Lee J wrote:match of the day - fk the rest of telly cos it's only reality sh!ote
Sad but true. Too many dire remakes of TV series (Dr Who, Knight Rider etc), films and reality TV overload, with the ever increasing number of what you might call "repeat ad nauseam" channels where they show old TV that has/hasn't yet been remade and three times in 24 hours, plus the films repetition like Scooby Doo etc.
It's hard to find something worth watching, even with the channels going up to about 38 on freeview. You do stumble across the odd gem by the law of averages, ended up watching the invincibles last night and it wasn't too OTT or silly, thoroughly watchable.
Big Bang Theory is quite good, some good humour in it. Sheldon has to be the best comedy character around at the moment. Here's a few quotes from the last episode of the last series :
Leonard: I don't think I can go to the North Pole.
Sheldon: OK, Leonard, I know you're concerned about disappointing me, but I want you to take comfort from the knowledge that my expectations of you are very low.
Raj: Is [inviting us to the North Pole] just so we won't touch your stuff while you're away?
Sheldon: I'll admit that was a concern, but the fact is I'll need a support team, and the three of you are my first choice.
Howard: Really?
Sheldon: Well, there are others who might be more qualified, but the thought of interviewing them gave me a stomach ache.
Leonard: Sheldon, what are the words I can say right now to end this conversation and let me go back to sleep?
Sheldon: Odd, President Seibert presented the exact same question.
Leonard: How was it resolved?
Sheldon: It wasn't. His wife set their dogs on me and rendered the question moot.
The Friendship Algorithm is an absolute classic, Sheldon trying to make friends with Barry Kripke to gain favours to use equipment at the University. The Cushion Saturation is good, Sheldon's "spot" on the sofa gets accidentally caught in the crossfire literally by a paintball gun leading to the eventual revelation that the takeaways Sheldon has been eating aren't from the Szechuan Palace as he had believed
(Penny is sitting on the couch, in Sheldon's spot)
Sheldon: You're in my spot.
Penny: Are you planning on sitting here?
Sheldon: No, I'm going to the comic book store.
Penny: Then what difference does it make?
Sheldon: (incredulous) "What difference does it make?"
Leonard: Here we go.
Sheldon: That is my spot. In an ever-changing world, it is a single point of consistency. If my life were expressed as a function on a four-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, that spot, at the moment I first sat on it, would be (0,0,0,0).
Penny: What?
Leonard: Don't sit in his spot.
(Penny moves and says "are you happy now?" and Sheldon replies "I'm not unhappy")
get in there
