I fucking hate that show. Also, I love your uswrname.
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I don't get it...
The Big Bang Theory. Unfunny show that somehow went on for a decade and made a lot of money.
This is the show where simply acknowledging a character owns/owned a NES was the entire punchline of a joke.
Yeah if you turn off the laugh track this show is terrible, for so many reasons.
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.
It's terrible with the laugh track as well.
Also, Friends just isn't funny. Every character except Phoebie is bland and unlikable.
Phoebe is just annoying and unlikable
They're all unlikable.
I wonder if the big issue is tying their twin to the show Mad About You.
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.
If your jokes aren’t funny without putting fake forced laughter behind them then they shouldn’t be said.
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.
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.
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!!!??
The only thing worse than this show is this show with german dubbing
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...
I will save this post for later, thanks a lot
Check out sealab2021 if you like dark mixed with absurdist
I'm probably missing a bunch. Their post was just so absurd that it couldn't go unrefuted.
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.
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.
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.