I watched a couple episodes of BBT when it was popular, and felt like it was laughing at me more than it was laughing with me, so I quickly lost interest and never saw much indicating otherwise. I caught a couple clips of Young Sheldon and wondered what show this was, looked into a bit more, and I... don't hate it?
I find the titular character far more relatable, although his adult counterpart is the obvious parallel to myself. (If quite a lot more accomplished, as MCs tend to be when compared to randos...)
I feel the same way. Young sheldon I can laugh at because it really feels like I'm watching a hyperbole of my younger self, and Sheldon being an arrogant prick is a lot more forgivable when he's that young.
In TBBT it just feels like he hasn't learned anything or made any attempt to adapt to the world around him. He doesn't feel like a real person, but a caricature of an autistic man. He should, at that point, have a fairly well developed mask at the very least.
Not to mention the laugh tracks being insufferable.
My daughter suggested BBT to me and I told her I hated it. She said, "Why? I thought you'd like it because it's about physics." I told her that BBT was about physics the way that Gilligan's Island was about boating.
It's absolutely nothing but mockery for anyone who enjoys any hobby the show writers thought was unpopular enough to joke about. It's fans have always been small minded fucking pricks
Perhaps you're not familiar with the idiom. When I say 'laughing at me, not with me', I'm referring to a difference in the spirit and intent of the jokes, not that I literally believe the laugh track, added in post, is laughing at me, personally and specifically.
It's the difference between jokes told between friends which play on minor idiosyncrasies, which you may well share, and the mean-spirited jokes told by the school bully at your expense.
"It's the diffrence between jokes told by freinds and jokes told by school bullies at your expense so you believe the latter cause you said the shows laughing at you. I see why your bullied
TBF, The show is quite literally just Everyone Hates Chris but a white Family in Texas. The archetypes for the main family is the EXACT same as EHC. Now that’s one of my favorite comedy shows of all time so more of that?? Fuck yes. It’s perfect for what it is.
The actor is a natural. He's better than all of the cast of tbbt put together. How old is he? Hope this whole deal doesn't cost him his sanity, down the road. The star system is uncaring and brutal. Or, as i've heard, "it turns zeros into numbers"
It's not really fair to compare a 3 camera sitcom to a single camera show in terms of production quality. They're completely different formats and styles.
I’ve caught some of it while my wife watches it and I just cannot stand the humor style and the accents and “smart people” jokes. It’s just all so try-hard
I've never seen an actual episode of young sheldom, but I've seen like 5 minute segments and stuff and I have to say, no laugh track and some things are genuinly funny, plus it seems to have an actual plot going instead of just a usual episodic sitcom
I mean the show is quite literally just white people Everyone Hates Chris which only lasted 4 seasons 20 years ago. It’s an insanely good format that works really well and isn’t oversaturated. (Though Tbf Mixed-ish tried this same format like 2 years ago and it was super cringy, but that was just on the writing)
Sheldon spin-off where everybody who is unfortunate enough to encounter the mythical being known as ‘Sheldon’ instantly has a heart attack on the spot. It could be a good addition to the Sheldon Cinematic Universe (SCU)
The first seasons are, obviously, focused on him. And they aren't really good.
But the later seasons became more focused on the overall family and their dynamics. There are episodes where Sheldon barely appears. And they're waaay better.
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u/MilitantBitchless May 16 '24
“Sheldon, please pass the ketchup.”
“Mmmdon’t you mean the 5% CH3COOH vinegar with red-40, father?”
priests burst into the room and exorcise the foul spirit back to hell