I've always felt like Sheldon was written less sympathetically than Jim Parsons manages to play him, and some of what Lee is talking about are symptoms or manifestations of that.

Incidentally, I don't think any of that needs to be whitefonted in here.

I caught the first episode in syndication last week, and it was startling to remember how much more socially aware Sheldon was when the series started. I feel like what happened with Phoebe on Friends happened with him -- they took a fun, quirky, but realistic character and shaved off everything but the quirks.

I feel like what happened with Phoebe on Friends happened with him -- they took a fun, quirky, but realistic character and shaved off everything but the quirks.

I find that's quite common in sitcoms that stay on the air for any length of time. (Married with Children is where I first noticed it.)

Well, Friends did the same with Ross, more or less. He was very caricatured by the time the show ended.

But Sheldon and Penny haven't really been pigeonholed that way.

So, Andy Samberg is making a cop show with the exec producers of Parks & Rec, and now Andre Braugher is going to be on it, too. I guess I'll be watching... [link]

!!!

I mean, right?

Ooooh.

Braugher isn't *great* at comedy though.

As long as no one tells him it's a comedy, and he plays it completely straight, he'll be fine.