Big Bang Theory

Steve Wozniak, Apple Co-Founder, will guest star on the 2nd episode of the new season The Big Bang Theory. The episode is title, The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification. On the episode, airring Thursday, September 30, Sheldon realizes he won't live long enough to download his consciousness into a robot body, and attempts to extend his lifespan. Check out picture above for y our first look at the episode.. What do you think this means for Sheldon?Are you excited to see Steve Wozniak?

I don't understand, why is he on the show? Since the beginning of TBBT they always make fun of apple and they are right, as good geeks they use non-closed source software. We know that Sheldon use Linux and windows and I don't remember the name of the episode but he said he loves Ubuntu. Linus Torvalds would have been a better choice. However, I hope that this picture means that Sheldon doesn't want to meet Wozniak in person, and I hope writers will remember that Sheldon, Leonard and Howard don't like Apple. It would be so disappointing to see guys saying they like Apple just because Wozniak is on the episode.

Hellooooooooo.....it's a sitcom!!! :o)

" Are you excited to see Steve Wozniak?"

<yawn> And if it were Jobs <yawn><yawn>.... Frankly, I'm more excited to see Penny every week.

What so special about Steve Wozniak ??? This is a sitcom, not a computer conference....

Absolutely, hope it involves some discussions of his old hacks - blue box would be interesting. Though dancing with the stars references would be awkward.

op1um666 wrote:

I don't understand, why is he on the show? Since the beginning of TBBT they always make fun of apple and they are right, as good geeks they use non-closed source software. We know that Sheldon use Linux and windows and I don't remember the name of the episode but he said he loves Ubuntu. Linus Torvalds would have been a better choice. However, I hope that this picture means that Sheldon doesn't want to meet Wozniak in person, and I hope writers will remember that Sheldon, Leonard and Howard don't like Apple. It would be so disappointing to see guys saying they like Apple just because Wozniak is on the episode.

Sure looked like they were using iPhones in some of the episodes, and do I remember an iMac or Macbook in the background in an episode (product placement)?

Raj has a Mac (17 inch notebook). He has had it on a number of episodes for Season 3 and Season 2 I believe.

well Idon't remember the dialogs exactly but I remember that Sheldon uses and the guy uses PC's (linux for Sheldon, he said that several times and we can see that on his computer screen). Raj is the only one to have a Mac and an Ipod. By the way Sheldon criticize this Ipod on the episode "The Staircase Implementation".

On an another episode when Sheldon is sad (I don't remember the name) Leonard and Raj asked him to go with them to the Apple Store to laugh about salesmen to cheer him up.

Finally, on the episode "The Einstein approximation" when Sheldon is working with Penny, he said exactly :

"I asked myself, what is the most mind-numbing pedestrian job conceivable, and three answers came to mind: uh, toll booth attendant, Apple Store genius...[...] and I refuse to contribute to the devaluation of the word "genius"

I know it's only little details but since the beginning of the show we learned that they don't love Apple. It's the only thing that bothers me, I hope this episode will match with the rest of the show.

And rothgarr, I think if people know or recognize Steve Wozniak that means that they are geek-enough to know who is Linus Torvalds. I tried to show TBBT to non-geek people they didn't like it because they didn't understand the jokes. So I really think that people watching the show and understanding all the jokes are geek-enough to know major contributors to the IT world.

Ps : yes, it's "just" a sitcom but a sitcom of geeks for geeks and you know what a geek is? it's just natural that we are passionate about this show and we want everything to match perfectly

If you pay more attention, you'll notice that in the corner of their apartment is a iMac sitting there but it's never used.

Also the cast have made fun of Apple on various occasions including the time when Sheldon was stuck on a problem and was looking for a less mentally challenging job. He said he didn't want to be an Apple Store Genius because he didn't want to participate in the degrading of the word 'genius'.

op1um666 wrote:

I don't understand, why is he on the show? Since the beginning of TBBT they always make fun of apple and they are right, as good geeks they use non-closed source software. We know that Sheldon use Linux and windows and I don't remember the name of the episode but he said he loves Ubuntu. Linus Torvalds would have been a better choice. However, I hope that this picture means that Sheldon doesn't want to meet Wozniak in person, and I hope writers will remember that Sheldon, Leonard and Howard don't like Apple. It would be so disappointing to see guys saying they like Apple just because Wozniak is on the episode.

Was at the taping of this epsidoe....funny! (not one the best that I have seen, but it was funny)

The apple haters are almost as bad as the fanboys.

"OMG I saw the name apple! This person was (Note: not since 23 years ago) associated with apple! I'm going to assume that he's exactly like apple as it is today, an enemy of geekdom!!!!!"

The guys liking wozniak would not at all be out of character. He is a geek icon.

If it was Steve Jobs appearing, then yeah I would hope the guys dislike him.