Reed Arvin is a writer of four novels, a record producer, and Amy Grant’s former touring keyboard player. He may very well be an intelligent, thoughtful and insightful human being. After all, Janet Maslin of The New York Times called his writing “sultry, devious, adrenaline-boosting suspense.” But when it comes to explaining why “The Big Bang Theory” is embraced by a larger following than “Community,” Reed Arvin has sh*t for brains. Arvin reasons that the popularity of “The Big Bang Theory” is rooted in the differences between the shows at the “zeitgeist level.”
“Community,” for all its innovation, is actually the more old-fashioned of the 2 programs. Its stars are rooted in a 1990s version of 20-something glamour. Yes, Abed’s quirky, but its stars are mostly beautiful – Jeff Winger’s attractiveness is a consistent plot device, and a part of Annie’s anatomy is so celebrated it’s (they’ve?) spawned its own fan sites.
The Big Bang Theory understands that geek culture celebrates its otherness. The stars of BBT aren’t working towards fitting into the larger culture. None of them, for example, wants to get back a high-paying law job, as Jeff Winger on “Community” does. TBBT crew wouldn’t even be tempted by the notion.
Anthropologist and marketing consultant Grant McCracken, writing in The Harvard Business Review mused, “Our heroes used to be the people who stole lunch money. Increasingly, they are the people from whom it was stolen. This has got to have something to do with the rise of Silicon Valley and people like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.“
Put simply: Jeff Winger is the guy who stole your lunch money. Look at that grin on his face. The public is never going to take him to heart the way they do the stars of BBT.
What? The reason the public does not accept “Community” is because Jeff Winger looks like he might steal your lunch money, while “The Big Bang Theory” celebrates its otherness? No. No, sir. That’s not it at all.
The reason the public embraces “The Big Bang Theory” is the same reason the public embraces “Two and a Half Men”: It’s simple-minded. It employs the same brand of crass stereotypes about nerds as “Two and a Half Men” makes about boobs. It plays into the sort of stereotypes about smart people that mainstreamers love. Your average walking ass-crack probably feels considerably better about the wrong choices he made in life when he’s under the impression that people who went to college are socially retarded and no more capable of winning the sexual advances of big-busted blonde women than he is. “The Big Bang Theory” depicts well-educated people as Urkels and lisping dorks, which is comfortable comedy to mainstreamers.
“Community,” on the other hand, is not accepted by the mainstreamers because it’s sophisticated comedy, culturally and self-referential, and because it is challenging. Annie may have an awesome rack, Jeff may have grinning good looks, but that doesn’t negate the fact that you need a base level of intelligence to understand the comedy. You have to know about Ken Burns’ Civil War, for instance, to fully appreciate last night’s episode. To understand the humor in “The Big Bang Theory,” you need only understand that geeks go to Comic Con and watch Star Trek, and those very acts make them lovable comic fools that you laugh at because the laugh track tells you to do so.
Put simply, “The Big Bang Theory” is a dumb show about smart people; “Community” is a smart show that’s less about celebrating “otherness” is it is about depicting “otherness.”
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Nailed it.
My brother-in-law loves The Big Bang Theory, and he most certainly was the guy who stole people’s lunch money in high school. He’s not laughing with the nerds, he’s laughing at them.
And, admittedly, I think I’ve seen ten minutes of that show, but if memory serves the four nerds are (1) a whiny emasculated douche with glasses, (2) an Asperger’s Syndrome uber-virgin, (3) a pimple-faced geek with fashion sense from the ’70s, and (4) a funny talkin’ furriner nerd.
If that’s celebrating the geeks, then I’d hate to see what making fun of them would look like.
Admittedly it TRIES to show growth but it’s like everything else that asshat Chuck Lorre does.
Ah, it’s a Chuck Lorre show? That explains the Peter Lorre tag.
And, of course, why I didn’t like it.
Don’t forget a show that has distinct personalities all over the place: Leonard, Starburns, and Magnitude only work in a show where the writers can riff on that distinctness and that means viewers have to pay attention rather than just having the random guy who’s bullying/stealing the crush’s heart/fodder for a stereotypical joke come on ever week*.
*(I have never actually watched Big Bang Theory, but I have seen alot of sitcoms).
you’ve just described 40% of the show
Very well said.
Also, I watch Big Bang Theory and enjoy it, but it’s definitely simple can’t compare to Community.
