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It's no contest (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [M] to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 137 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The Big Bang Theory was frustratingly bad.

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  • [–] 153 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Saw a critic call it, “Nerd blackface”

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Blackface is a bit more complicated and disturbing than “pretending to be like a black person for comic effect.” I don’t think it’s appropriate to compare it to to depictions of nerd culture.

    It’s what stupid people think smart people sound like. I’ve never been able to watch it, but I remember hearing Sheldon brag about Ubuntu being his favorite Linux distribution? Like, can you imagine someone saying that in a room of Linux nerds?

    It’s stupid and disrespectful to geeky people, but it’s not perpetuating harmful and violent narratives.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    brag about Ubuntu being his favorite Linux distribution we? Like, can you imagine someone saying that in a room of Linux nerds?

    H-hey!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think the comment was also made by Sheldon? Sheldon’s character should be the kind of person who chews people out on forums for not reading the Arch Linux wiki, or to launch into the “GNU/Linux” copy pasta reflexively when Linux is brought up.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I saw some clips on YT where they removed the laugh track.

    It's really hard to find the show funny when they take out the bit where it tells you when to laugh.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I watched and enjoyed TBBT, but I don't rewatch it. I saw one of these videos with the laugh track removed and was honestly surprised at how awkward the show was without it. It didn't change the fact that I liked it when I watched it though.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's mostly awkward because suddenly you have long times of silence normally occupied by the laugh track. If it was intended to be without a laugh track there wouldn't be awkward silence.

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  • [–] [S] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It got so popular, had occasional Star Trek references, even a cameo by Leonard Nimoy, and I still couldn't get myself to enjoy it. It's such a a shame.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My grandparents used to watch it. I think it had one (1) funny moment I saw in all the show's run that I caught when living with them - when Neil DeGrasse Tyson calls up Bill Nye and says "I hear you've been talking shit about me", and Nye immediately hangs up the phone in abject terror.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I watched a lot of it back in the day and by like season 10 (I have no clue how long it ran) I realized it was super boring and bad. There would be jokes as lame as “dude owns a Nintendo 64”. That was the entirety of the joke.

    Also there is a long running arc about a main character who is physically incapable of talking to women unless he is intoxicated (aka alcohol).

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