Big Bang Theory: Main actors agree to $1 million per episode...
 

Not bad work if you can get it...

It's $1 million each for the actors per episode. The advertisers must pay ridiculous amounts to sell their products.


http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/08/04/bi...y-cast-raises/

From your linked article:

I don't find that show funny at all.

*ducks and hides*

I wonder how much the second tier characters that make appearances every few episodes get.

Agreed.

Amy Farrah Fowler renegotiated and gets $ 60K per episode as does the cute blonde with big boobs.

This must be Hollywood accounting. The $325K per 30-second commercial doesn't come close to paying salaries and production costs.

I don't know how much it cost to make each episode in TV but with 8 minutes of advertising at that price that is over $5 million per episode in advertising.

I am shocked though at the difference in pay between those girls and the three main people.

That show sucks so much donkey dick it's not even funny. It makes 2 and a Half Men look like South Park in its prime.

FYP

Syndication rights

Someone here (can't recall who) suggested that I watch this show. I really enjoy it. Thanks to whoever it was.

No, I do understand the "jokes". That's the problem. Opie and Anthony did a segment where they took out the laugh tracks in certain episodes, and people calling in legitimately didn't know which parts were the punch lines. YouTube it if you have time. It's painful.

Those are in addition to the $1 million per episode. These actors are set for life.

Errr, doesn't that show that they didn't understand the jokes?

Most sitcoms are this way.

It's a funny show, if a bit obvious and predictable

Because they cater to the lowest common denominator. The people who talk about how hilarious Two and a Half Men is are usually the ones who spend half of their paycheck on lottery tickets and only get 5 channels.

It's easily digestible, easily relatable, sharply written traditional multi-cam sitcom.

It's not French haute cuisine, it's a fresh well-prepared Big Mac.

Never found this show to be funny.

Yup. I like the show a lot. Not because I think that it's making television history or because it challenges me to think in new ways, but because it's consistently good for a few chuckles while I'm relaxing in the evenings.

As Howard Sterrn put it, "that show, like most of what they pump out recently, is about as funny as a chemotherapy session".

My daughter is the same way and she loves comedy and writing comedy. She loves The Family Guy.

I didn't like it at first. You have to watch more than a few times to get into the character's humor. Then it's a riot!

Very well written script! More to the intellectual side. I've never seen characters like this before tho. I never took to many sitcoms before.

Type cast for life too—just like most of the Friends cast, most of whom can't find lucrative work but still have plenty of residuals rolling-in.

Are the jokes really THAT hard to understand at all?

That one was funny too. Preferred with Charlie Sheen and the younger boy as a youngster more.

I understand them fine.

It's simply one of the worst comedies on TV. Its sole point of value is that no other show on TV depicts academia as accurately. But for the most part it is so unfunny that it makes me angry. Many of the jokes aren't jokes at all; they are simply references to nerd culture or science dressed up in sentence structure & syntax that makes it come across like a joke - basically only finding a more clever way of saying "have you heard of ComicCon?" *cue laugh track* "Do you, audience, know what polymer is?" *cue laugh track*

That was the point. Why are people acting like this show is any smarter than any other show? All their jokes are "Look at these nerds doing nerd things and speaking nerdy language! Isn't that hilarious?!"

Most popular sitcom on tv, they were going to get paid big money. The million per episode plus Syndication money. Set for life.

Well some of it is, some of them words i have no ****ing clue what they are saying. Hell, even the cast members talk about having no clue what they are saying sometimes. lol

They have a professor from Cal Tech that checks all the science on the white board in Sheldon's apartment and in any jokes for accuracy. They even have members from CalTech, including students in the audience at times. They did the first episodes.

I think The Big Bang Theory is somewhere in between a Jeff Dunham act and the R. Budd Dwyer public suicide clip.

You don't have to know the words to get the joke. 9 times out of 10, that is the joke. The fact that they're using big words and talking like nerds.

I really don't even see the show as a punchline machine. The 'humor,' or more accurately jovial tone, comes more from the interplay of a set of defined personalities. An eye roll from one character or a fussy harrumph from another generates more amusement than a wicked one-liner.

Oh stop! You don't find a physicist trying to develop an algorithm for making friends funny? That's hilarious. It's not that he's just an academic he's just anal retentive as well.

Joey played the dumb Italian in Friends whcih was a stereotype and I still found that funny.

They could have Neil Degrasse Tyson, Stephen Hawking, and Carl Sagan's ghost checking every second of it and it'd still be about as funny as an Al Qaeda snuff film.

The T.V. universe was in a ****ed up state,
Then 7 years ago The Big Bang Theory was created...Great!!!
Lost began to cool,
Charlie Sheen began to drool,
Breaking Bad was ****ing cool,
We watched The Wire (We watched The Walking Dead).
NCIS, Criminal Minds, Mike and Molly
Unraveling the mystery,
That all started with The Big Bang Theory.

I find this show really funny. Of course, I knew these people/nerds while in college. Penny was named Christy, but the same thing.

LMAO

Yeah, with that particular show, it's not really surprising that an audio cut without a laugh track isn't as funny as being able to see the visual.

It's true that the earlier seasons were much better. Like any tv show, after several seasons the writing is getting stale.

I would recommend going back and watching some of the first 3 or 4 seasons of it, but the ones of you who can't understand it now wouldn't be able to understand those either.