Not sure what in this post warranted the first ever “Peter Lorre” tag, but I’m using it as an excuse to post this pic of him.
You’re welcome, America.
He looks like Nick Kroll doing Bobby Bottleservice.
Maybe this is because I was and am a nerd, but I need some clarification: at what point were bullies ever our heroes? When were physical intimidation and petty theft our aspirations? Was there a time when terrorizing people was an ideal?
The 50s and 60s were a weird time.
I kinda saw the episode as a ripoff of Chappelle’s “Battle of the Kool Moe Dee Concert.” and I think you’re overestimating how “smart” Community is.
Point is, it’s smarter than BBT.
Because it’s difficult to be smarter than BBT? If Community had more likable actors it would be more popular. Let’s face it, McHale is smug as fuck and Chevy Chase is Chevy Chase. Not everyone wants to watch smug assholes who seemingly always have a witty comeback for everything. And I say that as a Community fan.
No, it’s not difficult; I’m just saying, I’m pretty sure Dustin was using the word “smart” relatively, as his point was that Community is the smarter of the two shows. Not that it’s a PhD candidate.
“You have to know about Ken Burns’ Civil War, for instance, to fully appreciate last night’s episode.”
You don’t, and therefore you didn’t.
Has this guy even watched Community? I mean, how many people actually identify with the characters on BBT? And why would you want to?
Sure, Annie is attractive, but she’s also a former unpopular kid with anxiety issues, and it shows. And Jeff is handsome, but he’s got self esteem issues. Even if they’re better looking than the average person, the average person can still identify with them.
I give this two Leonard mouth farts and a pillow to the face.
Nicely put, Dustin. The Big Bang Theory has always seemed more like a -parody- of “otherness,” rather than a celebration. Plus, I’ve watched a couple episodes, and the only character I don’t find impossible to like is the guy with the bowl cut (dunno his name; he played Moist in Dr. Horrible), who manages to be kinda funny somehow.
Abed’s Asperger’s > Sheldon’s Asperger’s
Every time I talk to a self-professed geek that says they like BBT, I am mystified. It’s like they are so excited by seeing someone in a Superman t-shirt on TV that they miss that they are being made fun of. Leonard is an imbecile, Sheldon is probably autistic (no matter how many times Lorre claims he’s not), and the show never tries to hide it. “LOLZ THEY’RE PLAYING SETTLERS” isn’t how you make a show about a subculture. Hell, the Guild doesn’t even always get it right- Zaboo and Vork would be right at home on BBT.
Really? Because I thought The Guild was one of the better depictions of “geek culture” out there. Sure, it’s exaggerated, but at least it knows what it’s talking about. And yeah, Zaboo and Vork are quite the stereotypes, but the other characters aren’t.
I like The Guild quite a bit, and as the show progresses, Zaboo does grow in a way that you would never, ever see on BBT. I think Vork has to remain relatively static for the rest of the show to work, but that doesn’t mean I don’t cringe most of the time he’s on the screen.
It’s bizarre to me that Wil Wheaton can be on both The Guild and BBT without feeling guilty, but I imagine BBT gives him quite a bit more money. It’s too bad.
There is a difference between aspbergers and autism. Learn it.
Hehe. Ass burgers.
Asperger’s syndrome is a subset of the “autism spectrum”. If you’re going to start calling people out, at least get the spelling of the disorder right.
I knew Dustin wrote this before i read the byline. This was great.
I wanna go out and beat this fucker up, take his lunch money, and then yell “Bazinga”. Maybe then he’ll change his tune.
that was awesome.
I don’t watch Community or The Big Bang Theory and could tell you that the argument is retarded.
Wait. I thought I saw some elements of 300 in the pillow fight, no?
Well done.
Community actually offers some depth to their characters. BBT does not. It’s the same joke over and over again and it’s not funny. When someone tells me how funny BBT is, I know not to trust that person’s opinion of things.
Everyone I’ve ever met who’s liked the Big Bang Theory has been about as far away from nerd-end on the nerd spectrum as I am from losing my virginity (thank you, don’t forget to tip your waitresses!). People who like the show don’t seem to form any sort of emotional attachment to the characters. They’re laughing at them rather than with them. All the characters on the show are treated as socially inept man-children. There’s no depth.
