I'll add that the laugh track is doing a lot of heavy lifting for Seinfeld as well. Some of the writing is good but it might as well be called the Jason alexander show.
That’s the entire premise of ‘Kevin can f**k himself’ essentially spitting in the face of these feckless sitcoms covering shit writing with laughtracks.
This show had a character that physically could not speak to women without being intoxicated. I think they eventually created a pharmaceutical drug to resolve this.
EDIT: As for Friends, there was a lot of fat phobia and gay panic.
He eventually got over it, but yeah it was forced and uncomfortable.
Friends I never understood. I didn't have a problem with most of it. It just... Sucked. It wasn't good. I had more of a problem with Seinfeld but accepted that it was superior.
The one exception to this is probably MASH. If I recall correctly they didn't want the laugh track at all, and when it aired in Europe it didn't have the laugh track and was better for it.
Sure, but also it becomes very unfunny even without that facet due to the awkward pauses. The pacing just gets mutilated as they 'pause for laughter'.
A common trope is that some scene is just 'funny' with the laugh track, but without it, people just seem psycho, because they sit there, noiselessly after so many sentences.
I find it a lot more palatable if you assume it's viewed from penny, as an unreliable narrator. There's actually a lot more geeky stuff going on under the obvious, but she doesn't notice it.
Lmao thanks bro i joined this place last night after hearing about it on Reddit I decided to go for a short username and this one was available i couldn’t fucking believe it
That's unfortunately a side effect of this type of UI, upvotes and downvotes inherently cultivate a hive mind mentality, making following the meta more important than critical thinking. If you make a clone of Lemmy I guarantee you it will follow the same path eventually
Imagine we switched out the behavior. Instead of Sheldon behaving like autistic people do, we could give him the issues people with Tourette's face. Of course he doesn't have Tourette's, but he shows the same involuntary tics, and him behaving like that is the butt of the joke. Would the show be at fault?
He's not officially autistic because then it would be obviously wrong to laugh about his behavior - but they still gave him autistic behaviors and expect people to laugh about it! That's honestly worse, as now it's supposedly okay to make fun of the things autistic people struggle with.
People just like different things, theres nothing to "get"
If you liked it, awesome, enjoy! Let others hate it, its their own energy they are wasting. I didn't like it either but I cant be bothered to comment about it.
I think they did one of those replace all the characters to repeat the show and then immediately get canceled because thats never worked final (12th) seasons?
So much hate for a show that was never meant to be a cinematic masterpiece of comedy? I don’t get it. It’s not supposed to be deep. I watched it for a while, it was funny in its dumb way, and then it just didn’t go anywhere so I quit watching. It was fun for a while. No need for the hate.
Edit: wow. Triggered some people who want to equate themselves to centuries-long oppressed minorities and slaves, over a TV show. Know what? Oppressed minorities will still be oppressed tomorrow, shot by cops, profiled, and live with systemic racism. You get to change the channel. Get over yourselves.
A lot of people grew up being bullied, turned on a show that was supposed to appeal to them, only to be bullied again. 90% of the jokes are "hey look how fucking stupid these nerds are for liking nerd things." The remaining 10% is sexist or ignoring Penny's crippling alcoholism.
It was an attack on a culture of people, rather than the celebration of that culture it pretended to be. That's why people hate it.
The weirdest thing is it didn't seem to start out that way. I remember the first season actually having strong jokes. I specifically remember one about spherical chickens that was truely hilarious because it was a nerd joke on a prime time tv show. Then came season two, with it the show tried to become more relatable to the 'average viewer' and it was just bullying on TV.
I’m in my basement, with collected 80’s Robotech and Transformers toys, a 3D printer, a self-built watercooled gaming PC, a linux PC, boxes of decades of tech junk, a printed Darth Vader helmet I’m trying to finish so maybe I can go to a ‘con suited up, a backup of all of my favorite movies like Better off Dead and Princess Bride…. And I’m on Lemmy.
The whole show was only funny to people that think sitcoms are high comedy to begin with.
Mind you, anyone that enjoys them are welcome to! Humour is a very personal thing. I'm just saying that sitcom humor is not universal as a whole, and that this sitcom played to a narrow audience that heavily favors that style of comedy show. If you aren't the sort that really grooves on that template and style, the show just won't hit right.
It's like how people with really dark senses of humor tend to not be prone to liking cartoon style humor.
