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2013-04-03 02:40 6336040 Anonymous (Will.jpg 502x512 13kB)
what would you change about the big bang theory to make it a more realistic representation of nerd culture?

1 min later 6336050 Anonymous
remove all the heterosexual sex scenes

1 min later 6336056 Anonymous
Remove Penny. Or make her a background character who just winces in disgust when she passes by their apartment.

1 min later 6336059 Anonymous
>>6336050 But then you'd be left with nothing

1 min later 6336061 Anonymous
Cut out all female characters except the aspie one cut all scenes that dont take place at home/work/school

2 min later 6336078 Anonymous
>>6336050 I had a good joke prepared but yeah, that's it. I guess also remove the bit where they're genuinely intelligent and do important work. That's monstrously unrealistic.

2 min later 6336083 Anonymous
>>6336059 the jew and the indian could have gay romance. thats something

4 min later 6336110 Coyote
Needs about ten times as many bazingas.

7 min later 6336147 Anonymous
>>6336091 >OP asks how to make it a more realistic representation of nerd culture >you say to remove all the nerd bullshit Anon please.

8 min later 6336159 GoldPressedLatinum
All the women on the show should be naked

8 min later 6336166 Anonymous
Remove the laugh track. That fucking laugh track. Remove it.

8 min later 6336167 Anonymous
Two of the four male leads are fat. And scenes of the genders interacting last no more than a total of one minute per episode.

9 min later 6336168 Anonymous
Nothing. It's a completely, 100% accurate representation. Anybody that disagrees isn't really a nerd. They're probably just under the delusion that they're nerds when they probably don't even work in the nerd fields, like nerdology or nerdvana, or even as nerdictrac salesmen.

9 min later 6336169 Anonymous
>>6336040 simple get rid of the scientists get rid of the girl make them 10 times uglier

10 min later 6336184 Anonymous
>>6336168 this. goddamn fake nerds trying to ruin our culture. holy fuck this shit makes me mad

12 min later 6336215 Anonymous
Turn them into neck beards and add acne scars on them. Oh yeah they'll cuss like hell.

1 hours later 6337100 Anonymous
>>6336168 Oh shit Well i lol'd

1 hours later 6337155 Anonymous
>>6336040 Have it acknowledge what a blatant, pathetic exercise in wish fulfillment it is, as long as we're discussing what won't happen...

1 hours later 6337189 Anonymous
The only reason I don't like the show is all the characters are a single joke repeated over and over again. I don't even care about the "nerd" part of the show. >hey look that guy is going to be socially aloof and maybe say "bazinga" >hey look that guy is going to say something creepy about women >oh, now someone's talking about how he lives with his mom. I don't see how people repetitively watch it.

1 hours later 6337419 Anonymous (neckbeard.png 200x195 52kB)
>>6336040 They need to add to god of the neckbeards. ponytail, bronyfaggotry. The nerd women on the show are far from nerds Show basically perpetuates the mainstream view of nerds. Their dress is wtf, no nerds dress like that beyond sheldon Raj and Leonard have no right being called nerds. howards fairly close with the mother thing and sheldons kind of the posterchild of a 4chan spergloid also, less nerd product placement

1 hours later 6337453 Anonymous
>implying nerd and neckbeardbeard are the same thing

1 hours later 6337479 Anonymous
>>6336166 It's not actually a track. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzoF ZN9jPms Also props to Sheldon for staying in character the entire time.

1 hours later 6337487 Anonymous
Have everyone be way fatter and uglier. That's about it. Also this >>6336056

1 hours later 6337503 Anonymous
>>6337479 Bernadette is making my dick hard in that video. Jesus, would wreck.

1 hours later 6337526 Anonymous
>>6336040 The main character should live with his mom and have no friends.

