Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Save it for your blog, Howard



It's been an odd couple of weeks... quite a few deaths (friends of friends, family of friends, family...) and some changes afoot too. Partly because of that I'm not going to be around here much for the next couple of weeks... but I hope to make contact with you all again before too long. You don't get away that easily.

In the meantime please enjoy some of the first episode of the marvellous comedy series "The Big Bang Theory" (won't embed - go here and today's post title comes in at about 5 minutes 40 seconds... can't believe it started in 2007!). We are watching the show again and introducing it to a new audience. So why is it so good? Because it celebrates intelligence in a world that seems ever stoopider? Possibly. Or does it mock intelligence in a world that is ever brighter? We could debate... though I might not be here to answer much... possibly a good thing...

17 comments:

hope said...

That show is my guilty pleasure. Then again, I've met women like Sheldon's Mama, so it makes way too much sense. :)

Hope your time spent away is for good reasons, not sad. We'll be here when you get back.

Rachel Fox said...

Oh yes, mainly good reasons.

And yes again, Laurie Metcalf is as good as ever in that show!

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Emerging Writer said...

I am recently a convert to Big Bag and like many a born again, obsessive.

Emerging Writer said...

OK that would be Big Bang! Not Big Bag although I have/am one of those. Have a look at my Ignite Poetry meets Science talk and spot the Big Bang Theory slide!

Rachel Fox said...

Big Bag Theory sounds a bit Sex in the City... or something. That show I only watched once. Tiresome business.

I am particularly liking Big Bang now it has more a range of female characters too. I think Amy is my favourite of all now... though I kind of love them all. Is it "Friends" for people who think they are clever, do you think? So what if it is... still like it.

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Selma said...

Sorry to hear about the deaths of loved ones. Hope the changes afoot aren't too stressful. Look after yourself xx

Rachel Fox said...

No, nothing as stressful as your recent times, Selma!
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Rachel Fenton said...

Was Amy in Charmed? And was that Darlene's boyfriend once upon a time in Roseanne?

I'd not seen this before - not having telly will do that - but glad I saw this bit and a few other bits on youtube - needed the laugh too.

I'm sorry you've had so much bereavement of late. Life's more or less full of it, until it isn't, but most people know how hard it is to lose people and share the understanding of the sadness and or associated things if not the sadness itself.

Hope the break brings you what you need xx


Rachel Fox said...

Mayim Bialik (Amy) was best known for "Blossom" before this really. She has a PhD in neuroscience so is the only real scientist in the cast (I think).

Johnny Galecki (Leonard) was in "Roseanne" yes. Darlene herself (Sara Gilbert) is in BBT too now and again as the marvellous Leslie Winkle.

You really should watch it all. Proper funny.

The bereavement lately has mainly been others' bereavement (not really mine) and yet still it has its effect. On the one hand you tell yourself to get on and enjoy your life while you have it... on the other you think "oh my goodness, it really will all end..." And you gulp.

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Rachel Fenton said...

I loved Blossom - no, I meant the girl in this clip - she was from Charmed - the last season (my girl watched the whole set). I will watch it.


‘I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of
life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.’

Be Thoreau xx

Rachel Fenton said...

Your profile pic's beautiful, btw.

Rachel Fox said...

I've never watched "Charmed" but according to IMDb Kaley Cuoco (Penny in BBT) was in it as Billie Jenkins.

You mean the feet pic?

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Rachel Fenton said...

Billie, yes, that's the one! - You're like the celeb FBI on google...


The gone with the wind pic, not the trotters.....oh, yer beautiful trotter prints though.....

Rachel Fox said...

Ah, that pic. That was in July, up on a local hill.
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Dominic Rivron said...

I ought to watch BB Theory I suspect I'd like it. Have been rewatching repeats of Hamish Macbeth, which I think was a wonderful series of its kind.

Rachel Fox said...

Never watched that one.
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