I'm alive. We're live. Hey everyone and welcome to the Nerdy of North Vodkas. It's a Nerdy Vodkas and it's hosted by Northern nerds.
I am on your host Sam. Now I'm the host Paul and we are joined by the ultimate nerd, the king of the nerds, the nerd maniac that is Captain Michael Goodwill. God gosh. And that's probably the nicest intro I've ever given anyone.
So feel worthy there, sir. I read Goodwill. Honors. Oh, my new year's resolution is to be nice to the Goodwill.
I think last year I was a bit of a dick. I'm so happy. I'm sleeping. Hi everyone.
Hello. Hello. So yes, this is officially because I know we did a new year's special on the first, but this is kicking off the new year with a big bang. Ah, a hang.
Yeah, so this was my wonderful co-hosts idea to do. She's been wanting to do a big bang episode. I don't know if she does neglect episode. I was like saying big bang.
So yes, we are going to be talking about not reviewing but just talking about the big bang theory, which I think of this show as a new short, but it's not. That's really not. It's not at all. It's not at all.
But before we get into all that, the big question of the day is. I thought I thought we were from it. You can never get away from it. So how is being?
How is you? You've been watching? You've been watching. I'm not too bad.
Just being like, I've been catching up on stuff more than anything else because I've been a nerd and been obsessed with anything. You kind of miss out on certain things and put things on the back burner. But call up on Nardos on the upload Escobar story, which I can say, when I first saw an advertisement, I was like, ah, it seems interesting. I wasn't really talking about the first episode.
And I've not watched the show quite like it before because it's half inning, half in Spanish, half of Real footage as well. Oh, okay. What is it? But it's a dramatization.
So like the certain events are real, but like blown up in the things. But the actors and people are so engaging and so amazing. It's so well done. I can't remember the name.
I'm going to try and remember the name is with the guy out of the Mandalorian and that's going to be in the last of us. He plays a prominent part of Pedro. Pedro. That's the first one.
And he's absolutely amazing. But honestly, one of the strangest, most entertaining shows I've seen in the one. Not something that's ever been on our radar. I must admit.
I think he just watched it. But not something that's kind of been on our radar. Definitely. And sent the full weekend remodeling the Nardos room.
So let's take the camera and do a look at that video. Oh, look, stuff Nardos. Oh my God! And got the ghost of Firehose there.
Sam just for you. Oh, that. Yeah, don't want to talk. Yeah, don't want to talk excellent.
So horror, pops. And then Josie Parth. Jessica Park. So it's all been organized.
Have you got it in sections? Have you got like everyone grouped together that they should be? I see Woody riding my note over there. Yeah, I've got a new friend to do.
So I think it's an awesome. It's cool. So the new member of theme podcast needs to be rich. I can't hear nothing.
I hear that. I got cancelled. I'm leaning in. I've got headphones on.
I think Zoom's cancelling it. It's background noise. Possibly. But I was going to say if anyone is listening, it is a talk to me chucking it all.
Yes. It's a beautiful cable. It looks absolutely. Fantastic.
Yes. So that's my weekend and my back is fucking good. I'm not surprised. I'm so glad you're kind of away from the display case because I don't want to have that nervous feeling like when we had Martin known.
Have you gone and knocked everything over? So I'm glad you're away from it. I'll take a picture. Yeah, I've got that.
So talk about the future. Classic horror. New school horror. More sources.
Two things. Two things. It's all been well organized. For once.
Yes. So that's been my weekend. So I'm saving my footage. So I've been doing a lot of Lego.
Lego is harder than I remember. I need it. It's like jigsaw's absolutely here to shit. I'm kind of big with this.
Lots of stuff got taken out the boxes. Sorry. That's okay. The certain things I do need to come out of boxes and the certain things I don't.
And it's the ones that don't that you like to take out and torment me with. It looks like a virus. I'll follow a drum in the corner. Straighten yourself up girl.
So Michael, how's your week being? I've been back at work after the new year and it's been absolutely crazy. So I've just been back at put. I have been rewatching Alveda's own pet because it is the 40th anniversary of Alveda's own pet this year.
I've gone back to the game. That's a lot of sense given that I'm 40 this year. You can save during that. I know you're not.
I know you're not. I know you're not. I know you're not. I know you're not.
I know you're not. I know you're not. I know you're not. You can save during that.
I know you're not. You can save the pet. It's actually a possibility to be fair to my parents. It could be a possibility.
