The Big Bang Theory - Season 3 [DVD]

In the cult tradition of SPARTACUS, the halls of every science department now echoes: "I AM SHELDON"!

Well into its third season, THE BIG BANG THEORY proved to be one of the most funny TV sitcoms ever aired. I had not laughed out loud this hard ever since the best days of FRASIER and SEINFELD - and BIG BANG is consistently brilliant!

Sheldon Cooper is unavoidably the king of the show - the massive black hole this Universe revolves around if you will. A child prodigy, now a 24 years old theoretical physicist PhD with absolutely no social skills or known sexual drive. Sheldon may be on the verge of unifying the fields but cannot drive a car to save his life or break a smile even remotely resembling that of a mere homo sapiens.
Best SEASON 3 moment (a very hard choice to make): attempting to condition Penny using positive reinforcement (chocolates) - but was also open to "mild electric-shocks with almost imperceptible tissue damage" to have her ready by dinner-time.

Leonard Hofstadter is Sheldon's roommate and primary ...keeper. An experimental physicist himself, he juggles Sheldon's idiosyncrasies with his personal neurosis - not to mention his crush on his neighbor Penny.
Best SEASON 3 moment: getting high on hash-cookies while on an asteroid-gazing camp-trip and rambling that he 'd rather have a different name as Leonard sounds like having "nerd" in it.

Howard Wolowitz is the only one with no PhD yet (and Sheldon never lets him forget it). An electrical engineer whose crowning achievement is a mechanized arm that is used in the space shuttle (and is now working on its liquid waste management solutions). The fact that he is a short man with a severely outdated and misguided sense of fashion, still lives with his mother, insists on using a collection of pickup lines straight from men's magazines advice columns - and yet carries himself as God's gift to women is just hilarious.
Best SEASON 3 moment: turning into Gothowitz by use of fake tattoo-sleeves to pick up "easy morbid Goth girls".

Rajesh Koothrappali is a particle astrophysicist with a fashion sense close to absolute zero and a severe case of shyness - to the point that he cannot speak in front of women unless inebriated. He keeps using the "poor Indian" defense although his father is a rich doctor who drives a Bentley.
Best SEASON 3 moment: wearing a T-shirt with a small speaker and a large selection of sound-effects, he uses it brilliantly to dramatize his answers. HOWARD: "But Sheldon, you ARE guilty". RAJEH: "[playing the Law & Order Doom-DOOM]!"

Finally, Penny. She is the proverbial good girl next door who came to California with stardom aspirations but so far works as waitress and suffers a sequence of bad boyfriends - and from her neighbors.
Best SEASON 3 moment: waiting at the hospital with Sheldon taking her medical history. "Migraines?" "Well, I'm getting one now!"

The show unavoidably makes use of previous sitcom combinations (the odd couple, the unfulfilled love-interest mismatch) but even if one manages to discern them they are used in such a fresh manner that all that is left is great entertainment!

The way to truly enjoy this is to own it on DVD. The writing is so smart and the jokes fly so fast (many of them non-verbal) there is just no way to savor it during its weekly air time. Well, may be Sheldon could but then again, who can compare his intellect with his?

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

I remember when this first came on channel 4. When the first episode aired on TV i watched it for about 15 minutes, decided that i didnt like it and switched it off......how stupid was I? Nearly 4 years later and after reading loads of reviews on amazon and the fact that the show was still going strong i thought i'd make a leap of faith and buy the full season 1-3 boxset. I'm so glad that i did as i absolutely love it!

Being a bit of a geek myself the jokes are so funny and things that have happened in the show remind me of my own life in places (spending hours in comic book shops)

My fave character is Howard out of all them. Sheldon can be an annoying character in places but his lack of social interaction skills are funny to watch.

I would recommend this programme to anyone. In a way I'm glad waited to get into it as i can just watch one after another on the DVDs without having to wait a week.

When it comes to annually churning out 26 episodes of quality sitcom, the Americans have got it sorted. However, for ever `Big Bang Theory' there are 10 turgid identikit comedies. For all intents and purposes `Big Bang' follows the exact same formula as the likes of `Friends' or `Cheers' before it. The same sets and characters every episode and no one moves on much in life, if at all. However, when you are in the company of the likes of Sheldon et al, this ceases to be an issue.

Season 3 starts of where Season 2 ended and does not really develop much as it progresses, events do occur to the characters, but it does not really effect the dynamic of the show. Each episode is a self contained nugget that sees one or more of the boffins tackle an issue. As before the relationship between Sheldon and Penny is probably the best in the show as they are polar opposites. Leonard and Raj are much the same, but Wolowitz is developing as the show progresses into a more sympathetic and funnier character.

Big Bang Theory Season 3 is full of brilliant one liners and hilarious set ups for the characters to become embroiled in. It is a show that is best watched by people who are themselves a little nerdy as they will spot far more of the in jokes and see some of themselves. The writing is hilarious and all the actors have a great sense of timing, on more than one occasion I found myself laughing far too loudly.

The extras in the disc are a little light, but worth watching for fans of the show. The Q&A session with the cast highlights the limited development in their characters, but at least they all seem like nice people. The guided tour of the set is probably the best bonus as actors Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar are very funny chaps. For fans of the show this is more of the same, for new comers Season 3 is still good watching.

Sammy Recommendation