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I love BBT. Guess I never noticed (or cared) about the laugh tracks. Maybe because I was too busy laughing. When I do settle in to relax and watch TV, I like to laugh.

As far as suspending disbelief - ever watch Scorpion??? It's SO far out there that I love it.

And I won't apologize for it. As Popeye always said, "I yam what I yam".
 
Jeeze, you and Janny should just live together already.

So, I had totally responded this without seeing he'd posted almost the exact same list. :/ I think we might be a little similar.
 
I love BBT. Guess I never noticed (or cared) about the laugh tracks. Maybe because I was too busy laughing. When I do settle in to relax and watch TV, I like to laugh.

As far as suspending disbelief - ever watch Scorpion??? It's SO far out there that I love it.

And I won't apologize for it. As Popeye always said, "I yam what I yam".

Agree. Somehow putting in little hidden drops here are there makes a "smart" show. Meh, whatever. They have plenty of high level science in the back ground of the shows usually on a white board, etc. Pretty advanced stuff and I would assume accurate because much of it is over my head. It's similar to a kids show that I "enjoy" (ie its good compared to many kids shows) Peg + Cat on PBS where they draw the show with engineering grid paper with math and calculus in the background.

I think the real comedy of the show, like all good shows, is in relating to people. If you didn't know people that acted like some of the characters, at least not as exaggerated as the show, you didn't hang out with many nerds in college.
 
I loathe TBBT. Its success insults me as an intelligent human being who knows funny. It is predictably corny.

For example:
“Sheldon, do you want a piece of pie?”

“A piece of pie? Are you asking if I want to divide 3.14? If so, what should I divide it by? (pulls out calculator)”

I'm going to throw up.
 
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Agree. Somehow putting in little hidden drops here are there makes a "smart" show. Meh, whatever. They have plenty of high level science in the back ground of the shows usually on a white board, etc. Pretty advanced stuff and I would assume accurate because much of it is over my head. It's similar to a kids show that I "enjoy" (ie its good compared to many kids shows) Peg + Cat on PBS where they draw the show with engineering grid paper with math and calculus in the background.

I think the real comedy of the show, like all good shows, is in relating to people. If you didn't know people that acted like some of the characters, at least not as exaggerated as the show, you didn't hang out with many nerds in college.

CRAP! Argent agrees with me!!!
 
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I knew when I clicked on this thread that it would immediately devolve into bashing the show, particularly ripping on shows with a laugh track. Like every time a thread about the Big Bang Theory has been posted.

It is not the greatest comedy of all time. It is also not the worst show ever aired on TV.

Lots of cheap laughs and not a lot of actual science, but I still find it entertaining, which is the point of watching sitcoms.

I know some of you wont watch a show unless it challenges you intellectually, but most of the country doesn't have such discerning tastes.


As for the actual topic of this thread. I'm not surprised that the show is popular with college educated people. While some of you dislike the nerd references on the show, it does require some education to get some of the jokes.

I'm with you. These folks can't say anything about BBT that folks on the West Coast didn't already say 7 YEARS AGO.

Can't we just judge television on the enjoyment and entertainment it brings people rather than make it some art that tastemakers in California and Reddit control?
 
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So...that's what a sitcom is. You are criticizing a sitcom for being a sitcom?

Maybe? I watch a lot of TV comedies that aren't structured like this (Always Sunny, South Park, Arrested Development, Archer, Trailer Park Boys, The League) and always just assumed "sitcom" meant a comedic TV show.

If a sitcom is punch-line delivery writing punctuated by laugh tracks, then yes, I'm criticizing sitcoms. I just don't think it's very funny to have lame jokes served up and the show writers thinking you're so dumb that you need to be told when to laugh (with the exception of Seinfeld - done when laugh tracks were basically a requirement). I find situational humor derived from character interactions where the things happening are inherently comical (as opposed to one-liners and prompted laughter) to be much, much funnier.
 
