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The Big Bang Theory - Complete Season 1-5 [Blu-ray][Region Free]

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100 episodes for 30 quid is an absolute bargain.
I'm over 70 and apparently TBBT is aimed at the 18 - 45 age group. Super cast, super scripts, super all round.
Many Amercan comedy shows usually have a goodly deal of cloying shmaltz in them (Friends...etc. - ugh!) but not TBBT.
It has to be said though that a modicum of geekness my be required to take full enjoyment from this show.
Knock knock knock...Penny? Knock knock knock...Penny? Knock knock knock...Penny? Wonderful.

Some time ago didn't like watching Big Bang but this year really got into them and enjoyed all. Only problem was that on E4 they muddled the seasons. I couldn't keep track of Leonard and Penny's relationship or Howard s so bought the box set to find out where they were before season 6.

Have really enjoyed all the episodes and am about the watch the special features to see the mistakes.

Enjoy

Right, The Big Bang Theory consists of five really good season of Television Comedy. It started out about a set of "geeks and nerds" who struggle to fit in with the conventional way of life, resulting in the group being placed in outstandingly funny social situations and because of this the first 2/3 seasons of this show are extremely good, the characters and the writing for the characters is world class. However where this show really excelled was in the acting ability of its lea,. Jim Parsons' portrayal of Sheldon Cooper is nothing short of outstanding, possibly one of the greatest performances in a Sitcom ever.
Why did I only mention the first 2/3 seasons as being this good? well the truth is the show does decline ever so slightly in the later seasons. This is due to a few different reasons, namely the addition of characters like Amy, Bernadette, Priya and a subsequent shift in focus from Science, Sci Fi and Comic Books to the social development of the main characters. I must maintain that although the show does decline it is still very very VERY good. The show needed the change in direction to keep it fresh and up to date and I think it works, I know some people will inevitably disagree (while I write this no other reviews have been posted)
Through all of the changes the one extraordinary constant is the exceptional acting of Parsons, which ensures that the show is top drawer and well worth buying and watching over and over again.

A friend of mine had the first three seasons on dvd and gave them to me to watch at my leisure. I fell in love the programme; i laughed out loud all the time. The writing is brillant and the cast members are fantastic, each suited to their role especially Jim Parsons. After finishing the third season i had to get the rest and decided to purchase season 1-5 as i knew that i would watch them time and again. I would defintley recommend this series to anyone who enjoys good comedy.

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

Currently into its sixth season, The Big Bang Theory proved to be one of the most funny TV sitcoms ever aired. Even if the show seems to have slowed down form its initial explosive impetus, I had not laughed out loud this hard ever since the best days of Frasier and Seinfeld - and Big Bang Theory 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.

His equally super-intelligent (yet sexually confused at times girlfriend), Amy Farrah Fowler, received a far more enlarged role since the fifth season. However, she was not a very good addition and she unbalances the show. Her character only manages to blur the focus form Sheldon (there is only room for one idiosyncratic genius!), diffuse a number of comically charged situations and gum up the show's flow.

Leonard Hofstadter is Sheldon's roommate and primary ...keeper. An experimental physicist himself (who Sheldon tries to "help" by steering him towards a teaching career), he juggles Sheldon's idiosyncrasies with his personal neurosis - not to mention his crush on his neighbor Penny. Which crush, like lunar eclipses, follow a predicted yet unavoidable periodicity.

Leonard tried his hand in a long-distance relationship with his friend Raj's sister, Priya, but he seems to be gravitating back towards Penny once more.

Howard Wolowitz is the only one with no PhD (and Sheldon will never let him forget it). An engineer (whose crowning achievements were a mechanized arm that is used in the space shuttle and a liquid waste management solution), he also managed to wreck the Mars Rover in hopes of landing a girl (but he made sure no one can prove anything).

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.

Howard used to be the show-stealer. Whenever he entered the scene you just knew he would offer such an outrageous perceptive that would render you speechless. Now, if only Howard's character was allowed to continue in its stellar trajectory. He has been weighted down by his fiancée, Bernadette, who is very likeable, but also is cramping his style. Not to mention that she, slowly yet inescapably, is turning into his scary mother.

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 takes the "metrosexual" lifestyle a little too literal for his own good and he keeps using the "poor Indian" defense even if his father is a rich doctor who drives a Bentley. His character, even in the current sixth season, remains underdeveloped.

