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[โ€“] jhoward@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I watched it for a time because other friends and coworkers did and it gave us something to talk about. But, generally speaking, I found the characters to be kinda awful people and while on the surface seemed like my friends and myself, they were at best poor approximations. The show was very clearly making fun of them most of the time, filled with horrible laugh tracks that prompt the viewer.. I eventually just couldn't stand it anymore and left. Honestly, I had forgotten about this show.

Around that same era there was a show called Community that was full of weird people and great storrytelling and was damn near the opposite of the Big Bang. Community is a show I still rewatch from time to time.

I second that. Community was great. The absurdity of the episode with the ABBA soundtrack still makes me laugh.