It saddens me that there is a small subsection of nerds/geeks/dorks out there that has embraced the offensive lampoonery of this show because they get a chance to see things they like on TV.
love community. have watched BBT. it wasn’t as mind-numbingly awful as two and a half men. i actually laughed a few times. overall, it’s a show created by non-nerd about how they view (or want to view) nerds. BBT is what you get when you have a former meathead frat boy try to write about the people he used to beat up OR when a former meat head frat boy is given creative authority over what someone else has written (i can see the meetings for BBT: HA HA, no, make them even nerdier. MORE POCKET PROTECTORS. people will LOVE that. give one of them a BOWL CUT. make sure they are super awkward around girls and are interested in only abstruse scientific factoids, know nothing about people or pop culture, and solve all their problems using PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY and equations on a chalkboard!!! that’s what nerds are like, right?)
You don’t see anyone making an art show in tribute to Big Bang Theory. Community on the other hand…
Apparently Mr. Arvin, and a lot of the other slobbering masses, needs a laugh track to explain when the characters are making a joke.
The cast of Community all come from different backgrounds, age and social groups. They all have varying demeanor and attitude towards life. Jeff, who is the “attractive” one, is actually the more pathetic character, with his insecurities and issues, compared to Troy and Abed, who are weird, but happy with who they are.
The cast of BBT are all 20-something Hollywood-ugly nerd stereotypes who, for the first three seasons (which is how far I’ve watched the show), showed not a single character development that’s not a stereotype. Seriously, one lives with his mom, one is awkward around women, etc. This is basically the “1990s version of 20-something glamour” except more in favor of “geek chic”.
Also, if you want to celebrate “otherness”, depicting four people doing nerdy things as “wacky” and “silly” is not the way to do it. When Community depicts activities such as playing Dungeons and Dragons or paintball, they depict it as something awesome and exciting. That’s how you celebrate something.
Ah the “Pretty people are really ugly on the inside and nerds are happy go lucky free spirits!” stereotype that isn’t used all the time.
Well, not exactly “Pretty people are really ugly on the inside”. We’ve seen several examples of Jeff being a decent guy. When I said that he has “insecurities and issues”, I meant that despite being witty and charming on the surface, he’s struggling through a lot inside.
And sure, that might be a stereotype, but it’s still more thought out than “Four nerds. All socially challenged. Hilarity ensue.”
I don’t think Jeff’s character quite fits into the cliche; he’s just an extremely handsome guy with normal human problems. He nominally fits the definition, but the execution is different.
Well, what I meant from my original post was that if there is an issue with Community, it’s not that Jeff is a “lunch money stealing guy”, because he’s got more problems than the ones who’d “have their lunch money stolen.”
He brings up Annie’s boobs as a point, but seems to forget that Penny has NEVER worn a bra in the history of the whole fucking show. The take every opportunity to shove her fits in your face.
I’ll say that BBT is better than 2.5 men. But at the same time that is like saying crabs is better than herpes.
Good point; however, I see nothing wrong with Penny’s tits and distaste for bras.
Absolutely agreed. Every person I meet who likes BBT is not even remotely in range of the nerd spectrum. I do respect that the writers try to actually get their scientific and mathematical facts right on the show, but that isn’t enough for me to overlook the fact that BBT is a mocking caricature of nerds.
They hire consultants for the science and math used in the show. Anyone can do that, really.
I also can’t remember the last time they made a reference to Jeff’s motivation being about getting his job back – it seems like a distant memory and was only a major plot point in the beginning. He’s even been offered a job by hole in my hand Drew Carey, which he declined I believe?
If I remember correctly, he said “that would be fantastic” and it was never brought up again.
The most annoying thing about this whole argument is the people who think BBT is a smart show because it’s about “smart” people. The problem is they will never be capable of seeing how wrong they are.
End the cycle. Educate your kids. Shun the laugh-track.
Actually, the most annoying thing about the whole argument is that BBT gets the reputation as the worst show on television, when it’s probably in the top 10 of sitcoms that are on TV. There’s not a bigger Community fan than me out there, but I’ll still take BBT over The Middle, Cougar Town, and The New Girl.
I should say that I understand why. It’s the same reason that McDonald’s gets sued for making kids fat while Burger King has a “Burgers in the morning” ad campaign. BBT gets ratings it doesn’t necessarily deserve, but it’s still decent.
I can respect what you’re saying but at the same time I can’t name 10 sitcoms on tv right now that I would say are good. Which is weird because there are so many good drama’s on tv right now.
