Me now: still trash, like, it was always really bad. You’re allowed to like trash. I encourage you to like trash. If you learn to love trash then the world is full of wonders. But we’re not gonna pretend it’s good out of some sense of politeness.
Reading thru the thread … Only thing I can say is, I don’t like Friends. Cool if you do though. Can’t watch Seinfeld anymore. Didn’t age well as I aged. Again, just me. Cool if you do.
It’s bullying. It’s people who aren’t like me and my friends going “this is you. this is what you’re like.” It’s satire without love for the thing it’s satirizing.
Yeah, I don’t mind people enjoying whatever they’re enjoying. But BBT is a trash show and I’ll never watch it and whatever trash comes out of it like what Young Sheldon crapshoot. No offense to the actors themselves. They’re probably nice people. I hope the show runners get head lice. Daily.
I also wouldn’t mind if certain people in my life could go a single day without something “reminding them of Big Bang Theory.” I’ve probably sat through more “Then Bernadette said” than the actual runtime of the cunting show by now, and thus I have deep antipathy for the entire project.
Exactly this. It’s a hateful, spiteful show about everyone making fun of geek culture. I have always despised it and will continue to despise it. It’s not “safe”, it’s not okay, it’s nothing. Fuck everyone for making that shit show a thing and continuing the hatred and mockery that geek culture has had since I was young years and years and years ago.
‘We do quirky things in a self-awareness vacuum that violate societal norms in a hilarious way that somehow doesn’t result in crushing depression and isolation’
Seinfeld is just horribly unfunny, maybe it’s just because it’s so old it’s not relatable anymore. Or maybe it’s because Seinfeld is a pervert that rapes teenagers, idk.
Oh shit is it really that bad? I only watched like the first couple of episodes a while back and they were alright. Definitely liked it more than bbt tho
The show itself is just meh, it’s so old it’s not relatable anymore and I didn’t consider it funny in the 90s even. Seinfeld is a perv irl though, he was dating a literal teenager when he was like 40 and nothing really came of it.
It was just so popular and unique that everything after it tried to do the same thing and we all got used to seeing this type of humor everywhere. There is a whole TV Tropes page about this called Seinfeld is unfunny.
It’s still funny though. If you just pick up a random episode halfway through, you probably won’t find each moment-to-moment interaction to be side-splitting. However, if you know the characters, you’re just waiting to see which petty societal norm is going to turn into a whole ordeal - like George and Jerry disagreeing about whether moviegoers should pick up their own trash after a movie showing or something. Of course, the hilarious part is when George inevitably loses the perfect relationship with a beautiful woman because her father worked as a movie-theater cleaner and was never home for his family due to inconsiderate movie goers. He leaves his junior mints on the ground, she storms out, and we see Kramer walking into the movie theater with a metal detector as he scours the floor for valuable trash as part of his new side hustle.
It’s not a real episode but that’s basically the formula and it just works. You are waiting to see how shitty and petty they can be while living up to your expectations of them as characters. You know they never learn a life lesson or gain any true moral clarity. Oh, and my wife especially loves that they frequently do little gags and call backs to previous episodes.
The problem with BBT was making a stereotype caricature out of being a need or having aspergers, and then assholes get to call you Sheldon cause they think they’re funny.
I had no issue with this show for a while until someone pointed out how overtly perverted many of the main cast are. The laugh track and ‘adorkable’ aspect really throw you off, but once you see it…
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