It's no contest

big bang theory is about what dumb people think smart people are like.

No explanation necessary:

Except for that one transphobic episode that Graham Linehan has ruined his whole life over instead of going "Yeah, I'm sorry, that was a bit insensitive."

The big bang theory was not for geeks or nerds. It was pure shit.

If I had to rate the IT crowd out of ten, I'd give it 01189998819991197253

If you think otherwise, you're head disabled.

No... the IT crowd is a sitcom FOR geeks. That other shit just makes fun of us

It’s cuz they work as a team. An IT team. Team, team, team. Team players, each and every one.

I watched one random episode of BBT after it was recommended to me by a few people. That one episode was enough for me to decide that I never want to see that show again, and also that I should disregard all recommendations from the people who said I should watch it.

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No no IT Crowd is a show about sysadmins, not geeks lol. There's a very clear difference.

I've always saw BBT as just a way to re-normalize making fun of neurodivergant people.

If BBT was made today it would be accused of being written by AI. Fully flanderised characters, and endless filler episodes.

I watched both, and yes.

In my mind, I still picture this as the archetype of an office's boss inside a boss's office. If it doesn't have the 4th breaking wall picture, then it's a fake boss

IT Crowd S02E01 is probably the funniest episode of any sitcom I’ve seen

BBT is a show about smart people for dumb people. The IT Crowd is a show about smart people.

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.

See also: Community.

For sure it's no contest. Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

I'll alway remember the time I was hanging out with my GF at her parents house and she mentioned that she was going to play D&D later and her moms boomer-ass friend just immediatly started cackling about how "it's just like big bang theory!!".

There was no joke or anything just "oh, yea I'm going over to xxxx's house to play D&D later". That was enough for me to never bother with that show.

I've only seen the one episode of BBT, I think the first one, where a goddamn theoretical physicist spends a whole day forgetting the basic properties of light.

My family stared at me the whole time, expecting me to find it funny. Then THEY got mad at me when I said that was the dumbest shit I've seen in a while. Later I found out that Sheldon uses Ubuntu and brags about it.

But, okay, dumb jokes aside - the show doesn't explore any concepts or situations in new and interesting ways And THAT'S why it's bad.

Shelden uses linux. Hahahaha. That's it. A good writer could make a whole episode about that, alone, and it would be hilarious. Imagine him on internet forums. Imagine him fumbling during a talk because his laptop wouldn't work with whatever vidchat/system/software his hosts used, and getting haughty about it. Imagine Sheldon traveling across the country to "fix" an entire auditoriums tech to run on Arch after his failed remote speech. Walking away all "You're Welcome" as the staff can't figure out how the fuck to use it.

I mean people are allowed to like different things. There is no gatekeeping to be done on something as subjective humor

While I like IT Crowd it’s unfortunately written by a TERF activist so I will never watch it again. Also explains why there is an episode about a trans woman getting beat up

Edit: before you downvote me maybe lookup what kind of activism Graham Linehan has been doing after he made IT Crowd.

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

this thread feels strange to me. anyone else?

I've usually seen big bang theory compared to jersy shore.

one is a smart show about dumb people, and the other is a dumb show about smart people.

if we follow this logic, does that make it crowd a smart show about smart people?

IT crowd 100%

Moss, how many times have I told you to shave those sideburns?!

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.

I did not know The It Crew, going through the first episode and I'm quite liking it.

If someone else is curious: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQxUFrtzYaUmbH4EzI4dxqpQt5Dhu_6Gs

I would take the notoriously bad American attempt at the IT Crowd over big bang theory any day

But Silicon Valley is better than either of them.

TBBT can be an okay show if you don't mind the overused surface level nerd culture references, casual misogyny, and Elon Musk's appearance. Other than that it can be a guilty pleasure of mine.

Are they still pretending that Sheldon is not supposed to be autistic?

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)

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

Still all the normies be watching the big bang theorie.