Comments on: The Big Bang Theory is ruining science

By: Dani

Thu, 16 Jun 2016 21:08:31 +0000

Oh how did I forget: TBBT! After Prady left the show it went to complete crapper. I still watch, but it is really a sitnoncom now. The intelligent writing, science in-jokes, and a funny peek into academic life have completely vanished. It’s just a show about socially awkward people and their entourage now. It is really a variation of Saved by the Bell focusing on Sheldon as Screech. Making fun of string theory was substituted with developing a nonsensical gadget that wiggles in a ‘funny’ way. Instead of promoting them from their post-doc positions to professors (no ‘genius’ stays at the same job for so long) they are infantalized and act like no scientist ever. I could go on about how one of my favorite shows was ruined, but let’s end the rant here.

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By: Tim

Wed, 23 Sep 2015 20:01:03 +0000

This show has been lowest common denominator since its inception. Consider the producer, and all of his other programs. At best (and this is a generous reach) initially, it pretended to have subject matter outside of typical Chuck Lorre fare, but in reality, it’s always been about sex and pigs and idiots. The difference is these pigs like Star Trek, but honestly, it doesn’t really matter.

Consider the race aspect! On a show like Parks and Recreation, Tom (played by Aziz Ansari) mentions his heritage here and there as an Indian man, but his identity is not the most obvious things about his race. The Big Bang Theory’s two minority characters are, essentially when it comes to their character makeup, “The Jew” and “The Foreigner”. If anyone found anything about Fez on “That 70’s Show” offensive, how do they stomach 10 seconds of BBT? Better yet, how is Howard not an anti-Semitic caricature? Is it because the producer of the show is Jewish?

This show is the most reductive piece of garbage that has permeated popular culture, and while you’ve decided to turn it off, an entire society of people have been bred to wear their hideous Bazinga shirts, and think that these characters are realistic, or the way they behave and treat is appropriate. This show is abhorrent, and it ALWAYS has been.

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By: Ian

Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:16:40 +0000

I don’t usually though. The Muppets premier was good, although it played off The Office a lot (another show I liked). It’s just with TBBT, I have a personal history & some identification with it. So when it moves from that to bad, not funny jokes (as in, there was nothing funny in the episode) that are made at me and my friend’s expense, I get offended.

It’s like if halfway through Fresh Prince or Family Matters the show writers decided to stop making jokes about the shenanigans of Will Smith or Erkel and instead made racist jokes about the black community.

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By: kirbycairo

Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:03:51 +0000

Wow, you really take your comedy seriously.

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