More Firefly Shout-Outs on Big Bang Theory

POSTED BY: Kwicko
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 13:58
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PUMAMANREDUX

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 3:57 PM

The Firefly reference was very funny

Add to that, Sheldon's masterful handling of the smoking rocket fuel, which led to the explanation as to why the elevator was out of order.

I'd be amazed to know how in the real world how anyone could cover up such an accident. I know it is just a tv show and you need to suspend disbelief,but you wonder how the landlord, and all many of state, federal and local authorities could have been bamboozled. Its just a sit com so I'll just relax and let it go ....

oh, here is the firefly reference sequence

KWICKO

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 4:01 PM

Yeah, I loved the rocket fuel bit. When Leonard ran out into the hall with it, I started laughing, because I realized THAT was why the elevator has never worked!

For a silly sitcom that I thought would be terrible, I have to admit this show is very much funnier than I ever thought it could be. And Sheldon pretty much makes the show. BAZINGA!

SIMONWHO

Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:13 PM

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Originally posted by cljohnston108:
Just watching the episode now, and had to pause it and come here as soon as I heard that!! Squeeeee!!

EDIT: Okay, finished the episode now... What's with the Babylon 5 hate?!

Sheldon sums it up thusly: "It fails as drama, science fiction, and it's hopelessly derivative." But hey, the others like it.

MANGOLO

Saturday, May 22, 2010 9:12 AM

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Originally posted by traveler:
With so many films having sound it just seems natural. I guess it goes back before anyone in Hollywood even realised there was no sound in space. No Nasa to ask, "Hey what's it like up there?" I still get a kick out of the Buster Crabbe "Flash Gordon" series and how poor their science was.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

When I went to my first pre-mix meeting at Skywalker, my sound engineer asked me what I was going for as far the the sound of spaceships. I responded that I'm going for the 'no sound in space thing'. He looked so disappointed I almost wanted to change my idea! The guy has been nominated for a Oscar twice for sound design and I'm disappointing him :(

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SHINYGOODGUY

Saturday, May 22, 2010 11:13 AM

I'm not sure if they use audience-in-a-can but the "audience reaction" was great.

Thanks for posting that bit. Lately I've had no luck in watching. Too, I don't have a DVR.

I'm going to rent it, or buy it, once it's released on DVD. Gotta say Sheldon does make the show fun. But, to me, the ensemble cast are great together, plus Kaley Cuoco is easy on the eyes. One of the few shows I watch in CBS.

SGG

Tawabawho?

TRAVELER

Saturday, May 22, 2010 9:19 PM

You may try what they did in "Forbidden Planet". They played electronic music as the ship went by. Actually they went that way through the whole film. But it kept the period with the ship going through space from being dead air with actually having a ship making any rocket noise.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

MANGOLO

Saturday, May 22, 2010 10:36 PM

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Originally posted by traveler:
You may try what they did in "Forbidden Planet". They played electronic music as the ship went by. Actually they went that way through the whole film. But it kept the period with the ship going through space from being dead air with actually having a ship making any rocket noise.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

We're on the same page as you. No silence for the space scenes. We're using some major rocking music.

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KRELLEK

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 1:58 PM

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
I've tried to get into B5, and I *want* to like it, but I haven't been able to yet. Don't know why; it just isn't there for me.

The sound in space thing definitely DOES tend to add to the drama - think how boring Star Wars would be if you didn't have those bad-ass sounding evil TIE fighter sounds! But it's not good science, still. Only movie I can think of where they really went for the pure science in the science parts was 2001, though, and some people found it just insanely boring...

in one of the young Jedi series-books, Jacen continously tries to make another young, very serious female Jedi trainee laugh by telling her jokes, one in particular regards the TIE-fighters "screaming" both out in space and the possible more scientific sound in planetary atmospheres.

it it something like this, Jacen to Tenel Ka(the other trainee): why does TIE´s emit that particular sound? and she is about to answers with the propper explaination because she thinks he wants to know, before he says it is because they miss there mothership, as the point of the Joke, and she just roles her eyes at him :-)

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