Do they ever eat in The Big Bang Theory?

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DJ_Lae said:
I think that probably bothers me more - not because it's obvious they're not drinking anything (even if it is) but because they don't hold them as if there was actually liquid in them, even half-full. They'll tilt them all over the place and swing them around.
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Not Coop.

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Oh, it's time:

"Hey, Sheldon."
The audience laughs loudly.
"Bazinga!"
The audience explodes into laughter. The building shakes slightly, and paramedics are put on standby (with earplugs in). The cast stands around awkwardly for roughly 5 minutes for it to calm down, each battling the urge to laugh.
"Windows 7."
The paramedics are pre-emptively deployed. The audience scream in laughter and the building starts rattling uncontrollably. Blood runs from most audience members noses and eyes as their brain haemorrhages under the hilarity. Urine streams down the legs of most people as janitors hastily attempt to mop it, to no avail. The vibrations trigger an earthquake that causes huge amounts of damage across California. The earth stops orbiting the sun, and immediately plummets into it's fiery depths.
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"Hey Sheldon, wanna see the new Harry Potter movie?"
The audience chuckles nervously.
"No, Harry Potter is for children. I prefer realistic and dramatic films, such as Star Wars."
The audience laughs heartily.
"Luke, I am your father!"
The audience begins laughing so hard they burst into flame and their lungs explode. They start pissing themselves from laughter, which fails to put out the flames but makes everything smell like burnt hair and urine. An older gentleman has a heart attack and dies on the floor, burning and covered in piss. The earth trembles below the studio, opening a gaping crack into the underbelly of the earth. Several members of the audience are dragged into the blackness, laughing so hard blood spills from their mouths as they descend into the molten core of the earth, smashing into the rock as they fall. The continued laughter echoes off the rock, causing the largest known earthquake in history, crippling the powergrids of several of the world's major cities, plunging humankind into darkness for weeks. Martial law is called into effect as the riots increase in size and aggressiveness. As food begins to run out, half of the world's populace is dead, with the survivors now resorting to cannibalism and subsistence farming.
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Hey Sheldon, what's up.
The audience snickers, one man laughs loudly in the back.
"Playing video games."
The audience bursts into uproarious laughter and applause, tears streaming from their eyes. Several members fall to their knees and begin praising Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior as the building begins to rumble.
"I like video games."
Far away in the distant Andromeda galaxy, the people of the planet Centulon find themselves suddenly blinded by an intense white light. Bewildered and frightened by the unknown assault on their senses, they raise their tentacled arms to shield their faces from the blast, but even that fails to deter the piercing light that continues to fill their eye sockets and seems to permeate their very skin. After several terrified moments, the white-hot light finally begins to recede. Shaking and tearful, the people begin, one by one, to open their blighted eyes, uncertain of whether or not they will find themselves in the world of the living. But to their surprise, they are all perfectly unharmed. Suddenly, a scream from the crowd breaks the silence, as one woman falls to her knees and points her shaking tentacle toward the sky. The people turn their attention upward, and silence washes over the crowd once again. Frozen and bewildered, they behold the empty black void in the sky where the stars of the Milky Way once hung.
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Trey said:
Are these nerds being marginalized by non nerds who play nerds specifically because the producers won't hire "actual" nerds?

Is nerd as inherently identifiable and as socially immutable as being black? What even is a nerd?

Is there a wild and violent history between nerds and non nerds that would make a non nerd pretending to be a nerd look extremely insensitive.

Just because BBT plays on stereotypes does not make it blackface, or anything like it.
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I think people just have trouble thinking of a better word and don't actually mean it in its full implication. At least is that what I hope it is.
 
This is very common and expected if you've ever done any kind of acting. For example, look at How I Met Your Mother, a show where the characters spend all of their time in a bar. Yet, if you pay attention, no one really drinks in any of the scenes. They'll hold the beer up to their lips and it looks like they're taking a sip but the volume doesn't drop. It's because if they do 10 takes they'd have to refill it up to the previous beer level every time, plus it'd be way too much for the actor to drink.

