Gooder Than Hell!

I love love love the Monday night sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.” It’s funny in a way that sitcoms haven’t been funny in a long time.

It’s also a show about nerds, and as such it draws heavily on the lore and culture – comic books, astrophysics, the Large Hadron Collider, all that good stuff. So I submit for your enjoyment, my Big Bang Theory Drinking Game:

Non-nerd version: You take a drink every time Sheldon says something funny. Warning: This is a deadly way to play the game, as the man has some of the best comedic lines anywhere on television.

Nerd version: You take a drink every time a joke is built upon some obscure nerd concept which you actually get. Take this exchange, for instance:

Leonard: Sheldon, why is this letter in the trash?

Sheldon: Well, there’s always the possibility that a trash can spontaneously formed around the letter, but Occam’s Razor would suggest that someone threw it out.

In this instance, if you know what Occam’s Razor is, you take a drink. Because you’re a nerd.

Another example:

Leonard (looking at the heavy box and the stairs): Do you have any ideas?

Sheldon: Yes, but they all involve a Green Lantern and a Power Ring.

So, you take one drink if you know who the Green Lantern is. A bonus drink if you can name the first Lantern (no, it wasn’t Hal Jordan, it was Alan Scott, you silly person).

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