Five things about The Big Bang Theory that bugs me.

Number one, really everything started with a singularity?

Wait, I mean the TV show, lets start over. 

On Thursday night from 2007 to 2019 the gang on Big Bang Theory became part of our lives. It started off as a When Worlds Collide storyline with hot blond actress Penny living across the hall from uber nerds Leonard and Sheldon. Eventually it morphed into a domestic comedy about three couples and their friend who may or may not be Gay. Although I liked the show there were certain things about it that bugged me, and here are the top 5, in no particular order.

1) Everything. OK not everything about the show but Big Band Theory came out at the height of Nerd Culture so the characters were heavily involved in everything nerd, well most everything. They collected comic books, and action figures. They played all kinds of games from card to table top to video to on line multiplayer. They cosplayed, they LARPed, they were well versed in all forms of nerd media from comic books to graphic novels to regular novels, also movies and TV shows. And lets not forget the model trains and the YouTube channel about flags. They did pretty much everything except Steam Punk, which was too bad because it would have been perfect for Raj. At the same time they were college professors heavily involved in research and development. How did they do all that? I mean I've known plenty of nerds in my life but they generally geek out to one thing. Seriously, I knew a guy who was in to Star Wars action figures and that's all he did, his house was covered in just about every action figure available. Howevert he didn't collect anything else Star Wars or any other genre of action figures. How did they find the time for all that?

2) Stuff. For everything they did, the guys also had all the equipment and costumes to go with it, where did they keep it all? I know what you're going to say "well Sheldon had a storage locker" but that brings up another question, he didn't drive so how did he secretly get it all there? But that's a discussion for another time, what I'm talking about is any time the guys needed anything they just ran back to their room to get it. Question about a storyline in a comic book series? Run back to the room to grab a specific issue. Planning on playing Quidditch? Run back to the room for costumes and their brooms. Getting ready for a round of paint ball? The guns and pads are readily available.  Gonna set up for a night of playing WOW? Bust out the PC. They live in a two bedroom apartment, where did they keep all that stuff?  Again, I knew a comic book collector and he had an entire room in his house dedicated to his collection. It was both light and temperature controlled to ensure they were in optimal mint condition. Did the BBT gang just stuff them in the back of their closet or was their apartment secretly a TARDIS.

3) Taking about paintball equipment lets talk about the sport of Paintball itself. The storyline is that these guys are all nerds and lack basic athletic abilities, yet on weekends they go to play paintball, a sport that requires running, dexterity, eye/hand coordination and so forth. The Big Bang Theory guys are doing this? I highly doubt it. I figure they needed an excuse for Penny to ruin Sheldon's spot but not totally destroy it so they came up with the paintball thing, and then they kept doing it. I had a hard time believing that super nerds who never play sports and run away from bullies played paintball, the sport of being chased by bullies.

4) The previous three complaints were about generalities in the series but this one is specific. In the episode The Spoiler Alert Segmentation Leonard is reading Harry Potter for the first time. When he comments about how much he's enjoying it Sheldon spoils the fate of Dumbledore resulting in a big fight. I know the writers needed the two characters to have a fight over a minor issue for the episode's plot line so they chose the spoiler story but I had a basic problem with the reason. Lets be honest, in the world Leonard lives in it would be nearly impossible for him to have avoided the spoiler for eight years, surely he would have been at a party with people talking around him, or someone mentioning the movie, or an argument over who was the better wizard, Dumbledore or Gandalf. And I know that I said it bugged me that they were well versed in all forms of nerd media and it was a nice refresher that there was at least one thing that a character didn't know, but seriously, Leonard didn't know about the spoiler, I mean, if you're going to love fiction you have to have the suspension of disbelief, you have to accept that kids waving sticks and speaking latin can cause magic to happen but Leonard never heard about Dumbledore?  C'mon! 

5) So, up until this point everything I've complained about can be explained away by "it's just a TV show, it's not real life, get over it" but the fifth one is a real world situation, Howard in Space. In the 6th season on the episode The Countdown Reflection Howard goes to the International Space Station to work on one of his projects. However in the very first season he said he had transient idiopathic arrhythmia, a genetic heart condition. Sure, with proper monitoring he could live a long healthy life, however when a NASA doctor saw that on his medical report he would be immediately rejected. Even if there was an explanation as to why he didn't really have it the very hint of a possible heart condition would make NASA nervous, they don't need someone dropping dead on takeoff. As far as this plot line went it's a No, just No. 

So there it is, the five things about the Big Bang Theory that bugs me. Sure, I'm able to just write it off with that suspension of disbelief and enjoy the show, except for the Dumbledore thing, but it still bugs me.