The show is centered on five characters: roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper, Penny who lives across the hall, and Leonard and Sheldon's equally geeky and socially awkward friends and co-workers, Howard Wolowitz and Rajesh Kootrappali. The geekiness and intellect of the four guys is contrasted for comic effect with Penny's social skills and common sense. This could suggest that there are more male geeks than female, or at least more females that know what's right and what's wrong in reality. The show is filmed in front of a live audience, and this helps the show's comedy appearance as you'll hear the audience laughing and other reactions to what is going on. Much of the show is focused on science, particularly physics, and you see the characters often banter about scientific theories or news, and make science-related jokes. This definitely says a lot about the characters geek-sides simply because of the fact they can talk and joke about scientific knowledge easily.
Here i have included a screenshot from one of the show's episodes to show and talk about what the characters look like and who they are as characters. To start with all four of the guys aren't necessarily what you would call attractive, and they all wear clothes that they either think look good or aren't particularly bothered to say the least.
- Howard (bottom left) is distinguished amongst the rest for lacking a doctoral degree, for still living with his mother, and for believing himself to be a 'ladies man'. Having the bowl-style hair cut which in fact is one people often dislike, this adds to that geeky appearance he has. He also tends to wear loud, vintage, 1960-era outfits which you can see in the screenshot he is wearing a bright red shirt with a huge collar. This style may be popular with members of the public who are old fashioned, but stereotypically speaking his look doesn't do him many favours.
- Leonard (top left) is described as the straight man of the series, being Penny's main love interest. He doesn't have as much of a fashion problem as Howard, but usually wears his characteristic black-framed glasses and physics-themed t-shirts. This is a definite relation to geek's as they can often be described as involving their interests in their clothing or lifestyle. Even though he is comfortable with his geek colleagues he wants to be social, and tends to have the least amount of difficulty interacting with non-geek individuals.
- Sheldon (top right) is the one who tends to lack social skills, humility and empathy but still understands irony, sarcasm and humour well. These characteristics provide the majority of the humour involving him, and which has lead to him being described as the show's break-out character
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