I don't get 'The Big Bang Theory'.

[ClusterFreak]

12. I agree 100 percent!

And this show is really just symptomatic of pretty much all TV sitcoms today.... one problem IMO being that the writers/creators of the show make all the characters too smug. Nerdy smug, but smug. Everyone, at all times, has a snappy comeback or an unbelievably clever retort at the ready to slay the audience with. People in real life just aren't that clever, that brimming with cutting wit on command. Situation comedy is supposed to be about 'comedic situations', that doesn't mean everybody fires perfectly put together witticisms back and forth at each other all the time. People are often if not usually at a loss for words in real life. I know I am. In today's sitcoms people talk to each other in jokes, bad jokes at that. The situations they find themselves in are less important than getting in the zingers, as many as you can, in a half hour. I lose interest in what's happening on screen, the rapid fire one liners just aren't enough to sustain me for more than a minute or two, and so I change the channel. And still I find nothing funny to watch... unless it's late night political satire. No snappy comebacks needed here, this stuff just writes itself lol!