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> The Big Bang Theory 420,400,000 That is just depressing IMO.. I don't understand the appeal to that show..
by layoric 3y ago
> The Big Bang Theory 420,400,000
That is just depressing IMO.. I don't understand the appeal to that show..
- sneed_chucker 3y agoEh. It's a pretty typical sitcom. Might not be your cup of tea, but they're widely popular
- fbdab103 3y agoIt also has a mind-boggling 12 seasons, which is going to shoot up the total hours watched.
- StressedDev 3y agoNot if people stop watching. Remember that older network TV shows declined overtime. The first 2-4 seasons were really good. The next 2-4 seasons were good or OK. After that, quality tended to really decline.
- andrei_says_ 3y agoIt’s nerdy and pedantic and I like seeing that part of me made fun of.
- Dig1t 3y agoI really love the show, I think it's a combination of likable characters and feeling special when you understand a physics/chemistry/scifi etc reference. It makes you feel smart because you are in on the references that the smart people are making.
- tempusr 3y agoSure, but the show displays toxic masculinity as a dorky thing that "nerds" just do. Overall, I believe the show is a terrible role model for how men who are in STEM fields should behave to others who do not fit the stereotype. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-hOigoxHs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-hOigoxHs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L7NRONADJ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L7NRONADJ4
- zer00eyz 3y agoTropes, Caricature, Mocking, Sterotypes... These things have been the tools of comedy for a LONG time. For good or bad they will remain that. The problem is context, it's Lenny Bruce mocking the cop who is reading back his skit in court. It's Dave Chapel pointing out how people quoting him on twitter without the context miss the point... These are made up people in a make believe world doing made up things. They aren't meant to be taken seriously on any level.
- suriyaG 3y agoI'm not supporting the parent comment. But don't you think we as humans have a penchant for conflating the reel and the real and ending up reinforcing the stereotypes present in the world? If anything, we need less stereotypes. A caricature is fine, But after a certain point it just feels tiresomely pigeonholing into an idea.
- zer00eyz 3y ago> conflating the reel and the real Love the sneaky word play! Does art imitate life or does life imitate art? > ... reinforcing the stereotypes present in the world The whole point of comedy is to take away the teeth behind these things. The act is meant to reshape culture and conversation. Stereotype, beauty, the perception of color, were very fungible and its just another tool!
- topato 3y agoI well written comment, by an obvious true student of comedy. +1
- maroonblazer 3y agoIn reference to the first video: did the definition of 'misogyny' change while I wasn't looking? These guys don't seem to exhibit 'dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women'. They simply want to have sex. Also, one of the main features of the show seems to be to point out the fact that, with respect to women: That's Not How To Do It. So, to claim that the show's writers are "doing it wrong" seems to be missing the point. It'd be like criticizing the writers of All in the Family for imbuing Archie Bunker with working-class conservative values. The whole point of the show was to illustrate how wrong he was.
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- wyre 3y agoWow, that’s a cumulative 47,990 years.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoWe could be so much wealthier!!
- muzani 3y agoSometimes I sit and think about how one of the highest paying companies in the world sells unproductivity as a service. There's free options for entertainment like YouTube too.
- humanrebar 3y agoCould be worse. Other companies sell diabetes, lung cancer, and debt.
- globular-toast 3y agoThere's nothing wrong with being unproductive. We should totally rest and enjoy life once we've covered our needs for the day. This thing about productivity being a goal of society is stupid. Who says being productive leads to happiness? I actually like to be productive, and I suspect you do too. But if people don't, that's fine too. I do wonder if we might be addicted to productivity, though.
- kombookcha 3y agoHN is a site where you hear people unironically talk about how they listen to audiobooks and podcasts at higher speed to optimize how many they can take in. Thinking about what that implies about how these people engage with art is kind of wild. It's like speedwalking through an art gallery to see more paintings per hour. There's something about that optimization/productivity mindset that seems strangely pathological. Like insisting on eating exclusively vitamin gruel because it's optimized for nutrition per minutes. I don't know where this compulsion starts, but it's a little disturbing.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 3y agoIt had an interesting characters at first, but then it quickly devolved into relationship show with all the character adjustments necessary to make it happen. I enjoyed it, but I enjoyed it the same way I enjoy Seinfeld. It is an equivalent of chips and icecream. Filling, but ultimately bad for you.
- nickthegreek 3y agoPutting Seinfeld and Big Bang in the same bucket hurts my soul. Not sure how either are bad for you though. People need a way to decompress and a 22min sitcom is a great way to transition from one mood to another.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 3y agoI will admit it is not a perfect match, but both have a laugh track and both remain very popular. I think I may have been trying to get an agreement from several generations of sitcom enthusiasts. How about Big Bang and Scrubs? Both are kinda silly and both kinda got bad the same way.
