I refer to it as geek culture black face.
This is a great way to put it! Totally agree
As a nerd I loathe that show, it’s vapid. You nailed it.
I’m a Nerodivergent geek, I had lots of people tell me “you will love this show” so I watched some and now I wonder how those people really see me. So that’s kinda fun.
The “laughs” all felt from the outside. There was very little humor aimed at the people who would self identify as nerds and way more “haha look at these nerds and how quirky they are” set ups. Sure there are misogynist asshole nerds but usually they need to grow beyond that to find friends and partners. As far as I could tell none of them did. Sheldon and Howard were still super sexist, Leonard was still passive and whiny, but the story pushed forward foisting “perfect matches” on them.
Throughout the whole thing there was very little actual geek humor, and it felt denigrating to actual nerds.
The show isn’t for nerds. It’s for people who believe they are a nerd because they like sci-fi
I’ve always maintained it’s for non-nerds go want to laugh at cultures they’ll never understand. For convenience, all known nerd stuff is crammed into all characters.
It’s fun to watch clips where people removed the laugh track. The “jokes” really fall flat.
The autism representation is what happens when a writer has never met another person before.
Fairly accurate sociopath representation though.
If a show requires a laugh track to tell its viewers when to laugh, then it lacks substance enough to cause it without.
It made people with either mental or emotional or social dysfunction the butt of pretty much every joke.
Haha, he’s awkward.
Haha, he has a weird family dynamic.
Blegh.
It gave the audience the opportunity to laugh at ostensibly intelligent and educated people for enjoying nerd culture.
I honestly think it’s an abomination.
I love it. Watched it when it aired and catch reruns once in a while. I don’t watch a lot of the reruns but do watch them from time to time.
Never seen it but parents did , it’s horrid !
I really like it. It has some nice jokes and I enjoy it quite a lot when I see it
It fucking sucks. Also, i’m tired of being compared to Sheldon Cooper. I’m surprised there aren’t more fellow autists aren’t shit talking this show.
