Excellent skewering of the Big Bang Theory
Warning: WORDS! LOTS OF WORDS!
I've never been a fan of the Big Bang Theory. Lots of people have told me I should like it, but I've never been able to put into words exactly why I don't. This does.
And then some.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 23:11,
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Oh bless
whoever said Nerds don't have a sense of humour hey?
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 23:15,
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If it was that simple
I'd also hate the IT Crowd. Except I don't. I love that and I think the difference between the two is that the IT Crowd is never spiteful towards its characters.
YMMV and all that. Like I said, lots of my friends like it.
They are wrong though.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 23:21,
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I HATE the IT crowd
because it's just NOT FUNNY, and it's SHIT. TBBT is reasonably funny and I know so many people like that (my son and his mates) and it never feels spiteful.
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 23:27,
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Do your son and his mates like it?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 23:38,
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They do.
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 23:45,
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I don't hate The IT Crowd,
I just find it very disappointing.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 23:44,
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I like the episodes with Chris Morris
Other than those, the one with the disabled toilets and the one with the football fans, I don't really remember being that funny
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There are some moments and, occasionally, whole episodes that are very funny,
and a lot that aren't.
As a self-identifying nerd and big fan of Father Ted and Chris Morris, I hoped for better.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 0:33,
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The one where Moss does Countdown was great
More hits than misses with the IT Crowd for me
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Rapscallion is it fashion or disease?, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 6:43,
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^this^
Gay, the gay musical was a brilliant episode too.
Excellently constructed
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Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 10:48,
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They are both shite
The IT Crowd tries jokes that just aren't funny and always makes me feel it was written by 6th formers (the more likeable ones though, not the Stewart Lee type) and the Big Bang Theory just doesn't contain any humour at all.
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WELL YOU'VE GOT SHIT TITS
The IT crowd was excellent, and you're an idiot.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 8:59,
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Skim read it to be fair
but what I picked up was he was giving it even more credit for clever writing than it actually deserves. A friend absolutely raves about TBBT, but I think it's really poor. There is some decent American comedy around, but this isn't one of them, the humor (sic) isn't clever, or subtle, it's ill-fashioned and crudely constructed.
And I just cannot see the point of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Varmint, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 23:24,
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WHAT? Curb is Hilarious!
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 23:27,
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*sees imminent deletion in the near future*....
i have tried watching Curb... it has resulted in me shouting obscenities at the TV (while someone else was watching) and wanting to hunt down Larry David just so i can punch him in the face.
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miss fortunate last posted ages ago, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 23:48,
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YES!
Everything is as it should be. Carry on...
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 23:50,
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You 4 eyed fuck, and you fat piece of shit
Get me the head!!
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 0:15,
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^That^
Awful show. It appears to be about a whining, self-indulgent prick telling everyone to sympathise with his non-problems. Fucking shite.
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sir_spicious2000 Crap I've watched: www.filmplop.blogspot.com/, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 0:06,
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I never really got the popularity of the show either.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 0:41,
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I fucking hate Larry david
He makes me want to stab my eyes and ears out.
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jakedamusss I understand, and dont care., Wed 9 Jan 2013, 2:04,
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this whole spontaneous anti-Curb DISGRACE feels like I'm being punished for pointing out that Limmy's Show is a cuntrack.
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 10:08,
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I watched half an episode of it when it first starting airing over here,
thought pretty much the same as this guy and have avoided it ever since.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 23:38,
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I'm having a huge sad rage with Mrs Browns Boys.
The fucking thing just isn't funny, but there are members of my family that can't stop talking about it. Cunts. For me it's the new "My Family", nothing to do with BBT I know but it's a comedy I hate.
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Shinigawa The milky bars are on me, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 23:50,
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You know what
I somehow managed to catch a glimpse of that show, oh my fucking word.
At first I thought it was a piss take, were they taking notes during Extras? It's like that fake show they have.
Holy fuck was I glad I turned it off.
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Lol, life imitating art ect.
I think it's the delivery, loud and forced. It's like there constantly straining to get a laugh from the audience evey other line. Cringe worthy telly.
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Shinigawa The milky bars are on me, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 0:05,
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When it first started,
my flatmate came home and said, 'Have you seen that Mrs Brown's Boys? Someone at work says that it's a bit like Father Ted'.
I looked at him incredulously and told him that it was supposed to be shite and the fact that it's on BBC1 should be warning enough, but we started watching that evening's episode...5 minutes later the channel was changed...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 0:21,
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yep
I can't believe the cunt has got a movie deal out of it.
It's unfunny bollocks
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smaggers Like a gibbon on helium, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 9:42,
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Just discovered It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, very funny
Also rediscovered Dream On, the 90s sitcom that has occasional boobs in it, and is also very funny in places.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 0:44,
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Well I have started to realize that 'nerds/geeks' for want of a better word(s)
want to be outsiders.
The premise that we are positioned outside of the characters that we identify with Penny is perfectly valid in the BBT. The main characters represent a tiny tiny percentage of the population at the very cutting edge of knowledge. They are not geeks in the traditional sense, they are geniuses with a liking for things that geeks identify with.
It's tiring to listen to endless geeks going on endlessly about how this isn't right and that japanese cartoon from 1962 was the basis for blah blah and you need to read the real true origin of blah blah and how this isn't cannon and that isn't cannon...
wankers.
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the thing I find about the BBT
Take away the laugh track and its just bleak and depressing but unlike something dark I find funny, like League of Gentlemen there is never any thought or point behind it, just despairing situations set to laughter. After watching 10 mins I left feeling a bit sick, I think thats why.
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