Reminder: Wil Wheaton will be on The Big Bang Theory tonight! I don’t know if I’ll be able to watch tonight since I’m traveling, but I’m hoping.
And folks: if you comment below, PLEASE DON’T POST SPOILERS. Mmmmkay?
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October 19th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
i dont have TV, they cut our line. i guess thats what happens when you dont pay. and are hooked up illegally
hey my roommate did it not me
October 19th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Gee, two man crushes in one post!
October 19th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
SPOILER ALERT: Wil gets capped up on the school’s steps.
No, wait, that was Toy Soldiers. Never mind.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I saw the pilot of Big Bang Theory and thought it was unwatchable dreck.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
The butler did it!
October 19th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
SPOILER: Wesley goes off with the Traveller but comes back for the occasional cameo.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
No no. Wil is the creepy owner of a Motel that ends up getting shmucked by an 18 wheeler… Oh wait, that was Criminal Minds.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
The gang sees him one a train and Raj and Wolowitz tries to hit on him sorry that Summer Glau.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Wil Wheaton dies.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
On this very special Big Bang Theory they find drugs in Sheldon’s office supplied by Wil Wheaton.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Leonard, Sheldon, Raj, Wolowitz and a security officer played by Wil Wheaton beam down to a planet to find a source of dilithium.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Spoiler: Wil Wheaton changes his name so that Stewey’s pronunciation of it doesn’t P-Off Brian. Oh, sorry, Family Guy!
October 19th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
It turns out that darth vader is luke’s father.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Unrelated, but, PHIL!!! Have you seen today’s Big Picture?? Saturn at equinox!!! “animated series of images of Saturn’s F Ring”, 3rd from the bottom, is particularly fascinating!
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/saturn_at_equinox.html
October 19th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
No worries, Wil reverses the polarity.
October 19th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Wil has a trashcan of a comic book that is estimated at a value of….
wait, that was NUMB3RS….
J/P=?
October 19th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Wil Wheaton, Leonard, Howard & Raj have an adventure while trying to find a dead body.
Nope, that was Stand By Me. Sorry.
October 19th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Phil, ignore all those Spoiler Alerts, because none of them are true.
It was Professor Plum, in the kitchen with the pipe wrench.
He always did have shifty eyes …
October 19th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
WHEATON!!!!!
October 19th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Just watched the show. They want to get something for penny for her birthday. Wolowitz comes up with an idea. They go scouting for talent and enter a certain type of club and Wil is performing.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
It was a fun episode.
October 19th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
It has a laughter track, therefore guaranteed crap. Five minutes was more than enough…
You’d think with all the technology these days that they could at least make the laughter track optional.
October 19th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
No Spoilers, Phil …
But, I would Keep your Klingon Phrase-Book Handy!
On Another Topic, does Anybody Else here Have an Eidetic Memory …
Plus, isn’t it Just HORRIBLE?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlessedWithSuck
October 19th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Will looks old with that beard, makes me feel old…
October 20th, 2009 at 12:33 am
@22 I’ve been to a few tapings of the Big Bang Theory. It really is filmed in front of a live studio audience. Fun show, although 3 hours is a long time to sit through for 22 minutes of TV.
October 20th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Hey, I read the book Will is holding!
An awesome read! Well, for me it was.
October 20th, 2009 at 6:30 am
Who is wil wheaton?
October 20th, 2009 at 6:59 am
I was about to correct Ray, but I see it has already been done. I wonder if he’ll ever come back to this blog to read about how foolish he made himself look.
October 20th, 2009 at 7:09 am
I have both of those books.
October 20th, 2009 at 7:41 am
Isn’t that the Star Trek Reference manual? But Will was on Next Generation. Should he not have given you a Next Generation reference manual??
For old Slice of Sci Fi listeners…. Still need a life.
PfA.
October 20th, 2009 at 9:22 am
I would love to be able to watch the Big Bang on my iMac but it doesn’t appear to be accessible on Hulu and that’s about the only one I watch(Hey, I’m kinda retired so have to watch those pennies).
This is a not so subtle hint to the network.
Loved the out takes though.
GAry 7
Will Wheaton, post human, mutant. Yeah,, a lot like me, only prettier.
October 20th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I enjoyed last night’s show, but I am ashamed to admit, I was just as excited about the shirt Wil was wearing as anything. I’m relatively certain this was the first time that any Penny Arcade merch was ever on TV. I’m delighted Wil has a Fruit F****cker Shirt.
He has a great bit on his blog about getting into the character of “delightfully evil Wil Wheaton” for the show.
October 20th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Is it a bad sign that I guessed what Sheldon said to Wil, before Wil translated it for us?
Darren:
Apparently, the show hits a little close to the mark for him?
April:
Anyone who would kill an enchanted bunny with a rock can’t be all bad.
October 20th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Maybe this is why someone did not like the pilot episode of TBBT – from Wikipedia:
“The show’s initial pilot, developed for the 2006–07 television season, was substantially different from its current form. Only Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki were in the cast, and their across-the-hall neighbor (now played by Kaley Cuoco) was a much meaner character. The show was not picked up, but the creators were given an opportunity to revise the show, bringing in the remaining leading cast and retooling the show to its current format.[23]”
Think of TBBT as the geek version of Will and Grace.
Makes geeks more acceptable to the general public.
October 20th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
I watched The Big Bang Theory or recorded it on my computer TV and rewatched it and kind of got into it, but I haven’t gotten to see it this year. Our local CBS station was running CSI: Miami instead. I don’t know if it was a really new episode or a rerun. It involved genetically engineered corn that sometimes “accidentally” made botulism toxin.
So, I was disappointed not to get to see this particular episode.
Especially since the same station is rerunning Star Trek: The Next Generation late nights after the news.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:26 pm
“Did he just say ‘Revenge is a dish best served cold’ in Klingon?”
October 21st, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Coming up on The Big Bang Theory:
Nude Katee Sackhoff to guest on Big Bang Theory??
J/P=?
October 21st, 2009 at 9:02 pm
So BA, how did it go when you banged Hwil Hweaton? Or whatever that was all about.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:45 am
I’m delighted Wil has a Fruit F****cker Shirt.
I felt so cool for recognizing that.
Wait. What’s the opposite of cool?
October 25th, 2009 at 2:36 am
I have had a space shuttle operators manual since something like 1986-7ish… I love that books as well as a Mars Exploration book sort of like the shuttle book… very fun when you are in elementary school and very into space.