For anyone that watches the "Big Bang Theory" (not the creation story, but rather the comedy series), this debate is just for you.
I never knew the show existed because I'm a nightshift wacko that watches black and white movies and lives in squalor...because I'm a MICA drop out that thinks it's cool to live in filth... but anyway, I got my wisdom teeth pulled a while ago and my girlfriend brought over Big Bang Theory Season 3.
I ended up liking the show a lot for its comedic take on physics and life as a dork. So I made my girlfriend do the dishes and go to best buy for me to get seasons 1 and 2. I watched them every morning I came home.
So then I started going home for my lunch breaks so I can watch the new episodes at 8pm.. and I really started to hate one of the characters: Amy.
I respect her in real life, she's a neurobiologist, whatever.. but her character I don't like. I think Sheldon did not need a female counterpart, and her robotic, stale performance on the show is ultimately corrupting the integrity of the series.
What's yer take on it?
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On the other hand, Amy flip-flops from being a genius to be a total ditz so much that I don't think the writers really put any thought into her beyond "a girl Sheldon".
Although now that they've added Pria, and with Howard getting engaged, I'm afraid they're moving closer to shark jumping.
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I spent an evening watching the "funniest parts" clips on YouTube for every episode in Season 1. I only chuckled once - at the horrified look on Penny's face when Sheldon explains Schrodinger's Cat to her. The rest was bland and unamusing.
I'd much rather have his contrast as a stupid male hanging out with the guys rather than Amy's contrast as the girl Sheldon hanging out with the girls, of which Penny is still the only "stupid" one. On top of it you have the dynamic between Penny and her Ex where he is completely clueless instead of her normal level of ignorance and by this point she's been around the guys so much she looks smart in comparison to him.
His comedic timing is to my liking. The scene where they are all dressed up as super heroes and Leonard says, Well, looks like Superman isn't getting laid tonight" and the boyfriend looks to his left at everyone's costume, then to his right and then looks down at his own costume and realizes HE is superman. He looks up straight faced and says "Damn".
Still, I keep watching Big Bang Theory despite my complaints, so I guess the positives slightly outweight the negatives. I like how Penny's character has developed during the first seasons and Sheldon is often brilliant. Leonard is kind of useless but the rest of the cast manages to carry the show.
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There are a few recycled jokes that I didn't catch until I watched them back on DVD together. Penny's Check Engine light comes up in more than one episode.
Still, my favorite episode is The Adhesive Duck Deficiency.
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Oooh I agree with this assessment of great episode.
I think its a great show for what it is, and theres no sense really in bashing it, but if your looking for arrested development or such levels of wit and humour you're going to be dissapointed.
Its basically the host for all my wandering 'Friends' nostalgia.
What you refer to as a recycled joke is actually something called continuity. Penny's check engine light is always on. It's a running gag.
This is probably the key thing with The Big Bang Theory, it's really variable in quality. It crashes hard on a semi-regular basis, which I imagine is just to do with some weak spots on the writing staff.
Female Sheldon as a character was always going to happen, primarily to give Penny a "friend" so that should could be on-screen without one of the other main characters.
I still watch it, but largely as my girlfriend loves it. That and TV is a bit dry right now.
Besides, Penny drives a VW Golf, OF COURSE the Check Engine light is going to be on
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I absolutely get that he's this show's Cosmo Kramer, it's just that I don't live in the 1990s anymore.
Regardless, love the show.
Did you guys know that Leonard was the teen hearthrob David from Roseanne? Mind blown when I realized that.
And David from Rosanne was not even close to a teen heartthrob. He was an awkward artist. Now he's just an awkward scientist. Also, Darlene and the aunt have both been on BBT on multiple occasions.
That was super hot and had teen girls fawning over him.
Darlene was a heartthrob despite being an unconventional teen.
(1)In an episode in the second season Sheldon asserted, "More is merrier"....forget which one, but he definitely said it.
