Another small nit-pick with how the show shapes up on DVD is that fact that the episodes all have witty titles that are hard to discern from one another. Without taking out the DVD's companion booklet to read the descriptions it's hard to recall what happens in "The Hamburger Postulate" or "The Pork Chop Indeterminacy" as these and other episodes all refer to a seemingly insignificant and often unmemorable moment within each to derive their names. I get what the writers are going for, but it really makes me nostalgic for the Seinfeld ("The Contest") and Friends ("The One with...") manner of naming episodes.
The one bonus feature on this DVD set is called "Quantum Mechanics of The Big Bang Theory: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Geek Chic." It's the typical fluff interview with the series creators where they praise the cast and talk about how the idea for show first came up. The brief interviews with the cast members (all in their outfits from the Pilot episode, so it's obvious that this was filmed alongside their first episode) are mainly more fluff with the actors describing briefly their own characters, intercut with clips from the show. However, the candid words of Parsons and Nayyar describing their typecasting in comedic roles and the fact that Parsons in particular sounds like he's hesitantly given up on being allowed to do anything else is kind of sad and makes me wonder why the editors chose these snippets of their interviews to feature on this DVD.
For a sitcom with a laugh track, The Big Bang Theory, like the I.Q.s of the characters it portrays, is decidedly above average. It doesn't quite reach the stars, but it provides a significant quotient of laughs in a light and familiar sitcom framework. In layman's terms, it's definitely worth checking out for those TV viewers looking for something funny that's different but not too different and smart but not too smart.
Article comments
1 - Big Bang Fanatic
Great review. Readers can get more details on the DVD here.
2 - Ibrahim Itambo
quite a good review. keep it up !!