1 hours later 6337553 Anonymous (0.jpg 480x360 6kB)
>>6337526 I once was drunk as shit, and cried when Sheldon was performing his play with Penny. The part about getting bullied, and being taken to the future by Spock, but then he goes off on a tangent and cries telling his mom he loves her and doesn't want to leave her, despite the fact he would be going to a place where he's respected and appreciated the feels

1 hours later 6337559 Anonymous
nothing, otherwise the show would be shit and not on tv

1 hours later 6337570 Anonymous
Maybe make them look less caricatured. I mean fucking seriously, it's more like a cross between That 70s Show and Cosmos at times. Make Sheldon less of an autist. Get that audience/laughtrack to fuck. Remove non-antagonistic normalfags

2 hours later 6337616 Anonymous
>>6337570 their clothing style irritates the fuck out of me. Sheldon is ok but I have no idea how the rest of the cast doesn't roast alive with all that clothes. Raj and howard look like they steped out of the hippy age, you're right. They're all to prepped up to be a nerd

2 hours later 6337646 Anonymous
>>6337616 I think someone nailed it when they called their style "nerd blackface".

2 hours later 6337654 Anonymous
>>6336166 this. the canned laughter. i don't care if they say its in front of an audience, that laughter is forced as fuck, no matter how it makes it onto the show. nobody understands the fucking jokes except for the aspie-as-fuck-around-females jokes. most people can understand the anatomy of a joke, but no, you don't understand their fucking jokes. stop laughing you stupid fucks. it's not funny. you just wait for the setup, wait for the punchline (which you don't understand), then wait for the canned laughter, then join in as if you understood that shit. weak ass show. this show is bad and you should feel bad.

2 hours later 6337659 Anonymous
>>6337646 I almost think they're dressed too 'hip' I don't see any relaxed fit jeans and cargo shorts

2 hours later 6337712 Anonymous (1361847544963.png 283x270 182kB)
>>6337479 >the jew dancing to gold digger

2 hours later 6337725 Anonymous
I would stop the relationships. When the show started, no one [the nerd group] was in a relationship; now, everyone is. Also, the jokes are no longer really science/geek-related as often as they used to be.

2 hours later 6337730 Anonymous
>>6337646 haha thats funny >>6337659 >>6337684 Explain sweetening? Leonard is about as close to casual as it gets. They always wear obnoxious bright as fuck clothing Most nerds I've known dress a bit more darker

2 hours later 6337741 Anonymous
less popular shit. They don't really go in depth on what nerds like since nerds can have varied interests. Not just the stereotypical comics, science etc. And Sheldon is overdone. This isn't even how autists act.

2 hours later 6337754 Anonymous
>>6337730 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweete ning

2 hours later 6337756 Anonymous
>no fedoras >no outspoken atheism >no neckbeards >no fats >just cleanshaven, skinny technicolor dorks 0/10 unrealistic would not watch

2 hours later 6337786 Anonymous
>>6337725 yeah, shows probably on its way out the door. One of them was bound to get married to a NURRD XD girl. The "hot chick" thing I understand to a degree with penny but its overplayed Raj needs to get deported >>6337741 >this is what aspies actually believe He is a bit forced at times but I have a cousin that is strikingly similar to him. But he's lazy as fuck

2 hours later 6337793 Anonymous
>>6337754 >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet ening >The laugh track is used to "enhance" the laughter for television audiences, sometimes in cases where a joke or scene intended to be funny does not draw the expected response... in the case of this show, 90% of all jokes used.

2 hours later 6337811 Anonymous
>>6337570 This, really. The way they dress and act isn't really common nerd shit, but outdated extreme "ideals". I think the show has potential to be a funny show, either about nerd, awkward dudes in odd situations, or a parody of the nerd sterotype, but it needs to decide what it wants to do and stick with it and not make it a mush of scattered bad jokes and catch phrases.

2 hours later 6337819 Anonymous (ee_36894_1_Dork6.jpg 254x398 49kB)
niggas don't know about my eltingville youtube.com/watch?v=Lyus5kz8wB0

2 hours later 6337828 Anonymous
>>6337786 >One of them is bound to get married to a NURRD XD girl The Jew married the annoying blond nurd gurl lol. Don't ask me how I know that.

