I'm done with The Big Bang Theory

The three episodes of this season haven't really been good, and I think I am getting tired of it too. There needs to be some change .

we need shake-ups. Stewart boning Mama Walowitz is a start.

as a comic book reading, engineer that is severely socially awkward, I boycott this show. I don't need to be made of more than I already am.

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I'm done with The Big Bang Theory

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It quit on you first.

The storylines are getting stale and adding the two girls has turned it into Friends almost
The Sheldon Amy relationship has run its course

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Yeah, they really need to stop this incessant use of the same plot where Penny is at some sort of crossroads and asks Leonard for advice or feedback and he's (rightfully) honest, but she can't handle that so she gets mad, but instead of having some sort of sit-down he just blindly apologizes or shallowly takes back what he said and feigns support or belief in her goal or ambition and current state. It's terrible, not entertaining, and it seems they've plugged it into the last six or seven straight episodes. It's always about whether she should quit her job, or whether she should give up on her dream of being an actress, or whether she's a failure, or whether they're right for each other.

Plus, like I said above, the Sheldon-Amy "relationship" is so played out that it's almost a running joke between me and my wife. Oooh, they have a bimonthly date night per an agreement and it has stipulations and everything. Stop it.

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Agreed.

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This show has been terrible from inception.

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Aside from Sheldon, none of the characters are note-worthy. The same pretense and structure is used for nearly every joke.

Really loved the first 3 seasons. Was done after season 4.

The Big Bang Theory isn't a show about nerds for nerds. It's a show about nerds for normal people. During the same period that the show really took off (late second/early third season) they started to A: downplay Penny's dumbness and B: make the guys more and more awkward/socially incompetent. Where it started out being about shy, gawky guys finding love, now it's about hopeless basement dwellers somehow stumbling into relationships.

This is best exemplified by Leonard and Penny's relationship. At the beginning of the show, it's a relationship between a shy/nice guy who is a semi-genius and an outgoing/fun girl who's really not very smart. It's very two sided, both characters give and take. As the series progresses, note that (afaik) the only time an issue is instigated by Leonard, it's tangentially related to reality and relies more on Penny misconstruing something than anything else. Leonard has effectively become a pop up nerd. We aren't supposed to sympathize with him. It's not a story of him getting the girl, it's a story of him somehow getting the girl who is way out of his league (despite the fact that she's a fricking cocktail waitress and kind of huge bitch). We don't laugh and cry with Leonard.

For that matter, we don't laugh with *any* of the show's titular nerds. We're instead supposed to laugh *at* them, these bumbling, pathetic geeks trying to be like normal people. Imagine, the nerve of them. A female equivalent-Amy-to these personality-deficient comedic automatons is even thrown into the mix so as to provide a character the producers can point out as an example of how sexist they aren't.

And on that note, on to my next issue with the show-the blatant sexism. Although Leonard eventually somehow manages to actually land a pretty girl (amazing, isn't it?) he first has to go through ~2 seasons worth of being made to feel like a lesser man by dumb, muscular assholes. A few episodes or even half a season of this trend could have served as a backdrop to a dramatic rejection by Leonard and the gang of societal expectations in regards to gender roles and assumed requirements for men. Instead, we're treated to something like 30-40 episodes of this junk, up to a point where Leonard is finally deemed a valid mate for Penny (right as he's contemplating a daring, oh so **manly** trip to Antarctica). There's significant symbolism in the fact that, upon his return, he has grown a thick beard (supposedly to brave the cold more easily, but let's not forget how beards have long been perceived a sign of masculinity and adulthood).

As Leonard has finally seemed to find happiness, at least for the moment, we now of course must find the other nerds women they can dupe into falling for them! I'm not sure if the producers/writers of TBBT are actually this lazy or they thought it would boost ratings, but naturally the solution to the lack of prospective women in the nerds' lives is to carbon-copy two of the three remaining single geeks-Howard and Sheldon-and produce women specially suited to be with them, because god forbid normal women find nerds attractive-look how long it took Penny!

**Bernadette:** Bernadette's backstory, first of all, is pretty bad. The fact that a brilliant microbiologist is somehow managing to pay for grad school by working the Cheesecake Factory, at what we can assume is a very competitive university, is kind of odd. Why wouldn't she just take teaching hours or assist Professors, as most grad students do? Well, how else would we be able to shoddily write her in as Penny's friend (despite the fact that Penny has displayed a serious strain of anti-intellectualism) and still have her be smart? Anyway, Bernadette is actually the only one of the three leading women in this show who isn't awfully done in regards to sexual discrimination. She's reasonably strong. However, we realize that she **has** to be strong to put up with wimpy little Howard.

**Howard:** where to start? You've got all the great nerd stereotypes-still living with his mother, chronic masturbator, creep towards women. Howard, in the first few seasons, exists solely to creep out Penny-reminding us that she is a sexual object to be put on a pedestal-and so that we can make fun of his supposed gay relationship with Raj. I mean, god forbid two adult men develop an intimate relationship, right? No, instead the various characters on the show manage to squeeze in at least one homophobic joke per episode about Howard and Raj, even after Howard gets goddamn married. Would Howard have undergone so much teasing if he'd had an intimate friendship with an Indian woman named Ranjeeta? Would Raj, with a Jewish woman named Helga?

Just out of curiosity how is this show so highly rated and one of the most watched (I think it was #1 recently) on tv and receive bad reviews from yall? A whole lot of people on here bash it, but also support other great series that are highly rated. So what gives?

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No particular reason

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Yes there is, there's too many dudes on the show now.