3d ago

It's no contest

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The Big Bang Theory was frustratingly bad.
- Saw a critic call it, “Nerd blackface”
  
  IT crowd is about nerds for nerds. Big Bang theory is about nerds for non nerds. "Nerd blackface" is more succinct though.
  
  Blackface is a bit more complicated and disturbing than “pretending to be like a black person for comic effect.” I don’t think it’s appropriate to compare it to to depictions of nerd culture.
  It’s what stupid people think smart people sound like. I’ve never been able to watch it, but I remember hearing Sheldon brag about Ubuntu being his favorite Linux distribution? Like, can you imagine someone saying that in a room of Linux nerds?
  It’s stupid and disrespectful to geeky people, but it’s not perpetuating harmful and violent narratives.
  
  brag about Ubuntu being his favorite Linux distribution we? Like, can you imagine someone saying that in a room of Linux nerds?
  H-hey!
  
  I think the comment was also made by Sheldon? Sheldon’s character should be the kind of person who chews people out on forums for not reading the Arch Linux wiki, or to launch into the “GNU/Linux” copy pasta reflexively when Linux is brought up.
  
  But that would require them to have more then a surface level understanding of the culture they're making fun of lol.
  
  Why???
  
  can you imagine someone saying that in a room of Linux nerds?
  Ironically, that would be hilarious.
  
  Amazing
  
  Omfg, that describes it adequately.
  
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- I saw some clips on YT where they removed the laugh track.
  It's really hard to find the show funny when they take out the bit where it tells you when to laugh.
  
  I hate laugh tracks.
  
  I watched and enjoyed TBBT, but I don't rewatch it. I saw one of these videos with the laugh track removed and was honestly surprised at how awkward the show was without it. It didn't change the fact that I liked it when I watched it though.
  
  It's mostly awkward because suddenly you have long times of silence normally occupied by the laugh track. If it was intended to be without a laugh track there wouldn't be awkward silence.
  
  Yeah, I've wondered what it'd be like if someone did one of those laugh track removal experiments, but re-edited to remove the quiet parts
  
  This is kinda off topic, but there's a show called Kevin Can Fuck Himself that plays around with sitcom tropes, wife and I enjoyed it a lot.
  
  Fun fact. That show was filmed in front of a studio audience.
  Although I don’t know if they augmented the audience with canned laughter in post.
  
  Same with Friends and most shows with laugh tracks
  
  I've seen that. Cringeworthy.
- It got so popular, had occasional Star Trek references, even a cameo by Leonard Nimoy, and I still couldn't get myself to enjoy it. It's such a a shame.
  
  My grandparents used to watch it. I think it had one (1) funny moment I saw in all the show's run that I caught when living with them - when Neil DeGrasse Tyson calls up Bill Nye and says "I hear you've been talking shit about me", and Nye immediately hangs up the phone in abject terror.
  
  Their cameos in SGA were funnier. "Way to make all the kiddies cry neil, feel like a big man??"
  
  I watched a lot of it back in the day and by like season 10 (I have no clue how long it ran) I realized it was super boring and bad. There would be jokes as lame as “dude owns a Nintendo 64”. That was the entirety of the joke.
  Also there is a long running arc about a main character who is physically incapable of talking to women unless he is intoxicated (aka alcohol).
  
  At some point the "humour" was just pop culture references.
- is this not comedy gold?!
- In the beginning it was kinda funny. But it went downhill pretty fast, got super cringe regarding the guys trying to get girlfriends, then the creepiest one of the lot gets one. Just ugh.
- I like to say that Big Bang Theory was a stupid show about smart people, and Arrested Development was a smart show about stupid people.
- Yes, it's the "Friends" of it's era - the comedy is in the laugh-track, I mean studio audience.
- watched it, it was okey lol. don't put too much thinking in it

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