Without having read anything of the above, as I am really no TV guy, and most of the (good) US shows are not available over here anyway, I just watched the pilot of "The Big Bang Theory" on kino.to; These 20 minutes sure had a laugh-per-minute ratio beyond awesome! This might be due to my sharemate being a engineering student (one of the guys who will later on sit in porsche's development for sure) and me being a philologist who just spent his night watching the mavs on a crappy live stream while reading some aristotelean tragedy theory. Oh well.