My Favourite Sitcoms

“A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs. Most of the sitcoms consist on the same characters in a common place such as a home or workplace”. After a day of school or work, the best thing you can do is lay down on the couch and watch some sitcoms, it’ll cheer you up for sure. What I like most about them is that if you missed one episode you’ll still understand the next one, as the “problem” or situation is usually started and ended in the same episode. Two of my favorite’s sitcoms are “Two and a Half Men” and “The Big Bang Theory”

“The Big Bang Theory” is the newest one. The plot is about two physicists (Leonard and Sheldon) who share the apartment. The sitcom stats when Penny their new neighbor moves next door. The difficulties this two have to relate with people out of their environment creates lots of funny situations. They have two friends: Howard Wolowitz who thinks he is like a “god” to women but he is actually very bad with them, and he lives with his mom (who treats him like a little child) and Rajesh Koothrappali who’s actually from India, which makes him feel discriminated by the others, and he feels so intimidated by women that he can’t speak with women unless he is under the effects of alcohol. Sheldon is and feels very superior to the others as he is very intelligent, and thinks he doesn’t need the approval of “inferior” minds. He has “Asperger’s syndrome” which makes him incapable of understanding any facial expressions, he understands everything literately and can’t even understand sarcasm.
“The series contains a lot of gags and references to real physical principles and theories, but clearly they are simplified to the maximum to be quickly understood by the audience that has no education in physics, mathematics or engineering”. The show also contains lots of things from “their” world such as Nintendo 64, Xbox, Nintendo WII, Facebook, Halo3, Apple, etc.

“Two and a Half Men” is about Charlie, a single man who lives in Malibu, has lots of money and works little. His life moves around sex, alcohol, gambling and smoking. His peaceful life gets interrupted when his brother Alan who is actually a very polite man moves in with him after getting kicked out of his house by his ex-wife Judith after 12 years of marriage. He moves in with his son, Jake, who is just thinking of food all time or watching TV. Along with them is Berta a very lazy and dominating maid who creates even more conflict to their lives. Besides being very different Alan and Charlie try to create a stable home for Jake and try to help him grow up little by little.

If you like sitcoms or just need a good laugh you should consider watching the series I’ve mentioned before. You can watch all of them in Warner Channel almost every day. They make my day lot better, maybe yours too.

Source of reference: www.wikipedia.com

Guillermo Neme