deserves its own thread imo
12 seasons!
Christ
i had no idea the guy who plays sheldon was 45
I saw an episode once. It was shit.
Timely reminder of one of my favourite Tweets
https://mobile.twitter.com/LyleRath/status/692483069064933378/video/1
Awful, awful show.
Itâll be on Channel 4 and/or Dave for years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years a-BAZINGA!!! ~falls about in hysterics~
People getting all sneery about popular comedy is one of my least favourite DiS tropes. Lay into it for the put-on Indian accent bits or the treatment of its female characters or whatnot, but getting all judgemental about the humour itself is implicitly looking down on the (many) folks who find it funny.
Nope.
Yeah, itâs pure snobbery. Lots of people find it funny. Youâre saying the humour is in some way objectively bad.
thereâs something jarring and dreamlike about laugh-track free sitcom clips on youtube i find quite appealing. they have a twin peaks red room vibe. donât quite know how to explain it.
For me itâs difficult to separate these two though. Because of the put-on Indian accent, the stereotyping of someone who might seem to be on the autistic spectrum, the attitudes to women etc I personally struggle to derive much pleasure/humour from it.
If people can separate the inappropriateness from the lightheartedness and enjoy it accordingly then fair play to them.
Humour is a highly subjective and personal thing though, ainât it. Different strokes and all that.
Yeah, Iâm not gonna go out to bat for it. I enjoyed early series when I was younger but itâs not something Iâd choose to watch now.
There is definitely a large element of comedy snobbery on this site, particularly for anything âgentleâ or, as you say, âlightheartedâ, and something like the tweet referenced earlier is a comment on how âstupidâ the comedy is, rather than a searing socio-political critique.
How far do you extend this in terms of criticism though? You canât call Muse or Twilight or any number of things shite because theyâre not âobjectivelyâ terrible and people enjoy them?
Does your post apply to Mrs Browns Boys or post-2000 Simpsons and Family Guy too?
Yeah, it goes pretty much exactly that far
I donât really have a problem with looking down on people who think this is funny tbh.
Maybe I should but⌠Meh⌠I donât, theyâre rubbish people.
I had no idea TBBT is decisive. I like watching random episodes from time to time. Sometimes it makes me laugh. Itâs easy going mainstream comedy. Not sure how anybody can get irked about it.
itâs not something i personally find very funny, but i understand why other people do, itâs brought three talented comic actors to the wider publicâs attention (the comic book guy, sheldon and sheldonâs gf), but it shouldnât have reached 12 seasons imo.
have to admit, as shit as it is, i find it more tolerable than a lot of other sitcoms of its ilk. had a period about 6 years ago where i would finish work at midnight and it would be on E4 when i got home and i found it strangely comforting despite not being funny. probably all the bright colours and shapes.
definitely gets a lot more annoying the more you see it though (which thanks to E4 is A Lot). any of the more recent episodes iâve seen you can tell they ran out of ideas entirely quite a long time ago.
dunno why people get so bothered about it. just donât watch it.
Obvs not elements of Family Guy which are just cruel or distasteful or whatnot