The Big Bang Theory?

[Yopaz]

The Bing Bang Theory is simple and dumb comedy. It acts smart by taking up complicated themes, but it's not very intellectual. I enjoy watching it since it takes little thought to keep up with it. It's relaxing and suits me just fine. If I want to be intellectually challenged I'll read a book.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

The only thing I even remotely like about The Big Bang Theory is Sheldon Cooper, and even then, I don?t know why. He?s a horrible exaggeration of Aspergers? Syndrome sufferers and his ?Bazinga!? catchphrase is annoying. But at least, with him, the entire point of his character is that he's an insufferable and pretentious douchebag that constantly shits on his spineless and equally insufferable friends. The others don't get to skip off scot-free like that. Leonard is the closest of the series' "everyman" or main character, yet everything about him is grating.

Wolowitz still lives with his mother, how freakin' original lololol! *rolls eyes* Koothrappali is...the token Asian who occasionally spouts off random Asian references. Penny's the hot girl who only the hormonal loser who never grew up out of his teens had a chance with and is willing to screw everyone else over for. There's some other guy who's got a stupid and entirely unnecessary lisp. The characters are all lifeless stereotypes.

I literally don?t find the show funny at all, and I'm fed up of when my friends quote lines from it that I don't care for, and try to tell me how funny it is when it's actually fucking not. I think I must?ve genuinely chuckled about two times whenever I?ve watched out of boredom and there?s nothing else on TV, or my friend forces me to watch with him at his house. The characters are just so unrelatable and unlikeable?and I, a self-proclaimed nerd myself, am meant to be the target audience for this tripe.

Worse than Two and a Half Man, and that?s saying something. Better than some other sitcoms, but that isn?t saying much either.

 

[Nazulu]

I think people over criticize the show. Yes, its Chuck Lore, the asshole responsible for Two and a Half Men. But Big Bang isn't THAT terrible.

The show is cute, funny things happen and it pleases me to watch what happens. It could be better without a laugh track, but its well cast and the comedy is there.

Additionally, they actually check to make sure all the science they talk about is 100% accurate. The actress who plays Amy, Mayim Bialik, has a PhD in Neuroscience.

The show is quirky and they give effort to making sure they don't make BS claims to what they say is possible...i like that. You dont have to like it, but you have to admit as far as sitcoms go it's pretty good.

The only thing I have to admit about TBBT is the laugh track and script is unbearable. Don't get me wrong, I reckon it's great they put all the effort in to get the facts straight, but I can't even go one minute in the show with out rolling my eyes.

I find Two and a Half men decent at least. A lot of the jokes are stupid, and some I remember from The Simpsons and other comedies, but at least it had it's clever joke and come back moments occasionally. Not the newer series though, yuk.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Why this happened? Because Chuck Lorre. The master of making stupid comedy for stupid people. The scary thing is half the time the shows are actually pretty decent...

Anyway, it didn't really drop off the face of the Earth for me. Its one of those shows that have been running on German TV in the early mornings for ages now. Just something you watch and smile when you are still to sleepy to really think and grasp how stupid the whole show is.

I loathe Chuck Lorre, I always felt dirty whenever I found something funny in Two and Half Men. Admittedly I find Big Bang theory ok from what I seen but nothing in the show has made me want to sit down and watch it regularly.

 

[chimeracreator]

I think it's pretty fun. The science jokes are pretty much always spot on and well researched, at this point they managed to have almost every major physicist on the show at some point (including Hawkings) which is pretty solid, and the geek jokes are almost mostly accurate. As for the relationship bits that's standard sitcom fun. They just took the four major science nerd stereotypes, ran with it and it worked. You see lots of more functional individuals elsewhere so it's not like they're claiming that functional geeks don't exist. It's just that they aren't as fun.

 

[JayElleBee]

I'm watching it right now.

I like the show, though there are things that bother me (specifically that the only girl in the show who is genuinely nerdy got stuffed into an entirely sexless relationship - because everyone knows that if a girl isn't model-attractive, she can't have sex).

I don't laugh at the jokes so much any more, but I still enjoy watching the show. I guess I know the characters so well that it's like hanging out with friends. <3 It just has that warm, cuddly, colourful feel to it.

 

[Smeatza]

I stopped watching when Penny and Leonard got together. I don't even know why, it just wasn't funny anymore.

 

[darkstarangel]

Maybe thats why they called it the big bang theory. First, it never existed then BANG! its everywhere.

But seriously though,as a uni student studying science the humour appeals to me & my class mates because we get it. Hell, we even use most of the formulas you see written in the background.

Still, I think the secret behind the shows success are characters who live sheltered lives & are foreign to normal everyday non-sciency things like sex & sports that are ingrained in our culture & respond with objective scientific analysis. Such characters aren't all that original but as far as I know a whole show based on them is. And thats one thing TV studios are dying for, originality.

 

[Alluos]

Yup, I enjoy the show, and apparently I'm stupid too.
At least according to some of the super intelligent gentleman that inhabit these forums.
If you are one of these super intelligent gentlemen (or ladies) please go impale yourself on the flag-pole of your ivory tower.

Sincerely: an idiot.

 

[Fidelias]

Well, I love the show, even though it's whole point is to poke fun at nerds.

I love it when they actually get references from Star Wars and games and stuff like that right. I can't think of a single other show that actually even tries to get that stuff right.

 

[ElPatron]

TBBT is like eating a bag of doritos.

It's fun while you are doing it, but the other 15 hours and 40 minutes of your day you think it's a stupid activity.

