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RayB:
Shmokes, sounds the humour in BBT is just over your head. Its jokes appeal to the "Slashdot" crowd.  Meanwhile, why the show has done so well among mainstream audiences, I have NO idea.  The average TV viewer must just be mean spirited and enjoy laughing at nerds.

The first time I watched the show I didn't really like it. It follows a typical sitcom formula, and the guys in it I thought were all acting more gay than geek, but after a few episodes I grew to appreciate it more.

I'm about to ditch cable. It's 98% crap.

shmokes:
I was a network admin for 8 years, and Packard Bell tech support before that.  I spend inordinate amounts of time on a message board about building arcade cabinets and using emulators.  I've hardware modded a half dozen or more Xboxes, jailbroken my iPad and soft-modded my Wii.  I read Engadget and Joystiq daily (and to a lesser extent, Gizmodo, ArsTechnica and Slashdot).  I'm 32 years old.  I think I'm part of the Slash-dot crowd.

The thing is, I'm not a secret agent, parent of a teenager in a dysfunctional family, crystal meth manufacturer, serial killer, or wild west cowboy.  But I think Archer, Arrested Development, Breaking Bad, Dexter and Deadwood are all really good shows.  My dislike of BBT has nothing to do with not getting it.  It would be impossible not to get the jokes.  They are uniformly obvious and unsophisticated and are accompanied by an extraordinarily aggressive laugh track.  The problem isn't that I'm not part of the culture (I am); the problem is that the show isn't any good.   :cheers:

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on February 17, 2011, 11:47:33 am ---The lip syncing bothers me, too.  I understand you can't sing very well like that and dance and be thrown in dumpsters, but you can at least attempt it - it's not so much that they're redubbing the audio, it looks like they're just kinda mouthing the words so it's really unconvincing.

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That's pretty much exactly it.  If you can't sing while getting thrown in a dumpster, and can't accept that your voice will thump when you get thrown in a dumpster, maybe you shouldn't write a dumpster toss into the scene.  It all comes across so fake that I can't be bothered to watch it.  I'm still waiting for the "breaking controversy" that reveals half of those songs are really being sung by ugly people not in the credits.

Bootay:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 17, 2011, 01:46:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on February 17, 2011, 11:47:33 am ---The lip syncing bothers me, too.  I understand you can't sing very well like that and dance and be thrown in dumpsters, but you can at least attempt it - it's not so much that they're redubbing the audio, it looks like they're just kinda mouthing the words so it's really unconvincing.

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That's pretty much exactly it.  If you can't sing while getting thrown in a dumpster, and can't accept that your voice will thump when you get thrown in a dumpster, maybe you shouldn't write a dumpster toss into the scene.  It all comes across so fake that I can't be bothered to watch it.  I'm still waiting for the "breaking controversy" that reveals half of those songs are really being sung by ugly people not in the credits.

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You mean like the chick from C&C Music Factory? heh

shmokes:
I just wanted to see if I was alone in my assessment here.  Here's a list of shows you could be watching right now on Metacritic.  For what it's worth, BBT scores a 57 and if you sort by score you have to scroll quite a ways to get to it.  

That at least leaves a little room to hope that our entire society hasn't gone mad.   ;D

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