A reminder to watch The Big Bang Theory TONIGHT on CBS to see the LCCA Texas Special train set! Check your local TV listings for showtime.
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DVR set
Almost showtime here! Excited to see how this plays out
I never miss it.
Sheldon's MeeMaw comes to the apartment at last!
I keep waiting for Penny's and Sheldon's brothers to show up eventually as they're each characters mentioned many times over the years but so far, never shown.
I sure did like Sheldon's sister when she visited. 
Got the DVR ready to go!!
Disappointment! Only a box!!
Meh, a little disappointing. Only a couple of mentions. Maybe they will show the train set up and running in future episodes.
I guess that's show business! Happy that the train made the final cut and that they can make use of it down the road
You guys are hard to please. If you knew all the work that goes into screen props for TV and movies, and how many never see one moment of screen time even though an insane amount of work and money went into them, some of you might have a stroke.
In the end, it's the story that matters, not the neat stuff the producers found for the show.
Man the show was 70% commercials . Thank god for recording it .
jojofry posted:Man the show was 70% commercials . Thank god for recording it .
actually most 1/2 hour/ hour shows today are 22/ 44 minutes, ... 27% commercials. enough to make me give it up. going on 4 years now and i don't miss commercial TV one bit. still catch rerun shows online (commercial free) including TBBT. there is a site that streams all nine seasons in a 3-4 day loop. looks like the new ep is coming up this evening sometime.
cheers...gary
They could have saved a bunch of money and bought someone's box rather than a set since that's all they showed...
I do like the show, but the train box and the mention of the new train which we never see was good for two jokes.
I'm still getting grief from a co-worker for being the guy on the Napa Wine Train episode. I'm really not... but I've met him at train shows... 
Jon 
p51 posted:You guys are hard to please. If you knew all the work that goes into screen props for TV and movies, and how many never see one moment of screen time even though an insane amount of work and money went into them, some of you might have a stroke.
In the end, it's the story that matters, not the neat stuff the producers found for the show.
Too bad the story on that show bleeps. Even the snippets of "Two Drunk Girls" I've seen while surfing broadacst TV are better.
Pete
"Broke" Girls? A Freudian?
ADCX Rob posted:"Broke" Girls? A Freudian?
No. That's what I believe to have been the original name of the show but the network bigs wimped out.
Pete
*News Flash* 99% ( probably more)of the world could care less about trains, real Lionel or otherwise.
Big bang theory is a comedy show involving gratuitous sexual overtones and innuendo, 99.999% of the shows biggest fans don't care about trains.
Besides......the rare time a T.V. show or movie( see the current unstoppable thread) features trains they get the details all wrong anyway, and model train enthusiests are portrayed as dorks.
Its ok to step out of the trainroom sometimes. Sheesh
pmilazzo posted:They could have saved a bunch of money and bought someone's box rather than a set since that's all they showed....
That's what I thought. In fact, I don't know why they even needed a real box. They could have just printed off a train picture and glued it to a box and it would have worked fine for what they did!
I recorded the show and did a fast-forward look in about 3 minutes. The train bit was a huge letdown, obviously. I also agree with the ad observations above - the show seems like it's about 50% ads. If they cut out the ads and the excessive canned laughter time, it seems there would be about 9 minutes of real dialogue content left. 
p51 posted:You guys are hard to please. If you knew all the work that goes into screen props for TV and movies, and how many never see one moment of screen time even though an insane amount of work and money went into them, some of you might have a stroke.
You're right, no one ever said the episode was going to be about the train or that it was going to be a major element in the story. But as train guys we jumped to conclusions and then got upset with the show when our hope didn't pan out. I'm pretty sure physicists and physics geeks out there didn't wait with baited breath for the episode where Leonard got to go see the Large Hadron Collider and then bemoan the fact it never even was in the episode.
Jerry
breezinup posted:... I also agree with the ad observations above - the show seems like it's about 50% ads. If they cut out the ads and the excessive canned laughter time, it seems there would be about 9 minutes of real dialogue content left.
nine minutes for a half hour show? here's an even better one... for the Super Bowl, get out a stopwatch and time the actual plays. i'll bet there aren't even 9 minutes over the 3-4 HOURS of the total game time. personally i'll probably be at the park burning coal, making steam and having fun... now that's what i call a "Super" Sunday.
frankly it surprises me that advertisers think people actually watch the 3-4 minute stretch of commercial TV ads plastered on the screen every 10 minutes.
Yeah, I still enjoy the show regardless and I am a fan of the comedy and the fact that Sheldon is a O gauge train lover which every once in awhile they reference like this episode, but for those that tuned in only for the 2 train jokes, you didn't miss anything. That's all I'm saying...
pmilazzo posted:They could have saved a bunch of money and bought someone's box rather than a set since that's all they showed...
I do like the show, but the train box and the mention of the new train which we never see was good for two jokes.
well, don't forget, Sheldon IS a genius. if the box remained unopened he could still return it and use the cash to invest in a more reliable prewar or postwar train. 
baltimoretrainworks posted:I'm pretty sure physicists and physics geeks out there didn't wait with baited breath for the episode where Leonard got to go see the Large Hadron Collider and then bemoan the fact it never even was in the episode.Jerry
I don't know about that, Jerry. I suspect that the physics guys who do watch the show (I know some who do and some who don't) were disappointed about the show not being filmed on location in the bowels of the collider.
