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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People be forgetting that the first season or two of the big bang theory was legitimately very good.

The first season or two of the IT crowd was... oh yeah, the whole show.

IT crowd's best episodes were best-in-class. tnetennba. But it had a lot of meh too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

The thing about the IT crowd is they always try and walk it in

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've watched IT Crowd half a dozen times.

I haven't managed to finish an episode of BBT before I switch it off in disgust.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (4 children)

In my mind, I still picture this as the archetype of an office's boss inside a boss's office. If it doesn't have the 4th breaking wall picture, then it's a fake boss

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Chris Morris is a legend. I love Matt Berry but Morris is legitimately one of the most influential figures in British comedy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

See, a real boss, ready to work for the greater good

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

FATHEERRRRRRR!!!!!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For sure it's no contest. Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Cooper always tries to walk it in.

[–] roserose56 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

IT Crows was amazing, I laughed to death. Where the bigbang theory was not so funny, too much detail IMO.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

IT Crowd was three British goofballs doing elaborate running gags over 24 episodes.

BBT was four creepy bigots and a nice blonde woman doing pop culture references and calling one another stupid for 279 episodes before spinning out an 80s nostalgia prequel series.

It was the difference between a few cherished cleverly crafted comedy routines and endless derivative slop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Next season might turn out to be IT Pigeons

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I've only seen the one episode of BBT, I think the first one, where a goddamn theoretical physicist spends a whole day forgetting the basic properties of light.

My family stared at me the whole time, expecting me to find it funny. Then THEY got mad at me when I said that was the dumbest shit I've seen in a while. Later I found out that Sheldon uses Ubuntu and brags about it.

But, okay, dumb jokes aside - the show doesn't explore any concepts or situations in new and interesting ways And THAT'S why it's bad.

Shelden uses linux. Hahahaha. That's it. A good writer could make a whole episode about that, alone, and it would be hilarious. Imagine him on internet forums. Imagine him fumbling during a talk because his laptop wouldn't work with whatever vidchat/system/software his hosts used, and getting haughty about it. Imagine Sheldon traveling across the country to "fix" an entire auditoriums tech to run on Arch after his failed remote speech. Walking away all "You're Welcome" as the staff can't figure out how the fuck to use it.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If BBT was made today it would be accused of being written by AI. Fully flanderised characters, and endless filler episodes.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

The big bang theory was not for geeks or nerds. It was pure shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I always felt like it was a show for moms of geeks and nerds that missed their kids once they moved out.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

Misogynistic pure shit.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

It had a good few first episodes with fun geeky jokes, but it quickly turned to bad jokes and lazy stereotypes and relied loosely on stereotypes to contain the geekyness.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago (3 children)

No... the IT crowd is a sitcom FOR geeks. That other shit just makes fun of us

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

BBT is a show about smart people for dumb people. The IT Crowd is a show about smart people.

[–] [email protected] 284 points 2 days ago (12 children)

big bang theory is about what dumb people think smart people are like.

[–] skisnow 28 points 2 days ago

apologies for the pixels, I stole it from reddit

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No no IT Crowd is a show about sysadmins, not geeks lol. There's a very clear difference.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (6 children)

And Moss was a nerd not a geek. He wasn’t obsessing about comics, videogames etc. like the characters in BBT.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, it's an interesting difference.

There was a lot of pop culture references in IT Crowd, all the music posters, the retro computers, etc. but the cast didn't even acknowledge it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I loved both shows. IT crowd made me laugh harder making it the better show.

Young Sheldon on the other hand was very very good.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I watched one random episode of BBT after it was recommended to me by a few people. That one episode was enough for me to decide that I never want to see that show again, and also that I should disregard all recommendations from the people who said I should watch it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The laugh track alone is enough evidence

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 2 days ago (21 children)

The Big Bang Theory was frustratingly bad.

[–] [email protected] 153 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Saw a critic call it, “Nerd blackface”

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If I had to rate the IT crowd out of ten, I'd give it 01189998819991197253

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