/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3954419
That show started off science-funny and then quickly evolved into comic-book-nerd-funny. It's OK, but it's not my thing.

Network TV is aimed at people with IQs in the low 90's. You're not going to find a show on ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox/any other american TV channel, really with math and physics jokes (unless the point is to laugh at the nerd making the stupid math joke).

Americans take pride in their ignorance and stupidity.

>>3954427
But some of the sciency things they put in aren't scientifically feasible.

>>3954429
Yeah, I know, and that sucks.
You can't nit-pick everything to death either, though. I can tear through most nature documentaries for either over-simplifying or being flat out wrong, but I still let myself enjoy them. There's always going to be parts of your judgment you'll have to suspend (unless it's the American version of 'Life', which is an unforgivable atrocity).

>>3954426
also has a point that the show has to appeal to a larger demographic to be viable, so they have to keep it entertaining for those outside of the science-literate niche market (a sad but true statement).

>>3954426
Troof.

In the beginning, House used to be about actual medicine and deduction and crap, but it's devolved into just relationshit and office politics drama with a little medical stuff tacked on for show.

In the beginning, Numb3rs had a little actual math in it, but after not very long it turned into another generic cop show with a math superhero pulling gibberish out of his ass to magically solve crimes with fake "math".

Also, that Alium dude on the "History" channel.

>mfw my family thinks I should love this show 'because it's about science'

I hate the show before even watching it. Sensationalized science... Of course I hate everything that is sensationalized. Fucking sheep that watch that crap

>mfw a girl I liked last year but didn't have much in common with recommended this show to me but I never watched it even though it would've given me something to talk to her about.

It only references obscure scientific principles so it can appeal to a wider audience. It wouldn't be so bad, but they don't even really reference them correctly...

The show is really about Leonard and Penny. There is no depth to any of the rest of the cast.

Sheldon also just pisses me off now. So sad to see a perfectly good show go to waste...

>>3954449
I disagree about House. I will admit the last season sucked and focused too much on relationships but I feel like other than that the other seasons had a respectable\balanced amount. You have to admit that the way the episodes were set up got old too...

>HURR OH MAN THIS GUYS GOT A LETHAL NIPPLE DISEASE
>OH SHIT WHAT IS IT
>wilson: hey house, you want a lemon wedge with your water.
>house: OH FUCK MAN HOLD THAT THOUGHT
>house: foreman chase and cameron have you tried rubbing his nipples with lemon wedges?
>WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY
>house: I bet you he has a nipple squeezing fetish that could only be cured by lemon wedges
>OH GOD HOUSE YOU ARE SO BRILLIANT

5% "nerd jokes"

110% sex jokes

seriously watch the show and count the sex jokes

>>3954468
House is a crock of shit that portrays the medical world in a horribly inaccurate manner. That being said, I love the show and so do some of my friends that are in medical school

>>3954468
That was funnier than it should have been.

>>3954487
NIPPLE NIPPLE NIPPLE

>>3954492

>>3954419
this fukken show is for neither people on science or engineering. It has the kind of jokes my buddies and I used to say 10 years ago, so it's not funny to us...

>>3954516
>I liked the jokes on BBT before they were ever written

fukken hipster

ITT: HURR NOT RAL NERDS NERD PRIDE HURP DERP

American sitcoms suck in general.

>>3954519

ITT noob people MAD because /sci/ does not likes a tv show. (and had never liked it since it got started years ago)

Trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls...

>watch an episode of BBT
>sheldon announces that he loves ubuntu, the linux distribution
>laugh track
>decides that he must do menial labor so that he may have an epiphany on his current research
>epiphany turns out to be that he needs to consider wave-particle duality
>a genius particle physicist needed an epiphany for that

>>3954560
Also, the source of the epiphany was a diffraction pattern in a broken plate.

>diffraction pattern from macroscopic non-light phenomena

The Big Bang Theory:

>*observation about the differences between "nerds" and "the rest of people"
>*Laugh track*
>*Laugh track*
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>*Laugh track*

>>3954449

Breaking Bad started out as a drama involving the use/making of meth.

Breaking Bad is now an even better drama involving the use/making of meth.

They're also only doing 1 final season (total of 5) to preserve the shows place in TVs hall of fame.

<3 Breaking Bad.

