Big Smart Bang Chick

[delphipsmith]

I'm not sure I've ranted about my love for The Big Bang Theory in this venue, so let me take a moment to say how very cool I think this show is and how much I love it. (In so very many ways, I am Dr. Sheldon Cooper.) That none of the jokes are bathroom humor (the occasional mention of Leonard's lactose intolerance aside) would alone elevate it above 90% of the sitcoms out there. Add to that the fact that the science is accurate, that it makes geeks look fun and cool, that (yes!) there are smart science-y CHICKS on it, and that the discussion topics and jokes (Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Battlestar Galactica, arcade games, etc.) are terrifyingly similar to those that I and my nerd friends have always loved, and you have a recipe for fabulous that has rarely been equaled. And the minute the local pub dumps trivia night for counter-factual night, I am SO there.

But today I found out something that elevates it to the truly amazing. Mayim Bialik, she of Blossom, who plays Dr. Sheldon Cooper's girl-slash-friend Amy Farrah Fowler, actually really truly in real life has a PhD in neuroscience.

Wow.

How freaking cool is that???

Comments

[ladyoneill.livejournal.com]

I usually avoid sitcoms so I, too, was late coming into it. About two years ago I was flipping channels and started watching about ten minutes into an episode and was hooked. I watch them in repeats, I watch them live, I have about fifty eps on my computer. If the four guys were girls, we would have been those girls in high school (at least where the geeky/fandom stuff was involved). *g*

I'm still dying over the basketball competition last night.

[delphipsmith]

Hahahahaaaa! Yes, last night was a riot. I hated gym and PE and every other incarnation of remotely sports-related crap at school, so I both laughed till I cried and totally sympathized at the same time.