UPDATE:   Umm…did I do that?  These videos all had thousands of hits.  Then I link to them tonight and inside of two hours they are all removed by YouTube!  I can’t believe how much work I put into this post and now all the videos are gone.  I’m sorry you won’t be able to see these clips.  If I can find an alternate source, I will replace them.  Funny thing is…I originally ended this post with the phrase, “I know YouTube sometimes yanks copyrighted material but I hope CBS leaves these up because it’s great promotion for a great show,” but then I deleted it because it seemed like tempting fate.  Wish I had left it in; it would have made this funnier.

“Big Bang Theory” (Monday nights on NBC) is my favorite new show.  Blue Spider tells me it’s up against a show with Adam Baldwin (“Chuck”) so it may be that some of you are watching that instead.  If that’s the case, I want to show you what you’re missing.  Here’s the best scene of the season:

I think this is one of the smartest shows since Frasier. By that, I don’t mean that it will teach you physics or that it’s an extraordinary achievement. (It isn’t exactly Babylon 5.)  I just mean that it assumes the audience has a brain and an education.

They make very intelligent references without explaining them to the viewer, assuming that we have some understanding of the doppler effect and online gaming.  And they never fake their information assuming that no one will catch it (unlike, say, “The Lost Boys“).  There are even inside jokes like the names of the two main characters, Sheldon and Leonard.  (Ever since that hit me, I keep hearing “Out you two pixies go, through the door or out the window!” whenever someone says their names.)

Oh, and did I mention that the show is just geek heaven?

I hope you’ll all check it out.