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Apple's Steve Wozniak Appears on CBS's Big Bang Theory

hayesk said:
It's as if the poster of the video was trying to prove the show isn't funny, that it's the laugh track that makes it seem funny.

But the show would have been timed differently if they knew there wasn't a laugh track, so it's an invalid experiment.
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In the context of this thread, that comment is absolutely hilarious.
 
I understand alot of people not liking the show including of one my friends whom I tried to recommend the show to. He didn't like it the first couple of episodes but after watching, he gets used the characters and their behaviors so now since you know how everyone thinks and acts ...everything is put in a funny content.

I think its harder for people just pick up the show and watch it.
 
Dammit Cubs said:
I understand alot of people not liking the show including of one my friends whom I tried to recommend the show to. He didn't like it the first couple of episodes but after watching, he gets used the characters and their behaviors so now since you know how everyone thinks and acts ...everything is put in a funny content.

I think its harder for people just pick up the show and watch it.
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No, the same thing happens with heroin, but that doesn't mean it's good for you.

Funny is funny. This is just lame - badly done.
 
Whoever is not familiar to this show (or think it's dull), check out the episode "The Precious Fragmentation".

But it's true that the writers seemed to not really care for Apple up to this (Sheldon being vocal with his love of Linux), beside the joke about the iPod:

Episode shows the past when Sheldon and Leonard first met circa 2004.
Sheldon checks out Howard's iPod and gives it back to him.
Sheldon: "You'll be sorry you spent your money on an iPod when Microsoft comes out with theirs."
 
sillypooh said:
Whoever is not familiar to this show (or think it's dull)"
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I don't think it's dull, I think its a combination of pathetic and insulting. The jokes are not "geek references" its some people laughing because "ha ha ha I don't understand what that means!" and others laughing because "oh man! you don't talk about linux on TV!"

The jokes aren't funny, they characters are shallow parodies (The Blonde ditz! The slightly autistic savant! The nerd who won't speak to women! The nerd who hits on women awkwardly! The other guy who the audience relates to! The Celebrity guest!). No character is as believable as Tim Bisley or Roy. Its actually sad that people can categorise this as "geek culture"
 
I like the show. The characters are funny and the neighbor girl sometimes wears low cut shirts.
 
thirteen1031 said:
"Funny is funny"? What an incredibly lame thing to say. And stupid. And ridiculous.

I refer you to the old Seinfeld commercial which, funny or not, shows quite clearly and succinctly that there is no such things as "funny is funny." There is just whether you find it funny or not:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OQWFZZE-DY
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I have no idea what you're trying to say here, but I'll defend to the death your right to confuse me.

Now, when Alan Alda delivered that line, to Radar in M.A.S.H. it was funny, but I'm betting you won't get it in this context. And maybe you could suggest that proves your point... in a simplistic way.

But Alan Alda's reference is to philosophy. The references in BBT are supposed to be geeky, but they're not - or they're inaccurate, off key, pseudo. So who is supposed to find it funny?

I agree with you to this extent: Some people laugh when they see kids or old people fall over. I'd laugh if that same kid or old person then picked up a gun and shot the one laughing - because that would be justice, as well as funny. Context and timing are everything.

This show lacks good timing, good jokes, relevance and style. Seinfeld was funny - but mainly because of those he had around him. His writing was funny, but the supporting characters outshone him in every episode.

And please don't even get me started on Seinfeld's ad escapades, especially the cringingly bad MS ones. They are not only not funny, they're really lousy advertising too. And that's been my business for 30 plus years, so I should know.
 
G58 said:
Seinfeld was funny - but mainly because of those he had around him. His writing was funny, but the supporting characters outshone him in every episode.
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I think that was intentional; Seinfeld mostly played the straight man in the show. He didn't really have to do too much, except for making observations about the zaniness happening around him-- a modern-day Jack Benny, if you will.

I don't really see any "straight-man" in BBT; they all have their quirks.

I was at a supermarket yesterday, and there was a blurb on the cover of some tabloid about the show-- something about Jim Parsons (who plays Sheldon) getting a really big ego after his Emmy win and causing tension on the set. Yawn. Y'know, I really miss the Weekly World News. BatBoy was loads more entertaining.
 
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