic on the West Coast are many, but chief among them is the fact that by the time you see something, virtually everyone else in the country also has. This usually means that some ...
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The Big Bang Theory: season 3, episode 4
"The Pirate Solution"
October 13, 2009 - 02:10a.m.
Let’s talk comic timing. One of the things I’ve never quite liked about The Big Bang Theory is the way that Raj’s inability to talk to women feels like a plot device from a comic book the ...
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The Big Bang Theory: season 3, episode 3
"The Gothowitz Deviation"
October 6, 2009 - 01:10a.m.
When Leonard and Penny decided to finally embark on a relationship (or, more accurately, when The Big Bang Theory’s writers decided it was finally time to give the characters something non-Sheldon related to do), no matter how the storyline ...
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The Big Bang Theory: season 3, episode 2
"The Jiminy Conjecture"
September 29, 2009 - 12:09a.m.
Most of my favorite comedies use language in some inventive and interesting way. Think about 30 Rock’s flights of verbal fancy (and how the show hilariously undercuts them with lines like "I want to go to there") or the ...
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The Big Bang Theory: season 3, episode 1
"The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation"
September 22, 2009 - 12:09a.m.
The best traditional sitcoms are based around predictability and inevitability. Since all humor contains an element of the unpredictable to it, this sounds like it shouldn’t work, but it does. When you’re doing a continuing comedy series with ...
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The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 23
“The Monopolar Expedition”
May 11, 2009 - 09:05p.m.
It’s oddly fitting that Sheldon spent much of The Big Bang Theory’s second season finale playing “pranks”—Bazinga!—because in premise alone, “The Monopolar Expedition” promised to be the wackiest BBT episode to date. There are few plots ...
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The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 22
“The Classified Materials Turbulence”
May 4, 2009 - 08:05p.m.
Since I’m a clever critic-type whose job description requires me to find connections where none really exist, I’d like to talk about how the two halves of tonight’s Big Bang Theory fit neatly together. One half was ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 21
“The Vegas Renormalization”
April 27, 2009 - 08:04p.m.
Leonard, defining friends-with-benefits: “Imagine you maintained a friendship with someone you had sex with, but you were free to date whoever you wanted.”
Sheldon: “I’m sorry, I can’t imagine any of that.”
Exactly, Sheldon. That’s as it ...
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The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 20
“The Hofstadter Isotope”
April 13, 2009 - 09:04p.m.
Any lingering doubts over whether the creators of The Big Bang Theory are mocking their nerd characters or sharing their pain should’ve been quelled by “The Hofstadter Isotope,” which may have been the most deliriously geek-friendly-reference-filled episode in the ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 19
“The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition”
March 30, 2009 - 08:03p.m.
I am, by and large, an agreeable chap—friendly, polite and non-confrontational—but like Sheldon, I get a little anxious around new people. I work at home, and venture out only for small errands and lunch, the latter of which ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 18
“The Work Song Nanocluster”
March 16, 2009 - 08:03a.m.
Though nowhere near as inspired as last week’s episode, this week’s BBT got in a good comic groove early and stayed there, really only faltering due to a couple of dopey plot twists and one fairly repellant (to ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 17
“The Terminator Decoupling”
March 9, 2009 - 03:03p.m.
I’ve been thinking off and on this BBT season about Kaley Cuoco’s performance as Penny. She’s an actress playing an actress, which wouldn’t seem to be all that difficult to do—especially since we’ve hardly ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 16
“The Cushion Saturation”
March 2, 2009 - 02:03a.m.
So far during the run of The Big Bang Theory, our favorite geek quartet have taken part in robot wars and renaissance festivals, in between obsessing over comic books, computers, Halo and Star Trek, and this week we saw them ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 15
“The Maternal Capacitance”
February 9, 2009 - 04:02p.m.
Tonight’s BBT was as frustrating as it was funny... and it was fairly funny. I accept a certain amount of broadness in this show, because I feel like the particular mix of characters keeps that broadness in check, to ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 14
“The Financial Permeability”
February 2, 2009 - 02:02p.m.
After the disruptions of the holidays, awards season and business trips, I’m about to settle into about a four-month stretch where I don’t have to go anywhere or do anything outside my normal homebody routine. I’m finally ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 13
"The Friendship Algorithm"
January 19, 2009 - 01:01p.m.
While Noel is in Sundance, I'll be honest, it gets a little lonely around here. Tonight I started a fire, poured a glass of something I can't drink while the grandparents are around (hey, Mom and Dad! hope ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 12
“The Killer Robot Instability”
January 12, 2009 - 02:01p.m.
Ah… TV is back. Sweet, sweet TV. As much as I appreciated the time to catch up with relatives, watch my kids open presents, bake cookies and soak up hours upon hours of football--without having to carve out an hour ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 11
"The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis"
December 15, 2008 - 08:12p.m.
Noel is at O'Hare right now, waiting to find out whether the midwest ice storm will be conducive to air travel. So I'll be your pithy BBT host tonight. (Pithy because I have to write about HIMYM immediately ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 10
"The Vartabedian Conundrum"
December 8, 2008 - 08:12p.m.
Got to keep tonight's entry short, because it's the thick of best-of/worst-of season, and I think like I've got about three dozen 100-word "why this sucked" / "why this rocked" blurbs to write over the next four ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 9
"The White Asparagus Triangulation"
November 24, 2008 - 09:11p.m.
Hello. What is shaking? Do you find the weather satisfying? Are you currently sharing the triumph of some local sports team?
Pardon my casual tone. Just desiring to converse with you about tonight's Big Bang Theory. Generally speaking, I ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 8
"The Lizard-Spock Expansion"
November 17, 2008 - 08:11p.m.
I realize that there are people out there who will never like The Big Bang Theory, and I understand why. Not everybody has the same sense of humor, and not everybody is willing to overlook the hoarier elements of the ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 7
"The Panty Piñata Polarization"
November 10, 2008 - 08:11p.m.
Hey, Penny's back! After spending the last couple of episodes mostly on the sidelines, the character who used to be one of the main drivers for the action on The Big Bang Theory gets her own A-story again–although ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 6
"The Cooper-Nowitzki Theroem"
November 3, 2008 - 08:11p.m.
Tonight's Big Bang Theory attempted to answer a question that's been weighing on fans' minds for well over a year now: "What's Sheldon's deal?" Not in the "What part of the autistic spectrum does he fall ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 5
"The Euclid Alternative"
October 20, 2008 - 08:10p.m.
I have to keep tonight's entry short, because I'm on HIMYM duty as well…
I thought this week was much better than last week, though when the episode began, I had my doubts. We start with Sheldon stymied ... -
The Big Bang Theory: season 2, episode 4
"The Griffin Equivalency"
October 13, 2008 - 09:10p.m.
So why a Big Bang Theory blog?
Mainly we decided to add BBT to our Monday TV Club lineup because each week's How I Met Your Mother blog was becoming a de facto home for Big Bang Theory chat ...
