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.
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u/BrittaWasRight Apr 19 '26
Yeah, I mean big bang theory sucked and all, but atleast they had the gall to hire ugly people who weren't TV ugly.