Screw You Amazon! Alternate Title: This Makes me so Changry!
Posted Jul 18, 2011, 3:58 AM UTC
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Elitists are such pleasant people.
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No, you're right, no one is allowed to disagree with your opinion. Everyone must love every show that you do. If they don't, they're an elitist.
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You know you're wrong though. You know there's a general sense around here that BBT is an inferior show to most, mainly because it's a multi-camera sitcom. You know this and yet you still chose to be a jackass and try to get an argument going that has nothing to do with my point. And you know where you're most wrong? I don't even personally enjoy BBT, although I realize it has value and many many people find it entertaining.
This post is clearly not about "I don't prefer BBT so I'm upset amazon suggested it to me." Anyone with a brain knows that this title is about "I can't believe they actually compared BBT to Community because community is such a finer show than that piece of shit." So your response to my comment would either make you an idiot or a jackass. Take your pick :)
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Anyone with a brain knows that this title is about "I can't believe they actually compared BBT to Community because community is such a finer show than that piece of shit."
Yeah, and that's true. That's not what "elitism" means. People are allowed to see a piece of shit and call it a piece of shit. Stop trying to control people.
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Ah, I see you chose the former. You make sure you have a nice day, little man :)
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While I don't hate BBT, I never watch it because I feel its derogatory and feeds into the archaic stereotypes that American audiences love to drool over. The few episodes I saw were so filled with clichés, I found it hard to watch. Throw in the laugh tracks and the sub-par acting and dialogue and you come up with just another sitcom: unfunny, formulaic, and pretty standard for primetime. General viewing audiences like the show, just like they liked Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, King of Queens, and basically anything that ran for more than a season or two (not counting Arrested Development).
That said: I agree with mainsworth in that you shouldn't be angry. Amazon is merely making a suggestion based on statistics.
*edit: should be "shouldn't be changry"
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My problem with BBT is that it's not actually nerdy. My parents watch the show and understand all the jokes. If they were true nerds, you wouldn't understand half the jokes.
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If it was really nerdy it would have been cancelled by now. My theory is that part of the reason it's still around is because it makes people feel smart, and humanizes scientists who would otherwise be seen as "human computers" by the average, Jersey-Shore-watching populace.
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The least they could do is add some decent background nerd jokes, the way Futurama ......used to. :/
Instead, as a nerd I feel uncomfortable watching the show, because I feel like I'm being made fun of so that lesser nerds and the general, mouth-breathing public can feel better about themselves.
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When I used to watch it (Season 2) they had jokes which required a decent amount of maths or physics knowledge to get and were reasonably clever and funny, now it's devolved into a stale sitcom which just makes fun of nerds all the time without actually embracing them. And then after that they expect you to care about the characters (please). It was watchable then, it's truly awful now.
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Yeah, their viewership started getting lower and lower, unfortunately. I'm no fan of the newer episodes, but what they had in the first 2 and a half seasons was pretty damn awesome.
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I don't see the problem here, I like both.
yeah, I really don't understand the whole hate for BBT. I get that it's a joke between the shows but you're allowed to like both.
You're allowed to, but the sophisticated humour and actual respect for nerds in Community contrasts strongly with the cheap jokes, stereotypes, canned laughter, and insulting treatment of nerds on The Big Bang Theory.
Some of us like both; some of us are offended by one of them.
I don't want to come across as some big defender of BBT but I see a lot of people in this subreddit that take every chance to rip on BBT like there is some huge rivalry between the two shows. maybe between the production teams there is but as consumers of their respective products, you don't have to choose. Sometimes it's nice to just watch a TV show and not worry about picking it apart. Also, I've seen the "insulting to nerds" argument brought up a few times in this thread but I can't think of any episodes where they treat nerds in an insulting way. I could be wrong though.
that's not canned laughter either.
The problem here is that Big Bang Theory is a terrible show. A mundane line like "oh, I'm just surfing the net" merits a laughtrack on that show. I'm not going to laugh at something with no substance. After the second season it seems they just forgot how to write Sheldon, and it has only continued to get worse.
It's not Amazon's fault that the algorithm they came up with factually states that people who bought Community also bought The Big Bang Theory.
I disagree on them forgetting how to write Sheldon. His character, much like Leonard or Penny's, grew over the years just like any real person with. There's even a season 4 episode where they show how antisocial and odd Sheldon used to be compared to his current state.
They've made Sheldon into less of an "I don't understand people and I have quirky autistic characteristics" character and more of an "I'm that snotty little brat you loved to hit in gradeschool" sort of character.
I used to be able to recite Sheldon's lines verbatim with him, as he said them, simply because his character struck such a chord with me in the first season or two... now, he's higher-pitched, whinier, and more immature. Everything he does is just a setup for Leonard to bitch about before the canned laughter kicks in; I'm genuinely insulted by how they treat his character these days.
Amy Farah Fowler has at least picked up some of his slack, but it's still irritating to see the way they demean him so.
I hate the way his ideals change through the seasons. For a character to be a rigid in his thoughts as Sheldon should be, the way he acts has no defining guidance anymore.
...I'm not sure how much sense that makes.
And thus he loses most of his appeal.
Appeal is in the eye of the beholder.
I find Sheldon much more appealing in the second season and on. Especially the train episode.
wow....who pissed in your cereal?
Nobody, so far as I know.
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I see the problem, you like BBT.