Sitcom specific fans know what they like, and tend not to like things that aren't similar
Oh yeah, sure. People with dark senses of humor don't watch Rick and Morty, family guy, American dad, Archer, metalocalypse, bobs burgers, yeah. Dark senses of comedy never watch cartoon type shows. Cause none of those exist.
Edit:forgot the Simpsons, South Park, frisky dingo, aqua teen hunger force, the Xtacles...
Should we put Xavier Renegade Angel on this list? I don't think it really qualifies as dark humor, more absurdist humor, but he eats all those babies that one episode...
There was... Sorta. Only a few episodes got made before the company collapsed. The jokes about rapier ape and the potential of a rapiest ape... Omfg I almost died laughing.
the good thing about sitcoms is that they are comforting. if you start liking the characters then you get to enjoy their lives vicariously.
my point isn't about sitcoms, but that Kaley Cuoco is incredibly funny (Harley is so funny and nerdy). yet all she did was being the "normie blonde". If she was given more freedom The Big Bang theory might have been actually funny.
I remember early in the run of BBT, when I had already decided the show was not for me (not helped by people comparing me to Sheldon -- yay, neurodivergence), I saw Jim Parsons on the Craig Ferguson show. He picked up Craig's TARDIS from his desk and giggled, saying "This is so cute! What is it?"
I think Kaley Cuoco would have recognized the fucking TARDIS.
Honestly, given my age at the time, she was probably my main reason for watching the show at the time. My second being the science and third the jokes.
Yeah? What else has she shown those quality comedy chops since then? Her Harley Quinn show exists, or did, I don't know if it's still a thing. But nothing else she's done has lasted more than 2 seasons.
I will die on this hill. BBT was 6 seasons of a quality sitcom dragged out over 12. If a skilled editor went through and cut out all the filler, it would be a much better show.
Some of his shows are funnier. I don't think he actually understands geeks, but he wanted to make a show about them and it was just a bunch of stereotypes for characters.
People think I’m weird for not enjoying this show, and many others like it. I’ll laugh a good joke but it’s just a constant quip of bad jokes and insults with a laugh track. Friends, the office, parks and rec… I just can’t enjoy them.
To me it's pretty accurate. But to me there's stuff that's played straight that isn't funny to me because it's just normal stuff. But I guess it's quirky if you're not.
Or there's the obnoxious friends who are quirky in the show. But I've known people like them in real life. So they're either a headache to be around or straight up should not be enabled.
The show’s creepy vibe and the creepy audience and the creepy jokes aside Penny had to work for that free food. I mean these guys were not getting anything and she’s basically an adult entertainer for these nerds the same way that a sugar baby is not a prostitute but damn it’s just food that’s low.
Unfunny and unpopular are not the same thing. A show does not stay on air for 12 seasons by being unpopular and unfunny. Producing television is expensive, and networks renew shows because they are profitable and have strong audience demand. The Big Bang Theory may have been disliked in some online circles, but commercially and mainstream-wise, it was clearly a very popular show.
CBS did not keep funding 12 seasons of a money pit out of the kindness of its heart.
Popular also doesn't mean good. There are plenty of shows that run for years that aren't very good, but make money. Mindless entertainment sells great, but selling isn't quality, it's just moving products. And low quality cheap schlock does sell.
155 Comments
hopesdead@startrek.website · 162 pts · 155d
This is the show where simply acknowledging a character owns/owned a NES was the entire punchline of a joke.
tyler@programming.dev · 87 pts · 155d
Yeah if you turn off the laugh track this show is terrible, for so many reasons.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 58 pts · 155d
Like how Ross from "Friends" is crazy without the laugh track.
Psythik@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 155d
Also, Friends just isn't funny. Every character except Phoebie is bland and unlikable.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 155d
Phoebe is just annoying and unlikable
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 155d
They're all unlikable.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 155d
I would hang out with Joey.
chunes@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 155d
Hang out, maybe. Wouldn't want him as a roommate, though.
hopesdead@startrek.website · 2 pts · 155d
I wonder if the big issue is tying their twin to the show Mad About You.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 155d
Yeah my burning hatred of Friends made me blind to Lisa Kudrow's talent until pretty recently
Alenalda@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 155d
I'll add that the laugh track is doing a lot of heavy lifting for Seinfeld as well. Some of the writing is good but it might as well be called the Jason alexander show.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 155d
Joey seemed alright, until he moved to LA.
