Why do some nerds hate Big Bang Theory?

[DANEgerous]

Mainly because people do not understand why they are laughing at it or find it funny then they talk to nerds about why it is funny and sound like a total an complete moron. This in turn can make all the jokes funny or not sound far worse.

 

[Mister Eff]

Loads of my friends like it but I'm not a fan of the shown at all. Here is why:

Three interchangeable main characters.
I don't find the references funny. I get almost all of them. Still not funny to me. That's all the humour in the show and I don't find it funny.
Sheldon's head is so far up his ass that it's coming out his mouth.
It steals viewers from Community.
Long live Community.
I really fucking hate Sheldon.

 

[Rylingo]

Now, I understood this when I watched the video. I got it.
It's still not funny. A computer coming with Windows 7 is not funny.

If they didn't have the laughter track for the first two fucking sentences, the joke would've been greatly improved.

I believe the laugh following his first sentence was ment to be for how he presented the line. He tells us he got a new computer whilst sounding pretty depressed. A poor joke but I can see why they stuck a laugh track there.

 

[Vault101]

oh and another thing that bugged me

in regards to Halo 3 "high definition graphics and the most advanced weopons systms!"

..............most advanced weopons systms?..WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN??!!

 

[isometry]

If your job was about making pizzas, does that mean you would enjoy a sitcom about making pizzas?

It would just come down to whether the jokes are funny. The fact that the topic of the show matches your job doesn't add anything.

For people who are not exposed to much or any physics, entertainment that uses physics as a subject might give them that physics-y feeling they've been missing. I think this is also part of the reason I did not enjoy Half-Life, Gordon Freeman being a physicist hits me like a sack of "meh, this game sucks", but my understanding is that other people find his character cool.

 

[Don Savik]

That I understand, but I'm just talking about simply not liking it. I'm talking about specifically nerds who have a loathing hatred for it, as though it is one of the worst things to blight television.

I think everyone hates stereotypes of themselves, the characters of BBT feel like they go beyond that at points, to the point of caricature. It's not 'hey, this is life like really smart aloof people live it' it's more along the line of 'this is how an amplification of most people stereotype scientists and geniuses and it's all condensed down into a few people'. It's more insulting than funny, there's a very small number of people who could sit down and say 'hey, that's just like my life' and laugh for that reason. But with BBT it's 'here are smart people, laugh at how different they live their life from us!'

I'm a pretty avid nerd. I play tons of games, and have knowledge of useless fictional universes that doesn't apply to everday society. I'm even really really really really shy and am not good at making friends......

but I have NEVER met a nerd as socially wacky as the cast of BBT. And I knew all the nerds in my town.

 

[Skin]

/snip

Don't know why your bashing me over the head with the "exaggerated stereotype" shtick, because I agree. What I don't agree with is the fact that there is a dual layer or any further complexity to the humor they use unlike Scrubs. The scientific technobabble rarely, RARELY has any inside jokes. I am not too sure about the comic books though, but from my experience, I doubt it.

They perpetuate a stereotype. Yes, I know. And that's it. I wouldn't expect that much more from Chuck Lorre though.

 

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

I can't vouch for other people, but it's a pretty stupid show in my opinion. It just runs its course using played out stereotypes for just about every episode using really overplayed character molds.

 

[Jitters Caffeine]

The best way I've heard it described as is "nerd black face". Like it's just the worst stereotypes of what studio executives and writers THINK a nerd would be. That being said, he'll laugh his ass off at it like the gigantic hypocrite he is.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

I like the show, but at times it can be just plain offensive. Still I would be lying if I said I never had some of the arguments they had in that show.

 

[Bassik]

I kind of like it, but I dislike half the characters (Lennard, Howard, Amy, Bernadette) and recently I think it's gotten less about "a show about nerds!" and more "a show that mocks nerds!"

It's racist against chinamen, is all I am saying.

 

[Fappy]

It's not funny... that's why I don't like it

 

[Chancie]

I'm not really sure, I've met plenty of people that like and plenty that don't. Honestly, I do like it. I don't think it's very funny, but it's entertaining, and yes, it's a little over the top with the nerdiness, but look at most shows. Very few are realistic portrayals anyway. It's a matter of opinion.

 

[KristofferAG]

I never quite understood the intense hatred some people hold to this particular show. To me it's just really a boring show, and I've always had a problem watching shows that use a laugh track, simply because it annoys me to hear the studio laughter over and over every time something that can be seen as funny is said. Me, I don't like the show because so many of the jokes... really aren't jokes at all. It's kind of comparable to how the jokes on a lot of other shows, like Family Guy, has nothing to do with the episode at all, it's just a completely random clip thrown in there to make people laugh more.

Aaand it's also that I don't even like the characters. Their portrayal of geeks is really weird, and I can't imagine it being accurate at all. I'd expect a show about geeks facing the real world being more awkward than funny to be honest.