Roush on Big Bang Theory, Jim Parsons and Simon Helberg
Question: I was totally prepared to hate
The Big Bang Theory, so I was surprised at how much I like it. It is one of the few new sitcoms that I find really funny, and sometimes it actually makes me laugh out loud. What do you think of it? How is it doing?
— Kevin D.
Matt Roush: I'm enjoying it more and more as the season goes on, and the good news is that it already has a full-season pickup, so there's no reason to worry about its immediate future. It's awfully endearing;
Jim Parsons is a deadpan hoot as Sheldon, and when the entire geek squad is assembled (including scene-stealer
Simon Helberg as Wolowitz), it's a riot. My favorite episode to date: when
Sara Gilbert's fellow-scientist character used Leonard (
Johnny Galecki, her former
Roseanne costar) for sex, while Sheldon fretted outside the bedroom door with the tie on the doorknob. The scenes in that episode at the Cheesecake Factory, where Sheldon found a new home for his obsessive-compulsive behavior (to the chagrin of Penny the neighbor/waitress), had me laughing out loud.