I told her Sam is parents. Hi, Sam's mom. My mom loves this attention by the way. I mentioned I think one on the side of my neck was what I mentioned.
Oh, mom, you were mentioned in that reason. She watched it. She does actually listen to us. I'm mum.
So yeah. I forget that. I forget that. I forget that.
I forget that. I forget that. I mean, because it's not mine anymore. I never forget her names.
Sorry, Michael. You've been watching. I'm really sorry. It's already started.
I mean, it's only been like eight minutes before. I know. It was not Jesus. This is the new drinking game for people.
He said I mentioned Goonies. It's just Sam's mom. But yeah. So I can't believe it's 40 years old.
So I'll be rewatching that. I mean, it still holds up. Obviously some of the subject material doesn't really. I was in language as a bit twice.
Now, with his bud, you've got to look at the context of when it was from. Exactly. Yeah. So I've just been rewatching that and obviously polls cleaning and organizing sort of spurred me on.
So I've done a bit myself. I will not be moving my entire laptop to show what I've been doing. But things are just fucking clean. That's all I'm going to say.
Please not going to mention it. So I'll mention it. You can use first solo Twitch. Oh, shit.
I forgot. After I tried on Tuesday, after I thought my demons and all my massive anxiety all day on Tuesday, got it psyched up, got everything ready and Twitch went down. I talked about it as a sign. I broke it.
So yeah, that's Wednesday. I did my first solo stream on Vacherai Fire Cult versus Cult. We've got Hillbilly Paul with his Moloten United States tank top. So it's Hillbilly Paul.
Every game I play with a carrot, it has to be Paul. So it's many adventures of Paul in the video game. I was like, why is Paul there being a ball? Just more evidence for the restraining order that went.
But every Tuesday I will be solo streaming at the moment for Vacherai 5 and then after maybe something else, I'm not sure I ever thought I had. But every Tuesday is 6.30, a Twitch. I'm just happy that I could all this game, not stupid fucking truck simulator. I knew that was coming.
But what do you do realize, Sammy, is that during Vacherai 5 and nicks a truck to run people all that saw technically, this was all a long con for me to get in a truck once more. I love it. I love it. I was just being told when I was watching last night was to say I was running over into these last night and had the best gig of them because it's not meant to be funny, but it was.
It was very funny. But during the week, me and started watching the Reksum Football Club documentary that's on Disney's. Oh yeah. We've been the huge fans of Rob McAlaney and we have been binging their podcast on YouTube recently.
So we thought we'd give it a watch and it's just it's brilliant. Such a good series. I love it. It was all his idea and my analysis is getting all the credit for it.
I actually cried when I heard the reason why Rob McAlaney decided to go down because I was more by Reksum. That was my best. I explained that he's from Philadelphia and he comes from a town. He comes from a place like that community was ran by sports and the community is all down because it's the same in Reksum.
I was floored by his response. I thought it was absolutely beautiful. We're huge funny fans. I'll do anything to support Rob so I'm actually sure.
I think it was to do with the only big name team that was affordable at the time as well. I think it's been for even you for a season too as well. Really? Interesting.
We're not finished yet because we are like I say we've been through the always podcast and it's been so long. One of the biggest people in the world is on audio. If you're going to listen to it, watch it and be a creep and watch it as they call their fans. Show us a 12 hour creep on YouTube.
Oh yeah, hi everyone. So yeah, I've been watching and I also started a big band again today. Yes. I've been starting and I've been flipping through a few episodes this week because I don't think I think before we went live as well you don't realize how many actual episodes and series that we got because everyone thinks as friends we'll get you to scream out the way first.
first. Yeah, we'll start going into the new T2G of it all. So everything to switch into this episode is our opinions and our opinions alone. If you'd like to discuss anything from today's episode, please come and join us in the Facebook group where we can have an open decision.
But we want to have anyone come in for us and tell us our opinions are wrong. We can all agree to disagree and fund them. So let's keep it fun, keep it kind, keep it toxic behaviour out of them. Notism.
Well done. That was my best Superman impression. That was Superman? Yeah.
Oh yeah. I felt all empowered at the end. So I was like, oh, this was what this was. It's just like.
When he takes off his glasses and then so should. Yes. I think it's quite interesting that we've all kind of dressed up as like the characters of the big band. But we all kind of went to the cosplay aspect.
Well, back to I'm getting landed vibes from Sam as well with both of the women. And yes, I am being a retent of Sheldon, so that's fine. So nothing really changes with the player's sake. Yes.
