Monday, September 19, 2011

Sheldon's Christmas Dilemna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlhHTdDqoBc

For those of you familiar with the brilliant work of Jim Parson's as the character Dr. Sheldon Cooper in the CBS hit series The Big Bang Theory, this clip is hilarious and kind of interesting to look more into. The first thing I'd like to point out is the outfit that Penny has on when she comes to the door. A tight fitted green shirt and a little red vest, signifying the "Christmas Spirit," not to mention the Santa hat that she's wearing. The concept of Santa Claus is a symbol for Christmas to people around the world, the jolly man dressed from head to toe in red delivering presents to everyone in one night. Penny could have worn a black jumpsuit over to 4A and no one would understand that it's Christmas but as soon as she throws on that obnoxious red hat my mind jumps straight to Christmas time.
When Sheldon comes out is when things get good. He's wearing a purple robot shirt, moreso making him the "Geek" that he is. That makes one start to think that he obviously has no holiday spirit, not sporting any red or green, traditional Christmas colors. Penny gives Sheldon the autographed napkin and he all but faints when reading who the autograph is from, and of course, it's Leonard Nemoy, or Spok from the original Star Trek series. Sheldon says all he needs is a healthy ovum to grow his own LN, going into the "Trekkie" stereotype, in which followers of Star Trek are deeply obsessed and furthermore labeled as Geeks. Sheldon comes back with all of the gifts he had potentially prepared to give to Penny, which in itself is hilarious because apparently he's never heard the phrase "It's the thought that counts." The end of the episode is simply heart-warming for those that know the show. Sheldon makes up for the "shortage" in his gifts by giving Penny a hug, and having no human feelings, this is a huge step for Sheldon. Looking at it from Penny's point of view, if Sheldon wouldn't have gotten her anything and merely just hugged her, it probably would have meant more to her than anything he would have bought her.

1 comment:

  1. Interesting blog, every heartwarming. I would have to say this show would be a great signifier of a typical social satirical show because it focus on the christmas holiday. But im not surprised that a united states show wouldn't. But it leads me believe that we stray away from the holidays of other culture, such as Hanukkah, Eid al-Adha, Yule, Kwanzaa, etc, which are equally as important as christmas is. Which is kinda funny because we are the great melting pot of the world.

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