07-29-2014, 10:30 PM
I'm trying to understand where the idea for TBBT originated. (excuse my mind it never stops!). I watched all the CSI series, up until the Tarantino fire ant finale(S5). The character Gil Grisom, a forensic entomologist, is the first intellectual, obsessive, 'nerdy' character, I remember. He seems to have evolved from the character Will Graham who worked with the FBI, in the film Manhunter. Gil also had a secret, yet obvious to viewers, relationship with Sara Sidle. I've only ever watched about a half of 'Two and a Half Men' episode, but CL was so obsessed, he did a cross over between his show and CSI. So he obviously open to radical ideas, and practices.