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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

People be forgetting that the first season or two of the big bang theory was legitimately very good.

The first season or two of the IT crowd was... oh yeah, the whole show.

IT crowd's best episodes were best-in-class. tnetennba. But it had a lot of meh too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

The thing about the IT crowd is they always try and walk it in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I loved both shows. IT crowd made me laugh harder making it the better show.

Young Sheldon on the other hand was very very good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember IT Crowd as having some really funny moments back when I watched it, but also being very hit or miss. Looking back, the episodes with the theater gays and the trans woman were... deeply unfortunate. Also it turned out Graham whatshisface is a full-time transphobe. So it's consigned to the trash bin for me.

BBT, I never saw more than a few episodes and what I did see was very bland tbh.

TL;DR maybe they both suck actually

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not disagreeing that Linehan has some awful opinions and that has leached out into a couple of his writings. But, the theater episode, at no point, makes the fact that people are gay the butt of the joke it's the main characters that are terrible people in that episode, particularly Roy.

It's like getting upset that Father Ted is racist for the episode that specifically makes racists the target of the joke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not at all. My issue was with the portrayal of the characters themselves -- so vapid, touchy-feely, and simply stereotypical of the "theater gay" trope. Plus, after all her opining, whatshername was right about that guy's orientation.

Also, I found the theater material a bit, uhh... it felt to me like a Rocky Horror parody written by an adolescent person. Yes we're all singing "I love willies" because that's what being gay is about, yahaha.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

IT Crows was amazing, I laughed to death. Where the bigbang theory was not so funny, too much detail IMO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Next season might turn out to be IT Pigeons

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

IT Crowd was three British goofballs doing elaborate running gags over 24 episodes.

BBT was four creepy bigots and a nice blonde woman doing pop culture references and calling one another stupid for 279 episodes before spinning out an 80s nostalgia prequel series.

It was the difference between a few cherished cleverly crafted comedy routines and endless derivative slop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

By far. I think that Big Bang Theory has rotten the minds of lots of highschoolers (that now are at university, or have already graduated)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've watched IT Crowd half a dozen times.

I haven't managed to finish an episode of BBT before I switch it off in disgust.

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