02-21-2015, 09:33 AM
So I noticed while looking for something to watch that a episode for I Love Lucy was on, but it had a series description instead of an episode description (you know the one's that give a short blurb about what your watching) Anyway, it got me thinking about other shows and what they would consider as a short series descriptor and here's a few that I researched:
I Love Lucy: A zany New York housewife who wants desperately to get into showbiz and her Cuban bandleader husband who has his hands full trying to dissuade her.
Friends: Three young men and three young women - of the BFF kind - live in the same apartment complex and face life and love in New York
M*A*S*H: Members of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital care for the injured during the Korean War and use humor to escape from the horror and depression of the situation.
How I Met Your Mother: Ted tells his kids how he met the love of his life, through flashbacks, years in the future.
Gilligan’s Island: Seven people set sail on what is scheduled to be a three-hour sightseeing tour on the charter boat The Minnow, get caught in a storm and end up stranded on an uncharted tropical island
Now as far as I can tell, these are pretty spot on for a series as a whole. No matter what episode you're watching, it still comes down to what the SERIES was about. It never waivered and it never changed it's main statement of what the series was about. Now, here's the short descriptor of TBBT:
Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists - geniuses in the laboratory, but socially challenged everywhere else. Enter beautiful, street-smart neighbor, Penny, who aims to teach them a thing or two about life.
This description is currently on TBBT site as the opening statement (and used as the short series description), but now there is a qualifier they've added. I imagine since the show has drifted so far from its roots.
Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists - geniuses in the laboratory, but socially challenged everywhere else. Enter beautiful, street-smart neighbor, Penny, who aims to teach them a thing or two about life. Despite their on-again, off-again relationship in the past, Leonard believes he's found true love with Penny. Even Sheldon has found a female companion, entering into a "Relationship Agreement" with neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler. In their free time, Leonard and Sheldon continue to enjoy frequent trips to the comic book store and fantasy role-playing games with their ever-expanding universe of friends, including fellow scientists Koothrappali, Wolowitz and Wolowitz's adorable microbiologist wife, Bernadette
http://www.cbs.com/shows/big_bang_theory/about/
Amazing that even in the description how they've phrased things "Leonard believes he's found true love with Penny", "Sheldon has found a female companion", and the fact they have to make sure to tell us "In their free time, Leonard and Sheldon continue to enjoy frequent trips to the comic book store and fantasy role-playing games" not to mention how they marginalized two of the original 5 by "their ever-expanding universe of friends, including fellow scientists Koothrappali, Wolowitz and Wolowitz's adorable microbiologist wife, Bernadette.
What a bunch of trying to save face crap.
I Love Lucy: A zany New York housewife who wants desperately to get into showbiz and her Cuban bandleader husband who has his hands full trying to dissuade her.
Friends: Three young men and three young women - of the BFF kind - live in the same apartment complex and face life and love in New York
M*A*S*H: Members of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital care for the injured during the Korean War and use humor to escape from the horror and depression of the situation.
How I Met Your Mother: Ted tells his kids how he met the love of his life, through flashbacks, years in the future.
Gilligan’s Island: Seven people set sail on what is scheduled to be a three-hour sightseeing tour on the charter boat The Minnow, get caught in a storm and end up stranded on an uncharted tropical island
Now as far as I can tell, these are pretty spot on for a series as a whole. No matter what episode you're watching, it still comes down to what the SERIES was about. It never waivered and it never changed it's main statement of what the series was about. Now, here's the short descriptor of TBBT:
Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists - geniuses in the laboratory, but socially challenged everywhere else. Enter beautiful, street-smart neighbor, Penny, who aims to teach them a thing or two about life.
This description is currently on TBBT site as the opening statement (and used as the short series description), but now there is a qualifier they've added. I imagine since the show has drifted so far from its roots.
Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists - geniuses in the laboratory, but socially challenged everywhere else. Enter beautiful, street-smart neighbor, Penny, who aims to teach them a thing or two about life. Despite their on-again, off-again relationship in the past, Leonard believes he's found true love with Penny. Even Sheldon has found a female companion, entering into a "Relationship Agreement" with neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler. In their free time, Leonard and Sheldon continue to enjoy frequent trips to the comic book store and fantasy role-playing games with their ever-expanding universe of friends, including fellow scientists Koothrappali, Wolowitz and Wolowitz's adorable microbiologist wife, Bernadette
http://www.cbs.com/shows/big_bang_theory/about/
Amazing that even in the description how they've phrased things "Leonard believes he's found true love with Penny", "Sheldon has found a female companion", and the fact they have to make sure to tell us "In their free time, Leonard and Sheldon continue to enjoy frequent trips to the comic book store and fantasy role-playing games" not to mention how they marginalized two of the original 5 by "their ever-expanding universe of friends, including fellow scientists Koothrappali, Wolowitz and Wolowitz's adorable microbiologist wife, Bernadette.
What a bunch of trying to save face crap.
“There are no scenes more fun to do, I feel like, than the ones between Sheldon and Penny. They are such a wonderful odd couple.” - Jim Parsons