WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT
The country’s Opposition Leader has left a group of people standing around awkwardly today.
The uncomfortable situation occurred a short time ago when Bill Shorten decided to drop a Season Two Big Bang Theory reference into a conversation with a number of people.
Conversing about some federal Labor policy with a couple of staffers and some other Canberra type people, the Opposition leader decided to throw in a one-liner from American sitcom The Big Bang Theory, a show popular with middle-aged dads for some reason.
“Haha that’s like that time Sheldon schooled Raj about Klingon,” laughed Shorten making some vague connection to a new policy he is planning to announce.
While a couple of the group sharply inhaled through their teeth and looked around, a couple of Shorten’s advisors made the effort to half laugh for a couple of seconds.
Already uncomfortable, Shorten then reportedly followed up the reference with one of the show’s catchphrases.
“Bazinga!” he said before walking off chortling to himself and shaking his head at the people who didn’t get the joke.
One of the staffers present told us that Shorten is partial to a ‘Bazinga’ far too often.
“Bill’s got a poster of Sheldon saying ‘Bazinga’ in his office. He loves the show. He always asks one of us to put it on when we fly,” the staffer said.
“I think he thinks we are all basic normies because we ‘don’t get the humour.”
“Obviously we have to entertain him and go along with it all, but it’s tough, very tough to laugh when he hits someone with a Bazinga mid-conversation.”