This reminds me of when hating Nickleback became a fashionable thing.
so you like TBBT and Nickelback? I'm sorry, life just dealt you a really ****ty hand, guy. The world is a wonderful place, my friend. There's so much more to it than Chad Kroeger and Chuck Lorre.

One day, you're going to have a Wizard of Oz moment, and suddenly everything's going to be in technicolor, and you'll look back on the dull black and white Kansas of your former life and wonder how you ever thought the world could be so small.
 
so you like TBBT and Nickelback? I'm sorry, life just dealt you a really ****ty hand, guy. The world is a wonderful place, my friend. There's so much more to it than Chad Kroeger and Chuck Lorre.

One day, you're going to have a Wizard of Oz moment, and suddenly everything's going to be in technicolor, and you'll look back on the dull black and white Kansas of your former life and wonder how you ever thought the world could be so small.

Hating Nickelback just got so cliche. Hating on BBT is kind of cliche as well. People don't realize that when they when they make certain criticisms of this conventional show or band, they are being conventional and boring themselves.
 
Hating Nickelback just got so cliche. Hating on BBT is kind of cliche as well. People don't realize that when they when they make certain criticisms of this conventional show or band, they are being conventional and boring themselves.

I hated Nickelback and TBBT before it was cool.

I know what you mean, though. Remember how back in the early 90's it was cool to hate Saddam Hussein? And then, like, everybody started hating him, and it became such a cliche, and people stopped talking about him for a while. Then, like 10 years later, it became cool to hate him again, and everyone did it all over again. It's just like that with TBBT and Nickelback. They're just like Saddam Hussein... except he's dead, and we can only wish that everyone in TBBT and Nickelback was.
 
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so you like TBBT and Nickelback? I'm sorry, life just dealt you a really ****ty hand, guy. The world is a wonderful place, my friend. There's so much more to it than Chad Kroeger and Chuck Lorre.

One day, you're going to have a Wizard of Oz moment, and suddenly everything's going to be in technicolor, and you'll look back on the dull black and white Kansas of your former life and wonder how you ever thought the world could be so small.

Hahaha!!! I wasn't making a judgement nor belying my musical tastes. Simply making an observation. It amuses me when something that has been so successful suddenly becomes fashionable to disdain.

People like what they like. Of course it's subjective. It's just my observation when the opinion changes in an avalanche - when little else around it changes - it's impressionable people following fashion. Usually with a highbrow attitude.

And that is NOT a slam directed towards you. You've been very clear you didn't like the show from the outset. You are probably the guy everyone is now following!
 
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Hahaha!!! I wasn't making a judgement nor belying my musical tastes. Simply making an observation. It amuses me when something that has been so successful suddenly becomes fashionable to disdain.

People like what they like. Of course it's subjective. It's just my observation when the opinion changes in an avalanche - when little else around it changes - it's impressionable people following fashion. Usually with a highbrow attitude.

And that is NOT a slam directed towards you. You've been very clear you didn't like the show from the outset. You are probably the guy everyone is now following!
No worries, I'm mostly just exaggerating anyway.
 
No worries, I'm mostly just exaggerating anyway.

I get it. And after re-reading my thread I came off as pretty superior. Didn't mean to.

But like I said before, I know what I like. Much of it is pretty low brow but I don't care. Makes me laugh.

A little anecdote - a few years back I was trying online dating. Yes - at my age. I dated an ISU professor from mainland China. She was a neat lady. But when I told her I was a sports loving red meat eating good old Iowa boy and she needed to decide if that was ok with her - I never heard from her again!

And to think she got me to try sushi. I was like Tom Hanks in "Big" at the office Christmas party trying to discretely spit the food out of my mouth.
 
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Do you all remember Hinder? They were so bad they actually knocked off Nickelback. Lips of an Angel? God, that was awful. And even the Foo Fighters made some terrible Nickelback-lite songs in that time period. Wheels was disgustingly bad. If I was Dave Grohl, I would have followed in Kurt Cobain's footsteps before putting that drivel out for public consumption.

I think there's just a very diverse smorgasbord of entertainment for us to hate on other than Nickelback. Rant over. :)
 
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