Once again the "This sucks but I can't name something that doesn't suck" is a pretty useless statement to make.

You hate all sitcoms. It's cool. Just like you don't get science, maybe you don't get sitcoms.

Although your proclamation of "Scientists fact check the jokes so the show is funny and different!" or something whatever is pretty damn dumb.

Maybe you aren't as smart as you portray yourself to be on this here message board? I mean, using a bad and unfunny sitcom to prove to the world that you "get science" probably means that you don't get science....or good sitcoms.

I didn't watch Parks and Recreation it's first year because it seemed too much like The Office. I kept hearing how good it was and eventually started watching towards the end of Season 2, then watched Season 3, and rented Season 1 on DVD. I think April's character is awful. She's supposed to be snarky/quirky/witty/whatever, but she's not. Her lines are pointlessly mean-spirited and not funny, and she's kinda dumb. Tom is a muppet. The other characters are sometimes funny and I mainly keep watching out of habit. It's good that it's ending.

I think the last legitimately funny episode I recall from the last several seasons was from this past season when the episode focused on the guys doing things to celebrate Ben's birthday.

Read please. I didn't say it was funny because of that. I said it was different and not formulaic because of that, unless of course you can name all the other science-based sitcoms on television. How many more times do I have to explain it to you?
I don't portray myself as being smart on here. Thanks for the compliment though!

So it's different because "scientists" fact check the jokes?

That's silly, BRick....even for you. It's the epitome of a paint by numbers sitcom.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Yes. They are involved in the writing of them. They attempt to make jokes that no other sitcom would try and make because it wouldn't even fit. They are building jokes about actual concepts of string theory and Schrodinger's cat and other things. It's a fact that is significantly different because no one else is doing it or has even really tried to do it. This isn't an opinion. It's a fact.
Name the closest sitcom to it then. Oh that's right, you don't know of any because you don't watch them yet you have an expert opinion on this specific one.

This seems like a very emotional issue for Rick.

Please learn to read, I said that I actually gave Big Bang Theory a shot....it sucked and was paint by numbers.

As for "building jokes" around concepts and science....who gives a fuck? The jokes aren't funny, the actual situations the show presents aren't funny nor original.

No one else is doing it? What is "it," exactly? Bad television? dull, unoriginal sitcoms? Oh, but the jokes are about far out things like science so it's totally fresh and original.

I suggest the answer is Louie.

It has moments of being really great but more and more I find the show boring and uninteresting. It's cool that Louis CK does basically everything for the show but it really comes off as amateur a lot of the time. There are whole episodes that go by where I don't even crack a smile, and ultimately a show named after a comedian should be funny at least once per episode.

Other nominees:
Parks and Recreation
Community(well, not any more)

Trae Young will be a bust. Book It!

What was cool about it was how truly different it was. Combining actual real science and a sitcom is pretty hard.

Now, it's pretty much just a standard sitcom, including some of the characters becoming more cliched.

I need pittmike to weigh in on this before I buy the notion that this show is scientifically accurate.

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This seems like a very emotional issue for Rick.

I've only seen the show in re-runs but I struggle to understand how the characters could become more cliched. From the beginning they were brainy geeks who are awkward around women, love comic book superheroes, Star Trek, video games, etc... There's also the rather dim, (supposedly) hot blonde who makes fun of them and ends up dating one despite the obvious mismatch. Maybe the real-life scientists provided that insight as well.

I see what you did there.

Nerd humor is serious business.

If you want nerd humor, then Silicon Valley is a much better option.

This I can agree with.

Caught the first episode last night and was impressed.

I will continue to watch.

Don't worry. I'm sure you'll hate it soon.

If the show starts to suck I will stop watching it. If it continues to be a good show I will continue to watch it.

It's on HBO so it doesn't really have to play down to the lowest common denominator like Two and Half Men or it's identical twin The Big Bang Theory.

Good plan. I'm sure this strategy will one day result in you being able to name a sitcom you like!

From the beginning they were brainy geeks who are awkward around women, love comic book superheroes, Star Trek, video games, etc... There's also the rather dim, (supposedly) hot blonde who makes fun of them and ends up dating one despite the obvious mismatch.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

If you want nerd humor, then Silicon Valley is a much better option.

Trae Young will be a bust. Book It!

I'd vote for Walking Dead. Although maybe it stopped sucking as much in the past year that I haven't watched.

I suggest the answer is Louie.

It has moments of being really great but more and more I find the show boring and uninteresting. It's cool that Louis CK does basically everything for the show but it really comes off as amateur a lot of the time. There are whole episodes that go by where I don't even crack a smile, and ultimately a show named after a comedian should be funny at least once per episode.

Other nominees:
Parks and Recreation
Community(well, not any more)

Great show. Too bad one of the characters died while filming, but I'm sure they will write around it.