I’m always a bit behind the times when it comes to keeping up with great new TV shows. Ususally this is beyond my control seeing that the networks Down Under seem keen to keep us many many steps behind our cousins in the northern hemisphere. It’s probably also due to the fact that I don’t read trashy tabloid magazines and tend not to watch commerical TV anyway so am rarely exposed to trailers encouraging us to watch new things that are coming up….. I think I’ve been scarred by the whole Big Brother thing. I saw what it did to Big Sal and have decided commercial TV just isn’t for me.
Over the last week or so I’ve been watching The Big Bang Theory and while I am unfashionably late to the party I am certainly glad I turned up! I haven’t seen anything this piss funny in years. Amongst my general acquaintance I don’t think ‘great sense of humour’ would immediately come up in the top five if you asked them to describe me. I think I have a keen sense of humour… it just tends towards the absurd, sarcastic, witty, sometimes dark and off kilter. I’m definitely more Absolute Power and Californication than Mighty Boosh or (urgh!) Kath & Kim if you know what I mean.
So if by any chance anyone is even further behind the times than I am… The Big Bang Theory is one of the first shows in ages that is really tickling my fancy. Watch it. Tis good.
Oh and apparently the intro theme song has an extended version out there somewhere…
The Bing Bang Theory Theme Song – Bare Naked Ladies
Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait…
The Earth began to cool,
The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries,
That all started with the big bang!
"Since the dawn of man" is really not that long,
As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song.
A fraction of a second and the elements were made.
The bipeds stood up straight,
The dinosaurs all met their fate,
They tried to leap but they were late
And they all died (they froze their asses off)
The oceans and pangea
See ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya
Set in motion by the same big bang!
It all started with the big BANG!
It’s expanding ever outward but one day
It will cause the stars to go the other way,
Collapsing ever inward, we won’t be here, it wont be hurt
Our best and brightest figure that it’ll make an even bigger bang!
Australopithecus would really have been sick of us
Debating out while here they’re catching deer (we’re catching viruses)
Religion or astronomy, Encarta, Deuteronomy
It all started with the big bang!
Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology
It all started with the big bang!
It all started with the big BANG!
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