It's coming back to what we were discussing where I was going to talk to go. I don't think people realise how long this short it got for because everyone thinks as friends as the mean. But this had more seasons in France, which shocked me when you think about it. Friends had 10.
Is that right? Yeah, because it was like 10 years. So yeah, 10. This was the longest run in sickle in your history.
Twelve seasons. Twelve seasons. I'm just trying to find it when it started. 2007?
Yep. 2007 to 2018. The year I got together with my husband. So just a question as well.
Where did we use when you discovered the big band? Because what did you watch the first episode and kind of get caught up or was it like mid-season? Because I know it was shown on E4, wasn't it? Yeah.
First of all, that's over here. Yeah, I've got a bit of a story. So if you want to go ahead, you can go ahead. I'll throw it at Goodwill first.
So when did you come establish a big bang? Shockingly, I was on at the ground floor. I've heard about this at just sight, uni. And obviously I was studying TV with the BBC and I was like, I'm going to watch everything and now you're trying to be a smartass and stuff like that.
I saw this going out and he was like, it's a sitcom about nerds. And I gave it a try. And the first episode, I was like, yeah, I absolutely love this. And it'd been very few sitcoms where from the very first episode, I'm like, yeah, I love this.
And I was there on the ground floor and I was there all the way through. Obviously we didn't get it in the UK until later. So I did it through, not the legitimate means. But yeah, so September 2007.
And I was like, wow, that was it. So you were the first big bang I've been showing. I was in Manchester at the time, I think. I think I was one of the times I was in Manchester and I just came across it.
I'd say, in the best of relationships at the time, but to try and think of something to watch and admit, I think it was mid season though. So it wasn't like, say the first episode, it was like a few episodes in, then it made us go and find more episodes. And I know at the time when, because you couldn't stream, it was more download and episodes. So you're finally using, what was it?
I would say. I would say. That's for instance. And currently computer with line wire and you talk and stuff like that.
So your computer hard drive was pretty much fried after downloading a few things. I'll be careful what you were downloading as well, because there's a few sketchy things that was changed around. It's actually the title big bang. Not E and C.
Well, that was the thing when you're trying to locate these episodes, because it wasn't just, you couldn't just download big bang theory season one. It had to be big bang. It was a S one episode. S one, E or one.
That was the terms you had to actually search for. The details were actually used to work to watch stuff and download things illegally. And then you start getting letters from your like, skies and you've just downloaded this. Do you actually get letters?
Because I avoided that. I got three letters. One, the download and dark side, the moon by Pink Floyd. What?
What? Really? Yeah, and two movies, I think. We come up with the torrent names and stuff like that.
We downloaded it. I was like, VBN, VPN. VBN the same. VBN is the same.
Yeah, that's what we'd have. Yes. But yeah, that's what I came about. I was hooked.
I was like, I was pretty much hooked with friends. I watched friends. And I think there'll be a lot of different connections or different like cross talk when it comes to friends in the big band. I think there would be years apart, but still have the same type of fan base or generation fan base and sort of the same kind of people, if that makes sense.
Absolutely. So tell us your story there, Sam. Okay. So you if people know me from the podcast, they know that my childhood was very much a boy's childhood.
I grew up with my action figures and I was very much a nerd's nerd. But in my late teens and early twenties, I was very heavily involved in music. Music was my life. It was my passion.
I thought about it. It's all I did until 2014, 2014, 2013, 2014, I started to have a shift and it and Spain, and Spain and nerds and give a kid comic book, greatest and see was a kid. Like action figures, all that. And he was and he was still like that, but I wasn't music.
Like that was my tunnel vision was just music. And then I started to branch out and obviously we all know me. Sorry, I've read me first comic book and this and the other input and introduces to it. And it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't.
Oh, look at this. No, you're going to really appreciate it. It was like, it's about four scientists who just so happened to be nerds and who liked the same things you do and who obviously in Italy you are, it is acceptable to continue liking what you like, even in your late twenties, early birthdays. And that's how it was put to us.
And I have such a special place in my heart for the show. And so that is my introduction into big bands and sorry for the very long-winded story, but it just needs to be sense. I like the story. It's interesting because we had this discussion before we went live as well because with these type of American sitcoms, or you could, like as you said, good, well, I'll very simply impact, like say very much of its time.
