I don't get it. I keep thinking I should like this show because it appeals to nerds or whatnot but come on now, this show is seriously unfunny. I'm just wondering at what times do you laugh when watching The Big Bang Theory, most of the stuff isn't even jokes. How is some dude saying "Bazinga" multiple times funny? Further, the other "jokes" are them just talking with large words and nerd-speak. No one even speaks like how they speak in TBBT. This is a show about laughing AT nerds and geeks. Every stereotype about nerds is displayed by the characters in that show. This is offensive and demeaning really. Imagine if there was a "gangsta" comedy where all the characters speak in ebonics and flunk out of school, yeah that would be well-received...
Yeah I haven't found anything to like in the few episodes I've watched of it. No laughs, & I don't enjoy watching any of those actors, but I also can't demand in confusion anyone else explain why they find something funny. It's all too personal & subjective. Also, i find the more others think what someone else finds funny to be not funny, the funnier it gets to the audience who enjoys it. Your rant's probably only helping the success of this show!
The show was funny, but with every show the novelty wears off with time. Its quite simple, the shelf life of the show is over.
I think it's one of the more overrated shows on TV right now. It's kind of humor can only go so far...
It's basically Friends with a younger cast and the disproportionate college/graduate level education and science fiction fandom for generational relevance. In the '90s, career and matrimonial inertia, along with platonic and non-traditional living situations, was all you needed to symbolize Gen-X. Also, "nerdism" is like "hillbillyism" in that it's one of the few white stereotypes that don't morally or behavioralyl overlap with black ones. Beverly Hillbillies used the latter to create sympathetic Southerners to contrast '60s Civil Rights newsreel footage, Big Bang Theory uses the former as a pre-text for levying a whole slew of (non-black or hispanic) racial, ethnic and religious stereotypes; in order to appeal to older audiences. You also have to realize that broadcast television flat out gave up on situation comedy once "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire", "Survivor" and "American Idol" hit in the beginning of the '00s, so CBS got extra points for re-tracing old ground and creating something that could actually be re-run and syndicated.
I think its funny but I'm not in love with it. I've been in grad school and medical school and found the personalities not all that far off from the real thing. It's pretty easily digestible geek references. It's the Two and a Half Men of nerd humor. BBT is the exact opposite of Community, which is nerdiness done in a completely novel manner.
I'm not a big fan of it, but I find it slightly amusing. I'll watch it if there isn't anything else on. I gave it a try in the first season and absolutely hated it. To me, it was "hey look, a nerd said a big word that sounds funny, let's laugh track it". It was almost as if people felt like they should laugh at the punchline yet didn't understand what it meant. However, as I said, it sort of grew on me to where I can stomach watching it now, but don't make time to.
Not all of us. This is the one show that is really odd to me, because my wife and I do not like it at all (we have tried watching several episodes to no avail), yet there are a few of our friends who generally have the same taste in sitcoms as we do, who do really like it.
Initially, I hated the show and found it utterly annoying. But I kept watching and I admit, I kind of like it now. Except for the character Leonard, still can't stand him.
