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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
People be forgetting that the first season or two of the big bang theory was legitimately very good.
The first season or two of the IT crowd was... oh yeah, the whole show.
IT crowd's best episodes were best-in-class. tnetennba. But it had a lot of meh too.
The thing about the IT crowd is they always try and walk it in
I've watched IT Crowd half a dozen times.
I haven't managed to finish an episode of BBT before I switch it off in disgust.
In my mind, I still picture this as the archetype of an office's boss inside a boss's office. If it doesn't have the 4th breaking wall picture, then it's a fake boss
Chris Morris is a legend. I love Matt Berry but Morris is legitimately one of the most influential figures in British comedy.
See, a real boss, ready to work for the greater good
FATHEERRRRRRR!!!!!
For sure it's no contest. Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
Cooper always tries to walk it in.
IT Crows was amazing, I laughed to death. Where the bigbang theory was not so funny, too much detail IMO.
Next season might turn out to be IT Pigeons
IT Crowd was three British goofballs doing elaborate running gags over 24 episodes.
BBT was four creepy bigots and a nice blonde woman doing pop culture references and calling one another stupid for 279 episodes before spinning out an 80s nostalgia prequel series.
It was the difference between a few cherished cleverly crafted comedy routines and endless derivative slop.
I've only seen the one episode of BBT, I think the first one, where a goddamn theoretical physicist spends a whole day forgetting the basic properties of light.
My family stared at me the whole time, expecting me to find it funny. Then THEY got mad at me when I said that was the dumbest shit I've seen in a while. Later I found out that Sheldon uses Ubuntu and brags about it.
But, okay, dumb jokes aside - the show doesn't explore any concepts or situations in new and interesting ways And THAT'S why it's bad.
Shelden uses linux. Hahahaha. That's it. A good writer could make a whole episode about that, alone, and it would be hilarious. Imagine him on internet forums. Imagine him fumbling during a talk because his laptop wouldn't work with whatever vidchat/system/software his hosts used, and getting haughty about it. Imagine Sheldon traveling across the country to "fix" an entire auditoriums tech to run on Arch after his failed remote speech. Walking away all "You're Welcome" as the staff can't figure out how the fuck to use it.
Funny, but now you're talking about the layman being cut out. Ratings won't survive and it dies after one season. But that would be better lol
I mean, the IT Crowd ran for 5 seasons while actually being funny to people working in the field it portrays, unlike Big Bang Theory which many nerds (not just physicists) find un-funny
I loved both shows. IT crowd made me laugh harder making it the better show.
Young Sheldon on the other hand was very very good.
If BBT was made today it would be accused of being written by AI. Fully flanderised characters, and endless filler episodes.
BBT is a show about smart people for dumb people. The IT Crowd is a show about smart people.
The big bang theory was not for geeks or nerds. It was pure shit.
I always felt like it was a show for moms of geeks and nerds that missed their kids once they moved out.
It had a good few first episodes with fun geeky jokes, but it quickly turned to bad jokes and lazy stereotypes and relied loosely on stereotypes to contain the geekyness.
Misogynistic pure shit.
No... the IT crowd is a sitcom FOR geeks. That other shit just makes fun of us
No no IT Crowd is a show about sysadmins, not geeks lol. There's a very clear difference.
And Moss was a nerd not a geek. He wasn’t obsessing about comics, videogames etc. like the characters in BBT.
Yeah, it's an interesting difference.
There was a lot of pop culture references in IT Crowd, all the music posters, the retro computers, etc. but the cast didn't even acknowledge it.
I remember IT Crowd as having some really funny moments back when I watched it, but also being very hit or miss. Looking back, the episodes with the theater gays and the trans woman were... deeply unfortunate. Also it turned out Graham whatshisface is a full-time transphobe. So it's consigned to the trash bin for me.
BBT, I never saw more than a few episodes and what I did see was very bland tbh.
TL;DR maybe they both suck actually
Not disagreeing that Linehan has some awful opinions and that has leached out into a couple of his writings. But, the theater episode, at no point, makes the fact that people are gay the butt of the joke it's the main characters that are terrible people in that episode, particularly Roy.
It's like getting upset that Father Ted is racist for the episode that specifically makes racists the target of the joke.
Not at all. My issue was with the portrayal of the characters themselves -- so vapid, touchy-feely, and simply stereotypical of the "theater gay" trope. Plus, after all her opining, whatshername was right about that guy's orientation.
Also, I found the theater material a bit, uhh... it felt to me like a Rocky Horror parody written by an adolescent person. Yes we're all singing "I love willies" because that's what being gay is about, yahaha.
big bang theory is about what dumb people think smart people are like.
I watched one random episode of BBT after it was recommended to me by a few people. That one episode was enough for me to decide that I never want to see that show again, and also that I should disregard all recommendations from the people who said I should watch it.
By far. I think that Big Bang Theory has rotten the minds of lots of highschoolers (that now are at university, or have already graduated)