Big Bang Theory: Worst Thing on TV or Just the Unfunniest Thing on TV? Discuss.

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Originally Posted by Bells

Played for comedic effect, he finds out that being lightly drunk reduces his anxiety and shyness, allowing him to temporally overcome his condition. The show also develops that his condition was bred in a highly controlled Indian High Social Cast environment where both his parents where constantly trying to control and guide his love life (one of the reasons he came to the USA).

Then, when you point out that this is the show forcing that "Alcohol fixes all problems" only comes back as wrong because again and again the show does the exact opposite of that... Raj, having found a Chemical solution to his social disorder, never really confronts it. And even though, he tries, the alcohol keeps making him fail, preventing him from succeeding in social and emotional affairs alike.

Except for the episode where he gets drunk, and that lets him "score" the hottie at some party, and he has sex with her, then wakes up and freaks out HILARIOUSLY over how he's in bed with a woman who was super attracted to him because of how he acted like a douche when he was drunk.

There are many problems with this.

I don't see anything written about Selective Mutism that suggests that alcohol has ever been used as a cure for it.

Few people suggest alcoholism as a cure for anything. My great grandfather (Whom I never knew, died before I was born, so don't see it as some sob story) suffered from anxiety, and went to alcoholism to self-treat himself. It's actually one of THE first signs of alcoholism, when people use it as a self treatment for anxiety or some problem they have.

So, we're also expected to make fun of Raj for being a high functioning alcoholic.