It's fun to look for these things and I'm always impressed when an actor actually eats or drinks something in a scene.
 
Man, you guys sure are getting upset about the blackface comment. If were to I call BBT the "death of comedy", I'm not actually comparing it to the tragic demise of an individual. It's an exaggeration made into a rhetorical device. At least that's how I read it. Anyway...
 
I don't even watch the show, and even I've seen them eat quite a bit on that show. Hell, half the episodes have them eating take out in their apartment. Or eating in the cafeteria. How did you not notice this? Compared to most shows, they probably eat more than most characters do.

EDIT: oops. Should have re-read the OP. You are complaining about them not actually eating the food.
 
Depending on the show (and the actor) the food may be spat into a bucket,played with, or the actors go in with an empty stomach. The first one is used on Hannibal.

The dinner scene in Star Trek 6 was a hell because of the number of shots needed. Walter Koenig (I think) tucked in during the first take and regretted it later.
 
I've been growing more and more irritated with this because for some reason I noticed it once and now I can't stop thinking about it. Nobody eats. Not even the dudes that don't have lines, just because you know they don't want to have food in their mouths when it's their turn to be witty. But holy crap is it annoying.
 
It really only bothers me when they're eating spaghetti because they keep twirling and twirling and twirling and twirling...
 
They eat in the first season. The pilot episode was on just about a week ago and the first thing I noticed was them actually eating food.
 
DeathyBoy said:
I loathe Friends.

But yes, it is better. See because they mock Ross for being a nerd, but they also mock Chandler for being a corporate sell-out, Joey being a terrible actor etc. It's not like 'LOL, GEEKS.' It's more 'LOL, jobs suck.'
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Both Ross and Chandler are nerds. Chandler even works in IT which was the stereotypical nerd job back then.
 
I never understood the hate for this show, you can make threads about plenty of shitty shows with the thread devoloving into rampantly hating it. Why is this show so special?
 
Spork4000 said:
I never understood the hate for this show, you can make threads about plenty of shitty shows with the thread devoloving into rampantly hating it. Why is this show so special?
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Here's why:

Ratings from Jan-2014 said:
Time Net Show 18-49 Rating/Sh Viewers (Millions)
8:00
CBS The Big Bang Theory 5.6/17 20.08
NBC Community 1.4/4 3.57
ABC The Taste (8-10PM) 1.3/4 4.47
FOX Sleepy Hollow -R 0.7/2 2.40
CW The Vampire Diaries - R 0.3/1 0.95

8:30
CBS The Millers 3.3/10 13.61
NBC Parks & Recreation 1.4/4 3.37

9:00
CBS The Crazy Ones 2.4/7 9.62
NBC Sean Saves the World 1.0/3 3.16
FOX Sleepy Hollow -R 0.6/2 2.42
CW Reign - R 0.3/1 0.94

9:30
CBS Two and a Half Men 2.4/7 9.48
NBC The Michael J. Fox Show 1.0/3 3.14
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i tell my gf they never eat every time we watch it together. she's getting sick of me saying it. it drives me crazy as well.

Randy Monk said:
I have seen them put the food in their mouths and chew.

Not sure if they spit or swallow.
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I'm still not even sure if they even actually put the food in their mouths, the camera either cuts away, or the fork and mouth is just barely offscreen.
i think i have seen something going in howies mouth once, but then the camera cut away right after so it was possible they edited out the spitting.
 
EmSeta said:
Man, you guys sure are getting upset about the blackface comment. If were to I call BBT the "death of comedy", I'm not actually comparing it to the tragic demise of an individual. It's an exaggeration made into a rhetorical device. At least that's how I read it. Anyway...
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No one is getting upset. I'm not getting upset. I'm pointing out how stupidly tone deaf it is to say some foolishness like "bbt is blackface for nerds."

I will, however, commend how efficient a sentence it is in order to convey "I have no honest clue why people consider blackface offensive, and I'm a little bothered by identifying with an attribute and seeing it mostly used to portray stereotypes. and the irony of that also escapes me" in a half dozen words.

It comes across similarly to being short on a check and saying "I'm being treated like a slave."
 
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