SheldonShirts

[womzilla]

As nellorat has mentioned, we are chugging our way through catching up on The Big Bang Theory, which is unremittingly hilarious and which, unlike some works about geeks I could name, actually appears to be written and run by people who have actually met geeks and understand them. (It gets a few details wrong--for instance, Warner Brothers cartoons are very much at the heart of geek culture--but it get so much so right.)

I was particularly glad to discover SheldonShirts, which is a wonderful example of the type of thing geeks do when they love something: documentation of the marvelous array of t-shirts worn by the show's main characters, Sheldon and Leonard, along with some additional documentation (Wollowitz's belt buckles, the shirt-folding board Sheldon used in "The Bad Fish Paradigm"). Enthusiasm at its finest!

Comments

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I don't know if they're part of the DVD (or whatever you're watching), but Chuck Lorre's Vanity Cards at the very end are usually worth stopping the frame and often great. Also after 2 1/2 Men. Well over 200 in all.

[laurel]

There's an archive of his Vanity Cards on Chuck Lorre's website, including the ones from Dharma & Greg (which is when I first started reading 'em).

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

When rjmwell was the marketing guy for the excellently geeky Cotton Expressions (http://www.cottonexpressions.com/), it was a great triumph to persuade TV or movie wardrobe people to clothe characters with CE's T-shirts.

An astronomer in Contact wears a CE periodic table shirt, whose unstable elements are printed with phosphorescent ink (though this is not seen in the movie).

Looking at the SheldonShirts site, I see now that Sheldon almost invariably chooses shirts with a comics or SF design, where Leonard sometimes opts for shirts with a scientific theme, such as a caffeine molecule. Never noticed that before.

[nppyinzer.livejournal.com]

I really, really tried to like "Big Bang Theory". But even though I share many, many characteristics of many of the characters, it failed to entertain me. I think I've known too many people like Sheldon to find his quirks amusing; instead, I just find it frustrating.

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

Saw my first two episodes of this on the plane on the way to the US. Several lines made me LOL (Sheldon in the Engineering lab: "Greetings, oompa-loompas of science")

[quility.livejournal.com]

JRob + I are working our way through these right now too! :) I love them. Thanks for the link to the shirts - I want them!