Or maybe you wanna eat it all like a fucking pig! (To catch up with the series I watched several episodes in a row for a week, not doing that again)

Points for reference.

so you're left with the viewership of A: "lol let's laugh at the nerds" and B: "omg they are like, so like me!"

I am in the middle of those, so that's probably what makes the show at least enjoyable for me.

Well, I love the show, even though it's whole point is to poke fun at nerds.

I don't think so. Even the nerds get girlfriends there, the whole point is trying to shoehorn a nerd-fantasy setting without the "non-nerds" understanding it at a first glance.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

I think it's pretty fun. The science jokes are pretty much always spot on and well researched, at this point they managed to have almost every major physicist on the show at some point (including Hawkings) which is pretty solid, and the geek jokes are almost mostly accurate. As for the relationship bits that's standard sitcom fun. They just took the four major science nerd stereotypes, ran with it and it worked. You see lots of more functional individuals elsewhere so it's not like they're claiming that functional geeks don't exist. It's just that they aren't as fun.

Ooh, cameos from famous physicists, it must be so good now! lololol *rolls eyes*

Ugh. It's a cheap gimmick, and I hear the same stuff from people who only watched Battleship because Rihanna (a.k.a. talentless hack relying on cheap sex appeal, yet it is some kind of role model for this deplorable generation of stupid teenage girls #5021) was in it. The relationship bit are standard sitcom fare, but they're made even worse when none of them even remotely fit together and, as aforementioned, the characters are horribly unrelatable and unlikeable that it's hard for you to root for Leonard when he finally gets it on Penny or whatever.

And it sure doesn't seem like they're claiming that functional geeks don't exist. That's the whole point of stereotypes. Among the side-characters are a petty man with a speech impediment who's Sheldon's rival, and that awkward comic book guy who, in one episode, said longingly, "I love you!" when Penny walked through the door.

Functional geeks can be "fun" (perhaps you mean funny; Rachel in Friends was never exactly funny and kind of a normal while stereotypical girl, but the writing of her character and the sitcom as a whole was good, at least IMO) if they're written well. But The Big Bang Theory has shit writing, so it just falls flat on its face.

 

[Sean951]

So I like The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother. I can empathize with the characters and some of the situations they get put into. Yes, it's typically a hyperbole, but it's a TV sitcom, what did you expect? Beats any other sitcoms I have watched. Yes, Friends was cool, but it's HIMYM set in the 90s with references I don't always get because I was still a child at the time. Seinfeld, from what I've seen, is just stupid. The only thing I laugh at from it now is the Soup Nazi.

 

[ElPatron]

I say that The League and Curb Your Enthusiast shit on any modern sitcoms from my point of view.

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I certainly can agree that what Chuck Lorre touches becomes shit, and that the "nerd" thing is a "gimmick".

Look at Syndicate 2012. It would be impossible to create an experience similar to Syndicate without making it a very demanding co-ops game. So they introduced worthless gimmicks to make it "different".

Sitcoms are dime a dozen. They found a gimmick to make it different. Big deal! I think it's safe to assume that it's still possible to make an original FPS game, but it's almost impossible to create a really original sitcom without a gimmick.

I could shit on How I Met Your Mother because of it's gimmicks, but apparently it's the second coming of Friends in terms of popularity.

Example, The League and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia both use the gimmick of the "man-child" very effectively.

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.

 

[Jazoni89]

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.

 

[chimeracreator]

I think it's pretty fun. The science jokes are pretty much always spot on and well researched, at this point they managed to have almost every major physicist on the show at some point (including Hawkings) which is pretty solid, and the geek jokes are almost mostly accurate. As for the relationship bits that's standard sitcom fun. They just took the four major science nerd stereotypes, ran with it and it worked. You see lots of more functional individuals elsewhere so it's not like they're claiming that functional geeks don't exist. It's just that they aren't as fun.

Ooh, cameos from famous physicists, it must be so good now! lololol *rolls eyes*

Ugh. It's a cheap gimmick, and I hear the same stuff from people who only watched Battleship because Rihanna (a.k.a. talentless hack relying on cheap sex appeal, yet it is some kind of role model for this deplorable generation of stupid teenage girls #5021) was in it. The relationship bit are standard sitcom fare, but they're made even worse when none of them even remotely fit together and, as aforementioned, the characters are horribly unrelatable and unlikeable that it's hard for you to root for Leonard when he finally gets it on Penny or whatever.

Nope, that was her trying to break into the film industry while with these guys it's them having a good time. As for people with masters or phds or who are in the process of getting one that I've talked to about the show most of them seem to be fans rather than offended.

 

[Lucky Chainsaw]

I actually really liked the first two seasons, but the later stuff makes me see why everybody hated it in the first place.

That said, I remember a time in which people on the internet DID like it as the "good" alternative to Two and a Half Men. Then out of nowhere it became a huge punching bag. Oh well.

 

[Rylot]

I liked through about half of season 3 or so then I just stopped watching. Through about half of season 2 they'd bring up some scientific theory or law and go into depth to make a joke about it (Pavlov's Dog etc...).

Mid way through the second season they started bringing up scientific things and just dancing around them. Sheldon: "There you are my missing Neutrino" [laugh track explodes].

Sheldon and Leslie arguing about black hole theories: Leslie to Leonerd:"Which theory would you teach our children?" Leonerd: "I'd let them make their own decision." Leslie: "They're just children!" [laugh track explodes]

This show doesn't require you to be intelligent in any way shape or form. You don't need to know a damn thing about anything they're saying to get the jokes. If that were true you'd need a phD to watch this show. Saying quantum physics a whole bunch doesn't make a show smart.

[laugh track explodes]