The Big Bang Theory?

[ElPatron]

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I hated that joke because from any nerd's viewpoint Vista was a tremendous failure. I mean, 7 didn't hog so much resources, that's good!

But the whole "le" thing comes from reddit or 9gag or whatever. If you let social bookmarking websites taint an experience never expect to find it enjoyable.

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Come on, TBBT glorifies nerd culture a lot. They made the blond crush fall in love with the nerd. Come on, people who make fun of the nerds are portrayed as complete retards.

 

[Blind Sight]

I really don't go for any show with a laugh track. But my parents are in love with it.

Personally my favorite description of the show is by a friend of mine who called it "Nerd Black Face".

Damn it, you beat me to it, I was just going to say that the Big Bang Theory was the nerd equivalent of a minstrel show.

The IT Crowd does the whole nerd thing much better than the Big Bang Theory does.

At least in the IT Crowd they are not trying to actively rip the piss out of Nerds, but rather glorifying Nerd culture in more ways than one.

Also, I love the character development in that series. For example, at the beginning, Jen is just a normal young woman who got a job working with a bunch of Nerds, but then she becomes just as Nerdy as the other two main characters as the series goes on.

Yes the IT Crowd does do the whole 'nerd sitcom' thing much better, probably because the guy writing it is a fairly big nerd himself. Jen's slow realization that she has 'become what she loathed' is one of the best parts of series.

 

[gim73]

I really like the show. I think they are idiots for putting it up against community, because they have pretty much the same limited audience, but I'm just gonna watch it on the internet later so I don't really care if their initial ratings are hurt.

In general, CBS is the fail station. For years they have been pumping out the same garbage and rehashed versions of garbage, but now they finally give us a decent show. And it is decent. It's a fun show! I really can't say there are any particular episodes where I was like 'That was lame. Didn't work at all' They all work well.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

This is called syndication. It's on like three times a day now. As far as traditional live sitcoms, this is one of the sharper and better written ones. A lot of girls like this show, too. I got a date once by making reference to it (though only one date - she wanted a taller guy).

 

[The Funslinger]

Big Bang Theory has always been going strong, it just seemed to be unpopular because it got a lot of hate. It has occasionaly inaccuracies, the laugh track is overused, and it's simply just not all that plausible - so the nerds the show was meant to appeal to have shunned it and it's bred a subculture of people who think being nerdy is cool now so they wear stupid glasses and dorky clothes, co-opting an aesthetic and lifestyle that real geeks and nerds suffered with for decades before it suddenly became mainstream.

We earned the right to be nerdy. We fought for that. Now hipsters are taking it away while at the same time failing to relate to us. Many people blame shows like Big Bang for this.

I rather like the show myself. It's fun to watch and I'm invested in the characters. I just hope it doesn't last more than a couple more years - I think they could satisfyingly end it after season 6 or 7, but it's on the verge of seriously jumping the shark.

I agree. I enjoy the show, but I think it has brought out that hipster sub-culture.

The main problem I have is that while those people try to emulate nerdiness, they do it to a certain level and still decry actual nerds with some arbitrary line that once crossed is sad and pathetic.

"Hey Sheldon"
silence in the audience
"Hey Leonard"
A few chuckles are heard in the background
"My new computer came with Windows 7..."
The crowd begins to get hyped, a few drop like flies
"It's more more accessible than Windows Vista..."
Laughter is loudly starting to come up
"I don't like that"
The audience breaks in crazy laughter, the actors retreat from the set as the crowd starts choking and vomiting on each other, all the while exploding with roars of laughter so loud it's deafening

-An average The Big Bang Theory episode.

Brought to you by 4chan! Nice copy/paste skills there, bro.

