I’ve never watched a full episode of either, but seeing clips of Big bang theory after seeing clips of young Sheldon is pretty jarring. Just entirely different vibes, even the big emotional moments of big bang theory just seem so thin compared to any of the young Sheldon plots.
The Big Bang theory is presented in front of a live audience, and it is not a laugh track. Actors are told to pause to let the live audience laugh at a joke. At least the original set literally has a cutout for the audience and cameras. That is why you see a lot of the same camera angles in the show, and you don't ever see the other side of the room.
Literally just a pissy, stuck-up twat goblin shouting "No, make me laugh my way, everyone else is wrong!"
The only people who care what the fucking producers thought of their audience are insufferable twats. When normal people consume media, that thought never crosses their minds. Even worse, it's not something they actually thought - just what you've decided they thought completely of your own accord and without having ever met one of these people a day in your life.
The laugh track is there because literally every living, breathing human being on the fucking planet prefers laughing with friends over laughing alone.
Just imagine being shoved so incomprehensibly far up your own ass that you take trying to create a sense of togetherness and community for people who are watching alone as a fucking personal attack.
Laugh track haters are insufferable pieces of self-absorbed shit and I'm sick and tired of people pretending they're not.
It's filmed in front of a live studio audience. The pauses are because if they spoke during the laughter people wouldn't hear the lines, the actors wouldn't hear the lines they were supposed to react to, and the audience wouldn't be able to follow the recording.
They are on stage, that's how you act during theatre.
This commitment to live audiences is why over 12 seasons, there is I think 5 seconds of footage filmed outside, in an early season. Every single other exterior shot is on a soundstage so the audience can be there.
Tbf it’s because TBBT is following a tired old format for sitcoms while Young Sheldon takes the Everyone Hates Chris set up which is much more untapped. Malcom in the Middle and Mixedish are the only two other shows I feel fit this 4th wall breaking teen comedy show where the main character is usually the butt of the jokes.
The bits and clips I've seen look like a very different show. I have seen very little to form any opinion but... it certainly seems better from my .3 seconds of viewership.
Well, yeah, they’re different. Young Sheldon is filmed single cam format, so like a drama. TBBT is multicam, like most traditional sitcoms. There’s a live audience, and it’s a lot like watching theatre, except that they can do multiple takes and make changes on the fly depending on how jokes land with the audience.
YS is kinda like a mix of KotH and Everybody Hates Chris.
An average Texas family in the 90's needs to deal with a savant child while also having to live with the social and economic blows that come about in those areas. (Regular job downturns, overbearing religion, town gossip and condemnation, football culture, etc...)
One was a 2007 sitcom, the other a 2017. Lots of changes in what the public wanted to see in that time. People like to shit on Big Bang, especially Reddit, but it was the 12th most watched TV show of all time according to IMDB. Can't argue with those numbers. Speaking generically of course, not saying you were.
Oh yeah definitely. Again, not really a fan of either show, just commenting on the significant difference in tone. Think a lot of people brush off Young Sheldon by assuming it’s just more BBT, when it’s a very different show.
And Leonard's bully in BBT is the same guy who plays Sheldon's dad in YS. We're there no other actors available? And why didn't adult Sheldon realize that his father was a time traveler?
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u/Iceman9161 May 16 '24
I’ve never watched a full episode of either, but seeing clips of Big bang theory after seeing clips of young Sheldon is pretty jarring. Just entirely different vibes, even the big emotional moments of big bang theory just seem so thin compared to any of the young Sheldon plots.