The rest of Season Grate (Eps 8.07-8.15 and 8.17)

[Nutz]

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.

the original goal of this post was to point out series descriptions that you would see on DirecTV, or cable guides and what expectations a viewer might have for episodes of that show. I gave examples of other series descriptions I found for shows and found that for the most point any episode somebody watched, (no matter if it was season 1,3 or 8) It would still feel fit the description that was given for that show.

Now we get to BBT and its description "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."

From that description I would expect that the show (no matter what episode) would fall under the umbrella of Penny slowly teaching Leonard and Sheldon about how to navigate real life (most likely in a one step forward two steps back formula), maybe a romantic triangle in that context, and assuming that the teacher would also be taught in certain instances. (Plus a little odd Couple tomfoolery)

Unfortunately, I sidetracked myself and went off in a completely different direction. So let me get back to the original question I had. Do you feel like this description of the show is accurate? Is the show still really about this overall principle statement? Cause TPTB say it's still true to its roots, that the series description still is what the show is about (just with some organic growth). I say bullcrap.