Garrett Hawke
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I assume the same reason people like Darcy from Thor
both fucking suck tho
both fucking suck tho
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Sheldon Cooper is such an unbelievable little shit. Why is he so adored?
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Sho_Nuff82
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Gemüsepizza;189116984 said:
The girl responding to the guy inviting her to talk about E3 out of the blue on FB is the one with zero social skills?
RustyNails
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I always felt like Sheldon was a MadTV character that got given his own show. He is ok in bits, but on a sitcom? It gets embarrassing after a while. For example, imagine the Sneaky Snake dude from MadTV was given his own sitcom.
hitsugi
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Well at least you know you're racist..
Gemüsepizza
Member
"Out of the blue on FB"? Why the fuck does she send people friend requests if she can't deal with one of her "friends" commenting on her dumb posts? She could have ignored it, but nope: "stop commenting." Wtf. What a rude and narcissistic person.
God Dayumm
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I like Sheldon because he reminds me of you guys and that brings tears of nostalgia to my eyes :')
Yep. There are legions of beloved characters who are really huge assholes. Indiana Jones, for example.
The still should have stopped at "what's E3?"
Professor Renegade
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Sheldon is the reason I stopped watching Big Bang, the character is annoying af.
NeoGold123
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I've never been a big fan of the show, but I gave it a go, didn't really like it. I don't get why everyone likes him either.
I once had "bazinga" stuck in my head for some reason (never watched past the first few eps of the second season) and said it in the place of "bingo" during a conversation. I immediately stopped, just said "ew" and it's never happened again.
I once had "bazinga" stuck in my head for some reason (never watched past the first few eps of the second season) and said it in the place of "bingo" during a conversation. I immediately stopped, just said "ew" and it's never happened again.
I haven't played a video game in 10 months, so I guess I'm kinda in the clear.
dripdripsplash
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These people don't get it.
Most of the time I'm level headed person that is able of accepting many if not all perspectives on a wide range of subjects, even if I strongly disagree with them. I see the others position as legimitate and discuss and debate with said person with the goal of fruitful and constructive conversation.
But if you like Hopsin/Tyler/TBBT, then you a loser. Thats it.
It's done for.
You can't argue against it.
It's fact.
Tinfoilhatsron
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It's why Peep Show, the UK show is funny, the assholes get theirs in the end. Unlike Big Bang Theory.
CornBurrito
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Oh where can I read this magical tome that says an asshole character must "get theirs" for a show to be objectively funny or enjoyable?
RuinerPrime
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It's the reason I love always sunny. Horrible people are entertaining.
Piston Hyundai
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but what if I think tyler can make some decent beats
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
Even though BBT sucks I think most people would agree the the women on the show are WAY better than the men.
Bernadette, Amy, Penny >>> Howard, Sheldon, Leonard and Raj.
Bernadette, Amy, Penny >>> Howard, Sheldon, Leonard and Raj.
SmarmySmurf
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I don't watch it enough to be able to cite a specific episode, but I remember feeling very "wtf" after thinking about Max's jokes more than once, and I don't mean in a prudish way. There's usually a set up for a joke from Max at least once or twice an episode (it seems from what I've seen anyway) where whatever description or phrase is uttered, Max turns it into a "that's what she said" sort of joke, but about someone she's slept or fooled around with. And at least once it was in reference to a relative or teacher (she's a HS drop out I'm pretty sure, so that means she wasn't 18 while still in HS). Its just dropped casually for laughs, but if taken at face value is very squicky. IMO. Apologies though for my uncertainty about the specifics, I didn't consider it a show worth retaining in my mind. lol
Jason Frost
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Jesus Christ.
Piston Hyundai
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somebody please put rza's face on it and make it the bong bong theory
There's one episode that shows why Leonard puts up with Sheldon (most of the time) at least. It shows them in the "past" and Sheldon saves Leonard from a bomb that ruins the elevator in their flat.
For the most part it seems Sheldon isn't aware that he's an asshole but there are many episodes when the other characters call him out or he gets the bad end of the stick (although he "wins" in plenty of episodes too). Howard usually challenges Sheldon, but more often than not ends up losing.
I like the show and have always been surprised at the hate some people feel for it. I guess the show being about "nerds" can upset some people. I find plenty of Sheldon's antics because they are ridiculous but if he was a real life person he would be so hateable haha.
For the most part it seems Sheldon isn't aware that he's an asshole but there are many episodes when the other characters call him out or he gets the bad end of the stick (although he "wins" in plenty of episodes too). Howard usually challenges Sheldon, but more often than not ends up losing.
I like the show and have always been surprised at the hate some people feel for it. I guess the show being about "nerds" can upset some people. I find plenty of Sheldon's antics because they are ridiculous but if he was a real life person he would be so hateable haha.
johnnydrama
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I stopped watching the show years ago because of that annoying dipshit.
SchrodingerC
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Does Sheldon actually change at all as a character during the series? Every time I happen to catch the show it seems like he's doing the same shtick since day 1, and that seems incredibly boring.
I'd argue there's comedy in the suffering of others when the asshole doesn't theirs. Which is precisely how it's used in one of my favourite British comedies Black Books.
