Regardless of how good / bad the show was, what a fuck ass meme is this. Did you crawl out of 2010?
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Don't pretend that wasn't peak memes
Analyzing the jpeg situation: at the very least
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i don't think that's how it works omg, boobies
This is the show where simply acknowledging a character owns/owned a NES was the entire punchline of a joke.
Yeah if you turn off the laugh track this show is terrible, for so many reasons.
Also, Friends just isn't funny. Every character except Phoebie is bland and unlikable.
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It's terrible with the laugh track as well.
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It did seem like the writers’ only concept of “geek/nerd” was superficially gleaned from only watching other shows and movies about geeks/nerds. Which created basically a show about some of the dumbest “smart” people I’ve ever seen.
I find it a lot more palatable if you assume it's viewed from penny, as an unreliable narrator. There's actually a lot more geeky stuff going on under the obvious, but she doesn't notice it.
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People think I’m weird for not enjoying this show, and many others like it. I’ll laugh a good joke but it’s just a constant quip of bad jokes and insults with a laugh track. Friends, the office, parks and rec… I just can’t enjoy them.
laugh track
names 4 shows with no laugh track.
2 of them don’t even have a studio audience.
EDIT: Apparently they “sweetened” the live studio audience in Friends and BBT, so there’s that.
Office and Parks & Rec both famously have no laugh track.
I liked The Office, at least the earlier seasons. I do hate anything with a laugh track though. Always found them a bit creepy.
It's a genuinely awful show, I mostly watched it because Kaley Cuoco and Melissa Rauch
Live studio audience
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So much hate for a show that was never meant to be a cinematic masterpiece of comedy? I don’t get it. It’s not supposed to be deep. I watched it for a while, it was funny in its dumb way, and then it just didn’t go anywhere so I quit watching. It was fun for a while. No need for the hate.
Edit: wow. Triggered some people who want to equate themselves to centuries-long oppressed minorities and slaves, over a TV show. Know what? Oppressed minorities will still be oppressed tomorrow, shot by cops, profiled, and live with systemic racism. You get to change the channel. Get over yourselves.
A lot of people grew up being bullied, turned on a show that was supposed to appeal to them, only to be bullied again. 90% of the jokes are "hey look how fucking stupid these nerds are for liking nerd things." The remaining 10% is sexist or ignoring Penny's crippling alcoholism.
It was an attack on a culture of people, rather than the celebration of that culture it pretended to be. That's why people hate it.
The weirdest thing is it didn't seem to start out that way. I remember the first season actually having strong jokes. I specifically remember one about spherical chickens that was truely hilarious because it was a nerd joke on a prime time tv show. Then came season two, with it the show tried to become more relatable to the 'average viewer' and it was just bullying on TV.
Meh, it just wasn't funny or entertaining. That's all.
I mean it's nerd blackface basically if I'm being only slightly hyperbolic
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I fucking hate that show. Also, I love your username.
Lmao thanks bro i joined this place last night after hearing about it on Reddit I decided to go for a short username and this one was available i couldn’t fucking believe it
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The show’s creepy vibe and the creepy audience and the creepy jokes aside Penny had to work for that free food. I mean these guys were not getting anything and she’s basically an adult entertainer for these nerds the same way that a sugar baby is not a prostitute but damn it’s just food that’s low.
I thought the show was alright. There's so much hate for it on here
The show was alright. What I can't understand is how this meme got so much attention. We need to raise the bar around here.
No. We need to raise the bar and lower the boners. Yes. That's it.
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I can see the appeal.
To me it's pretty accurate. But to me there's stuff that's played straight that isn't funny to me because it's just normal stuff. But I guess it's quirky if you're not.
Or there's the obnoxious friends who are quirky in the show. But I've known people like them in real life. So they're either a headache to be around or straight up should not be enabled.
The show gets big laughs from the audience from a character walking into a room and saying hello. No other subtext.
I enjoy it, but god damn do they need to chill out.
But Sheldon! Look at Sheldon. What about Sheldon? You don’t like Sheldon? Come on. It’s Sheldon. Like Sheldon! The laugh track compels you to like Sheldon.
can't believe how underused she was in the show.
Harley is one of the funniest shows from the last decade, how the fuck was a show with her as a lead was so unfunny!!!??
Cause Chuck Lorre
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