Data was a functional badass.

They were all so mean. To me it felt like they were trying to normalize mean-ness, racism and sexism, under the guise of "nerds are misunderstood"

To be fair that's what most comedy shows seem to do.

There was nothing smart about BBT, that's for sure. It's just annoying and stupid.

I hated that show. My mother would constantly make comparisons between Sheldon and I.

That shit hurts, mom..

I still remember the comic that had a character calling it "nerd minstrel" lmao

You want someone to look tough? Have them knock down Worf. Want someone to look unstoppable? Have them subdue Data.

I found big bang theory a lot more palatable if you consider it as an unreliable narrator story, with penny as the narrator. It's not what actually happened, but what Penny remembers about it. All the geeky/nerdy stuff gets filtered. Only the surface, superficial stuff gets remembered, and even that is distorted. That is why it plays on stereotypes so much.

My wife likes BBT, I've learnt to tolerate it at best.

I cannot take laugh tracks anymore. They just annoy the fuck out of me. If you ever get a chance and you like the show, the European version of MASH without the laugh track was a revelation. The people responsible for the laugh track didn't understand when the show was actually trying to be funny half the time.

Just the same, this is completely on brand for Sheldon's interpretation of the character. He finds one aspect of the character he identifies most with, and completely ignores the ones that he doesn't.

Our hate comes from within. We all watched it with such naive hope for far too long before realizing that we were the punchline.
The disappointment that gets through in the memes is the disappointment we feel in ourselves.

I recently binged the whole thing, mostly because I wanted to know how it ended. I stopped watching it around season 3 when it was on the air.

The show is literally only watchable at 2x speed.

It's a show I loved to hate when it aired, but watching the occasional episode here or there with my gf I'm finding that it gets a few chuckles out of me.

It's a tad dated now but still hilarious "The I.T. Crowd" owns it hard. One of the funniest shows ever made.

It’s nerd blackface.

Worf's main function was to show how tough a new character was by getting beaten up by them.

Unless it was a Klingon story, in which case he would somehow be stronger with their weapons even though he wasn't raised with Klingons and his combat training would have been mainly federation combat (though I suppose it would make sense for him to surpass them with his access to one of several holodecks on the Enterprise).

Another exception was if it was a child, in which case he was the scary adult laying down the law. But I believe there's an exception to even this exception, though that child did have powers closer to Q's than to humans'. And I can't remember for sure if she did pwn Worf in that episode.

He's stronger than worf, but doesn't have his instinct for dangerous situations. He's smarter than Westley (lol) but doesn't have a great capacity for improvisation and adaptability. He's technically better than Geordi at science, but not necessarily engineering, again pointing at his spock-like proclivity for sticking with "in the box" thinking.

Ironically, Geordi has better tech eyes, but data gets more play, if you know what I'm saying 😉

They did it with Spock too, so it is sort of par for Trek

He's also better at boning hot blondes than anybody else.

But that's kinda the same discussion as in pen and paper RPGs - why do have any other regular members of the party if you have magic user. It's a cool idea to add frankly overpowered character but it will inevitably lead to the numerous plotlines where they gonna have to cripple them or remove from the picture in order to let others to show some problem solving skills.

They do that with villains in those superhero movies too. First you introduce ludicrously powerful character that can alter matter at will or manipulate time or crush armies with thought then how do some much weaker guys defeat them? When they are looking to the left so they don't see someone's first. Or some random crap that was never mentioned before. Or sometimes literally a more powerful guy shows up.

It's the easiest way to put yourself into a corner as a writer.

You think the problem people had with that show was that it was too "offensive"? Lmfao.

Like what you like, but the criticism I had/heard was never once, "I can't handle how edgy this is"

It's trashy and very migonystic. I'm okay with guilty pleasures but please express the guilt, don't take the people get offended easily route.