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On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:00:56 +1100, "David L. Jones"
<altzone@gmail.com> wrote:

>Jon Kirwan wrote:
>> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:28:08 +1100, "David L. Jones"
>> <altzone@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Just finished watching Season 1 of Big Bang Theory, and have started
>>> on Season 2.
>>> Is it just me or is this the most hilarious and well written TV
>>> comedy ever for nerds?
>>> They have one engineer in the mix, but few engineering jokes, it's
>>> mostly physics or geek gags.
>>> But what a great value show.
>>> If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and give it a go.
>>
>> Hi, Dave.  I was pretty hopeful about Netflix'ing some of
>> these after seeing a scene that was on Youtube, perhaps 6
>> months back.  This scene is what caught my attention:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A03gbr6oY0
>>
>> They nailed the physicist/engineer thing nicely.  And it
>> played neatly into the fun I have with my son, joking about
>> the differences between the work life of theoretical and
>> experimental physicists, too!  He and I found it putting that
>> into a nice "box" to see.
>>
>> We got our first disk for the first season and I watched it
>> with my wife.  We found the laugh tracks annoying, the humor
>> cheap, and the appeal mostly puerile ... broadly speaking.
>> Bear in mind that I've only seen perhaps the first four or
>> five shows, though.
>>
>> There are some good moments (when I can ignore the laugh
>> tracks.)  I'm _very_ glad to have watched that one scene.
>> Most of it is difficult for me to wade through, though.
>>
>> If you know of some really good scenes to watch in the first
>> season that you've already enjoyed (knowing that one which I
>> considered 'nice'), I'd be interested in a pointer to the
>> shows and perhaps the scenes within them.  I would like
>> looking at two-minute-at-a-time high points.  I just can't
>> wade through all the rest.
>
>Sorry, I'm not scene based, I find almost every line and manerism hilarious 
>in some way. The intricate story writing with it's blend of physics and nerd 
>manerisms is what makes it great overall, just not the odd science or nerd 
>joke scene.

Well, I enjoy your videos.  So we must have a few things in
common.  ;)  But that show doesn't reach very high for its
humor, mostly.  Just my opinion.

>> Maybe it is just because I can't stand the way they use the
>> laugh tracks, though.  It reminds me of the very first show
>> to really use them (which went overboard), "The Real McCoys"
>> back in the mid 1950's.  That series had Walter Brennen and I
>> liked him on other movies I'd watched before, but the whole
>> show is simply unwatchable because of the laugh tracks.  A
>> person says "Hi" and a laugh track plays.  Another says,
>> "Well, I have to be going" and a laugh track plays.  It
>> doesn't matter what's said... it's almost continuous.
>> Destroys the show for me when it is inanely flooded with
>> laugh tracks.  There's only so much I can stomach.
>
>It's a shame you can't just relax and look past that stuff, as the material 
>is just so brilliant.
>I don't even notice the laugh tracks in the slightest, probably because I'm 
>laughing at the exact same points.

Oh, the tracks are absolutely horrible.  If nothing else did,
their inane use of them alone would make me unable to watch
much.  I suppose that's parly why I find a scene wonderful
but the show a pain I cannot handle.  But I did try.  I
honestly tried.

Jon