Who likes big bang theory?

[Wyndru]

I tried watching it a few times, but the laughing track drives me nuts!

There are a ton of vids up on youtube of big bang theory without the laugh track, it's weird.

 

[mugs]

There are a ton of vids up on youtube of big bang theory without the laugh track, it's weird.

It's actually a live audience, not a laugh track. The videos seem weird because the actors have to pause for the audience laughter, which you can't hear.

It's not that the audience laughter convinces you that the jokes are funny when they're not; the deleted audience laughter kills the timing of the jokes.

 

[lupi]

Love it, hilarious show. Great last ep, sheldon get your headphones on. A whole new meaning of yee-haw. "Oh god", I've heard that one before. Penny, I'd like meaningless sex (door slam), I'm sensing a double standard here. You're not going to blow up the moon are you?

 

[ViviTheMage]

That's starting to become the problem... it's appealing to the masses who think acting nerd is the thing to do, so it's not really that nerdy. I still enjoy the show for the characters, just not the full frontal nerdity they claim to produce.

Well yeah...they need their ratings.

 

[gorcorps]

One of my friends is a star on it

who?

 

[Alienwho]

Good show. I never saw it until this memorial weekend and I had a marathon and watched the first two seasons.

 

[BoomerD]

"Big Bang Theory?"

Isn't that a porn movie?

 

[SunnyD]

Not fond of it at all. Content is dry and the subtle humor really is neither subtle nor humorous.

 

[Jzero]

Well yeah...they need their ratings.

Yeah I said this in another thread about this show...."full frontal nerdity" isn't funny to most people, it's pathetic. "The Guild" would never make it on mainstream TV.

 

[irishScott]

Yeah I said this in another thread about this show...."full frontal nerdity" isn't funny to most people, it's pathetic. "The Guild" would never make it on mainstream TV.

This. The Big Bang Theory is a show about nerds, by nerds, for everyone, except those nerds who take offense at the lack of true nerdiness. Yes a lot of the "nerd" aspects are way over the top, but that's the point. If being way over the top is offensive or forced or not funny than the vast majority of comedy shouldn't exist.

 

[IGBT]

I like the bang part.

 

[OutHouse]

Love it, hilarious show. Great last ep, sheldon get your headphones on. A whole new meaning of yee-haw. "Oh god", I've heard that one before. Penny, I'd like meaningless sex (door slam), I'm sensing a double standard here. You're not going to blow up the moon are you?

yea that was a great one.

the other is when howard and Raj are asked by the sex addict to train her and howard responds with What the Frag!!! he did it perfect to you heard what the fuck in your brain.

 

[Fingolfin269]

This show is awful. I would probably enjoy it if the laugh track didn't get played every 2 seconds.

 

[dennilfloss]

She was pretty hot in Arrested Development too

Her name is Judy Greer. She is awesome. I definitely could see her becoming one of the cougars in Cougar Town.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339460/

 

[irishScott]

This show is awful. I would probably enjoy it if the laugh track didn't get played every 2 seconds.

It's a live studio audience. There is no laugh track.

 

[nageov3t]

It's a live studio audience. There is no laugh track.

still, it's a live studio audience responding to a flashing "LAUGH" button.

 

[bignateyk]

still, it's a live studio audience responding to a flashing "LAUGH" button.

nuh uh

 

[mugs]

still, it's a live studio audience responding to a flashing "LAUGH" button.

People laugh when they think something is funny, and laughter is contagious and affected by mood. They probably warm up the crowd with a comedian, but why is it hard to believe that people would genuinely laugh at a sitcom? :hmm:

 

[dainthomas]

People laugh when they think something is funny, and laughter is contagious and affected by mood. They probably warm up the crowd with a comedian, but why is it hard to believe that people would genuinely laugh at a sitcom? :hmm:

Because ATOT never does. Especially if it's popular.

 

[JC]

I liked the show until they hooked up "the hot chick" with "one of the nerds".

My suspension of disbelief runs out there.