Interestingly, I feel like in "Big Bang Theory", the opposite happened -- the first few episodes, the characters were almost entirely a bag of stereotypical "ge

Interestingly, I feel like in "Big Bang Theory", the opposite happened -- the first few episodes, the characters were almost entirely a bag of stereotypical "geek" quirks; they slowly became more human as the show went on. I think I remember in an interview one of them saying that filming before a live studio audience actually helped with that -- you got immediate feedback about what the audience thought of the characters and the show; and people are just more interested in characters they can identify with.