“…admittedly, I’ve never watched the show.”
-how the majority of these comments about BBT end.
It’s the internet. If someone isn’t making an argument and claiming it’s fact then the whole thing would collapse in on itself. We built this city on exaggeration and trolls.
We built this city on Cock & Trolls. (Just rhymes better and also a better descriptor of the internets.)
Yeah, I get what the guy is trying to go, but Dustin is right. It’s wrong to even try and compare the two shows since their biggest difference is that they are formulaically different from one another. If television had an evolution chart of time, the three camera, laugh-track sitcom would be the crocodile. It’s been around since the prehistoric days. Sure they used to be bigger, maybe more lucrative, but they’re safest bet, because that’s what people are used to watching (and they still remain one of the greatest fears of Sterling Archer). Community, though, is different, it’s evolving television, taking on different themes and styles in almost every episode. It’s easier to be safe than innovative. Not that being safe is bad, I’m sure their are some funny episodes of BBT somewhere, just like their are some episodes of community that I don’t like (though rare). But also people are stupid, and don’t like to be confused. To talk about good-looking people in the cast though is just an asshat move. It makes no sense. Who cares what Joel Mchale looks like. Every TV show is going for the male 18-49 demographic anyway, hence the blond chick with the big tits on BBT, and Annie’s glorious boobs. That’s what the article should have been about, whose tits are better (Annie’s).
I have tried to watch Big Bang Theory and simply cannot. The same goes for 2.5 Men. I just find them not only unfunny, but insulting. One thing I can tell you is that Community is the antithesis of Big Bang Theory. Fans of BBT do not get Community, fans of Community understand what BBT is trying to do. We just don’t find it funny. Sometimes I feel like a snob, because I can’t even sit through BBT for the sake of being polite.
BBT does some of the nerd-baiting that the show Chuck did too. It’s not a very good show, but they try to distract you with references. Like Chuck would throw out a Zork reference and I’m supposed to be too busy dropping my manties to notice the show is dumb.
I think the “secret” to a show like BBT is you can watch any episode out of context. And get the same experience. Which is BORING, but seems to work for the herds of Nielsen People.
BINGO!! I have members of my family who literally get distracted by season-long story arcs. They find something about it disconcerting and choose to turn the channel.
I can get on board with this theory, except I don’t necessarily think it’s boring. I think it can be a good thing for some shows. I don’t want to watch every episode of BBT.
Some shows I can’t wait to see how a whole season-long story plays out. Other shows I want to watch when I catch it.
I disagree with what you said about episodes being self-contained. I don’t think it’s a bad thing, and most sitcoms are already like that, like The Simpsons, 30 Rock, and even early Community episodes.
Really there’s room for both types of shows. But I’m more invested in shows that I actually pay attention to, more than shows that I can put on while I’m doing something else.
I watch both Community and BBT I like BBT, it’s well acted, but it doesn’t hold a candle to Community. The reason people like BBT so much is A) It’s on CBS, which is the juggernaut of networks right now (inertia counts for something in TV) and B) it’s more “traditional” in that its multi-camera, with dialogue > set up > punchline > pause for laughter. Community’s humor can be more subtle, there is no laugh track, and the jokes are more dense while BBT is not.
tl;dr BBT is like the McDonalds of television. It’s not bad eating, but it’s not high class cuisine.
I always thought the main difference was that BBT is on CBS and people actually watch that network. NBC? Not so much…
This week’s BBT was less than 19 minutes long with opening titles and end credits. Take away time for the laugh track and it’s even shorter than that. So much wasted time for bad jokes, but more time for advertisements.
slightly off topic but I just had to bitch about this. Several NBC affiliates, including my parents one, decided to not show Community last night in favor of a fucking baseball game. Maybe that’s why it got a season low 1.3 last night.
i have watched ALOT of BBT and pretty much all of Community…and i will admit BBT was pretty funny to me in the early seasons then it began to be repetitive…community is actually interesting…and hilarious too, how can u not like troy and abed and of course both of Annie’s Boobs
I like them both and I’ve always been a nerd.
BBT is deffinately more junk food. Its quick, easy to digest and appeals to the masses. Its “nerd cuclture” is very superficial, but I do enjoy the references. I would deffinately prefer they ditch the laugh track.
