This type of critiquing of this show is an example of why most stand up comedian s wont perform on college campuses anymore.

Next to impossible to get people to laugh if safe spaces are taken to extremes to mean someone cant tell a joke on stage.

And this is the last thing that should be important to talk about now.

But I'm also capable of laughing at comedy that's horribly offensive.

I think it's great to laugh at such things and then ponder why certain offensive things can make people laugh -- often it's because there is something that wrong going on. But it helps refine my understanding of what exactly is messed up about our society.

show is so light hearted, funny, and it introduces science to folks who otherwise wont see it.

Many many scientists love this show for that reason, have met some.

I love the cast also and think Jim Parsons is an unbelievably good actor.

But they really don't do much of that anymore. They've kinda gone the way of so many other tv shows. They established the comfortable characters and dynamics and are largely repeating them and getting away from what made them good in the first place.

Kinda like when e.r. started to have fewer and fewer actual medical cases and became just a soap opera about people who happened to work in an e.r.

Plenty of scientists in my life hate the show and think it's a terrible parody of their profession.

The one non-white character could have been done much better without leveraging the most negative racial stereotypes and attacking his masculinity.

I hate being told when to laugh.

Though of course it's still intended as a cue for the TV audience to laugh.

Here's an account of a taping by an audience member. Apparently they shoot every scene twice, and do some picking and choosing on audience reaction:

And obviously enhanced.

Aside from everything else, the enhanced laughter makes the show unwatchable.

Just my opinion.

Somebody is thinking waaaay too much. The show doesn't hold up toxic masculinity as an ideal, it parodies it mercilessly. As for the joke that is supposed to be on the geeks of the world, I was a geek when I was growing up and I enjoy the show. It sets up all the Hollywood ideals of masculinity just to knock them down with a satisfying smash. In fact, I'd say the series laughs at society's ideals of career, success, and education as much as it laughs at gender stereotypes. This "analysis" misses the mark by a wide margin, IMHO.