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Oh wow you guys let me back. I thought I died in this community …
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i don’t think that’s how it works omg, boobies
Regardless of how good / bad the show was, what a fuck ass meme is this. Did you crawl out of 2010?
Don’t pretend that wasn’t peak memes
Analyzing the jpeg situation: at the very least
Rude
People think I’m weird for not enjoying this show, and many others like it. I’ll laugh a good joke but it’s just a constant quip of bad jokes and insults with a laugh track. Friends, the office, parks and rec… I just can’t enjoy them.
You just listed a bunch of very different shows
laugh track
names 4 shows with no laugh track.
2 of them don’t even have a studio audience.
I liked The Office, at least the earlier seasons. I do hate anything with a laugh track though. Always found them a bit creepy.
Live studio audience
It’s a genuinely awful show, I mostly watched it because Kaley Cuoco and Melissa Rauch
The show’s creepy vibe and the creepy audience and the creepy jokes aside Penny had to work for that free food. I mean these guys were not getting anything and she’s basically an adult entertainer for these nerds the same way that a sugar baby is not a prostitute but damn it’s just food that’s low.
But Sheldon! Look at Sheldon. What about Sheldon? You don’t like Sheldon? Come on. It’s Sheldon. Like Sheldon! The laugh track compels you to like Sheldon.
I thought it had 11 seasons?
I think they did one of those replace all the characters to repeat the show and then immediately get canceled because thats never worked final (12th) seasons?
I thought the show was alright. There’s so much hate for it on here
The show was alright. What I can’t understand is how this meme got so much attention. We need to raise the bar around here.
No. We need to raise the bar and lower the boners. Yes. That’s it.
I mean it obvious is supposed to be for geeks who can’t get a girl (me)
I can see the appeal.
To me it’s pretty accurate. But to me there’s stuff that’s played straight that isn’t funny to me because it’s just normal stuff. But I guess it’s quirky if you’re not.
Or there’s the obnoxious friends who are quirky in the show. But I’ve known people like them in real life. So they’re either a headache to be around or straight up should not be enabled.
The show gets big laughs from the audience from a character walking into a room and saying hello. No other subtext.
I enjoy it, but god damn do they need to chill out.
So much hate for a show that was never meant to be a cinematic masterpiece of comedy? I don’t get it. It’s not supposed to be deep. I watched it for a while, it was funny in its dumb way, and then it just didn’t go anywhere so I quit watching. It was fun for a while. No need for the hate.
Edit: wow. Triggered some people who want to equate themselves to centuries-long oppressed minorities and slaves, over a TV show. Know what? Oppressed minorities will still be oppressed tomorrow, shot by cops, profiled, and live with systemic racism. You get to change the channel. Get over yourselves.
Meh, it just wasn’t funny or entertaining. That’s all.
A lot of people grew up being bullied, turned on a show that was supposed to appeal to them, only to be bullied again. 90% of the jokes are “hey look how fucking stupid these nerds are for liking nerd things.” The remaining 10% is sexist or ignoring Penny’s crippling alcoholism.
It was an attack on a culture of people, rather than the celebration of that culture it pretended to be. That’s why people hate it.
The weirdest thing is it didn’t seem to start out that way. I remember the first season actually having strong jokes. I specifically remember one about spherical chickens that was truely hilarious because it was a nerd joke on a prime time tv show. Then came season two, with it the show tried to become more relatable to the ‘average viewer’ and it was just bullying on TV.
This is the show where simply acknowledging a character owns/owned a NES was the entire punchline of a joke.
It did seem like the writers’ only concept of “geek/nerd” was superficially gleaned from only watching other shows and movies about geeks/nerds. Which created basically a show about some of the dumbest “smart” people I’ve ever seen.
I find it a lot more palatable if you assume it’s viewed from penny, as an unreliable narrator. There’s actually a lot more geeky stuff going on under the obvious, but she doesn’t notice it.
Yeah if you turn off the laugh track this show is terrible, for so many reasons.
Also, Friends just isn’t funny. Every character except Phoebie is bland and unlikable.
I’ll add that the laugh track is doing a lot of heavy lifting for Seinfeld as well. Some of the writing is good but it might as well be called the Jason alexander show.
Phoebe is just annoying and unlikable
They’re all unlikable.
I would hang out with Joey.
Hang out, maybe. Wouldn’t want him as a roommate, though.
I wonder if the big issue is tying their twin to the show Mad About You.
Joey seemed alright, until he moved to LA.
Reminds me of “Kevin can f**k himself” https://youtu.be/q2qGIsOkA64
There’s your problem. Just keep the laugh track on and it stays funny.
Same deal with Friends and also a fair amount of standup.
This show had a character that physically could not speak to women without being intoxicated. I think they eventually created a pharmaceutical drug to resolve this.
