https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmLQaTcViOA
laugh tracks are lame as shit. studio audiences FTW. also, I still laughed out loud during parts of that clip.
and while, yes, sheldon goes from douche to "human" to douche in the next episode, one has to remember that this is television. one also has to remember that real people do the exact same thing, so it isn't too absurd for someone to be nice one day and a dick the next and then nice and then a dick and then nice and then...you get the point
Modern Family, though, is probably the best primetime comedy/sitcom being produced.
Modern Family is good. I like BBT more.
You let things bother you too much.
When I watch TV/movies for entertainment, I don't try to look for stilted dialogue and caricatures of characters, but they stand out so much in BBT. As far as characters go, there's only so many times I can watch people be living stereotypes before it becomes ludicrous.
guess you dont watch Tyler Perry stuff. if a white dude made a show (or 25 different shows about the same thing) about black people being stereotypically black, there would be race riots (much like there currently are as a result of the whole Taryvon Martin thing).
TV shows have stereotypes because stereotypes are real traits and people identify with that (ie reality)
Lawyer stereotypes: substances abuse, argumentative, arrogant, disregard for "right v. wrong" over winning.
Me: check, check, check, check (and an ish too all of those, but yeah)
stereotypes are real in that they are an over-generalization of things, but are nevertheless a generalization of things. stereotypes are true as can be.