Modern Family is great.

Modern Family is fantastic! Wednesday nights are even better than Mondays...Modern Family, The Middle, and Cougartown are all hilarious.
I wish they would've added Better Off Ted (criminally underwatched) to their Wednesday night comedy lineup when they axed Hank. But alas, they didn't, and it never found an audience. Now it's probably cancelled

Man, I think I'm the one that watches way too much TV.

Ditto... Wednesday nights are my favorite on TV.

I don't know what is on what nights - I only watch DVR now, except for sports.

I don't think I've watched a normal show live in a long time. I usually run about a week behind except for the shows I really want to watch (Lost, Family Guy, Big Bang) which i usually watch the day after.

I just read an entertainment news story that said they've got Mayim Bialik (the girl that played Blossom on the 90's TV show) to be a potential love interest for Sheldon. I think she could be funny, but I like single Sheldon!

This is definitely a TV night at our house. I do miss Accidently On Purpose, though.

One of my favorite Big Bang episodes was the one where Sheldon was trying to get his drivers license.

I think the love interest thing for Sheldon could make for a series of hilarious episodes. I wouldn't worry about it being permanent - we know how Sheldon is!

I love the one with Sheldon learning to drive! There aren't too many I didn't like, though. I love the camping trip one as well.

Not so fond of Asperger-as-comedic-fodder.

One of my favorite episodes was the Christmas one when Penny got Sheldon the autographed napkin. Too darn funny.

It could be pretty good. I loved the episode where Sheldon was Raj's wingman and the girl was telling him Raj and her friend were getting hot and heavy in the other room, so could she stay in his room and he says of course and goes to stay in Leonard's room! DOH!

I don't understand the context of this quote at all. Noone on the show has Aspergers.

The character of Sheldon displays a fair number of Asperger attributes and behaviors. You're correct, no one explicitly says "Sheldon has Asperger Syndrome.", they just use Asperger behaviors as the source of jokes. In my opinion.

OK. The remote is a great invention.

Yes it is. I apologize if contrary opinions are not permitted in this thread.

Not the issue-just not seeing the Aspbergers link or using it as a source of the jokes.

Well, if you don't see the first, you can't see the second.

From Wikipedia:

Asperger's Syndrome - one of the autism spectrum disorders - intense preoccupation with a narrow subject, one-sided verbosity, restricted prosody, and physical clumsiness are typical of the condition, but are not required for diagnosis.

I remember they discussed this at the beginning of last season - but the writers insisted they took the character of Sheldon from the odd habits of many people they knew all put together, and not somebody with the disease.

Thank you.

Why does there always have to be an underlying issue? It's a silly, entertaining show. You either watch it or choose to change the channel.

They are physics geeks. Not known for their social skills. Bazinga!!

Can you imagine a sitcom about compliance and audit geeks?

:pondering the symptoms I would show:

Bingo! I don't think all the physics majors I knew in college that were somewhat like this had aspergers. I do, however, think that some of them were extremely smart, bookworms with very little in the way of social skills.

To me Sheldon is more about extreme left brain and minimal right brain dominance.

Yes I could, but I don't think it would look much different. Except that the characters would look more frazzled, and we would be much cooler.

YES!!! We kept rewinding that and laughing our butts off. It was priceless! His reaction was hilarious.