Commercials? I used to see those ten years ago.., before the invention of the DVR..,
Jon
overlandflyer posted:breezinup posted:... I also agree with the ad observations above - the show seems like it's about 50% ads. If they cut out the ads and the excessive canned laughter time, it seems there would be about 9 minutes of real dialogue content left.
nine minutes for a half hour show? here's an even better one... for the Super Bowl, get out a stopwatch and time the actual plays. i'll bet there aren't even 9 minutes over the 3-4 HOURS of the total game time. personally i'll probably be at the park burning coal, making steam and having fun... now that's what i call a "Super" Sunday.
frankly it surprises me that advertisers think people actually watch the 3-4 minute stretch of commercial TV ads plastered on the screen every 10 minutes.
Let's not even start with football . it's about unbearable . 10mins comericals for 2 plays and after someone scores . They score comerical kick the extra point comerical . Kick off to other team comerical .Team goes 3 and out comerical .. Oh and what drug add will it be or insurance one that's the question .
VinceL posted:baltimoretrainworks posted:I'm pretty sure physicists and physics geeks out there didn't wait with baited breath for the episode where Leonard got to go see the Large Hadron Collider and then bemoan the fact it never even was in the episode.Jerry
I don't know about that, Jerry. I suspect that the physics guys who do watch the show (I know some who do and some who don't) were disappointed about the show not being filmed on location in the bowels of the collider.
And we wonder why the general public looks at us funny.
Jerry
jojofry posted:overlandflyer posted:breezinup posted:... I also agree with the ad observations above - the show seems like it's about 50% ads. If they cut out the ads and the excessive canned laughter time, it seems there would be about 9 minutes of real dialogue content left.
nine minutes for a half hour show? here's an even better one... for the Super Bowl, get out a stopwatch and time the actual plays. i'll bet there aren't even 9 minutes over the 3-4 HOURS of the total game time. personally i'll probably be at the park burning coal, making steam and having fun... now that's what i call a "Super" Sunday.
frankly it surprises me that advertisers think people actually watch the 3-4 minute stretch of commercial TV ads plastered on the screen every 10 minutes.
Let's not even start with football . it's about unbearable . 10mins comericals for 2 plays and after someone scores . They score comerical kick the extra point comerical . Kick off to other team comerical .Team goes 3 and out comerical .. Oh and what drug ad will it be or insurance one that's the question .
This is an ad-crazy country we live in. It is so wonderful motoring around in Europe where there is virtually no roadside billboard advertising. Beautiful. Coming back to the U.S., it looks really trashy until you finally readjust.
It seems almost out of control. Advertising is being shoved in our faces everywhere, from the tiniest places to the largest. A number of years ago I saw, and then read about, advertising being sold and placed on rooftops on airport approach glidepaths so captive passengers would see it. This included ads on school building roofs to raise money to cover shortages in school finances. What a country. Ads on grocery shopping carts, ad stick-ons covering entire city buses, etc. etc. And of course, ads pasted all over your computer screens are so pervasive they now make it almost impossible to read the content of the stories.
This brought to you by Charmin, the official toilet paper of the National Football League.
RickO posted:*News Flash* 99% ( probably more)of the world could care less about trains, real Lionel or otherwise.
Big bang theory is a comedy show involving gratuitous sexual overtones and innuendo, 99.999% of the shows biggest fans don't care about trains.
Besides......the rare time a T.V. show or movie( see the current unstoppable thread) features trains they get the details all wrong anyway, and model train enthusiests are portrayed as dorks.
Its ok to step out of the trainroom sometimes. Sheesh
It's also OK to find the show inane, the ads obnoxious, and the culture both reflect painful. I'll stay in the trainroom (or go do things outside), thanks.
RickO posted:..., 99.999% of the shows biggest fans don't care about trains. ...
i always thought people saying "you're one in a million" was a compliment.
palallin posted:RickO posted:*News Flash* 99% ( probably more)of the world could care less about trains, real Lionel or otherwise.
Big bang theory is a comedy show involving gratuitous sexual overtones and innuendo, 99.999% of the shows biggest fans don't care about trains.
Besides......the rare time a T.V. show or movie( see the current unstoppable thread) features trains they get the details all wrong anyway, and model train enthusiests are portrayed as dorks.
Its ok to step out of the trainroom sometimes. Sheesh
It's also OK to find the show inane, the ads obnoxious, and the culture both reflect painful. I'll stay in the trainroom (or go do things outside), thanks.
OK, I had to use a public restroom. Had to use a "full service" stall. Sat down on the "throne", and at eye level was a "cuss word" ad!
Ad agency management need to get out of their silo and see how their work is turning OFF the target customers!
Correction: All management in general need to get out of their silos and see how they are turning off their customers!
overlandflyer posted:RickO posted:..., 99.999% of the shows biggest fans don't care about trains. ...i always thought people saying "you're one in a million" was a compliment.
There are 7 billion people in the world. So if you 1 in a million that means there are 7,000 others just like you.