Then there is 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 (Sheldon has in fact calculated the exact number of them, extrapolated from a bell-curve that started at 14)- and, obviously, from her neighbors.

The show unavoidably makes use of previous sitcom combinations (the odd couple, the unfulfilled love-interest mismatch, the fish-out-of-the-water) 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!

Fed up with having the repeats broken up by adverts - then get this great value DVD. I was a bit hesitant as I thought it might get repititions, but not so far.

bought this as a gift for my sister as she loves TBBT. I never really watched it on TV. Borrowed dvds for a while and now I love TBBT myself =) The season 1 and 2 are together in one case. It makes it easier to store dvds. Dont need to go through many cases before you find the dvd you want to watch.

One of my all time favourite shows!! i was blown away by how cheap this was i could not resist buying it immediately & i suggest any fans of this show snap this up quick it's a bargain. as shown in the pics the discs come in a box to keep them altogether no special case inside or anything like that.

I've just started re-watching it again enjoying the bluray quality & i have forgotten just how damn good this show is especially the early days even though i still absolutely love this show now the earlier seasons are much better which is not a knock on the new seasons though as i say it's still awesome but this lets you relive those original seasons & there's some special features there i'm working my way through from which i learnt some cool little bits of info about the show watching the interview from the 2 creators. i'm part way into the 2nd season now looking forward to the rest of the extra on the other discs.

When I first saw the outline of this show I thought "this is never going to work: 4 professors hanging out, how are they ever going to find enough material?", how wrong I was, this is still a funny, and interesting show from it's conception 6 years ago.

The show revolves around the 4 lead characters, Sheldon, a real stickler - who is obsessed with Star Trek, physics and cleanliness. He's got a flat mate, Leonard, who's a bit more chilled out, but still he's really into computer games, comics and collecting cards. They all go to university, where they work, and have good friends in Howard, a bit of an imaginary ladies man, and Raj, he cannot speak in front of women. The show all starts with the lads meeting their new neighbour, sweet Penny from Nebraska who's just trying to get ahead in her acting career.

Some of the best moments come from ignorance - like Sheldon not understanding irony, Penny not understanding geek culture, and Raj just saying odd things. There's also Howard's mother who's a hoot, and Cripkey and the comic book store owner.

We see them go through all sorts of situations, from a break-in to meeting Stan Lee. The show is just so versatile it's just amusing to see them go through the different situations 4 geeks would dare to venture into.

As I said, this is a great show, nicely presented here. Sadly some of the earlier DVDs are highly compressed barely making the 4GB mark. This does show some sort of degradation, which I would have hoped would not be around on these box sets. I was going to get the Blu-Ray release but wanted the portability of the DVD versions so I could watch them where ever I wanted rather than being tied to the PS3. The audio is pretty good and in some cases comes in English, French and Spanish. There is no audio description which is a shame as it was on the E4 broadcasts. There are subtitles in the for-mentioned languages - just surprised it wasn't subbed in Klingon for a joke!

There are 16 disks in total, in two folders, which are well held together. Thankfully the packaging protects the disks well here. The box is about the size of 4 or 5 DVD cases side by side, so if you do order this make sure you're in for delivery as it will not go through the front door letterbox.

Well worth getting - either for yourself or a mate who loves this show, it is well presented, fun and will keep you watching time and time again.

This won't be a full review, other's more qualified have done an excellent job already. But--as A recent purchaser of the 5 series box set, Amazon have invited me to say what I think. Although I was aware of it ( and the themesong),I was a very latecomer to this series, having discovered it on late night C4 repeats. This is U.S TV comedy at it's very best, consistantly sharp whitty dialogue, beautifully delivered by an excellent and well chosen ensemble of experienced actors. It must be the devil of a job to find an original comedy theme today, that works so well and presents so many facets of human interaction, in such a confined scenario. They have extended this, as all long running series do, ie. adding charactors and using occasional outside filming, to broaden the potential story lines. I cannot finish without mentioning the truly wonderful performance of Jim Parsons, who plays the very original charactor of Sheldon Cooper, because clearly,( all awards totally justified), when the writer's conceived of the idea of a bunch of techno super-nerds, who at the same time have zero social awareness skills, and living in close proximity to each other-they MUST have had 'Sheldon' in mind as the main cornerstone of their creation, and the rest were built around him. In short, I don't think the series could have survived without him, he is too key a charactor, despite the brilliance of the other ingredients. Highly reccomended. P G Croft.