# How hard is it for you to suspend disbelief? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hard-is-it-for-you-to-suspend-disbelief/599009 "2011-10-08T16:49:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 40
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2011, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hard-is-it-for-you-to-suspend-disbelief/599009/40 "2011-10-09T05:25:50Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Uh, no one in that thread said \*\*3rd Rock \*\*was a shitty sitcom because it was unrealistic. Care to link to the post that said that? > [@Popular sitcoms that suck(ed)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sitcoms-that-suck-ed/599000/5): > > My main problem with **3rd Rock** was that they never answered some questions: > > How did they come by these bodies they were using? Did they just design them from scratch, and if so how did they fake credentials needed for Dick to teach Physics or SSNs for employment and the like? Clearly somebody somewhere had to have some knowledge of Earth culture to do this. He didn’t call it “shitty” in so many words, but that was the OP’s question – what popular sitcoms were actually shitty shows – and **Sampiro** is pointing out various things that made the show unrealistic (no one can get a job without a SSN). I took some slight liberty in my summary but I don’t think it was a complete distortion. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hard-is-it-for-you-to-suspend-disbelief/599009)._