Smoogs@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 155d
Reminds me of “Kevin can f**k himself” https://youtu.be/q2qGIsOkA64
daggermoon@piefed.world · 33 pts · 155d
It's terrible with the laugh track as well.
hellfire103@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 155d
There's your problem. Just keep the laugh track on and it stays funny.
Same deal with Friends and also a fair amount of standup.
tyler@programming.dev · 13 pts · 155d
If your jokes aren’t funny without putting fake forced laughter behind them then they shouldn’t be said.
Smoogs@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 155d
That’s the entire premise of ‘Kevin can f**k himself’ essentially spitting in the face of these feckless sitcoms covering shit writing with laughtracks.
hopesdead@startrek.website · 11 pts · 155d
This show had a character that physically could not speak to women without being intoxicated. I think they eventually created a pharmaceutical drug to resolve this.
EDIT: As for Friends, there was a lot of fat phobia and gay panic.
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 155d
If I recall, they literally just dropped it one episode and acknowledged it with an "oh well."
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 155d
He eventually got over it, but yeah it was forced and uncomfortable.
Friends I never understood. I didn't have a problem with most of it. It just... Sucked. It wasn't good. I had more of a problem with Seinfeld but accepted that it was superior.
hopesdead@startrek.website · 7 pts · 155d
I’d rethink any opinions you have of Jerry Seinfeld. He thinks the phrase “Free Palestine” is worse than the Holocaust.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 155d
Don't get me wrong, he sucks. But his show was better than friends.
Smoogs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d
Hard disagree. People still laughing cuz he wore a poofy shirt and it’s not even a cohesive joke. He just wore a shirt. Woopdeefuckindoo.
“Airline food. What is the deal with that?” Why are people laughing?
I’ve read 5 yr olds put together more cohesive story with crayons. Dude was just lazy.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 155d
They're not funny with the laugh track either
Denjin@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 155d
Well BBT, and every other that has a laugh track, is scripted and edited around it. Removing that will make even the best comedy suck.
The show sucks but removing the canned laughter doesn't prove anything.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 155d
The one exception to this is probably MASH. If I recall correctly they didn't want the laugh track at all, and when it aired in Europe it didn't have the laugh track and was better for it.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 155d
Oh damn, maybe I need to seek out the European versions of MASH episodes then.
I loved the movie, but then couldn't get past the first couple episodes of the show because of the goddamn laugh track
hopesdead@startrek.website · 5 pts · 155d
You don’t have to. As I’m aware (don’t own these) the DVD and/or the Blu-ray release have an optional laugh track for audio.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 154d
Oh, I wasn't going to pay for them
tyler@programming.dev · 7 pts · 155d
Not really. When the laughs are removed you just realize it’s racism, sexism, and juvenile jokes all in one.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 153d
Sure, but also it becomes very unfunny even without that facet due to the awkward pauses. The pacing just gets mutilated as they 'pause for laughter'.
A common trope is that some scene is just 'funny' with the laugh track, but without it, people just seem psycho, because they sit there, noiselessly after so many sentences.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 155d
Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 154d
cynar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 154d
I find it a lot more palatable if you assume it's viewed from penny, as an unreliable narrator. There's actually a lot more geeky stuff going on under the obvious, but she doesn't notice it.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 155d
laughtrack
daggermoon@piefed.world · 68 pts · 155d
I fucking hate that show. Also, I love your username.
slut@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 155d
Lmao thanks bro i joined this place last night after hearing about it on Reddit I decided to go for a short username and this one was available i couldn’t fucking believe it
sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io · 2 pts · 153d
Ahoy, welcome! 🏴
redwattlebird@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 154d
Welcome to Lemmy! Ignore the jerk in the corner.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca · -26 pts · 155d
"Available". You could have joined any instance besides world where it was also available. This is not leddot.
Chivera@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 155d
Calm down brother. Accept new users
slut@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 154d
Chill
Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 154d
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 154d
When I started reading their comment, I really thought they were going to make a joke about the word "available" to refer to your slut username lol.
That would have been way funnier.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 154d
What's wrong with you? Get off Lemmy if this is how you're gonna welcome new users ya parasite
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 154d
As a Fediverse user for probably 2 years now
Fuck you for not welcoming a new user.
OP you are welcome on Lemmy and the wide Fediverse!
