Review: “Big Bang Theory” Means Time To Mock The Geeks

I was glad to hear Johnny Galecki was coming back to TV. On
“Roseanne,” he was endearingly befuddled as Darlene’s doormat boyfriend.
But, unfortunately for a show that’s supposed to be about geniuses, “The Big Bang Theory” is fatally dumb. The sitcom, debuting tonight on CBS, starts in the lobby
at a high-IQ sperm bank and, well, that pretty much tells you all you need to know. The humor doesn’t get much smarter than the junior-high level double entendre in the title.
Galecki and Jim Parsons are Leonard and Sheldon, two
socially awkward geniuses of a kind found mainly on TV. They sit around their
apartment knocking out groundbreaking higher-math equations and parsing sci fi
trivia while wishing they could score with a real girl. Enter their new
neighbor, Kaley Cuoco as Penny, a bubbly sexpot who seems oblivious to her
effect on these two loads.      
Actually, that’s a typo. I meant to type “lads.”
But “loads” works.
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