We'll go back to only frozen horses, cheers for Asia friends or have this kind of like, like, what, if, like back then you didn't think twice about it. But now there's everyone's kind of looking over things with a microscope and kind of picking things apart to the degree. Rightly or wrongly again, but that's what in the Gives people, like every asshole has gotten an opinion and not saying that. Sure.
But yeah, as given the voice to people to express their opinions. Yeah. And a lot of I think the big band did get a lot of backlash as well. like quite recently or like say over the last few years for the stereotypical like we had short notes or had like elements into it.
But I think if you're looking for it for a certain like certain color or like looking for it for a certain like to be offended, it is easy to find these things. But you can do that with any TV program and stuff like that. But what again, you've just said it perfectly like better than I could with this show, it's not like say a show about notes, it's a show about scientists. That's why a lot of people don't kind of grasp or get past the aspect of it or say nerds can't speak to women or women can't relate to nerds and stuff.
But this was one of the first shows that made the women stronger than the men. Which I think gets overlooked a lot. And I was a dirty teenager and I related heavily to a lot of like what the things like that he's gone into a little bit older in life, look back a younger life. I was shy and nervous talking to girls, I used to study quite heavily when I told her back in attractive now I just wish I could shut up.
But it's weird because and you wouldn't think about sharing my game with you the things you loved when you were okay as well because you felt like you want to be ridiculed or mocked or anything. And this kind of showed like it's okay to be collecting stuff like this and I kind of really heavily now. I'm probably looking for a rose-handed glasses, I don't see them like as the negatives stereotypical people because all you can when you're watching from episode one to the last episode, the growth and everything that comes with it. Like each character gets an arc, they don't leave anyone behind.
Even fucking Stuart gets gets a little bit of a hand as well. Even Will Wayne who's a side character gets like a growth and a job and go at it as well. So again, I don't want to say that people are wrong or like people's opinions are wrong because everyone's a title to it. But if you go looking hard enough for things to mourn and to offend yourself, it's going to be a pretty boring world out there.
Oh god, absolutely, absolutely. I think what a lot of people don't realize about the big bank theory. Amongst other things, the big bank theory was pivotal in not only popularizing nerd culture, which you know you can take the good and the bad from that. But like Paul said, it made people comfortable with being a nerd.
It was like, it's okay to collect shit, it's okay to like love what you want to do. It's okay to laugh. It's okay to go into a park and just be yourself. Yeah, that's what I took away from.
And that's what I needed because at the time I was very much when Anthony produced this, it's for scientists who just will happen to be nerds. And it's the way you went. It's for scientists. It's costlessness.
There's a link. But yeah, I just, it was because I was like very sheepish about the fact that, oh, I actually really do like comic books and I very much do like we super heroes. And I was quite sheepish about it. And he was like, honestly, don't need to be like, there was a whole community out there who will quite happily welcome me with all of an arms.
But this short is kind of like, it's the epitome of me of nerd. And that's how I was introduced into it. And I honestly, I will, I don't want to say I'll fight anyone because I'm sorry shit, but I will, I will argue my point of how much this sure actually means to us. Certainly.
One thing I wanted to ask you, I know like we were going to have other people on this as well, which I thought like an interesting topic would have been, which character in the show do you mostly to or do you really have a multitude of characters? Oh, that's such an interesting question because you can usually start with who's your favorite character in an animal, like a ramble about that. I know and who do I relate to? And good will?
Have you given that any thoughts? That's a really tough one. I mean, loosely, I'd say Leonard, because obviously he was probably had Lisa Child as most of them were. And he struggles with the ladies in the earlier seasons.
But I would say, yeah, I would say I would the main class. It would be Leonard. Okay, so just give me a quick run through me head. I don't think I can relate to any of the males on there, any of the male background stories, because I wasn't, I wasn't the nerd for I was a nerd as a kid, but I dropped it.
I didn't continue it on. I can't relate to that. I'm not smart. And I am very much a penny.
Like very much a penny. I am incredibly naive, gullible, uncertain, and I'm sure there's a lot of me in Penny. Right. So you kind of got on board and to the next year, the way of the Thor's, how much are we seeing?
Mine's always going to be like a little bit of surprise. I'm not going to say that like she'll know because I'm not going to see the next year, I'm not going to say I'm not as easily pretend of as I am always Howard, which because I think how would a lot of times just get overlooked. And for large margins of me growing up, I did always feel like that guy that was always overlooked and not as good as everyone else. But I mean, teenagers, I was one of the biggest experts you'll ever see going around.