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 154d
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 154d
That's unfortunately a side effect of this type of UI, upvotes and downvotes inherently cultivate a hive mind mentality, making following the meta more important than critical thinking. If you make a clone of Lemmy I guarantee you it will follow the same path eventually
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 154d
Wtf is leddoy and what is it known for
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 154d
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 154d
What crawled up your ass dude?
dubyakay@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 154d
world's liberals heh
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 155d
i don't get the hate. was my comfort show for a good five years.. it's a random ass sitcom, what did people want it to be?
daggermoon@piefed.world · 9 pts · 154d
I hate it because it stereotypes autistic people. I'm tired of being compared to Sheldon Cooper.
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 154d
they never even said he was autistic?
daggermoon@piefed.world · 7 pts · 154d
Yet my autistic tendencies are compared to him.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 154d
That's not the shows fault though, is it? That's people
FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 154d
Imagine we switched out the behavior. Instead of Sheldon behaving like autistic people do, we could give him the issues people with Tourette's face. Of course he doesn't have Tourette's, but he shows the same involuntary tics, and him behaving like that is the butt of the joke. Would the show be at fault?
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 154d
Again, you're still the one stereotyping him as autistic, nowhere in the show does it actually say he is
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 154d
FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 154d
He's not officially autistic because then it would be obviously wrong to laugh about his behavior - but they still gave him autistic behaviors and expect people to laugh about it! That's honestly worse, as now it's supposedly okay to make fun of the things autistic people struggle with.
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 155d
It was just kind of boring.
NoFun4You@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 155d
It's also not funny
VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 154d
People just like different things, theres nothing to "get"
If you liked it, awesome, enjoy! Let others hate it, its their own energy they are wasting. I didn't like it either but I cant be bothered to comment about it.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 65 pts · 155d
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 155d
I thought it had 11 seasons?
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 154d
I think they did one of those replace all the characters to repeat the show and then immediately get canceled because thats never worked final (12th) seasons?
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 152d
It had 10+ seasons too many
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 155d
So much hate for a show that was never meant to be a cinematic masterpiece of comedy? I don’t get it. It’s not supposed to be deep. I watched it for a while, it was funny in its dumb way, and then it just didn’t go anywhere so I quit watching. It was fun for a while. No need for the hate.
Edit: wow. Triggered some people who want to equate themselves to centuries-long oppressed minorities and slaves, over a TV show. Know what? Oppressed minorities will still be oppressed tomorrow, shot by cops, profiled, and live with systemic racism. You get to change the channel. Get over yourselves.
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 155d
A lot of people grew up being bullied, turned on a show that was supposed to appeal to them, only to be bullied again. 90% of the jokes are "hey look how fucking stupid these nerds are for liking nerd things." The remaining 10% is sexist or ignoring Penny's crippling alcoholism.
It was an attack on a culture of people, rather than the celebration of that culture it pretended to be. That's why people hate it.
InputZero@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 154d
The weirdest thing is it didn't seem to start out that way. I remember the first season actually having strong jokes. I specifically remember one about spherical chickens that was truely hilarious because it was a nerd joke on a prime time tv show. Then came season two, with it the show tried to become more relatable to the 'average viewer' and it was just bullying on TV.
Soulg@ani.social · 16 pts · 155d
I mean it's nerd blackface basically if I'm being only slightly hyperbolic
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 155d
There's no centuries-long systemic oppression and denigration of "nerds", blackface is a terrible word choice.
Soulg@ani.social · 22 pts · 155d
It gets the point across and I don't really care to come up with a substitute, you're just ignoring it to argue semantics
MasterNerd@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 155d
Clearly you've never watched a 80's-90's movie set in a highschool
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 155d
I’m gen X. I’ve seen them all. FWIW, the nerds usually emerge victorious.
Cort@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 155d
What, you mean the theater nerds made themselves the hero of their own movies? Big surprise
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 154d
Lol, yeah. That’s the point of the movies s/he cited, the opposite of what s/he was trying to accomplish.
What did you expect?
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d
victorious as in lose their virginity
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 155d
Found the fucking jock
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 155d
I’m in my basement, with collected 80’s Robotech and Transformers toys, a 3D printer, a self-built watercooled gaming PC, a linux PC, boxes of decades of tech junk, a printed Darth Vader helmet I’m trying to finish so maybe I can go to a ‘con suited up, a backup of all of my favorite movies like Better off Dead and Princess Bride…. And I’m on Lemmy.
