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Jastiger
Oct 11, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
I've tried. I really have. I've tried to watch this show. I'm a nerdy type that enjoys Dungeons and Dragons, fantasy and sci fi literature, video games, all of it. It just isn't funny. Its predictable. Its formulaic. You can see the jokes coming from a mile away, and they aren't funny.

"Hey Sheldon, what is this?"

"It is the one ring to rule them all"

*Laughtrack*

What? WHere is the joke? Sheldon likes LoTR LOL AMIRITE GUYS?

SO can someone explain to me where the humor is?

The best and funniest thing to come out of that show is really this meme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABWkdaCY7FY

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raspy trashfucker
Jul 5, 2014
i only know one person who likes the big bang and he's kind of a fag

Baiku
Oct 25, 2011

Watching Big Bang Theory is like reading a reddit punny comment tree. hth

Bivens
Jun 23, 2003

die mensch·maschine
nerds are finally portrayed in popular media as successful, happy, non-picked-on-and-harassed-marginalizations of society

concerned mom
Apr 22, 2003

by Lowtax
Grimey Drawer
I think I've seen the first 3 series or so and yeah it's bad

Stoic Commie
Aug 29, 2005

by XyloJW

raspy trashfucker posted:

i only know one person who likes the big bang and he's kind of a fag

ClearAirTurbulence
Apr 20, 2010
The earth has music for those who listen.
It's loved by older mothers of nerdy men, it reminds them of when their beloved sons still lived at home while giving them hope that they might produce grandchildren one day.

Jastiger
Oct 11, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
That can't be right, though. Its a hugely popular show that keeps getting renewed for some reason. People hear I'm into D&D or roleplaying games and they are like OMG I like BBT, I'm a total nerd and GET EVERYTHING, no I haven't read the LOTR books, but the movies were great!

Its not even about "nerd cred" though, its about the supposed comedy of an entire culture by virtue of that culture existing.

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Nerd blackface

Absalom Baird
Jul 13, 2010
Better than any other work of art throughout human history, it celebrates the transcendent bliss that a nerd feels when he finally gets all up in some oval office. If you look closely, they even clue you into this theme directly on the show:

B rothas
A re
Z oomin
I nside
N ewly
G ifted
A areas

scuba school sucks
Aug 30, 2012

The brilliance of my posting illuminates the forums like a jar of shining gold when all around is dark

ClearAirTurbulence posted:

It's loved by older mothers of nerdy men, it reminds them of when their beloved sons still lived at home while giving them hope that they might produce grandchildren one day.

This, basically. "He said Warcraft? My son plays Warcraft! That Sheldon guy wears a shirt with a comic book logo on it just like my sonny boy!"

Kumo
Jul 31, 2004

it's non-threatening nerdom explained for your mom

imagine how threatening game of thrones is for someone who voted for reagen, and that poo poo is like everywhere

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
lowest common denominator minstrel show humor that targets objectively subhuman gutter trash

King of Internet
Nov 16, 2013

High King Internet of Internet
Catchphrase!

Berk Berkly
Apr 9, 2009

by zen death robot

ClearAirTurbulence posted:

It's loved by older mothers of nerdy men, it reminds them of when their beloved sons still lived at home while giving them hope that they might produce grandchildren one day.

Uncomfortably close to the truth.


TWIST: I'm gay

DOUBLE TWIST: And pregnant

TRIPLE TWIST: My mother is the father

Pochoclo
Feb 4, 2008

No...
Clapping Larry
It's annoying because everyone ever who has watched it and knows me goes "haha you're just like Sheldon!!!". No I'm not that loving autistic

BlueChocolate
Jan 4, 2014
it's a show making fun of nerds and it's pretty funny to non autistic people

Ill Peripheral
Jun 29, 2008
Show is the worst

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

BlueChocolate posted:

it's a show making fun of nerds and it's pretty funny to non autistic people
sitcom audiences are the true autists, imo

Cucking Mama
Sep 27, 2013

Gold Medalist, 2014 shit post olympics
is this what 1.0 was like?

Whorelord
May 1, 2013

Jump into the well...

i like it op

dee eight
Dec 18, 2002

The Spirit
of Maynard

:catdrugs:
The broad answer is because nobody ever went broke by overestimating the bad taste of the american public.

See also: every tv show ever.

Batu
Nov 10, 2009
tv laff i laff haha

Mud Shark
May 12, 2012
I was accepting a shipment on our loading dock once when the truck driver asks me "DO U LIKE BIG BANG THEORY"

And I just said no because I hate the show but also I wanted to escape the conversation quickly.

Then he gave me the answer: "HEH THOSE NERDS CAN FIGURE OUT A COMPUTERS BUT THEY CAN'T FIGURE OUT A WOMENS"

Target demo hit, mission accomplished.

Cucking Mama
Sep 27, 2013

Gold Medalist, 2014 shit post olympics

Mud Shark posted:

I was accepting a shipment on our loading dock once when the truck driver asks me "DO U LIKE BIG BANG THEORY"

And I just said no because I hate the show but also I wanted to escape the conversation quickly.

Then he gave me the answer: "HEH THOSE NERDS CAN FIGURE OUT A COMPUTERS BUT THEY CAN'T FIGURE OUT A WOMENS"

Target demo hit, mission accomplished.

you are a human being

Premeditated Toast
Apr 24, 2008

Same as it ever was.

EugeneJ posted:

Nerd blackface

More like a Nerd Minstrel Show, but yeah.

a star war betamax
Sep 17, 2011

by Lowtax
Gary’s Answer
It s a nerdd blaaaaaackfacew.

Batu
Nov 10, 2009
plz dont sully the name of minstrel shows by calling the big bang theory one

Mud Shark
May 12, 2012

Cucking Mama posted:

you are a human being

if you are a truck driver who likes big bang theory i'm sorry if i offended you

Cucking Mama
Sep 27, 2013

Gold Medalist, 2014 shit post olympics

Pochoclo posted:

It's annoying because everyone ever who has watched it and knows me goes "haha you're just like Sheldon!!!". No I'm not that loving autistic

lol

Panamaniac
Jun 18, 2007

HEROES NEVER DIE

King of Internet
Nov 16, 2013

High King Internet of Internet

Pochoclo posted:

It's annoying because everyone ever who has watched it and knows me goes "haha you're just like Sheldon!!!". No I'm not that loving autistic

Literally lmao if you've reached this point

Cucking Mama
Sep 27, 2013

Gold Medalist, 2014 shit post olympics

Mud Shark posted:

if you are a truck driver who likes big bang theory i'm sorry if i offended you

it's lol how low gbs has to go to feel superior to people now

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
did sheldon ever pay tenbux to tell people how not autistic he is?

bazinga

LifeSizePotato
Mar 3, 2005

King of Internet posted:

Literally lmao if you've reached this point

Inevitable
Jul 27, 2007

by Ralp
more like Big Bang the OP's Mom Theory

a star war betamax
Sep 17, 2011

by Lowtax
Gary’s Answer
Sheldn eat an egg and let s get @fart "dr evl" hedren on the show.
# goonproject

LifeSizePotato
Mar 3, 2005

has anyone said kaley cuoco yet

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

idk

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Retarded_Clown_
Feb 18, 2012

probably because its funny unlike the OP

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