Like I said, there's a lot of lessons I could come on this podcast. But yeah, probably the Howard side of things. I'm being honest, like say, if they've never known where I fit in or like always true mixing, I feel a lot of my youth, I tried so hard to be liked. And I think that's like the pit and feet of Howard, where he just, he doesn't see it as that.
And it's always a long time to grow up to realise it as well. Oh my God, big bang is like bringing out all the heart felt. All the emotions there. That's such a good question though, because I thought we were going to go in with who's your favourite character and who's your favourite character?
And I could spin on on that one, but that was a really good question. Well, let's lead into the next one as you say. Can we go in with your favourite character? Oh my God, Sheldon.
I love Sheldon Cooper. I love Sheldon from episode one to the final, very final episode that man's growth. He's not the same person, but he is the same person. But it's he grows so much, but still manages to keep his integrity and who he is.
And I just love watching him because me and Anne will watch this once a year. And I've now put the episodes on, we will continue this until it's finished. And I just love watching from episode one to the final one and seeing him just become like, he's not a, I don't want to say that he's a better version of himself, because he was pretty OK to start with, he's just, I love him so much. I think that's why the show person.
Yeah, I think that's why the show does well. These, the growth in the shows isn't making them better. It's more making them more confident. Yeah.
That's like the learning as well. Yeah, because like, so when you get to show that goes on and makes it, it's about become a better person. So if these went bad, like, say when you look at these, when bad people, they went bad characters done, they were just very innocent and naive. And I think with the growth that I think, but Sheldon, why is the love about, like, I'll let me feel the character in a second there.
Well, I love about this as well, because I am one of these people that when San Diego Comic Con comes around, I get really excited about the panels that get short. And the certain panels I always look forward to, like, the supernatural panel, the Kevin Smith panel. I know I can't be there. You know, like, for a few years, it was a dodgy, dodgy career.
We had to rely on the people in whole age to provide us with the dodgy links. And my god, do they put them people come through for us? Yeah. But then it's not broadcasting, like, the actual panels, you know, I think they've done over the last three or four years, especially with lockdown and everything.
But the big band theory was always one of the ones that I was the whole cast used to always turn up without feel. Like, there wasn't one member that thing. And when someone become a character, a regular, they always added to the panel and they were talking love. And the question that used to always come up was how Sheldon was portrayed.
And the user always said, fastly, what they were saying, said, look, they're not doing any disorder. They're not saying Sheldon's got this, that, it's just Sheldon. I thought that was a really strong state for the members. They could have went or Sheldon's got this condition.
And that wouldn't have worked. It would have taken away from a little bit as well. They probably would have given back for some people to be relatable, but then it would have been more to be mocked. Yeah, no, absolutely.
Sheldon is special because of it's Sheldon. There's no label to him. That's just who he is. And he does not change.
If you watch him, he does not change the way that he is, but he does grow and he does learn and he does listen and he behaves like a human being and learns from him. It's a way that he treats Howard over his job by Mr. Wallowitz. Yeah.
And it's beautiful to watch him mocking because he doesn't have a PhD. But to then, on another episode, gives Hallie a grant for when she's at school. I love the way he interacts with Howard anyway. I think their friendship is quite unique.
Him and Leonard is always going to be like the main focal points because they are best friends. But him and Howard are just as interesting to watch as him and Leonard. Definitely. But what was your favourite character?
Any Thera Fowler? I'm with you. Cause. Cause she, all of the seasons, she really came into her own.
And one of the most, there's two scenes I absolutely to this day will laugh out loud. And it's one where Sheldon gets a regift and she goes, she tacking show me really, you really think of the, oh, it's a T.R. I'm going to be putting on me, putting on me, putting on me, putting on me, putting on me. I'm a princess.
And actually just blaws me. And then the other one was episode one of Dr. Sheldon Cooper presents Fun With Flags. And she sits there and she's waving a white flag and he goes, what are you doing?
She goes, I'm surrendering for fun. Just the way she says it, it just, it flaws me. But her character goes from, let's be honest, from the end of season three, her female Sheldon. To her own person who absolutely does and loves Sheldon.
No one can ever change your mind, but she doesn't take his shit. And with it being a neurobiologist, she knows exactly how to change him in a subtle way that he doesn't pick up. He could be the smartest person in the world. But he doesn't think for a second that she's got him right under a thumb.
She really does. Yeah. And it, I mean, some people say it over to manipulation. Well, kind of.
