Sitcoms should offer a toggle on/off option for laugh tracks

Big Bang Theory is blackface for nerds (no, I'm not actually saying nerds are exploited to nearly the degree black people are). BBT takes a bunch of stereotypically pathetic losers who are entitled assholes who think they're better than "normal" people and has them regurgitate nerdy bullshit that 95% of their audience will understand when they're in the right so the audience can go, "Haha! I'm smart enough to say that but I'm well-adjusted and social!" And whenever they're in the wrong, the characters talk about often made up science and tech so that whenever anything feels like it's going over the audience's head they can rest easy because it's either fantasy or so surreally nerdy that it doesn't matter.

It's effectively just a show about the guys everyone used to bully leasing miserable lives in the tech rat race so that adults who used to bully nerds can still feel superior now that they're grown up. And I know they give them all girlfriends and I know the cast supposedly redeemed by the end of each episode, but it's about as convincing as the love and redemption arcs on Friends.

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