I love the Big Bang Theory.

I saw this episode of the Big Bang Theory the other day - this line jumped out at me as one of the recent classics as the geeky central characters have an argument over what DVD they're going to watch: "I don't want to watch Clone Wars the television series before Clone Wars the movie - I want George Lucas to disappoint me in the order in which he intended."

I love watching Big Bang Theory. I think partly because I'm one-fifth geek (that's as intellectual as I can be), partly because it's genuinely hilarious and partly because it reminds me of fun times with Carolan and Andy, who I was living with when the first series came on in the UK.

Jim Parsons is just magical to watch as Sheldon Cooper, he has a Rowan Atkinson quality about him, a sort of 'what would Mr Bean have been like as a savant' feel. Sheldon answers questions like 'how have you been?' with: "Well, my existence is a continuum, so I've been what I am at each point in the implied time period."

I think it's great to have television that's unashamedly smart in its setting out - I don't get half of the jokes and references in the script, but I do love watching comedy that has been written by people smarter than me. I hate seeing stuff that's written by some half-witted imbecile, feeling I could have written that last line much better.

Chuck Lorre, who writes Big Bang Theory, is some kind of writing come-god. Not only is he hilarious, but multitalented too - he wrote the theme to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ('he's a radical rat!'). And he does these tremendous vanity cards at the end of every episode. I pause at the end of every episode to have a read - it's the most funny blog you've ever seen, and it's in a half-second clip at the end of a sitcom. Amazing stuff.