We all do. She does it. But she does it out of pure love for Sheldon to make him a better person, not just for her, but for himself and for everyone else. It's just a social aspect.
It's all she's changing. It's not him personally. She's just changing his social way in order to help him. She understands, she understands the world a bit better than what he does.
And that's all she's doing. But there is one moment I love Amy Ferra Fowler from the second she came on and introduced ourselves in that very robotic voice. I absolutely adore that. But there was one moment that would really fucking piss us off with Amy Ferra Fowler.
And if the fun was like the sword will well eaten. Because she was totally in the wrong. She was completely in the wrong. And it's the only one time I have ever went in for her father.
I can tell you. I think I think with that one, I think she was jealous that potentially Will Wheaton would take a line light away from Sheldon. Yeah. I don't know.
I just really know the shit out of us. I think a lot. But I agree with good. Like I said, at the start, I'd like to say my favourite again is the most obvious one was Lennon because that's what the show is falling towards.
But when Amy Fowler came on, it kind of changed the dynamic. And you could tell how much fun she was having on the show as well. And the class kind of like jumped on that. Like that was the impression I got from it was it started.
Because with these long shows, you could have got horror and you could have got like fallen on that. You could have guessed what was going to happen. Which in a way, it did happen at times. But with her character and what she brought into it was always fun.
And I love as well that I don't know the actresses name just like the women she was in. Like my about like. Yes. And awesome.
Yes. Yeah, she's an awesome. The reference in an early episode, don't know. Yeah.
But the fact that because she is actually a scientist herself in real life and just got these PhDs that use the fact check everything with her to make sure everything is correct. And I think that's just absolutely brilliant. She she is during the takes. She was the one that had the most laugh.
Like obviously, I mean, you always get it on sitcoms. You get that one person. I think Lisa Coudreau was the person in French. They were just unstable laughing wrecks in between scenes.
My and Balik was like that. And obviously when the fudge of the lamp, she would be the one who's personally laughing. But she did it in a way that just the audience won to her. Because obviously you don't see mine being like on, you know, off character.
I didn't even when she was when she first came on as Amy Fowler, I didn't even do the reference of my guys. Awesome. Thanks. What was the case?
She was Amy for a pallet. Like there's no no comparison. I just I love just love how she is with Penny. I love love the tree or of Bernadette Penny and her.
And I thought that was such a smart move to bring in friends for Penny. Yeah. Yeah. And like say not the quintessential friends that Penny would have had or like in real life painting.
Like that's when all the girls in this is absolutely gorgeous. But they're down here to the point where I was like, always like Penny was the pretty girl in the other two. Like the bride's me. It's like always the bride always and stuff like that.
But then later on Penny kind of let the actress be playing Penny as well. It was like been a choice not to be the main star and kind of shared it with them as well. Bernadette gets the time to shine as well. Like that woman is just a firecranger.
And I love her so much. Like so many fantasies could be for the next year. So I don't know if I were to go there today. She is such a she is such a biocarbon.
She's an amazing actress. And I do like the progression that went with Bernadette because I feel like when she first came into it, she may not have been there to stay. So the voice wasn't there. The mannerisms weren't there.
It wasn't until when her and Howard made an official out and she came, she then comes into the apartment. I think that's when because I have voice changes that high pitch voice that you get. And for her to keep that up during film because she talks quite low. Like her voice, if you have anyone's I watched a film with her in bronze about the gymnast, my god, what a complete night and day switch from Bernadette.
Like it was scary. I was like, oh my god, I didn't really like she could see them words. And it's like the voice of the actress who did Rosa in Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The two acts and night and day and you're like, oh my god, you sound like that.
And then the first time I heard the actress who plays, I was like, wow, that is a deep voice. She talks really quite low. You were talking about the one San Diego Comic Con in the panels. I used to listen to a podcast called Nerdist and he hosted Grisadoui.
He did the panels for Big Bang Theory at the time. And he had one of his episodes, the whole panel. And it was the most funny you should have ever heard. Listen to Howard and Bernadette do a I can't think about the name now.
Howard, well, it's Mrs Wallaways. They're doing a Mrs Wallaways off. Yeah, I think I find that one. Yeah.
Absolutely hilarious. So I know we'll get this out of the way as well because I know he's always been dying to tell this story. Oh yeah. Give us a claim to fame about this show, good way.
Oh, right. I'm in the morning. I'm sweating a quarter of an hour. I'm in the fucking fog.
