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Big Bang Theory

Their "parodies" now follow the Family Guy method of simply inserting Simpsons characters into a recreation of whatever they're "parodying" rather than actually making fun of it.
 
Here's a blog.
http://fuckyeahcommunity.tumblr.com/post/19353641298/why-i-prefer-community-to-the-big-bang-theory

(Read it there because there are pictures)

Some geeks really enjoy The Big Bang Theory because there is a lot of genuinely geeky content in it.

I can understand this, as I too feel a shiver up my spine when hearing Star Trek reference accurately. But I absolutely hate the show. Here’s why.

Being a nerdfighter is not about making your interests mainstream. A Nerdfighter is at his or her core, proud of who they are and unashamed to admit it.

Shows like The Big Bang Theory, bring things like superheroes and string theory out into the mainstream TV, and that’s fine, but the geeks and nerds on the show are still portrayed at social crippled, physically weak, and only ironically attractive.

Now, allow me to introduce you to Community. Positively full of hotties.

The primary King ala Nerdfighter is Abed.

He is basically an Encyclopedia of nerd-lore and has one of the best self-esteem monologues I’ve ever heard. He says “I’ve got self esteem falling out my butt”

His best friend is Troy.

Troy is a football player, a total hottie, and an avid cosplayer just like abed himself.

Their roommate is Annie.

She is the smartest and the hottest of the bunch. And if she’s not a fan of Hermione Granger then I’m a creationist. She didn’t blossom into her titties until college, and she wasn’t popular in highschool.

Jeff is supposed to be the suavest and the coolest of the group.

But the truth he only acts “cool” because he is so insecure. He manages to pick up on every single one of Abed’s references, and the two are pretty close because both of them clung to TV and movies because of absent fathers.

There are a lot more things in Community that rage against the stereotypical geek or nerd. But my point is not that we should pretend to be something we’re not. If you are social inept, I am sure that you are the bombdiggity online, and that is a-okay.

My point it that all geeks do not fit the stereotype. Geeks are me and you, they’re your mom’s best friend and the six year old down the street. There are all kinds of geeks and nerds, and all that The Big Bang Theory does is present them in such a way so that “normal people” can laugh at oh how silly they are, without having to recognize that all kinds of geekery have substance.
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The Simpsons is doing okay considering its age. They are not painful to watch -- it just gets harder for them to create iconic, watercooler comedy after 23 years.

On the other hand, Family Guy is brutal and awful now, and should be canceled yesterday, and all episodes made after season 6 burned and forgotten.
 
My original issue with BBT was the geek stereotyping that the show does.

The blogger makes some valid points about the show, for sure.
 
FUCK YEAH COMMUNITY!

Speaking of aging cartoons... I still watch South Park, but it's rarely hilarious anymore. Sometimes it cracks me up, but it's kinda like SNL these days, only bits of it are funny, and the rest painfully unfunny.
 
I haven't watched the last few (half?) seasons of South Park...the last ones I watched were 50% funny/50% "HERE'S SOMETHING WE BELIEVE IN BEING SPELT OUT FOR YOU" episodes.

We've been over the Simpsons argument before. I haven't watched it (new) for well over a year.
 
Big Bang Theory is a decent show. There are plenty of good episodes and for what it is (a 20 minute sitcom) it's just fine. I get that O.G Geeks like us can get slightly annoyed that it's now trendy as fuck to be a "faux geek" and BBT panders with references that seem like they're obscure, but are not at all, so as to make hipsters think they're smart, but if you take that out of it it's not a bad situational comedy and probably doesn't deserve all this vitriol.

It plays to the geek chic movement in a big way and it's pretty good at doing it but real geeks don't have to get too defensive about it. I still laughed at the first Wil Wheaton episode and Spock handkerchief Christmas present is hilarious. It's been on too long now but the point is that it's neither brilliant or awful. Sorry.
 
^WATCH COMMUNITY IT HAD LEVAR BURTON IN IT.

(Seriously, watch Community it's really good and post comments in the MF and I'll reply to them!)

((If you want.))

I was flicking through channels the other day and TBBT was on and it was three nerds playing a game on their laptops and they were talking in stupid voices and I didn't find it funny so I changed the channel. A DAMNING INDICTMENT.
 