 

[Reginald]

Hey, here's a joke for you Big Bang Theory fans. Ready? Here it comes! Star Trek! Ha! Get it? Well, I'll tell it again, just in case. And again after that, just to be sure. One more time for good measure. Well, folks, if you liked that, you're gonna love this! Ready? Stan Lee! Stan Lee, Stan Lee, Stan Lee! Ha, ha, ha! Ok, ok, catch your breath for this one, all right? Get ready, this one absolutely slays! Ready? Ok. String Theory. Oh, hoo hoo hoo! Ha ha ha! Hee hee hee! Spank me and call me Sally! Right, now, here's a girl that's supposed to be good looking, and get this, she'll a dullard! Oh, goodness me! Christ on a cracker! Paint me green and call me lettuce! Queen's nuts on a stick!

 

[The_Echo]

I like The Big Bang Theory.

Sitcoms are parodic farces on reality. Everyone in a sitcom is an exaggeration, people that probably wouldn't actually exist in reality.

As such, I don't really think too much about the quality of most sitcoms, because they're inherently kind of stupid (especially modern sitcoms). Some are better than others, and The Big Bang Theory certainly isn't the best. But it's fun to watch, so I don't really care.

Also, I don't have a clue how it seemed to get so popular all of a sudden. I started watching it about six months ago because my mom had started watching it, and it airs the same day of the week that I visit her.

Before I started watching it, I was convinced the show was about nerds trying to get laid. I thought the title was a pun to that effect.

 

[Sean951]

Seinfeld, from what I've seen, is just stupid. The only thing I laugh at from it now is the Soup Nazi.

It's the drawbacks of the Seinfeld effect. It no longer holds up to the standards because it was the standard that was copied ad nauseam.

See the amount of threads of people saying that HL2 is shit? Same thing.

Yeah, but I never really watched Sitcoms until HIMYM and Big Bang. Until then, I mostly just watched Law and Order and ER. I guess I also watched The Simpson's and some Futurama. Seinfeld just never did it for me.

 

[brunothepig]

I don't mind the show. I think some jokes are quite amusing, and the nerd references are usually quite good. Where I can't help but cringe is the "sciency" jokes. Because they're usually simplified or incorrect so that people get the gist of things at least, and it's just... Terrible. That and most of the characters aren't characters, they're caricatures. I like Sheldon because the actor portraying him does a great job, and he can be quite amusing, the rest are just taking the nerd stereotypes to (even more) ridiculous extremes. Well, so is Sheldon, but like I said, he does it well. Also he's the only one that has a reason for being so socially retarded.

So yeah, I watch it when I have nothing else to watch. Which is rare, since I usually wait for a show to finish airing then watch it all at once because I hate waiting for episodes. Also then I can watch it on my PC. I didn't realise they were up to, what, fifth season or something now?

EDIT:Going to just agree with the IT Crowd love. That is a fantastic show.

 

[ElPatron]

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If you had played Call of Duty, Battlefield and some other FPS, and then went back to HL2, it would not do anything for you. I played HL2 when it came out so I consider it a very good game.

However, if a reviewer were to analyze the game today, there is a chance it wouldn't get perfect scores no matter how much said reviewer tried.

Basically what you saw on HIMYM and TBBT "spoiled" you, since all modern sitcoms are some kind of derivative from Seinfeld.

 

[Sean951]

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If you had played Call of Duty, Battlefield and some other FPS, and then went back to HL2, it would not do anything for you. I played HL2 when it came out so I consider it a very good game.

However, if a reviewer were to analyze the game today, there is a chance it wouldn't get perfect scores no matter how much said reviewer tried.

Basically what you saw on HIMYM and TBBT "spoiled" you, since all modern sitcoms are some kind of derivative from Seinfeld.

Except I tried Seinfeld loooong before that.

I also still consider Perfect Dark and BF1942 my favorite shooters, though it is hard to use an N64 controller now that I'm used to 2 joy sticks or a Wii-mote.

 

[ElPatron]

Except I tried Seinfeld loooong before that.

It's fine, I know that Seinfeld can't please everyone. I only started paying attention to it after watching Curb Your Enthusiasm. I became curious about Larry David's work and bought a book about philosophy that was centered around Seinfeld characters.

