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#3896764 - 01/17/14 12:04 PM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: Destructis]  
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I'm sorry folks but I just don't get this programme.
Every time I'm at my friends house he and his always seem to be watching it and that is my cue to bolt.Granted I have struggled through a few episodes but I would prefer to pour salt into my eyes to be honest,
I just can't seem to get the humour,shows like this and "Friends" spring to mind,when every word they say,it's to try and get some kind of laugh from every bloody sentence,hate it with a passion.
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#3896800 - 01/17/14 01:36 PM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: 3instein]  
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Originally Posted By: 3instein
when every word they say,it's to try and get some kind of laugh from every bloody sentence,hate it with a passion.
Mick. smile


It's a sitcom. LOL
Not designed for everyone, but certainly popular. We enjoy it, but I like a show featuring nerds rather than a bunch of male and female models, each one trying to be more cool than the rest, or insult comedy. I get tired of shows with "the hot blonde", "the funny hot brunette", "the cool girl-getting guy", "the funny cool guy" and of course the homosexual _________ whatever is funnier at the time. Formula sitcom, and yeah, I think Friends pretty much started it, although they weren't exactly that mold.


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#3896804 - 01/17/14 01:42 PM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: Destructis]  
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I haven't cared for sitcoms since I was a kid in the 80's.

I admit though that I've seen a couple of episodes of BBT and I found it funny most of the time. I'm just not a sitcom type of person.


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#3896970 - 01/17/14 05:13 PM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: Destructis]  
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Originally Posted By: Destructis
It will be Sheldon's baby and Amy will go ape **** and kill them all.

Lol, I think she would subject them to one of her scientific studies and dissect their brains.


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#3896990 - 01/17/14 05:47 PM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: Destructis]  
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Sitcoms are all I can watch other than documentaries- however, I don't watch most sitcoms. The animated shows like Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama, and the crass, weird stuff.

I can't stand all the network action and drama series- corny and unrealistic as hell. I can't believe what I'm watching, I don't get the point of these shows.

Next on Rogue Warrior: A former cop has sold out to Al Qaeda and stolen a submarine, can overachieving d-bag Special Agent Skylar Ryan scramble his brain with a secret code stolen from a leaked White House press kit? STFU. What am I, a schmuck?


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#3896999 - 01/17/14 06:01 PM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted By: PanzerMeyer


Will people 20 years from now think the same thing about shows like Big Bang Theory, Modern Family or Community?


Could very well be- look at The Honey Mooners- does that cut it in 2014? What is funny is what they considered funny back then- jokes about punching your wife out to the moon. It's not the joke and delivery that's funny, it's the fact that it's supposed to be funny to make jokes like that. Sort of a product of that age.

Giligan's Island, Three's Company, Partridge Family, Leave it to Beaver- these shows just are a products of a different time.

If shows like Brady Bunch have any relevance it's because they were so campy- they are iconic and have a cultural impact. Even if people are making fun of it, everyone knows what it is.


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#3897038 - 01/17/14 07:06 PM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: 3instein]  
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Originally Posted By: 3instein
I'm sorry folks but I just don't get this programme.
Every time I'm at my friends house he and his always seem to be watching it and that is my cue to bolt.Granted I have struggled through a few episodes but I would prefer to pour salt into my eyes to be honest,
I just can't seem to get the humour,shows like this and "Friends" spring to mind,when every word they say,it's to try and get some kind of laugh from every bloody sentence,hate it with a passion.
Mick. smile


I'm right there with you, don't find this show funny at all. She's hot but not enough to watch the show...

#3897042 - 01/17/14 07:10 PM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: Destructis]  
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I don't think Penny is hot at all- she's mainly a foil for the nerds, but I think her character isn't much use except for something the nerds to bounce off of- the character isn't very funny but is supposed to come off rather more human or more typical to provide balance.

I think in time the show will either jump the shark or simply recognize it had its run.


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#3897044 - 01/17/14 07:12 PM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: Kontakt5]  
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Originally Posted By: Kontakt5

I think in time the show will either jump the shark or simply recognize it had its run.
How many seasons has it been on the air now? I think it's something like 6 or 7? Even if it does jump the shark it will still remain a hugely successful show that made a TON of money for CBS.


