The Big Bang Theory

Elmo

So sadly it has grown on me, but I think this is purely because it is on every channel.

It is one of the better Comedies from the US, but while were in the golden age of US TV Drama its comedies are in one of its worst eras.

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10 SEASONS !

Another bad poll

What do you think of TBBT

Options:
1. 10. Love it (I have the boxsets)
2. 9. Will always look for a new episode
3. 8. Always stop to watch when flicking
4. 7. One of the better ones
5. 6. It's grown on me but it could be better
6. 5. It's average at best, but I still tune in
7. 4. It's repeditive and obvious
8. 3. It's filled with cliché
9. 2. One of the worst
10. 1. Just shows how bad US comedy has become

expectationlost

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=63531743
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=60089957

Elmo

expectationlost wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=63531743
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=60089957

don't want to re-open zombie threads

Ludo

Elmo wrote: »

...... but while were in the golden age of US TV Drama .......

OT I know but...huh??????

Elmo

Ludo wrote: »

OT I know but...huh??????

Sorry I am becoming very lazy. Typing commas and making sense!

I will re-phrase

I'll agree it is one of the better Comedies from the US. This is definitely the golden age of US TV Drama, however US Sit-coms/Comedies have remained poor for at least the last 10 years.

Lovely Bloke

Elmo wrote: »

Sorry I am becoming very lazy. Typing commas and making sense!

I will re-phrase

I'll agree it is one of the better Comedies from the US. This is definitely the golden age of US TV Drama, however US Sit-coms/Comedies have remained poor for at least the last 10 years.

Community, Parks & Rec, Veep & early Modern Family say hi.

BBT is tripe though, unfunny tripe.

Elmo

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Community, Parks & Rec, Veep & early Modern Family say hi.

BBT is tripe though, unfunny tripe.

Not a huge fan of Modern Family. Haven't seen Veep but want to, it looks good. Community isn't bad and I never got into P&R.

Translated as I am not wrong

gillmelly

It's just ok. Everything else is so crap it makes it passable, that's all

don ramo

i cant understand why people cant just move on by and just ignore what they dont like and enjoy what they do, instead of looking for an argument when there simply is no need,

apart from BBT you have shows like Parks and Rec, New Girl, Modern Family ETC ETC ETC, and each show has its own audience that it will appeal to, that's why variety exists, so that there is something for everyone,

BBT pulls in a larger audience than the rest, that is the only reason this thread is here now, and the previous 20 about the same thing, its not like any of the other shows i mentioned are gonna get cancelled any time soon, their not struggling to get renewed, and their stories and jokes are just as good if not better at times than BBT,

pickarooney

There's Silicon Valley now so there's nerdcom for morons and nerdcom for smart people. Everyone wins.

NeVeR

Have to say it took me a while to actually start watching it.. i think it was at the end of it's 3rd season before i start.

I watched it from the start then....

All i can say is " Penny Penny Penny" --I love when Sheldon wakes her iin the middle of the night


--- sorry i need a moment

Ann Landers

One of the worst was my choice. Could have been great, as the premise wasn't bad, but badly executed. I wouldn't have had Penny in it, I hate restrictive gimmicks, it stops shows from having legs. I think it would have been a much braver move to have no main female foil. I also find yer man Jim Parsons really irritating.

tommy2bad

Poll is missing an option
11 it used to be OK now it's sh1t.

irish son

tommy2bad wrote: »

Poll is missing an option
11 it used to be OK now it's sh1t.

I agree that the quality has nosedived in the last 2 seasons or so, the biggest reason being that they've ruined Sheldons character for cheap laughs.

roy rodgers

I love watching the big bang, my girlfriend hates it as she never gets the jokes. lack of intelligence I tell her. no ride for me

kneemos

The Leonard Penny thing is well past anybody caring anymore.
There was a couple of good episodes this season but generally the gags have become predictable and quite often embarrassingly bad.

Ann Landers

kneemos wrote: »

The Leonard Penny thing is well past anybody caring anymore.

