I think if show have 12 seasons many people obviously likes it. First seasons wasn't so bad actually
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Yes. people obviously like it, meaning, there's enough people watching to justify the production cost. Comedy shows/sitcoms are usually comparatively cheap in terms of production costs (no expensive cgi, outdoor scenes etc.), so that also explains why there's usually a a lot of seasons.
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Yeah! I guess the most expensive in such shows is actors payment :D
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Most likely, I doubt it's the script and it's certainly not the setting. ;-) Sometimes it's really frustrating, that shows I like to watch get canceled frequently, when sitcoms and stupid reality shows can go for 10, 20 or even more seasons. But then I remind myself, that they're just really cheap and not in the same league.
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BHTrellis, i am complete on the side of your words.
All around me, in my reallife, like it and say its funny so i looked 2 episodes and don't had a smile, no laughing... it was only complete boring (not only a bit... i really mean COMPLETE). Far away from GOOD humor, good actors, good story or anything other that was near on "good".
For me "A show to make the people dumb".
Today it give a lot of this US s(h)itcoms.
Not equal to the times of Al Bundy and such ones..... ;o)
Monty Python are great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0amC660MOk (Monty Python - Life of Brian , a few min. -in German-)
But each can like, look and think whatever pleasures him/her...
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Hopefully young Sheldon will be over before then too...
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I prefer Modern Family and Silicon Valley. Though TBBT aint as bad as say...Two Broke Girls, it's still a bit too...cringe?
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Two Broke Girls is incredibly cringy, i can't watch it. Overused sexual jokes killed that show for me.
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But it stayed popular despite dropping in quality more and more.
This is true for so many shows. At times when they air newer Simpsons episodes, I just can't help but think that they should put that show out of its misery. It's not even that they have terrible writers or anything like that, it's just that Simpsons has been going for so long now that they seem to have to put them into more and more contrived situations to even come up with something that's not a strict repeat.
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I'd be up in tears too if I had a thing running out where I made 900k$ every other week.
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After awhile? ;O The first seasons have actually just copied X-Files in both the story episodes and the monster-of-the-week ones
After that, it just became absurd. It's much like Shonen-Anime or superheroes where the problem comes at some point
that the characters become too powerful or that they have simply defeated godlike enemies..this ends up in an escalation problem.
Don't get me wrong
I like the show, especially since it is one of the last ones that still has classic narrative structures (a few story episodes with
cliffhanger and the rest just episodic ones,just offers more variety than just story story story)
But the series will not end so soon. S14 is coming,S15 is as far as I know confirmed,S16 will surely come too
I think it will run at least until 2023^^ the viewer numbers are still stable and practically like the years before
The two Boys have nothing else to do and probably will not get anything better than SN. There is no real reason to finish it except that it gets boring and too absurd
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I think I messed things up just looked again and found nothing about it . Maybe it really ends, the spin-off was indeed rejected
But somehow I have the feeling that the series will simply continue for a while
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I love Supernatural too! I mean, it is one of my favorites series but sometimes I start to think about the newer seasons (season 9- to actual) And I feel that sometimes it's a bit of a forced story ... I mean, from the main story of every season, there's always someone so absurdly powerful, it can easily kill any person but it never kills the Winchester definitely. Only causes some "serious" damage or something supernatural xD. Even with these problems, still love this show.
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I just don't get what's deal with all that prerecorded background laughter in comedy shows? Do their they really think their audience so dumb, that they need a hint on when to laugh? I think it's just plain annoying. In fact, I find it so annoying, it's the main reason why I never watch those shows anyway. In short, I really couldn't care less whether it gets canceled or goes on for another 10 seasons.
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For years? More like decades. I remember they've been doing this even back in the 80's. I still suspect they don't trust their own audience to know when to laugh otherwise, but your explanation makes sense too.
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But Lucy was shot on film in front of a live studio audience - one of the few examples where the laughter wasn't actually canned.
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Well here's the wiki article the section on production is interesting. It surprised me to learn that even back then, laugh tracks were the standard. The usage grew out of what they called 'sweetening' live audience reactions due to the numerous retakes that one camera shows were prone to. Lucy used 3 cameras so they didn't need to retake for reaction shots etc., the show had much greater fluidity and continuity so they were able to use actual audience reaction.
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http://www.mydreamcametrue.com/TheBigBangTheory.html
Interesting read, and will perhaps provide some insight as to why TBBT uses laugh tracks. Several retakes, special effects shots (pre-recorded) and lots of down-time during make-up calls and set-changes. All of those break the "fluidity" you've mentioned.
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It's really surprising just how many sitcoms still use the live audience model.
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I can only speculate, but I'd imagine it's a lot like stand-up comedy or live music (well, less speculation and more from experience on live music) - the performers feed off of the audience reaction. Or perhaps I'm entirely incorrect and it's just a carryover from days gone.