Bernard never really gets his comeuppance for how he treats Manny but it doesn't stop it being brilliant comedy.
He's definitely changed and overcome a lot of his hangups. But he has a long way to go before being a tolerable member of society.
SchrodingerC
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At least he has reach the human being stage and no longer just a nerdy, one liner spouting machine.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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All of the male characters are straight up awful people. It's like they're trying to be Seinfeld but failing miserably because never once are they actually likeable because/in-spite of it.
Chuckie
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Kill Your Masters
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Sheldon?
uncelestial
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It's not really out of the blue when she's all "playing video games -- I'm such a nerd!" She was rude af honestly. There are many nice people in the world, you know, who don't respond to conversations reaching a dead end with active rudeness. Note: I am assuming "are you excited for E3" was an honest question and not a "nerd cred check" tho
Morrigan Stark
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The same tome that declares Cartman and House to be unfunny and unpopular characters. And Walter White is also very unpopular because he's such an asshole. Whereas a nice kid like Floyd/Walter Jr. doesn't get hate, because he's a nice kid and characters like that are what people like in fiction.
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RobbieNick
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This pretty much.
He's even admitted to not being able to understand sarcasm. I imagine living in Texas, he was bullied a ton as a social inadequate child. The fact that he's a genius is the only thing that really gave him a feeling of superiority and he held on to that to the point where he truly believes he is superior to everyone else when really he's only a genius in one aspect alone.
Then there's Amy. She was once almost exactly like Sheldon, but unlike Sheldon a lot of that had to do with having no freinds of any kind. It made her a social introvert. When she became Sheldon's girlfriend, his social circle introduced her to Penny and Bernadette. Now she had friends for the first time and for awhile clinged onto Penny really tightly, but is now a fairly normal member of the group.
The problem with this season is that Amy and Sheldon have gotten back together way too quickly. While Sheldon did a mature a tiny bit during the breakup, he still hasn't learned that a lot of the reason she broke up with him in the first place was due to his verbally abusive behavior.
The writers need to let Sheldon grow as a character and have him learn that the universe does not revolve around him. Otherwise, he's gonna remain an obnoxious asshole. Sometimes he's funny, but half the time I wanna punch him in the face.
I think the thing with Sheldon is that he's not being an asshole on purpose or out of malice. He's broken inside. He's a Hollywood-style idiot savant, leaning toward aspergers because that's the cool thing to have nowadays.
I think they've shown pretty well that he acts like a jerk while being woefully ignorant of the effect he's having. And I've seen a couple of times where they showed that he's putting effort into being a good person, he just doesn't understand human relations.
I saw there was one episode where Penny ran out of money, and Sheldon concluded that he had a surplus of money, and that they've become friends, and friends help each other with their problems, so he gave/loaned her a significant amount of money, without a second thought. And the joke of the episode was that Penny started freaking out about trying to repay him, while Sheldon acted like a robot, unconcerned about repayment because he placed absolutely no value on the money beyond the value of helping a friend.
The real dick of the group is Leonard, frequently "pranking" Sheldon (stuff like messing with his OCD until his eye starts to twitch, then laughing about it), because living with someone like Sheldon is difficult.
I think they've shown pretty well that he acts like a jerk while being woefully ignorant of the effect he's having. And I've seen a couple of times where they showed that he's putting effort into being a good person, he just doesn't understand human relations.
I saw there was one episode where Penny ran out of money, and Sheldon concluded that he had a surplus of money, and that they've become friends, and friends help each other with their problems, so he gave/loaned her a significant amount of money, without a second thought. And the joke of the episode was that Penny started freaking out about trying to repay him, while Sheldon acted like a robot, unconcerned about repayment because he placed absolutely no value on the money beyond the value of helping a friend.
The real dick of the group is Leonard, frequently "pranking" Sheldon (stuff like messing with his OCD until his eye starts to twitch, then laughing about it), because living with someone like Sheldon is difficult.
Langdon Alger
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I think Howard is the best character on the show.
SmarmySmurf
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Literally the worst opinion ever.
Literally the best opinion ever.
ROUGE_BLOCK
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Howard is the only male character in the show that actually had an arc and developed better over time. I mean he went from a poorly written asshole pervert to a human being with fears,faults but having a good heart to do the right thing.
Scratch that, he is the only character who had an arc period.
Dixon's Jet
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He's a misunderstood genius so most people feel they can relate.
Shuggananas
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Yeah, the other 3 dudes are terrible characters, wolowitz is relatable
Pila
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User 479360
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There's just something about his personality that becomes endearing and funny. Sure, he's a caricature, but it works.
FunkyDealer
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I used to really like this show for two or three seasons. I think it was because of the reasonably funny akwardness of the characters. But then it all went to shit.
I started getting really tired of the same jokes, the characters we're turning into more two-dimensional versions of themselves, usually focusing on the bad sides. Because why have any good character evolution? And the fucking laugh-track started to really grate.
Nowadays, I'll only watch it if someone else is already watching it.
I started getting really tired of the same jokes, the characters we're turning into more two-dimensional versions of themselves, usually focusing on the bad sides. Because why have any good character evolution? And the fucking laugh-track started to really grate.
Nowadays, I'll only watch it if someone else is already watching it.
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