CBC Radio⁠49%

Barenaked Ladies frontman Ed Robertson wrote the Big Bang Theory theme in the shower ⁠45%

By CBC Radio⁠0%

6/20/2024, 8:39:39 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Appeal to Emotion, and Unattributed Quote, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 29.7% saturation with 94 hits. Analysis detected 607 faulty-reasoning hits from 317 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 47.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠45% (12,111 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 55.30% of the article peer group.

You are likely aware that the Barenaked Ladies wrote the theme song for The Big Bang Theory. 
But what you may not know, is how that collaboration came to be. 
One night in Los Angeles, show creator Chuck Lorre had attended a Barenaked Ladies concert, and lead singer Ed Robertson sang an impromptu rap about the origins of the universe. 
Lorre was developing a new sitcom called The Big Bang Theory at the time – and in that moment, he thought the Barenaked Ladies would be perfect to write a fun theme song for the show. 
He contacted Ed Robertson in 2005, who wrote it in the shower one morning, in about 15 minutes. 
Since the show was a big hit, and considering it's in reruns constantly, the Barenaked Ladies have made big coin from that theme song. 
Ed Robertson has since said it changed his life, more than any other song in the band's catalogue. 
He said the song has been very good to his family financially, and to his "grandchildren's family financially," which suggests the royalties are huge. 
When former frontman, Steven Page, left the Barenaked Ladies in 2009, he sued the band for his share of the song's royalties. 
Page said he was entitled to 20 per cent of the theme song royalties, and revealed that he believed the revenue was in excess of "one million dollars." 
For the final scene of the final episode of The Big Bang Theory, the band recorded a simple, and emotional, acoustic version of the theme. 
After 12 highly-rated seasons, The Big Bang Theory was over. 
But will live on for years. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 4.1%CBC Radio: 4.0%CBC: 2.6%Confirmation Bias4.1%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.3%CBC: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 7.6%CBC Radio: 2.0%CBC: 3.1%Availability Heuristic7.6%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.7%CBC: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 1.2%CBC: 1.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 8.8%CBC Radio: 3.0%CBC: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias8.8%This article: 4.1%CBC Radio: 3.2%CBC: 4.2%Framing Effect4.1%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.1%CBC: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.4%CBC: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.1%CBC: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 1.9%CBC Radio: 1.8%CBC: 4.0%Optimism Bias1.9%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.7%CBC: 1.4%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 6.9%CBC Radio: 2.9%CBC: 5.7%Negativity Bias6.9%This article: 7.6%CBC Radio: 1.6%CBC: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias7.6%This article: 7.6%CBC Radio: 0.6%CBC: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error7.6%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.3%CBC: 1.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.5%CBC: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 13.6%CBC Radio: 1.7%CBC: 3.6%Halo Effect13.6%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 3.2%CBC Radio: 0.3%CBC: 1.2%Recency Bias3.2%This article: 5.4%CBC Radio: 0.3%CBC: 0.4%Primacy Effect5.4%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.2%CBC: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.1%CBC: 0.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.7%CBC: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 2.9%CBC: 3.7%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 1.3%CBC: 1.3%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.2%CBC: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 1.0%CBC: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 7.6%CBC Radio: 5.0%CBC: 4.8%Hasty Generalization7.6%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.4%CBC: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 15.5%CBC Radio: 2.6%CBC: 4.2%Appeal to Emotion15.5%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.9%CBC: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 18.9%CBC Radio: 1.8%CBC: 2.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)18.9%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.2%CBC: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 1.0%CBC: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.4%CBC: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 29.7%CBC Radio: 3.1%CBC: 3.3%Anecdotal29.7%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.3%CBC: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 10.7%CBC Radio: 1.6%CBC: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)10.7%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.1%CBC: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.6%CBC: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 14.5%CBC Radio: 1.3%CBC: 1.1%Unattributed Quote14.5%This article: 9.5%CBC Radio: 1.0%CBC: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection9.5%This article: 4.4%CBC Radio: 2.5%CBC: 4.8%Biased Writer Voice4.4%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 1.0%CBC: 2.4%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.0%CBC: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC Radio: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 10.1%CBC Radio: 1.3%CBC: 1.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…10.1%

317 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers22%attributed speech247writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 36 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 0.0% coverageEd Robertson • 18 words • 100.0% coverageEd Robertson • 24 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 0.0% coverageSteven Page • 28 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Ed Robertson

100%flagged-word coverage
42 attributed words60% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%22.5%45.0%Unattributed Quote+42.9 ptsWriter: 0.0%Ed Robertson: 42.9%42.9%Attempt to Sell a Product -13.0 ptsWriter: 13.0%Ed Robertson: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-12.1 ptsWriter: 12.1%Ed Robertson: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-5.7 ptsWriter: 5.7%Ed Robertson: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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