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
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.
big bang theory is about what dumb people think smart people are like.
apologies for the pixels, I stole it from reddit
For sure it's no contest. Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
Cooper always tries to walk it in.
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.
Funny, but now you're talking about the layman being cut out. Ratings won't survive and it dies after one season. But that would be better lol
I mean, the IT Crowd ran for 5 seasons while actually being funny to people working in the field it portrays, unlike Big Bang Theory which many nerds (not just physicists) find un-funny
If BBT was made today it would be accused of being written by AI. Fully flanderised characters, and endless filler episodes.
AKA "The Chuck Lorre Special"
No... the IT crowd is a sitcom FOR geeks. That other shit just makes fun of us
IT Crows was amazing, I laughed to death. Where the bigbang theory was not so funny, too much detail IMO.
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.
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.
BBT is a show about smart people for dumb people. The IT Crowd is a show about smart people.
The big bang theory was not for geeks or nerds. It was pure shit.
Misogynistic pure shit.
I always felt like it was a show for moms of geeks and nerds that missed their kids once they moved out.
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.
No no IT Crowd is a show about sysadmins, not geeks lol. There's a very clear difference.
And Moss was a nerd not a geek. He wasn’t obsessing about comics, videogames etc. like the characters in BBT.
If I had to rate the IT crowd out of ten, I'd give it 01189998819991197253
The Big Bang Theory was frustratingly bad.
Saw a critic call it, “Nerd blackface”
IT crowd is about nerds for nerds. Big Bang theory is about nerds for non nerds. "Nerd blackface" is more succinct though.
I've always saw BBT as just a way to re-normalize making fun of neurodivergant people.
By far. I think that Big Bang Theory has rotten the minds of lots of highschoolers (that now are at university, or have already graduated)
I warmed up to BBT after watching Young Sheldon. all the criticisms of BBT still stand but for some reason I just wasn't miserable watching it. had a few laughs even.
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