Yeah. So my claim to fame. I am technically in an episode of the Big Bang Theory. By technically, I mean my dumbass laugh is in an episode.
I can't wait to get this episode by the way. So we will be signing autographs at Nerdist just to see any kind of laugh. The laugh in Big Bang? I am the laugh in Big Bang.
It's a laugh in the Big Bang. It's season, the season 10 episode, I don't know what episode number it is. I think it's early on, out of four or six. The Fatal Kit Catalyst.
So season 10, the Fatal Kit Catalyst, it is a scene. Now, obviously being in the audience for an episode, it's about four hours to record an episode of live things. You get free food, free drinks, anything like that. You're well and truly care for.
I mean, I've got loads of well, my mate who I was on holiday with sort of put his foot in it with Kelly. What's the surname? Kelly? The Kukos father?
Well, I'll get to that. But some of the scenes, obviously, they do a lot of live scenes, but certain scenes they need laughter to cover it. So what do they do? The role of ET of the prerecorded scene, you watch it on the TV and you're laughing at it.
So I said to my mate, I was like, I'm going to get me laughing this. I said, so fucking god, I'm going to get laughing because my phone is right above our red. So it's the scene early running the episode. I think it's a couple of minutes into the episode where Howard and Bernadette are in bed and she feels a really kick.
So she's like, that's when Howard starts to freak out. You know, this is the point where he's like, oh my god, I'm going to be a dad and you know, when he starts all thinking. So and there's a bit, hang on, I think I've written it. Yeah, there we go.
He says, Willy Wonka would roll you to the juicing room because she's that big and everyone's laughing and I just went at the end. Oh, I thought, yeah, I thought, I thought, yeah, but we'll cut that out. It's absolutely fine. A couple of months later, I think it cut, this is on telly.
There's the fucking laugh and I'm like, oh my god, the fucking cat did in business. So now every time it's on the telly, all I hear is so good. Oh, that's me clear the fame. It's now it's now it's now flash.
It's now flash, but he says that and then he just hear right here, oh, oh, but my friends, because obviously when you film and you have like an admission, because they do a scene and then you have to sit for the next day. What they do, they have like a half hour break because like the audience is sat there for like two, two and a half hours. It is fucking tiring. You know what I mean?
So they give you food and everything like that. And what happened was Johnny Gilecki and Kelly Kukor came up to the audience. So they came up to like the gang rail, the front and you know, they said we just want to speak to the audience and they genuinely interacted with the fans. What they did is we said, oh, we just want to thank you because they said, we never thought a million years would get to 10 years of this show.
And we want to thank every single one of you for making the effort for calling it because they knew there was like people from England and all over the world attending this recording and they were like, we can't believe like people travel and like want to spend time here. I mean, honestly, they'll just sort of genuine. But my friend was with me. He went over and he was like, Oh, I clearly Google.
I tell you what, I tell you what, I tell you what, man, I should get it. Forgetting that we would be on a control room where Kelly Kukor's father was. Who overheard him? Oh, my God.
Anyway, thanks, birdie. I've never heard someone's ass squeak before in my entire life. And he was a quietest fella for the entire fucking recording. Didn't even laugh for the recording because Kelly Kukor's like, I don't know if he was an agent or a manager or something like that, but you tended nearly every recording.
Yeah, he would he would be in the audience. And you could just be a supporter of that. No, I think I think just one of these childhood child actors, because literally all the things just been in like, it's simple rules, charmed, just being pushed. Like, I probably was one of these pushy dads or pushy moments getting their daughter through the door and stuff.
So it will be having some management in there a bit. But if you ever watch, if the field kick at list is everyone here for you, you're re watching it, the scene where he says, will you want to go? Good. Will you roll your to the juicing room?
Look out for my dumb laugh at the end of the laughter. Oh, I'm going to record it. So I have it forever on that one. But to dispel the myth, there is no cant laughter.
It is real audience laughter that these I've seen the videos of them, especially towards the end where they were doing the mass dancing and singing. And my God, Johnny Gilecki is a miserable bastard outside of the planet. He's very, yeah, he's very moody, not like, negative moody, but it's just like, he's very like, very solid to go to school. Yeah.
And he was like, Jim Parsons, who looks like a giraffe, dancing around, still look like he's having the time of his life, dancing to the backstreet boys. And you go, Johnny Gilecki, the side going, I'm just too good with this. So stop this and deal it. Oh, I would just do it.
