It started out great but ended up just being mostly sex related humour, not science.
It was OK for time it was out. Then they made the young Sheldon crap and now I can’t even watch reruns
I like it. It’s dumb fun, but it’s funny and I like to laugh.
oh boy, i do love me some disgusting amounts of misogony such as that show… shows.
By extension, Young Sheldon features a not at all realistic genius kid, who’s arrogant and having zero clue in socialising, but his attitude is extremely confident. I don’t find the protagonist likable at all.
i liked young sheldon more but i still watch big bang theory today as a guilty pleasure. it’s not perfect by a long shot but it’s fun. i preferred sheldon scenes more than leonard or anyone else though.
I loved it for the first 3 seasons. Then they turn it into the usual couples sitcom and lost all its appeal.
I liked the dynamic of having all main characters “fail” in life. Penny failed as an actress, Leonard failed in dating Penny, Howard failed as a playboy, Raj failed talking to women and Sheldon failed at social integration. They were all adorable losers that had fun while losing. For me it kinda was giving a lot of hope, like you don’t have to succeed in life to have a good time.
Then they made them all winners, they all became rich, and achieve all their goals. And all hope was lost. And the message was “you better succeed in life” which was depressing.
Reddit trash for people with no standards.
As long as it’s “safe”, they’ll eat it up.
followup question: what’s your thoughts on The IT Crowd? because i have a friend who insists they are the same show, and i disagree but can’t form a coherent argument as to why.
The IT Crowd is a show about a group of fools getting into ridiculous situations at work. It’s a good laugh and has some classic moments. My partner doesn’t make or get tv/movie references, but even she can drop references from it into casual conversation.
Big Bang Theory is a bland comedy that wants to be much more than it is - relationship drama, social exploratory, situational comedy. But it tends to fail 90% of the time, and the closer it gets to ‘relationship drama’ the more grating it gets.
I haven’t watched much BBT, so grain of salt, open to being called out for mistakes.
I’d say The IT Crowd was more centered about a workplace, even if many of the jokes are about their romances, hobbies and personal life, and even if BBT had workplace episodes. The central set of IT Crowd is their basement office, the central set of BBT is an apartment. And I don’t think that’s a trivial difference, it changes the kind of humor and how relatable much of it is.
Also, a big gripe about BBT was the laugh track. It’s normal for sitcoms to have canned laughter, IT Crowd had it too, but BBTs is uncomfortable. Like trk said in another reply, “If there was no laugh track you wouldn’t even know jokes are happening.” There are plenty of BBT No Laugh Track edits on YouTube and it highlights how much better it could be without the forced laughter.
Finally, BBT is a lot more US humor than British humor, not to say that as point in itself, but I feel like it makes the BBT feel to me a lot more like “laughing at nerds” despite that being a major factor in BBT. I also feel that Moss is played more wacky and exaggerated than (say) Sheldon, who certainly has strange peculiarities but is played more subtly or realistically, which I feel makes their character more mocking than absurd parody.
(also I just like the theme music much more)
interestingly it crowd was apparently filmed with an audience.
I was there for the premiere… Season 1, Episode 1… I laughed because they referenced funny nerd things! It’s a sitcom that I’ll get inside jokes on! Oh boy this is going to be amazing!
By episode 3 I realised it was not going to be amazing. By episode 6 I was out.
I have no idea how many sessions they are up to now but if I happen to stumble upon it I legitimately can’t work out what’s meant to be funny. If there was no laugh track you wouldn’t even know jokes are happening.
Pretty sure it ended years ago
I couldn’t even complete one episode. It was so dumb.
It fucking sucks. Also, i’m tired of being compared to Sheldon Cooper. I’m surprised there aren’t more fellow autists shit talking this show.
It made people with either mental or emotional or social dysfunction the butt of pretty much every joke.
Haha, he’s awkward.
Haha, he has a weird family dynamic.
Blegh.
It gave the audience the opportunity to laugh at ostensibly intelligent and educated people for enjoying nerd culture.
I honestly think it’s an abomination.
I like to describe it as lowest common denominator humour. It’s low brow at best
I watched it for a time because other friends and coworkers did and it gave us something to talk about. But, generally speaking, I found the characters to be kinda awful people and while on the surface seemed like my friends and myself, they were at best poor approximations. The show was very clearly making fun of them most of the time, filled with horrible laugh tracks that prompt the viewer… I eventually just couldn’t stand it anymore and left. Honestly, I had forgotten about this show.
Around that same era there was a show called Community that was full of weird people and great storrytelling and was damn near the opposite of the Big Bang. Community is a show I still rewatch from time to time.
The autism representation is what happens when a writer has never met another person before.
Fairly accurate sociopath representation though.
