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This thread is for comedy TV, including network and cable shows. [NAFDA]
I'm not gonna click on that Michael Patrick King article for the sake of my blood pressure.
I've watched several eps of the show, because Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs have great chemistry and are so much better than the material. I want to keep watching because there aren't that many shows out there that showcase a strong female friendship, but everything outside their friendship is so freaking annoying. God.
Seriously, Vonnie, don't. He's an amazing douche.
I do like the frank bad language of the show. I'm totally okay with talking about vaginas and tampons, and if you have to dress up a facial to get it past the CBS standards & practices, go for it!
But, seriously, the comedy is lacking, and the Latino, Asian, and Italian (just to list the first three that occur to me) characterisations are *horrible*. Jesus Christ on a crutch. A stupid, ineffective, comedy crutch.
FYI for anyone who's in the market for Community DVDs, Deep Discount is having a TV on DVD BOGO sale. I ordered Season 1 (for $28 and change) and got a second DVD free.
hopefully they'll go on sale again, I'm going have to wait and recover from Xmas, car repairs, and vet bills.
But, seriously, the comedy is lacking, and the Latino, Asian, and Italian (just to list the first three that occur to me) characterisations are *horrible*.
Speaking as a Korean, the way Han is written and portrayed makes me want to punch everyone associated with the show on the face. I know not everyone can be Kimball Cho (insert dreamy sigh) but God, it's just so fucking offensive.
But he's gay! (Uh, not Han, the creator)
Steph, I've read those complaints somewhere else. I haven't watched most of the current season, but it does suck that they are kind of stuck and the guys haven't had real character development.
He needs another dimension, badly. Even if he's just the boss-man to the ladies, he needs a place where he's not a jerk/cliche. Sometimes I still laugh...his tampon-squick was pretty funny. Does that make me a racism accomplice? Tep, I still think Big Bang's pretty funny, but at the same time your criticisms are fairly apt...they probably bother me less because I've not been watching as long so no long hiatuses to wait and then feel like I'm watching the same show again. And much as I heart Ms. Bialik(I totally do!) a little AFF goes a long way. Because they write *gags*, mostly not characters, so they haven't really got beyond "What if there was a female Sheldon, hee hee?" Which is great for two episodes, not two seasons...it's testimony to the actors' comic skills that most of that stuff ever works. I have some ideas: Raj dates a Deaf girl(or maybe just HOH enough that the quiet's not unusual) Unless he and Howard really do have a thing goin' on. Howard could go through a roommate or two--that's always funny. Penny could guest-star on a cheesy sci-fi show the guys dig.(She wouldn't be a big star...just do like Joey Tribbiani and get one-shots sometimes.) Character evolution doesn't have to be like "Penny and Leonard get married and have six kids!" Gradual is probably better actually
Big Bang Theory: Sheldon is a fan of Nathan Fillion.
Of course he is.