Then in the third season when howard brought bernadette over for the first time and asked if she could eat with him, leonard said, "more the merrier"... and sheldon flipped out and said, "That's a false equivalency, more does not equal merrier... if there were 2000 people in this apartment would we be celebrating? no, we would be suffocating!".
(2) The episode where the dude with the motorcycle was supposed to be some kind of Casanova but was like 10 times smarter than Leonard? Done and done. Saved by the bell, "WHOA, YOU'RE on the CHESS team??? You're such a hunk!" lame.
(3) Penny's one liners. I get that she's the cool pretty girl that isn't into the whole science thing, but what's with the one liners? Some of them are even cringe inducing. "I'm about get jr rodeo even!!!". Tried too hard to make her wit lowbrow, then simultaneously makes her character explore intellectual endeavors that are deep and somehow wiser than what the nerds are doing. *ultimately I like penny though*
(4) Sheldon not admitting he has biological, sexual urges.. I know, I know, it's cool, he wants to be purely intellectual and not succumbing to his primitive instincts, but come on! That scene where the chick went to his room and sat on the bed waiting for some lovin, and we went to Leonards' room... that just killed me.
(5) The laugh tracks. Oh god they are awful... every two seconds, even when something doesn't even seem like it was supposed to be funny... hahhahahahah. I first noticed it when I was coming down from a shroom high and wanted to lay down... had the hypervigilance going on..put the dvd in and it sounded like more laughing than dialogue. I watched it again completely sober and it still sounded like that. I have to really not think about it to be able to enjoy the show.
I think you might have been watching the wrong show. David didn't have anyone fawning over him, including Darlene, and was constantly picked on by everyone on the show, especially his older, actually attractive brother.
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The fans. Every guy I grew up with had a hard on for Darlene and every girl I grew up with had a hard on for David.
That's what a heartthrob is.
Eh, Darlene's lack of fawning was really more about her own hang-ups as the anti-Becky and not anything to do with David. His hair was definitely Encino Man-grade unforunate, but some people liked that sort of thing back in the day.
Roseanne was a really good TV show.
It's a sitcom staple, and I really don't notice it at all.
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Yes, it's a staple in the same way that twin beds for married couples and very special episodes were staples.
Personally, I find laugh tracks to be obnoxious and suck the funny out of a performance. Since 'Malcom In The Middle', 'Spaced', 'Always Sunny' and 'Scrubs', I've had a hard time going back to multi-camera sitcoms. Once you go without a laugh track and get a sense of how damned quick good comedy can come at you and how valuable comic timing is, the laugh track's presence is glaring and cringe-inducing.
The laugh track is the main reason I just can't get into BBT for more than a few episodes. It feels less like "you feel like you're there" and more like "How can we make 15 minutes of situations and dialogue fill 22 minutes?"
For me, studio audience laughter should be reserved for taped-as-live programming, like 'The Daily Show' or 'Conan', because those guys get to react right back to the audience. Sitcoms don't get that luxury.
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Well, considering that the very idea of what constitutes a "heartthrob" was audience reaction, then yeah, I would say that they determined what was classified a heartthrob.
Luke Perry is... pretty much the same situation. Tiffani Thiessen, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, etc etc etc.
As someone who hardly ever notices the laugh track or the studio audience, I'm generally turned off by the multi-camera sitcom format because they're so visually uninteresting, being essentially to other modern television formats what family portraits and Christmas greeting card photos are to the photography of National Geographic, but I'm pretty sure you've just found another reason to ruin it for me. :?
Character A: "blah blah blah"
Character B: "(derogatory comment about character A)"
I've just written every joke in any sitcom with a laugh track. Somebody pay me.
I never noticed any audience laughter or can laughter
Are you watching your CBS feed on your home theater surround sound system and you turned off the left and right channels? If I remember correctly, a few of the CBS sitcoms have the laughter in those left and right channels and the dialogue is in the center channel. It's how I was able to tell one of my surround sound speakers had come unplugged.
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No, I love the show.
I never heard a laugh track though. I dont have a surround set up, so that may be it.