Sheldon Cooper Sheldon Cooper, or Shelly as his friends and family sometimes refer to him as, is a character on the television series The Big Bang Theory. Sheldon Cooper is a senior theoretical physicist at CalTech where he works with his roommate, Leonard Hofstadter. Sheldon has many things that seems odd about him. Some of the things that are a little different that he does is that he must knock 3 times of his neighbor Penny’s door. He does not quite understand sarcasm when it is spoken to him but he uses it often himself. Many of his personality traits point towards Asperger Syndrome, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and asexuality; however, the show’s co-creator Bill Prady has stated on numerous occasions that the character of Sheldon was…
For example, the males in The Big Bang Theory are all scientists. Leonard Hofstadter is an experimental physicist at Caltech in Pasadena, Sheldon Cooper works as a theoretical physicist at Caltech, Howard Wolowitz works as an aerospace engineer and former NASA astronaut at Caltech in Pasadena, and Raj Koothrappali is an Indian-born astrophysicist who lives in Pasadena and works at Caltech. Unfortunately, one of the main women characters in The Big Bang Theory is another story. Penny is a…
Theory fansite (2007-2017), The Pilot was first released on September 24, 2007. This show focuses on the daily lives of two geeky physicists named Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter. Their introverted lives change when the attractive, social butterfly Penny moves next doors to them and teaches them common sense and how to socialize with others. She soon becomes incorporated into Sheldon and Leonard’s social circle, which includes the quirky engineer Howard Wolowitz and the shy astrophysicist…
audience is around 18 million mark, and also its a sitcom. The show was created back in 2007 by two men named Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady. The first episode of the show was on September 27th of 2007. The show has 5 main characters who have been on the show since its started. Kaley Cuoco who plays Penny, Jim Parson who plays Sheldon…
Every night after our dinner my family and I would sit down and watch The Big Bang Theory on television. Those thirty minute airings had my whole living room roaring. We loved how awkward Sheldon was and how Leonard was always chasing pretty Penny. It was not until recently that I have noticed how misogyny is portrayed throughout the show. As I watch the episodes back I still laugh: however, I cannot help but to realize how the women, in particular Penny and Amy, are characterized throughout…
BIG TIME RUSH Big Time Rush is an American television series that originally aired on Nickelodeon from November 28, 2009 until July 25, 2013. It was created by Scott Fellows (also the creator of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and Johnny Test and the head writer of The Fairly OddParents).[1] It focuses on the Hollywood misadventures of four Hockey players from Minnesota: Kendall Knight, James Diamond, Carlos Garcia, and Logan Mitchell, after they are selected to form a boy band by…
Big Bang Theory Application Paper Sheldon Cooper is one of the main characters in the Television Series The Big Bang Theory. The Big Bang Theory is about a girl named Penny, who moves into an apartment across the hall from two genius physicists (Belyeu, 2007). This television show displays the lives of these three people and their friends inside and outside of their workplace, as well as their personal lives (Belyeu, 2007). Sheldon Cooper, one of the brilliant physicists of The Big Bang Theory,…
The Big Bang Theory: A View on the Modern “Nerdist” The Big Bang Theory is an extremely successful sitcom that airs Monday nights on CBS. It involves love, drama, comedy and many other elements into a single format. Some of the main characters are Leonard, Sheldon, Penny, Howard, Rajesh, Bernadette, and Amy. One of the reasons I am researching The Big Bang Theory or “TBBT” is because it is one of the most watched, successful, and highest rated sitcoms of all time. According to Winston, as of…
Stereotyping in the Media: The Big Bang Theory (Season 1), Sheldon (“Intellectual Nerd”) 1.What is the show about and who are the main characters. The Big Bang Theory is a comedy which derives its humour though the contrasting personalities of the many characters featured in the show. The main characters of the show are: Shelden, an “exaggerated” nerd who expresses his opinions frequently, knows an unnecessary amount of facts and constantly refuses to accept other people’s advice, Leonard, Raj…
I watch Big BangTheory all the time and I can think of many scenes that come to mind, but one in particular involved Sheldon and Rajneesh when Rajneesh comes to work with Sheldon and they are forced to share an office. There is a bit of a power struggle that goes on when Rajneesh wants to get his own desk for the office and Sheldon refuses. The struggle begins with Rajneesh completely defying Sheldon and he goes out and buys this huge desk that is so big that Sheldon can barely push the door…