I was originally just going to make this post about TV shows that are hard to watch now, but decided to include all media. What I mean by hard to watch is it's either super dated due to what has occured in the world, seeing what used to be is painful ("the world you grew up in is lost" meme), or seeing old media one can now see the progression of leftism and what was slightly obnoxious then is now understood to be the beginning of something much worse.
An example of the latter is Burn Notice. I love that show, but the serious daddy issues and pointless drama is a little hard to stomach nowadays, and I can't stand Fiona's proto girl boss crap. She even has the botoxed/ heavy makeup face of modern thots. Or Dukes of Hazard had an episode which featured the blue pill storyline of love. Two lady drivers come into town and show up the Duke boys in every way. Then their evil exes show up and the Duke boys have to save the fair maidens, despite them being better than them in every way. Only once the boys beat the exes do the ladies show their love towards them... An entire episode geared towards white knighting/ simping, with the women both being super independent are more awesome than the men and super damsels in distress in need of protection from bad men they used to date.
Those first two shows have always been horrible.
Friends kind of lulled you in since was something you could relate to (points to the lyrics of the intro song) and didn't deliberately attack or demean their audience.
Big Bang theory was the opposite as if you were in the in the geek/nerd scene it was just demeaning you every time they could.
it crowd was clearly done at some level by nerds for nerds
Big bang theory was someone trying to cash in on 'nerdy/'i fucking love science' shit yeah.
That is a GREAT comparison, as EVERYONE here can sympathise with the IT crowd's 'have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? Have you made sure it's plugged in?' as it just showed sure we're outsiders as nerds/geeks but normies are REALLY dumb.
Remember that's how the first episode starts, with Roy being introduced at his desk eating something while the phone is going leading to that conversation.
Then later on when he's physically checking one of the computers the bloody thing isn't plugged in!
Just... never watch the attempted US version of the show.
There have been a few meme graphs about some tv shows and whether they are about smart/dumb people and for smart/dumb people.
TBBT is almost universally classed as "about smart people, for dumb people".
https://i.ibb.co/GcQZynw/CLYJWbZ.png
And neither one was funny.