I pretty much didn't care about it right from the start.

groovie

Saw this last night, with James Earl Jones, enjoyed it.

lertsnim

Was that the season finale last week? What a poor ending if it was.

Antar Bolaeisk

Season finale so no new episodes until next year. It did end on an unusual downbeat note alright.

groovie wrote: »

Saw this last night, with James Earl Jones, enjoyed it.

I was hoping there was going to be a follow up episode to that, JEJ was excellent.

corkie

Tonight's episode on RTE2 is hilarious!


It is a star wars themed episode which aired in the states around the time the movie was out.

Sheldon and Amy do it!

Season 9 Episode 11 - The Opening Night Excitation for anyone who missed it.

"Live long and suck it!"

py2006

Season 10 starts next week. Could it be the last?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM5BdMu3DE4

The Rape of Lucretia

The ones with Bob Newhart are comedy gold.

IamMetaldave

I'll watch the new season like I have watched them all since the start, however the last 2 seasons have had a few good episodes but overall it's week. Also with their moaning about money ($1,000,000 each per episode) not being enough, it should just be pulled. $24M less.. of 48... That's all I see when I look at it now.

davo2001

Good news, this show has finally been cancelled. Long overdue IMO.

Zwillinge

Wasn't starting a new thread.... feel kinda awful reviving old thread...
But it ended. Final episode aired last night.


It was a nice way to wrap it up. It's funny how when it began it was so so popular and now I've noticed nobody even knew it was the last episode.
Is that one of the last of the canned laughter sitcoms?

Elmo

Zwillinge wrote: »

Wasn't starting a new thread.... feel kinda awful reviving old thread...
But it ended. Final episode aired last night.


It was a nice way to wrap it up. It's funny how when it began it was so so popular and now I've noticed nobody even knew it was the last episode.
Is that one of the last of the canned laughter sitcoms?

Dreadful sitcom. No fuller house exists don’t get me started

icdg

It’s not canned laughter - it’s recorded on front of a live studio audience.

There’s a few sitcoms on this side of the pond which also have a laugh track (be it live studio or canned) still in production, Not Going Out, Red Dwarf, and Mrs Browns Boys. In the states there’s still also Will and Grace and the Connors. As I say, mostly long runners that are still in production or have been revived.

kneemos

Friends characters are still making twenty million dollars per year each on the repeats. The Big Bang crew won't be short.

Posy

People complained about the 'laugh track' in Cheers so much that they had to say "Cheers is filmed before a live studio audience" before every episode.

Elmo

Posy wrote: »

People complained about the 'laugh track' in Cheers so much that they had to say "Cheers is filmed before a live studio audience" before every episode.

I’d say almost all sitcoms had that disclaimer, don’t think cheers was the first, fairly certain Taxi and The Mary Tyler Moore show had that disclaimer. But I could be wrong????

Elmo

All in the family was the first back in 1971. It announced it at the end. At least that’s what the internet says

Posy

Elmo wrote: »

I’d say almost all sitcoms had that disclaimer, don’t think cheers was the first, fairly certain Taxi and The Mary Tyler Moore show had that disclaimer. But I could be wrong????

I didn't say it was the first.
I just gave an example of a sitcom where it was stated verbally at the start of every episode.

icdg

The disclaimer was inserted because, in the era immediately prior to it being used, canned laughter was commonly used, at least in the US. Nowadays the technique is virtually dead except for some children’s sitcoms.

Elmo

Posy wrote: »

I didn't say it was the first.
I just gave an example of a sitcom where it was stated verbally at the start of every episode.

Sorry, misunderstood you when you said, They had to put the disclaimer in because of complaints, which is odd as it was common place.

I would have thought that it was common enough for sitcoms to be filmed in front of a live audience and to have the disclaimer.

Perhaps 60s sitcoms had decided against it with The Brady Bunch, Get Smart and the monkeys all having canned laughter but almost all 70s 80s 90s sitcoms were film in front of a live studio audience, M*A*S*H being one major exception. And the first few episodes of Happy Days.

Posy

Looks like it's still needed, since people on this thread are still not sure if a show today has canned laughter or an audience!