I’ve seen two or three episodes, and I think it’s really funny. The nerds are certainly exaggerated, but the type of things they talk and care about are the type of things I could see myself talking and caring about if I lived with three other versions of me instead of a perfectly normal woman.
–Cliffy
I’m more of a Leonard fan, sometimes it feels to me like it’s becoming the Sheldon and Penny show. It still makes me laugh out loud.
While I can identify with Leonard maybe more than the other characters, his whiny way of talking gets on my nerves sometimes.
Leonard is my favorite too, and it isn’t the voice that bugs so much as he has a perfectly good pair of glasses but he wears them too far down his nose and constantly tilts his head up to look at people.
Is liking Two and a Half Men a bad thing? I mean, it’s no masterpiece, but it’s funny.
Anyways, reading this thread I think I’m going to give up on this show. I gave it a shot and it’s not for me. Still, thanks for all the responses, I just wanted to know if there was some great reward for waiting it out, but it sounds like most people found it at least amusing at first and grew to love it more. Oh well.
Thanks I was just gonna ask the same question…except for the research lab part.
From the limited viewings I watched of the show, it definitely wasn’t for me. It was too “sitcommy” and relied on way too many standard “sitcom” jokes that seem to be dumbed down to appeal to the largest audience possible. Of course I can’t blame them because it seems that’s the only way a show stays on the air nowadays.
Of course, I never really got into the Big Bang Theory either so perhaps major network sitcoms aren’t for me? My favorite TV comedies include Arrested Development, Strangers with Candy, The Office, 30 Rock, Mr. Show… Hmm, perhaps it’s just the laugh track that infuriates me about most sitcoms?
Could be. Different strokes and all that. Personally, I love BBT and 2.5M, and positively loathe all the ones you list as “loved.” Oh, well. We have all kinds.
Love the show! How can I not like a show with Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBj7-50bloE
If you don’t find that funny, the show isn’t for you.
Hmm, fair enough. I guess it’s just a ‘you like what you like’ kind of thing. You can’t make yourself enjoy something. I too love Arrested Development, The Office, and Mr. Show, but I hated Strangers with Candy and I will happily watch Two and a Half Men, Friends, Seinfeld, and other laugh track type shows. Who knows what influences these things.
Just the other night I was riding my roommates ass for not liking Flight of the Conchords (which I think is hysterical). He just doesn’t see why it’s funny at all. Different strokes for different folks. I guess I should go apologize to him!
ETA:
imfloating, you’re welcome!
MaddyStrut, that video ‘is not available in my country’ 
Were they really supposed to have invented that version, though? It was taught to me 4 or 5 years ago (there was even a website), so the lizard and Spock additions aren’t really unique to the show.
I like the show well enough, but I too know people who think it’s the best thing ever, and am kind of confused. These are mostly language or history types, so it’s not as though they’re relating to the characters in the been there way Simplicio and friends might.
You know what? I’m the wrong demographic, I generally go for less broadly drawn characters, etc. etc.
But.
That bit guarantees that I’ll give the show at least another ten episodes.
I am calling Jumped the Shark at the Fudd speech impediment guy. His second episode appearance really bummed me out.
The speech impediment guy annoyed me also. Shark Jumping isn’t strictly defined of course but does the common usage really allow the phrase to be applied to a show as soon as an episode airs. Doesn’t it sort of require some perspective to tell if the episode in question was an exception of the true start of a change of the program?