Posted on 08/22/2018 2:48:44 PM PDT by SMGFan
Well, of course. It had sort of a past/present/future parody structure - much more ambitious than The Simpsons. It really allowed Matt Groening's imagination to run wild.
Just for the record, I think NCIS was the last show I watched on a network, period. Just after Dinozzo appeared as Jesus with Sarah Silverman, and the fatally irritating Blonde Chick from the NSA (?) appeared. Made it 20 minutes or so into THAT episode, then Blonde Chick was running rings around Gibbs, et al. and I threw up and turned off the TV.
The biggest problem to me from an underlying plot/theme standpoint is this.
It starts with the premise of socially awkward just graduated college age friends dealing with girls, independence and occasional bullying. Okay, that’s believable.
12 years later these “characters” are in their mid 30’s have kids, are married and still living in the same apartments. Sorry but in my 20’s I was moving apartments every other year and seemingly cities. No woman I dated after 25 would have put up with my college apartment, nor should they have or hell... I wouldn’t have put up with it.
Oh and how would their rents not drop after 12 years of the elevator not walking? What established professional is going to maintain living in a 3rd floor walk up in Pasadena?
I must admit that I love this show, but it has definitely gottwn long in the tooth. It just hasn’t been that funny the last two years. I’ll give the orig. cast credit, they voluntarily took a pay cut last year in order to increase the salary of the characters Bernadette and Amy whom came along in season 3.
Dmitri: [Dmitri rings bell and answers] The answer is minus eight pi alpha.
Sheldon: Hang on, hang on a second, that is not our answer! What are you doing?
Dmitri: [wearily] Answering question; winning physics bowl.
Sheldon: How do *you* know anything about physics?
Dmitri: Here I am janitor. In former Soviet Union, I am physicist. Leningrad Polytechnica - (Sarcastically) Go Polar Bears.
I got bored with the constant onslaught of sex jokes. Didn’t find it funny, just obnoxious.
As a nerd myself, I really liked the show when it started.
It still has it’s moments, but I am not as big of a fan as I was.
I used to think it exaggerated nerdiness, but after working with folks from Sandia Labs and Los Alamos, the writers have barely scratched the surface.
“We can’t make fun of fat people, skinny people or ethnic minorities anymore—let’s make fun of nerds—they’re in all shapes, sizes and colors!” BBT was essentially a nerd minstrel show.
Community was better at it.
each week was an odd tv trope.
Must be in person as there are no gays on the show.
Much more original show.
No wonder it's gone.
I thought the parents were hilarious.
The conclusion will mark the end of the longest-running multi-camera series in television history.
It'll be nice to, at last, have the wildly successful, leftist, girlfriend-casting Chuck Lorre off the air. Thanks SMGFan.
I liked it for the first 6-7 years. But once the nerds started getting married and having kids, the premise of the show pretty much went out the window for me. I did like it for the intelligent comedy writing.
Johnny Galeki has sustainablity. He grew up as a teenage regular on the original Roseanne series and has a fan base from way back. Maryam Bialik also has a fan base from her child star days in Blossom, and you have to give her credit for not going all Miley Cyrus on us as she has matured. In fact, she actually has a STEM PhD and is also an Orthodox Jew.
Parsons really is a good actor. He was excellent in Hidden Figures, playing a mathematical engineer in the early days of the space program; and from what I've seen, he has resisted banging the drum for gayness in his straight roles. The topic hasn't arisen on BBTheory (at least I've never heard it, tho I've watched only the last couple of years), nor on Young Sheldon.
Heh, well, yeah, it's a brainiac show -- when I finally got started watching it, I'd heard about it, but had seen only one episode and hadn't liked it (the Woz/virtual presence episode).
A family member had started to get the season disk sets (so, probably during season four?) and left them around here, and I binge-watched the first three seasons, oh, and Cuoco was still amazingly hot and ridiculously too young (IMHO neither is true any longer). Now I have most of the seasons on disk (missing the most recent one, and I've never seen any of this season's episodes on TV, or online because CBS stopped the unfettered freebie streaming, y'know, because they need extra money to pay the cast of successful as well as unsuccesful shows), because I do like the show.
When shows get uber-successful, the shows run on momentum, and they just aren't as good, they run out of ideas, or rely on self-referencing for too many gags. I'm also sickened by the crazy stupid level of pay for the castmembers of these shows, even the "underpaid" parts of the cast (in the case of TBBT, the stars agreed to take less if the middle of the cast got the difference, which was damned straight of 'em).
I find Charlie Sheen loathsome, and thought so when Two and Half Men first started, even finding the highway billboards annoying -- but it caught on with me when I was in a time and place where an episode was playing and I more or less 'had to' watch it ("Christmas Village of the Damned"). When Sheen had his meltdown, I was appalled that Ashton Kutcher got cast, but it still held my attention for a while, and the ratings bounced back quite a bit (TBBT had already moved into #1, I believe). And while Kutcher (plus the lezzies that Lorre insisted on parading through the show, quite gratuitously, and irrespective of their inability to act) couldn't carry the show to new heights, they managed to milk another six seasons out of broken premise, and some of the episodes hit the old heights, mostly thanks to the guest star casting.
Thanks gswilder.
I hope for their sakes they're all smart enough to know that, once the show ends, they'll never have this level of success again, and have invested 90% of their pay. Oh, and for our sakes, I hope they're self-centered enought that they don't spend their millions trying to influence elections.
“That sure beats being on the road doing stand-up comedy.”
Ironically, standup comedy is probably the one real shortcut to breaking into Hollywood as an actor. Most have to pay their dues for years to have any shot at a big break.
“/sarcasm”
Do you really need a sarcasm sign?
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