I didn't say the entire series was badly written, I said this episode was.
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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I didn't say the entire series was badly written, I said this episode was.
Zombie_61
Master Member
Fair enough. Considering you've only seen the one episode, I can understand why that would be your opinion. However, within the context of the entire series and taking the relationships between the characters into consideration, it was actually quite well written, appropriate, and pretty funny.
Axlotl
Master Member
Are we seriously discussing the 'merits' of something as insipid as "The Big Bang Theory"?
I honestly thought you RPF cats would find the whole premise condescending (I sure as heck do).
I'm actually slightly appalled that my fellow RPFers are defending that CRAP.
No offense, Zombie, but - seriously???
I honestly thought you RPF cats would find the whole premise condescending (I sure as heck do).
I'm actually slightly appalled that my fellow RPFers are defending that CRAP.
No offense, Zombie, but - seriously???
Zombie_61
Master Member
I know people in real life who are very much like the characters on the show--intelligent and brilliant, but incredibly awkward socially. And I find it far more entertaining than yet another sitcom about a hen-pecked husband and his smarter-than-he-is wife. *shrug*
Besided, we're a bunch of fans nit-picking about overused tropes in movies in this thread. If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at?
Axlotl
Master Member
Oh, so do I.
And they're NOTHING like the characters on the show.
How do they all have a BEAUTIFUL girlfriend?
The pretty girls I know want NOTHING to do with guys who spend their free-time diagramming Jeffries tubes.
Those girls would be out banging the bad boys with guitars.
You know it, and I know it.
Don't defend that crap.
Reelo
Sr Member
Hey, I'm a nerd (studied archeology, too) AND I play the guitar.
AND I enjoy TBBT, as does my wife (who doesn't *get* my sometimes childish behaviour) I actually made her watch TBBT in order to see that SF/Fantasy/Comics geeks are common enough to warrant an entire show dedicated to them.
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astroboy
Master Member
I am part of the crowd who finds the big bang theory condescending.
I have friends like those guys. And they're virgins at the age of 40.
A better look at that archetype would be the it crowd. Where their nerd dom is actually antisocial behaviour. Or Martin Starr on party down.
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I have friends like those guys. And they're virgins at the age of 40.
A better look at that archetype would be the it crowd. Where their nerd dom is actually antisocial behaviour. Or Martin Starr on party down.
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Laspector
Master Member
I've known plenty of nerdy guys who had hot girlfriends. My late wife was smokin' hot and she indulged all my so called nerdy hobbies.
Are there geeks who can't get women? Sure, absolutely, but this is television. If you went by that logic, most all guys on tv wouldn't have the nice looking girlfriends or wives that they have.
kibosh
Sr Member
How is it condescending?
kibosh
Sr Member
So it's crap because you and your friends didn't land beautiful girlfriends? Got it.
Have you bothered watching the show? Are are all your statements over generalizations?
If you had bothered to watch the show, you'd know it took years for Penny to come around to liking Leonard as a boyfriend. Until then, she was out banging the bad boys.
Zombie_61
Master Member
Okay, wait a minute. You know people who are very much like the characters on the show, but they're nothing like the characters on the show? :confused
By the way, I only said I knew people like those characters; I never said any of them had beautiful girlfriends, or handsome boyfriends for that matter. Some of them do, though. Go figure. :lol
When they have a female lead they need to have another contrasting female character - either a competitor or colleague who is tall, busty, blonde, ditzy or cowardly just so we appreciate how clever, brave and intelligent our principle character is.
e.g. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - the Australian journalist
It's actually an insult to MY intelligence whenever they try to pull off that device in a movie.
e.g. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - the Australian journalist
It's actually an insult to MY intelligence whenever they try to pull off that device in a movie.
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Angelus Lupus
Sr Member
How about this trope:
1: "I need to tell you something"
2: "I know what you're going to say"
1: "You do? Great"
Later, after hilarious/tragic/annoying misunderstanding...
1: "You said you knew!"
2: "I thought you meant something else!"
1: "I need to tell you something"
2: "I know what you're going to say"
1: "You do? Great"
Later, after hilarious/tragic/annoying misunderstanding...
1: "You said you knew!"
2: "I thought you meant something else!"
matty matt
Sr Member
Yeah, this one is used way too much.
This may have been covered... When someone knocks on the front door and within 2 sec the person answers. And the worst is when they appear to have come from upstairs after being asleep... ugh..
- OR -
A person is asleep and the phone rings in the middle of the night. The person turns the light on and instantly opens their eyes then answers the phone.
- OR -
A person is asleep and the phone rings in the middle of the night. The person turns the light on and instantly opens their eyes then answers the phone.
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