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#3897048 - 01/17/14 07:16 PM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: Destructis]  
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Which is why shows jump the shark- shows that aren't successful in the first place just get cancelled. Shows that make money- well, the networks are trying to wring everything they can out of it before the inevitable collapse. So long as it's doing well, it's fine. Jumping the shark occurs when someone at the network feels that the show is in danger of losing its audience, so they throw something in there trying to juice it up.


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#3897051 - 01/17/14 07:20 PM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: Destructis]  
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I don't know how to explain the success of a show like The Simpsons- which I believe is the longest running sitcom in history, but my theory is that it has the advantage in the fact that it's animated- the characters don't grow up or grow old, move on in life (the voices behind them have died), but the images of them are the same- Bart and the other kids would be in their 30s now, the parents would be entering the age of senior citizens, that show would have long been axed before that happened, or they would have had a spinoff episode. Eventually Sheldon and Penny will get old or something happens in their real life that will have to cut the show off, at some point.


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#3897063 - 01/17/14 07:39 PM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: wheelsup_cavu]  
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Originally Posted By: Destructis
It will be Sheldon's baby and Amy will go ape **** and kill them all.

Lol, I think she would subject them to one of her scientific studies and dissect their brains.


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Originally Posted By: Kontakt5
Giligan's Island, Three's Company, Partridge Family, Leave it to Beaver- these shows just are a products of a different time.


Well speaking of monkeys and kids shows in the same thread, I can't let it go without posting this.



(Funny, I posted the same video on another board earlier today. It was in a thread about the Professor dying and watching shows as kids)


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#3897066 - 01/17/14 07:44 PM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: Destructis]  
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The show stopped being funny around halfway through season 6. The writers obviously struggle to come up with new ideas, and instead of advancing the characters in a meaningful way, they just make them more extreme (by grotesquely overdoing their quirks).

I call it the "Chuck Lorre Factor": every show he's ever done started out fresh and funny, but after a couple of seasons suddenly drops off significantly in quality (basically over night). Could be that he's putting his effort (and that of his top writers) into a new show at the expense of the current one. Two and a half men began declining in quality around the time Big Bang Theory took off.


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#3897073 - 01/17/14 07:51 PM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: Destructis]  
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Strange thing about this show- I'm usually slow catching on to things, I've only known about this show for about 2 years. It's on several different networks every night, yet for a show that's so old now, it seems like less than a dozen of the same episodes get aired. There must be more than these, but based on the repeats, it seems like the show must be only about one season's worth of episodes.


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#3897117 - 01/17/14 08:34 PM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: Destructis]  
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The problem lies with the way the US network tv business model is set up. It encourages the continual airing of a show even if it has been creatively stagnant for a long time. As long as the tv ratings are there, the network will continue to milk a show for all that its worth.


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#3905658 - 02/02/14 12:36 AM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: Destructis]  
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IMO the latest episode was an all time low (so far) for the show. They even ruined James Earl Jones' guest appearance. The subplots were incredibly unfunny and pointless. confused Who writes for the show these days? A bunch of teenagers?

They are currently showing reruns here on TV, and those first 3 seasons are still funny, and I must have seen these episodes a couple of time by now.


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#3906039 - 02/02/14 08:10 PM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: Destructis]  
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My wife and I loved the James Earl Jones episode. We expected him to reject Sheldon and probably call the police on him. Instead, he acted totally opposite of what one would think he would have. The topper was the Carrie Fisher scene: "It's not funny anymore James!" "Then why am I laughing?"


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Originally Posted By: vocatx
My wife and I loved the James Earl Jones episode. We expected him to reject Sheldon and probably call the police on him. Instead, he acted totally opposite of what one would think he would have. The topper was the Carrie Fisher scene: "It's not funny anymore James!" "Then why am I laughing?"


Yeah I thought it all was pretty good as well.
I did LOL at the Carrie Fisher scene, too.
"It's not funny any more, James!"
"Then why am I laughing?"


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#3917450 - 02/27/14 09:07 AM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: Destructis]  
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Still enjoying this show. Looking forward to seeing how they spin the latest Sheldon and Amy story line.


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#4032391 - 11/06/14 01:52 AM Re: Big Bang Theory [Re: Destructis]  
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Seem to have lost all interest in it lately. Tried watching the first couple of episodes of the new season and it just seems off and unfunny. Like getting the guaranteed three year contract caused everybody to just start phoning it in...


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