I think Curb Your Enthusiasm might be more "watchable" than Seinfeld nowadays.

 

[TheNaut131]

I'm not the biggest fan of the show. The laugh track came in every few fucking seconds after the characters said something, as if it was supposed to be funny. And I don't mean like a few people in the audience chuckling, I'm talking about the same constant full on laughter as if what the character said was the funniest thing on the planet. It was kinda annoying. Plus, i just don't really like the characters in anyway.

So yeah, not big fan.

I still think Malcom in the Middle was the best sitcom in America...that's not saying much, is it?

 

[A Username Not In Use]

I used to enjoy watching it however in this country it's taken over from Friend's as being the go to programme when there a gap in the scheduale and it has now got to the point where I am sick of the sight of it simply because its always on. I starting to feel alot of sympathy for Friend's fans and I hated that show right from the start.

 

[Berithil]

Big bang theory? Never watched it (mainly because I despise laugh tracks with every fibre of my being... I DON'T NEED TO BE TOLD WHEN TO LAUGH, OK?). The way I see it, a laugh track would completely ruin a show that makes frequent geeky pop culture jokes. How? A character makes an obscure geek joke. Laugh track plays. People realize its supposed to be a joke and proceed to laugh at it and quote it with having absolutely no clue what its from.

Anyway, I've heard a lot of people talk about it, and most of them didn't seem to be the type who would really appreciate geeky references. Also, from what I've seen of the show, it seems very stereotypical. I actually was thinking about giving the show a chance because I thought that tons of geeks loved it, but reading through this thread has changed my mind.

 

[ThePS1Fan]

And they fact that when Sheldon paused Super Mario 64 on his N64 emulator it made the correct paused sound effect. Shit like that needs to happen on TV more often <.<

I also believe it played the main castle theme whenever he wasn't paused.

I think it's really funny. I like the references to nerd culture.

 

[Iwata]

I only recently started watching it, but I like it. I'm not a sitcom person by any means (the last one I liked was Seinfeld) but I like the humour in this show. Don't ask me why, I just find it funny.

 

[TwiZtah]

I cannot stand it- at first it was funny but like scrubs it has not held up at all under thought or scrutiny. Case in point- Penny and Leonard.

Penny I think is supposed to make you laugh because she's a little "out there" or just because of the "lol its a pretty girls with NERDS!" but I honestly don't find anything amusing about a person in stark denial about there failed goal in life, with a severe temper, rampant idiocy (really nobody should be that stupid)who frequently mooches off another person because "lol! I spent all my money on pretty things so now I can't pay the mean power company who cut me off" the combination of stupid, angry and "girl logic" is what really gets me

Leonard on the other hand is simply put (forgive the 4chan term) a Beatafag: a hopeless, obsessive worthless little shit of a person. The early episodes where he slavishly agrees and volunteers for more or less anything penny so much as mentions in passing where almost insufferable. His entire little world revolves around her and it sickens me- its not even love. She is just "pretty" and didn't laugh him down when they met so he formed an instant and severe infatuation. In short he is everything you would expect from a person like him...and you cannot help but think "yep a lot of your problems are your own Fucking Fault!"

granted it can be funny- I've started to care about bit characters more while the L&P dance is just old

Don't you dare say anything bad about Scrubs, it's the best show ever created. It managed to breakthough to the US audience (who seems to not able to know/or is too dumb to know when to laugh) without a damn laugh track.

 

[KingHodor]

As I said to @SmashLovesTitanQuest in another thread, there's a reason Jim Parsons (Sheldon) wins Emmys for his acting - it's a brilliant piece of characterisation that went above and beyond what the producers had intended.

And as I said before, fuck the Emmys and fuck Jim Parsons.

Didn't you say you were watching the German dubbed version? The dub removes pretty much any and all nuances from Sheldon's voice, which really is the comedic high point of the show.