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The Big Bang Theory - Total props to Wil Wheaton!
TehMuffinMan
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So I was watching Big Bang Theory tonight on my Tivo, and Wil Wheaton was guest starring. In it he enters a CCG tourney at a local comic shop. His 1st scene in the episode he is sorta in the corner of the screen and you can only see him from the upper chest and up... but what is this I see? A little red ball on his shirt descending down into something gray?
HE WAS TOTALLY ROCKING A FRUIT FUCKER T-SHIRT!!!!!!!!!! I recognized it instantly haha!
HE WAS TOTALLY ROCKING A FRUIT FUCKER T-SHIRT!!!!!!!!!! I recognized it instantly haha!
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I only watched the first season and some of the second but I like the show, as sitcoms go. obviously I don't make a point to keep up with it, but for a 22 minute show there are enough laughs, and they don't condescend to the nerd target group, they seem to have people who work the humor in well.
anyway, I like it too, and it's great that the Fruit Fucker made his network TV premier.
Why do people dislike it, other than it's not edgy and isn't Arrested Development etc?
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This is my impression as well. Well, socially awkward and "It's funny! His hobbies are different from my hobbies!"
This is what I got from it the couple of times I tried to watch it.
People are weirdly sensitive, unless 'nerds often have poor social skills' is contested now? I'm a nerd, and seems true enough to me.
My dislike is less from sensitivity and more from the fact that the 'nerds often have poor social skills' premise is cringingly dated.
Two? Abed, obviously.
this is more a problem with TV than this show. break down any show for me and tell me it's not dated. or movie.
I don't think so. Nerds still don't often have great social skills.
They do have some nerds with good social skills. Raj is pretty good with women unless it's being played for a laugh, and there was that physicist who banged Penny in S1 (?) and
Exactly.
She also has pretty good timing, comedy wise.
EDIT: Also by this standard, you have to watch Friday Night Lights and Chuck. Though those are also the two best shows on network TV.
It was a little off-putting at the beginning with the "LOL, nerds are funny!" but the more I watched it, the more I realized it's written by nerds, and more often than not, they're laughing with them, not at them.
I think it got better about it as it went on. I was turned off the pilot because I thought it was laughing at nerds, Alan Sepinwall recommended the second season and I usually have similar taste to him. It had gotten much better.
I do watch Chuck. However, I refuse to watch Friday Night Lights because I hate sports and everything having to do with them. Shows about football players rate very high on my "things I don't give a shit about" list.
The Conan MMO arc should have stayed the anger of the neckbeards.
It's not really about football.
Spoken like someone who has never set foot in the H/A forum.
The show is fine. It just appears that geeks are hyper-sensative and over-reactionary... gee, who knew...
I can't really stand sitcoms in general, with the laughtracks and the badness so I'm not saying it's worse than any of the other ones. How I Met Your Mother is the only one I like.
Wait
You hate Sheldon
That's it in a nutshell. The first season is hit or miss. Season 2 is gold though and this current season is great. My only compliant is that I have to sit through Jenna Elfman's What's Scientology I'm a flighty ditz ha ha show and Charlie Sheen's Alimony support paycheck to watch it.
Also tonights episode is better than anything because some lawyer had to ask for Clearanceon the T-shirt and that means there are legal documents with the word fucker on them.
No, I don't like the characters either. The premise is fine, and I'm not sensitive over the nerd/geek thing. Any time I've tried to watch the show they've either come off as painfully awkward or obnoxious. I can't relate to them either, they're just too extreme examples of the nerd/geek archetype. Maybe if they toned it down it would be tolerable.
That's the point. He's an insufferable jackass who doesn't understand how people work. Sheldon is the Internet.
Also we've had two Sheldon gets his episodes in as many weeks.
Last Week Raj proved him wrong. This week he got Wheatoned.
I mean even before that they've shown Sheldon humiliated or put down numerous times.
I could understand it if he never got his comeuppance but he does quite often.
Touche.
ding ding ding
I'm a physics major, I have to deal with socially awkward nerds on a nearly daily basis. It's definitely one of the more accurate stereotypes, but it's way overused and just not funny.
but that's irrelevant, it's not staring you in the face in a good show like it does here
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No, I actually want someone to shoot him in the face. Preferably a topless Penny, after she kills whoever thought Accidentally on Purpose was something that should be on TV. Losing a card game because he's randomly nice isn't the kind of comeuppance that balances the ledger given how awful he is to everyone all the time. Everyone he interacts with not sicking a pack of starving hyenas on him is less believable than Leonard bagging Penny.
Only, it is funny. Every single sitcom is based on stereotypes. Even everyones precious Arrested Development was absolutely FULL of stereotypes.
I can understand not liking the first season of this show, it was pretty hit and miss, but seriously, anyone crying "stereotype" while enjoying ANYTIHNG on television is just a hypocrite.