Big Bang Theory often had correct physics written on the whiteboard. And that time drunk Leonard threw the beer bottle down the elevator shaft, timed it, and calculated the height was extremely accurate drunk physicist

It's easy to get accurate equations on a blackboard — you just hire a physicist to write them. (Which BBT did.) This is sort of the laziest form of expert consulting — the equivalent of getting a historian to consult on period-appropriate clothing, as opposed to a real integration with the writing.

They'd also have characters switch specialism at the drop of a hat iirc, which is not how it works in my experience.

And yet, everything from coffee cups to t-shirts to other shows usually just throws gobbledygook up there, often not even real mathematical notation. I didn't say it was perfect, just far better than most other things

The science writer for the show kept a blog for a while. (Looks like it ended in season 7). thebigblogtheory.wordpress.com/about/

But inaccurate academia. And kind of geared to make fun of nerds for the benefit of non-nerds.

My wife asked me once why I hated that show. I just said “they’re laughing at us, not with us.”

As the only female physics major in two different colleges, it was pretty on point. What you see as making fun of antics- we saw as fun 🤷 The female part? Pretty on point as well. Always lovely when there’s a guy who tears up if I get a higher test score…

IIRC, there was a season finale where some of them sabotaged the fourth guy’s NSF grant out of spite - and they were still all “haha, just quirky science friends” afterwards. Boggling.

There was an episode where they let a pigeon into some sort of clean room. At the end of the episode they had destroyed half the lab but they had never signed so hahaha they just left. I WAS LIVID.

Boggling? I think you mean

I mean, the sabotaging isn't crazy. But true, that would engender a lifelong blood feud

Yeah - that’s not a “forgive and forget” thing.

Not to mention some kind of serious consequences for the saboteur, for breaking GFE if nothing else.

also unpleasant about women

It got better though, when Lorre adjusted more to the times.

I gave up before that, I guess

In my experience, that last part was extremely representative of grad school