Yeah. Total jock.
But go ahead and make up whatever suits you.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 6 pts · 154d
Fucking lol.
NEEEEEEERRRRRDDDDSSSSSS
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 154d
Meh, it just wasn't funny or entertaining. That's all.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 155d
can't believe how underused she was in the show.
Harley is one of the funniest shows from the last decade, how the fuck was a show with her as a lead was so unfunny!!!??
boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 155d
The only thing worse than this show is this show with german dubbing
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 155d
Cause Chuck Lorre
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 155d
The whole show was only funny to people that think sitcoms are high comedy to begin with.
Mind you, anyone that enjoys them are welcome to! Humour is a very personal thing. I'm just saying that sitcom humor is not universal as a whole, and that this sitcom played to a narrow audience that heavily favors that style of comedy show. If you aren't the sort that really grooves on that template and style, the show just won't hit right.
It's like how people with really dark senses of humor tend to not be prone to liking cartoon style humor.
Sitcom specific fans know what they like, and tend not to like things that aren't similar
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 155d
Oh yeah, sure. People with dark senses of humor don't watch Rick and Morty, family guy, American dad, Archer, metalocalypse, bobs burgers, yeah. Dark senses of comedy never watch cartoon type shows. Cause none of those exist.
Edit:forgot the Simpsons, South Park, frisky dingo, aqua teen hunger force, the Xtacles...
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 155d
Superjail, Mr. Pickles.
Pickles is just violent. Superjail is probably the most genuinely unhinged show I've ever seen.
Hoimo@ani.social · 6 pts · 155d
Should we put Xavier Renegade Angel on this list? I don't think it really qualifies as dark humor, more absurdist humor, but he eats all those babies that one episode...
Magnum@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 155d
I will save this post for later, thanks a lot
Soulg@ani.social · 10 pts · 155d
Check out sealab2021 if you like dark mixed with absurdist
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 155d
Sealab is great! That show (and ATHF) got me into mc chris
bcgm3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 154d
mcchris ownz
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 155d
I'm probably missing a bunch. Their post was just so absurd that it couldn't go unrefuted.
escew@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 155d
Bojack Horseman
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 155d
You got my hopes up that there was a frisky dingo spinoff show....
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 155d
There was... Sorta. Only a few episodes got made before the company collapsed. The jokes about rapier ape and the potential of a rapiest ape... Omfg I almost died laughing.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 155d
Good to know it's still good. I just saw two episodes and got disappointed
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 154d
Archer is the spiritual successor and is much, much better imo.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 155d
the good thing about sitcoms is that they are comforting. if you start liking the characters then you get to enjoy their lives vicariously.
my point isn't about sitcoms, but that Kaley Cuoco is incredibly funny (Harley is so funny and nerdy). yet all she did was being the "normie blonde". If she was given more freedom The Big Bang theory might have been actually funny.
msfroh@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 155d
I remember early in the run of BBT, when I had already decided the show was not for me (not helped by people comparing me to Sheldon -- yay, neurodivergence), I saw Jim Parsons on the Craig Ferguson show. He picked up Craig's TARDIS from his desk and giggled, saying "This is so cute! What is it?"
I think Kaley Cuoco would have recognized the fucking TARDIS.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 155d
Honestly, given my age at the time, she was probably my main reason for watching the show at the time. My second being the science and third the jokes.
daggermoon@piefed.world · 1 pts · 153d
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 155d
Yeah, she is way better than that show let her be. I'm not even a huge fan of hers, but she's definitely got great comedy chops.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 155d
Yeah? What else has she shown those quality comedy chops since then? Her Harley Quinn show exists, or did, I don't know if it's still a thing. But nothing else she's done has lasted more than 2 seasons.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 155d
Dude, I'm having way too shitty a week to deal with some rando being a dick.
