{"id":3475,"date":"2014-05-16T17:40:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T21:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2014-05-16T17:40:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T21:40:22","slug":"the-big-bang-theory-season-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/the-big-bang-theory-season-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Bang Theory (season 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Who knows? You said you\u2019d be home yesterday, but came home three days ago. You say you\u2019re taking me to work, but for all I know I\u2019ll end up in a deserted amusement park, or a cornfield maze or a back alley dog fight. You tell me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Leonard is away at sea for the summer, Sheldon and Penny spend a lot of time together. When Leonard returns, he wants to spend a couple of days alone with Penny. Raj is back to being single, but he can now talk to women without drinking alcohol. Raj creates a scavenger hunt for the rest of the gang to complete &#8212; some members turn out to be more competitive than others. Amy and Bernadette go to a biology convention together, and men buy them drinks in the hotel bar. Sheldon does some calculations that lead to the discovery of a new element, but then he discovers a mistake in his calculations. Howard writes a song for Bernadette to celebrate the anniversary of their first date &#8212; so Penny vows to do something romantic for Leonard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Big Bang Theory<\/strong> season 7 just finished. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/the-big-bang-theory-season-6\/\">season 6<\/a> it manages to go where it hasn&#8217;t gone before while remaining hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>It helps to have likeable characters who have interesting things going on in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Wil Wheaton (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/stand-by-me\/\"><strong>Stand By Me<\/strong><\/a>) returns as &#8220;himself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bob Newhart (the TV show <strong>The Bob Newhart Show<\/strong>) reprises his role as Professor Proton, and Bill Nye (the TV show <strong>Bill Nye the Science Guy<\/strong>) plays himself.<\/p>\n<p>James Earl Jones (Darth Vader&#8217;s voice in <strong>Star Wars<\/strong>) plays himself and Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia in <strong>Star Wars<\/strong>) has a cameo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Who knows? You said you\u2019d be home yesterday, but came home three days ago. You say you\u2019re taking me to work, but for all I know I\u2019ll end up in a deserted amusement park, or a cornfield maze or a back alley dog fight. You tell me.&#8221; While Leonard is away at sea for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16,5,11],"class_list":["post-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-comedy","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4968,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions\/4968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}