Shallow and pedantic
I tried to watch it around 2012 and couldn’t stand it
I binged all seasons and it cracked me up to watch the cast go from eating a ton of food on screen to just gesturing with pickles and working out 😂
Nerd humor. I liked it.
It ain’t no Mike & Molly, though. That show was HILARIOUS, and unapologetically for adults only. Really great show.
It started out great but ended up just being mostly sex related humour, not science.
oh boy, i do love me some disgusting amounts of misogony such as that show… shows.
I like it. It’s dumb fun, but it’s funny and I like to laugh.
It was OK for time it was out. Then they made the young Sheldon crap and now I can’t even watch reruns
By extension, Young Sheldon features a not at all realistic genius kid, who’s arrogant and having zero clue in socialising, but his attitude is extremely confident. I don’t find the protagonist likable at all.
I loved it for the first 3 seasons. Then they turn it into the usual couples sitcom and lost all its appeal.
I liked the dynamic of having all main characters “fail” in life. Penny failed as an actress, Leonard failed in dating Penny, Howard failed as a playboy, Raj failed talking to women and Sheldon failed at social integration. They were all adorable losers that had fun while losing. For me it kinda was giving a lot of hope, like you don’t have to succeed in life to have a good time.
Then they made them all winners, they all became rich, and achieve all their goals. And all hope was lost. And the message was “you better succeed in life” which was depressing.
i liked young sheldon more but i still watch big bang theory today as a guilty pleasure. it’s not perfect by a long shot but it’s fun. i preferred sheldon scenes more than leonard or anyone else though.
Reddit trash for people with no standards.
As long as it’s “safe”, they’ll eat it up.
followup question: what’s your thoughts on The IT Crowd? because i have a friend who insists they are the same show, and i disagree but can’t form a coherent argument as to why.
Comparing The IT Crowd to The Big Bang Theory is like comparing Pavarotti to a braying lamb.
BBT is the braying lamb, for the avoidance of doubt.
i agree, but why?
The IT Crowd is a show about a group of fools getting into ridiculous situations at work. It’s a good laugh and has some classic moments. My partner doesn’t make or get tv/movie references, but even she can drop references from it into casual conversation.
Big Bang Theory is a bland comedy that wants to be much more than it is - relationship drama, social exploratory, situational comedy. But it tends to fail 90% of the time, and the closer it gets to ‘relationship drama’ the more grating it gets.
Something I realized while reading this is that I can’t think of any quotes from it. Besides “Bazinga”, but that was designed to be intentionally annoying and then was used to mock the show.
I can think of references to basically every other sitcom I’ve seen, and I can vaguely remember some scenes from BBT, but nothing quotable. My spouse liked it, so I’ve seen every episode at least once, but it was honestly pretty forgettable.
My verdict was originally “not bad”. But maybe being forgettable was it’s best quality.
I haven’t watched much BBT, so grain of salt, open to being called out for mistakes.
I’d say The IT Crowd was more centered about a workplace, even if many of the jokes are about their romances, hobbies and personal life, and even if BBT had workplace episodes. The central set of IT Crowd is their basement office, the central set of BBT is an apartment. And I don’t think that’s a trivial difference, it changes the kind of humor and how relatable much of it is.
Also, a big gripe about BBT was the laugh track. It’s normal for sitcoms to have canned laughter, IT Crowd had it too, but BBTs is uncomfortable. Like trk said in another reply, “If there was no laugh track you wouldn’t even know jokes are happening.” There are plenty of BBT No Laugh Track edits on YouTube and it highlights how much better it could be without the forced laughter.
Finally, BBT is a lot more US humor than British humor, not to say that as point in itself, but I feel like it makes the BBT feel to me a lot more like “laughing at nerds” despite that being a major factor in BBT. I also feel that Moss is played more wacky and exaggerated than (say) Sheldon, who certainly has strange peculiarities but is played more subtly or realistically, which I feel makes their character more mocking than absurd parody.
(also I just like the theme music much more)
interestingly it crowd was apparently filmed with an audience.
All episodes had live audience. Doesn’t mean all the laughter is real laughter, though, but there was definitely a live audience.
I was there for the premiere… Season 1, Episode 1… I laughed because they referenced funny nerd things! It’s a sitcom that I’ll get inside jokes on! Oh boy this is going to be amazing!
By episode 3 I realised it was not going to be amazing. By episode 6 I was out.
I have no idea how many sessions they are up to now but if I happen to stumble upon it I legitimately can’t work out what’s meant to be funny. If there was no laugh track you wouldn’t even know jokes are happening.
Pretty sure it ended years ago
I couldn’t even complete one episode. It was so dumb.
