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TV Show title

What is the name of the current TV show where three or four genius nerds live together in an apartment? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.8.77.237 (talk) 03:04, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

The Big Bang Theory. Toodles. --Jayron32 03:12, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

You appear to be thinking of either The Big Bang Theory or Accidentally on Purpose (TV series). Neither is exactly about 4 genius nerds living together. -- kainaw™ 03:13, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

The characters on Accidentally on Purpose are hardly geniuses, though "nerd" might apply. The four main male characters on Big Bang Theory are geniuses, but only two of them live together. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 20:42, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Extras

What are the extras we see in movies or TV series paid? The largest number of extras were used in "Gandhi".Were they paid? Do extras work unpaid?Adi4094 (talk) 10:53, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

See Extra (actor)#Salary and working conditions. --Tango (talk) 11:29, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

That article only applies to the USA. According to IMDb, much of Gandhi (film) was filmed in India (the rest in the UK), where wages are far below US rates. The Channel 4 website says the film used hundreds of thousands of extras - 300,000 extras in the funeral scene alone, of which 200,000 were volunteers and the rest received a very small payment.[1] --Nigelpackham (talk) 12:22, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

I was an extra in Spielberg/Cruise's War of the Worlds remake and got $40 a day & a meal to freeze my ass off in combat gear in the back of a truck driving in circles through the SW Virginia countryside in order to film the scene where Cruise and the kid are arguing on the side of the road while the military convoy rumbles past. None of us were there for the money though, we just wanted to be "in" the movie. It was neat to see the production from the other side. And if you're wondering, yes, I made it into the final cut - I'm clearly visible for approximately 0.8 seconds. XD 218.25.32.210 (talk) 06:48, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Aha! So that was you! :) →Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 06:53, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Ref-desk in-joke: That should be "0.8 second". Not a film, but when I worked for a week as a super for the Stuttgart Ballet in 1971, the pay was $20 a performance. I was, among other things, the front man on the Duke of Verona's sedan chair in Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. He was heavy. Deor (talk) 23:41, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Be it .8 second or .8 seconds, that's still nearly a second better than "Sir Not-appearing-in-this-picture", from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. →Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 03:32, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

What a helpful comment. Such a lot to do with answering the question. So relevant. Thanks, Bugs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.251.196.62 (talk) 13:35, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

By my count 209, it was about as helpful as your comment. Or my comment on your comment for that matter. Googlemeister (talk) 19:22, 16 October 2009 (UTC)