EDIT: As for Friends, there was a lot of fat phobia and gay panic.
If I recall, they literally just dropped it one episode and acknowledged it with an “oh well.”
He eventually got over it, but yeah it was forced and uncomfortable.
Friends I never understood. I didn’t have a problem with most of it. It just… Sucked. It wasn’t good. I had more of a problem with Seinfeld but accepted that it was superior.
I’d rethink any opinions you have of Jerry Seinfeld. He thinks the phrase “Free Palestine” is worse than the Holocaust.
Don’t get me wrong, he sucks. But his show was better than friends.
Hard disagree. People still laughing cuz he wore a poofy shirt and it’s not even a cohesive joke. He just wore a shirt. Woopdeefuckindoo.
“Airline food. What is the deal with that?” Why are people laughing?
I’ve read 5 yr olds put together more cohesive story with crayons. Dude was just lazy.
If your jokes aren’t funny without putting fake forced laughter behind them then they shouldn’t be said.
That’s the entire premise of ‘Kevin can f**k himself’ essentially spitting in the face of these feckless sitcoms covering shit writing with laughtracks.
Well BBT, and every other that has a laugh track, is scripted and edited around it. Removing that will make even the best comedy suck.
The show sucks but removing the canned laughter doesn’t prove anything.
The one exception to this is probably MASH. If I recall correctly they didn’t want the laugh track at all, and when it aired in Europe it didn’t have the laugh track and was better for it.
Not really. When the laughs are removed you just realize it’s racism, sexism, and juvenile jokes all in one.
laughtrack
can’t believe how underused she was in the show.
Harley is one of the funniest shows from the last decade, how the fuck was a show with her as a lead was so unfunny!!!??
Cause Chuck Lorre
Some of his shows are funnier. I don’t think he actually understands geeks, but he wanted to make a show about them and it was just a bunch of stereotypes for characters.
The whole show was only funny to people that think sitcoms are high comedy to begin with.
Mind you, anyone that enjoys them are welcome to! Humour is a very personal thing. I’m just saying that sitcom humor is not universal as a whole, and that this sitcom played to a narrow audience that heavily favors that style of comedy show. If you aren’t the sort that really grooves on that template and style, the show just won’t hit right.
It’s like how people with really dark senses of humor tend to not be prone to liking cartoon style humor.
Sitcom specific fans know what they like, and tend not to like things that aren’t similar
Oh yeah, sure. People with dark senses of humor don’t watch Rick and Morty, family guy, American dad, Archer, metalocalypse, bobs burgers, yeah. Dark senses of comedy never watch cartoon type shows. Cause none of those exist.
Edit:forgot the Simpsons, South Park, frisky dingo, aqua teen hunger force, the Xtacles…
Superjail, Mr. Pickles.
Pickles is just violent. Superjail is probably the most genuinely unhinged show I’ve ever seen.
the Xtacles
You got my hopes up that there was a frisky dingo spinoff show…
There was… Sorta. Only a few episodes got made before the company collapsed. The jokes about rapier ape and the potential of a rapiest ape… Omfg I almost died laughing.
Good to know it’s still good. I just saw two episodes and got disappointed
Archer is the spiritual successor and is much, much better imo.
I will save this post for later, thanks a lot
I’m probably missing a bunch. Their post was just so absurd that it couldn’t go unrefuted.
the good thing about sitcoms is that they are comforting. if you start liking the characters then you get to enjoy their lives vicariously.
my point isn’t about sitcoms, but that Kaley Cuoco is incredibly funny (Harley is so funny and nerdy). yet all she did was being the “normie blonde”. If she was given more freedom The Big Bang theory might have been actually funny.
I remember early in the run of BBT, when I had already decided the show was not for me (not helped by people comparing me to Sheldon – yay, neurodivergence), I saw Jim Parsons on the Craig Ferguson show. He picked up Craig’s TARDIS from his desk and giggled, saying “This is so cute! What is it?”
I think Kaley Cuoco would have recognized the fucking TARDIS.
Honestly, given my age at the time, she was probably my main reason for watching the show at the time. My second being the science and third the jokes.
Yeah, she is way better than that show let her be. I’m not even a huge fan of hers, but she’s definitely got great comedy chops.
Yeah? What else has she shown those quality comedy chops since then? Her Harley Quinn show exists, or did, I don’t know if it’s still a thing. But nothing else she’s done has lasted more than 2 seasons.
Dude, I’m having way too shitty a week to deal with some rando being a dick.
Go somewhere else for an argument.
Sorry for your shitty week bro. 👊🏼
I will die on this hill. BBT was 6 seasons of a quality sitcom dragged out over 12. If a skilled editor went through and cut out all the filler, it would be a much better show.
In a follow up comic, the geeks ignore the lady, because they have waifus. No freebies.
I don’t get it…