- vinaypai 3y agoRegardless of your opinion of the show I don't understand why you'd be "depressed" about other people's entertainment choices.
- greesil 3y agoLamenting the future of humanity is a time honored pastime.
- andra_nl 3y agoSo is asserting that everyone is crazy, except you. :P
- BobaFloutist 3y agoBecause they influence the perception and renewal chances of my entertainment choices.
- rchaud 3y agoWhich show has been cancelled because of TBBT, a show that ended almost 5 years ago?
- JauntyHatAngle 3y agoTo be fair, it's a definite truth that shows get more chance of funding based on what is popular and how it fits into that perceived potential popularity. So TBBT is a part of the overall zeitgeist, an example of a show of its type that was very successful. You bet if a sci-fi show was number 1, than other sci-fi shows would be being made and better funded.
- conradfr 3y agoWhat is sad is that popular comedy shows on Netflix and elsewhere are old network shows. America doesn't know how to make comedy anymore. I blame Twitter.
- atleastoptimal 3y agoI understand the Big Bang Theory appeal, it's a turn your brain off show for humorless people. However Suits is insufferable to watch.
- robluxus 3y agoWhat would you think makes Suits insufferable to watch?
- jeromegv 3y agoWell some might argue that every episode is the same formula. Watching season 2 or 10, you’re like watching the same thing over and over. Not really thinking it’s a big problem personally, lots of shows follow very similar formula, but I did end up stopping to watch after a few seasons as I did get tired of it.
- yieldcrv 3y agoA lot of sitcoms don't appeal to me until I had problems in my life Suddenly I found them relatable and amusing, the exact kind of escape I needed then other things I valued became accessible again and took up my time again and I don't find shows like that appealing Its really just to say to consider revisiting it in a different phase of your life
- wmil 3y agoIt's a warm show about people who care about each other where the drama comes from social misunderstandings. The initial pilot featured a more conniving Penny played by a different actress. The focus group feedback was "Someone keep that mean girl away from those sweet boys". Think of it as a show for moms / grandmothers / aunts of nerdy men. They want to see them get up so some shenanigans but generally be OK. It's also a low effort show to watch so you can throw it on in the background while you're doing other things.
- HenryBemis 3y ago> you can throw it on in the background while you're doing other things. Nobody asked, but my thing to watch like this is everything-Star-Trek (TOS, TNG, V, Ent, etc. including the movies)
- oceanplexian 3y agoThe problem is Star Trek is actually intellectually stimulating so if I throw in on in the background I end up just watching it, unfortunately.
- coding123 3y agoIt's easier when you have seen all the series a few times over.
- olyjohn 3y agoDude. It blows my mind there are over 25 episodes per season of most of the older series. I know most of the series had rough starts, but they really get good in the later seasons. I tried to tell someone to just watch it, and tell them how in Season 3 or 4 it gets really good. That means, you just gotta watch 50-75 episodes to get to the good stuff. LOL. That doesn't seem to convince anybody. I mean, personally I love the early episodes just as much. But trying to get other people into it hasn't been successful for me. Also I love starting on a long binge. There are hundreds and hundreds of episodes to watch! Peak Star Trek for me is DS9 when they start to get heavy into the Dominion war. Sisko is such a badass. He's my favorite Captain.
- Popeyes 3y agoMy wife will put Friends on as a background to the day. So it might not be engaged watchers just people who want the noise and like the familiarity of the characters talking in the same way that radio fills the audio space.
- harryf 3y agoIn the spreadsheet the total of ALL the hours is 93,455,200,000 or ninety-three billion, four hundred fifty-five million, two hundred thousand hours. And that's between January and June 2023. If we say the typical working day is 8 hours and the week is 5 days and a typical full time worker works 42 weeks a year (factoring in holidays and sick leave), based on this report 55,628,095 or about 56 million years of human productivity spent staring at Netflix in the 1st half of 2023 Looking at it another way right now we have almost 8.1 billion people on the planet. The total hours reported in this spreadsheet averages to about 12 hours per person on the planet for the 1st 6 months of 2023. Pretty mind boggling, especially when you consider this is only part of the story, compared to all the other entertainment media we spend time on (TikTok, Instagram etc.)
- klondike_klive 3y agoI never understood it either. My parents used to watch it together at top volume. My theory was that it was easy to watch, you knew exactly what was going on, it was familiar. When my mum died my dad would watch it alone at top volume, I guess it reminded him of her and a bit of comfort in a world that had suddenly gone unrecognisable, crazy and scary. I could never stand the grotesque yelling voices and hysterical laughter and I would ask him to mute it or switch it off when I came visiting with my son. I can't imagine I will ever watch an episode but I derive a weird sort of mild comfort knowing that it's there.