My girlfriend also enjoys it. In fact, it is the closest thing to scifi I can get her to watch (although she did give Firefly a fair shot).
that said, Community has a very different tone with a much more subversive and “think about it for a second” type of humor. The characters are far deeper. It does require a greater investment to fully aprpeciate it, but the pay off is also greater.
there really is room in the world for both. there’s no need to look down on people who enjoy one or the other, even on the internet, where opinions are worthless if they aren’t trashing someone you’ll never meet.
Well said. The best description I’ve heard of Big Bang Theory (besides being a Nerd Minstrel Show) was “A show for what dumb people think smart people are like.”
The guy who stole your lunch money sits and watches in and cackles that the dweebs can’t get the hot chick, then goes out to TGI Fridays and hits on divorcees to prove he’s still got it. Community, on the other hand, has characters with nuance, depth, and some believable interaction. Oh and it doesn’t have a fucking laugh track.
Dustin, I think you did a nice job taking that guy’s (dumb) argument down, and I love Community. But… FOR THE LOVE OF GOD can everyone who watches Community stop masturbating at the thought that the reason its ratings aren’t very high is because you have to be so0o0o0o smart and intelligent and learned to like it and everyone who watches BBT and Two and a Half Men is a mouth-breathing troglodyte? It’s off-putting, untrue, and too transparently self-congratulatory to even qualify as a humblebrag.
Never.
Here’s my two cents: both of the shows depict a culture that probably over 90% of tv viewers can’t identify with in the slightest. Big Bang theory takes place at an elite research institute (Caltech, I think?). Yes, Community does take place at a junior college, which some of the public has probably attended, but the themes it deals with are extremely geeky and childish in nature. Last night’s episode is a perfect example – war between builders of pillow forts and blanket forts. The difference between the two shows is BBT delivers its culture in easy to swallow pill form whereas Community makes you jump through hoops to understand its culture. Dustin is correct in saying that Community is a more challenging and probably more rewarding show, but nobody’s going to want to go through the trouble if the subject’s something they don’t care about in the first place.
And I think the argument that BBT creates an unrealistic portrayal of nerds is only half-true. I’m a graduate student in molecular biology and I can tell you for a fact that those types of nerds are not a myth. They exist by the dozens in my program. Yes, the BBT cast could stand a little more nuance in its characterization, but the problem isn’t that the stereotype is inaccurate.
I’ve (sadly) been in academic science for well over a decade now (biology/neuroscience) and haven’t met anyone who compares to the characters on BBT. People who share common traits? Sure. Weird or socially awkward people? Of course. But not anywhere near the level portrayed in BBT.
Perhaps I’ve only been exposed to the bro-tastic element of scientific research. Which would be simultaneously hilarious and tragic.
As a side note, most foreign scientists I’ve met (aka: foreign nerds) enjoy BBT. Mostly because when English is not your native tongue, you need deliberate dialogue to catch most or all of the jokes.
My esteemed Dr. Dickcheese,
I don’t think you’ve only experienced brotastic scientists (unless I have, too!). I’m from the biology/ecology sector and have never met anyone as bad as the characters on that show.
I think in any profession you’d find socially mal-adjusted loners. Stereotyping every nerd as one is just wrong.
Also, is anyone troubled by BBT playing Sheldon’s mental illness for cheap laughs? It’s like everyone’s decided that we can’t point and laugh at someone with Downs Syndrome, but Asperger’s? Go to town! It seems like Community has done a much better job of humanizing Abed and his struggle with the disease (although I don’t think they’ve completely avoided the cheap laugh temptation).
I would agree that there’s definitely an exaggeration, indeed a very gross one, of the nerd personality in the BBT characters, but I think that type of hyperbole is sort of the rule in network sitcoms. Even Community is started to head in that direction. Dan Harmon seems to be ditching the character exploration that made the show interesting in the first couple seasons in favor of over-the-top, high concept plot constructs. The “Remedial Chaos Theory” type episodes are fun once in a while, but start to wear thin after a while.
Aloicious, Asperger’s (and the rest of the autism spectrum) is not a mental illness. It’s a neurological disorder.
Both these shows suck.