>>3954576
>a drama involving the use/making of meth.
So the lesson is: If you start with a formula that the average american can relate to, you can stick with it for years.

This show is for...well, pic related. The girls (and guys, to a lesser extent) who realized it's cool to be nerdy, geeky, etc. But they half-ass it. They think having owned a GBC and "Super Mario Bros. Deluxe" at one time makes them gamers. They know Vader is Luke's poppa, but they don't really know Han shot first. And they're called a nerd by their friends for getting an A in math class, so it validates their delusions.

In short, it mainstreams geek culture and dumbs it down for everyone who thinks they "get it," but they never do. case in point - a female friend who's common sense could be contained under your fingernail, asked me once who Leonard Nimoy was "because he was on The Big Bang Theory." If you don't know that to begin with, why are you watching the show?

Also, laughtracks only work on Seinfeld and The IT Crowd.

>>3954583
>asked me once who Leonard Nimoy was "because he was on The Big Bang Theory."
Shit, I never watched the original Star Trek and I know who he is.

>>3954588
>I never watched the original Star Trek

ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ

gtfo my /sci/

>>3954582

It's not about meth in the same way The Sopranos is not solely about killing people and making money.

maybe watch it maybe

>>3954590

>>3954482

Pretty much this.

Am I seriously the only person who has ever actually watched this show? The VAST MAJORITY of the humour has NOTHING AT ALL to do with science/comic book/general nerd stuff. Most of it is just about weird/socially awkward the characters are. They might make a half dozen nerdy jokes/references in an episode – but the rest is “lol Sheldon is so weird”, “lol Raj can’t talk to girls and acts gay”, “lol Penny is a bit of a slut”, “lol Howard pathetically hits on girls”, etc.

Seriously. Why does everyone constantly try to argue that the show is based on science/nerd humour? That’s the gimmick, but it’s clearly not where the majority of the humour and content comes from.

>>3954449
>In the beginning, House used to be about actual medicine and deduction and crap, but it's devolved into just relationshit and office politics drama with a little medical stuff tacked on for show
Don't knock House.

>>3954481
I think the medical soap House watched in the earlier seasons was a acknowledgement from the writers that the show was just that, a tv show.

>>3954443

Basically, if they try to sound nerdy and smart but just talk nonsense and the viewers find it funny, the viewers are not nerdy and smart and etc.

It's just another theme, they mix some buzz words in a script and they conjure up another episode. Write a GUI in Visual Basic to track down the criminal's IP address sounded pretty smart to the people who had no idea what it meant.

And that's why it's a bad show.

>>3954481

But House is actually good. And it's not because I don't understand jackshit of the medical stuff, I am well aware they're probably spewing bullshit most of the time.

>>3954654

>I think the medical soap House watched in the earlier seasons was a acknowledgement from the writers that the show was just that, a tv show.

I've often though the same thing.

>>3954449
Well, the mathematician who started a famous blog about Numb3rs giving more details about the math used in the show etc. wound up giving up halfway through the series because he felt the math was just a pasted-on gimmick.

OTOH the doctor who writes a famous blog giving reviews of the medicine in House is still going, if only to point out just how often they're talking out their ass.

House blog @ http://www.politedissent.com/house_pd.html .

Can't remember where the Numb3rs blog was, but it was still there last time I checked (probably 6 months ago)

>>3954710

>404

Ok.

>>3954715
lrn2 select text, idjit.

>>3954588
Same.

>>3954688
>>3954735
>>3954654
DURRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Need to get confirmation of blatant context clues? Must be /sci/ in this bitch

If I want math/science jokes I go and watch futurama. They have some of the best subtle jokes around.

>>3954464

yeah, i always make sure to watch a whole episode of something before i decide i hate it. and whole songs, too.

actually, i like to really sit down and get to know a person, you know, take them out a few times, before i decide to hate them.

i really don't like people who form strong opinions on anything, it really rustles my jimmies, in fact, it's SO annoying that I like to post on an imageboard to make sure people know how much i hate people who make instinctive judgements. i really think it makes me look like a cooler person.

It's for hipsters with average IQ and people who think they're nerdy but are actually near mentally disabled. The whole show is based on making "jokes" so the the viewer is like, "oh, I get that joke cause I play video games too!!! I'm so nerdy and being nerdy means I'm smart!"