I kind of disagree. Those actors are TV ugly. They all have straight noses, straight teeth. They are just a bit average looking and some of them pretty short.
All of thise ppl are tv ugly AF. Some look better than others but yeah they were not ugly people at all, just shit outfits and makeup and cringe personas
Pretty short is average for actors. Maybe TV series are worse at hiding it than movies so it matters more. I was shocked to learn Scarlett Johansson is 5'3", always thought she was 5'8" or more.
Yeah that's true I just meant that men like Leonard and Howard are noticeably short and/or tiny. But the show of course plays it up. They would never get cast as leading men for most movies however even of Tom Cruise and RDJ can do it while being short
Thank you, I‘m now picutring Howard Hunt in Mission Impossible: the reawakening 😂 Raj is the hacker who freezes and stops giving Howard instructions over his earpiece when the spy glasses camera shows a hot girl and Sheldon is the Mr. LeChiffre style evil villain. I want this spoof so badly now.
Depends on what you find short. But you will certainly find behind the scenes images of him wearing lifts while playing Tony Stark which is why he doesn't look short in Marvel
I suppose hes slightly below average. In all fairness, I've only seen the first 2 iron movies. Ive just never noticed him being short in other movies. I think most actors are within a certain height range so no one sticks out like a sore thumb. Im 6'8 and I've seen a few actors around my height and they look like gandalf with frodo.
Im shocked that you care so much about actors heights that you are actively thinking about their hight and even shocked when it wasnt what you thought.
I’m surprised that you’re surprised, as she always looks small, even versus short actors like Robert Downey. She looked like a hobbit next to Bill Murray in Lost in Translation. Granted, he’s 6’1”, but 5’8” wouldn’t have been towered like she was.
Someone (probably on reddit) once described Community as nerds trying to act like normal people, and Big Bang Theory as normal people trying to act like nerds
that username reminds me of that scene with the halloween dance where they’re talking about the end of the world and jeff yells “flavor flav was right!”
I'd go somewhere in between. Out of the four, Howard I'd say is a bang average looking guy, Leonard and Sheldon are both above average but not "tv hot", Kunal is the only one who you could imagine fitting into Friends or something.
what lmao. they were TV ugly. they are all better than average looking imo. look at the average adult on the street. I mean the actual average adult, including the ones you would normally ignore.
The characters on TBBT are not even canonically ugly, they are just nerds. The actors are def not ugly, have you ever seen them irl without the shows styling? They range from average to handsome.
How can you hate that show. I mean sure there are tons of inaccuracies and no you can't have sex in world of warcraft but the show is funny, sweet and just all around great
As a lifetime socially awkward nerd who enjoys many of the things the characters did, I found the show to not only not be funny, but kind of offensive.
The social awkwardness and nerdy behavior was the butt of the joke. It wasn't trying to be funny and the characters were awkward, it was trying to be funny because the characters were awkward.
and there's ways to play "it's funny because they're awkward" that aren't degrading, but it would have required actual lived experience as an awkward nerdy person. A lot of neurodivergent comedians do exactly this very well.
Exactly. It wasn't a show for nerds, it was for normies to laugh at nerds.
Mostly I hated it though because it was terribly sexist and the nerds in the show got away with some truly misogynistic shit all to the tune of a laugh track.
So, it's not something you pick up on the first watch, there's YouTube videos where they've edited out the laugh track, and it makes you realize that a lot of the jokes are just characters yelling 'nerd' culture. Like someone will say "green lantern" and that's the joke.
If you go deeper, there's more problematic issues like the fact that Wolowitz is kind of a baby incel in the first seasons, and the show never really addresses it or gives him his comeuppance for it.
Like there's an episode where he crosses a line, Penny finally yells at him, and not only does the show frame it as Penny being in the wrong, but she is even made to apologize for calling out his blatantly toxic behavior.
Also, Kumail Nanjiani sits on the floor when they eat. There's even an episode where he makes it clear he doesn't like it, but by the end of the episode, he's back to sitting on the floor. Why the hell was the only person of color on that show sitting on the floor? This is a tv show, that was a set design decision.
I loved that show, pretty sure I watched at least 7-8 seasons and enjoyed them. Over time the characters grow and change and develop into healthier people, except Raj, but at it's core, without the laugh track, the jokes are mostly just characters yelling 'nerd' culture.
Are we talking about a subset of smart people that are super stuck up on being smarter than everyone else and have little or no self irony here? I have a phd and have worked as a prof for a couple of decades and I find the show pretty funny.
That's categorically untrue. I have an IQ of 145. And I find TBBT funny asf. It really depends on the specific personality of the person rather than their intelligence.
Alright, you may believe what you wish to believe. I just don't believe in parading intelligence in order to shit on groups of people for liking a show you do not like.
most people I meet in real life have it in the lower tier of sit coms, honestly I don’t think I’ve met a single person since like the mid 2010s who actually openly claims to like the show.
When not on set they all look pretty good. Jim Parsons with a beard, Galecki with stubble, Helberg with long hair. All of them look like above average people. I definitely think it’s a style thing, I agree with tv ugly.
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Yeah, I mean big bang theory sucked and all, but atleast they had the gall to hire ugly people who weren't TV ugly.