The major problem with Arvin’s argument is that, as others have already said, BBT still resembles the style of sitcoms from decades ago! Three cameras and a laugh track in static environments? Come on! Community’s strength, in my belief, is actually a cinematic one. Its not just that the show uses camera and editing to its advantage (see last night’s, the D&D episode, Heart of Deanness etc) its that Dan Harmon understands certain structures in Community’s narrative. When Jeff has a 2001: A Space Odyssey style freakout its not because “Hey look a reference to a movie!” its because “This is weird and we’re trying to show that in a way thats interesting.” The fact that Harmon plays movie tropes close to the heart (as Abed is clearly the voice of the writers poking through the fourth wall) indicates that Harmon knows that making a TV show is more than just having a bunch of people say lines in front of a camera.
BBT’s structure is more like “hey lets a joke about Batman” but everything about the show’s presentation feels forced and gross.
Meanwhile Community’s meta-humor isn’t really the reason for its lack of popularity, its the show’s lack of constraint. Community may not be the most continuity heavy show (far from it, I only started watching during the second season) but it springs forth with such enthusiasm that it is sometimes hard to latch onto. It might be the network’s fault for not giving the show support or for not recognizing its quality and its intricately recursive humor (Arrested Development anyone?)
Community is actually better at being a good show than it is at depicting characters. A friend of mine said he stopped watching because he felt Britta’s characterization after season 1 really fell apart, but since I never really cared about Britta, this didn’t bother me.
Community’s strengths are in actually being more like a movie than being a show. Its characters, while well done, often don’t seem like the center of the show. Its almost like Archer in that way; you know who the characters are and what they’re doing but what you really care about is the next beat of the joke or crazy antics. The adventure becomes more important than the characters.
Good point about Archer. I think?
“Continuity” might be an overstatement with Community, but it’s still more complicated if you don’t watch most of the episodes. With BBT someone could start watching with just this summary: “They’re all awkward nerds, and Sheldon is the worst.” With Community you maybe need to understand the characters better to get the humor. Like, almost anything involving Pierce/Chang/Dean Pelton only makes sense if you already know them.
(And Britta’s role really did change. She’s waaaaay less important now than she was at the beginning, which is too bad!. I don’t even remember if she had lines in this last one)
What her says regarding the characters on Community being less.likeable reminds me of an article i read soon after Arrested Development was canceled (still best show ever). It said the reason no one watched AD was because the characters were so unlikeable. At the time I remeber thinking the same thing I think about Community in this instance. If the only word.you can think of to describe these characters un “unlikeable” then you haven’t seen enough episodes to have an fair opinion.
I actually watch BBT. It couldn’t carry Community’s jock in a wheelbarrow.
I’m actually pretty sure the only reason I watch BBT is because I want the blonde from across the hall to do dirty things to me.
To put it simply, Big Bang Theory is a show about nerds, Community is a show for nerds.
“Put simply, “The Big Bang Theory” is a dumb show about smart people; “Community” is a smart show that’s less about celebrating “otherness” is it is about depicting ‘otherness.’”
I have literally been saying this for two years now. Well done.
I think perhaps the stupidest part of this stupid argument against Community is the assumption that people watch “smart” shows. If Arrested Development didn’t put this theory to bed, I don’t know what will.
Also, show me someone whose hero is Mark Zuckerberg, and I’ll show you someone whose lunch money I really want to steal.
TBH, I took me 2 eps (1st and 2nd of season 1) to ‘get into’ Community. The main beef, was that I didn’t want to watch a show centred round a fucking asshole, which was what Jeff Winger started out as. It took a friend to assure me it was worth it, and that it wasn’t like the first seasons of P&R, after 2 eps, I’d be hooked. He was right, but the point at the top that the guy makes is kinda true, in that do people really want to watch someone handsome and good looking be an asshole, no, but it takes longer than 15 mins to realise that he’s not an asshole and how well the ensemble works together, compliments each other and how well written the show is.
Secondly, since the ‘hiatus’ I don’t think that either episiode has hit any high notes comedy wise, like with the return of 30 Rock, I haven’t laughed out loud once, where on P&R I’m LOLing all over the place. Christ, I think i laughed harder at Game of Thrones this week than Community
You’re so dumb,there is no comparison,community copied of TBBT and is just a lot less funnier,i watched 2 eps,its crap,and TBBT wil rule 4ever,and no u dumb fuck,u don’t have 2 be a phisist or go to comic con to understand everything,
Yep. Pretty damn dumb arguments against Community there. I agree with all that you said. I will say that I’ve heard people say that earlier seasons of The Big Bang Theory are a little more intelligent, but these days, I couldn’t agree more that this show is all about Mr. Bazinga. Ha. Ha.