2 hours later 6337845 Anonymous
>>6337756 neckbeards =/= nerds, etc. these should just be dudes with little to no social experience, obsession over their own, strange interests (not just star wars and mmos, outdated and not even that nerdy), etc. What the fuck even is a nerd anymore?

2 hours later 6337901 Anonymous
>>6337754 Call it what you want, it's still prompting the audience at home to find something funny. It's using a social cue rather than actual humor. And that's just lame. As far as the "legitimate" editing usages, I don't but it: plenty of shows get by without this bullshit.

2 hours later 6337912 Anonymous
>>6337845 >What the fuck is a nerd anymore? Neckbeard 4chan bronies To a lesser extent, trekkies/starwars The occasional fag who spouts off memes Magic/yu gi oh Animefags. Seriously, they need some chick that dresses up like some emo naruto. D&D The show addresses all of it in 5 minute fan services but its always poorly done because most of the nerds only do a few of them. These guys participate in all of these in like a flavor of the month fashion

2 hours later 6337976 Anonymous
>>6337918 Thats very blanketing. Comicon is for nerds. Its for people who show interest in that stuff which is overwhelmingly nerd. Have a overwhelming obsession with soemthing in the nerd culture is a sigh of nerdom (ie magic, star trek) Just because you like neat gadgets and know how to change a computer hard drive does't make you a nerd. Shit, there was has only been 1 physics prof I've ever had that came close to being a nerd, but thats because he was a much nicer and higher functioning sheldon cooper

2 hours later 6337979 Anonymous
Nerd means someone with niche interest(s). We are just social retards.

2 hours later 6338125 Anonymous
>Do the research and get the references right. >Instead of playing Halo and WoW (omg so nerdy XD), they should be playing obscure games that no one has heard about. >Don't make them so fucking socially retarded that they can't even solve their own problems without Penny. >Speaking of Penny, she should find them absolutely repulsive because of their obsession with science, comics, and vidya

2 hours later 6338134 Anonymous
>>6336083 THIS. Please. _-_-_-_-_

2 hours later 6338147 Anonymous
>>6338134 its pretty much a not-so-inside joke with that show

2 hours later 6338168 Anonymous
>>6338147 Well yeah, but I'd like to see them actually get together.

3 hours later 6338417 Anonymous
>>6338168 With that show's directing cast, it would end terribly. Basically force it down your throat and begin a whole new range of product placement and activism

3 hours later 6338469 Anonymous
show them browsing r9k

3 hours later 6338672 Anonymous
I think the main problem is that a lot of things are too over-the-top. I've spent enough time around real scientists to know that a lot of what's represented in the show isn't that far off from the way some scientists do act at times, it's just taken way too far to the extreme in the show, probably to make things more obvious for your average television viewer. There are also issues with characters doing things that are somewhat out of character at times.

4 hours later 6339436 Anonymous
1. They need to be uglier, namely Rajesh. 2. A few of them need to be fat 3. No women, except maybe one qt that completely friendzones Leonard forever, it can't be Penny because she seems to lack willpower/the ability to control who enters her vagina 4. Amy needs to be the girl who has such low self esteem that she always tries to get up the courage to introduce herself to Sheldon but ultimately ends up having a panic attack before she could even get within five feet of him 6. They order all of their comic books online 7. They don't usually gather in Leonard's and Sheldon's apartment unless they have something specific they have to do there 8. They communicate mostly through Skype 9. They don't go out to see new movies in the theaters and instead one of them pirates it and then hosts a livestream of it or something because really they shouldn't be leaving the house for anything not work related 10. They all need to be more cynical and sad 11. Why are they all cleanly shaven? Seriously 12. They need to play more obscure, less plebeian games

4 hours later 6339496 Anonymous
let be partially unscripted like reno 911 and give the brown haired girl about 5 more cats

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