But Johnny Gilecki, you know, he just comes across as quite moody when he's like the complete counterpart of Leonard. That's just me outside of this podcast as well. Can I hear he's quite fun as well, like the all interact with the audience. I mean, how can you know when you're like, you're in front of like 150 people, do you know what I mean?
But can I, like, people are like, I love you. You can know. I love you too. You're trying to store half a yeah.
The guy who plays Howard was in the guild. For the today. I mean, I've just literally just wanted to remember Bank. And have you got favorite episodes?
Can you remember any of the favorite episodes? And I've got, it's hard to say a favorite episodes because I'm more favorite moments type think with this type of show, because there's things that just happen throughout the episodes. But I've got quite a few old up to name as well, but I know you're still because I've some, so I know what you answered that one first and something. I only have one favorite episode because I'm, you're right.
It's moments. Like I have favorite moments, but one favorite episode and I will scream and cry if I miss anything in this is the episode where Kaylee, or where Penny gets addicted to video games. It's my favorite episode. I think I've seen it a million times.
Like I will literally watch it just on his own. I think that episode, just quintessentially sums up how 2014 went for me. Like that is the year I started playing video games, like properly, like really like properly. It just sums up my year in that one episode.
And I think it's hilarious. The fact that it's the, it's the Christian the Hare. I just thought I'd eaten the Christmas as well. Yes.
And even Sheldon's second person is trying to get a set up with someone to get around the house and stuff and like, you just look like a bit shit. But I love that episode so much. I wanted to pink their laptop for a long time after that. And she'll undermind it as we already had a laptop and it was shit.
So yeah, that's my favorite episode. I am mine's because this, something happens in this episode that I think it could, I've done 15 million takes. It would never happen again. There was like a once in a lifetime situation and they kind of played with it as well.
Because it could have just basically left about a corpse out. And we would never have seen this like element. It was the episode where Penny and Leonard would pretend to be back together. So a dad wasn't, I wouldn't put that back.
So Leonard and Sheldon totally got, like was getting pissed off because he had a lighter Sheldon. So Sheldon brought up a new agreement to include Penny and the whole interaction with Penny's dad. And like I said, genuine to say, because Leonard is a lovely guy and how Penny's dad is like, no, you have to keep fighting for me. Don't need to give him a second.
Just take that back. The show, the amusement is when Sheldon is in the room and Leonard tells him all I got brought up again. And he froze the room, he agreed, opened the air and all the pages got around. And there's one piece of paper that lands on the side of his face and it's there.
And in no way could that have happened on purpose or anything. And Sheldon just keeps the sheer face. The guy who wears them and kicks off and shrieks at him and storms off. And it's just like, that was just magic because like say that piece of paper, there's no way that could have happened.
And the fact that it just landed on his head was just absolutely amazing. I love that the captain did. And for me, that always sounds like when I watch that episode, it just brings such a smile and get because it's just original. Yeah, I was asking Anthony, like, what's the best bit of big band?
Like just name one thing, that's the best way because I'm going to get that clip and use it on TikTok. And he went, the first thing that came to James L. Jones. Yeah.
And the you like Star Wars? I like Star Wars too. And it's funny, Knox on Carrie Fishes door and she's like, it's not funny, James. It's not funny, James.
Yes it is. I've been liking residual check. So then why am I still laughing? Let's go to Tijuana.
Yeah. But just one of the moments that Anthony literally has to leave the room because he's laughing so much. It's when the birds in the apartment and he's chasing it out and he uses a sonic thingy at the window. And the the whole window just was cracks and finds that I had to get it.
I'll laugh more because of him, but he doubles over in laughter because of that crack window. And I don't understand why it's not that funny, but I get to James L. Jones, but that's the one I used on TikTok. Oh, but you're going to a lot of stuff.
Like, when stands out of you. I'm very much like you, Paul, where I don't have a favorite episode per se. I have moments. I mean, obviously, I think I'll just say favorite episodes is the one I was watching.
That was out the recording of. If you ever have the chance to go to where we're going, go to these recordings. They are free of charge. You get fed and you it's...
There's food. There's pizza and it's free. The whole thing is free. And you are, I mean, not to jazz you up, but you're watching history, especially if you can watch a big show.
You're watching history and you're part of that for the rest of your life. Every time that shows on telly, you're like, I was there. So, you know, favorite episodes, I bought much like what Paul said, there is scenes dotted throughout. And one of them, again, it was a mistake and they kept it in.