One Does Not Simply Ignore the Big Bang Theory

With as large a fan-base as The Big Bang Theory…and for as many Fans Talk articles I’ve written…you might have gathered the freedoms of speech, thought, internet, and ms paint, led to a good bit of joke-juggling and ‘fandom’ creativity. I only mean memes, of course.
Internet memes are witty nuances, phrases and comments, paired up with pictures that collectively say the “unsaid.” What everyone else has thought and is thinking. There isn’t a “what” to memes, especially…more like a when. No one knows why memes stick the way they do, but timing is everything.

As were every one of the Big Bang Theory memes floating around my social networks this morning. Fans produce them to be witty; a mark they sometimes hit and sometimes…not so much.

Memes commonly strike comparisons. “What I think,” versus “what others think.” This particular meme doesn’t sit idle with BBT. Why, when one things about THE Big Bang Theory, they’re probably picturing the actual theorem, not the small city-apartment of four scientists.
Or, the picture of an out-of-character Kaley Cuoco and Jim Parsons side-by-side, Kaley donning nerd-esque glasses and Jim looking especially punk. They focused on an alternate-universe character-swap (AU).

Sometimes they delve on one character’s traits and plug them into other pictures or roles. I’m looking at a picture of Sheldon right now, his head photoshopped in the place of the Dos Equis Most Interesting Man in the World. The caption? “I don’t always crack jokes…but when I do, bazinga.”
Raj’s social anxiety didn’t go unnoticed, or unscathed. This meme double-whammy pictures Koothrappali looking into the distance with a confused expression. The tagline here reads, “Meets Justin Bieber, can’t talk to him,” implying that…well…

I could only afford to scrape the meager tip of a very large iceberg with this subject. Best leave you with a mental image you can’t burn away so easily: a motivational poster displaying Batwoman-Howard, Wonderwoman-Sheldon, Supergirl-Leonard, and a very enthusiastic Catwoman-Raj. The motivation itself borrows the (horrifying to some) quote: “I don’t know about you, but I feel empowered!”