More Firefly Shout-Outs on Big Bang Theory by Kwicko

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More Firefly Shout-Outs on Big Bang Theory

POSTED BY: KWICKO
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 03:58
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Monday, May 17, 2010 4:20 PM

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Someone at The Big Bang Theory must really love Firefly. Or they just know us geeks. Tonight's episode had a great exchange between Sheldon and Leonard. It was a flashback episode, showing how they became roommates, and Sheldon had Leonard signing an extensive "roommate agreement". Anyway, one scene had Sheldon telling Leonard, "So, we're agreed that Friday nights are reserved for Joss Whedon's brilliant new science-fiction show, Firefly." Sheldon agrees, but says he doesn't see why it has to be written down, to which Sheldon says that they might as well have it in writing, since it's obviously going to be on for years.

It was funny, but made me a little bit sad, too. It *should* have been on for years.

Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

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Monday, May 17, 2010 4:22 PM

EVILDINOSAUR

yes, that was awesome

"Haha, mine is an evil laugh."

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010 3:06 AM

BIGRICHARD

YES! I had the same response!
Burst out laughing only to go "he's right though, how depressing..."

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010 10:52 AM

CLJOHNSTON108

Just watching the episode now, and had to pause it and come here as soon as I heard that!! Squeeeee!!

EDIT: Okay, finished the episode now... What's with the Babylon 5 hate?! Sure, the dialogue wasn't the greatest, but the epic story was!

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"Spry for a dead fella!"

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010 12:30 PM

KWICKO

Oh, come on, CLJ - He's Sheldon; he probably thinks the science in B5 is too weak! (And he's right about the dialog)

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010 1:30 PM

CLJOHNSTON108

Well, the physics were better than any other SF show before it...

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010 1:33 PM

KWICKO

Well, except for that whole "sound in space" part...

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010 1:41 PM

TRAVELER

I think the sound in space will come and go. Some directors like it while there are those who follow reality. I was a big "Babylon 5" fan.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010 1:49 PM

KWICKO

I've tried to get into B5, and I *want* to like it, but I haven't been able to yet. Don't know why; it just isn't there for me.

The sound in space thing definitely DOES tend to add to the drama - think how boring Star Wars would be if you didn't have those bad-ass sounding evil TIE fighter sounds! But it's not good science, still. Only movie I can think of where they really went for the pure science in the science parts was 2001, though, and some people found it just insanely boring...

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010 1:59 PM

TRAVELER

With so many films having sound it just seems natural. I guess it goes back before anyone in Hollywood even realised there was no sound in space. No Nasa to ask, "Hey what's it like up there?" I still get a kick out of the Buster Crabbe "Flash Gordon" series and how poor their science was.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5:57 AM

PUMAMANREDUX

The Firefly reference was very funny

Add to that, Sheldon's masterful handling of the smoking rocket fuel, which led to the explanation as to why the elevator was out of order.

I'd be amazed to know how in the real world how anyone could cover up such an accident. I know it is just a tv show and you need to suspend disbelief,but you wonder how the landlord, and all many of state, federal and local authorities could have been bamboozled. Its just a sit com so I'll just relax and let it go ....

oh, here is the firefly reference sequence

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010 6:01 AM

KWICKO

Yeah, I loved the rocket fuel bit. When Leonard ran out into the hall with it, I started laughing, because I realized THAT was why the elevator has never worked!

For a silly sitcom that I thought would be terrible, I have to admit this show is very much funnier than I ever thought it could be. And Sheldon pretty much makes the show. BAZINGA!

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Thursday, May 20, 2010 1:13 PM

SIMONWHO

Quote:
Originally posted by cljohnston108:
Just watching the episode now, and had to pause it and come here as soon as I heard that!! Squeeeee!!

EDIT: Okay, finished the episode now... What's with the Babylon 5 hate?!

Sheldon sums it up thusly: "It fails as drama, science fiction, and it's hopelessly derivative." But hey, the others like it.

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Friday, May 21, 2010 11:12 PM

MANGOLO

Quote:
Originally posted by traveler:
With so many films having sound it just seems natural. I guess it goes back before anyone in Hollywood even realised there was no sound in space. No Nasa to ask, "Hey what's it like up there?" I still get a kick out of the Buster Crabbe "Flash Gordon" series and how poor their science was.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

When I went to my first pre-mix meeting at Skywalker, my sound engineer asked me what I was going for as far the the sound of spaceships. I responded that I'm going for the 'no sound in space thing'. He looked so disappointed I almost wanted to change my idea! The guy has been nominated for a Oscar twice for sound design and I'm disappointing him :(

http://www.facebook.com/pages/strange-frame/182133437902

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Saturday, May 22, 2010 1:13 AM

SHINYGOODGUY

I'm not sure if they use audience-in-a-can but the "audience reaction" was great.

Thanks for posting that bit. Lately I've had no luck in watching. Too, I don't have a DVR.

I'm going to rent it, or buy it, once it's released on DVD. Gotta say Sheldon does make the show fun. But, to me, the ensemble cast are great together, plus Kaley Cuoco is easy on the eyes. One of the few shows I watch in CBS.

SGG

Tawabawho?

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Saturday, May 22, 2010 11:19 AM

TRAVELER

You may try what they did in "Forbidden Planet". They played electronic music as the ship went by. Actually they went that way through the whole film. But it kept the period with the ship going through space from being dead air with actually having a ship making any rocket noise.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Saturday, May 22, 2010 12:36 PM

MANGOLO

Quote:
Originally posted by traveler:
You may try what they did in "Forbidden Planet". They played electronic music as the ship went by. Actually they went that way through the whole film. But it kept the period with the ship going through space from being dead air with actually having a ship making any rocket noise.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

We're on the same page as you. No silence for the space scenes. We're using some major rocking music.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/strange-frame/182133437902

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010 3:58 AM

KRELLEK

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
I've tried to get into B5, and I *want* to like it, but I haven't been able to yet. Don't know why; it just isn't there for me.

The sound in space thing definitely DOES tend to add to the drama - think how boring Star Wars would be if you didn't have those bad-ass sounding evil TIE fighter sounds! But it's not good science, still. Only movie I can think of where they really went for the pure science in the science parts was 2001, though, and some people found it just insanely boring...

in one of the young Jedi series-books, Jacen continously tries to make another young, very serious female Jedi trainee laugh by telling her jokes, one in particular regards the TIE-fighters "screaming" both out in space and the possible more scientific sound in planetary atmospheres.

it it something like this, Jacen to Tenel Ka(the other trainee): why does TIE´s emit that particular sound? and she is about to answers with the propper explaination because she thinks he wants to know, before he says it is because they miss there mothership, as the point of the Joke, and she just roles her eyes at him :-)

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