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Hollywood nerd stereotypes

glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
edited 2012-05-28 19:39:23 in General
Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

I don't know how my dad tolerates something like The Big Bang Theory.

Comments

  • ninjaclownninjaclown

    Many people do somehow. It worries me that I don't exactly understand why.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    If I had to explain it, I'd say its success is because it references things nerds find familiar and is shallow enough to still have mass market appeal.

  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2012-05-28 19:51:56
    Has friends besides tanks now

    From what very little I've seen of it, it references stuff that isn't really, truly nerdy anymore (Star Trek and WoW, for instance), and lolawkwardcharacters - in other words, shallow, like INUH said. Interestingly enough, my friends, who are nerds, all like it, and I remain indifferent (but of course, I'll pretend to hate it to troll them).

  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue

    The Big Bang Theory...I came to the realization the other day that I really do talk like Sheldon--except I do it because I think it's funny, not because that's how I actually talk. And now I wonder if the people who hear me talk can tell the difference.

  • BastionBastion
    smote

    Obligatory

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2012-05-28 20:34:42
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    Well, I think it's a combination of two factors:



    1. Shallow understanding of one's fellow humans.  For example, defining "nerd" (or "geek" or your term of choice) as "lack of social skills" + "interest in computers/comics/games/anime".

    2. Comedy.  Many people like laughing at others' stupidity or awkwardness, even if I don't.  Now let the audience laugh at stereotyped nerds chattering awkwardly and with bad timing about things they're interested in that are different from mainstream tastes.


    ninja'd by everyone since ninjaclown.

  • EelektrossEelektross
    Definitely not gay.

    Yeah, -snort-, Hollywood nerd stereotypes are -asthma inhaler- bad.


    -goes back to DnD campaign-

  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

    Honestly, while I'm not super big on Community it does the nerd reference humor waaay better.


    Also my thing with Big Bang Theory is how all the characters are such terrible people.

  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    edited 2012-05-29 00:56:33
    There is love everywhere, I already know

    all the characters are such terrible people.



    That's basically the case with 70% of sitcoms nowadays (Including the ones that run on Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel/XD)



    Community it does the nerd reference humor waaay better.



    Isn't it odd how Community totally suffers in ratings then?

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2012-05-29 00:57:32
    You can change. You can.

    honestly, my issue with TBBT is that it's horrible and it's succesful much like two and a half men


    oh and it's the olivia munn of tv shows, really.




    Isn't it odd how Community totally suffers in ratings then?



    Are you saying that good shows suffer on the ratings by nature or are you saying that if it was good, it wouldn't suffer in the ratings?


  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    edited 2012-05-29 01:12:34
    There is love everywhere, I already know

    No, just that to cater to a wider market (make it popular) they had to dumb it down with TBBT. But I still don't get why the totally insufferable characters (with both TBBT, Two and a Half Men and even shows like Glee) are popular now.


    And yes all good shows have horrible ratings that's why they all get cancelled or only last one cour.


    Except when made by BONES.

  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

    I think also my problem with TBB and also a similar show Comic Book Men is how they treat these emotionally maladjusted people as quirky and charming and something to aspire to, rather than the dregs of how a nerd acts.

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    I think that's the key, really. They're outside perspectives that don't properly comment on the dysfunction and challenge that kind of behaviour brings with it. 

  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    Sitcoms almost never deconstruct their characters' personality traits without doing a snapback afterwards(the only one other than Community I can think of is How I Met Your Mother). It isn't really expected from the formula, because any person who actually models himself after a sitcom character is beyond even the most heavy-handed lessons such a program might teach.


    Besides, the only thing I've encountered so far is people aping Barney Stinson's gig, and they quickly realized how stupid it made them look.

  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

    Comic Book Men is reality but what have you.


    The thing about Barney is that he's largely recognized to be a jackass by the writing. The writers of TBB don't seem to be at all aware of what's actually wrong with Sheldon.

  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year

    i like linking this whenever TBBT comes up

  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    ...where is the joke?
  • vandrovandro
    edited 2012-05-30 09:48:40
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    That Sheldon is a stuck up elitist that prefer things that most people can't understand or can't operate properly.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    I don't get how that's even funny.


     


    Unless the joke is either (1) that guy caring about stuff in geeky ways again (note the laugh track that follows his mere announcement of getting a computer with Win 7) or (2) he expresses a preference for something that's not user-friendly.


    Except that geeks actually hate Windows Vista, so they got it wrong anyway.

  • vandrovandro
    edited 2012-05-30 09:58:14
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    Sheldon being an elitist self-important jackass is half of the jokes he has. It's not about being a geek, it's about Sheldon being extremely egocentric.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    Oh.

  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.

    Yeah. If the show didn't have that obnoxious laugh track, I'd probably like it just a little. as it is now, Its annoying.

  • EelektrossEelektross
    Definitely not gay.

    Yeah. If the show didn't have that obnoxious laugh track, I'd probably like it just a little. as it is now, Its annoying.




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