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Nice pics, MissDefi. Especially like the one with the 3 camera layout. I recognize the lady in the video - a terrific character actress (James Dean's mom in Rebel Without a Cause). The guy playing her husband too, but I can't quite place him.
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No. The couple in the audience are actually actors. Her name was Ann Doran and her 'husband' was played by another character actor, Benny Baker.
Vance was a terrific comedian in her own right :)
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I've watched the specials of the Naked Gun TV-show, shot in the 80s, and they said they barely managed to get off the ground since everone thought they were insane NOT to use a laughtrack.
So I would say it's not "they even did it in the 80's" but "They all did it in the 80's"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugh_track#Effects
But I think it's just a leftover
Usually or earlier, no idea if it is still like this. When sitcoms were recorded in front of live audiences, they had the laughs in them
I have to say quite honestly though these laughs almost always annoy me ..but without them, I wouldn't have the feeling to see a sitcom, it would feel too serious and more like a broken "real" series
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You have in Shows with audiences signs ith commands for applaus and stuff....
The audience should react as it is planned. Not 1 move/thought/reaction in a not planned way.
Thats are "shows" in the TV.
And yes i think the overcontrol it and i can't understand the people that do that like a machine and pay for places to be one of such a audience
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I believe most people are more likely to laugh when those around them are laughing or they hear laughter.
It's definitely true for me.
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it's kinda sad that the Producers needed 10 Seasons to realize this show has to end..
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My experience with the show went something like this:
Friend: "Hey, you would love this show, it's full of nerdy math jokes."
Me: "Cool, I'll check it out"
80% of the jokes: "Look how awkward these smart people are."
Me: "Why the hell did you think I would like this?
Friend: "Oh, come on, you laughed at some of it"
Me: "Yeah, one joke."
Friend: "Well, I think it's funny"
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Even reading this makes me uncomfortable, i hate the feeling when i show something funny to my friends but they found it uninteresring/not funny.i know, i know, different tastes
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I think it's funny and one of the few shows I still watch.
Beats the fuck out of dozens of "reality" programs.
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I liked watching a random episode here and there, but 12 seasons is way too much. Eventually, it becomes too tired, just like HIMYM did.
On the other hand there's too much elitism against Big Bang Theory, suddendly everybody are master comedians and writers.
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To any ignorant about this, science behind scripts is real and script checked.
Was a good show for at least 3-4 seasons, buuuuuuttt also there are others shows who longed their lives beyond comprehension, HIMYM, TWD, Friends, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Supernatural, the Sopranos,
So here something for you all your highness around.
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What's new? American TV has a long tradition of milking every last drop of revenue out of successful shows. Only three sitcoms were ended at the top of their game: I Love Lucy, The Andy Griffith Show and Seinfeld.
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I have only watched the first 9 seasons (I bought Season 10 on DVD last night), and I still really enjoy the show. Is it everyone's cup of tea? Of course not, but I still find it a great show to watch.
I do think it is a good thing that they have a set end time now, rather than continue along and get stuck with a sudden cancellation (or characters that leave). That will allow the writers to have a proper (hopefully) ending to the show!
The only thing I hate about this show (and that can be said about any comedy that uses it) is the laugh track. I have never liked laugh tracks, and I never will!
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I agree. I enjoyed the first couple seasons but stopped watching it after that. I have the hardest trouble watching sitcoms though because of laugh tracks! They feel awkward and I don't like being told when to laugh. I actively avoid sitcoms with laugh tracks because no matter how funny they may be, I always feel awkward watching them
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I loved it and my wife and kids too, even if not watched completely.
12 seasons is a good achievement, demonstrating it has a good following.
for sure, I watched it in multiple languages and it's incredible how wrong can be a doubled voice and thus spoil the fun.
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probably only sitcom i ever liked, but thats some interesting personality about being happy that its ending just because you dont like, why cant humans be happy for things they like instead of ranting and commenting about things they dont like? weird 21th century, or anyone forcing you to watch it? then why?
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the show that made being a "nerd" a cool trend.
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I still prefer making light of handicaps by wearing frames without glasses as a fashion statement. Console gaming is bad for my tan.
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lol, didn't know that, that's funny you guys literally call eachother 'ass eyes' ;D.
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Hehe, you're an excellent language teacher ;>, when I finally get to embark on my long-planned tour through Scandinavia, I now know how to properly interact with the Finnish locals, all while coming across like a big tourist kusipää, thanks ;D.
It's often quite funny to translate common cuss words into another language, just to see how effective they'd be and how much of their original meaning they still keep.
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Oops, wrong, was a reply :P
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One of the few show which makes me laugh out loud consistantly.
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I just found out that Jim Parsons is 45 years old. I would have guessed he was way younger!
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And it can not come soon enough. I swear, that has to be one of the stupidest shows I have ever watched. I mean, people think that's funny? I have a great sense of humor. But even I couldn't even crack a smile at what they thought would pass for comedy.
But, to each their own, I guess.
Read the article here.
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