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Pardon my ignorance but what did big bang theory got wrong?
by blocked_again 8y ago
Pardon my ignorance but what did big bang theory got wrong?
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- Nerdfest 8y agoThey got too popular.
- dokem 8y agoUsing a laugh track.
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- emsy 8y agoI think TBBT started out fine, but over the time it it went from laughing with and about geeks to just laughing about geeks.
- mturmon 8y agoThe characters, especially the female characters, were just too far off the mark. Also, too many girl-meets-boy plot lines. It got worse as the show went along with no new ideas. "Friends" with nerd jokes. (I live next door to Pasadena and am acquainted with many Caltechers.)
- 24gttghh 8y agoPardon the terminology, but I consider that show to be Nerd-Blackface. I'm not sure how else to describe it. I find how the show deals with anything technical to be an affront to intelligence in general.
- rustcharm 8y ago"Nerd-minstrelsy" is a better term
- 24gttghh 8y agoSeems like the same thing... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minstrel_show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minstrel_show >The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American form of entertainment developed in the early 19th century. Each show consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music performances that mocked people specifically of African descent. The shows were performed by white people in make-up or blackface for the purpose of playing the role of black people.
- dragonwriter 8y agoThey aren't the same thing: minstrelsy is the root offensive thing, blackface is offensive by association with minstrelsy. “Nerd blackface” could be any instance of non-nerds portraying nerds [0], “nerd minstrelsy” would, at least if you take the modern objection as defining [1], be the unfavorable portrayal of nerds (whether by actual nerds or non-nerds) for the entertainment of non-nerds. [0] which is problematic as a blanket characterization of TBBT, though it may apply to some players; it seems pretty clearly not to apply to Dr. Bialik, for instance. [1] historically, from some quarters it was roundly attacked on the opposite basis, for excessively sympathetic portrayal of blacks, especially during slavery, and especially for it's frequent positive (from the viewpoint of those objecting) portrayal of runaway slaves.
- smsm42 8y agoI think you set your expectations way to high if you expect a general-appeal TV show to get what theoretical physicists to right. That said, a couple of moments were pretty good - e.g. when the guys were thinking about something with "eye of the tiger" playing on the background. Nice lampshading of the fact that it's impossible to show intellectual work on TV. They had some pretty good moments early on. They should've stopped there.
- Dirlewanger 8y agoSomeone on a podcast I listen to called it "nerd blackface", which I think is a fair assessment. The main characters have so many different stereotypes and so many different personality quirks rammed into singular people that it's borderline ridiculous; they don't feel like real people. It's still a really well-written show though, but many people will choose to blindly hate them instead. Much like the same hate Lorre's other show, Two and a Half Men (Sheen era), got.
- kakarot 8y agoAll of these commenters seem genuinely offended by the demographic representations on the show but I'm here to tell you, it's awful because of the terrible writing, predictable humor, reliance on a laugh track to sell its "jokes" and it's overall just aimless and boring.
- SmirkingRevenge 8y agoI'm with you. I'm not quite sure what elevated it beyond "yet-another-sitcom" in the eyes of so many people, but it really seemed like standard sit-com fare to me, the few times I watched it (terrible writing, predictable humor, etc).
- deadmetheny 8y agoIt's a fairly traditional laugh-track sitcom with "lol nerds" as the window dressing. It's just fine as a sitcom, if you like sitcoms (I do) but actual nerds love bashing it since, surprise surprise, a network sitcom's characters are more caricatures than actual nuanced characters.
- m4lvin 8y agoJonathan McIntosh sums it up as complicit geek masculinity and adorkable misogyny: http://popculturedetective.agency/2017/complicit-geek-masculinity http://popculturedetective.agency/2017/complicit-geek-mascul... http://popculturedetective.agency/2017/the-adorkable-misogyny-of-the-big-bang-theory http://popculturedetective.agency/2017/the-adorkable-misogyn...
- eeZah7Ux 8y agoI was going to post the same videos. It's sad to see how many downvotes you are getting.
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- dlivingston 8y agoWatch a video of Big Bang Theory without a laugh track and all of your questions will be answered: https://youtu.be/jKS3MGriZcs https://youtu.be/jKS3MGriZcs
- dilyevsky 8y agoI’m just as much of a bbt hater as the next guy but ftr - messing up with timing will render most jokes not working
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