The Big Bang Theory?

[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.

 

[V TheSystem V]

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?

Malcolm in the Middle was amazing when I was younger, but I found it got boring after baby Jamie came along.

I really like Big Bang Theory, easily one of my favourite shows. However, I wasn't a fan of the third season. We'd waited for 2 seasons for Leonard and Penny to get together, then it happened...and then the series turned into more of a comedy about a nerd and a hot girl relationship and didn't put as much emphasis on the rest of the group, which isn't what Big Bang Theory is. Leonard and Penny splitting up was a good thing to happen to the show, and Amy and Bernadette are pretty decent characters (Amy becomes a bit more human which I liked, but Bernadette just started to be a personification of Howard's mother), but series 5 has started to partner up everybody except for Raj. If they all have partners except for Raj, it will turn into 'Oh, look at those nerds with girlfriends and the little Asian dude sitting in the corner on his own without a girlfriend, let's poke fun at him!'. That's what the show will turn in to.

It will be like Two and a Half Men's constant abuse of Alan. It's been going on for 9 seasons now, and I still find it more harsh than funny. Ever since Charlie Sheen has left I have found it more entertaining, however.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

I learned that this show had not been canceled, pretty far from it it would seem. Suddenly EVERY person I know is watching it. Most of them even thought it was even a new show! What happened? How did this ting drop off the face of the earth for years (at least in my experience) then suddenly resurface with such a huge fan base that (up until now) I have never heard from?

I've got two words for you: TV's Blossom.

Amy Farrah Fowler, Sheldon's "not my girlfriend" is played by Mayim Bialik, who also played TV's Blossom.

Everyone knows that Blossom is fucking awesome. Thus her casting has made the show far more awesome.

Spoiler: Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[nuba km]

, the laugh track is overused,

yea bout the laughing track thing, I watched a making off special on TV and they have an actual audience, its just they edit the audience best laugh to the joke in for all the different angles making it seem like a laughing track.

OT: I watched the show since it began, I like it and I find that it for the most part it isn't mean about nerd culture but it just uses exaggerations of the common(Sheldon and Leonard) and stereotypical(howard and rash) personalities found in nerd culture, in the same way that any sitcom those for any kind of person. I like the jokes and characters aswell.

 

[Daveman]

I quite like the show, but then it is repeated over and over and over again on Channel 4 and E4...its on now in the background as I write this.

Now, I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is about 2 Broke Girls that is supposed to be so funny. That truely is a pathetic comedy and yet its supposed to America's biggest new comedy.

It's because they lost the rights to show friends endlessly to comedy central.

I however hate the show. It is awful and tremendously insulting to me.

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?

I LOVED Malcolm in the Middle. Didn't have a stupid laugh-track and didn't have the, perhaps even more annoying, musical beats from Scrubs. It was just funny with brilliant relate-able characters. It maybe lasted a bit too long but virtually every sitcom is guilty of that.

 

[CityofTreez]

Probably my least favorite show on TV. Boring, predictable and cringe worthy.

Any show that has a laugh track is a automatic "no good" for me.

 

[Da Orky Man]

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.

Although I do fully agree with you, one thing: They don't use a laugh track. It's a live audience.

Otherwise, I do on occasion enjoy it. The 'on occasion' being the key phrase.

I find it funnier than Two and a Half Men at least but it still has the same problem as most comedies with laugh tracks, the really forced jokes and of course the laugh track.

You too: It's a live audience, not a laugh track.

 

[hazabaza1]

It's awful. It is literally one of the worst shows I have seen. I cannot comprehend how people enjoy it.

 

[CrashBang]

I got into it during season three and I've been a religious viewer ever since. It never went anywhere.
It's actually the most popular TV show in Canada, has been for about two years.

 

[ubersyanyde]

I have no idea how it became so popular but now that I've been practically forced to watch it I actually really enjoy it.

I seriously used to hate it just because of the nerdy/science stuff being so 'in your face' but once I watched a few episodes I started to love everything else about it. All the characters I find funny (apart from Leonard) and the jokes are delivered perfectly.

I have to admit though, the later series have fell a bit flat as the writing has begun to fall in to 'here's a silly character, LAUGH AT IT' as opposed to cleverly written jokes that don't seem too contrived. But it's still funny enough to get a lot of laughs out of, which is kind of why I watch sitcoms in the first place.