Mentalist said:
Big Bang Theory is a decent show. There are plenty of good episodes and for what it is (a 20 minute sitcom) it's just fine. I get that O.G Geeks like us can get slightly annoyed that it's now trendy as fuck to be a "faux geek" and BBT panders with references that seem like they're obscure, but are not at all, so as to make hipsters think they're smart, but if you take that out of it it's not a bad situational comedy and probably doesn't deserve all this vitriol.

It plays to the geek chic movement in a big way and it's pretty good at doing it but real geeks don't have to get too defensive about it. I still laughed at the first Wil Wheaton episode and Spock handkerchief Christmas present is hilarious. It's been on too long now but the point is that it's neither brilliant or awful. Sorry.
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I'm not going to go on about how wrong you are so I'll let someone else do it:

Some geeks really enjoy The Big Bang Theory because there is a lot of genuinely geeky content in it.

I can understand this, as I too feel a shiver up my spine when hearing Star Trek reference accurately. But I absolutely hate the show. Here’s why.

Being a nerdfighter is not about making your interests mainstream. A Nerdfighter is at his or her core, proud of who they are and unashamed to admit it.

Shows like The Big Bang Theory, bring things like superheroes and string theory out into the mainstream TV, and that’s fine, but the geeks and nerds on the show are still portrayed at social crippled, physically weak, and only ironically attractive.

Now, allow me to introduce you to Community. Positively full of hotties.

The primary King ala Nerdfighter is Abed.

He is basically an Encyclopedia of nerd-lore and has one of the best self-esteem monologues I’ve ever heard. He says “I’ve got self esteem falling out my butt”

His best friend is Troy.

Troy is a football player, a total hottie, and an avid cosplayer just like abed himself.

Their roommate is Annie.

She is the smartest and the hottest of the bunch. And if she’s not a fan of Hermione Granger then I’m a creationist. She didn’t blossom into her titties until college, and she wasn’t popular in highschool.

Jeff is supposed to be the suavest and the coolest of the group.

But the truth he only acts “cool” because he is so insecure. He manages to pick up on every single one of Abed’s references, and the two are pretty close because both of them clung to TV and movies because of absent fathers.

There are a lot more things in Community that rage against the stereotypical geek or nerd. But my point is not that we should pretend to be something we’re not. If you are social inept, I am sure that you are the bombdiggity online, and that is a-okay.

My point it that all geeks do not fit the stereotype. Geeks are me and you, they’re your mom’s best friend and the six year old down the street. There are all kinds of geeks and nerds, and all that The Big Bang Theory does is present them in such a way so that “normal people” can laugh at oh how silly they are, without having to recognize that all kinds of geekery have substance.
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http://fuckyeahcommunity.tumblr.com/post/19353641298/why-i-prefer-community-to-the-big-bang-theory
 
The trouble with Big Bang now is that you can't avoid it if you have the TV on. Thanks to syndication, it's literally on every other channel on the dial between 7PM and midnight.

Too much of an okay thing.
 
BBT also stereotypes non "geeks" as painfully unintelligent and the religious as batshit insane. It's not trying to be a social commentary it's trying to make some gags in the unrealistic "world" of an american sitcom which, well, tends to be brighter, louder and more stereotypical in nature. The show has had some funny episodes and some weak ones as well and should be rated on the content of the plots and whether they make the individual laugh.

It doesn't try to be anything other than a sitcom aimed at the emergence of more mainstream geek culture (which I don't even like) but it's not nearly as bad as people are saying.
 
Mentalist said:
BBT also stereotypes non "geeks" as painfully unintelligent and the religious as batshit insane. It's not trying to be a social commentary it's trying to make some gags in the unrealistic "world" of an american sitcom which, well, tends to be brighter, louder and more stereotypical in nature. The show has had some funny episodes and some weak ones as well and should be rated on the content of the plots and whether they make the individual laugh.
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So instead of having just the main characters as the butts of cheap jokes because the writing is bad, they have many other characters be the butts of cheap jokes because the writing is bad?

Oh that makes it better.

SAUSAGEMAN said:
8 posts above yours.

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I DON'T READ THREADS WHEN I'M RANTING YOU KNOW THIS.
 
I tried to get Mentalist to watch Community back when it started because John Oliver was in it. HE PRETENDED HE'D WATCH IT BACK THEN TOO, THE BASTARD :rwmad:
 
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