[ SECRET POST #6231 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6231 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 39 secrets from Secret Submission Post #891.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

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01. https://i.imgur.com/cTL6J8E.png

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I think it needs another 10-15 years. Then the nostalgia goggles should kick in.

[(Anonymous)]

TBBT and Friends are very different shows and it's perfectly plausible to find one funny and not the other for reasons that have nothing to do with nostalgia goggles. It's even possible for people to think that one is a good sitcom and the other is a bad sitcom especially if you're the kind of TV nerd who has opinions on what makes a sitcom good that go beyond you personally finding it funny.

Personally I do think that Friends was better than TBBT. At least early Friends - later Friends got really bad.

[meadowphoenix]

i think the audiences are different enough between friends (aka comedy directed at and about 20 years olds) and bbt (aka comedy directed about nerds directed at a wider range of ages including people older than 20) means that i wouldn't be surprised if there's never any nostalgia glasses for bbt.

the level of comedy is similar but the joke themes and set-ups aren't.

[(Anonymous)]

People love to hate on this show but it honestly wasn't that bad. Howard was a fucking disgusting character that I wish they'd do away with, but the rest was pretty standard sitcom humor.

[(Anonymous)]

Idk what it says about me but I was rabid for Friends during its entire run and only liked TBBT for a comparatively short time. I can’t stand Friends even a little now, partly because of reading Matthew Perry’s autobiography. But there are still funny bits in TBBT for me. Both are incredibly racist and homophobic though, which is more understandable with Friends. Ultimately I can’t stand to watch either show these days because their faults overshadow everything else about them.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, OP, don't agree at all!
I tried to watch BBT a few times and was honestly shocked at how bad it was! I didn't laugh once and found the characters to be honestly incredibly misogynist. Moreover, it just wasn't funny.
Although I think Friends is overpraised, I do get why people love it, even now.
If anything, people are finally seeing BBT as the trash that it is.

[(Anonymous)]

NGL I love TBBT. There were things I found frustrating and the later seasons weren’t as good as the first ones, but I still enjoyed it and the ending is one of my favorite TV endings. I never thought Friends was all the funny and I don’t really get the nostalgia for it.

[(Anonymous)]

I loathe both, so I'm just... not the target audience for that kind of sitcom I guess. I've seen more of friends than I have of bbt and can admit that there were bits I did find funny, I just hated how mean-spirited it could be and most of the characters I found unlikable-- the same things that turned me off of bbt, with the bonus of being able to *choose* not to watch bbt, since back in the friends era, I did not have A) cable or B) control over which sitcoms my parents watched.

[(Anonymous)]

Friends went way more generic while BBT specifically targets nerds and geek culture.

And guess who complains on the internet about tv shows?

But also, if you don't have inch-thick nostalgia glasses Friends sucks. (I think Friends sucks. I know, I'm so brave.)

[(Anonymous)]

Nah I think the shows were different enough that they shouldn't really be compared to each other. I think they were were aiming for different target demos and telling different stories. They're sitcoms on network tv with a laugh track and it's about a zany group of people but I think that's it in terms of similarity.

Friends was aspirational and the joke was that these good looking New Yorkers are selfish and flawed.
And The Big Bang Theory was always very much about what a bunch of fucking dorks Sheldon and his friends were.

I felt like they were aiming for different audiences. Friends really appealed to me but I never found The Big Bang Theory appealing on any capacity.

[(Anonymous)]

Never saw a full episode of either but did Friends abuse the laugh track the way TBBT did? The *radio ads* for TBBT made me start to hate it....

[(Anonymous)]

I liked both.

My past ardor for Friends has cooled into more of a vague fondness now.

I have an engineering degree and I have met someone similar to every single nerd character on The Big Bang Theory, so if you're thinking that they're making fun of nerds and getting it wrong, what they seem to actually be doing is making fun of a specific subset of nerds that do exist. Some of them absolutely deserve to be laughed at for their absurdities, some can laugh at themselves and some cannot.

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[(Anonymous)]

Same.

Spoilers for the movie:


I also don't get the general appeal of the type of character whose job is to die in a badass way almost immediately after their introduction, but it's been a popular trope in anime for decades, and fans always love those characters, so this is nothing new.

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[(Anonymous)]

I hear that. My favorite fandom discord just shut down because it got too large to effectively mod and bad actors just ruined everything.

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[(Anonymous)]

I know the fandom and I understand all the words in this secret but I still don't really understand the secret itself.

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[meadowphoenix]

i think there are industry differences between romance and dystopia/sci-fi that make them different beasts, but i also wouldn't be surpried.

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[(Anonymous)]

Ha! That's funny OP, because I kind of do the same thing. I'm not sure Coupling will have stood the test of time, but I have fond memories of it. Or bits of it, anyway.

If you watch a lot of British TV, you can sort of do the same thing with any number of British actors as they pop up here and there. I like searching for familiar faces and realizing that oh yeah, they played a small role in New Tricks, Midsomer Murders and were also in Inspector Lynley back in the day!

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[kama_blackbird]

Good news, OP!

https://www.tumblr.com/ge-noxide/740154421607104512

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Did you have plans, big or small?

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