Chuck Lorre Productions

Original post date: Monday, October 06, 2008


Chuck Lorre Productions

Chuck Lorre Productions
Have you ever watched a Chuck Lorre Production? He writes the Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, and used to write Dharma & Greg. At the end of each of his shows he has a vanity card, this is the card that says who wrote the show. Some production companies you might be familiar with just by their vanity cards:

That's one bad hat Larry.
Sit Ubu Sit. Good Dog.
Harpo, Prodcutions
Mutant Enemy (this one is of the poster monster going Grr, Arrg)

Anyways if you watch television and pay attention at the end of your favorite show you will see someones vanity card, maybe just one, maybe three, but usually attached to the lower production company there is the bigger companies attached to it (i.e. Paramount, Fox, TriStar - although I don't think TriStar is around any more)

Anyways at the end of a Chuck Lorre production he has a vanity card, he was the first to utilize this as another way to communicate to his audience. Before DVR's you used to have to record the show on your VCR and then pause it at the end to actually read it (now that was a dedicated fan, I never did that, because I didn't watch any of his shows until the Big Bang Theory).

So one day I saw one and thought what did that say and went on a quest to see if I could find them online, and of course he has them posted on his website http://www.chucklorre.com in case you want to see them all.

I read tonight's and thought - Wow, this guy...we could be friends because of the crazy stuff that he thinks. Anyways here is the vanity card from tonight's Big Bang Theory:


CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, 219

On a recent trip to Las Vegas I watched a grim, beer-bellied man row a gondola filled with tourists through the "canals of Venice." This was his job. At some point he had to have filled out an application and undergone an interview process to determine if he had the necessary skills to be a pretend gondolier eight hours a day, five days a week. As he glided past me I found myself imagining him walking into his house at the end of a long day, tossing his keys into the cheap ceramic bowl by the front door and sadly calling out to his wife, "I'm home." To which she would cheerfully respond, "How was work today, sweetie?" But instead of saying "fine," which was how he answered that question every other day, he paused and considered the days' events, and all the events that had led him to this point in his life. Then he crossed to the hall closet, took down a shoe box from the hat shelf, removed a small caliber pistol that he'd bought for home protection, and immediately blew his brains out all over the badly framed photograph of him rowing Barry Manilow. Waking from my brief reverie, I found myself suddenly filled with compassion and respect for this stranger of the inland sea. Compassion for his quiet desperation. And respect that he chose not to take his cheerful wife with him.

I don't know about you, but Vegas always does this to me.

1st Aired: 6 October 2008

If this intrigued you, please go read his other ones, there are a lot and some are just weird but fun to peruse.