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

[Bells]

The way you guys talk about this show reeeeeeeeeally makes y'all look like a bunch of HYYYYYYPPPPPSST-TURs... like, really really HYYYYYYPPPPPSST-TUR. Lab-Coat-Wearing HYYYYYYPPPPPSST-TURs.

I like the show for a goof, watch it here and there... but if you look at the list of Sitcoms i liked you'll see Mad About You, Taxi, Wings, Perfect Strangers, Seinfeld, That's 70's show (part of it), 3rd rock from the sun, Spin City, 30 Rock (most of it), News Radio and etc...

So i like overly exaggerated goofball underdog un-drama... tune off your brain, have a laugh about the incredibly inept jewish astronaut boy having a discussion with his mother over the Nasa-Phone... it's fine... it's fine...

[Lumenskir]

I would wager that Two and a Half Men is still un-funnier, but like, I'm not saying that would necessarily be a safe bet.

See, I would have agreed with this in the past, but I eventually realized that Two and a Half Men is basically just a Mad Libs with [misogynistic "joke"], [fat "joke"], ["raunchy" "joke"], [poor "joke"] labels alongside [character name] and [adjective]. It's less trying to be funny and more filling time.*

*Also, 2.5M at least has the common decency god gave pond scum to write episodes with an endings. BBT seems to literally be written until they fill out 22 minutes and then just call it a day. I like to imagine every script just ends with "who needs third acts lol"

BBT seems to seek out new vectors to be unfunny in. Since literally every character only has (at most) two consistent characteristics you can see the strain of the writer's room as they try to find ways to introduce homophobia or sexism or whatnot into any given scenario.

(but still tolerated by everyone to a degree that to me as an Aspie screams "fake").

The whole Sheldon thing is probably the most bizarre thing about the whole show. Like, he's literally the villain of the show, there is absolutely no reason any of the characters should/would ever tolerate him.

And I say this as somebody who loves stuff like The League and It's Always Sunny, shows basically built upon a foundation of main characters who rag on and generally make each other miserable, but they still show that (1) no one else gets them/will tolerate them and (2) they all continue to do (quasi-)beneficial things for one another to show why they consider themselves friends. Howard and Raj only seem to tolerate Sheldon because he lives with Leonard, and Leonard should be trying to move out literally every moment he can.

The way you guys talk about this show reeeeeeeeeally makes y'all look like a bunch of HYYYYYYPPPPPSST-TURs... like, really really HYYYYYYPPPPPSST-TUR. Lab-Coat-Wearing HYYYYYYPPPPPSST-TURs.

Bells, people hating something you like, and discussing why they hate it without ever once mentioning that it's popular, does not fit under any definition of hipster besides "People who don't like the things I like are hipsters." hth

[Nique]

Bells, I feel like your definition of 'HYYYYYYPPPPPSST-TUR' is inclusive of anyone who has even reasonable complaints about something lacking in quality or authenticity, which is an exaggeration to such a degree that it is a wrong definition.

EDIT: I didn't realize we had a filter for hipster. Interesting,

[POS Industries]

Hang on I need to test this:

HYYYYYYPPPPPSST-TURs.

EDIT: Oh hey look at that, when did we put in that wordfilter?

[Revising Ocelot]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

Hang on I need to test this:

HYYYYYYPPPPPSST-TURs.

EDIT: Oh hey look at that, when did we put in that wordfilter?

I think it was Fifthfiend related.

I've seen Robin still using that emoticon that begins with ^_ and not noticing the... plump results.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Revolving Ocelot

I think it was Fifthfiend related.

I've seen Robin still using that emoticon that begins with ^_ and not noticing the... plump results.

I want to say synk, actually. Feels more recent.

As for the butts emote, that's Fenris' greatest work, if I recall correctly. We really need build a statue in his honor for that one.

[Revising Ocelot]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

I want to say synk, actually. Feels more recent.

As for the butts emote, that's Fenris' greatest work, if I recall correctly. We really need build a statue in his honor for that one.

I meant it was inspired by Fifthfiend. It was definitely halfway through last year.

[POS Industries]

Ah, fair enough.

[Bells]

Nah i just found it kinda funny that the comments were like "i just watch it to see how they get the real scientific concepts soooo wrong" I just find it funny that anybody would watch a sitcom "ironically", not rubbing intented, i swear.

TBBT is still a "old style" sitcom, with the audience and the absurd story lines and thin plots, but it has blossom... so, ok!

[Amake]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

Yeah, it's kind of a shitty show and all, Amake, but I'd appreciate it if you didn't pull the "nerd blackface" card since that's kinda dismissing generations of racial oppression by likening it to picking on nerds, which is totally sucky but not nearly as bad as what black people have to deal with.

Thanks!

Yeah I see how it could be taken that way. I got a little carried away thinking about "things involving laughing at people for being different" and totally forgot racism might involve doing a lot more than laughing, like only an insensitive white guy could. Sorry.

Big Bang Theory: It's decidedly less offensive than minstrel shows! There's your new slogan, Chuck Lorre.