Sitcomy Goodness.

On a recent flight, while paging through the Sky Mall catalog and wishing I could afford that upside-down tomato garden I so desperately need, I looked up and saw that following the in-flight movie, a TV show was about to air.

Gotta hand it to CBS– the show “Big Bang Theory” was never a thought in my mind until they had me as a captured audience. And one episode got me hooked.

It’s on tonight at 8 p.m., and I think it’s hilarious. The premise: a cute actress moves next door to two physicist grad students. Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon (the tall one), really steals the show.

Here’s a preview. Pardon the silly, inexplicable background music: