(Chuck Lorre and
Bill Prady)
The big bang
theory is a 7 season TV series on Warner Brothers is about a group of
scientists who become friends after meeting in the university where they work,
each one has a unique personality and representative characteristics that make
the Geek’s team really funny, the problem begins where a blond girl moves
across the hall of two of our character’s apartment, there’s where they
discover how little they know about real life, that not everything is theories
and numbers, and how they begin to interact and learn from each other.
Lets introduce
the characters:
Sheldon Copper
is a pretty weird and complicated guy, he is against all normal behaviors, or
at least against of what people believes its normal, he has his own way to live
his life, he hates being expose to society and he things he is the most
wonderful, intelligent and perfect human being on earth so in conclusion
Sheldon is the perfect example of a cynic. He enjoys showing he is more
intelligent than the rest and enjoys bothering his friends and people around
him. I find his personality really analytic, he is always looking for a
scientific explanation and he bases everything on the correspondence theory, if
he doesn't know a thing, he will find it out someway. Sheldon is also a
perfectionist almost methodic, he follows an specific schedule each day o the
week, even food, will be predetermination depending on what day it is, he will
wake up always at the same hour and sit in the same place, that kind of reminds
me on Immanuel Kant, who was known for always following a perfect schedule. He
has also rules for everything, even a roommate agreement, which is like a
social contract just like we saw with Thomas Hobbes; he makes a social contract
to regulate the behavior and terms to get along with the rest of the people.
However, he is one of my favorite characters of the series, even thought he is
weird he is really smart and funny.
Here is an
example of how he will behave on his territory.
Leonard
Hofstadter is Sheldon’s best friend, as he moved to California to work on the
university he looked for an apartment, a small announcement lead him to this
building where Sheldon lived, he was even making psychometrical exams and
testing the candidates intelligence to know if they where available to share an
apartment with him and of course he was accepted, but he never noticed how
crazy Sheldon is until he moved in (just like we saw on the video), he is also
in love with Penny since the very fist time they met. Anyway Leonard is an
stoic person, he doesn't care if he is boring, he controls his emotions and
just gives his opinion when necessary, he is also moderated, he never goes to
wild parties, he does all his work but he never goes to the extremes, I think
Aristotle will have loved him specially in the way that no matter how the rest
of the people think about the way he is he will always find a way to be happy.
He follows society rules and tries to be a good citizen. Like Gottfried Leibniz
he also believe in free will, he let things just be, he respected others
opinion and always sees the good side of everything; he will also never say no,
so he gets in a lot of trouble because of that, sometimes he will just fight
against Sheldon using Ockham’s razor challenging him with the argument that the
simplest explanation should go first instead of creating a big drama and some
new weird different scientific theories which will make everything more
complicated than it actually is.
Here’s a video
where we see how he gets in trouble for trying to be nice helping penny.
Penny, is kind
of like a representation of the blonde girls stereotype, she is pretty funny
and nice and sentimental but she is not really that clever, and that will be a
big deal when she starts to get along with the scientific across the Hall, she
won't understand at all what they are really talking about, I think penny is an
hedonist, although she likes to meet new people, get along with them and just
spend a day chatting with friends, she can go wild, specially at the beginning
of the seasons where she was a party girl, always making parties across the
hall going out to the discos, drinking and doing crazy stuff. She wants to be
an actress and rich and perfect but things are not working as she thought they
will work, she is also a little bit anarchist, she has sometimes a “whatever”
attitude, like there are some driving rules but she doesn't care if her car has
no back mirror or is not working, she doesn't believe in rules at least not at
all. She is also empiricist, her knowledge is based on her life experiences,
for example all her high school dramas, her life with her dad who always wanted
a boy and so on, she is a nice character.
Here’s a video
of how Sheldon how to teach Penny physics.
Howard Wolowitz
is Sheldon and Leonard’s friend, he is a small skinny guy with a big ego, he is
also a Jew and lives with his mother (who never appears on the series). He tries
to hard to be a player and a party guy, but although he is a little bit
narcissist he has a great heart. He thinks he can play the hedonist part of
life but he is actually an epicurean, he enjoys small and simple things of
life, like going to play x-box with his friends, or medieval board games even
go to the comic book store and watch super hero movies and cartoons, he enjoys
life like for example he eats meet and everything he wants, even if his
religion demands not to. I think he is also a little bit like Augustine on his
confessions, he will always says how smart and responsible he will be, and
about his wife and his dreams, but later, when he stops having some fun and
chill around, this actually comes true, he goes with NASA to the space and he
got married with a friend of Penny, and that changed his life completely, from
being a person who just cared about having a good life to a good and
responsible husband and still care after his mother.
Here is how Howard
and his mom get along with each other
Raj Koothrappali
is Howard’s best friend, he is represent the foreigner stereotype, he tries to
get along with USA’s culture but he can't just forget about all his costumes,
he is the son of a really rich doctor in New Delhi, and he goes to California
to work on the university department of astrophysics, he is the skeptical
character of the series, he has a really weird psychological issue in which he
can't talk to women, and he is constantly sad because he thinks nobody loves
him, specially women. He is a shy person, but when he is okay with the people
around him he changes to an epicurean person, specially when they discovered
that having a glass of alcohol can help him forget his mental not talking to
women issue. I kind of relate him to Montaigne because he thinks everyone has a
good side whatever the rest says, he respects how other people express their
selves, just sometimes it’s really difficult for him to understand life out of
India and there’s where the skeptic comes back to stage, Raj has also the macho
mentality but he is also one of my favorite characters.
Video of Raj
getting through a bad time
So these where
the main characters of The Big Bang Theory, one of my favorite shows, it has a
mix of everything I even used it for some of my school presentations and homework,
I think it is really cool and funny and if you really pay attention to what
they are talking about you can learn a lot of new things, about science,
philosophy and ethics.
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