- Hey everybody, it's Flag Day!
Happy Flag Day!
Do you wanna have some fun with flags?
'Cause that's what we're gonna do,
we're gonna have some fun about flags.
Okay.
Here are some questions you had
about my relationship to flags
through Fun with Flags
and also some other questions you had
just about flags in general.
Let's answer them all.
My favorite episode of Fun with Flags
is you dressed as a pretzel.
How long did it take you to get in and out
of the pretzel costume?
Great question.
I was actually wearing like a,
kind of a unitard under there.
So, that takes longer to get into,
'cause you gotta like, you know,
pull it tight over all your bits.
And then the pretzel itself,
you just kinda like, slip in
and then get out.
But you can't pee while wearing that.
So, found that out the hard way.
How do you shoot Fun with Flags
so that it looks like we're viewing it
through their video camera?
I love this question!
We're a four-camera show on the Big Bang Theory
and we use one of the cameras
to be the camera that we look into.
So, there will be a shot of the camera,
but then we go inside the camera
as our director Mark Cendrowski says,
and then they add some of those effects
to make it look like it's a video camera.
Here's a flag related question
that is not related to Fun with Flags,
but it's always fun with flags.
What is the most predominant color
in flags around the world?
I had to look this one up.
There are actually 192 flags around the world.
The most prominent colors are red, white, and blue.
30 flags have red, white, and blue.
77% of 192 flags have red in them.
Who wants to do that math?
I'll just wait while you do that.
What is 77% of 192?
(clock ticking)
(buzzer sounds)
'Kay.
How do you think Sheldon would feel
about the tradition of bar mitzvahs
of throwing someone up and down
on the Israeli flag?
First of all, I don't know how Mayim feels about that,
'cause she's just learning about that right now.
Maybe we'll do that at my son's bar mitzvah, maybe not.
I think that Sheldon would feel that
that is disrespectful to the flag.
Yeah.
Very.
Even though it kinda sounds like fun.
But not, nevermind.
What are you supposed to do with a tattered,
i.e., destroyed but still being used, United States flag?
Turns out there's three answers.
The first thing you can do with the flag
is you can bury it.
However, you have to bury it in a dignified wooden box.
You are also supposed to fold it correctly and respectfully.
Option number two.
Hmm.
This surprised me.
You can fold the flag properly,
lay it on a bonfire, I'm not kidding,
and you can burn it, quote, patriotically.
It should be saluted, someone should recite
the Pledge of Allegiance,
or sing the national anthem while it is being burned.
The third thing you can do with a flag that is tattered
is to shred it.
I'm not kidding.
Shredding is a thing.
Use sharp scissors, not dull scissors,
use sharp scissors to slowly and accurately
separate the stripes and leave
the blue field of stars intact
and then shred it.
Who knew?
What would a flag look like
if Amy and Sheldon were to design one
celebrating their union?
Wow.
That's a really cool question.
You know, I think that they would
probably find a combination of something physics-y
and something neurobiology-y.
That's not a word, but I said it anyway.
So, maybe there'd be something about
like, a brain and instead of neurons,
it would be atomic particles.
Somehow in the brain, that might be cool.
But that's not really what,
like, traditionally, flags are colors.
So, they'd probably just pick some colors.
And you know what colors I would pick?
Red, white, and blue.
Thanks for watching this special edition
of Fun with All Kinds of Flags.
Happy Flag Day,
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See ya next time.
Happy Flag Day.