And yes, you just don't understand it.

Does anyone here take issue with Penny playing the dumb blonde stereotype?

Usually those few I run into that don't like the show, don't like it for a few reasons:

1. They don't get the jokes
2. It's not stereo-typed, profanity, soft-core porn laced innuendo in every other sentence
3. It's not about pot smoking, all night drink binging and how many people can I **** in 1 evening
4. Ain't no baby momma's or daddy's

Well, obviously, that's just your own personal preference. It has very high ratings for reason. It's well liked and popular.

Good point!

Eh, she's only dumb relative to the rest of the cast, really. When I think of "dumb blonde," I think a lot dumber than she is.

Holy crap, what CP bet did you lose to have to sport a Sheldon avatar?

1. The jokes being understood is why it sucks 8 inches of pure Swedish beef.
2. Not even kinda true. You can be funny without profanity.
3. Pot smoking isn't funny.
4. What?

Yep. although not blonde, Mila Kunis in "That 70's Show" comes to mind

Dumb blonde was Jessica Simpson when her and Nick Lachey filmed their Newlyweds reality TV show. "It says Chicken of the Sea. Does that mean it's chicken or tuna?"

Britney Spears sold record setting albums. George W. Bush was re-elected. Appealing to authority isn't a good measure of quality. Especially when we're discussing sitcom television that usually dominates because of the channel it airs on.

Well, yeah, even that guy she dated who thought the sun glasses were for 3D when they guys were doing that laser experiment on the moon. Boy, he was he dumb! Hilarious when the three scientists were making quips inside the apartment to him, and they went completely over his head as well. LMAO

That's not an appeal to authority. That's an appeal to ratings = popularity = cash cow= success. It's the market speaking. It has the last say. It doesn't mean it applies to everyone. It is a successful program by all typical standards.

You want to know a show that was consistently hilarious and seldom used any profanity at all? MASH.

Appeal to ratings is an appeal to authority. The appeal to authority is a form of argument attempting to establish a statistical syllogism, ie television ratings.

I don't think it is a horrible sitcom, but the Big Mac comment is about spot on. I really enjoyed Silicon Valley from HBO which I think does everything BBT does, but much better because it is on cable without network restrictions, and the characters are allowed to have more sophisticated humor.

I remember that one. I thought she was hamming it up for the camera though.

ROFL

That show was good until Alan Alda started menstruating.

Arrested Development >>> Big Bang Theory

I haven't watched SV yet but to play the role of Sheldon Cooper is nothing short of some of the best acting I have seen in a long time. Just imagine yourself trying to not only spout off the lines of Cooper but to maintain the posture and attitude that Parsons does.

She could have been, but I prefer to believe she is dumb as a box of rocks. I put her right up there with Kim Kardashian on the list of dumbasses who are famous for relatively nothing except for having big boobs and a TV show.

*cough* Paris Hilton *cough*

I'd like to see the correlation between people who don't like BBT and the people who like Honey Boo-Boo....

Correct. See my post in the Donald Trump thread with my list of people who need to die in a plane crash.

No, appeal to authority is a logical fallacy that applies to debates. We're talking about what is popular based on personal opinion of millions in a market not some expert. Not to mention that not all appeals to an authority are invalid...sometimes we have no choice but to use experts since we don't all possess all knowledge in all areas. Even courts of law use experts.

You're mixing categories of things here which is illogical. If a show is well liked, it will have high ratings. That attracts advertisers willing to shell out big bucks. That's the measure of success that is used. Therefore, the actors can demand what the market will bear. It just doesn't mean it will appeal to everyone. That's where you come in. Your personal preference versus a large segment of the market that makes it successful. They are all opinions of viewers though—not some authority.

Great great acting.

RainMan, we need a poll.

At least Jessica can sing. Kim can't do anything. In fact she doesn't even know how to stay married for long.

LMAO

In argumentation theory, an argumentum ad populum (Latin for "appeal to the people") is a fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or most people believe it. In other words, the basic idea of the argument is: "If many believe so, it is so."

Switch "appeal to authority" with "appeal to the people". In terms of fallacies, they are essentially synonymous.

Probably identical.

I saw a You Tube interview of the cast taking questions from callers. Someone asked if all of them understand what they're saying on the science parts—the cast all burst out laughing saying ——not at all!

Parsons says he has to memorize it over and over.

It's actually pretty easy to play an over the top character like that. It's much more difficult to play a completely normal character with enough charisma to win the audience over and keep them watching.

Quick, without looking it up, name one song Jessica Simpson sang. She was to singing what Mariah Carey was to acting.

Good for them. I get to not watch Jim Parsons not act for another three years.

Yeah, well you used authority not "the people" at first. When it comes to entertainment you had better appeal to the people or you go out of business. Something like that is not about argument theory it's about market preferences. Those who tap in to such things and hit the sweet-spot make millions. That's considered success.

Ummmm.....Mayim Bialik has a PHD in Neuroscience. Pretty sure she knows what she's talking about.

They both pertain to the same type of fallacy. Either way, it's fallacious reasoning to say that The Big Bang Theory is quality television because a lot of people watch it.

Uh what? What type of people are you running into that don't like the show for these very specific reasons?

Yeah, she really blossomed after that show she was on with Joey Lawrence ended. What was the name of that show again?