re: Why does "How I met.." get love, but "The Big Bang..." gets hate?

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I'll admit I've only seen a handful of BBT episodes, but that appears to be the difference to me. HIMYM attempts different ways of telling stories. For instance, last week the episode told the story from Ted's POV, then Robin's, then Lilly's. Each time, stuff that seemed odd earlier made more sense because the two first people were high and drunk. The episodes of BBT that I have seen seem to just be joke set up-> punch line. It's possible I've just seen all bad episodes.

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BBT has the occasional interesting episode, but their audience doesn't want anything challenging, so they keep it simple. It has some funny moments (I haven't seen all episodes either, but I've seen more than a few).

It's Two and a Half Men with Nerds. Especially now. 90% of the jokes are lame sex jokes. It's always been a very mediocre show, but they used to try to actually make fun of things like Star Wars, but they don't really anymore.

They may be IN a comic book store, but they rarely talk about the comic book store.

Missed Opportunity but it's CBS, to be expected.