Go somewhere else for an argument.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 154d
Sorry for your shitty week bro. 👊🏼
Delphia@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 155d
I will die on this hill. BBT was 6 seasons of a quality sitcom dragged out over 12. If a skilled editor went through and cut out all the filler, it would be a much better show.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 155d
Stupid hill to die on lol
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 155d
Some of his shows are funnier. I don't think he actually understands geeks, but he wanted to make a show about them and it was just a bunch of stereotypes for characters.
random8847@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 154d
Regardless of how good / bad the show was, what a fuck ass meme is this. Did you crawl out of 2010?
sirico@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 154d
Don't pretend that wasn't peak memes
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 154d
Rude
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 153d
fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 154d
Analyzing the jpeg situation: at the very least
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 154d
People think I’m weird for not enjoying this show, and many others like it. I’ll laugh a good joke but it’s just a constant quip of bad jokes and insults with a laugh track. Friends, the office, parks and rec… I just can’t enjoy them.
jve@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 154d
EDIT: Apparently they “sweetened” the live studio audience in Friends and BBT, so there’s that.
Office and Parks & Rec both famously have no laugh track.
sobchak@programming.dev · 7 pts · 154d
I liked The Office, at least the earlier seasons. I do hate anything with a laugh track though. Always found them a bit creepy.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 154d
It's a genuinely awful show, I mostly watched it because Kaley Cuoco and Melissa Rauch
GaMEChld@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 154d
Live studio audience
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 154d
You just listed a bunch of very different shows
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 154d
I thought the show was alright. There's so much hate for it on here
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 154d
I can see the appeal.
To me it's pretty accurate. But to me there's stuff that's played straight that isn't funny to me because it's just normal stuff. But I guess it's quirky if you're not.
Or there's the obnoxious friends who are quirky in the show. But I've known people like them in real life. So they're either a headache to be around or straight up should not be enabled.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 154d
The show gets big laughs from the audience from a character walking into a room and saying hello. No other subtext.
I enjoy it, but god damn do they need to chill out.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 154d
The show was alright. What I can't understand is how this meme got so much attention. We need to raise the bar around here.
No. We need to raise the bar and lower the boners. Yes. That's it.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 154d
I mean it obvious is supposed to be for geeks who can't get a girl (me)
nothingworked@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 154d
i don't think that's how it works omg, boobies
maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 154d
The show’s creepy vibe and the creepy audience and the creepy jokes aside Penny had to work for that free food. I mean these guys were not getting anything and she’s basically an adult entertainer for these nerds the same way that a sugar baby is not a prostitute but damn it’s just food that’s low.
Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 154d
menas@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 155d
this deal is call : wedding
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 155d
I don't get it...
hayvan@piefed.world · 40 pts · 155d
The Big Bang Theory. Unfunny show that somehow went on for a decade and made a lot of money.
Azrael@reddthat.com · 23 pts · 155d
Unfunny and unpopular are not the same thing. A show does not stay on air for 12 seasons by being unpopular and unfunny. Producing television is expensive, and networks renew shows because they are profitable and have strong audience demand. The Big Bang Theory may have been disliked in some online circles, but commercially and mainstream-wise, it was clearly a very popular show.
CBS did not keep funding 12 seasons of a money pit out of the kindness of its heart.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 155d
Popular also doesn't mean good. There are plenty of shows that run for years that aren't very good, but make money. Mindless entertainment sells great, but selling isn't quality, it's just moving products. And low quality cheap schlock does sell.
This is basically how I see it:
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 155d
You keep equating your preferences to reality. Just because you and an online circlejerk don't like it means that you're correct.
Azrael@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 155d
Depends how you define "good". I say if a lot of people enjoy it then yes, it's a good show. After all, entertainment is the primary purpose.
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 155d
Yeah, but what's the joke in the meme?
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 155d
Woman has breasts.
Geeks like looking at breasts.
Geeks feed breasts.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 155d
Breasts feed geeks
weimaraner_of_doom@piefed.social · 3 pts · 155d
The circle of life.
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 155d
I guess, that's not my kind of humor then...
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 155d
To be fair, humour is entirely subjective.
Zexks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 154d
ML user doesnt understand humor. Shocker
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 154d
World user thinks confirming a prejudice they hold is humor. Shocker, I guess?
Zexks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 154d
Another one lol
MinoriMirariRProductions@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 154d
yes I do.. haha meh.
ThunderComplex@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 155d
Woman
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 155d
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 155d
In a follow up comic, the geeks ignore the lady, because they have waifus. No freebies.
MinoriMirariRProductions@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 154d
lol ❤️
MinoriMirariRProductions@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 154d
Oh wow you guys let me back. I thought I died in this community ..
have a funny short. 😪🤗
https://youtube.com/shorts/Xe0GGl-ZeQk