The Big Bang Theory is an American situation comedy with science as background story. The stories happen mainly between four scientists and one girl in Pasadena, California. The program is created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady. The main characters are Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper, both of them are physicists and also roommates; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; Howard Wolowitz, the mechanical engineer and Raj Koothrappaliand, the astrophysicist.
The audience I think is supposed to be most of the educated people from teenage from high school adults. People from this gap I think can understand the comedy the most. The topic of the comedy is most the life between there five young people and sometimes there will be some jokes about science for us to learn. For this program, all the science related jokes will be showed in form of conversation between characters in the comedy.
For the images, words and sounds of the programs, I think they work perfectly fine together. At the start, there is a theme song which have lyrics about the “Big Bang Theory”(astronomy). There are so many thing we can learn from the song. During the conversation between characters, the words they say and the images can really help audience to learn what they do not know.
To be honest, I think it still has limited function on helping people learning. There is too little science related knowledge for people to learn and even there are some of it, it is just too hard to us to memorize it since they are spoken by the scientists in the show. However, it is better than nothing. Also I think it is the way that most people enjoy on learning. Maybe a little more improvement can make it works better on helping people learn.
WRT 102.22: Science & Society 